Chapter 505: The Bombing of Pearl Harbor

readx;??? At 6 o'clock in the morning on December 7, 1941, the sea fog 180 nautical miles east of the Pearl Harbor naval base had lifted, and a huge task force was showing its hideous face. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

In the very center of the task force, on six aircraft carriers, three hundred and fifty bombers, one hundred fighters are ready for action.

Yamamoto looked at his watch, and when the hands of the watch pointed to six o'clock, he nodded to Lieutenant General Nagumo Tadaichi beside him.

Lieutenant General Nagumo Zhongyi excitedly picked up the microphone in front of him and gave an order loudly, "For the future of the empire, attack!" As soon as Nagumo Tadaichi shouted, dozens of orders to attack immediately sounded in the entire combat command room.

So the whole fleet began to move forward slowly, and at the same time, a full 180 bombers and 50 fighters on six aircraft carriers immediately took off and flew towards the Hawaiian Islands to the west.

At the same time, just below the surface of the task force, a full sixteen Japanese submarines began to scatter in all directions, heading towards the predetermined sea area.

It was only 180 nautical miles from the sea where the Japanese task force was located to the US naval base in Hawaii, and even the slowest bomber could reach it in an hour.

An hour later, when the second wave of bombers of the Japanese task force had just taken off, the first wave of 230 planes had already broken through the clouds and fog and flew over Pearl Harbor.

At this time, there was a peaceful scene in the Pearl Harbor base, the people under the rule of the United States were still singing and laughing, the sailors of the Pacific Fleet were still on vacation, and most of the sailors were not on duty on the ship.

Only a small number of sailors on duty stayed on the warships to clean up, playing cards boringly and telling adult jokes, and many of the warships had not even removed their gun suits.

Throughout the Pearl Harbor base, neither the officers nor the soldiers realized that a large number of ill-intentioned Japanese planes were about to bomb them.

When the first wave of planes arrived ten nautical miles from Pearl Harbor, these planes began to pull up one after another, ready to drop bombs, and it was also at this time that several watchtowers and radar stations located east of Pearl Harbor spotted Japanese planes in the air.

The Navy soldiers at these radar stations immediately reported the discovery of a large number of unidentified aircraft to the colonel officers on duty at Pearl Harbor.

It's a pity that the colonel officer, who was dating his lover, didn't take this information seriously at all, but instead told these radar stations that there was no need to make a fuss, this was a large number of migratory birds flying from the American mainland.

Then the irresponsible colonel officer even turned off the communicator and continued to linger with his lover in the office.

And when the first wave of planes arrived at Pearl Harbor and flew over Pearl Harbor at a rapid pace, many of the American GIs who saw the Japanese planes still didn't realize that something was wrong.

They just wondered, what task was the Japanese fleet performing? They flew over Pearl Harbor so swaggeringly, did they have to get the approval of the US naval base?

It wasn't until the first wave of bombers dropped dozens of armor-piercing bombs from high altitude that careless American GIs realized they might have been attacked by the Japanese.

Then, when these dozens of bombs exploded on more than a dozen warships, these American GIs really confirmed that they were really attacked by the Japanese.

As a result, before the scattered American GIs could come to their senses, more bombs and torpedoes fell from the sky.

So ten battleships, eight cruisers, and a dozen destroyers and frigates throughout Pearl Harbor were immediately devastated. The battleships were attacked almost simultaneously by several armor-piercing bombs and torpedoes.

For some frigates and destroyers of small tonnage, just one torpedo is enough to kill, let alone several, so the Pacific Fleet suffered heavy damage almost immediately, and more than a dozen light ships were sunk in ten minutes, and even those battleships and cruisers of huge tonnage were in danger.

As for the only aircraft carrier anchored in Pearl Harbor, it was taken care of by Japanese aircraft, and more than a dozen bombers launched an attack on this aircraft carrier.

Just the first wave of attacks, the aircraft carrier was blown out of several large holes. Ten minutes later, the aircraft carrier turned out to be the first large ship to sink inside Pearl Harbor, and it sank to the bottom of the sea with dozens of the latest American fighter jets on board the aircraft carrier.

At a time when the US Pacific Fleet was being attacked, in Washington, the capital of the United States, thousands of nautical miles away, the Japanese ambassador did not delay more than two hours in delivering the war letter to the Americans, as in the previous life.

In order not to delay the delivery of the war documents to the Americans, the Japanese ambassador was already shouting the slogan of declaring war on the United States as soon as he arrived at the gate of the US Foreign Ministry, and dozens of reporters guarding the US Foreign Ministry had already picked up their cameras to capture this precious moment.

And when the staff of the US Foreign Ministry had just delivered the war letter to the foreign minister, the foreign minister could not believe the facts before him.

He also looked at the calendar in front of him and saw that it was not April Fool's Day, and then he immediately put away the Japanese war letter and ran to the White House.

When the U.S. foreign minister arrived at the White House presidential office as soon as possible, he had just delivered the declaration of war from the Japanese ambassador to Roosevelt.

President Roosevelt had only time to take a quick look before the phone rang at his desk.

Unsurprisingly, President Roosevelt received a call from the news that the U.S. Pacific Fleet's base in Hawaii had been attacked by Japan.

President Roosevelt slammed the declaration of war in his hand on the table and shouted, "Despicable! ”

At the same time, the first wave of Japanese attacks had just begun, and hundreds of bombers were turning over to bomb dozens of warships in Pearl Harbor, while another hundred bombers and dozens of fighters were scattered in search of all the military targets in Pearl Harbor.

All of a sudden, the airfield, oil depot, and ammunition depot in Pearl Harbor were bombed by Japanese fighters, and the Japanese planes bombed most of the military targets in Pearl Harbor with only the first wave of attacks due to accurate intelligence.

An hour later, the first wave of 230 planes had completed their bombing mission with all the bombers and fighters dropping the last bomb in the planes and the last bullet in the machine guns.

When the 230 planes withdrew from Pearl Harbor to return to the Japanese task force, the second wave of 170 bombers and another 50 fighters had just arrived at Pearl Harbor.

So Pearl Harbor, which had just been bombed upside down and was emitting black smoke everywhere, was once again facing a second wave of bombing. After the second wave of bombers sank several fish that had slipped through the net in Pearl Harbor, there were really no good targets to bomb, so the bombers, still loaded with ammunition, began to attack civilian targets.

So the power plant, water purification plant, hospital, various factories and repair plants in Pearl Harbor. All the high-rise buildings that could be seen were bombed from beginning to end by the second wave of Japanese bombers.

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