Admiral Arnold's words sounded rather helpless, but they were highly condensed and generalized, and Truman had heard similar words. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Marshall painfully concluded some time ago: "Although Germany has always banned guns, the United States does not ban guns, and has hundreds of thousands of members of the Rifle Association, the level of land warfare is obviously not at the same level; In the same way, although Detroit is the world's largest automobile industry center, the United States is the world's largest automobile production center, and the world's largest car driver, it does not mean that the United States' armored strength is the world's first, which is not the same thing. Judging purely from the quality of armored troops and the performance of tanks, not to mention Germany, even Russia is a little stronger than us. ”

Before the war, hundreds of thousands of people in the United States had pilot licenses, but most of them drove slow pesticide planes and biplanes, and flying was their means of making a living rather than their instinct to fight. For example, in the Battle of Iceland, the U.S. Army Air Force unescorted large formation air raid, not everyone can withstand the pressure of the German fighter interception armed to the teeth, and it will collapse if it deviates at the slightest deviation.

"What about HNA?"

Turner didn't say anything, only shook his head slightly.

Truman was clearer about the situation of Hainan Airlines, which was more difficult than Army Airlines! A few days ago, in order to draw a few carrier-based aircraft crews to deal with the Essex class that was about to become an army, Turner ran to him and asked Truman to come out to pressure Qiu Fat Man to get the crew, which shows how embarrassed the Navy is? Listening to Turner's tone, all the seedlings with slightly better quality and potential in HNA, even if they were trained as land-based pilots in the past, have now been hijacked by carrier-based aircraft. Fortunately, the Pacific Fleet, which has been resting, has also cultivated a batch of crews, otherwise even these 120 units would not have been drawn!

However, Li Hai still took the overall situation into account: "Hainan Airlines is preparing to transfer 500 land-based aircraft to Pearl Harbor, which is currently being squeezed out with all its might. ”

"Let's send 1,000 reinforcements to the army airline, there will be no more for the time being."

Truman breathed a sigh of relief, in this way, there are at least 3,500 planes in the direction of Hawaii, and it is estimated that Japan's entire carrier-based aircraft force will only have 700 aircraft, and its own side has a 5:1 advantage, even if the Japanese can fight, this advantage is enough to consume.

"For the next stage of the war, how do you think about properly dealing with the flanking attacks of the east and west battlefields?"

"After discussion, the Joint Chiefs of Staff has formed two ideas: emergency countermeasures and long-term countermeasures."

There are 3 emergency countermeasures, mainly including:

1. Strengthen the building of air forces, emphasizing the use of air to dominate the sea. In the face of the shortage of naval forces, the level of aviation operations was temporarily raised. On the South American battlefield, the army stations will vigorously build new airfields and other aviation facilities to increase the density of their troops, and will build, expand, and station air forces in all ports on the southern coast of the Caribbean Sea, so that transport ships and land forces can receive multi-level and wide-coverage air cover, and use land-based aviation units that are relatively easy to train to fight the enemy's carrier-based aircraft pilots. In the Pacific theater, with the Pearl Harbor base as the core, the Japanese fleet and Midway Island were constantly harassed, so that they could not advance without fear.

2. Strengthen the ability to break diplomatic relations and carry forward the efficiency of submarines. Originally, in order to focus on the construction of surface ships, the US military reduced its investment in and construction of submarines, and as the axis successively attacked the front line in the deep zone (South America, Central Pacific), it was a good way to cut off the enemy's transportation and supply routes. At present, the main force of US submarines is still the Little Shark class and the White Fish class, and the performance exceeds that of Class VII submarines, close to Class XIV, but far inferior to Class XXI. The U.S. military is deeply stimulated by the XXI class and has issued an urgent tender request, hoping to build its own mysterious submarine.

Another progress that cannot be ignored is that the torpedo problem that has plagued the US military for a long time was basically solved in early 1944, and the United States finally abandoned the Mk13\14\18 series torpedoes, which had been continuously complained about and had many failures, and took out the Mk24 acoustic torpedoes and Mk22 aviation torpedoes, and at the same time honestly introduced the MkXV-class traditional torpedoes from the British Empire, although they were inferior to the Japanese and German torpedoes, but at least they were greatly improved compared with the previous ones. The fact that the Nimitz fleet had a much improved hit rate and attack power in the air raids was due to the improvement of new planes and new torpedoes. It's a pity that after this last batch of skilled pilots was consumed, the new carrier-based aircraft pilots performed miserably, and Lehi and Turner could only shake their heads when they saw it.

3. The army turned to the defensive, slowing down the enemy's pace with positional warfare and attrition warfare. The top brass of the army saw very clearly that given the tactical level of the US Army and the poor road system in South America, there was no way out of the armored duel, and it was better to honestly build permanent and semi-permanent fortifications, arrange minefields, and rely on its own high firepower and nearby supplementary logistics capabilities to fight a dumb and stupid war with Germany. Weaken the enemy with defenses - I will not move any matter how you maneuver.

Overall, all three emergency countermeasures have one goal: to gain time. Space for time, consumption for consumption.

The long-term countermeasures are more complicated, Li Hai pondered for a while, and said slowly:

1. It is necessary to get rid of the unfavorable situation of being attacked on both the east and the west, that is, to consider making peace with one side on the other side, and to concentrate on dealing with the other side -- the Joint Chiefs of Staff proposes to negotiate with Germany, even if it is a temporary truce.

2. Further optimize domestic arms production, reduce models, and simplify logistics. At present, the army and navy are so chaotic that even the US imperialists, who have deep pockets, are beginning to be unable to stand it, and the unfavorable political and military situation has made them no longer have time to care about the feelings of the capitalists.

After discussion by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, it was decided to stop the production of six fighter models, including P-38, 39, 40, 43, 61, and 63, from September 1, and expand the production of P-51, but only P-51C (P-51D is still being improved), and only P-47D for the P-47 series, and increase the production of P-80A (that is, the official code name of the US military for the Meteor Jet). Orders soared from 500 to 3,500 ($93,000 each, $20,000 cheaper than the P-61 and about one-seventh the size of the B-29)

The 4-engine bomber only kept the B-29, cut the B-17\B-24, and kept the B-36 development project unchanged, the twin-engine bomber only kept the B-25, and the B-26 (widow maker) was cut, in fact, the B-26 was improved to obtain better performance, but the top management of the army aviation had no mind to wait, and only the A-26 was retained on the light attack aircraft, and the A-20\A-24 was cut, and it was emphasized that the P-51 was used to carry bombs to undertake part of the ground attack mission. At present, the most urgent need of the army aviation is to make its own lightning bomber with reference to the German Ar-234 jet bomber

After the success of the BTD, the number of orders for HNA attack aircraft soared to 4,000 units, and then SBD\TBF\SB2C were all laid off, and the others were common with the army and aviation B-29, A-26 and B-25, expanding the production of F4U, slightly reducing the production of F6F, and urging Grumman to complete the development of the F8F fighter as soon as possible.

After the model is integrated, the Joint Participation Association will require all manufacturers to authorize each other's technologies to achieve large-scale unified production. The Joint Chiefs of Staff hoped that in 1945 the production of 90,000 planes would be produced, including 20,000 heavy bombers, transport planes, and reconnaissance planes, and more than 8,000 jet planes -- not that they did not want to build more, but that there were only 1,000 people who could fly jets, and one-third of them were British, and the jets were improved very quickly, and it was a complete waste to build too many.

There is a similar process for the improvement of armored vehicles, but it has not yet been sorted out and it is not expected to be reported to Truman until September.

3. We must increase investment in the Manhattan project. Due to Germany's rapid control of Africa, the Belgian Congo uranium mine source was cut off, and later obtained uranium ore from Canada and accelerated mining and refining, although the intelligence system led by Donovan could not know the progress of Germany's atomic bomb development, judging from various indications, it believed that Germany was also accelerating the construction of nuclear weapons. However, in the early stage, the Norwegian heavy water plant was repeatedly destroyed to no avail, and now the entire European continent is controlled by Germany, and the United States is no longer able to destroy Germany's progress, so it can only hope to rush time. The Joint Chiefs of Staff received assurances from scientists that if all forceful measures were taken to protect the United States, it was expected that the US atomic weapons would be tested in June 1945.

4. Before the spring of 1945, it should focus on strategic defense and training the troops, and not launch any offensives. In particular, the navy will no longer take the initiative to attack until it has enough warships and trained enough carrier-based aircraft pilots.

"The counteroffensive is expected to begin gradually in July 1945, when the Grand Fleet of the Navy will be formed, atomic weapons will be available, the air force will be extraordinary, and the Army will have actual combat experience...... The strategic posture would be ideal. Lehi paused, "Then you will lead us to launch a counterattack......

Truman first nodded: "I have approved these two levels of countermeasures, and you can let them go." ”

Before everyone came to their senses, he waved his hand again: "The plan span should not be so large, just do it by the end of this year, and you will welcome Dewey in January next year, he may have a different idea." ”

"Your Excellency, although you are currently at a disadvantage in the election campaign, as long as we survive this ......"

"There is no chance, Dewey has threatened to put all the financial losses, personnel losses and army losses of the past three years on the next debate, this is all true, I do not want to deny it. Nor do I want to put the blame on Mr. Roosevelt or the generals - I am the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the United States. I will frankly admit my faults, take all the responsibility, and I will ...... ...... withdrawing from the race," Truman took off his glasses, carefully wiped them, and tried not to let the tears flow, "The Democrats have agreed to my request and have decided not to send new candidates. ”

With a "bang", Turner, who was drinking water, couldn't hold the cup, and suddenly fell to the ground and shattered......