Subtitle of this chapter: Messing around, almost making it "The Man in the High Castle"!

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The first aircraft carrier of the American Navy was the USS Langley (CV-1), a conversion from the USS Jupiter. At the time of Pearl Harbor, it had been converted into a seaplane carrier (AV-3) and was sunk by the Japanese.

The second Lexington, CV-2, and the third, Saratoga CV-3, are both Lexington-class carriers, and these two sister ships were converted from battlecruisers that began construction in 1920.

The fourth is the USS Ranger (CV-4), the first specially designed aircraft carrier of the U.S. Navy, which was built to serve in the Atlantic Fleet.

After that, it was the Yorktown-class aircraft carrier, but the "Yorktown Aircraft Carrier Scandal" broke out during construction, coupled with the reasons of various (Yuan) sides (large) faces (divisions), until the outbreak of the Pearl Harbor incident, Yorktown (Yorkton board number CV-5) and Enterprise (Enterprise board number CV-6) were still on the slipway outfitting and had not yet served, and the third Hornet of the same class had just begun to lay the keel.

Therefore, after Pearl Harbor, the Pacific Fleet was left with only one aircraft carrier, the USS Lexington.

The airfield, oil depot, dockyard, wharf, repair plant, and headquarters in Pearl Harbor were severely damaged, and they no longer had the ability to repair and maintain large ships in the short term, and the U.S. military was not sure whether the Japanese would carry out a second wave of attacks. Therefore, the "Lexington" had to cover all the ships that could be moved to San Diego, the largest naval base on the Pacific coast.

However, the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Isoroku Yamamoto, still refused to give up, and despite the dissuasion of the staff officers, he took great risks and sent the 1st Aircraft Carrier Squadron under the command of Jizaburo Ozawa to pursue and kill him. (Author's note, of course.) ）

The USS Lexington heroically assumed the role of rearguard and, with the cooperation of the submarine forces, successfully blocked the rapid formation.

But the "Lady Lie" also suffered a heavy blow. Fortunately, Major Heinche-Chandler, as the commander of the damage management department, was able to extinguish the fire in the cabin caused by the leakage of aviation gasoline by injecting carbon dioxide into the oil and gas pipeline.

Where he listened, there was evidence that he had received a telegram before the war with CO2 written on it. And this telegram was sent from the telegraph office near Yuan's estate in Los Angeles.

When the Lexington arrived in San Diego, everyone present was stunned. The bridge that caught fire and smoked was no longer visible, there were several large holes in the deck, two unexploded torpedoes were inserted in the waterline, and the carrier-based aircraft carried were almost completely wiped out. A third of the ship's crew was killed, another third was wounded, and half of the officers, including the captain, were killed.

Heinche was very lucky to survive and was only slightly injured. However, the only aircraft carrier in service had to be towed into the dock for major repairs.

Out of the need to boost morale, the crew members who had already made great achievements became the heroes of America that the government vigorously promoted. Major Chandler not only received the President's Commendation, but was also promoted to lieutenant colonel, and immediately became the deputy captain of the newly launched USS Enterprise.

The handsome lieutenant colonel was still unmarried, and when his photographs appeared in the major newspapers in the United States, countless love letters poured in from all over the United States.

But this lace news does not change the bad situation of the United States in the Pacific.

The Japanese Navy did not immediately land on the island of Hawaii, but took the resort of "encircling without attacking, minus the wings." While carrying out conventional bombing of military installations on the island of Hawaii, a landing force was sent to occupy the surrounding islands.

At the same time, the Japanese military department launched an operational plan to capture Australia, and this time the Japanese army did not refuse.

Hawaii Island is so important to both sides that the U.S. Navy knows that the other side is encircling the other side to send reinforcements, but it has no choice but to send ships and personnel collected from all over the world to the battlefield to support.

And because of the strategic advantage that was greater than the best pre-war prediction, the Combined Fleet, which was a little fluttering from top to bottom, summoned domestic reserve troops to intercept and kill these fire-fighting moths everywhere.

This series of battles is known as the "Hawaiian Offensive and Defensive Battles."

This "refueling tactic" of the US military naturally failed, which not only made the Pacific Fleet, which had already suffered heavy losses, worse off, but also dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the Americans.

It is said that even Mr. Yuan Yanqi, who was in Los Angeles at the time, was very worried, so he had an inspiration in his mind and wrote the science fiction masterpiece "The Man in the High Castle" published after the war, in which the United States really surrendered to the Axis powers.

Of course, in real history, the United States certainly did not surrender. On the contrary, with a much deeper industrial heritage than Japan, the Pacific Fleet gritted its teeth and survived the initial unfavorable situation, and the celestial bottle of the goddess of victory began to tilt towards them.

Throughout the Pacific War, Heinche-Chandler's performance can be called nothing but uncompromised. Although he didn't have any sparkle or heroic performances, he was still a commander who was generally able to carry out tactical tasks to the fullest.

Especially after becoming the captain of the USS Midway, Colonel Chandler unexpectedly became a rather conservative naval officer. One of his mantras was, if one more person could get 100 points, then I just wanted to pass.

His one-time immediate superior, William Frederick Halsey Jr., nicknamed "The Bull," often publicly denounced him as a coward. Captain Heinche was also not very fond of the other top sailors, as he also had a mantra that he would rather consume 10,000 tons of explosives than a single soldier.

However, he won the love of his subordinates, especially the pilots and low-ranking soldiers. In fact, since he was the boatswain of the Chaumon, he has always been quite protective of the illegal soldiers, and he has also turned a blind eye to the disciplinary violations of the people under him. And if a soldier asks him for help in any difficulty, he usually doesn't refuse. Sometimes, he will also take the initiative to lend a hand.

You must know that the separation of officers and soldiers is strictly practiced within the US military, because they believe that more contact between officers and soldiers will have some undesirable consequences.

However, Heinche's unconventional approach gave him a large number of grassroots loyalists, so whether during the war or after the war, the naval officers and men under Heinche almost obeyed him, and even did not hesitate to violate military discipline for him.

It is said that there was a conspiracy among soldiers to assassinate officers who opposed Heinche. So Heinche-Chandler became the leader of the biggest treasure hunt in history......

— Excerpt from Dan Brown's SCP Code

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Murong's level is limited, please give advice in this chapter.