Dewey said to Nimitz: "Soon, the number of naval warships in our hands will be so large that they will stand there and stand still and rely on the Japanese to fight, and they will not be able to sink all the shells and torpedoes." ”

By April 1944, the U.S. Navy had received four more Essex-class aircraft carriers, the USS Valian, the USS Hornet, the USS Franklin, and the USS Ticonderoga (note: the U.S. Navy has a tradition of using the names of sunken warships on new aircraft carriers, so some ship names overlap with the previous ones), plus the first two aircraft carriers that have been repaired, the USS Essex and USS Yorktown, the number of Essex-class aircraft carriers alone has reached as many as six.

The other model, the Hangli-class light aircraft carrier, also has four ships currently in service, and with the Sarastopha, the number of combat aircraft carriers that the US Navy can mobilize is as high as eleven in theory.

And that's just the beginning. Beginning in May 1944, the U.S. Navy received an Essex-class aircraft carrier almost every month and an Independence-class light carrier every two months.

In terms of battleships, the U.S. Navy also completed the construction of four Iowa-class battleships in April this year, and the last battleship in service, the USS Missouri, will officially join the Navy at the end of this month.

In this position, before the Battle of Guam, the US Navy originally formulated a plan to build six Iowa-class battleships, but after the Battle of Guam, faced with the threat of the 18-inch main guns of the Yamato-class battleships, the No. 5 and No. 6 ships, which had not yet laid the keel, directly canceled the construction plan and replaced them with the Montana-class. (Historically, the construction of the No. 5 and No. 6 ships actually started after August 1944, but the construction was later suspended due to the end of the war.)

Beginning in October 1943, four shipyards in the United States completed the renovation and began construction of the Montana-class battleships. This is a supership that also uses an eighteen-inch cannon, so that it can be put into service earlier. The U.S. shipbuilding industry spared no expense in drawing up a construction plan for continuous construction in three shifts 24 hours a day.

The war machine of the United States has completed the preliminary warm-up and is now running at full speed, and a large number of warships are flowing out of the slipway like an assembly line.

The reason why the Japanese openly announced the existence of Yamato Nadeshiko was originally intended to intimidate the United States. The reason why it accepted the Japanese side's demand for peace talks was that the Japanese upper echelons saw the terrifying industrial production capacity of the United States.

However, the strategic intimidation of the Japanese did not achieve the desired effect, and although it caused a crisis of faith in the United States, its upper echelons still decided to fight the war to the end -- in fact, when the US Pacific Fleet was completely wiped out on Guam, the United States had no way out.

In terms of the number of warships that have already been completed and their combat power, the combat power of the current US Navy on paper has surpassed that of the Battle of Guam. Returned to the throne of the world's first navy.

However, the United States is the first in the world, and there is still a lot of water in the heart for the time being.

Warships are a technical branch of the armed forces, and the Grand Fleet is even more of a technical armed force. The biggest problem of the U.S. Navy is that there are a lot of novices.

The naval battle of Guam and the historical attack on Zhenkang were completely incomparable to the damage to the U.S. Navy. The former is the essence of the almost total annihilation of the US Navy, causing it to have a large area of talent crotch.

The United States could rely on its terrible industrial power to rebuild a more powerful Pacific Fleet in two years. But two years was not enough time for the Americans to retrain a group of qualified fleet sailors. This is the main reason why the US Navy is still hiding in the Atlantic, desperately training, and refusing to return to the West Coast.

Rich Americans. In the past two years, he has been a desperate sailor and burned countless money.

After the Battle of Old Gold. Coupled with the Holy Impact, the current US Navy is determined to carry out the turtle flow tactics to the bottom. The capital ships are all placed on the east coast, and on the west coast, only the "worthless" and "fast-building" escort aircraft carriers are placed.

After the recapture of the Aleutian Islands, the most uncomfortable thing was not the Japanese who lost it, but the Americans who occupied it.

The original battle plan of the US Navy was only on the doorstep of Alaska. Using the attack on Aleutianjun Island as a bait, the Japanese were lured to send air forces to fight with the United States in the air, and everyone fought together to speed up the training of pilots.

However, the Japanese side was not fooled at all and ran away. After recovering this large piece of "distant" lost territory, the US Navy instead felt a sense of "pain and discomfort."

The straight-line distance from Artuk, the westernmost point of the reconquest, to San Francisco. It is close to 6,000 kilometers, and to Seattle, north of the west coast of the United States, it is also more than 5,000 kilometers. While air support is provided by land-based airfields consisting of the "Aleutian Island Chain" along the route, the route along the island chain and along the continental shelf of the Americas makes the resupply route longer.

For the U.S. Navy to maintain the security of such a long supply line with the "evil god" open map, it is too painful for the U.S. Navy.

With the production capacity of the United States today, it is not at all afraid of the sinking of those escort aircraft carriers, but the sailors on board are heartbroken. The U.S. Navy, which is now undergoing arduous training in the Atlantic, has been experiencing all kinds of accidents, and the main reason is that there are a bunch of rookies from the sailors and sailors to the officers and high-ranking officers.

But the "local tyrants" Americans can afford to burn this money, they are not afraid of burning oil, they are not afraid of parts wear, they are not afraid of accidents, and they are not even afraid of dead people.

Nimitz said with some concern: "This supply line is too long, the Japanese will abandon it all, their strategic intention is already clear, that is, to deliberately abandon these places, lengthen the supply line of our army, and then take the opportunity to attack." ”

President Dewey knew what Nimitz wanted, and he promised: "Then solve the problem by stupid means, from Umnak to Artuk, this island chain, the army aviation will send enough planes to provide air cover for the supply fleet at any time." If the Japanese really want to attack our supply lines, then let them fight, and take advantage of this opportunity to let those lads gain some actual combat experience, even if half of the ships are sunk in these battles, at least we will gain the other half of the sailors with actual combat experience! ”

Dewey always said domineeringly: "That Japanese evil god likes to use tricks, then we will use the right way to restrain her!" We have ninety aircraft carriers. In a few days, the escort aircraft carriers in your hands will increase to a hundred, so many escort aircraft carriers, we will stand still and let them fight, that evil god of Japan. Can she eat it? Even if she eats it, so what? ”

There is a complete reason why President Dewey is so domineering.

After two years of mobilization, the shipbuilding industry in the United States has entered a period of peak production.

Take, for example, the famous Freedom Wheel and the Victory Wheel in history.

Like the assembly of the Model T Ford invented by Henry Ford before the war, a large number of standardized prefabricated modules of freewheels were produced on assembly lines across the United States, and then transported by railroad flatbed from the well-developed rail network of the United States (at that time the railroad mileage in the United States exceeded the total mileage of railways in all countries in the world except the United States) to the slipways of various shipyards, where they were quickly assembled and launched into service.

On April 30, 1941, the first freewheel, Patrick. The keel of the Patrick Henry was laid at the Bethlehem-Farfield shipyard and launched on 27 September. It took 244 days to complete.

Construction sped up, and the Oregon shipyard then began construction of the freeship Star of Oregon in just 232 days. By October 1942, the Oregon shipyard's SSJoseph E. Teal was launched 10 days after the keel laying began.

And a month later, the Richmond shipyard in California built the "Robert. The first keel was laid on the SS Rite E. Peary at 12:01 p.m. on November 8, and more than 500,000 parts weighing more than 14 million pounds were assembled in 100 hours, and the ship was fully completed and launched on November 12, in 4 days, 15 hours and 29 seconds! The paint on the superstructure had not even dried when it was launched, and subsequent outfitting and sea trials took only 3 days.

The fastest record for a larger Victory ship built by Newport Shipyard was in just one day and night from laying the keel to launching. The ship with a full load displacement of more than 15,000 tons was completed in only 28 hours from scratch to launch. (This should be called the time it takes to assemble the ship, and all the parts of the ship have been built and placed on site before assembly.) The whole process itself is also a show. But even then, the speed is terrifying. )

Historically, 1943 was the peak of American wartime shipbuilding. Forty-one percent of all merchant ships built in the United States in the thirty years from 1915 to 1945 were built in 1943. The U.S. Maritime Commission's estimate of 16 million tons of merchant ships built in 1943 was 19.2 million tons in the United States.

This plane is now April 1944. Since the United States does not need to focus a lot of energy on Europe, but can concentrate the vast majority of its resources on the navy, its shipbuilding capacity at this time is only higher than that of the same period in history

After two years of general mobilization, in terms of shipbuilding. American shipyards already have the speed of building a victory ship, massively and at a rapid pace, to frantically build escort carriers.

The escort aircraft carriers currently serving in the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of the United States are designed to build Casablanca-class escort aircraft carriers based on the Liberty and Victory ships (the latter is more powerful than the former, and can reach a maximum of 25 knots).

In January 1943, the U.S. government placed an order for 50 ships to the shipbuilding industry in China, and by January 1944, all the 50 ships had been ordered, and the U.S. government added 30 ships, so that by April, 15 ships had been completed. On average, one aircraft carrier is launched every week, and this type of aircraft carrier has received the nickname "Weekly Aircraft Carrier". The average construction period of each Casablanca-class escort aircraft carrier is only three months, and the shortest of them even set a record of 76 days to complete.

This class of aircraft carriers has two lifts and one catapult, and generally carries 27 aircraft, namely 9 fighters, 9 torpedo bombers, and 9 dive bombers; Sometimes 18 torpedo bombers were also deployed, and dive bombers were canceled. (The above shipbuilding capacity is all real data in history, and the absolute author YY Hu compiles)

Regarding this war with the "evil god of the Sun Empire", the answer given by the US shipbuilding industry to the White House is:

"Even if all these 100 escort aircraft carriers are sunk by the Japanese, give me a year, and the American shipyards can pile up the same amount. And even more escort aircraft carriers came. ”

Not afraid of the dead and regardless of the shipwreck, even if they do not dispatch professional combat ships, theoretically the Americans can completely use a large number of escort aircraft carriers to drown Japan.

Less than two years after the Battle of Guam in June 1942, the U.S. Navy, backed by a huge industrial force, has risen from the ashes again.

When the American side grinds its fists, it desperately hoards ships. While desperately training sailors, preparing to sharpen their swords, and then drowning Japan with the "sea of warships" and "sea of planes" tactics of crushing eggs with boulders, on the other side of the Atlantic, another former maritime hegemon was trembling at the terrifying speed of the Americans' "storm ships."

The old maritime hegemons were the British, who had recovered six or seven points of vitality.

In order to boost the morale of the people and the spirit of war, the Americans did not hide their shipbuilding speed at all, not only did they not hide it. On the contrary, it openly and vigorously propagandized -- because of the successive defeats in the previous wars and the fact that there was a war with the "evil gods," only by using such high-profile propaganda methods can the people be given confidence that the war can be won and that they will continue to support the war.

It's just that when the United States unabashedly flexes its muscles to the whole world and shows its terrible ship-building capabilities, the British, an old naval power with the world's largest colony, are completely frightened.

April 1944. When the news of the U.S. Navy's easy reconquest of the Aleutian Islands arrived, 10 Downing Street quickly summoned high-ranking officials. Discuss the question of future attitudes towards the United States.

In 1943, the United States announced a high-profile plan for the construction of two fleets a year, and Britain still had doubts, but in April 1944, watching the warships launched by the Americans like dumplings, the equipment speed of one more combat aircraft carrier in a month. Now no one in the whole of Britain or even the whole of Europe will doubt this anymore.

The Admiralty Chancellor said worriedly: "If we don't think about doing something now, in a few years the Royal Navy will face such a behemoth with a combat power several times our size." The only drawback of the current US Navy was the lack of combat experience of the sailors, but after they defeated the Japanese Navy. In the Pacific Ocean, we are facing a terrifying prehistoric beast. ”

Prime Minister Attlee, after listening to the Admiralty Chancellor Alex, asked Altoyaria, "Isn't it okay to add your strength?" ”

Artoria replied, "My strength gives me the confidence to defeat the Royal Navy twice or even triple our opponents, but there is a limit to how much I can do to the Royal Navy. However, with the strength of the US Navy, which continues to swell as it is as it stands, neither I nor the Japanese one will be able to defeat the Americans alone. ”

Seeing that several high-ranking British officials around her looked at her with a sense of expectation, Artoria sighed inwardly.

"There is a limit to everything. In the war in Europe, the German navy was able to win a big victory, because we didn't know anything about it, and because they had two existences similar to me at that time. But even so, the Germans could only defeat the Royal Navy by taking advantage of the darkness of the night and the advantages of aviation, setting a trap for our weaknesses, and choosing to fight on a specific battlefield. If the two sides had faced each other head-to-head as soon as the war had begun, they would have been defeated. ”

Then, she added: "In 1940, after the end of the war in Europe, why did both the German and the Chinese ones still want to negotiate peace with the empire on which the sun never sets? Do you know why? ”

Artoria asked herself, "Because they're afraid, and they, like me, know their limits." Who are they afraid of? Not the British Empire, but the United States on the other side of the Atlantic, those two, they both felt the terrifying combat power of the United States. ”

Speaking of which, whether Attlee is not Alex or not, the expression on his face is not too good-looking, with a hint of remorse.

Artoria shook her head and said, "There is nothing to regret. The British Empire, unable to afford the United States, an ally that was too strong, and that war ended at that time, you were absolutely right. Otherwise, even if the United States joins the Reich as an ally at that time, so what? Even if we end the war as the victorious power, after the war, we will lose even more strength, and how will we deal with the American Navy, which is just as powerful as it is now? More importantly, don't forget one important thing. ”

Artoria looked at the prime minister, who was in a state of contemplation, and said: "War is a continuation of politics, and politics is subordinate to the economy. The Americans are now frantically building warships, and they will have to pay the price. ”

"At the current rate of American shipbuilding, by the time they begin to counterattack in 1946, the US Navy will have more than 50 combat carriers, and it is not surprising that the number of escort aircraft carriers will reach 200, and the number of auxiliary cruisers, destroyers, and frigates will probably reach as many as 1,000. How much does it cost to build such a large fleet? How much will it cost to maintain such a fleet after the war? (To be continued......)

PS: I've updated it first, and I'll proofread it later