Chapter 5016: Eisenhower gradually regained his confidence in battle
According to information on the Internet in the post-world world, the United States built a total of about 30 large fleet aircraft carriers, 11 light aircraft carriers, and more than 110 escort aircraft carriers during World War II, totaling almost 160 aircraft carriers.
Before World War II, the backbone of the U.S. aircraft carriers was the Yorktown-class three Yorktown, Enterprise, and Hornet, and another three light aircraft carriers and two Lexington-class modified aircraft carriers with limited combat power.
At the beginning of World War II, the U.S. Navy had 300 ships of almost 1.5 million tons. These included more than 10 battleships, 8 aircraft carriers, almost 20 heavy cruisers, 19 light cruisers, more than 160 destroyers, and more than 100 submarines.
Among them, the Pacific Fleet has 9 battleships, 3 aircraft carriers, 12 heavy cruisers, 9 light cruisers, more than 60 destroyers, and 12 submarines.
However, war is not only a contest of weapons and equipment, because if we want to win a world war, we must also look at the competition of comprehensive national strength between countries.
Therefore, for the United States, which is the world's number one economic power in terms of both resource reserves and industrial production; It is not a difficult thing to produce a large number of weapons and equipment.
Therefore, when the United States participated in World War II, with the full support of its strong economic strength and industrial strength, the weapons and equipment produced by the United States immediately became the main suppliers of arms to the allied forces such as Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union.
Moreover, the number of U.S. troops participating in the war can directly be between 1943 and 1945; It has developed to more than 10 million people, and the scale of its military industry can also produce 40,000 aircraft, 20,000 tanks, and more than 30 million tons of steel annually.
The reason why it is so strong is because during World War II, the modernization and automation level of its factories was higher than that of Europe and Japan, and the production management of Americans was also the most advanced in the world at that time.
After Chen Yanlong was reborn and fought several battles with the U.S. military, the number of U.S. recruits in order to fight the German and Japanese armies has surged from 4 million to more than 8 million.
Moreover, more than 15 million women participated in industrial production, so the United States has produced more than 1,000 medium tanks and more than 5,000 light tanks in a hurry.
It produced about 9,000 heavy guns and more than 27,000 other medium-caliber guns; There are about 26,000 (twin- or quadruple-engined) engine-powered bombers and fighters in the aircraft.
As for aircraft carriers (including escort carriers) 35, 25 battleships, 150 destroyers, more than 290 frigates, and more than 180 submarines.
The Essex-class aircraft carrier is the largest number of first-class aircraft carriers ever built by the U.S. Navy, and because of its outstanding performance in World War II, the sailors on board call it the Navy's most warlike warship.
In 1943, the USS Essex began to participate in the Pacific War, but because the world of construction was relatively short, in 1943, with the strong support of President Roosevelt, the US Congress passed the "Fleet Enlargement Act" and the "Two Oceans Navy Act", which reluctantly provided the US Navy with 8 Essex-class aircraft carriers, 5 more than the original history.
However, due to the appearance of Chen Yanlong and the large amount of advanced weapons and equipment he brought, President Roosevelt had issued a dead order, no matter what the price was, at least 15 Essex-class aircraft carriers must be produced by March 1944, and the total number of Essex-class aircraft carriers approved by Roosevelt was 50.
And this number is also more than the number of the original Essex-class aircraft carriers, and the standard number of these aircraft carriers can carry at least 3,000 people per 4 ships, including more than 300 officers and 3,000 soldiers.
However, the aviation group of Essex-class aircraft carriers produced by the US military is still composed of the following squadrons: 2 fighter squadrons (36 aircraft) and 1 reconnaissance bomber squadron (18 aircraft); 1 squadron of dive bombers (18 aircraft), 1 squadron of torpedo bombers (18 aircraft), 1 dive bomber for liaison missions, a total of 91 aircraft; There are also 9 in reserve (3 each for fighters, dive bombers and torpedo aircraft).
The names of these Essex-class aircraft carriers are "Essex", "Vespa", "Chishach", "Lake Chamberlain", "Munington", "Yorktown", "Randolph" and "Hornet".
As for the "Oriscany", "Franklin" and "Bunker Hill" are in production and have not yet been built.
When Rommel led his troops to North Africa on the air force that Chen Yanlong had sent to them, more than 1,000 ships, ranging from battleships to transports and landing craft capable of crossing the sea alone, were grouping together in Algiers.
Eisenhower, also dressed in a crisp military uniform, nervously stared at the fleets in front of him, which gathered 12 allied countries, including the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, France, Belgium, Norway, Poland, Greece, and the Netherlands, and was approaching the port.
"That's all the naval fleets that President Roosevelt was now able to send me to fight the Germans! Looking at their huge number, they are definitely not much less than the ships of the Sicilian Campaign! ”
"It seems that this time we still have a chance to fight against Hitler's German army, and it is possible to open a second battlefield in Europe again!"
Eisenhower, who had not slept well for more than a week, was in low spirits as he watched more and more ships dock; Finally, it was very difficult to show a smile that he had not seen in a long time, and gradually regained the confidence of the battle and smiled.