Chapter 199: Pearl Harbor

Zhang Ziwen waited for another year.

Wait from the heavy snow to the heavy snowfall.

This year, Lao Jiang launched the Southern Anhui Incident and brutalized his compatriots.

In this year, an air-raid shelter tragedy occurred in Chongqing.

In that year, the Japanese cabinet officially launched a war against the United States.

As Zhang Ziwen watched the first snow fall from the sky, a Japanese naval fleet of six aircraft carriers left Japan for Pearl Harbor under the command of Vice Admiral Nagumo Tadaichi.

The six aircraft carriers are Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Hiryu, Shozuru, and Zuizuru.

In addition to the six aircraft carriers, Japan also sent nine destroyers on alert duty.

In addition, four cruisers were used as support troops, three submarines were used as patrol troops, and in order to ensure the successful completion of the mission, the Japanese army also equipped seven oil tankers, just to supply fuel.

In addition to the aircraft carrier group, the Japanese army formed three submarine forces as ambushes, preparing to attack the warships that the United States might attack.

On the way, the fleet maintained complete radio silence, stopping and stopping all the way to avoid the detection of the American army.

In the early hours of December 7, 183 planes from six aircraft carriers broke through the clouds and headed straight for Pearl Harbor.

It's a weekend, so Evan isn't on duty, and he's getting ready to enjoy the sunrise.

At this time, the waterline in the east had begun to slowly turn white, and a quiet dawn was coming, and Ai Wen waited.

Waiting for the beauty of the sunrise, waiting for the leisurely time of the sunrise.

Yamamoto sat on the fighter plane, and he could hear the noisy jazz music of the United States on the radio, and now the jazz was over, and it was the weather.

"Today the clouds are low and 3,500 feet high, visibility is good, and the north wind is ten knots."

Yamamoto Fifty-six smiled, this is simply suitable for air raids.

Aven, the chosen place to see the sunrise is not far from a radar station in the northernmost part of Oahu.

When he saw that in the sky, more than 100 planes were massive, and the air formation was flying overhead, he knew that this was not a fighter plane starting with B.

It was a Japanese plane that he had seen in the newspapers, and he was paddling frantically towards Oahu, which was going to start a war.

But where could he outrun the plane, and the plane flew over his head.

When she went to question the person at the radar station, the officer on duty told him that it was a B17 group and refused to send a warning to the Pearl Harbor garrison.

So Yamamoto Isoroku greeted the sunrise in the east and flew over Pearl Harbor.

At 7:35, Commander Harada, who was the commander of the first formation, gave the order to attack.

A flare was fired from Harada's landline.

It can be blocked by clouds, and the flare causes some fighters to not see the signal, and can order the signal again.

However, the first flare was obscured by clouds, and Harada was worried that the other Japanese planes would not see it, so he fired the second flare.

As originally planned, the local place for the surprise attack plan was to enter the attack in order of the plane bombers and dive bombers, attacking the ships first.

But the two that Harada sent out and sent signal flares, in fact, were seen by all the Japanese troops, so the diary, thinking that it was an order to attack, this is a tactic for the US army to attack when it is on guard, secretly from the air, diving, the bombers are poorly leveled, and the torpedo planes enter.

At this time, Pearl Harbor was still filled with the calm of a weekend morning, the clouds were sparse over the vast harbor, and the civil aircraft in the air were lazily circling.

The fleet group looked quiet and serene in the oblique sunlight, and the military planes on the airfield were neatly arranged to prevent it.

There was no tension at all, but the Japanese army would not have mercy, and the fleet group, the flag of the Nevada, which was at the end of the line, was directly torn to shreds.

Harada called Nagumo "Tiger!" Tiger! Tiger! The sneak attack was successful.

Let the Japanese air formation bomb it, and it was only a few minutes before anyone in the Pacific Fleet realized what was happening.

But by this time, the USS West Virginia and USS Oklahoma, which were docked on the outermost side of the Pacific Fleet, had already hit two or two torpedoes, the latter had hit five more bombs, and then capsized in the Pacific Ocean with more than 400 officers and men on board.

The Arizona, which was hit by an armor-piercing shell, exploded in the cabin and caused a fire, and the California was hit by two torpedoes, after which the heavy oil depot caught fire and sank directly.

Even the Tennessee and Pennsylvania, which were resting in the dockyard, each had a few bombs.

Until 7:58 a.m., the US Navy issued a warning to all ships: "Pearl Harbor is under air attack, this is not an exercise!" ”

Two minutes later, B-17 bombers from the continental United States and reconnaissance planes from the Enterprise arrived at Pearl Harbor at the same time, but they were unprepared and could not intervene.

8 The battleship Nevada began to fire on the aircraft attacking from the starboard side.

Two planes were shot down, and the stern of the Nevada was hit by a torpedo.

The Nevada was the only battleship that tried to escape Pearl Harbor, but it had to run aground on the beach after being shot multiple times to prevent the hull from sinking.

The front ammunition depot of the battleship Arizona exploded, and the Arizona sank in 9 minutes, killing 80% of the crew.

Until 8:15 a.m., the Supreme Commander of Hawaii, Walter Short, reported to the entire Pacific Fleet and Washington: "The battle with Japan began with an attack on Pearl Harbor. ”

The Japanese army, having already started the war, did not feel fear, but excitement. The miniature submarine that Yamamoto had painstakingly built had already infiltrated Pearl Harbor and was attacking.

The American destroyer USS Helm was the first American ship to begin an attack on a Japanese submarine sailing into Pearl Harbor.

The American destroyer USS Monaghan collided with a Japanese submarine and began dropping depth charges. The submarine surfaced after being injured.

Before nine o'clock, the second wave of Japanese attacks began.

The attack was carried out by 54 bombers and 78 dive bombers, and 36 fighters seized air supremacy.

A Dutch ocean liner was the first American ally to enter the war.

But in the face of the Japanese bombardment, even if it is, what about ocean cruise ships.

Pearl Harbor was bombed for half an hour and a half, which was already thick with smoke at Pearl Harbor, which seriously hindered the dive bombers, looking for the ships below, the Japanese Type 99 bombers, adopted the method of bombing according to the barrage, where there was the most fierce anti-aircraft artillery, the planes flew to dive.

By this time, it was already ten o'clock in the morning, and the first wave of aircraft returned to the fleet parked 180 nautical miles north of the island.

The USS Nevada, at the end of the Strategic Fleet at the Battle of Pearl Harbor, was the only ship to leave the berth, and he witnessed the Japanese bombardment from the beginning to the end with only one plane left.

This plane was the plane of Harada, the commander of the 1st Command Formation.

Harada's plane hovered over Pearl Harbor for a long time because Harada wanted to take pictures of his victory.

After the Japanese air raids passed, the governor of Hawaii declared on the radio that the entire territory of Hawaii was under martial law.

Half an hour later, he heard what he didn't want to hear. The landing of Japanese troops on Oahu was reported.

US reconnaissance planes were hurriedly dispatched to the north of the island, but they failed to spot any enemy planes or ships. The Governor of Hawaii and the President of the United States agreed to introduce wartime laws in Hawaii and establish a military junta.

This is Yamamoto Isoroku discussing with Lieutenant General Nagumo the possibility of conducting a third wave of attacks.

Nagumo returned with a bang, and the Japanese formation began to move from south to north.