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The Japanese Dismissed the "Po-2 Bait" — Until Two of Their Airfields Were Bombed in a Single Night

What happened that night in August 1945:
Lieutenant Hiroshi Tanaka commanded a fighter squadron in Manchuria. He was a former teacher turned pilot. Had shot down 14 enemy aircraft. Was numb from loss, from killing, from a war that was clearly already lost.
When radar picked up slow-moving contacts approaching from the north, the base commander didn't even hesitate. Po-2 biplanes. Soviet junk. Obviously bait to make them waste fuel scrambling fighters while real bombers approached from another direction.
Orders: Stay on the ground. Ignore them. Wait for the actual threat.
Hiroshi felt uneasy. Something about that certainty bothered him. But orders were orders. He told his squadron to stand down.
Then the engines stopped. All of them. The Po-2s went silent, gliding through darkness like ghosts. And then the bombs fell.

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