269 Pearl Harbor Chronicles of April 2

Because of the military cooperation reached between the United States and Tang on the bombing of Tokyo, the 24 pilots led by Liu Guobang have been in the United States for more than four months. Under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle, a well-known aviation expert of the US military, it has been training for two months.

For this operation, the pilots selected by the US military are all elite, but Liu Guobang, the 24 pilots, has a flight time of no less than 1,000 hours, which is no worse than the US pilots.

After two months of training, Liu Guobang and 24 others fully met the requirements of Lieutenant Colonel Du Lide. Its outstanding performance has won the respect of its American counterparts.

Before and after World War II, because airplanes were not as high-tech as later generations and did not require much special training, pilots from almost all countries flew both fighters and bombers, and the distinction was not so fine.

Due to Li Guang's inherent concept, the pilots of bombers and fighters are professionally different. As a matter of fact, Liu Guobang's 24 pilots have a considerable advantage over US pilots in mastering long-range bombers like the B25 because they have been flying transport planes for a long time.

In the minds of Americans, there is a strange idea. They believe that the Japanese and Chinese are carried or held by their mothers in their childhood, and this parenting style will destroy people's balance nerves, so in their opinion, Chinese and Japanese will not fly planes, even if they can't drive well. The Big, Qing and North Koreans used to think that foreigners' knees would not bend, and Americans have a similar concept.

Liu Guobang and his pilots opened the eyes of these American pilots. A large horizontal bomber like the B25 played more smoothly in the hands of the pilots of the Naval Resistance Army than the American pilots. Almost every pilot of the Naval Resistance Force can easily fly the B25 to make a dive bombing maneuver. The skill of the United States was so superb that it simply stunned its American counterparts. You must know that the B25 is a purebred horizontal bomber, and the pilot dares to dive at a 45-degree angle, and he really can't play without some real skills.

Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle is a star-level expert in aerobatics in the United States, and he is definitely a knowledgeable person. At the end of the training, the Maritime Resistance Army was given a very high evaluation of the flight.

Among the US military pilots, Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle has a transcendent status, not only a star but also a teacher for many pilots. As a result, the influence immediately increased, and the pilots of the Naval Resistance Force began to rise sharply in the eyes of the US military.

April 2, 1942. The USS Hornet, carrying Doolittle and other crews, set sail from San Francisco.

At this time, the B25 bomber of the Naval Resistance Army had been carrying the PC for a week and went to Hawaii early. On April 5, the PC arrived at Pearl Harbor, and eight B25 bombers began to be transferred to the Liberty Dragon.

While waiting for the PC number to arrive. Li Guang made contact with Admiral Nimitz, the new commander of the US Pacific Fleet. The treatment Li Guang received this time was obviously different from the last time, in the past few days. Li Guang and Admiral Nimitz had many conversations about the Pacific format.

Admiral Nimitz turned out to be a submarine specialist. This discovery surprised Li Guang.

Nimitz this submarine specialist. It's not just about his tactical command (Nimitz was a submariner), it's about his technical understanding of submarines. Nimitz was proficient in diesel engines, and the conversion of American submarines from gasoline engines to diesel engines is the credit of Nimitz. He has a view on the structural performance, advantages, disadvantages of diesel engines. He is familiar with the manufacturing process of diesel engines, and he is no worse than an engineer specializing in the diesel engine industry. And Nimitz also has incisive insights into the future direction of submarines.

Many generals in World War II, whether they were Japanese or British, or American, were both commanders and top scientific and technological talents. For example, Takijiro Onishi in the Japanese army. For example, Somerville in the British army, such as Nimitz in front of him.

The war of World War II is no longer the kind of battlefield that relies entirely on human lives. Technology has played an extremely important role, and it is impossible for a general to fight a high-level war without a profound grasp of new technologies and a keen sense of new technologies.

Nimitz was the kind of person who could talk to anyone, and this approachable style allowed Nimitz to reduce personnel resistance in his new position and quickly take control of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. After talking, Li Guang once again sold Haitangguo's batteries to the US military.

The cunning Nimitz smiled but did not answer, and took the initiative to ask Rear Admiral Lockwood of the US Navy to accompany Li Guang to visit the submarines of the US Pacific Fleet.

Ostensibly a business affair, the two militaries were to divide the area of submarine raids in the Pacific Ocean. During these months of fighting, the submarine force of the Maritime Resistance Army discovered a US submarine and sank two submarines of unknown nationality.

This thing is so dangerous that without unified command and coordination, there may be a real clash between the submarines of the two countries, and maybe it has already happened.

It is precisely for this reason that the talks between Li Guang and General Lockwood, who is about to take command of the US submarine force, are justified, and visiting the US submarine is not a big problem.

General Lockwood was also interested in the battery that Li Guang had said, but strangely enough, he did not show any intention of buying it.

Li Guang was a little puzzled, didn't he say that the Americans attach the most importance to casualties? Do US generals really not pay attention to the casualties of officers and soldiers? In his dealings with the two US admirals, all he got was vague semantics, which made Li Guang a little confused.

When Li Guang met Major General Halsey, who had just returned to Hong Kong, at Pearl Harbor, he finally solved this doubt.

Rear Admiral Halsey has been more beautiful lately, leading the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier to fight guerrilla attacks everywhere. In February, Halsey carried out another air strike on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, killing Maj. Gen. Yukichi Yashiro, the commander of the Japanese Army's Sixth Base Area, on the spot.

The Japanese troops in Kwajalein Atoll were unlucky enough, the Maritime Resistance Army bombed it once, and the American Army bombed it again. In the last gift-giving operation, the Naval Resistance Army killed a Japanese rear admiral, but it was on a warship. Halsey, on the other hand, was lucky enough to blow up a Japanese rear admiral on the island.

Halsey has since invented: "Kill the Japanese, kill more Japanese." This famous saying has rapidly increased its popularity among the U.S. military, and its popularity has become even higher. (Although Li Guang said it first, Li Guang did not take credit.) The two can be regarded as sympathetic to each other, and Halsey gave Li Guang a clearer way to do so.

It turned out that both Nimitz and Lockwood must have wanted to modify a better battery, but the intricate relationship between American arms dealers made it impossible for the two generals to make direct requests to their superiors. Halsey seems to be rude, but he has been in the U.S. military for forty years, and these ways are still clear. Of course, a fool will definitely not be able to climb to the position of major general.

Halsey's method was very simple, let Li Guang send people to continue to visit the US submarines, and then publicize the advantages of the Haitang battery among the lower-level officers and soldiers.

The country of the United States is very strange, if the lower-level officers and soldiers do not know, then the businessmen will be in the middle of it, and the weapons that are not advanced or even inferior will still be popular in the army. The wingmen also pretended not to see it. However, as soon as the lower-level officers and soldiers made trouble, the top-level officials and bureaucrats immediately became concerned with public opinion.

Democratic-sovereign state, it's a freak.

Hearing what you said, Li Guangmao suddenly opened his mind, and immediately found a few officers of the Naval Resistance Army who were good at English, and took the initiative to start "exchanges" with the US submariners. Note: The snorkel technique is strictly confidential.

Salesmanship is very important, or there will be special salesmanship in the future. Going the right way, the American side reacted quickly, and a month later, it placed an order with Haitang. Haitangguo's battery factory has considerate service, not only home delivery, but also take the initiative to install on behalf of the customer. The structure of the American submarine was once again plundered by the designers of the Haitang Kingdom.

In particular, it is pointed out that the Americans have a lot of money, and Haitang is not polite to the sales price of batteries in the United States, reaching 4,500 US dollars a ton. This price is one and a half times the selling price in Germany.

This sales method was immediately transplanted to the sales techniques of the British Royal Navy's submarine forces.

The sale of arms starts with the lower-level officers and soldiers of the United States, and there is no disadvantage. In the days that followed, Li Guang was deeply touched by this.

A problem that had been bothering Li Guang was completely resolved. This method is much cheaper than going down the upper route, and it takes much less time to open up a market.

Since then, the batteries of the Naval Resistance Army have gradually opened up sales, and the battery factory has been forced to reduce production since it completed the sale of batteries to Germany last year, and now it is running at full power again, and the Naval Resistance Army has begun to create huge profits.

Finding a way, many products can be implemented in this way - such as napalm. (To be continued......)