Chapter 1573: Sneak Attack on Pearl Harbor!
The black-pressed flock of machines, like a dense flock of birds, and like countless fierce goshawks, suddenly burst out in the dawn light!
Not far away, the island where Pearl Harbor is located is like a shining pearl in the sparkling blue sea!
Pearl Harbor is quiet at the moment.
The pilots and crew were sleeping peacefully, and there were bonfires on the beaches far and near, scattered wine bottles, and paper was a record of the last night's revelry.
Aircraft carriers, battleships, destroyers, and submarine tankers were quietly moored in the harbor, as if they were tired and asleep, just like the crew pilots.
Countless Japanese pilots with crazy eyes laughed fiercely, and in their eyes, Pearl Harbor was a sleeping and powerless beauty, waiting for their ravage.
"Sortie ......"
There was a roar from the pilot, and then the pilots of hundreds of Japanese fighters roared in unison!
Like a dark cloud, the fighter plane suddenly plunged down from the sky and swooped down on Pearl Harbor and Oahu, where the Navy fighter planes were parked not far away!
One after another, the large-yield shells smashed like hail on those warships, landing on the deck and falling in the sea.
The waves set off by the explosion rose into the sky, churning a water curtain dozens of meters high, the bomb exploded on the deck, the thick steel plate was torn alive, and the fire soared into the sky, and the sleeping soldiers in the warship were under the violent shock of the explosion, as if they had been hit hard by a hammer, I don't know how many people were shocked to break their spines in an instant, and more people were thrown out of the hammock and smashed on the cabin, comrades-in-arms!
The whole cabin was full of howls, almost hell!
Some of the warships began to leak, and the sea water roared through the cracks of the warships like flash floods, and the panicked navy screamed and scrambled to crawl out, trampling over the bodies of fallen colleagues and passing through the fallen supplies.
Tens of thousands of people crowded into the narrow passageway, wailing bitterly, and behind them was the sea water that kept pouring in from the crack and the sinking hull of the ship!
They wailed in despair, as if they had seen the tragic fate of so many people drowning alive in this cramped cabin.
Someone was lucky enough to escape from the cabin and came to the deck, and then he saw the dense warplanes that were like flocks of birds whizzing at low altitude, and his eyes were full of confusion.
It's not that they can't recognize that it was a Japanese plane, they just don't understand how the Japanese planes appeared out of thin air when the Japanese island is thousands of miles away - they couldn't even connect the catastrophe suffered by the port with these Japanese fighters for a while!
Then, a torrential rain of machine-gun fire followed, and bombs fell not far from them, blasting them to pieces, or being swallowed up by the high-temperature flames generated by the explosion, or blown away by the waves of air like dead leaves!
The entire harbor was in flames, and quite a few navies jumped into the sea to avoid the bombardment, and countless human heads floated on the surface of the sea, screaming.
The Japanese fighters swept by in groups, shooting continuously into the sea, and in the skyrocketing water, countless navies were shot, and the sea soon became a large scarlet color!
At the airport on Oahu, the flames were blazing.
Rows and rows of new warplanes rose in the firelight, burning and exploding like model toys, and the entire airfield looked like an airplane graveyard, with debris everywhere.
Countless pilots were killed and shot in their sleep, and the pilots who survived wept without tears as they watched the burning planes, and then blended into the awakened crowd and ran wild on the island like headless flies.
Da Da Da ......
Behind them, those Japanese fighters swept low in an attack formation, and the course cannons chased the crowd and continued to strafe, watching the panicked crowd being torn apart under the machine guns, and the tragic situation of blood all over the sky, the Japanese pilots let out bursts of crazy laughter in the cockpit.
They thought it was a suicidal expedition, but they never expected the battle to be so easy, as if they were walking in their own garden and trampling a few ants and bugs to death.
"Air strikes on Pearl Harbor, air strikes on Pearl Harbor, this is not an exercise, this is not an exercise......"
At 7:58 a.m., the shrill sirens sounded throughout Pearl Harbor and Oahu airfields, echoing in the black smoke, explosions, and firelight.
From the time the Japanese threw the first shell and fired the first bullet, to the sirens of the air raid, a full ten minutes have passed!
More than a dozen warships have already been damaged, and the vast majority of fighters have already been reimbursed in the bombing!
The whole of Pearl Harbor has lost almost all its ability to resist!
After another few minutes, the battleship Nevada finally began firing at the low-flying Japanese fighters, shot down two Japanese fighters, and set sail under the command of the captain in an attempt to escape the hellish Pearl Harbor.
But at the moment when the Nevada started, a torpedo accurately hit the tail of the ship, and the Japanese submarine attack also arrived!
Wave after wave of attacks continued to strike, and because the Nevada was the only warship to start and fire back, it was subjected to indiscriminate bombardment by a large number of warplanes and submarines, and almost instantly the hull suffered countless irreparable battle damage, and was in danger of sinking at any time, so it had to give up resistance and quickly move closer to the shoal.
Thundered......
Just as the Nevada approached the shallows, the loud explosion almost tore through the ear drums of many people, and the battleship Arizona was almost instantly engulfed in flames, and a figure flew in the sky like a runaway kite in the whistling airwaves.
In just a few minutes, the massive island-like battleship Arizona disappeared from the water!
The Japanese attack continued incessantly, and the entire Pearl Harbor and Oahu Island were reduced to hell, and countless navy and port soldiers and civilians wailed in hell, watching the Japanese fighters and submarines raging wave after wave......
This was the most humiliating scene suffered by the United States since the founding of the People's Republic of China more than 100 years ago, and for a whole few dozen minutes, they were helpless to fight back, and they were pressed to the ground by the Japanese and rubbed over and over again, over and over again.
At 8:12, Hawaii's Supreme Commander, Walter Short, reported to the entire Pacific Fleet and Washington in a grief-stricken and indignant manner: "The battle with Japan began with an attack on Pearl Harbor!" ”
Fack!
Washington, Roosevelt received the report of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, and his whole body was trembling, although his body was almost completely crippled by age, but at this moment, his broken body exuded a tiger-like momentum!
(End of chapter)