411 "Gifting" Wake Island's Bombardment
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Three o'clock in the afternoon of the 16th.
The Japanese signal corps on Wake Island received a call from the air. Not long after, a Zero fighter was seen flying over Wake Island.
However, it seems that there is a problem with the airplane radio, and the pilot is in the radio all the time: Moxi, Moxi's screaming. There is no unobstructed communication between the ground and the air.
Curiously, the Japanese Zero did not land at the airfield. It's a low loop over Wake Island.
Anyway, I can't get in touch, and I can't figure out what the naval pilots are doing.
Major General Toshiichi Sato looked at the Zero fighter flying in the sky for a while, as if he had no intention of landing, so Toshiichi Sato continued to carry out his atrocities:
On the ground, ninety-eight American prisoners were lined up, kneeling on the ground and shivering. Behind them were dozens of Japanese executioners.
Toshiichi Sato was retaliating, he didn't know that it was the Naval Resistance Army that bombed Wake Island, and he still aimed his grudge at the U.S. military. The wounded soldiers of the devil were consumed until the afternoon, and hundreds more died. Sato Toshi's eyes were bloodshot, and he was going to kill the prisoner.
As if to show the Zero fighter in the air, Toshiichi Sato took the lead and swung down the katana as the plane flew by again.
In the bloodshed, 98 American prisoners were brutally killed.
This scene stunned the pilots in the sky. This pilot is not a Japanese devil, but a pilot of the Naval Resistance Army. The only special fighter on the aircraft carrier was the Japanese Zero fighter captured in the Battle of Midway.
Pilot Qi Chang was one of only three pilots in the Navy's anti-Japanese army who had flown more than 3,000 hours. Because in the past year, Qi Chang has been constantly piloting the Zero fighter and training in aerial combat with other pilots of the Navy, so his flight time far exceeds that of others, and his flying skills are second to none among the more than 100 pilots of the Indian Ocean aircraft carrier.
For prisoners, the Navy's resistance has always been in line with the attitude of waste utilization. Killings are rare. And such a bloody prisoner of war by the Japanese army cannot be called a soldier at all, nor can it be called a man, it is completely a beast.
Looking at the distant plane, Sato Toshi's eyes were bloody, and in an environment like a slaughterhouse, he was actually proud, and the corners of his mouth turned up, as if he was laughing at the Japanese naval pilot who was scared away.
Qichang was in charge of reconnoitring the situation on Wake Island, because the Zero fighter was only a single-engine, single-seat fighter. There is only one pilot, which is not suitable for reconnaissance. So he didn't carry a bomb on his plane, but a camera.
The scene of the Japanese army killing prisoners happened to be filmed. Later, the photo caused mass outrage among the American people. (Historical facts: In October 43, the Japanese army vented its anger after a US fighter plane attacked Wake Island. Ninety-eight American prisoners were killed. )
Qi Chang wanted to shoot at the devil, but his boss ordered him strictly. And it was an order directly given by Li Guang. You must not shoot, and you must not let the devils have doubts about this Zero fighter. Of course, this Zero fighter must not be injured, and Li Guang is of great use to this Zero fighter. Qi Chang is not the only one on the Indian Ocean aircraft carrier who will play this Zero fighter, Qi Chang is also in the case of assuring the flight captain Shao Fuxuan that he will never be reckless. Only then did I win this reconnaissance mission.
Four o'clock in the afternoon.
The aircraft carrier Indian Ocean has swam 350 kilometers east of Wake Island. The choice of this position was not because of the so-called lucky point of the US military style, but after careful consideration.
The Japanese bases of Truk, Wake Island, and Midway, occupied by U.S. troops. It's almost a straight line. Whether it is the U.S. bomber Wake Island or the Japanese reinforcement of Wake Island, the fighter route is on this line.
And the aircraft carrier Indian Ocean, which is 350 kilometers east of Wake Island, is far from this axis. In order to avoid being discovered by Japanese fighters, but also to avoid being discovered by American fighters.
At four o'clock, the second wave of strike aircraft of the Naval Resistance Army took off again. It was still seventy-six warplanes, but this time they were carrying not air-explosive bombs, but 800-kilogram bombshells. This was a modification of the main gun shells of the battleship Pacific that the Naval Resistance Army had obtained from the British, but after a few years, the stock was running out.
For this battle, the Navy's resistance forces brought more than 400 of these 800-kilogram bombs to the Pacific Ocean, including 300 grenades and 100 armor-piercing shells. However, the Indian Ocean aircraft carrier can only carry three waves of bombs under normal circumstances, because of the needs of combat missions, this time it carried quite a lot. Even so, after this wave of fighters took off, the bombs carried by the aircraft carrier INS Indian Ocean had almost bottomed out.
At 5:50, the sun was setting.
The devils of Wake Island were surprised to find that the black pressure group flew again.
Toshiichi Sato is purely remembering what he eats and not remembering, and he was just attacked once in the early hours of the morning.
Now Wake Island is still weakly defended.
On the anti-aircraft gun emplacement, there was still no one.
It's still a habit of thinking. Toshiichi Sato was on guard for a day, but he didn't wait for the planes to bomb again.
In his opinion, the sky has darkened, and it is impossible for the planes of the American ghost animals to come again. U.S. fighter planes can take off during the day, but they can also bomb in the evening, but how do they get back? As far as Rear Admiral Toshiichi Sato knows, it is extremely dangerous for the plane to land at night. Japan's army aviation absolutely does not have the ability to land at night, and the Japanese navy pilots are of a higher level, so they will not be able to land at night.
And how can the American ghost animals have the level of the pilots of the Imperial Japanese Army, bombing in the evening, unable to find a way back, planning to increase the nutrition of the sharks in the Pacific? So this time period of attack is absolutely impossible.
In addition, the devil has been busy all day, cleaning up the garbage, cleaning up the corpses or something, and he is as tired as a dead dog. At this time, it was the time when the devils were hungry, the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army were flying, and the Japanese army was busy cooking.
Unlike the early hours of the morning, this time the devil didn't sleep. The group of planes flew in, but the devils reacted quickly, and immediately rushed to the underground tunnel fortifications. But they forgot one thing, to know that the devils who were injured in the early morning are still in the barracks. Some of these wounded soldiers vomited and vomited blood for a day and died. Others are gasping for breath right now.
The devils have forgotten their comrades-in-arms, so what awaits these devils' wounded soldiers is nothing but death.
Soon, the little devil saw an even more terrifying bombardment, even more tyrannical than the bombing in the early morning.
This attack was very different from the previous one, and the power of the 800-kilogram bomb was already terrifying beyond the limits for human nerves.
As soon as the barracks were hit by such bombs, they immediately burst into a cloud of smoke. The seemingly sturdy civil fortifications are like building blocks blown away by a strong wind under such powerful shells. Only permanent fortifications built of reinforced concrete could barely survive such a blow. If the human body is blown up, it will immediately evaporate from the world, and no trace can be found.
What makes the devil even more frightening is that quite a number of bombers in the "US military" fighter planes have adopted dive bombing tactics. This tactic is not like the bombardment in the morning, but only a covering and unfocused strike. These dive bombers focused on three of Wake Island's most important artillery groups.
The shore artillery fortifications were strong, and although the bombs of the Naval Resistance Army could not completely blow up these fortifications, the devils in the fortifications were bleeding from their mouths and noses, and they were even blown up into a delirium, and they ran out of the fortifications indiscriminately, and then became a mutilated corpse.
War has become more and more brutal as technology has advanced. The Japanese used battleships to shell the U.S. airfield during the Battle of Kuah.
Due to the fact that it was a night shelling, the accuracy was not high. A total of 435 shells were fired, destroying 50 of the 98 US planes at the airport. Moreover, due to the large territory of Kuah Island, the US troops are not concentrated, and there are not many deaths, it is said that there are only more than 40 people. However, the U.S. military is hiding an important statistic that even the 1st Marine Division, the most elite of the U.S. military, has hundreds of retirements after this shelling. If they don't retire, these American soldiers are simply frightened into nervous disorders and insanity. During the shelling, some American troops were so frightened that they even forgot to flee, and just cried in the wild.
In fact, it was purely a little devil navy stinginess, and only fired more than 400 shells. If you are willing to have the luxury of throwing a thousand shells, the US military may really lose. This kind of shelling is really too much of a test of people's nerve strength, and it is extremely stressful for the US military who has never been on the battlefield.
The Japanese Navy is stingy, and the Japanese Army has never seen much of the world, and the Japanese Army has sent a telegram thanking the Navy for this unsuccessful artillery bombardment: "One shot of your ship's guns can rival 1,000 rounds of field artillery!" We're rejoicing! ”
The devil navy was stingy and reluctant to wear and tear the battleship's main guns, and later the battleship was not of much use and was sunk by the American army.
The Naval Resistance Army dropped more than 50 bombs, although it cannot be compared with the scale of the Japanese bombardment of Kuah Island, but the lethality is more terrifying, Wake Island is too small, and the devils are too concentrated. And Wake Island has no mountain cover, whether it is a fortification or a shore artillery fortress is deployed on the ground, every bomb thrown by the naval resistance army can achieve results, even if it can't directly kill the devil, it can also cause internal injuries to the devil.
When the group of naval resistance troops withdrew, Major General Toshiichi Sato did not go crazy this time. With a saber in hand, he sat on the ground and could only murmur bubbles.
In one day, two air raids, more than 4,600 Japanese elites were killed and more than 1,000 wounded. In the blink of an eye, the elite of the Kwantung Army lost half of its combat effectiveness. This is the real elite of the Kwantung Army, not the kind of water-injected troops of the Japanese army at the end of the war. In this way, the combination of the two wings would not be at all weak against the Chinese army of the two divisions on the Chinese battlefield.
In the face of such serious losses, Toshiichi Sato was able to call for reinforcements and supplies. There's one more thing to do – lie. In the report, Toshiichi Sato grossly exaggerated the power of the "American army".
In Toshiichi Sato's description, there are eighty U.S. bombers at a time, all of which are B17 large bombers. There were two attacks, with a total of 2,000 tons of bombs dropped. Under his leadership, the Japanese fought bravely and shot down 30 American bombers, achieving a great victory. (To be continued......)