Chapter 026: Bombing Kamchatka

Spruance is one year younger than Nimitz, Nimitz is 85 years, and Spruance is 86 years, in July 1903, Spruance was admitted to the United States Naval Academy from Indiana, studied hard during the school, excellent grades but obscurity, graduated early in September 1906 and served on the battleship, and was promoted to second lieutenant in September 1908,

In 1913, he was promoted to captain of a destroyer belonging to the Asian Fleet of the United States Navy, and a year later he was transferred to shore service, married Margaret Dean, promoted to lieutenant commander in 1916, lieutenant commander in 1918, and in 1919, he became captain of the destroyer USS Allan Walter in the Halsey destroyer detachment, which was greatly appreciated by Halsey.

In 1921, he successively served as Chief of the Transfers Division and Chief of the Electric Power Division of the U.S. Naval Engineering Bureau, and in 1924, he was transferred to the captain of the destroyer USS Dyer, and later served as assistant chief of staff to Andrews, commander of the U.S. Navy in Europe, and soon became captain of the destroyer USS Osborne.

In the summer of 1926, Spruance entered the United States Naval Military Academy for further study, and later Spruance believed that his successful combat operations were largely influenced by this further study, and later went to the battleship Mississippi as a deputy captain, in June 1931, transferred to the Naval Military Academy in charge of correspondence courses, and was promoted to naval captain the following year.

In May 1933, he served as the chief of staff of the commander of the destroyer escort fleet, Watson, in April 1935, he was transferred to the head of the tactical department of the Naval Military Academy, and many of the trainees he trained held important positions in World War II, in 1938, he became the captain of the battleship USS Mississippi, in February 1940, he was promoted to commander of the 10th naval district, and in October of the same year, he was promoted to rear admiral, and with the development of the war in Europe, his responsibilities gradually increased, in June 1941, he also served as the commander of the Caribbean theater of operations, in September 1941, Commander of the 5th Cruiser Detachment of the Pacific Fleet, flagship USS Northampton, served under Halsey,

On December 2, 1941, Spruance led his troops out of Pearl Harbor to deliver fighter jets to Wake Island under the command of Halsey, thus avoiding the disaster of Pearl Harbor.

In May 1942, Halsey led the 16th Task Force back to Pearl Harbor, Nimitz, who was planning the Battle of Midway, found that Halsey was suffering from a skin disease and had to be hospitalized, Halsey strongly recommended Spruance to take over as commander of the 16th Task Force, which was approved by Nimitz, and Nimitz also ordered the emergency repair of the USS Yorktown aircraft carrier and the formation of the 17th Task Force with Rear Admiral Fletcher as the commander, although Nimitz explicitly ordered the senior Fletcher to be responsible for the battlefield command of the Battle of Midway, On May 28, Spruance left Pearl Harbor with two aircraft carriers (USS Enterprise and USS Hornet), six cruisers, and nine destroyers, and on June 3 rendezvous with Fletcher in the predetermined waters northeast of Midway, waiting for engagement with the Japanese Combined Fleet.

In the Battle of Midway, Spruance became famous in the first battle, and then there was no big war, and after the peace treaty between Japan and the United States, he was idle, not expecting that the next big war would be with the Chinese fleet, and as soon as they came up, they would give his companions and good friends to the wheel,

Spruance is now ordered to turn the tide,

Just when the clouds were gloomy on the Hawaiian side, the Alaskan fleet finally arrived off the coast of Kamchatka, but in fact, they had been here for a few days, but they had been west of Shinchi Island in the Kuril Islands before.

There is a lot of submarine activity around Kamchatka, and there are also aircraft cruises, just for fear of being stolen, especially Japan likes to do this kind of thing.

Admiral Dave, the commander of the Alaskan fleet, was hiding west of Shinchi Island, and he was waiting for an opportunity, so he sent submarines and planes to Kamchatka to reconnoitre,

But at this time they are very dangerous, Shinchi Island is controlled by the Japanese, if they hide here and are discovered by the Japanese and informed the Chinese side, they will die.

And the reason why Dave still has to take this risk is because he is betting that Japan will not penetrate their whereabouts to China even if they find out, as for whether Japan will worry about their attack, Dave believes that the Japanese will not be stupid like that, Sino-US war, the United States has sacrificed so much before, and it will definitely not attack a few small islands at this time, of course, the location of the Alaska fleet is also on the high seas,

In fact, Dave was right, their whereabouts were discovered as early as the day they came, and the local authorities in Japan quickly reported it to the local government in Japan, and the local government immediately reported it to the base camp in Australia.

In fact, after a little thought, they decided to wait and see, and everyone did not think that the Americans were going to do anything to Japan, because the time was not right, and it was completely meaningless to take down the Kuril Islands, and it would offend Japan, and the United States is now trying to fight against Germany, and now it is going to fight against China, where will it provoke Japan,

The Japanese government has decided to ignore the Americans, and of course it will not disclose any news about the US fleet to China, because they are eager for the Chinese and US sides to fight each dead and wounded, and then they will be able to come out and clean up the mess.

The attitude of the Japanese government made the American fleet very safe, and they could be discovered several times later, but they were secretly saved by the Japanese side.

On July 15, Admiral Dave decided to attack, and these days they have a relatively clear picture of the situation in the waters west of the Kamchatka Peninsula.

In view of the fact that two of the three fleets of the Pacific Fleet were attacked in the morning, Dave also decided to return the favor in the other way, and he decided that he must give the Chinese a little color.

However, the Chinese side also has radar, and it is a time of war, I am afraid that Chinese will look very closely, and once his plane enters the area explored by the radar, it may be detected immediately, so they must attack quickly to achieve good results,

At 5:15 a.m. on the morning of the 15th, all the US air forces were assembled, and Dave boarded one of the aircraft carriers and said to the pilots: "Warriors, the despicable and shameless Chinese sneaked up on our Pacific Fleet, causing more than 10,000 officers and men of the 11th, 12th, and 13th task forces to leave this world forever, today we will avenge them, everyone cheers up the spirit of 120,000 points, don't be negligent, the Chinese's land-based air force is not a joke, their number is far higher than ours, understand." ”

"Understood." All the U.S. military pilots said in unison,

"Okay, let's go." With Dave's order, the U.S. air forces ran towards their planes,

The planes soon took off one after another under the guidance of the guide, and 20 minutes later, all 160 planes on the two aircraft carriers took off, and this time they carried all the bombs and incendiary bombs that bombed the port.

At 5:40, 160 bomb-laden US air units flew towards Petropavlovsk, which was renamed Beiyang City.

After the Japanese control, all the naval aviation took dangerous low-altitude flights to avoid Chinese radar tracking.

At this moment, the Chinese military personnel stationed in China are also paralyzed, the Aleutian Islands have been taken, although the US fleet has not participated in the war, but everyone did not expect that the US Navy fleet will come to sneak attack,

At 6:50, the U.S. military aviation arrived in the sky over Beiyang City, they didn't talk nonsense, and directly dropped the bomb over the city, fortunately, China's air bases are scattered, it is difficult to find the focus, in addition, the Americans' infiltration of this place was also a few years ago, after the capture of this place carried out a large-scale transformation, now this place has long been a thing or a person, not even a white person can be found, their map has also lost its effect, so they can only throw bombs indiscriminately, of course, it will also find a target that they think is valuable,

When these places were attacked here, they were destroyed, and at the time of the great migration, because of the cold and freezing here, there were not many immigrants coming, so there were not many houses rebuilt, and the American Air Force easily found those big houses, which looked like factories or warehouses, and the American Air Forces did not hesitate to drop bombs here, in fact, they guessed correctly, this is indeed a place to put war materials,

"Xiu Xiu ......" bombs were dropped on this house, and at the same time, many houses were hit, and an airfield on the edge of the city was also destroyed, there were 50 warplanes, and a large number of materials were destroyed, and the personnel were also heavily damaged, at least from the moment the Japanese left, the Chinese side did not have such a large civilian casualties,

Of course, this is mainly a problem for Wang Hanzhang, who has been vigorously developing aircraft, so at this time Kamchatka and other places have deployed more aircraft, if they are not transferred to the Aleutian Islands, there will be more.

Wang Hanzhang has always felt that only airplanes are the most effective way to deal with aircraft, so China's ground air defense firepower is not strong, and at the moment when the aircraft cannot support, there is only a share of beating.

After being stunned for a few minutes after being bombarded with such a strong bombardment, the defenders still reported it, and they immediately contacted the surrounding air bases and informed them of the situation here.

The surrounding air bases immediately took off and the planes rushed to Beiyang City to rescue, while the other part of the planes intercepted in the southeast direction of Kamchatka.

The US air force looked at the destroyed Beiyang City, and from time to time saw the fleeing people, they were very happy, one division of their sneak attack was successful, and the other was to bomb the enemy like this, they were very happy, this time it can be regarded as avenging the souls of the three fleets of the Pacific Fleet.

After more than ten minutes, they began to return home, because there were no targets on the ground to waste bombs, and they planned to find a place to drop bombs when they returned.