By the time Nimitz was picked up on a destroyer, the huge combined Japanese-American fleet had lost its former glory.

It's not an exaggeration to describe it as devastated these days.

The battleship Montana alone was directly hit by three missiles, and although the hit rate was only 30 percent, these 30 percent were enough to kill. The violent explosion directly opened three large openings of more than ten meters on the side of the Montana, and even the two triple 406-mm guns in the bow of the ship were completely lifted into the sea.

The middle one directly destroyed Nimitz's Japanese-American Combined Fleet Command, except for him, Nimitz was thrown off the bridge and fell into the sea in the explosion, and the others were instantly engulfed in flames.

Nimitz, who was rescued, did not say a word, wrapped in a large towel, stood on the destroyer, looking at the fleet with fire flashing everywhere.

Watching the sunken warship, it rolled up its whirlpool and devoured the sailors who could not dodge in time.

His heart was bleeding, and his mind resounded with the moment when the Montana was hit. He even remembered very clearly the appearance of the old guy Nagano Xiushen being cut into pieces of meat by the flying iron chips, and he also clearly remembered the scene of dozens of staff officers flying flesh and blood in the entire command center.

Whether it is an American who believes in freedom of faith, or a Japanese bushido spirit that is said to be not afraid of death, at this moment, it is just a humble life, and it is not much different from an ant that can be crushed at will.

Nimitz had a hard time swallowing, and he didn't need a detailed battle report, everything in his eyes had seen despair.

Of the twenty-four Essex-class aircraft carriers, nearly half of them caught fire. Two of the eight Midway-class aircraft carriers have already cocked their bows and begun to sink, three of the other six have caught fire and burned, and only the other three are unharmed.

Others, such as the Independence-class, the Saiban, and the Lexington class, also lost more than half, and even the small Japanese aircraft carriers were not spared, either sinking or being shot and catching fire.

Only those small escort carriers were a little better and did not suffer much damage.

And on the part of battleships. Japan's Musashi. The Nara, like the Montana, also became a floating incendiary base. Other large battleships were also nearly half shot.

Nimitz didn't think of anything, just no more than five minutes. The huge Japan-US combined fleet will be what it is now.

A terrible siren sounded suddenly. It also broke the silence around Nimitz.

Through the strings of smoke. He seemed to see the images of countless Chinese carrier-based planes rushing in.

"Raise the command flag!" It is not surprising that this was the first time Nimitz spoke after he got on the ship, and the Chinese carrier-based aircraft followed. If he didn't come, Nimitz would have felt hell.

Coming to the bridge of the destroyer, which was less than two thousand tons, Nimitz ordered the captain to turn on the wireless channel, and then Nimitz personally gave the final battle order.

"I am the Supreme Commander of the Combined Fleet, Admiral Nimitz of the United States. Now I order, all carrier-based aircraft that can take off, all into the air. Except for the destroyer with the tail number seven for the rescue mission, all the other warships have readjusted their air defense positions.

Gentlemen, this is a battle for the honor and ultimate fate of the Allies, and I will watch you and face what lies next.

Warriors, fight! ”

Around the Japanese-American joint fleet, more than 1,000 Chinese fighters gathered.

The Black Hawk fighters, which were advancing at high speed, had already arrived in the center of the Japan-US fleet, and these Black Hawk fighters, which were carrying air-to-ship missiles, unceremoniously dropped their anti-ship missiles again.

Although the lethality of the anti-ship missiles carried by the Black Hawk fighters cannot be compared with the ship-to-ship missiles, the lethality is not small at all. Subsonic, several hundred kilograms of warheads, even if the lethality of large warships is insufficient, but if there are too many of them, it is also a great destruction.

Especially for the fleet that has lost a lot, it is more like a mending knife in the game. The wounded warships could have barely maintained a certain order, and the fire did not spread.

The new attack allowed these scarred warships to truly step on the path of destruction.

The pilots of the Black Hawk fighters were sharp-eyed, and they were specifically looking for the injured and slow-moving ships. With the help of the on-board fire control radar, those anti-ship missiles accurately hit the target.

By the time these Black Hawk fighters finished attacking, the two fighters in the sky were already entangled. On those escort carriers in the combined fleet, warplanes are constantly taking off to join the air battle. The warships below are constantly venting their anti-aircraft firepower.

On the one hand, the elite, on the other hand, the quantity, the two sides collided fiercely.

The first round of the confrontation ended quickly, and Nimitz did not ask how the outcome was. Rather, let the prepared bomber units immediately rise into the air, directly ahead of the target.

He had already seen very clearly that the direction in which enemy planes came most was directly in front of him. At this moment, there were no scruples, and in Nimitz's eyes, there was only the idea of attacking at all costs.

From the point of view of the United States, warships capable of carrying fixed-wing fighters and aircraft can be called aircraft carriers. In total, the United States produced nearly one hundred and fifty escort aircraft carriers during World War II. Thirty-eight of them are in the Atlantic, the rest are in the Pacific.

And in the joint fleet of Japan and the United States, there are more than seventy such escort aircraft carriers. The previous attack caused the loss of more than half of the main aircraft carriers of the Japanese-US joint fleet, and now these escort aircraft carriers are just playing their role.

Although the displacement of these escort aircraft carriers is not large, only one bomber can be lifted into the air, which can be regarded as an extra strength. What's more, it's not just one that has taken to the skies.

Most of the fighters in the air did not land, but followed the bombers after they took off, and pounced directly in front of the fleet.

The pilots of these fighters have completely discarded all the guidelines, everyone is red-eyed, and they have the will to die, and they do not care about ammunition and fuel at all. Most of them are Japanese carrier-based aircraft, but there are also quite a few American carrier-based aircraft.

Nimitz, who saw this in his eyes, didn't say anything, because he also had such a desperate impulse.

Half an hour later, when the Allied aircraft group shook and saw the Chinese fleet group. Only then did they reflect that this was the first time they had seen the scale of the Chinese fleet in this naval battle.

It doesn't seem to have the overwhelming momentum of the Allied forces, but the huge aircraft carriers in the fleet are impossible to ignore.

In the sky above the Chinese fleet, the vigilant aircraft group began to dive down towards the Allied aircraft group. The fighters in the Allied fleet also quickly caught up, and the two sides were enemies who were very angry when they met, and the air battle entered a white-hot battle at the first time.

And those torpedo planes and dive bombers in the Allied fleet did not care about the Chinese carrier-based aircraft that intercepted at all. Without the slightest reason, it was lowered to a height of four thousand meters. Without hesitation, he pounced on the Chinese fleet group.

In dense anti-aircraft fire. From time to time, there were one anti-aircraft missile after another, and the barrage gathered in front of the Allied bomber group, and in an instant, the planes in front were shot one after another.

The picture is intense and bloody. Especially those Japanese pilots. Ignore the dense hail of bullets ahead. Just rush towards the aircraft carriers in the fleet. Even those injured planes had to crash into the nearest Chinese warship as much as possible.

Anti-aircraft artillery, anti-aircraft phalanx. With the coordination of radar and the enemy's crazy actions, the anti-aircraft firepower of the Chinese fleet has been brought into full play by the anti-aircraft missiles and the integrated artillery system on the Aegis air defense cruiser.

In the eyes of these Chinese soldiers, they have been underestimated by the enemies in front of them, which they do not allow.

Unconsciously, the rate of fire of the phalanx had reached its maximum speed, and a trace of white mist emerged from the rotating barrel, which was a manifestation of high heat. In the past, the sailors who took great care of their equipment did not care about this at all. Everyone agreed that their eyes were red, looking at a large number of Allied carrier-based aircraft in the sky.

This time, Nimitz was already pouring out. More than a thousand bombers, these are the first waves of power to take off from those escort carriers and aircraft carriers that are still in good condition. Then there is a second wave. In order to attack, Nimitz has abandoned the most basic defense.

Madness under despair, Nimitz has no regrets. Because only in this way can he grasp the last chance.

And these pilots did not disappoint Nimitz either.

The anti-aircraft firepower of the Chinese is really strong, there are anti-aircraft guns in the high places, even the naval guns of destroyers and cruisers, anti-aircraft machine guns in the middle and high altitudes, and phalanx at low altitudes. There are also anti-aircraft missiles that replenish the gap in firepower. Coupled with the coordination of fire control radar, under this kind of firepower, let alone these propeller fighters, even if the Black Hawk fighters come, it is not pleased.

But the number of Allied fighters was still too much, and when the number exceeded a certain limit, its situation was bound to be different.

Nearly a thousand bombers and torpedo planes passed through the barrage of China, and despite the loss of two-thirds, three hundred bombers remained intact. Aerial bombs and torpedoes fell one after another, and the Chinese fleet began to be damaged.

In particular, the fighters piloted by those Japanese pilots were even more crazy, and these pilots did not think of dropping bombs at all, but directly drove the fighters towards the Chinese aircraft carrier, increasing the speed to the limit, and crashing straight into it.

Although the numerous phalanx took out many of these opponents, they still succeeded.

A smoke-smoking Type 97 dive bomber, the two pilots inside had already been shot, and their chests had already been eroded. But the pilot held his last breath and crashed into the nearest aircraft carrier in his sight. In the end, the fighter plane was installed on the back half of the deck of the aircraft carrier as he wished, causing a fire on the aircraft carrier.

This is a First Emperor-class aircraft carrier, which belongs to the latest construction aircraft carrier, and its displacement has also reached 40,000 tons. At this time, the deck of this aircraft carrier was already covered with aircraft wreckage, and sparks were raging on the deck.

Fortunately, there were no warplanes on the deck of the aircraft carrier at this time, and there was no ammunition stacked at this time. This is due to the usual rigorous training, and of course the effort pays off. The empty deck also minimizes the chance of secondary damage to the aircraft carrier. It also makes the fire fighting work smoother.

This is the first and not the last aircraft carrier to be wounded. In the face of the crazy Allied carrier-based aircraft, in the next ten minutes, the other two aircraft carriers that also belonged to the First Emperor class were also attacked by suicide aircraft. One of them also wounded the bridge, causing a certain number of casualties.

Other cruisers and destroyers, several of which were also hit by the enemy's suicide attacks.

In the sky, when the Allied warplanes could no longer be seen, all the soldiers felt a little breathless.

Three aircraft carriers were injured at once, which made it impossible for everyone to accept it safely.

On the sea. Quite a few Allied pilots who parachuted were struggling in the sea. Some even have small airbags already in place, and the whole person sits on them.

"Grass you uncle, you dare to laugh." On the destroyer, a Chinese soldier saw an American pilot who had parachuted out, looked at the burning aircraft carrier in the distance, laughed, and immediately became angry.

"Da! Da! ......A heavy machine gun that grabbed the side of the ship was fired at the American pilot not far away.

The gunfire seemed to open a Pandora's box. Soldiers on other warships also began to take up arms. Shoot at the enemy pilots in the water.

The blood flowers were quickly swept away by the sea, and the Chinese soldiers who had already killed the red-eyed did not show the slightest mercy at all. Some even picked up their rifles and started shooting.

The fleet command didn't seem to have any intention of stopping it. Acquiesced in the carnage in front of him.

In fact, this is not the first time that China first used it. There were also quite a few Chinese pilots who were slaughtered in this way. In the past, the United States has slaughtered Japanese pilots in this way, and the Japanese side has done the same.

On the part of the Japanese-American Combined Fleet. When the second wave of bombers took off, China's second wave of attack aircraft also arrived, because the Japanese-US combined fleet lost most of its fighters, and this air raid caused the Japanese-US combined fleet to lose four battleships and more than a dozen escort aircraft carriers again, and those main aircraft carriers that were originally injured have now disappeared one after another at sea.

And when the second wave of fighters from China returned, Nimitz's second wave of attack also reached the sky over the Chinese fleet. Once again, the two sides are entangled.

At the cost of serious damage to two aircraft carriers, China once again completely annihilated the opponent's second wave of attack aircraft.

One day, two days passed like this, no one stopped, no one side chose to retreat, and the carrier-based planes of both sides took off one after another, and they all had all their strength. The two fleets are also coming and going in the Pacific.

When the attacks of both sides came to the tenth wave, Nimitz did not have any power to attack at this time. The entire fleet could not even muster 50 carrier-based aircraft, and none of them could take off for combat, and the Chinese side also completely lost three aircraft carriers. The number of carrier-based aircraft has also been sharply reduced from 1,000 to 600.

The two sides that were approaching quickly, and even under the battle of carrier-based aircraft, started a battleship fight. Nimitz formed an assault formation of all the battleships that could still move, and pounced on the Chinese fleet. The Chinese battleships did not show weakness either, and the main guns of both sides were fired at sea.

However, before the two sides could fire a few shots, they were broken by the arriving Chinese carrier-based aircraft. As a result, the Allied side naturally wanted a tragedy. Under the attack of battleships and carrier-based aircraft, these remaining battleships did not even have a chance to escape. Previously, many of these battleships had been wounded, but now they did not even have a chance to repair them, and they were buried in the cold sea one by one.

Although giving does not necessarily mean that there will be gain, but if you don't give, you will have nothing. At least China had to pay three aircraft carriers and some cruisers and destroyers, as well as 400 carrier-based aircraft, to finally completely cripple the combined Japanese-American fleet.

Now the entire Japanese-American combined fleet has not been able to find a single intact large ship, whether it is a battleship or an aircraft carrier, all of them are finished.

When Nimitz gathered the remaining warships, he found that in just two days, the huge fleet, thousands of warships, and now less than half of them are left, and all the supply ships, light cruisers and destroyers, all of them are some guys with very low combat effectiveness. And the logistics ships in it still account for two-thirds, only more than 100 destroyers, all of them are old and young, and some are even old antiques from the First World War. As for the cruisers with a little more combat effectiveness, there were less than five light cruisers and one aircraft carrier for heavy cruisers. There were also less than ten escort aircraft carriers left, seven of which were damaged.

The casualties are even more terrifying, and the entire Japanese-US combined fleet had 780,000 personnel of all arms. Today, less than 100,000 remain. And many of them are not combatants. It is only one line away from the conditions for being completely annihilated.

Two days passed, and at this time, neither China nor the Allies had the strength to attack each other again.

On the Chinese side, it lost a lot of Sea Hawk-3s, and dozens of Black Hawk fighters were destroyed by the opponent's anti-aircraft fire. The rest of the planes are also scarred. In the fleet, three First Emperor-class aircraft carriers were silent, seven were wounded, provincial cruisers also lost a dozen or so, and City-class destroyers also sank twenty or thirty.

This is the strength of three aircraft carrier battle groups, and the death toll alone is more than five thousand people, and countless others are injured. There are also two or three thousand missing people. This is the biggest loss since the establishment of the Chinese Navy. The cost of annihilating the Allied fleet was not small, but in a strategic sense, China was the absolute winner.

This is also the reason why China did not fight a decisive battle with the Japanese-American joint fleet before, although the Chinese side has advanced weapons, but the other side is not a soft persimmon, and there are many of them.

Moreover, many of the main losses of the Chinese side in this naval battle were caused by those suicide attacks. If it weren't for the previous round of missile attacks, I'm afraid that this naval battle, even if it is won, still belongs to China. But the result must be many times worse than now.

In fact, there are too many reasons for the defeat of this sea victory. The Chinese side is not considered to be advanced in weapons, and the main point is that China also occupies a certain degree of initiative.

The theory of aircraft carrier victory, which was at the time of the formation of the Navy. Chen Shao deliberately instilled it. Although the navy China lagged behind for a hundred years. But the start of aircraft carriers is not at all slower than that of other countries.

Whether it is the development of science and technology, or the change in the mode of warfare caused by the development of science and technology. Until later, already very late, it was not possible to influence the ideas of the "battleship supremacists".

As early as the period of the Sino-Japanese War in the thirties, it became clear that in modern warfare it was necessary to treat the aviation as a real force. In the first few months after the start of the Japanese-American Pacific War, the Japanese air forces achieved remarkable results fully confirmed and strengthened this view.

However, the diehards still belittle the role of aircraft in combat. They believe that these initial victories were pure fluke. They insisted that the fundamental nature of aircraft carriers is that they are too unable to withstand attacks, and that shore-based air forces have a limited range and cannot play an important role in the vast Pacific Ocean, so the final victory or defeat in a war at sea still depends on battleships as in the past.

These advocates believed that the firepower of a modern battleship was sufficient to enable it to defend itself against air attacks by enemy aircraft.

At the other end of the scale are those who advocate the omnipotence of aviation, who use the initial gains in the air as proof that battles and wars can be won by airplanes and aircraft carriers alone. This view is also terrible, because it completely does not take into account the role that battleships were supposed to play in World War II.

As a result, the pilots generally regarded the battleship unit as completely useless and made a joke of it, ridiculing the battleship unit as the "Pillar Island Fleet."

Naval aviation has indeed taken the place of battleships as a decisive strike force at sea.

This was convincingly demonstrated by the annihilation of the battleship forces of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in the Philippines and the battleship forces of the British Far East Fleet in the Malayan Sea by Allied naval carrier-based and shore-based aircraft in the first two days of the war.

Although Japan won the early stages of the war to the detriment of the United States, the latter learned from the painful experience of the early days, reorganized its forces, changed what it had old, and developed what it did not have in order to win the war in the Pacific.

The Chinese Navy's use of battleships is a very vivid example. The fact that naval aviation and aircraft carriers have attained a prominent and important position does not mean that the Chinese battleships, which have powerful guns, have done nothing and can only vaguely hope that they will be able to fight a battle in a big way.

On the contrary, before attacking the Allied islands, the Chinese battleships skillfully shelled the Allied outpost island strongholds, and they hit them fiercely, as anyone still alive in the Allied defenders on the island can confirm.

The Chinese Navy also made good use of battleships to cover aircraft carrier forces. The formations led by these battleships, with their powerful anti-aircraft fire network, effectively prevented Allied aircraft from approaching and attacking the Chinese aircraft carriers.

The Allied naval chiefs were not unaware of the changes that were quietly taking place in the war at sea, but they seemed unwilling to face reality.

For example, two years ago, Rear Admiral Takakijiro Onishi, Chief of Staff of Japan's Eleventh Air Fleet, was transferred back to Tokyo from the Southern Front, and on the way reported to the Combined Fleet Command on operations in the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies. He emphatically talked about the change in the emphasis on areas in the engagement with the enemy, and explained that surface artillery warfare has taken a back seat to air warfare and air-to-sea warfare.

Onishi's opinion was met with a cold reception. This can be seen in the reaction of the Combined Fleet, which said that it is too early to draw conclusions on such a fundamental issue based only on the local operational situation on the Southern Front.

In the vast expanse of the ocean, shore-based aviation can only be used on a small scale. Aircraft carriers alone cannot provide sufficient aviation for offensive operations. Battleships were valuable combat tools. Unless there is some other way to keep an eye on the enemy's battleships. It was necessary to maintain its own battleship strength.

This is the firm opinion of the battleship supremacists.

Another important reason for the defeat of the Allies was the so-called "lean policy" towards naval aviation. Under this policy, the best pilots were transferred to the aircraft carrier's flight team and served on combat missions. Opponents of this policy argue that this approach is short-sighted. They advocated that some of the best and most experienced pilots should be sent to the Naval Air Force as instructors in order to pass on their wisdom and combat experience to the young and inexperienced cadets.

But because the "elite policy" was so successful in fighting in the Philippines and the Indian Ocean in the early days of World War II, there were very few, if any, pilots from aircraft carriers that the Allies had drawn from aircraft carriers to serve as instructors.

It turned out that after the Battle of the Marianas, Japan did not have capable reserve pilots, that is. There were no pilots who could immediately carry out combat missions to fill the vacancies of pilots lost in this naval battle.

The best pilots replenished to aircraft carriers after naval battles. Taking off and landing on an aircraft carrier alone requires several weeks of basic training, and it takes several more weeks to master combat techniques before carrying out combat missions.

This is Japan influencing the United States, because the United States has not defeated the Japanese in naval battles. He did not have his own set of experimental experience like later generations. So. According to the idea of the Americans. Japan has a lot of experience in naval warfare, and its aviation is excellent. This will inevitably lead the United States to give in to Japan.

When Japan launched the Pacific War, it was also lagging behind in terms of scientific and technological achievements. And it has always been lagging behind, the most obvious and prominent example of which is the lack of radar.

Two days before the departure to the Mariana Islands, the battleships "Ise" and "Hyuga" were equipped with radars. They were the first Japanese warships to be equipped with radars.

A few months ago, the Japanese naval authorities strongly advocated the installation of radars on four aircraft carriers, but due to the change in the situation of the war, China bombed the Japanese mainland on a large scale, and was anxious to form a formation and cooperate with the US fleet, code-sharing, and the formation of a joint command. Of course, there were other factors at that time, and they believed that American radar could help them very well.

However, relying on others is not a long-term solution.

Just like the Mariana Islands before it, Nagumo Tadaichi's task force would not have been like this if every warship had radar.

The radar is able to penetrate the fog that hinders the advance of Nagumo's troops and on the roads that approach the battlefield. More importantly, radar could detect enemy reconnaissance planes and detect their positions in a timely manner, so that Allied fighters could annihilate enemy planes before they could report their position to the enemy fleet. Radar can also give early warning of enemy aircraft coming to attack an aircraft carrier. Moreover, if the reconnaissance aircraft is equipped with radar, it will be able to detect the Chinese Pacific Fleet much earlier than visual observation.

These speculations are reminiscent of an ironic incident about the development of radar in World War II. A key component of radar is directional antennas. This antenna was first made by Dr. Hideji Yagi, a professor at a Japanese university.

In the 32nd year of the twentieth century, Yagi published his invention in the country. Soon after, he visited the United States, and several Chinese magazines published his invention.

The Japanese forces attacking Southeast Asia discovered that Yagi antennas were used for electronic equipment there, but this was only a matter of pride for them. Britain and the United States have taken advantage of this invention and developed it for their own use, while Japan itself has not done so.

It should be pointed out that the nature of the Japanese people is not suitable for mass production. People are happy to engage in handicrafts rather than assembly operations. Just as in the training of pilots, the construction of ships, many important issues concerning the war and the development of science and technology, Japan found itself backward from the very beginning, and the more time passed, the greater the gap.

True, there were exceptions, such as oxygen torpedoes, which were beyond the reach of German torpedoes. And the Japanese Type 0 and Gale fighters also did perform better than any aircraft used by the United States in the Pacific, but they were soon surpassed by new American products.

Japan's optical instruments are prestigious. There is no problem that the high quality of the night telescopes used by Japanese warships was one of the important factors that enabled Japan to succeed in night operations in the past, but night telescopes were not as good as radar after all.

The main point was that the Allies had no experience other than to achieve an easy victory over a weak enemy. At the time of waging the Pacific War. It's a little worried. In Europe, however, the Allied victories in the first few months of the war took it as a surprise as the rest of the world.

Its initial fears of war quickly vanished. As they continued to advance, the people of the country and the soldiers at the front were ecstatic, and it was not long before they ceased to pay attention to the enemy's ability to fight and resist. In this case, quite a few people developed an arrogant attitude of contempt for the enemy.

By the time of the naval battle of the Mariana Islands, the degree of this psychological arrogance had reached the point where it had permeated the thoughts and actions of the officers and men of the fighting troops. This kind of excessive conceit is aptly called "victory mania", and its poison is very widespread. It is present in personnel at all levels who plan and carry out operations in the Mariana Islands.

The previous war against the United States was smooth sailing for Japan. In particular, the Japanese Navy has invisibly increased a lot of conceit.

Those who drew up the plans for the Mariana Islands did so entirely on the basis of imagining what the enemy might do, not what the enemy might do or was capable of doing. Conducting a decisive battle of the fleet was the goal pursued by the Allies, and the way to achieve this goal was to attack the enemy's vital points. If the enemy does not come out to defend the Mariana Islands, it is also good. The Allies could use the island and several bases in the Micronesian Islands to the north as our outposts.

In this way, the Allied defensive circle can be extended. The Allies could advance along the Philippine front. Each step can serve as a support for the next move, until the enemy is finally forced to come out and fight.

However, in such a scenario. The Allies did not see that the enemy's actions might not have been what we expected. Not only is the joint fleet of Japan and the United States so blind, but a high-level spokesman for the Allied forces also declared at a joint meeting of the army and navy in the Mariana Islands operation: "In this operation, what we are most worried about is that the enemy is unwilling to engage our fleet and refuses to come out to fight." ”

This kind of arrogance, underestimation of the enemy, is no longer wrong. The enemy is not only unwilling to come out to meet the battle, but also is desperate and prepared.

The Allies wishfully believed that we could take the enemy by surprise because we were confident that our plans would not be leaked. However, this is not the case.

The dispersion of the forces of the Japan-US joint fleet is another manifestation of arrogance. The forces were dispersed because the Allies had full confidence that they could easily concentrate their forces if the enemy had been lured out and the situation so requires. However, the inability of the forces that had been dispersed after the battle to be concentrated for an effective battle fully proved the absurdity of this plan.

The Allies, especially the Japanese junior officers and soldiers, were no less victorious than the commanders, but the effects were less severe and the consequences less far-reaching, but the symptoms were obvious.

In the aftermath of a previous missile strike, when an aircraft carrier was fatally attacked, the vast majority of casualties were not caused by explosions or shrapnel, but by burns. Many of these burns could have been avoided if the crew had worn combat clothing according to the rules.

In the final analysis, the root cause of the defeat of the Allied forces, not only in the naval battle of the Mariana Islands, but in the war as a whole, was deeply embedded in the national character of the Allied forces.

In Japan, the Japanese people have a character that defies reason and is prone to impulsiveness, so they act aimlessly and often contradict themselves.

The tradition of local ideas has made it narrow-minded, stubborn, and conservative, and reluctant to adopt reforms that are necessary even if they are necessary.

Indecisiveness, so it is easy to fall into the arrogance of Yoro, which in turn makes the Japanese look down on others.

Opportunistic, lacking boldness and independence, accustomed to relying on others and flattering superiors.

Lack of rationality, often confusing aspirations with reality, and thus acting without careful planning. It is only when hasty action fails that they consider it rationally, and even if they do, they often look for excuses for failure.

In short, as a nation, Japan is not mentally mature enough to adapt to it, so they do not know when and what sacrifices to make in order to achieve their main goal.

These are the weaknesses of the Japanese nation. These weaknesses were reflected in the defeat of the naval battle, which undid all the deeds and valuable sacrifices of those who fought there.

The misfortune of the Allies was due to these weaknesses.

The United States accommodated Japan, and Japan did not say that it would dominate naval warfare, but many of the plans were put forward by Japanese staff officers, and this was the crux of the problem. If it is the U.S. Navy in the late stage of World War II, it has extremely rich experience in naval warfare and has its own independent tactical concepts.

Like the tactics formulated by the Japanese staff officers, I am afraid that Nimitz will not even ask, and it is estimated that he will be slapped in the face. (To be continued......)