readx; Beginning in June, the allied offensive had become a clearing-up battle, and the battle had turned into a battle for various caves, with nearly 1,000 soldiers killed every day. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 As the Coalition soldiers chased after him hiding in the underground cave with explosives packs, grenades, and flamethrowers, the battle turned into a bloody one-sided hunt. By June 27, the remnants of General Ushijima's subordinates had been torn apart by the coalition forces, and had lost all contact with each other and had to resign themselves to their fate, and the surviving soldiers fought on instinct, hating everything, refusing to obey the orders of the officers, fighting each other for water and food. They have openly killed civilians and forcibly annihilated women, and have become complete barbaric bandits, no longer being armies. By July 2, the last cave of the Japanese army on the island of Okinawa had been conquered by the allied forces, and more than 400 officers and men, including General Ushijima Mitsuru and all the personnel of his headquarters, were killed in the cave by the allied forces.

At this point, the Battle of Okinawa was officially over. In more than three months of fighting, the U.S. Army and Marines were killed and more than 12,520 people were missing, making it the heaviest battle of the Pacific War. He said he had lost 110,000 defenders and more than 75,000 civilians, including women and children, who had died. He said that he lost the last battle fought outside the mainland, and it was also the longest and largest battle, and the Battle of Okinawa ended with the victory of the coalition forces.

But in early April, coalition forces and marines landed on the island of Okinawa, and the 120-day battle began. Since the "Yamato" was sunk by carrier-based aircraft of the 5th Task Force and the Second Attack Fleet of the Navy's Second Attack Fleet was almost completely wiped out, the Combined Fleet of the Navy's Navy was no longer able to launch a naval offensive. The vast waters of Okinawa are dotted with thousands of warships of the U.S. Navy, large and small. In addition to supporting the landing force in naval artillery bombardment and aircraft sorties for bombing, the fleet almost went on "vacation". The Enterprise anchored with its convoy on a small, not-so-small nameless island in the Ryukyu Islands. Like many other islands in the Pacific, this island was much the same as many other islands in the Pacific, and was quickly built into a 'makeshift base', just like the coalition occupation of Kwajalein and Majuro.

The sappers efficiently built some ship repair and supply facilities on the island, as well as some places for the officers and men to rest. Task Force 38, commanded by Vice Admiral Halsey, docked here, and the soldiers were allowed to take turns ashore to rest. Small boats came and went on the water of the lagoon in Zhanlan, sending the officers and men to the beach. The sappers even built a bar on the island, modeled after their own house made of wood, but it was made wide and large, and camouflaged with leaves. The Chinese led by Liu Xirui, and the pilots of the air force on the "Enterprise" such as Benz Jr. and Kaoft have all visited this so-called "liquor", and the Americans were surprised to find that this bar was almost identical to the Hollywood bar. It's just that there are no waitresses in this bar at all, and there is not a drop of wine, only coffee. Although this "bar" has a false name, the officers and men are still willing to come here, and there is no other reason than to like to come.

In June, the weather starts to get hotter and the wind and rain are much less. The pilots of the aircraft carriers had nothing to fight, and the pilots of the dive bombers and torpedo attack planes could sneak to Okinawa Island and bomb it if they saw anything that did not please the eye, but the enthusiasm of the fighter pilots to practice target shooting on the island of Okinawa was rapidly waning, and the reason was very simple: there was no target to hit, and they could not come out even if they hid in a cave and were killed. Therefore, in addition to being on duty, there is more free time, and in this so-called "bar" that does not live up to its name, I drink coffee, chat, talk to each other about our views on the war, and then boast to each other about my plans after the war, stay for a few hours, bathe on the beach, and watch movies in the evening. The officers and men were cautious in their remarks when talking about the ongoing fighting on the island of Okinawa. Oh, yes! There are also quite a few officers and men fighting on the island, and they are always fighting for their lives in the rain of bullets. As a part of the battle, the pilots are completely on vacation and resting, which is too big a contrast, but there is no way to "have a precedence in hearing the Tao and specialize in the arts"!

The tasks of each army and each branch of the army are different, and those who should be busy will be busy, and those who should not be busy or have already been busy should enjoy it!

However, it is not that he did not come to look for trouble, although these troubles are not very great, and it is impossible to prevent the Americans from attacking Okinawa. But it still made the American GIs a little worried. On June 7, the weather was fine and the day was sunny. In the evening, the setting sun leaves a trail of afterglow on the horizon, and the summer sunset turns into a starry night scene in the blink of an eye. There was a low roar on the island of Okinawa, and the gunfire was barely audible, because it was not close. In principle, the lights of warships parked on the surface of the sea are controlled, but this is a joke at all, and no one takes it seriously. On the aircraft carrier "Enterprise" and not far from it, "Hancock" and the escort aircraft carrier "Sharif", lights can be seen flickering on movie screens. At about 11 o'clock in the evening, Liu Xirui and several flying officers of his air force stood on the third floor of the ship to watch the movie being shown next to the No. 2 elevator.

When the movie was being screened, Liu Xirui felt the "Enterprise" shake violently, and a huge explosion sounded from the escort aircraft carrier "Sharif" next to it, and the explosion drowned out the dialogue of the characters in the movie. Everyone rushed to their feet, the siren whistle sounded, and the sailors rushed to their respective combat posts. However, the actors on the screen continued the conversation between them as if nothing had happened, but no one cared to listen to their nonsense. There was a fire at the back of the deck of the "Sharif", and several more explosions were heard from the stern, but they were nowhere near as loud as the first. Liu Xirui saw the flames on the "Sherif Ship" on the ship island of the "Enterprise" reflected on the dim water. The radio on board the "Enterprise" sounded, which explained that a plane returning from patrol had broken down and unfortunately crashed in the stern of the "Sharif" during landing.

Based on the sound of the plane's engine, it can basically be concluded that this is an F6F "shrew" fighter. Because the engine was running malfunctionally, the plane made a loud explosion when it fell. Liu Xirui couldn't be fooled, he laughed secretly in his heart, the Americans are really a little naïve and cute, and they even played a trick of self-deception, in order to avoid causing panic, they even said that a suicide plane that said he was an accident F6F "shrew" fighter, and he had good intentions! This kamikaze plane, which is said to be his own, may have taken off from Daito Island on the edge of Kyushu, and this pilot flew nearly 600 kilometers in the dark, and finally crashed the plane into a resting US aircraft carrier. But unfortunately, he crashed into a misdirection and did not achieve the goal of exchanging one plane for one ship. Sure enough, after the fire was extinguished, the wreckage of the plane and the body of one of the pilots were found in the stern of the "Sharif".

On May 16, the task force joined up with the refueling fleet in the waters of the Ryukyu Islands, and the ships immediately refueled. The sky was cloudy, the sea was rough, and the plane did not take off. The pilots were all bragging and chatting in the standby room. After the tankers left, the fleet formed a formation and circled the sea surface of Okinawa at a speed of 25 knots. The pilots had an unspoken, common thought, how long would this battle be fought on Okinawa?

On the mainland, the Battle of Okinawa touched the hearts of too many people. There is no way to support the warriors who are fighting alone on the island of Okinawa. The 'kamikaze attack' may be the only way to attack at present, so it has once again been put on the agenda by the military, and not only that, but the call for a special attack is also very high, as the business magazine "Industrial Storybook" wrote:

"There are those who advocate a way of fighting in which the flesh of the enemy is taken by my skin, and the bones of the enemy are taken by my flesh, but this is not practical. What should be adopted is the tactic of using our own bones to defeat the enemy's bones, and everyone is willing and able to do this, which is in line with our national characteristics and also in line with the national conditions of our country. This is the tactic of 'kamikaze'"

22-year-old Second Lieutenant Hiroki Hoyama, a native of Tokyo, was anxious and angry that Kyoto was being burned every day by the "B-29" demonic machine, but he couldn't help it. He was convinced of the slogan put forward by his superiors for one plane for one ship. Before enlisting in the army, he was a student at Tokyo Agricultural College. In fact, the reason why he chose to go to agricultural school is simple and ridiculous, he loves nature, and likes to see the green leaves of plants shining in the sun, swaying from side to side in the breeze. He believes that nature has endowed all living things with life, not only people, animals, and plants have the right to live, and now that the Americans are knocking on the door, for the survival of Ben, he should stand up and defend all living things in his homeland.

But he ignored that he had deprived many people of their right to exist in Chinese mainland and on several islands and islands in the Pacific. He was called up in the Navy, and he signed up for the Navy because 'the Navy is the most charismatic'. After a brief training, by the beginning of 45 years he had learned to fly an airplane. When recruiting volunteers to join the special attack team, each pilot must sign a piece of paper, and those who volunteer to join the special attack team draw a circle on their name, and those who do not want to participate draw a triangle, and there is no compulsion. Second Lieutenant Hiroki found that many people had drawn triangles, and Hiroki was a little angry, these people were all afraid of death! They all lack the spirit of dedication to defending the book. Everyone knows that they will be defeated anyway, so it is better to die a glorious battle, and maybe they can really sink one of the enemy's warships. Therefore, Second Lieutenant Hiroki Hoyama did not hesitate to draw an egg-sized circle on his name.

All pilots who volunteer to serve as special attack team members must be trained. Although this kind of training is too simple for Hiroki Hozan, it is completely unnecessary. But Hiroki obeyed the order and participated in the training. The training is monotonous and boring, that is, in the middle of about 3,000 meters, low-altitude level flight, as soon as the target is found, it starts to dive desperately. Hiroki was skeptical about the odds of surviving the coalition fighters with a slow, obsolete two-seater trainer that was a rather cumbersome two-seater trainer with an oddly slow, outdated fuselage. He just hoped that he would never fly such a broken plane while on a mission. Otherwise, it's really 'die before you get out of school', and it's the kind that doesn't look blind.

A few weeks passed quickly, and according to the news that the fighting on the island of Okinawa was raging, and the situation was very unfavorable for the Japanese side. The Americans not only have a great advantage in numbers, aircraft, tanks, artillery and warships, but also have equipment and material supplies that are many times stronger than the troops defending the island. Under these circumstances, the Okinawan army was almost pressed and beaten, and had no power to fight back. In this situation, the superiors announced in advance that their training was over, and they would soon set off for a special attack mission. Only then did Second Lieutenant Hiroki realize that he had been sentenced to death. Seeing the mechanics modifying all sorts of planes for kamikaze attacks, Hiroki felt more and more doomed to death. The fuselage of the aircraft was equipped with auxiliary fuel tanks, weapons were removed, and even communication equipment and instruments were removed, leaving only the compass and altimeter, and a 250-pound bomb was fixed on each side of the wing. Hiroki saw the plane assigned to him and thought to himself:

"I'm just going to drive such a thing to make the last flight with no return!"

On 15 May, Second Lieutenant Hiroki Hoyama's flight team was transferred to Kaya on the island of Kyushu, which was the last sortie base for Okinawa. His fate had been finalized, and Hiroki suddenly felt regret and fear. On 7 June, the first group of special attack planes was dispatched, a total of 14 planes, which had been carried out in advance as a tentative attack, but the situation was very frustrating, and seven pilots suddenly refused to attack when they were about to take off, on the grounds that they were not ready. The remaining seven planes flew out, but later it was reported that the attack planes did not fly into the waters off Okinawa, they got lost, and finally disappeared. This tentative attack proved to be a complete failure.

On June 27, Hiroki woke up at dawn, his mind was in a mess, the order to attack was given yesterday, and today was his last day in the world. On this day, the weather was bright and cloudless, and Hiroki felt exceptionally refreshed and his mood was relatively stable. He left some fingernails and a bunch of hair for his family, and wrote a postcard to his parents, saying:

'This will never be destroyed, even if it is defeated, it will continue to survive, the son of unfilial piety left first, thank my parents for giving birth to me, I'm really sorry, thank you! When it was dusk, Hiroki's flying team was ready to set off. The pilots donned flight caps adorned with sun flags and sang a cherry blossom song arm-in-arm before making a final pick-up. One of the Osaku stopped in front of Hiroki, who asked why Hiroki was so red, and said:

"If you feel uncomfortable or not ready, you can stay and go again next time!" ”

Hiroki replied loudly, "No! That's the reason why I just drank the send-off wine, and I'm fine. ”

Then a major general gave them a word of encouragement, saying, "Tonight is a full moon, and the moonlight will shine on you." Remember, you are not alone, waiting for me on the way to the Yasukuni Shrine, and I will see you! ”

After the Major General finished speaking, Hiroki Hoyama always felt that something was wrong, and then he suddenly realized. His Excellency the Major General is a bit of nonsense, it's true that today is the full moon, but there is no starlight, the moon must be hidden behind thick clouds, it seems that it is a dark night. The major general lied to people's faces, and as for waiting for him on the way to the Yasukuni Shrine, it is estimated that he is also here to play, this guy will definitely not find his way to the shrine, because he doesn't want to go there at all!

The pilots looked at each other, as if they wanted to remember each other's faces. At 8:15 p.m., 35 special attack planes rumbled across the runway and flew into the already dark night sky. The military knew that they were not near, especially that Germany, a powerful ally far away from the world, had been defeated and surrendered, and that the samurai who were on the verge of desperation could not care about anything, and they gritted their teeth and swore to die with the enemy. In addition to the minimum number of planes that must stay behind to defend the homeland and implement the '100 million jade shatters', this time it is a 'broken jar and broken' that has put together more than 450 things that can still fly into the sky. The planes were divided into three batches, taking off from the bases of Kyushu, Yokohama, and the Seto Inland Sea, and the plan was to reach the waters of Okinawa from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. the next morning, and launch a suicide attack on the huge fleet of the damned Yankees gathered there, to teach the arrogant Americans a great lesson, to teach them a lesson that lasted for 100 years, and to let them know that if some land invaded the mainland, then the resistance they would encounter would be absolutely unprecedented. When a nation is faced with a life-and-death crisis, it has the courage to fight the enemy to the end. Perhaps the Americans would have retreated because they could not afford to pay this huge price, so they could have negotiated with their opponents in an orderly and dignified manner, even if they paid some costs, so as to end this damned war in a slightly favorable situation. As long as you have a breath, sooner or later you will make a comeback. Therefore, it is said that the navy has done its best, and all its hopes are pinned on this frenzied and final "kamikaze attack" operation.

"Spotted ghosts, spotted ghosts, 142 degrees azimuth, 127 nautical miles away. Pilots, please board! ”

The two telephone operators sat down at the switchboard and changed the call plug in the same motion, and the order was transmitted to all the aircraft carriers of Task Force 5, and the typists began to take notes on the silent typewriters. Liu Xirui and the fighter pilots ran out of the standby room together, and the night was dark outside, and countless searchlight pillars were like a sharp sword splitting through the darkness. In the distance, hundreds of lighted destroyers formed a huge ring that surrounded all the aircraft carriers, escort carriers, battleships, and even some cruisers. If we add the submarine on underwater alert, the idea of this submarine to hit an aircraft carrier or some other ship really has to be prepared to be torn to pieces. The pilots could barely see the red light rising from time to time on the distant island of Okinawa and the silhouette of a ship not too far from the Enterprise. In the darkness of the night, the radar first detected about 200 military planes flying from the direction of Kyushu Island, and determined the distance to be 150 nautical miles. Five minutes later, another group of 'ghosts' flying from the direction of Yokohama was immediately detected, and the friend-or-foe identifier on the radar confirmed that the planes were also planes, and all the officers and men of the task force immediately became nervous.

The Enterprise reacted immediately in accordance with the regulations for 'night carriers'. In the early days of the war, few could have imagined that a squadron of fighters would dare to take off in the darkness of the night, but now it has become commonplace. It may be a sad fact that nothing inspires people to create surnames like war! Pilots seem to have become accustomed to taking off on the undulating decks at night, forming in the night sky, flying to unseen targets without any scruples. After a fierce air battle, they flew back in the dark, and some planes dragged their scarred bodies before risking their landings on the deck, which was commonplace and natural, and there was no need to complain or make a fuss.

A total of about 600 fighters took off from various aircraft carriers. There was no starlight in the sky, the sea was rolling, and the coalition planes were turning on their night lights. In the skies above the task force, the nightbirds were organized into three flying wings. According to Liu Xirui's order, 150 F6F "Vixen" fighters flew to the northwest under his personal leadership to meet the first "ghosts" that were discovered. The second flying wing headed north-east, and its mission was to intercept the second group of local aircraft flying from the direction of Yokohama. The remaining 200 or so fighters lined up in the skies above the task force, and their mission was to protect the fleet and 'sweep away' all the military planes that had missed the interception and dared to fly over the task force without knowing whether they were alive or dead.

The weather at night is not very cold but very humid, which is typical of the natural climate. The officers on duty of the alert radars on each warship crouched in front of the small fluorescent screens, monitoring all possible "ghosts". The deck had been emptied, and all the dive bombers and torpedo attack planes that had not taken off had been lowered into the hangar. The anti-aircraft gunners looked up at the dark cloud-covered sky, nervous but not anxious, waiting for the uninvited guest to appear. At first, the sky above the fleet seemed a little chaotic, hundreds of planes roared in the high formation, red, blue, and white night lights flashed and flickered all over the sky, but after a while, the fast-moving stars became orderly. One group of planes flew away, another flew away, and the formation of the remaining planes circled in the air, and the diameter of this circle was about 30 nautical miles, and the entire branch of the 5th Task Force was under the protection of this circle, which seemed to give people a slight sense of security.

Liu Xirui led the group to climb to an altitude of about 6,000 meters, and the group flew straight to the northwest, maintaining a distance of about 10 meters between the planes, which is the minimum distance allowed by safety. The 150 "Vixen" are all lit up by night lights, like a moving meteor ribbon speeding forward in the night sky. The streamer dragged on for a long time, and it seemed to be endless. The pilots knew that they had to be 120,000 points in good spirits, and they couldn't be sloppy in the slightest. He himself will not fly with night lights on, and these will suddenly appear in the night sky like real ghosts. It is certainly impossible to intercept them all without missing them, and it is not easy to find them in time in this night when you can't see your fingers. Eighty percent of this kind of air combat depends on luck, and the remaining 20 percent really depends on the pilot's own ability.

Liu Xirui should be the most relaxed of all pilots, he does not rely on luck to rely on his own feelings, this is the ability that all American pilots and pilots do not have, but for whether they can effectively and timely intercept most of the planes, Liu Xirui has no bottom in his heart, he can't rely on only one person to fight, especially the number of incoming planes is too much, and in this dark night, no matter how big his ability is, he can only shoot down 10 or 8 enemy planes at most, and no matter how much he can't take care of. It is estimated that the task force will be attacked separately, and I hope the losses are not too great. In particular, the "Enterprise Number" must not be sunk by Xiao Yueben, otherwise he will really be homeless after the battle. Even if you can land on other carriers, you can't even protect your own aircraft carrier, and you, the air commander, will be very shameless.

The fleet flew for about 50 minutes, and Liu Xirui felt that a little below the left front of his plane, there was a large group of moving oncoming aircraft, nothing else, this must be the local group flying from the direction of Kyushu Island. It is said that this plane did not turn on its night lights, and the huge and numerous planes were not afraid of collisions, and they did not know what they relied on to maintain contact with each other, and perhaps they did not need to contact each other at all. These planes flew very low, less than 3,000 meters above the sea surface, and flew silently in the direction of Okinawa. If it weren't for Liu Xirui knowing the existence of these 'ghosts' by feeling, the United States and the aircraft group would probably have missed it like this, after all, the altitude difference is more than doubled, which is not a decimal, and a flying aircraft carrier will also miss it. Liu Xirui called in the intercom:

"This is Fur Dog 9, here is Fur Dog 9, find ghosts, find ghosts! 10 o'clock direction, height 3000, large quantity. Follow me and attack! Repeat"

Liu Xirui's No. 9 "Vixen" fighter had its night lights flashing continuously, and he swung his wings forward to push the longitudinal rod. From 6,200 meters in the air, the F6F fighter jet rushed straight towards the huge black shadow that he had captured with his senses, vaguely moving in the air. Behind his plane, 150 U.S. planes followed him and began to dive. Liu Xirui's feeling is not wrong, although this feeling is not as far as radar detection, but Liu Xirui feels that it is much more reliable than radar. In front of his nose, the shadow of the plane appeared. The first one with a faint dark red navigation light on the tail was a pilot plane, and it was a large "1" land-attack bomber in terms of size. The plane did not have an external bomb, its bomb must have been in the bomb compartment in the belly of the aircraft. It is likely that the pilot plane spotted a group of coalition fighters swooping down from a high altitude with its navigation lights on, and its tail lights flashed and signaled, and Liu Xirui didn't care what it was telling the pilot, and Liu Xirui opened fire at a distance of 600 meters.

The bright ballistics of six 12.7 mm rapid-fire aviation machine guns dazzled in the night sky, and the lines of fire stretched straight to the pilot Type 1 land-attack bomber. In an instant, countless pulsing sparks burst out from the fuselage of this plane, and with a loud 'boom', a bright ball of fire appeared in the dark night sky. The fuel tank of the hapless pilot plane was easily torn open by Liu Xirui's "shrew-style" bullets, and its thin duralumin skin was drilled in, and the plane exploded immediately, and the sparks were so dazzling. Not only did it illuminate the night sky with a radius of nearly 100 meters, but it also blinded all the pilots who saw it. Liu Xirui continued to fly down, and he was probably the only pilot who was not blinded by the explosion and fire. This time, his target was a modified "Zero" trainer plane, which was still flying smoothly forward, not realizing that he had become prey.

Liu Xirui calmly pressed the shooting button, the "shrew" fuselage shook slightly, and the "zero" plane in front of his nose suddenly emitted a thick puff of smoke, and a ball of fire erupted from the nose of the plane. Liu Xirui seemed to hear the uniform engine sound of the "Zero" plane turning into a wail, and said that the flames in the nose of the plane were getting bigger and bigger, and the fuselage of the "Zero" plane rolled on one side and fell from the air. Its orange flames stretched out to the surface of the sea until a column of water splashed high, and the flames disappeared into the dark sea. At this time, the air had become a mess, and the group of planes that had lost their pilots did not know what direction to fly, some began to turn, some were still flying forward, and some were descending sharply, and clusters of black shadows were flickering in the night sky where fireballs were constantly exploding. The coalition fighters were also confused, some chasing a black shadow and striking hard, some trying to capture the target, and some not distinguishing the chaos of the east, west, north and south, and the pilots' headphones came from a chaotic shout, and they couldn't even bother with secret words.

"Oh my God! Red 15, red 15, you almost hit me! ”

"Hell! Can anyone tell me where I am? ”

"Hit! I hit! Damn it! ”

"Hah! Ha! It burns up, oh God! Another one, good luck! ”

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This battle is simply impossible to command. When Liu Xirui set the fourth plane on fire and rushed towards the fifth suicide plane, all he saw was meteors flying all over the sky, the plane's night lights, tracer bullets fired from machine guns, and sparks from bullets hitting the fuselage. Large fireballs burst out in the air continuously, and sometimes there were even more than 10 planes dragging the flames down, and it was not known whether they were American planes or Chinese planes. Liu Xirui estimated that the interception was not 100 percent successful, and in this night sky, which was too dark, there were by no means a few people who missed the net. But I'm afraid that no one can control this kind of air combat, so I can only do my best! As for the fact that the fleet was hit by the planes, it was probably inevitable, so I just hope that the losses will not be too heavy, and the Americans can afford to lose them anyway, and they will not change the outcome of the war because of losses. It was a mere aerial battle, with both sides fighting as if they were blindfolded, shooting indiscriminately. It's just that the Americans are slightly better, and it is their own people who turn on the lights, and this is certain, so there is no joke that American fighters shoot down and damage their own planes. But it is indeed difficult to chase those suicide planes that blend with the night in the dark. The area of the air battle became larger and larger, and finally you chased me all the way to the skies above the 5th Task Force of the United States Navy on Okinawa.

To the northeast, the same scuffle took place over the Pacific Ocean about 90 nautical miles off the coast of Okinawa. Quite a number of special attack planes of the Chinese army slipped through the net. In addition, the third group of special attack suicide planes that took off from the Seto Inland Sea base and arrived in a hurry without being intercepted, the sea near Okinawa Island immediately became extremely lively.

Objectively speaking, it is not that the number of US planes taking off is not large enough; in fact, the Navy dispatched three batches of about 450 special attack suicide planes, while the US planes led by Liu Xirui took off and intercepted more than 600, and the ratio of the numbers of the two sides was 3:4. It is not that the surname of the US aircraft is inferior to that of his own aircraft, but that the current aircraft group is a hodgepodge of various models, and more than half of them are old-fashioned training planes, which are not at all on the same level as the surnames of the Americans' F6F "shrew" fighters. It is said that the plane is not equipped with air combat weapons, and its mobility is very poor, so it can only be beaten and has no power to fight back. It is not that the US pilots are technically clumsy; these US Navy carrier-based aircraft pilots have experienced a hundred battles, and their rich experience in air combat is by no means comparable to the special attack pilots who they have hastily trained, and there are not a few ace pilots among them, and there are even super ace pilots such as Liu Xirui, Little Bentz, and Festin.

However, in the two air battles tonight, about half of the suicide planes slipped through the net. This is definitely not a small number, and these "kamikaze" planes will cause great trouble for the 5th Task Force cruising in the waters of Okinawa and will suffer huge losses. It's all about the damn weather, there's not a trace of starlight, it's too dark, the sea and the sky are dark. If there was no altimeter on the plane, many pilots would have crashed headlong into the sea. The 130 special attack planes that took off from the Seto base basically did not encounter interception by the US planes, and although they made a big bend and flew for nearly 40 minutes longer, a little farther away, they also flew into the waters off Okinawa Island at midnight, so that three groups of 450 planes finally flew close to the target after losing half of them, and the total number was about 200.

But this does not mean that the good fortune of these more than 200 aircraft will continue. The suicide planes were immediately intercepted by the same number of coalition fighters who were on alert over the coalition fleet, and about 70 more planes were destroyed. In the confusion, more than 50 more were lost and their whereabouts are unknown. Second Lieutenant Hiroki Hoyama is one of the Trek planes. Fewer than 100 aircraft were able to break through the coalition forces and fly over the US Task Force 5. But it's also a terrifying number. In order to complete the special attack operation, the pilots had to undergo a test, that is, the fierce and dense anti-aircraft fire spit out by the numerous warships on the sea, and the desperate allied fighters who were not afraid of being hit by their own artillery fire. Finally, the collision operation can be completed. Many military pilots lamented in their hearts:

"It's not easy to find death!"

At 12:35 p.m., an approaching "ghost" appeared on the warship's radar screen, and five minutes later, the first six special attack planes appeared.

All the warships of the coalition forces turned on their searchlights, and countless pillars of white light streaked across the night sky.

The anti-aircraft guns thundered like thunder, and the ballistics pulled out by the shells were like lightning, tearing through the clouds in the darkness.

Two planes bravely swooped down, and one plane was illuminated by a searchlight, and immediately, at least 10 or more pillars of light flew towards the rushing plane, and dense antiaircraft shells and machine guns also fired at it. This kamikaze special attack plane was hit when it was still about 500 meters above the sea surface, and the shells continued to explode around the fuselage, and clouds of black smoke covered the plane, and in less than two seconds there was a loud bang in the air, like a firefire, and a large fireball exploded, and the fragments of the burning plane flew all over the sky with flames, and the scene was very beautiful but strange. The other plane was also covered by a searchlight, and the target of this suicide plane was probably the battleship "Missouri" spewing fierce and dense anti-aircraft fire.

However, the figure of a coalition F6F "shrew" fighter appeared in the pillar of light, and this US plane flashed through the searchlight column, and it fearlessly passed through the coalition forces' own anti-aircraft fire network, and a large cloud of smoke from antiaircraft guns surrounded it, and this US plane flashed and disappeared into the dark night sky.

And the swooping plane dragged a long, bright red flame into the Pacific Ocean!

A spectacular and rather chaotic battle of sea and air is staged on the sea near Okinawa!

(To be continued)