Chapter 532: Tiger! Tiger! Tiger XII
"Heavy damage to the Pennsylvania! Hit the flagship of the Pacific Fleet...... Photo, photo taken? Hurry up and send electricity to the 'Akagi'......"
The huge explosion and the column of smoke and fire that reached into the sky made Fuchida, who had just finished dropping the bomb, dance with excitement, and almost couldn't even drive the plane steadily. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info This is the first time Mitsuo Fuchida has participated in actual combat, and he actually achieved the result of blowing up the battleship, which is really blessed by Amaterasu!
"Commander, Commander Fuchida, Akagi 3rd Squadron Captain Nakai Ruichi reports that the 'Pennsylvania' is sinking rapidly!"
Ruichi Naga, who was in charge of directing the six "Comet" dive bombers to prepare for the attack after the Type 97 torpedo bombers dropped bombs, suddenly reported to Mitsuo Fuchida over the radio that the "Pennsylvania" (actually the "Arizona") was sinking!
Mitsuo Fuchida, who was hovering and raising the altitude, hurriedly stretched his neck to look at the sea, only to see that the bow of the "Arizona" had sunk into the sea, and the hull floating on the water was also surrounded by fire and smoke.
Mitsuo Fuchida immediately ordered the cancellation of the attack mission of the two "Comet" aircraft squadrons, and ordered them to hover in the air and wait for the other planes attacking the battleship to complete their tasks before going to "mend the knife."
Just when the battleship "Arizona" was hit by a bullet and sank rapidly, the other six battleships anchored in Pearl Harbor were also fiercely attacked.
The battleship "Nevada", the second to be attacked on the "Arizona", had much better luck than the "Arizona", only one of the 800-kilogram armor-piercing shells dropped by five Type 97 torpedo bombers hit the bow, and the bombs almost penetrated the bottom of the bow before exploding, opening a large hole below the bow waterline and pouring hundreds of tons of seawater. But for a huge battleship, such damage was not fatal at all.
Subsequently, six "Comet" dive bombers that took off from the "Kaga" began to dive and drop bombs in turn. At this time, all the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns on the "Nevada" had already been fired, and the dense rain of bullets had woven a net of fire in the air, and the six planes led by Captain Yoshitaka Mikami could only dive in the rain of bullets.
Captain Mikami, who was the first to charge, dropped the bomb and hit the stern of the Nevada, and the 500-kilogram bomb exploded in the stern compartment of the Nevada, causing a fire, but it was also not fatal. The two "Comets" that then dived were actually hit by the shells fired by the "Nevada" one after another, and one of them fell into the sea on the spot, and the other dragged black smoke to the sea outside Pearl Harbor, and finally plunged into the sea. Later, another "Comet" plane dropped a 500-kilogram bomb that penetrated the starboard deck of the "Nevada," triggering a rather violent explosion, and in the end, the two planes that dropped the bomb did not hit, and both bombs grazed the hull of the "Nevada" and fell into the water, forming a near-miss, but for a battleship like the "Nevada," a near-miss bomb did not pose any threat.
Almost at the same time, the USS Oklahoma, with a standard displacement of 29,000 tons, was also attacked. "Oklahoma" and "Nevada" were battleships of the same class, but they did not have the same luck.
Of the 11 bombs dropped by 5 Type 97 and 6 Comets, 5 hit (1 800-kilogram armor-piercing shell and 4 500-kilogram armor-piercing shells), and 1 bomb somehow penetrated the black powder magazine of the seaplane catapult and exploded inside, causing a fire. The fire quickly got out of control, and in order to prevent the fire from spreading to the ammunition depot of the main turret, the captain of the "Oklahoma" had to order the main gun depot in the bow to be filled with water. But the fire spread everywhere in the bow and amidships, and the entire battleship was burned to the ground.
Then the unfortunate "Maryland" moored on the inside of the "Oklahoma", also 4 bombs hit the "Colorado" class battleship with 16-inch guns, and 1 of the 800-kilogram bombs also penetrated directly into the engine room, completely destroying the power of the battleship. Leaving the giant ship, which was once one of the world's seven battleships, without the ability to move.
And the anti-aircraft fire on the "Maryland" shot down 1 "Comet" dive bomber and also damaged 1 Type 97 torpedo bomber (this plane did not return to the aircraft carrier later).
The USS Tennessee, anchored near the USS Arizona, was the luckiest battleship in the raid. Due to the fire caused by the wreckage and fuel leakage after the explosion of the "Arizona", the "Tennessee" was surrounded by fire and smoke, which affected the sight of the Type 97 torpedo bombers that dropped bombs at high altitudes, and all five Type 80 bombs (800 kg bombs) missed, and then the "Comet" planes that dropped bombs were three out of two, and one plane was shot down before it could not be dropped. The two 500-kilogram bombs that hit did not cause fatal damage, but because the entire battleship was shrouded in smoke from the air, as if it was about to finish, Mitsuo Fuchida did not order the six "Comets" commanded by Ruichi Nakai to make up for the swords.
And the "California", which is of the same class as the "Tennessee", was not as lucky as its sister ship. Five of the bombs dropped by five Type 97s and six Comets hit, three of them hit the bow and almost blew up the weakly armored bow! But the disaster of the "California" was not over, the main engine of the battleship with a full load displacement of more than 35,000 tons was actually started at about 8:20, and smoke came out of the chimney. This scene was discovered by Mitsuo Fuchida, who was hovering in the air in search of prey, and immediately ordered six "Comet" planes to attack, and as a result, the battleship was hit by four more 500-kilogram bombs. At 8:22, a large explosion suddenly occurred on board the "California", and the hull of the ship was immediately engulfed in flames. Although the battleship did not sink like the "Arizona" in the end, the damage caused by the nine bombs and the fire and ammunition also made it completely incapacitated.
The "West Virginia", which was docked next to Ford Island, was the last to be bombed in the Battle of Pearl Harbor in this time and space. 1 800-kilogram armor-piercing shell and 3 500-kilogram armor-piercing shells directly blew up the Colorado-class battleship, the fire spread on the deck, and the superstructure was almost completely burned.
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The headquarters building of the Pacific Fleet was not far from the naval pier at Pearl Harbor, and Kimmel stood at the window on the third floor of the building, watching his fleet be destroyed.
"Sir!" Suddenly, a staff officer reported in a trembling voice, "The battleship Arizona has sunk......"
6 battleships were heavily damaged, 1 battleship sank! And the four major airfields on Oahu have been devastated, and no less than 200 planes have been lost!
If you don't have the courage to be attacked by a sneak attack, you can be forgiven for the heavy losses. And now they know that the Japanese are going to attack, and they have raised the combat readiness level to the highest, but because of a small negligence, the Japanese devils have suffered heavy losses!
Thinking of this, Kimmel almost fainted, his body shook, and the adjutant staff officer next to him hurriedly supported him.
"Quick, send a telegram to Washington, report our losses, and request ......reinforcements," Kimmel said with a pause, as if to wonder what Oahu needed most right now. At that moment, the ground beneath his feet suddenly trembled, and he fell to the ground without standing firmly.
Before he could understand what was happening, a huge thunderous roar came from the window, instantly shattering all the glass windows in the Pacific Fleet headquarters building!
Kimmel was struggling to get up, and someone was still buzzing in his ear shouting, "Oil depot...... It's the oil depot! An oil storage tank in Pearl Harbor was blown up by the Japanese! ”
Oil depot! There are millions of tons of fuel oil stored there, which the United States has spent 10 years slowly stockpiling! Without these fuels, Pearl Harbor would no longer be the base camp of the Pacific Fleet. And if millions of tons of fuel oil were to leak and burn up, I wonder if Pearl Harbor would turn into hell......
When Kimmel thought of this, his eyes suddenly went dark, and he lost consciousness.
What has just been blown up is a storage tank for aviation gasoline, which is not easy to ignite because of the high ignition point of heavy marine fuel. So basically hit the bomb, that is, the oil tank was destroyed, and the heavy oil leaked. But aviation gasoline is indeed a little bit of something, a 250-kilogram armor-piercing bomb went down, and immediately lifted the entire oil tank into the sky, and the burning aviation gasoline flowed everywhere, and immediately turned the entire oil storage area into a sea of fire. Heavy fuel oil, which was not easy to ignite, is now ignited by the combustion of these aviation gasoline. The thick black plume of smoke rose for tens of thousands of meters and turned into a huge mushroom cloud at high altitude, as if Pearl Harbor had been bombed by an atomic bomb.
"Inform the Akagi," Kimmel fainted, Mitsuo Fuchida was flying a plane 5,000 meters above Pearl Harbor, and after seeing the huge mushroom cloud, he excitedly said to the operator and bombardier Yasuda, "I sank 1 battleship, destroyed 6 battleships, and destroyed a huge oil storage tank, and now ...... Pearl Harbor has been enveloped in fire and turned into a hell! (To be continued.) )