Chapter 160: Air Strike! Burning Pearl Harbor! (5)
Situ Qi quickly glanced around, but fortunately, there was still a bomb-carrying ship's attack squadron in the northwest of the harbor that had not entered the bombing route, and was slowly turning around - and then fired three red signal flares in succession, ordering the planes that had not yet launched an attack to move closer to the command plane.
"Xiao Deng, lean over and fly side by side with the squadron leader over there."
Xiao Deng's skills are really good, and he dragged the plane to the position in three clicks and two clicks.
At this time, the torpedo planes of the second attack wave had finished dropping mines and returned to the north in their whole formations, while most of the horizontal bombers had just entered the bombing route one after another, preparing to launch an attack on the battleships moored in the inner side of the queue and several armored cruisers docked at the dock, and the 171st Ship Attack Squadron, which was summoned by the command plane, was originally scheduled to bomb the dock.
At the distance between the wings, Situ Qi gestured to the squadron leader of the 171st Squadron, the pock-faced man with a northeast accent, but feared that the other party could not see clearly, and then used a hand-held signal light to call Morse code.
It wasn't until the pock-faced man's big hand made the "OK" gesture that Situ Qi patted Xiao Deng's shoulder with confidence: "Do you see the boat full of people on the edge of the dock?" Fly over and get as close as possible. ”
In a short time, the six bomb-laden "Owls" of the 171st Ship Attack Squadron followed Situ Qi's command plane, turned their heads slightly, and pounced on the pier along the east shore of the harbor......
Sergeant Major Lipton on the docks was now grasping his giant non-human hand on the small grip of a twin Maxim anti-aircraft machine gun, his shoulders pressed against the curved shoulder rest, his sailor's hat tossed aside, and the fury of a beast in his mouth - "Bitch, come on!" See how Lipton in Rhode Island kills! ”
Across the cargo ship, there was a dense explosion at the end of the main mooring, the smoke dispersed in the wind, obscuring the sky and the sun, the sailors who were busy unloading on the dock did not seem to care about the sudden darkening of the sky, their mouths cursed, their bull-like eyes were full of hatred, if they were given a pair of wings, maybe they would rush to fly into the sky, even if they fought with their teeth against enemy planes - how could they bite off the plane with their mouths? At this time, if any guy who doesn't know what to do asks them like this, they will be beaten into meat balls......
"It's coming! There are planes coming from the stern direction! Boys, let's do it together! ”
Lipton roared in a frenzy, and pulled the trigger on the oncoming leader enemy plane, and the muzzle of the gun suddenly spewed out thick oil smoke - the damn butter hasn't been wiped clean yet!
The anti-aircraft guns behind Lipton roared in anger, but the shells exploded a few hundred yards behind the enemy planes, and it was clear that the improvised gunners had little understanding of the weapons in their hands.
The enemy plane that led the group flew high over the "Ducton" cargo ship, did not drop bombs or strafe them, but fired two red flares at the "Ducton."
"Bitch-raised...... What do you mean? Lipton was still wondering, and when he looked up, he saw that six enemy planes with black bumps under their bellies had arrived neatly, and in the next moment, those black bumps had fallen like pebbles shoveling into the sky......
Six 250-kilogram and 24 50-kilogram bombs swept over an area of one or two hundred yards centered on the "Ducton," and against the background of the large and small water columns raised by the near-miss bombs that fell into the sea, the "Ducton" first burst into a fire on the deck, and soon trembled violently, and in an instant the entire hull turned into a huge fireball that swelled violently, and the fireball rushed up to the dock and engulfed the sailors who were still busy there just now, and large and small fragments were fired indiscriminately at the speed of bullets, and immediately the "San Diego" moored in front of it The stern of the ship was made into a honeycomb.
The fruits of Vice Admiral Schroeder's hard work were magnificently reduced to nothing in a matter of seconds, and the plume of smoke after the explosion soared into the sky—far more so than the scene after the battleship was shot on Ford Island and the airship hangar at Hickam Airport was blown up, and from time to time flickered under the column of festive fireworks, which were surrounded by flames of ammunition detonating one after another.
The second wave of attacks also lasted for nearly half an hour, and due to the awakening of US anti-aircraft fire, the Chinese carrier-based planes suffered certain losses, and because the main attack mode of the second attack wave was medium- and low-altitude horizontal bombing, the results were also very limited.
The "Arkansas", "Utah", "North Dakota", and the "Oklahoma", which were not damaged much in the previous wave of attacks, and the "Oklahoma", which was slowly sinking vertically, were attacked by all 24 torpedo planes in the second attack wave, and the "Utah" hit five torpedoes in a row (three had been eaten earlier), and the entire port side was almost completely shattered, and within a few minutes it tilted and sank to the bottom, and Vice Admiral Emlee, the commander of the second battleship detachment on the ship, was thrown down by a violent shock and broke his ankle.
After eating a total of nine torpedoes, the "Arkansas" was finally overwhelmed, and the port deck quickly sank underwater, completely losing the possibility of resurrection.
The "North Dakota" was lucky to eat only two torpedoes this time, and due to the damage management, no more serious tilt occurred, but because of the water ingress of the boiler compartment, it was impossible to move again for a short time after the damage to the steering gear and propeller.
The "Oklahoma" had taken four more torpedoes, following the previous six torpedoes, and since the starboard water filling valve had been fully opened, the hull did not tilt significantly to the port side, but the speed of vertical sinking was greatly accelerated—apparently hopeless.
The "Pennsylvania," the flagship of the fleet, was located on the inside of the "Arizona," which had already capsized, and was bombed by the Chinese army's horizontal bombers in this round of attacks, and was hit by at least five bombshells and more than a dozen small bombs......
The "Nevada", which was located before the "Pennsylvania", also suffered a lot of bombs, and it is difficult to say that several of them were really aimed at the "Nevada", but it was not a humiliating thing for the friendly ship to be bombed after all, and the "Nevada" did not suffer much damage because of this, and the fire caused by the bomb was quickly extinguished by the high-spirited sailors, and black smoke also spewed out of the battleship's chimney - but the eager captain soon found that because the sinking "Oklahoma" was close to it, the "Nevada" The horn couldn't move!
The battleship "Delaware," which was closest to the entrance to the harbor, was also bombed by as many as 20 planes, and four heavy bombs and more than 10 small bombs fell on the upper deck and in the middle of the superstructure, causing a large fire for a time......
At 09:50 local time in Hawaii, 90 nautical miles north of Oahu, the plane of Colonel Cai Yong, commander of the first attack wave, landed steadily on the flight deck of the "Dapeng".