Japan – A record cold winter 1944/45
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US and Allies navies close in on Japan and the main island gets a record cold winter Only nine months before the Japan surrendered in August 1945 the
island went through an unusual and very cold winter. Before turning to the
temperature condition in Japan during the three main winter months 1944/45, a
brief look at the war situation. otal of 19,000 combat missions launched
against Japan. Since autumn 1944 the US Navy retook the Philippines. The
larges engagement took place in the
Leyte Gulf, and covered a number of clashes and fighting that are know as
Battle of the Leyte Gulf. The enemies employed at least 40 carries, 20 battle
ships, and about 200 cruiser and destroyer, as well as many hundred air
planes. Fighting continued in the Philippines and the Indonesian Archipelago
until the early 1945, but the distant to Okinawa was not more than 1’000 km
and to the South of Japan 2’000 km. Japan’s North-South supply lines could be
more effectively penetrated by submarines and bombers. Water masses from the
military operation or attack areas were carried with the Northern Equatorial
Current and Kuroshio Current (Fig. ) towards Japan within a short period of
time, and suddenly Japan had an exceptional cold winter based on the months
December 1944, and January and February 1945. That was not the end of
the war that continued until August 1945 and further cold months. |
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Chapter: 4_12 |
Book Page: 241a |
File: 918_e |
Image: 2010/www.seaclimate.com |
