Chapter 1464: B-25 Assists in the Battle

As a result, the Stuka in the back could only continue to pile up, and on the front deck, one after another Zeros were lifted up from the hangar below.

Due to the limited deck volume of the aircraft carrier, it is impossible to pile all the carrier-based aircraft on the deck, and the most terrible thing is that the aircraft carriers of the island countries do not have side lifts, and their aircraft carriers are all open on the middle deck, with three lifts in the front, middle and rear.

In this way, when they raise the carrier-based aircraft, the aircraft behind them cannot be released.

Otherwise, they would have greatly improved their efficiency by simply lifting the Zero from the side side, and at this time, at the same time releasing the Stuka on the aft deck.

When the Zero was raised, it started quickly, and leaning on the front deck, the Zero was at full speed, and successfully flew away on the aircraft carrier that was turning to the headwind.

One, two ...

In normal times, they would only fly four or five Zeros to patrol the sky above the formation, but now, they need to release all the Zeros quickly and efficiently!

This is a race against time, they want to race against the Americans for time, as long as the Americans release all the zero battles before the arrival of the attack planes, they will organize a dense protective net over the aircraft carrier formation, and if the Americans want to penetrate their own protective net, they will have to pay a great price, and the few fish that slip through the net will also be wiped out by antiaircraft artillery.

Finally, all the Zero Battles were released, and Nagumo Tadaichi's heart settled down a little, and he looked at the dense Stuka bombers at the back of the deck, and always felt that something was wrong.

Will these bombers be released now, or will they wait for intelligence?

If they are released now, the target has not yet been determined, where should they fly? If they wait for information, should they put it back in the hangar and empty the back deck? Otherwise, the aircraft carrier will not be able to carry out recovery operations.

At this time, he suddenly remembered that the German aircraft carrier, with a displacement of nearly 30,000 tons, a deck area much larger than his own, and the most important thing is a beveled deck, so that take-off and landing do not affect each other, which is really a genius idea.

It's a pity that our aircraft carrier is too late to be modified, so we can only wait for the newly designed aircraft carrier.

While he was waiting, the eager conversations of the pilots were already heard on the radio, and from time to time there would be the sound of roaring machine guns, and the Zero Battle, who took off urgently, had already fought with the carrier-based aircraft that came to attack.

Fortunately, our own reconnaissance plane discovered it in time, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable!

For interception, the farther the distance, the safer, interception at a long distance, it is possible to intercept the other side in multiple batches, if it is too close, there is only one chance, and the air defense circle of the American aircraft carrier is almost five hundred kilometers away, and this is the reason.

And now, after an emergency take-off, the Zero intercepts the target almost at a distance of a hundred kilometers, which gives the fleet a great buffer, and at such a time, they do not have to worry about the American aircraft breaking through the interception net for the time being, they can also accelerate, they can turn, and leave the land of right and wrong.

The sea breeze blew on Nagumo Tadaichi's face, and his thoughts suddenly recovered, just now there was a thought that he had been unable to grasp, but now the lightning flashed in an instant.

The Americans must have spotted their own formations in advance, otherwise why would they take off to attack so early?

Coming from the north were carrier-based planes flown by US aircraft carriers, so will there be only one wave of attacks from the Americans?

Of course not!

The Hawaiian Islands in the southeast of China also have many US military bases, and the Americans have deployed a large number of planes here, and it is precisely because they have fooled the Americans that the target is the Aleutian Islands, and these planes can be regarded as being transferred.

And now, the aircraft carrier formations of the Americans have all returned to the reinforcements, so what about the various aircraft that the Americans transferred to the Aleutian Islands?

Thinking of this, he felt that the hairs on his back were about to stand up, he had just released all the Zero Battles, and they didn't leave a few planes as a backup!

"Take off four Stukas, unload the bombs, and escort the aircraft in the airspace of the aircraft carrier." He immediately gave the order.

As a professional dive bomber, the combat performance of the Stuka is very poor, but it is also an aircraft after all.

When this order was received, the people on deck were still very strange, but they did not question it and immediately made preparations for takeoff.

Stuka was full of bombs, and now they had to dismantle them before they could fly, and since there was no place, the bombs were piled up on the deck.

A deck crew guided the Stuka bomber to the take-off area, and in the midst of his full attention, the deck lookout post shouted: "American bombers! ”

Suddenly, in the clouds in the southeast of our side, a series of double-engine American bombers came out!

They pounced on them in the dark, and there were definitely more than a hundred of them!

This is an old acquaintance of the islanders, and in the first counterattack of the United States, the B-25 Mitchell bomber that resolutely took off from the aircraft carrier!

The excellent twin-engine bomber, which assumes the role of all-rounder, is similar to the B-25 bomber, which has been equipped with thousands of aircraft in the United States so far, and more than 200 in the Pacific Fleet.

They were originally stationed in Hawaii, but were later transferred to the Aleutian Islands, and just last night, despite their fatigue, they drove the bombers back to Hawaii overnight, and then, without resting for two hours, they received the news that they had discovered the aircraft carrier formation of the island nation, so they flew over more than 800 kilometers with the bombers and found the aircraft carrier formation of the island people.

At this time, they have just the right opportunity to catch up, the aircraft carrier formation of the islanders, all the zero battles are entangled with the naval carrier-based aircraft, so that the air defense force here is extremely empty, and they can take advantage of the weakness!

"Quick, take off Stuka, take off Stuka now!" On the decks of both aircraft carriers, there was chaos everywhere.

Before he could unload the bomb, the pilot pushed the throttle to his head, and with the roar of the roaring engine, Stuka slid from the front of deck, took off, and as he climbed, he threw away the bomb he was carrying, and wanted to fly in the direction of the American bomber.

It's a pity that the number is too small, and the sporadic take-off of a few Stuka before the arrival of American bombers is simply useless.

The B-25 bomber can also dive bombing, which is the same as the German Junkers-88, which is a jack-of-all-trades, but this time, they do not intend to dive in under heavy anti-aircraft fire, they have been practicing new tactics for months.