Hearing Roosevelt's question, Jeffrey smiled: "Mr. President, this question, we have thought about it a long time ago. ”

After saying that, Jeffrey took out a new design drawing, which was the design of a small boat.

"This is the prototype that we are going to prototype, about 20 meters long, for our technical validation, with wooden planks on the outside, asphalt on the inner bulkheads, and pipe-like ventilation holes in the hull, so that the boat can survive the summer in peace."

"Then, we have more drawings, for example, after this experiment is completed, we can start building warships, which is a sketch of our 2 million ton aircraft carrier design," Jeffrey said. ”

2 million tons? When Roosevelt heard this data, he was shocked.

Now, how much does the largest warship weigh? Absolutely nothing more than 100,000 tons! 200 tons, it is already a terrible existence against the sky, this is no longer a warship at all, it is simply a floating military base!

"In our initial plan, the aircraft carrier is 900 meters long, 100 meters wide, about 60 meters high, uses 26 propeller thrusters, and has a refrigerator equipment inside, so that when our ship is damaged, as long as the refrigerator is running, the damage can be repaired. At the same time, the aircraft carrier can take off and land not only ordinary fighters, but also bombers. ”

When the length of the aircraft carrier reaches 900 meters, of course, you can do what you want, back then the B-25 could take off from the narrow deck of the aircraft carrier, and now, expanding to this length, of course, it can easily take off and land, and even the B-29 is not a dream.

If such aircraft carriers are deployed, then the United States will be more flexible in striking at the German mainland, and Roosevelt felt his heart beating when he thought of this.

As a president, Roosevelt should have been mature and steady, but now it is different, for some time now, pessimism has been spreading, and after the German conquest of Moscow, it seems that the ocean cannot stop the pace of German aggression.

Now, the appearance of the ice aircraft carrier once again gives them hope of victory.

"From Congress to appropriation, immediately look for suitable lakes in Canada, build this experiment, and if there is no problem with the verification project, start building this ice aircraft carrier, this project, the highest priority."

Roosevelt was very excited, he seemed to see hundreds of such ice aircraft carriers, riding the wind and waves in the Atlantic, heading towards the European continent, and there was no need to find a suitable land as a springboard, this floating ice aircraft carrier was a springboard.

Even if it's slower, it's a pretty good weapon platform.

While Roosevelt was excited about the ice carrier, Arnold had returned to his headquarters, and now, the big thing before them was this massive bombing campaign.

The bombing of Midway was not difficult, although the first bombing failed, but the route or something was already familiar, as long as the daytime bombing was changed to night, and it was enough to send a bomber group again.

The point is how to bomb Europe.

When they made a plan with Roosevelt, it was very simple, with the help of civil aviation routes, posing as passenger planes, but now, they need to subdivide this plan, which route to choose, how many planes to dispatch, and where to target.

Moreover, they have a very serious problem.

There aren't many planes they can use.

At the beginning, Germany bombed Scapa Gulf, a successful example, although it began to use Junkers-290 to pretend to be civilian airliners, but they were only the first wave, and after that, there were a large number of planes, one after another, some took off from aircraft carriers, some medium-range bombers, etc., and they were completely blown up.

However, there are not many bombers they can use.

If you want to simulate a passenger plane, it is a single-line flight, and the current range of the B-29 is definitely not enough to travel directly from the United States to Europe, only enough for a single-line flight.

Therefore, if they want to complete this bombing mission, they must carefully plan the route, for example, take off from Newfoundland, the easternmost island of Canada, fly first in high latitudes, wait until they are close to Europe, and then fly to the international route, and then feign a civilian airliner, bomb the ports of Britain, France, and Spain, focusing on their shipyards, and then, back to Greenland.

Even if this is the case, only the B-29 bomber has this capability, and until now, the total number of bombers they have mobilized will not exceed a hundred.

If that special bomb is used, it should be able to have a good bombing effect, but Roosevelt has his own strategic considerations and will not use that kind of bomb, while ordinary bombs are less effective and can play a role in harassment, but they may not be completely destroyed.

Moreover, there is only one chance, and the next time, the Germans will definitely have a higher concentration.

"If we take off from Greenland, medium-range bombers will be enough for Britain and France. However, the Germans had already occupied Iceland and must have deployed long-range radars in Iceland, which would certainly be detected by the Germans as long as they took off from Greenland. ”

The staff officers were making all sorts of considerations, and Arnold knew that time was running out and that a decision had to be made.

"In two waves, the bomber that took off from Greenland flew at an ultra-low altitude and evaded Iceland's radar before climbing." Arnold said: "With another hundred B-25s, two hundred bombers, they can paralyze their shipyard for several months." ”

A group of high-altitude flights, pretending to be civil airliners, anyway, the radar of this era is backward, as long as it is a dense formation, what you see is just a point.

At the same time, it is still possible for another batch of ultra-low-altitude flights to sneak up on Britain and France in the vicinity.

The German mainland air defense is too tight, but it is absolutely impossible for them to defend all the places tightly, right?

This is almost a replica of the Scapa Bay sneak attack, and with Arnold's clap, the bomber unit of the U.S. Army Air Corps began to prepare in full swing.

Germany, the enemy of the United States, has launched many attacks on the US mainland, and now, finally, the US bomber force is going to bomb the German-controlled areas!

At the same time, the 58th Bomber Wing, stationed on the west coast of the United States, has also begun to prepare for a new mission, they are going to take revenge on the islanders, this time, they must blow up Midway!

The 444th Bomber Group, the first B-29 bomber unit to complete night take-off and landing training, is about to begin its takeoff.