May 22, 2006 May 22, 2006
Rem. Andrey: It is only a small part of the info. All the volume #11 describes the actions of the USSR and Western Allies against Japan in 1945.
"By the beginning of 1945 the amount of Kwantung Army was decreased as a result of the transferring of 11 regular divisions to the Southern Group of Troops, but the existence of numerous garrisons in Manchuoko let to increase its amount quickly..."
"...The Japanese considered Manchuria and Korea not like occupied territory but practically like Japanese territory.
Japan turned Manchuria and Korea in the military-industrial base and strategic bridgehead for the aggression in the mainland.
During the war Manchuria had 55% of common output of Japanese production of synthetic fuel. In the beginning of 1945 8 plants, producing synthetic fuel from coal and shale, worked in Manchuria. For example, 2 plants of common output about 600,000 tons per a year were in Fushun, 2 (240,000 tons) - in Girin, 1 (180,000 tons) - in Sypin.
According the plan of Supreme Soviet for Rule the War Indonesia was lost and the output of those plants had to be increased up to 2,000,000 tons per a year.
Manchuria was one of the main producers of explosives and poison-gases. In 1945 12 Manchurian plants produced explosives, the largest were in Andun, Anshan, Girin, Kanchentsy (peninsula Guandun).
The most part of machine-building plants that were organized right after the occupation of Manchuria were reconstructed and adapted for the producing of military equipment during the war in China and in the Pacific. For example, the city of Shenian had 4 plants producing industrial and electrical equipment, 2 aircraft plants, some plants of artillery and rifle equipment, 1 tank and 1 automobile plants. The city of Dalian had 3 machine-building plants. Such plants were in Harbin, Chanchun, Tsinchzhou, Huaide (Gunchzhulin) and in other cities and towns. The production of tanks, armored cars and other military equipment was organized in steam locomotive plants in Dalian, Shenian, Harbin, Mudantsian. The turning of main industrial enterprises on the producing of military equipment was finished in 1943-44 and to the beginning of 1945 all the territory of Manchuria turned in a large military arsenal.
The Japanese took out from Manchuria large amount of iron ore, coal, soya beans, they took out from Korea light metals, tungsten, ferroalloys and rice. Simultaneously the Japanese increased the smelting of metals directly in Manchuria and Korea. For example, the production of steel in bars in Manchuria and Korea was increased in 1944 up to 1.3 million tons (the common smelting in the Empire in 1944 was 5.9 million tons).
Korea was becoming more and more important in the military industry of Japan. Due the low price of electrical energy and the rich sources of raw materials the production of aluminum developed very briskly in Korea. In Korea the extraction of tungsten ore had reached a high level (it was equal to 84% of its extracting in Japan), the same was the situation with the extraction of fluor-spar (94% of its production in Japan), copper (40% of its production in Japan), graphite (100% of its production in Japan)..."
