On August 28th, 1937, Japanese invaders bombed Shanghai South Railway Station.

On August 28th, 1937, at 4 pm, the Japanese bombed Shanghai Railway Station (South Station). A baby was crying on the ruins of the railway track, and his parents had been killed in the bombing just now. In this bombing, 1800 people, mostly women and children waiting to be evacuated, only 300 people survived. I can't help crying every time I see this photo.

Shanghai Railway Station was bombed into a "garbage dump" that day.

1on August 3, 937, the Japanese army attacked Shanghai on a large scale and threatened Nanjing. August 28th, it was a tragic day. After careful planning, the Japanese will bomb the Shanghai South Railway Station and give China a duel.

Shanghai people fled at the wind, packed their bags, rushed to the street and ran to the railway station, which was the focus of Japanese bombing. Many families are no exception. Father took his wife and Dodo to the railway station. Dad finally bought two tickets at the ticket office, and then went to the platform to wait for the bus. They both ran together. When they came to the platform, the Duoduo family was shocked. The platform was crowded with luggage. People crowded around like loaches, scrambling to "March" to the front, hoping to get on the train early. "Woo, hoo, hoo," the voice went from far to near. Obviously, the train came and the crowd began to stir. Everyone rushed to the front. As soon as the train stopped, people got on. In five seconds, the carriage was crowded with people. Suddenly, the crowd heard the sound of "buzzing, buzzing" and then saw several black spots in the sky. People just looked at it and didn't respond. Suddenly, the black spot swooped down, getting closer and closer, and it was clear that it was an airplane with a silver plaster flag shining on its surface, and intangible weapons could be seen. "Ah, plane, plane, run!" I don't know who said that, but people began to have significant differences. In the old photos, some got on the train and some got on the platform. Duoduo's mother was pushed away from her father by the "trend". She was thinking about how to protect Duoduo's safety when she saw a small shed made of some junk. She stuffed Toto in, trying to find a place to hide. The two bombers flew lower. A plane dropped a bomb and two bombs fell. Two more times. Someone was killed. Two Japanese bombers bombed the Shanghai railway station at one time, which was the case. After all the bombs were blown up, the Japanese army sped away from Shanghai Railway Station.

The cover on Duoduo has already been blown off by the shock wave, and Duoduo has been blown beyond recognition. He saw the scene after the railway station was bombed: the precast slab fell on the train track, the glass shook all over the floor, and there was no one on the overhead, and the outside could be seen from inside. Some residual fragments swayed on the viaduct, and rags fell from time to time. Stay at the train station more, but he still can't walk. Here, he looks lonely and helpless.

Later, when the reporter came, he saw a lot and took this shocking photo with his camera, although there was no color film.

Japan bombed Shanghai South Railway Station

1937 After the July 7th Incident, in order to implement its all-round invasion plan against China, at 5: 30 pm on August 9th, Captain Yukio Dashan, a Japanese marine, and a soldier stationed in Shanghai drove into Shanghai Hongqiao Airport in full gear to provoke and shoot airport guards, which provided an excuse for Japan to attack Shanghai. 12 in August, the Japanese cabinet meeting decided to launch a military attack. The next morning, the Japanese navy in Shanghai took the lead in attacking the defenders of China in Shanghai after learning the domestic news. The August 13th Sino-Japanese War kicked off in Shanghai. Since then, China and Japan have continuously sent troops, and the total number of assembled troops has exceeded one million. Among them, Japan invested in land, sea and air force 10 divisions, totaling nearly 300,000 people; China mobilized 47 divisions and about 700,000 people participated in the war.

The other two photos taken by the reporter at the same time, from the front, show that there were two boys at that time. After the bombing, the children cried by the railway tracks because of fear and pain. Then the adults came over with the boy and put the boy down to hold the child. The adults settled the children and came back to hold the boy.

The battle between Songhu and Shanghai is mainly divided into three stages. The first stage was August 13-22, and the China army repelled the Japanese attack. The second stage is August 23rd-65438+1October 25th, when Japanese reinforcements arrived in Shanghai, relying on their land, sea and air superiority, they changed from defensive to offensive. The third stage is 65438+1October 26th-165438+1October 12. The Japanese army landed in Hangzhou Bay, which surrounded Songhu Lake, and the situation took a turn for the worse:165438+1on October 8th, the China army retreated across the board,165438+1October 65448.

The Battle of Songhu was the first large-scale battle between China and Japan in the early days of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. The battle lasted for three months and killed more than 40 thousand enemies. Although it failed to hold Shanghai in the end, it broke the Japanese dream of destroying China in three months.

Shooting Story: This photo records the tragic scene after the Japanese bombed Shanghai South Railway Station during the Battle of Songhu.

During the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese used 100 planes to bomb Shanghai in order to destroy the fighting will of our army and people. At that time, there were two railway stations in Shanghai. The North Station was in a war zone, and the traffic was completely cut off. The South Station became the only exit for land traffic. On August 28th, 1937, the South Station was bombed twice by the Japanese. At that time, the South Station was crowded with people who wanted to evacuate to the mainland, about 1800 people, most of whom were women and children. At about 2 pm, four Japanese planes flew over the South Station for bombing, killing more than 500 people on the spot. Soon, eight Japanese planes dropped bombs, killing more than 200 people. After the bombing, the station was in ruins, and bodies were everywhere, which was terrible. Wang Xiaoting, a photographer from Hearst News Agency in China, witnessed the tragedy and took this sad photo. Two weeks later, the photo appeared on the cover of American Life magazine, which immediately aroused strong international response. It is estimated that1360,000 people in the world saw the photos at that time. Because Shanghai South Railway Station is far away from the war zone and has no military facilities, international public opinion has condemned Japan's crimes of bombing cities and killing innocent civilians. Faced with the pressure of international public opinion, the Japanese fascists tried their best to deny it in the war, falsely claiming that the pilots at that time mistakenly thought that the platform was a mobilized China army, and there was a so-called "mistaken bombing".