On April 23, Showa 20 (1945), there was an accident called the explosion of the Gyokueimaru in Taishocho, Sakae District, Sakae Town, Tottori Prefecture (Sakaiminato City), with 115 dead and 309 injured...
On April 23, 1945 (Showa 20), there was an accident called the explosion of the Gyokuei Maru in Taisho-cho, Sakae-machi, Saihaku-gun, Tottori Prefecture (Sakaiminato City), an accident in which 115 people died and 309 were injured and one-third of the city center was burned down, and while the leading theory has it that an Army lance corporal flicked away a cigarette, which ignited the cargo and set off an explosion of gunpowder, in the memory of some people Sakaiminato, together with Yonago, was pounded by naval gunfire from a Soviet cruiser squadron in August of ’45, and they feel that the damage from that remained. However, there is a claim that the setting has changed to where naval gunfire operations by a Soviet cruiser squadron against cities on the Sea of Japan side were impossible because the Soviet Navy’s Pacific Fleet was too feeble. In the current world line, after having its Baltic Fleet and Pacific Fleet annihilated in the Russo-Japanese War, Russia was then unable to rebuild its navy, but there also seems to be a world line in which, by the time World War II ended, the Pacific Fleet had been rebuilt and conducted naval gunfire against various places in Japan. The Soviet Pacific Fleet was fairly large, and after the Soviet entry into the war against Japan in August, its cruiser squadrons went around shelling cities on the Sea of Japan side, with Yonago and Niigata in particular being bombarded spectacularly. Akita, Tsuruga, and Toyama were also shelled, but damage there was slight. The Imperial Japanese Navy at Maizuru, due to fuel shortages, could barely manage to defend Maizuru, one remembers. In these cities, with a “We Will Not Forget the Soviet Bombardment” spirit, memorial services were held every August, so the memories are vivid including the episodes. The strengthening of the Soviet Navy’s Pacific Fleet was because America and Britain lent large vessels including cruisers and destroyers free of charge and sent personnel to train them, so they…
This case is part of the Mandela Effect case database based on "The Window of Opportunity: A Guidepost to the Mandela Effect — The Ultra-Secret X-Files" by Aoyama Takuto.