Chapter 128: The Great Bombing (1) The First Update
However, Lao Chiang's information still gave the Americans a wake-up call. Although the Americans did not trust intelligence and intelligence sources, they still sent a large number of medical equipment, medicines, and doctors and nurses to Pearl Harbor. The female pig's foot in the later movie "Pearl Harbor" was an American nurse. It can be regarded as in line with historical facts.
In addition to this, the day before December 7, which was already indicated in intelligence, December 6, temporarily canceled the next day's vacation and went on combat readiness duty. At the same time, after obtaining intelligence, the US military deployed some fighter jets to some small airfields in the middle of nowhere. Just in case.
However, at this time, the United States, after experiencing World War I in Europe, was already on an equal footing with European countries, and after European countries were involved in World War II, they were already faintly above European countries. Except for the Soviet Union, which confronted it across the Bering Strait, there was no rival on this earth.
Therefore, precautions are precautions. But the Americans, from the bottom of their hearts, do not believe that their little brother, who has been conquered for a long time, actually has the courage to counterattack. And it's in the way of war. Therefore, such precautions are really limited.
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On December 6, 1941, Yu Sheng and Qing Xiaoyi followed a few beautiful American nurses on leave to the northern tip of Oahu, far from the Polynesian village where Pearl Harbor is located. Learn the most primitive and natural hula of the Polynesians.
After a night of joy, the rest of the day used a video camera to record the singing and dancing of a group of beautiful women and the most traditional customs of Polynesians. Qing Xiaoyi and a group of women were entertained by the Polynesians and spent the night in the village. And for the rest of his life, on the grounds that the film ran out, he returned to the house he and Qing Xiaoyi bought in Honolulu overnight.
At 3:42 a.m. on December 7, 1941, an American minesweeper discovered a periscope in the waters near Honolulu.
At 6 o'clock in the morning, the USS Enterprise, a US aircraft carrier 370 nautical miles away from Pearl Harbor, sent 18 reconnaissance planes to Pearl Harbor. Ten minutes later, Vice Admiral Nagumo, two hundred and twenty nautical miles from Oahu, received an order to attack by telegram and ordered the first wave of one hundred and eighty-three Japanese bombers to take off and attack Pearl Harbor!
At this time, the rest of his life has reached the mountains on the east side of Oahu. And found a good place to hide in the valley, and set up a camera.
At 6:45 a.m. on December 7, 1941, the USS Ward sank a submarine off Pearl Harbor. At 7:02 a.m., a radar station located in the northern part of Oahu spotted a large number of unidentified planes 132 nautical miles north of Oahu and immediately reported them to the US Air Defense Command. At the same time, reports of the sinking of submarines also reached the command of the American army.
However, the U.S. Air Defense Command believed that these unidentified planes were B-17 bombers flying from the continental United States, so it ordered the radar to be turned off. However, just five minutes before the Americans misidentified the plane, the second wave of one hundred and sixty-seven bombers of the Japanese had already taken off!
At 7:40 a.m. on December 7, 1941, the sky was bright. The rest of his life slept in the bushes in a daze. But he heard the humming of the air from a distance above the nine heavens. When I woke up, I saw a large number of bombers coming from overhead. The scene is far more exciting than in the blockbuster.
At this time, the bomber used by the Japanese in large quantities was the G3M2, and the fighter was the Zero. And in order to ensure the effectiveness of air strikes, many Zero fighters are equipped with bombing equipment.
The Zero fighter, during World War II, was Japan's most famous fighter. Produced by Mitsubishi Corporation. Designed by Jiro Horikoshi, a graduate of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering at Tokyo Imperial University, he studied at Junkers in Germany and Curtis in the United States. Brilliant.
The Zero fighter he designed later became a milestone in Japanese aircraft design, achieving breakthroughs in many aspects. For example, for the first time, the Zero used a fully enclosed retractable landing gear, an electric flight suit, a machine gun, a constant-speed propeller, a superduralumin load-bearing structure, a large horizon cockpit, and a large disposable auxiliary fuel tank. It can reach speeds of up to 533 kilometers per hour and is designed with adjustable air combat flaps, making the Zero extremely agile in aerial dogfights.
Therefore, the first appearance of the Zero fighter gave the Japanese a big surprise.
On August 9, 1940, 12 Zero fighters took off from Hankou to cover 50 G3M2 air raids and bombings on Chongqing, the capital of China. Although the anti-aircraft fire of anti-aircraft guns was intensive. But not a single Zero fighter was damaged.
Subsequently, on September 13, 1940, 13 Zero fighters encountered a mixed group of 27 I-15s and I-16s of the Chinese Air Force in the skies east of Chongqing. After a fierce air battle, of the twenty-seven aircraft of the Chinese Air Force, thirteen were shot down, eleven were damaged, and only three were intact. And the Zero was unscathed!
In the months that followed, a total of ninety-nine Chinese fighters were shot down by the Zero, and the Zero, not one was damaged. This information was reported to the US military by Chennault of the US Flying Tigers, but, in the eyes of the US military, this result was caused by the poor quality of the Chinese pilots and the backward aircraft type. Therefore, not much attention was paid to the Zero fighter.
As a result, after the start of the Pacific War, Japan put more than 250 of its 300-odd Zero fighters into the Pacific theater. A few months after the start of the war, with these more than 250 Zero fighters, the Allied air force was wiped out by two-thirds! During these months, once the Allied planes encountered the Zero, it was basically a dead end.
It was not until June 1942 that the Americans acquired a crashed Zero fighter and studied it. Tactics and new fighters against the Zero were designed, and the myth of the Zero ruling the sky was shattered!
At 7:49 a.m. on December 7, 1941, when Yu Sheng was cautiously squatting in the valley, looking at the shadows of the planes in the sky and not daring to show his head, the Japanese gave the order to attack. Countless bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor. At the same time, machine-gun Zero fighters began to fire wildly at the people inside Pearl Harbor.
A large number of torpedo bombers and dive bombers, leaving the unprepared Americans with nowhere to hide. All of a sudden, I was blown up. It took ten minutes for the US Navy to warn all the ships: "This is not an exercise!" This is not a drill! However, it was too late, and there was no use for the eggs.