An army-built transport ship was stacked with parts of fighter jets: the fighters were disassembled, and the wings and fuselage were loaded separately.

This is not a Japanese Zero fighter, nor a Japanese KI-43 Hayabusabusa, but a ME-109E fighter from Germany.

Although this fighter was not so advanced from the perspective of October 1941, its main rival, the Spitfire, had no follow-up, so it could continue to be used.

Of course, this kind of fighter is no longer produced by Germany itself, and it is completely supplied to all countries in the world as a foreign trade fighter model.

The main consumers are Japan and Romania, and the United Kingdom, France and Italy are also interested in buying. At present, Japan has the most purchases, followed by Romania.

If you count the two autonomous regions of Ukraine and Belarus, which were recently included in the Third Reich, the number of such "international fighters" exported is almost more than a thousand.

Naturally, the Mercedes Smit company was unwilling to give up this money-making production line, and brought in a large number of female workers and second-rate skilled workers, and even inherited this production line impressively.

Although there is no later improvement and development, it can still be produced in sufficient quantities to meet the use and consumption of Japan and other countries.

"The Germans have arrived!" On the dock, the officer, who watched the arrival of the army's transport ship, said with a sigh of relief.

Finally, it caught up, and the weapons and equipment from Germany finally arrived on the battlefield in New Guinea before the US Army captured New Guinea.

In almost 10 days of fighting, the Japanese army aviation lost more than 300 aircraft of various types, which also made it difficult for Japan to replenish its fighters.

On the one hand, the Japanese army wanted to accumulate its own strength little by little during the attack of the Americans, but on the other hand, these accumulated forces were consumed in the battle.

The United States is the one that can withstand the pressure and accumulate strength with its strong production capacity; Production on the side of the Japanese army could not even make up for the most basic losses.

"Let's hope these planes can make up for our previous losses......" Another officer of the Japanese Army Air Corps sighed as the makeshift crane unloaded the planes from the ships on the improvised dock.

The number of planes sold by the Germans is really not much, and it seems that the production capacity of the Germans is also very limited.

No one knows whether these scattered planes can help the Japanese Empire change its destiny against the sky.

However, Japan's top brass still named the ME-109E, a fighter from the Luftwaffe, "Huiguang", hoping that this fighter can allow Japan to regain the initiative on the battlefield.

"Now these Huiguang fighters are not as easy to use as they were when they were put into use before." Hearing the other party's sigh, another commander of the Japanese Army Aviation looked at the unloaded plane in front of him and sighed.

The previously invested Huiguang fighter, that is, the ME-109E fighter, caught the American fighter pilots by surprise, so some results were achieved.

However, as time went on, the Japanese fighters fought fewer and less, while the combat experience of American fighter pilots became more and more.

Just from the performance analysis, in fact, the ME-109E fighter is not much more advanced than the Zero fighter used by Japan itself. Both of them belong entirely to the same era, and no one completely surpasses the other.

The Zero has more range and better horizontal performance, and the ME-109E has some advantages in speed and vertical maneuverability.

Unfortunately, the Germans no longer use the ME-109E fighters, and the Japanese have no choice but to use the Zero and ME-109E fighters.

"The Germans played with the reduction of allocation, they replaced the metal with wooden rudders, and replaced some of the original metal parts with engineering plastics." The Japanese soldier with the adjutant epaulettes on his shoulders frowned and spoke.

Although the German army made some reductions, it was possible to give Japan a discount on the original basis. For the same amount of purchases, the Germans gave dozens of more aircraft.

On the Germans' side, the new aircraft were indeed produced at a much higher speed, otherwise Japan would not have been able to get these planes so quickly.

"There are also quite a few Zero fighters produced by the Navy, and we have replenished 40 KI-43 Hayabusa fighters ourselves...... Now we have 300 planes that can be mobilized! ”

The U.S. forces tried to build airfields on the islands of New Guinea, and Japanese battleships would shell them at night to knock out the U.S. airfields on the plains.

The fighting was so fierce that the US military never controlled air supremacy over New Guinea, and Japan's airfields in New Guinea have always been a major problem for the Americans.

On this side of the mountain, the Japanese had three main field airfields, all of which were hidden, and the American reconnaissance aircraft spotted only one of them.

Thirty Japanese fighters were deployed at the three field airfields, and most of the American planes had to take off from airfields on the Cape York Peninsula to fight for air supremacy over New Guinea.

The two sides have come and gone, and almost 600 planes have crashed in the vicinity. The Japanese lost about 250 planes, and the Americans lost almost 350 planes.

This loss is not huge for the Americans, because their replenishment capacity is much greater than this figure.

But for the Japanese army, this loss was a bit unbearable. 250 planes were shot down, which is roughly equivalent to the loss of 250 pilots who can skillfully fly planes in battle.

Although the Japanese top brass has always emphasized that pilots can give up the plane and parachute to escape, few Japanese pilots are still willing to leave the plane they are flying.

They have a tradition of dying with their own planes or warships, and they have the courage to do so. And the bushido education they received also encouraged them to make this choice.

Therefore, the losses of Japanese pilots have always been high, which also brought them a serious problem of insufficient pilots.

Because of this, the biggest problem for the Japanese today is not that there is no way to replenish the aircraft, but that their number of pilots is seriously insufficient.

"We have a lot of planes, but we really don't have many pilots left to fly these planes!" The commander of the Japanese army aviation on the islands of New Guinea spoke helplessly.

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