Chapter 1556: The Atlantic Defense Line
The Germans must have come with their eyes on the United States, and the Germans will not be satisfied with just conquering the whole of Europe, the goal of the Germans is to conquer the whole world, so in this setting, the United States must go all out.
Hearing Roosevelt's words, General Ernst and Marshall, who were mainly responsible, made separate reports.
"Now, the five aircraft carriers we have rushed to build in the shipyard are now in the final outfitting stage, and when these five attack aircraft carriers are completed and launched, we can breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, more than 20 aircraft carriers are under construction."
Ernst Joseph King, five-star admiral of the U.S. Navy, World War II Chief of Naval Command and Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Fleet, and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In these positions, he was the top leader of the U.S. Navy, reporting directly to the president and directing the U.S. Navy's operations and strategy.
At present, although in the Pacific Ocean, the US Navy is fighting against the navies of island countries, in fact, the US Navy does not take the navies of island countries into account, the navy is a branch of the armed forces that fight for comprehensive national strength, and the military industry of the island countries cannot support it at all, and as long as the main warships of the navy of the island country are killed in a decisive naval battle, the navy of the island country will be abolished.
But Germany is different, Germany integrates the whole of Europe, has a shipbuilding industry that surpasses that of the United States, and the speed at which the Germans' warships make dumplings is faster than that of the United States, and the United States must pay attention to it.
The Atlantic defense line is not only on the coastline, and if it can win a decisive naval battle in the Atlantic, then the United States will be able to protect its homeland.
So, first of all, the growth of the Navy.
"Five, that's not enough." Roosevelt couldn't help but say.
These five are real attack aircraft carriers, not escort aircraft carriers, and the United States has also started to build a large number of escort aircraft carriers, but they all know the combat effectiveness of that kind of aircraft carrier.
"If we stop supporting the Soviet Union and put all our forces at home, we can greatly increase our warship production." Ernst said.
The reinforcement of the Soviet Union also involved the energy of the United States itself.
Hearing his words, Roosevelt's eyes lit up for a moment, and then it went black again, stop supporting the USSR? Then the Soviet Union will collapse immediately, the Soviet Union is buying more time for the United States, helping the Soviet Union, it is helping the United States, but unfortunately, the submarines of the Germans are too powerful.
"We will lay out our naval ramparts in the North Atlantic, and if the German fleet rushes to our coastline, it will definitely be that our fleet is gone." Ernst continued.
The navy was determined to protect the American mainland, and if the Germans wanted to attack the American mainland, they had to defeat the American Atlantic Fleet first.
Roosevelt nodded, and the Navy Department's report was over for the time being, and then Marshall continued to speak.
"We are carrying out a huge project of the Atlantic defense line, this amount of work is almost comparable to the Great Wall of China, we have built a coastal fortification along the coastline of the Atlantic, mainly with 406 heavy guns and 380 heavy guns as the core, if the German fleet wants to land, it will have to risk heavy casualties."
Coastal defense artillery is still the main means of defense in this era, and if the other side wants to land, it must have landing ships, and it is not so easy to grab the beach and land!
"At the same time, every 50 kilometers, we will build a mobile defensive position, deploy the army's mixed tank units, and wherever there is fighting, we will rush to it."
Marshall gushed about the fact that this set of fortifications occupies a huge financial budget of the United States, and now, everyone has a hunch that after the war is over, the United States will also be poor, but as long as the United States still exists, it will be worth it!
What's more, if you really encounter a situation, you can also use the gold that exists in the United States in some European countries!
The defensive line presided over by Marshall seemed to be in shape, but General Eisenhower, who was present, couldn't help frowning.
"Marshall, have you studied the last time the Germans landed in Iceland across the sea?" Eisenhower couldn't help but speak.
"Of course." Marshall said.
"Then why do you still take it for granted!" Eisenhower said: "The Germans were ahead of their time in their means of landing, they had hovercraft that could fly over the sea, they would fly directly over the various barriers we had set up along the coastline, and they had helicopters that could take off and land vertically, and they could attack us." ”
"Even if we don't talk about this, the Germans have a large number of aircraft carrier formations and a large number of bombers, and the first strike of the Germans will definitely be to dispatch their bombers to hit our coastal defense artillery positions."
"Yes, so we will deploy enough anti-aircraft guns near our shore defense artillery positions to keep them coming and going!"
The two argued, and the others hadn't seen the way out yet, what did Eisenhower want to say?
"Anti-aircraft artillery is useless, the Germans have guided bombs that can be dropped at a high altitude, accurately hitting the top of our shore defense guns." Eisenhower said: "It is useless for us to spend a lot of money to build such a line of defense." ”
Marshall's face turned red when he said this, Marshall had done his best to build this line of defense, and even, the following had been called, this line of defense was called the Marshall Line, which can be said to be the proud work of his life, once the war ended, Marshall would also become famous in history, and now, it was said by Eisenhower to be worthless.
"Then you say, what are we going to do?" Marshall asked, you said my plan is not good, you should make a better one!
"Use all your resources to build airplanes." Eisenhower said: "We spent so many resources to build so many heavy guns that they could only be easily destroyed by German bombers, and the only way was to use warplanes." When the Germans arrived, we met them with locust-like fighters, we shot down their planes in the air, our attack planes and torpedo planes blew up their warships, and we held our coastline as long as we held our skies. ”
At present, the US Air Force has not yet become independent, it belongs to the Army Air Corps, and it is not surprising that Eisenhower is a general of the Army.
After entering the High Command, Eisenhower worked closely with Marshall in history, but now, for the sake of the United States, he did not hesitate to engage in a polemic with Marshall. At the risk of him being demoted and leaving the high command, this meaningless project could not be allowed to continue.