"How many?"

The Black Island Turtle Man and the Mikawa Army glanced at each other, but they didn't take it seriously. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the top of the day, a few US night planes took advantage of the weakness of the Japanese air force to harass Oahu, and this was expected long ago in the "Jie-1 operation" plan. Moreover, several squadrons of moonlight night fighters were deployed in the Hawaiian Islands in a targeted manner.

"Go and inform Commander Takasu and the Army's Hawaiian Front Command." The Black Island Turtle Man commanded.

Takasu Shiro has been ill lately, and the Military Command Department has decided to withdraw it and replace it with Tsukahara 243. However, Tsukahara is now the head of the Naval Aviation Headquarters, and he has a lot of things to hand over to his successor, so he can't take up his new post immediately, so he can only let the sick man Takasu continue to be the commander of Oahu.

However, the sick man Takasu also managed the Central Pacific Fleet in an orderly manner, and did not delay anything. The main reason for this is that the Central Pacific Fleet does not play the leading role. The forces defending the islands on this side of the Hawaiian Islands, including air forces, mainly belonged to the army under the command of Yamashita Fumi. The forces at sea were not under the jurisdiction of Takasu, but were in charge of the commander of the 8th Fleet, Gunichi Mikawa, and the commander of the 6th Fleet, Takeo Takagi (in charge of submarines).

The so-called Central Pacific Front Fleet only has jurisdiction over naval batteries and shore-based aircraft on the shore, as well as teleprobe stations.

Among them, the shore-based aircraft, in addition to the various special attack teams that are prepared to be used as suicide aircraft, are the Moonlight Night Fighter, the Zero Fighter, the Purple Electric Fighter Fighter, the Galaxy Land Bomber, the Type 1 Land Attack Plane, the East China Sea Anti-Submarine Patrol Plane, and some seaplanes.

Although there are hundreds of commonly used aircraft, there is no way to compare them with the more than 2,000 commonly used aircraft of the army. And except for less than 200 purple electric reforms and Galaxy, other aircraft are not the main force, and can only be used by the army's aircraft. However, because the Japanese Army did not have night fighters, night operations in the Hawaiian Islands were handled by the Navy's moonlight twin-engine fighters.

"Mikawa-kun, let's go and see how the moonlight of our navy packs up the American planes."

After giving the order to the Navy's 251st Air Force to send moonlight fighters, the Kuroshima Kameto invited the Mikawa Army to go out to watch the battle one by one. Mikawa did not shirk either, and the two of them took the adjutant to a large observation post on the top floor of the bunker of the headquarters.

It was late at night on March 3, and although there was a bright moon hanging in the sky, the visibility was still very low, and it was dark that I couldn't see anything clearly. One could only see huge pillars of light sweeping around in the night sky, which were searchlights on the ground searching for targets -- because Japanese ground antiaircraft guns were not guided by fire control radars, they could only search for targets by this primitive method.

However, the pillar of light shook in the night sky for a while, and not a single US military plane was found. Just when Kuroshima and Mikawa were feeling a little bored, suddenly several white "little suns" that emitted a dazzling light suddenly appeared in the night sky.

The Kuroshima Kameto narrowed his eyes and said to Mikawa beside him, "It's a flare!" The ...... dropped by the Americans Now the moonlight plane can finally make a contribution! ”

As a night fighter, the Moonlight fighter is also a bit rudimentary, with no airborne radar and no night vision binoculars, so it can only rely on "cat's eye warriors" and searchlights to fight. Therefore, only when the searchlight on the ground finds the target, or the target in the air is exposed by itself, can the Moonlight fighter have a chance to show its skills.

The searchlights quickly focused on the top of the falling flares, and what appeared to be an F4U fighter was suddenly swept by the searchlights.

"Found it, it seems to be an F4U," the Black Island Turtleman smiled, "The moonlight plane can deal with it." ”

What he actually saw was the F4U-2 night fighter, a carrier-based night fighter and the trump card in Halsey's hands, flying from an aircraft carrier more than 500 kilometers from Oahu. There were not many of them, only 24 of them came -- the number of F4U-2s was not many in the first place, and there were even fewer aces who could fly such planes to take off and land from aircraft carriers at night. However, 24 F4U-2s with radars are enough to deal with Japanese moonlight night fighters without radars.

So the F4U-2 night fighters who led the way tonight were tasked with finding Pearl Harbor, dropping flares, and engaging Japanese night fighters.

The flares dropped by the F-4U-2 were to guide the direction of the next four BQ-7 suicide planes and the four B-17 control planes responsible for remotely controlling the BQ-7.

The so-called BQ-7 suicide plane sounds quite bluffing, as if it were the same as the Japanese kamikaze plane, but in reality it is not the case at all. The BQ-7 was actually a remote-piloted aircraft converted from a B-17 bomber - the plane was manned by two pilots who took off from the plane during the flight, and during the flight the pilot handed over control of the aircraft to the controller and parachuted out of the plane himself.

The BQ-7's control machine controls the aircraft through the "Twin-Asson" radio-controlled flight system -- that is, a television camera is installed in front of the cockpit instrument panel to transmit the image of the dashboard back to the control aircraft, and at the same time, another television camera is installed in the nose of the aircraft to be responsible for shooting the field of vision ahead, and then the control aircraft remotely controls the BQ-7 to crash into the target according to the images transmitted back by the two cameras.

This is actually a very primitive and extravagant "missile", because the B-17 is too large and flies slowly, so it cannot be used to attack surface ships and moving targets. It can only be used against fixed targets, relying on the huge bomb load of the B-17 to load 9-10 tons of explosives or napalm to strike.

And the target of the 4 BQ-7 suicide planes that struck today was one of the Hickham airfields or Wheeler airfields in Pearl Harbor.

This is because the US Navy has discovered through aerial reconnaissance that the largest Japanese airfields on the Hawaiian Islands are these two large airfields that originally belonged to the US Army Air Corps -- most of the Me264s that bombed the West Coast of the United States used these two airfields as their departure points.

If four BQ-7s loaded with bombs can be used to ram the runways of these two large airports, at least it can be regarded as a bad breath for the Americans who have been attacked by germs on the West Coast.

In addition, the use of "suicide planes" to attack is also a means of scaring people -- the purpose is to make the Japanese mistakenly believe that the US military is going to capture Oahu at all costs!

The 24 F4U-2 night fighters in the air soon found the Hikem airfield, which had been renamed the "First Airfield of the Navy on Oahu". This was actually the target exposed by the Japanese themselves, from where their moonlight plane took off, only to be detected by radar on the F4U-2. Not only was the approximate location of the airfield exposed, but even the "Moonlight" planes themselves were shot down several times.

In addition, the Japanese Navy also deployed a large number of anti-aircraft guns around the "First Naval Airfield on Oahu," and because they found that the American F4U-2 was flying above their heads, they opened fire one after another. Because there was no radar fire control and no radio proximity fuse, all the shells fired were missed, and the target was further exposed.

F4U-2s in the air dropped flares over the airfield, and a miserable white light shrouded the long runway and empty tarmac.

"Found your target!"

Joseph Brown, who commanded a B-17 control aircraft. Captain Kennedy's headset came the voice of Navigator Jack, who turned out to be the navigator of an Army Air Corps reconnaissance plane stationed on Oahu, who was very familiar with the Hawaiian Islands and Oahu.

"Okay." Joseph. Captain Kennedy carefully piloted his plane, keeping the altitude above 4,000 meters. At this altitude, the Japanese 20mm, 25mm and 37mm anti-aircraft guns were powerless.

"Drop flares." Captain Kennedy ordered his own B-17 to drop flares to confirm the target.

"I'm Joseph. Kennedy," he then pressed the lower throat communicator, "Commander of Shock Operations." Now I command: the impact begins, target the airfield below! ”

"A plane! Kuroshima-kun, look there, in the direction of the first airport, a plane rushed down from the sky! ”

The Kameto of Kuroshima, who was watching the battle, suddenly heard the shouts of Mikawa Junichi, and quickly turned his head to look over, only to see that in the light of the flares, a huge B-17 bomber was planted headfirst down to the ground.

Shot down? As the Black Island Turtle Man thought about it, the plane had slammed into the end of the runway at "Airport One", and then an unimaginably large fireball rose up, followed by a deafening roar. It's as if you've blown up an ammunition depot!

Kuroshima and Mikawa felt that the ground under their feet was trembling, and before the two of them could understand what was going on, the staff officer's shout sounded in their buzzing ears: "It's another enemy plane, it crashed down!" ”

"Boom ......"

This time the explosion was not quite the same as just now, the explosion was not so loud, but it ignited an unimaginably violent fire, and I don't know if it ignited the oil depot of the airport, anyway, it was a fire.

"Another plane, another ......"

When the Black Island Turtle Man saw the third and fourth American B-17 planes roaring and crashing into the ground, the whole person suddenly trembled, and a terrifying thought suddenly appeared in his mind - this is a suicide attack! American samurai piloted planes to rush to Japanese targets on the ground!

The Americans have also begun to engage in "kamikaze attacks," and the Americans are also going to play "one plane and one ship...... How can this be? Japan doesn't have so many warships to change planes! How will the battle for the Hawaiian Islands be fought?