Chapter 962: USS Enterprise (Plus 2)

The aircraft carrier Enterprise, riding the wind and waves, sailed on the sea.

This warship is quite glorious, in history, in the glorious life of the Enterprise, a total of 442475 kilometers sailed, 71 enemy ships were sunk, 192 were damaged, and 911 enemy aircraft were shot down, no other warship in the United States Navy can be compared, the Enterprise symbolizes the fighting spirit of the United States Navy.

At the same time, this warship was only commissioned in 38 years, and it is a relatively new aircraft carrier, which was deployed to the Pacific Ocean at the end of last year due to the deterioration of the situation in the western Pacific.

And now, the mission carried out by the Enterprise did not leave the sailors with much passion.

Due to the deterioration of the situation in the Pacific Ocean and the possibility of conflict with the island nations, the Enterprise began to travel between Pearl Harbor and the West Coast of the United States on the orders of President Roosevelt, transporting P-39 "Flying Snake" fighters and P-40 "Tomahawk" fighters of the Army Air Corps, as well as a large number of troops and munitions.

In other words, the well-known aircraft carrier of the US Navy was actually used to perform the tasks of a sea jeep!

In the process of returning to the United States, the deck is still empty, and when it comes back, the entire deck of the aircraft carrier will be densely covered with fighters.

Regardless of the take-off and landing of aircraft on the aircraft carrier, hundreds of fighters can be loaded on the flight deck alone, so it can be said that the aircraft carrier is really suitable for transport aircraft.

However, no one likes it, it is clearly a combat ship, but it is used to carry out such transport tasks!

And on the bridge, the captain, Colonel Charles A. Bonnard, also had a kind of doubt.

According to the plan, they would finish Sunday and set sail until next week, after all, the journey at sea was too boring.

But now, they set out a few days early, so the weekend could only be spent on the sea, with no sandy beaches, no beautiful women, only endless sea.

The sky was nice, and it was good weather for sailing.

"Would you like a glass of juice?" Behind him, First Officer Thomas Hamilton asked.

In his hands, he held two glasses of juice.

Charles took the juice and had just put it to his lips when he heard a sharp siren sound.

"What's going on?" He was splashed with half of the juice on his face, shouted loudly, and then someone hurriedly came over to report: "Dive bombers, our lookout posts, have spotted dive bombers in the sky!" ”

Dive bombers? When he heard the news, instinctively, Charles wanted to say, today is not April Fool's Day!

However, when he looked up and looked out of the window of the bridge, he saw a bomber with an inverted seagull wing, diving towards his warship.

"Damn, it's Stuka!" Charles shouted loudly: "The Germans have made war on us!" ”

In the consciousness of the American Navy, Germany is their worst enemy, some time ago, they were still searching the sea everywhere for traces of German submarines, and now, after visually identifying the model, Charles made a judgment, although at this time, there were still countless doubts in his mind.

It's not the Junkers-290, it's the Stuka, this kind of aircraft has an extremely limited range, how did it fly? Could it be that the aircraft carriers of the Germans came over?

How is this possible! The aircraft carriers of the Germans, circumnavigating most of the world, ran to the Pacific Ocean? If they dare to come, they will never go back!

However, he no longer had time to think about this, and the well-trained crew played a decisive role at this time.

In this era, battleships with huge caliber cannons have always been the mainstream of the navy, and compared to charismatic battleships, aircraft carriers are simply like poor street beggars. In their eyes, an aircraft carrier is a "big bathtub with a barn door." The officer of the aircraft carrier is the "Navy of Brown Boots", and the ordinary sailors are called "Flat-topped sailors".

However, the sailors on the Enterprise, under Charles, were strict with themselves, and their training was the hardest, and at this time, their training worked.

The lookout was faithful to his duty, and when he saw Stuka swooping down from the clouds, he immediately raised the alarm, and after the whole ship sounded the air defense alarm, the anti-aircraft gunners quickly ran to their gun positions.

The Enterprise's main anti-aircraft armament was 1.1-inch anti-aircraft guns and 5-inch/38-caliber anti-aircraft guns, which went off in a matter of seconds.

"Boom, boom, boom!" One by one, the anti-aircraft guns, towards the sky, fired their own shells, although this anti-aircraft guns had a long range, but the rate of fire was too slow, and in the eyes of the pilots in the sky, there was not much threat.

And those Browning M2 .50 caliber heavy machine guns, although they have sufficient firepower, are too powerful, at most they can drill a few small holes in the skin of the aircraft.

Saburo Kondo pushed the lever, he felt his bomber tremble more and more in the dive, and glanced at the speedometer with the corner of his eye, at this time, the speed of the dive had exceeded 500 kilometers per hour, and it was almost on the verge of losing control.

Fixed the whistle on the landing gear, there was a howling, and in the howling, the target grew bigger and bigger!

Saburo Kondo was not aiming at the middle of the opponent, but at the rear of the aircraft carrier, where the power compartment was located, and now, he was not sure how powerful the bomb he was carrying, and he had to attack in the most conservative way.

"Boom!" A shell, almost flying next to his plane, he didn't care at all, continued to dive, dive, as a warrior of the island nation, at this moment, he was not afraid of death at all, he was only thinking about his goal!

Countless anti-aircraft guns were shooting at him, his fuselage continued to tremble, and more than a dozen small holes appeared in the wings, which were the fire of the opponent's anti-aircraft machine guns.

If it was a Zero fighter without any protection, even if it was hit by a 0.50 anti-aircraft machine gun bullet, it could be ignited, but a sturdy dive bomber like the Stuka had no effect at all.

Bombing! Saburo Kondo pressed the button, and the height at this time was only five hundred meters, and as he dropped the bomb, he felt a tremor in his belly, and the whole Stuka was light.

Then, a blazing flame came into his eyes.

PC1000RS, this number is complex, PC stands for anti-armor projectile, the wall is quite thick, the body material is high-quality steel, and it is specially designed to destroy enemy targets and permanent fortifications such as battleships and other heavy armor protection. The RS at the back means rocket boost, and the elongated tail part is equipped with a rocket thrust device, which is only used for dive bombing.

Now, when the bomb is dropped, the rocket booster ignites correctly, pushing the warhead even faster! Speed is energy!