After daybreak, as the Japanese had guessed, the angry Americans sent a large number of planes to search the Pacific Ocean in a dragnet search, and then discovered the traces of the Combined Fleet in the open sea 400 kilometers from the port of San Francisco. It's just that this distance is free from the attack radius of land-based anti-ship aviation. In the end, the unwilling US Army Air Force dispatched a group of more than 30 B-17 bombers to carry out inaccurate high-altitude horizontal bombing by the retreating Combined Fleet at an altitude of 4,000 meters, but none of them hit, and two of them were shot down by the ship's anti-aircraft fire.

The raid in the early morning of 25 April slapped President Dewey, who had just finished his political show, and the other person who was slapped in the face was the US media circles.

On the morning of 25 April, when civilians across the United States got up early in the morning and habitually opened their newspaper boxes, many people were surprised to find that the messages that should have arrived on time were late this morning.

On April 24, when Fletcher's fleet returned to San Francisco, the American news media gathered here, and the flash of the camera was on non-stop for a long time. Media professionals from all over the country also contacted local reporters by telegram and obtained first-hand news materials.

On the same day, media people all over the United States wrote articles touting the Fletcher fleet, and the relevant articles were sent to printing houses everywhere for typesetting and printing into newspapers, waiting for daybreak to be sold nationwide. Who knew that while the newspaper was still being printed, the Japanese planes came to the door again to slap their faces.

The Fletcher fleet, which had just been printed in the newspapers and boasted like Nelson's reincarnation, was all sunk in its own harbor by its opponents in less than twenty-four hours after returning home.

When this slap in the face of the Americans, which was drawn from Japan and spanned the entire Pacific Ocean, it was no less resounding than when the Pacific Fleet was completely wiped out last year.

If these newspapers are not urgently recycled, there will be such a scene tomorrow morning: The civilians who received the newspapers in the morning are still cheering for the news of the "victory" they have just received, and the excitement has just risen, and then on the radio next to them, the announcer said to the whole people in a sad tone: "I have sad news for everyone, Fletcher who successfully returned home from the bombing of Tokyo yesterday was killed by the Japanese navy in his own home in the early hours of this morning.

This scene is really beautiful enough to imagine.

Most of the people in the media industry in the United States finally had to show face on this matter, and the newspapers in most cities urgently stopped the "celebration" that was about to be sent, and then urgently revised, rewritten, reprinted and reissued, and it was not until the afternoon of the same day that those who subscribed to the newspaper got their hands on the day, and the content of the front page changed from "celebrating the victorious return of the Fletcher fleet" to "a sad news for everyone."

Of course, there are also areas where there is a lack of discipline or where the newspaper office is too slow to respond, and the newspaper and the media do not have time or forget to stop the newspaper that has already been printed, such as in New Orleans, and as a result, the local residents are watching the big news on the front page of the newspaper "Celebrating the triumphant return of the Fletcher fleet" while listening to the bad news that "Fletcher's fleet is all sunk in the port of San Francisco" reported on the radio and radio on the side.

The Americans who experienced this scene at that time, without exception, picked up the newspaper to cover their faces. (To be continued......)

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