When the three Soviet-German families gathered in North Dai for a secret meeting, President Wilkie, the supreme commander of the United States of America on the east coast of the Pacific Ocean, was in a state of anxiety.

"Hawaii's defenses must be strengthened immediately, preventing the Japanese invasion of the United States' most important forward base!"

In the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Army Chief of Staff Marshall spoke to President Will in a heavy tone. Only 20 days later, President Wilkie sat in front of him, and his mental state was as if he had aged ten years.

The Pacific Fleet was completely annihilated in the First World War on Guam, which put him under tremendous political pressure. The folk media and the Democrats, both bitterly and sarcastically mocked him as Theodore. President Roosevelt was a "clumsy imitator," claiming that it was he who was the second Great White Fleet westward that sent the Pacific Fleet to hell.

At this time, President Wilkie's face was depressed, his expression was gloomy, with heavy dark circles between his eyes, and his gestures were completely devoid of the high-spirited attitude he had when he negotiated with Britain and the United States in Washington a few months ago and threatened the British with guns and sticks, and some were just physically and mentally exhausted after being and exploded by a strong woman.

After the total annihilation of the Pacific Fleet, the American people were also searching all over the world for the real culprit who caused the destruction of the fleet. Admiral Kimmelli had already died in the Pacific Ocean and could not be a living scapegoat, so in order to protect himself, President Wilkey had no choice but to send the head of the U.S. Department of Naval Operations, Ernest Brown. Joseph. King pulled out the guilt and removed the man from office, and then Chester. William. Nimitz took his place.

But by Ernest alone. Joseph. In the past month and a half, the people's angry accusations have been directed at President Wilkie, and some lawmakers have even proposed impeachment of the president in Congress.

After the collapse of the Pacific Fleet, the Americans' power in Asia was in a state of total collapse. 200,000 American-Filipino troops commanded by MacArthur. They were being attacked by the Japanese army from the south and the north, and without the support of the navy, they did not even have a chance to withdraw. The annihilation of the whole army is an inevitable end.

In the past few days, Marshall has tried his best to cover up another disaster in the Philippines at home, and as always, he has fabricated a large number of lies to annihilate the enemy to stabilize the hearts and minds of the people at home, but people with a little bit of brains in the country understand. No matter how much the official blows up the land war in the Philippines, it is inevitable that all the US troops stationed in the Philippines will be doomed, and the Americans should consider the issue of defending Hawaii, the most important forward base for entering Asia.

After the Battle of Guam, in addition to launching the Philippine Campaign, the Japanese Navy also had the spare strength to send detachments to seize many key islands in the Pacific.

In the past 20 days, Guam, Wake Island, and even the famous "Midway" in history have fallen one after another in the past few days. The latest reconnaissance intelligence shows. The Japanese Navy's engineering forces were building airfields and port facilities on the newly occupied island of Midway, and it was clear that Hawaii's next target was the Japanese Navy.

Defending Hawaii is now a common concern for both the U.S. Navy and Army.

However, news came from the Philippine battlefield that the P38 fighter plane, which the US Army Air Force had hoped for before the war, was directly shot out of by the Japanese Army Air Force's Feiyan in the sky over the Philippines. As for P39 and P40, they were also abused to the point of being inhuman. News from the Philippine side, US Army pilots stationed in the Philippines. On more than one occasion, they have scolded Congress and the military payrolls, claiming that they will only provide expensive and rotten garbage -- the Army pilots have scolded the P38 Lightning fighters. (Since it is a twin-engine.) The P38 is more expensive than the P51 Mustang, F6F Wicked Woman, and F4U Pirate, and only a little cheaper than the most expensive P47)

Historically, the P38 Lightning fighter relied on HHR tactics to gain the upper hand in air combat with the Zero fighter. It is also the only fighter that the US Army Airlines and Navy Airlines can take to fight against the Zero before the F6F, F4U, P51 and other series fighters are put into service. However, the three-plate axe of the P38 fighter was known in advance by the traversers, and it met the Feiyan of German origin and targeted design. Crash directly in the air.

June 1942 was a delicate time, and in terms of aircraft, the next generation of fighter jets of the US Navy and Army Airlines had completed prototype development and were being perfected and tested. In six to seven months, the troops will be officially equipped. The new generation of fighters are all air tanks with a horsepower of more than 2,000 horsepower, rough skin and rough flesh, and excellent performance.

But now, after being swollen in the face by the Philippine campaign, the United States can only fight the Japanese with an outdated plane. As a result of the joint efforts of Britain and Germany to help Japan open the ropes, the United States has suffered greater losses in the direction of aircraft performance than in the same period in history.

Although the United States gradually strengthened its armaments before the war, expanded the strength of its army, and increased the strength of its army to 500,000 troops, it still owed too much debt over the years.

In the past, under the protection of the blue ocean, successive US administrations, congressmen, and ordinary people believed that they had an unshakable city of gold; Coupled with the long-standing isolationist ideology, the American Revolutionary Army has completely degenerated into a force no different from the police.

In the United States, although the Navy always complains that its biggest enemy is Congress, compared with the experience of the Army, which is "completely a wild seed stolen from the old king next door", the Navy can be called a "pro-son" treatment.

The U.S. Army used to have insufficient funds to conduct combat exercises in all kinds of situations, and the most basic daily training was in a state of laxity and laxity: live artillery firing was considered a pointless act, and its only use was to swallow the blood of taxpayers.

Since the outbreak of the war in Europe, the US Army's lack of training and outdated equipment have improved slightly. However, after the end of the year-long war, as peace came, it began to relax again. Although Wilkie continued Ghana's radical policy after coming to power, the long-term peace, the sense of security brought by the terrain of the two oceans, and the problem of bureaucratic procrastination, although the military budget was pulled down, before the war really broke out, the middle and lower classes were also half-hearted and so-so in peacetime training -- even the US troops from another plane, they understood the truth that "one gallon of sweat is equal to one gallen of less blood", and that was only after the war was beaten on the battlefield by Germany and Japan, and enough blood was shed. is no longer a "lazy" young master soldier. Whether it was in the Pacific Theater or in the North African Theater, the performance of American GIs when they first appeared on the battlefield could be called "scum", and even once called "our Italians" by the British.

With the Japanese Navy's successive victories in the Pacific, especially after the capture of Midway Island and the capture of a series of forward bases for attacks on Hawaii, the safety of Hawaii's defense was in front of the Americans. Although Hawaii has been operated by the U.S. military for many years and has a very tight defense, it is very dangerous to be isolated in the absence of the help of the Navy's mobile fleet.

Marshall was joined by the new Chief of Naval Operations Nimitz.

"Mr. President, I once again request that the Atlantic Fleet be transferred to the Pacific Ocean to increase the defense in the Hawaiian direction."

After the Battle of Guam, the US Navy now has only the USS Massachusetts and the USS Abarra, which have just been commissioned, in addition to the two old battleships of the treaty era, the West Virginia and the USS Utah, which were originally scheduled to be commissioned in August this year, but due to the total annihilation of the Pacific Fleet, the US Navy was forced to let the battleship enter service early. There is still a small amount of finishing work to be done on the ship, and Nimitz's opinion is that after the ship is transferred to Hawaii, the Navy will complete the follow-up finishing work at the ship repair yard in Hawaii.

In addition, there is also an early service carrier is the Essex, which was stimulated by the war in Europe and was built earlier than the same period in history, and the first ship, the Essex, was originally scheduled to be commissioned in August, and for the same reason as the battleship Abarra, the ship was also forced to enter service early.

By the time Nimitz reported to President Wilkie, the U.S. Navy had already taken delivery of the ships. The shipyard for the construction of the USS Essex was located in the Atlantic, and Nimitz envisioned that the USS Essex, along with the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, and the battleships USS Massachusetts and the USS Abarra, would form a task force and cross the Panama Canal into the Pacific Ocean and finally reach Hawaii. The whole process takes about 32 days.

President Wilkie frowned and said, "In this case, our naval forces in the Atlantic will be very empty."

The war in the Philippines was raging, and the United States under MacArthur's command was in danger of total annihilation, but his men could not come up with a decent fleet to support, so they could only watch the US troops stationed in the Philippines go to hell. Now President Wilkie has finally experienced the embarrassment and pain of the British Navy when it demolished the east wall and repaired the west wall.

Nimitz said hatefully: "The current British, they simply do not have the courage to challenge the United States of America, if they dare to cross the Atlantic and enter to attack the United States mainland, our land-based aviation will give them the greatest blow." What's more, in Europe, the Soviet Union and Germany are eyeing Britain, and the Attlee government will not be so crazy, they are only bold enough to hide behind the scenes and use some shady small means. ”

President Wilkie thought about it and finally agreed to Nimitz's proposal. In addition to this, Nimitz asked for an increase in the number of merchant ships converted into escort carriers, a proposal that was quickly granted.

After the Pacific Fleet was completely destroyed on 22 June, only seven days later, six merchant ships from the United States were pulled into the dock for "aircraft carrierization" transformation. The US Navy expects that by 10 August, the Navy will be able to obtain as many as three escort aircraft carriers. By October, the number of escort aircraft carriers acquired by the Navy will skyrocket to as many as 15. (To be continued......)

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