In the skies off the seas off Hawaii, an air war is going on...

"I hit him, I hit him!!"

Looking at the Zero in front of him, which had begun to smoke, a pilot piloting the F6F Hellcat shouted loudly over the radio.

While shouting, the pilot kept pressing the trigger.

When the pilot pressed the trigger, six 12.7mm Browning M2 machine guns on the Hellcat opened fire at the same time.

Although the smoking Zero in front of it was also evading the fire from the rear, the weak armor of the Zero itself became a fatal flaw at this time. Soon, Zero had to fly down to the surface of the sea under the attack of the Hellcat.

The F6F Hellcat fighter is a carrier-based aircraft in service with the United States Navy in World War II. The F6F is more advanced than the old F4F Wildcat in terms of internal structure and equipment, but in terms of appearance, except for the larger body, it is almost the same, so it is also nicknamed "the big brother of the wildcat".

At the beginning of World War II, the F6F gradually replaced the F4F as the main force of the U.S. military with its excellent performance, shooting down a total of 5,171 fighters for the U.S. military (including 8 in southern France). The F6F, which is in service with the Royal Navy, also shot down 52 aircraft. After the war, the F6F remained in use with the U.S. military until 1954, when the U.S. military flight squadron was equipped with night fighters before it was completely retired, and it was in service in other countries for a correspondingly longer period. A total of 12,275 F6Fs were produced, of which 11,000 were built over the course of two years.

Even before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Grumman had already begun to develop a successor for the F4F. After the start of the Pacific War, the actual combat situation showed that even though the F4F was structurally stronger than the Zero fighter. It can withstand more attacks, and the acceleration rate during the dive is also higher (American pilots often rely on this advantage to dive out to avoid the attack of the Zero Combat), but they have no advantage in maneuverability, maneuverability, and climb rate. This had a significant impact on the requirements and specifications of the F6F and F4U later.

Like the F4F, the F6F is designed to be easy to produce and maintain a strong and stable structure. The F6F was originally powered by Wright's R-2600 engine. But in order to improve its combat effectiveness, Grumman is determined to make further improvements to the F6F in order to change the dominance of the Zero in the Pacific.

Grumman fitted the F6F with Pratt & Whitney Pratt & Whitney R-2800 twin wasp engines. The horsepower was increased to 2000, and the overall power was increased by 25%. The R-2800's Radialengine design also ensures that even if one cylinder is hit, it can still operate through the other cylinders to maintain flight. This, combined with the cockpit's 212-pound (96-kilogram) protective armor, bulletproof glass, sealed fuel tanks and coolers, makes the F6F less susceptible to oil leakage, severe damage or even loss of power during a combat attack. Increased the return rate of damaged aircraft.

The basic armament of the F6F is also the same as that of the F4U, which is 6 Browning M2 heavy machine guns. Later modifications allowed the F6F to carry 2,000-pound bombs, or carry an additional 150-gallon fuel tank. The wings can also be equipped with a total of six 5-inch HVARs rockets to attack ground targets.

Compared to the F4F's narrow and difficult to control landing gear, the F6F uses hydraulic landing gear. It increases flexibility and strength, and allows the landing gear to be folded inwards into the wing at a 90-degree right angle. The wing arrangement is biased to the bottom, which makes the F6F more stable for landing on the flight deck.

The first model of the F6F flew on June 26, 1942, and the XF6F-3, equipped with new engines, took off for the first time on July 30 of the same year. At the same time, new improvements are already being made. The XF6F-2 is fitted with a one-stage two-speed supercharger. The performance was not satisfactory, and the Navy was not keen to further improve the high-altitude performance of carrier-based aircraft at the time, and as a result, the XF6F-3 with a two-stage supercharger was not taken seriously. But these tests provided experience for the later F6F-4 and F6F-5.

For the first time in history, the F6F took off from an aircraft carrier on September 1, 1943, shooting down a Japanese Type II seaplane, and on November 11, a mixed formation of F6F and F4U fought fiercely with the Japanese fighter fleet over Rabaul, shooting down nearly 50 enemy aircraft. [13] November 23 and 24. The F6F shot down another 30 Zero fighters over the Tarawa Atoll, while the F6F lost only one. The F6F also inherited the F4F's special combat formation. See en:ThachWeave for details. Since the first war, the F6F has participated in almost all air battles in the Pacific War after 1943. Including the Philippine naval battle, known as the "Mariana Turkey Shooting Competition", the vast majority of air combat downing results were obtained from this opportunity. …,

Overall, the F6F was responsible for 75% of the U.S. Naval Air Force's air battles, and after 1944, night F6F fighter formations equipped with radar were also put into battle. The F6F also participated in 66,530 skirmishes, or 45% of the total number of World War II, the vast majority of which belonged to the Navy: 62,386 were fought by aircraft carriers. At the cost of 270 sorties, these combat F6Fs destroyed 5,163 enemy aircraft, or 56% of the total naval combat victories, with a shoot-down ratio of 19:1. As for the shootdown ratio against the Zero, the ratio is 13:1, the Wind is 9.5:1, and the Thunderbolt is 3.7:1.

The F6F also bred the most ace pilots, with a total of 306. In addition to the superiority of the airframe, this achievement was also due to the deterioration of the quality of the Japanese pilots and the proper strategy of the American army. As for ground attack, the F6F dropped a total of 6,503 tons of bombs.

It can be said that for Japan's Zero, the F6F is almost like a natural enemy.

In the skies of the Pacific Ocean, Zero has no way to take these hellcats.

But...

"Damn, look behind you!!"

While the pilot was still in the cockpit of the Hellcat, celebrating that he had shot down a Zero, the wingman near the Hellcat roared angrily.

Hearing the wingman's words, the pilot hurriedly turned around to take a look.

The result is everything you see. But it almost frightened the pilot and even the ghost came out.

It turned out that behind the pilot, there was actually a Gale fighter chasing him, and it looked like it was about to go on the offensive...

The A7M Gale is a new high-performance fighter successor to the A6M Zero, which features a feature designed to counter the US Navy's new Grumman F6F Hellcat and Vought F4U Corsair carrier-based fighters. However, the choice of engine is controversial, which hinders the development and production time.

Back in 1940. Jiro Kietsu was fully aware of the need to begin research on a successor to the Zero, despite the astonishing success of the Zero at the time. The general layout of the new model he designed was similar to that of the Zero fighter.

The A7M Gale is much larger than the A6M Zero, with an empty weight of 3,266 kg and a maximum weight of 4,720 kg. The A7M has a pair of large wings with an area of 30 square meters and a wing load of 130 kg/square meters, and the wings are divided into horizontal laminar flow wings and ordinary wings with two degrees upward, and air combat flaps originally used for purple electric reform are also installed.

However, unlike in history, Gale appeared not in response to the American F6F and F4U, but to the ZD-20 and JZ-10 of the Defense Air Force.

Everything that happened in the Taiwan Strait and in the Philippines. The Japanese have understood that the Zero type alone is absolutely not enough, so Japan has invested a lot of resources into the purple electric reform and Gale, and finally made these two types of fighters appear earlier than in history.

However, the irony is that the opponents in their first battle after their appearance were not the ZD-20 and JZ-10 that they originally designed to deal with. It's the American Hellcats and Pirates ...

Fortunately, whether it is against China or the United States, these two types of fighters will never be left behind...

That is, when the pilot turned back, the gale behind Hellcat was also ready to attack. At the very moment when the pilots were terrified, the pilots of the gale also opened fire ...

"Dada!!"

The Gale fighter is armed with 4 20mm Type 99 Type 2 Type 5 guns (each with 250 rounds), not to mention the reliability of this Type 99 cannon, at least in terms of caliber, the 20mm cannon is still better than the Hellcat's 12.7mm Browning machine gun.

What's more, it's still a chase battle. And it's still a gale chasing, and the hellcat escapes.

So soon, under the attack of 20mm guns in Gale. Hellcat, like the Zero, also plummeted out into the sea.

"What now?"

Seeing that there were fewer and fewer fighters on his side around him, and more and more planes from the Japanese, a squadron leader asked over the radio. …,

"Wait for the order..."

The order did not wait, but waited for reinforcements from the Japanese.

After the encounter between the two sides, reinforcements from the army aviation were soon felt.

When I saw two or three hundred Type 3 and Type 4 fighters flying towards this side. The squadron leader who had just opened his mouth also had a white face.

Fortunately, at this time, the commander of the rear also learned about the situation here, so he hurriedly ordered the pilots to return ―――――― for the Americans. The loss of fighter planes is nothing, because with the industrial capacity of the United States, the lost fighters can easily be made up, but pilots with actual combat experience are not easy to make up.

When the U.S. aircraft carrier fleet began to return home, the Japanese fleet also returned to Hawaii.

"Still can't do it..."

Listening to the news coming from ahead, Nimitz frowned.

No one knows better than him how serious the situation is now.

"Now that the Chinese are getting closer and closer to Australia, if we can't get ahead of them, I'm afraid that in the future..."

Thinking of the possibility of Australia falling into the hands of China, Nimitz's face became more and more heavy.

"There's no way around it."

Looking at Nimitz's serious expression, Halsey shook his head.

"Those Japanese devils just won't give way, what can they do?"

Historically, on December 7, 1941, when Japan launched Pearl Harbor against the United States, Halsey and his flagship, the USS Enterprise, were on a mission to deliver planes to Wake Island. After learning of the Japanese raid, Halsey commented: "After the war is over, the Japanese language will only be spoken in hell." ”

And then in the war. Halsey visibly demonstrated his contempt for the Japanese to his officers and soldiers in an effort to boost the morale of the army. One example of this is his slogan, most famously "Kill the Japs, Kill the Japs, Kill More Japs!" (KillJaps, KillJaps, KillMoreJaps!) and "Kill more short, yellow-skinned bastards." We'll be able to get home faster! (Themoreofthelittleyellowbastardsyoukill, thequickerwegohome!) and so on.

That's why when talking about Japan, Halsey usually calls Japan a Japanese devil.

However, Halsey's remarks about the 'short, yellow-skinned bastard' have also caused a lot of controversy, and even caused a diplomatic dispute between the Nationalist government and the United States, so I heard Halsey say this. Nimitz could only smile wryly.

"If only there was more time..."

Looking out of the bridge, Nimitz sighed.

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Compared to the heavy atmosphere on the Nimitz side, the atmosphere on the Hawaiian side is obviously much more relaxed.

Because in the midst of the American attack, the Hawaiian defenders once again repelled them.

Of course, the failure to find any trace of the American fleet in the naval battle also caused many Japanese headaches. After all, victory in the war can only be ensured by finding the American fleet and sinking them.

Regardless, yet another victory is a cause for the Japanese to celebrate.

Therefore, when the alarm of war was extinguished, after leaving enough garrison force, many Japanese soldiers went to some entertainment venues run by the locals to have a carnival.

Hawaii is the most recent state to join the United States. It is distinctly different from other U.S. states: in addition to being the southernmost state in the U.S., it is also the only U.S. state that is entirely in the tropics; It is one of only two states in the United States that is not connected to other states, and it is the only state in the United States that does not have any land on the American continent. The State of Hawaii is the southernmost state of all U.S. territories and archipelagos. But not the southernmost territory (the southernmost territory of the United States is in the American Samoa Islands). In terms of ethnic distribution, it is one of two non-Caucasian majority states, compared to the other states. The state of Hawaii has the largest percentage of Asian-American population. About one-third of them are Caucasians, and the rest are Japanese, Polynesians, Filipinos, Chinese, and Koreans. …,

According to the 1990 U.S. Census, people from the islands of Asia or the Pacific accounted for 62 percent of Hawaii's 1.1 million people. The Japanese are Hawaii's largest Asian minority, followed by Filipinos, indigenous peoples, Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Laotians, and Thais.

Of course, there were not so many foreign populations during this period, and the native people of Hawaii were predominantly Hawaiians, who also called themselves Karnaca. It is found in the Hawaiian Islands in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. It is a mixed type of southern and Australian race. A branch of the Polynesians. Indigenous people of Polynesian descent from Hawaii. The Hawaiian people have long been invaded and ruled by European and American colonizers, and their population has been sharply reduced. In recent years, the population has gradually rebounded. But most of them are of mixed race. Only some people retain their traditional culture and language, and most people are fluent in English. Due to the encroachment on the land, Hawaiians had to work on sugar cane and pineapple plantations, or use the Hawaiian language, which belongs to the Polynesian language family of Austronesian languages. Embrace Christianity. Out to make a living, at the bottom of society.

It is also for this reason that when the Japanese, who were not Caucasians, landed in Hawaii, the Japanese did not encounter resistance from these indigenous peoples.

On the contrary, the Japanese were warmly welcomed by these aborigines and saw them as liberated. As for the Japanese? Since the Hawaiians were not large enough to threaten Japan, and they did need someone in Hawaii to provide them with some necessities, they did not persecute the Hawaiians as they did in other regions.

As for the Caucasians? Because it is clear that Hawaii cannot be defended, almost all the white people in Hawaii have been taken back to China by the U.S. government, and almost all of the people who remain in Hawaii are yellow or Hawaiians, so compared with other Japanese war zones, Hawaii is quite harmonious.

And at the moment. In a tavern run by Hawaiians, the Japanese pilots who had just returned from victory gathered here to drink...

It has been more than a year since I came to Hawaii, and during this year or so, the Japanese soldiers stationed in Hawaii have been somewhat influenced and assimilated. At this moment, the pilots are partying in the tavern.

Of course, this is not the case for everyone, and there are some people who gather in corners to discuss the current situation...

"I just heard from Matsuyama-kun that it seems that the Nanyang Islands are about to fall!!

So to speak. The officer who opened his mouth drank the liquor from his glass.

Hearing the officer say this, the people around him also gasped.

"Has the situation gotten so bad?"

"Oops? Hey! Hearing his companion say this, the officer said with some disdain. I heard that the Chinese also applied chemical weapons, and it seems to be more powerful than the mustard gas we currently have, even those troops hiding in the jungle, as long as they are hit by this chemical weapon, it is also a total annihilation, I heard that everyone there is dead! ”

"Gas masks are useless?"

"It's useless," the officer shook his head. This chemical weapon is said to be. Even a little bit of skin can't be saved, and we don't have protective clothing..."

"This..."

Hearing the officer say this, the people around looked at each other.

Just when the whole scene was about to cool down, an officer with the rank of junior lieutenant also spoke.

"I've also heard that the Indian side seems to have suffered a big defeat. Now General Yamashita is directing the troops to retreat to the coast, and I am afraid that he intends to abandon India..."

Hearing Shaozuo's words, the people around him were dumbfounded.

Unlike the other plane, China in this plane is very powerful, so there is no idea of ruling China in Japan, but India is not born except for China. But it has become the target of many Japanese. …,

One is because of India's excellent resource conditions.

You know, even in the Hereafter. India's arable land is also larger than that of China as a whole, and the conditions are much better than China's. In fact――――――, even if there is no hybrid rice, India will not be able to feed a population of 1.2 billion today, and it is still approaching 1.3 billion, because India is too inefficient.

And in addition to arable land. India is also extremely rich in resources in other areas.

India has the world's fourth largest coal reserves, and other major natural resources are iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, titanium ore, chromite, natural gas, oil, diamonds, limestone.

In the Hereafter. India, like some other countries, is exporting iron ore to China.

If you take India, you will be like taking another Australia.

And unlike Australia, where a large part of the land is desert and desert, almost the whole of India is suitable for human life―――――― as long as the Indians can change their habit of throwing corpses into the river.

In addition to resources, there is also a very important thing about the history of India.

The Indian civilization is one of the earliest ancient civilizations in the world, at the latest in 2500 BC, there was a civilization created by ancient Indians in the Indus Valley, because the site of the earliest discovery of this civilization is located in Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro in present-day Pakistan, so this civilization is also called the Indus civilization or Harappan civilization.

In the middle of the 3rd century BCE, the Mauryan king Ashoka unified the entire Indian peninsula except for the Mysore region of South India. But after the death of Ashoka, the Mauryan Empire went into decline. Since then, India has entered a long era of nations. The Kushan Empire and the Gupta Dynasty briefly unified North India, during which various religions began to emerge, including Buddhism and Hinduism; This period was also the golden age of science, art and culture in India.

Hinduism is probably similar to heresy, but Buddhism was successfully introduced to China, and through China it spread to Korea and Japan.

In Japan, there are a considerable number of Buddhist temples.

Therefore, if they can successfully conquer India, it will be a great honor for the Japanese, after all, India is also an ancient civilization with a long history. Although it is not possible to conquer China, the conquest of such an ancient civilization is also good for the Japanese who have low self-esteem.

So when the Japanese expeditionary force entered India and successfully expanded a considerable part of its territory, almost all the Japanese were boiling.

But now, they are going to be driven out of India, how can this not make the Japanese present uncomfortable?

"Do we really have any hope of winning?"

Just after the scene cooled down for a while, an officer whispered.

First Indochina, then Taiwan, then the Philippines, India and the South Sea Islands...

Up to now, they have hardly heard a single piece of good news, which naturally has caused many officers to have a pessimistic mentality.

If it were usual, perhaps some officers would have scolded him, believing that he was not worthy of being a Japanese soldier. But in the current situation, almost no one wants to do this.

"Ugh..."

Sighing, the young man didn't know what to say.

For a while, almost everyone was quiet, and this scene was very strange compared to the Japanese soldiers who were reveling around.

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While the Japanese were still celebrating another victory in Hawaii, a large group of Japanese soldiers were waiting for ships to Australia in Chennai, far away in India. …,

After the capture of Calcutta, the Indian Defense Forces were almost unstoppable, and soon captured a number of cities occupied by Japanese troops.

Immediately after that, in order to be able to lock the Japanese army in India, He Zhuguo ordered the mobile troops to start encircling along the coastal part, intending to eat all the Japanese troops in India in one bite.

Since most of India was a plain area and the transportation was extremely developed, Ho Zhuguo's orders were fully implemented.

On the other side, Yamashita Bongfumi quickly realized this.

It's just that the troops sent by Yamashita Fengwen can't stop He Zhuguo's armored troops at all. In the face of the torrent of steel composed of thousands of tanks, the little armored force in the hands of Yamashita Fengwen was simply vulnerable.

Coupled with the powerful air power in the hands of He Zhuguo, soon Yamashita Fengwen's troops were killed and abandoned their armor. And what made Yamashita even more sad was that after his troops were defeated, they were not even as fast as the Wehrmacht when they fled...

Seeing that his troops were losing more and more and his territory was getting smaller and smaller, he had no chance of being able to stop He Zhuguo. In the end, Yamashita Fengwen, who had no other way, only needed to contact the mainland and planned to withdraw from India.

Of course, the responsibility for the loss of India must be borne by Yamashita Fumi, not to mention that he is still at odds with Hideki Tojo. But even so, it is better than the annihilation of hundreds of thousands of troops in India.

"The ship is coming!!

Just when Yamashita was thinking about how he would be treated by Hideki Tojo in the headquarters, a shout suddenly came from outside.

When the ships docked at the pier, the Japanese soldiers on the pier began to walk towards the ships one by one.

Fortunately, although they were almost frightened by the Wehrmacht, the Japanese army was still in order, so there was no chaos.

On the other hand, the air defense forces in the port of Chennai were also on standby, for fear that the Chinese air force would suddenly come out and sink all the ships on the pier.

Fortunately, this did not happen, and about a week later, all the Japanese troops in India withdrew from India. Although He Zhuguo lost the possibility of encircling and annihilating the Japanese army, he finally succeeded in occupying most of India...

All that remains in India is how to fight with the British and how to divide India...

When the Spring Festival came, the first thing that came back was this good news