At this moment, the US wartime Supreme Command was already in chaos, and neither President Roosevelt nor General Jeffrey Field, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, could have imagined that the Second Army, on which high hopes had been pinned on the battlefield, and the four divisions with the most combat effectiveness, had just landed on the battlefield on Hawaii Island, and they had suffered such heavy losses.

Within the Supreme Command, there has already been a motion to impeach Vice Admiral Harrison, advocating severe punishment and sending him to a military tribunal, and a milder one, also advocating his dismissal, but it is still President Roosevelt who has tried his best to protect Vice Admiral Harrison on the grounds that it is not appropriate to change generals in the battle, and Vice Admiral Harrison, who has no knowledge, will keep his current position, otherwise, he will follow the Pacific Fleet, as a defeated general, and return home to stand trial.

In the Eastern Pacific theater, the United States lost Midway, the Northern Mariana Islands, Johnston Island, and other important islands one after another, and the Japanese have already built a blockade line from the Japanese mainland to cut off the southwestern Pacific islands and connect with the United States.

President Roosevelt, who had a political vision, knew this very well, and Admiral Jeffrey Field, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and chief of staff of the US High Command during the war, who was well aware of the aggressive nature of the Japanese, knew this even more, perhaps, in a short period of time, the Japanese would be busy with the war in the southwest Pacific and would not attack the US mainland, but once the war in the southwest Pacific ended, whether the Japanese won or the Americans themselves kept Luzon.

The Japanese, who are not willing to be lonely, will definitely have their blood-red and greedy eyes fixed on the east coast of the United States, and at that time, the United States will be forced to conduct a defensive operation on its own territory.

The only way to avoid spreading the flames of war to the mainland was to keep the Hawaiian Islands, the gate of the east coast, and after receiving an urgent telegram from Lieutenant General Harrison, Admiral Jeffrey Field, in his capacity as chief of staff of the Supreme Wartime Command, issued a call-up order, and formed a new Third Army in the domestic reserve forces, but this Third Army, as a whole, was even worse than the Second Army.

The Second Army was also composed of two standing divisions and two Marine Corps divisions as the backbone, but the Third Army had nothing, saying that it was a reserve soldier, but the situation of the domestic reserve forces, Admiral Jeffrey Field, knew very well that the flames of World War I did not burn to the United States, on the contrary, the United States made a lot of war windfalls, and as a result, the American people had a weak sense of homeland defense.

The mainstream concept of the people has always been that the American continent is a paradise away from the flames of war with the protection of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and the reverence for the profession of the military is far less attractive than the envy and attraction of the wealthy businessmen with thousands of pockets.

The newly formed Third Army was obviously prepared for the Second Army, which was pulled up again on the battlefield of the Hawaiian Islands when it was exhausted with the Japanese, and it was not until this time that President Roosevelt, who qualified General Jeffer Field, realized that for the United States, how difficult it was to fight on two fronts, and the most elite troops in the country were all in the European theater.

Far water can't quench the thirst of the near and not to mention, if it is transferred to the Asia-Pacific theater, what about the European theater? What should the British do, without the American troops in the European theater, without the constant blood transfusion of the United States, under the fierce attack of the German ** team, the British may not be able to support it for even a month, and the two strategic directions of Europe and the Pacific cannot be abandoned, both of which are the fundamental interests of the United States!

Therefore, the US military is already overstretched in the use of troops, and it is too much to deal with, otherwise, it will not take out the rookie among the rookies, reserve forces, and form the Third Army, and the focus of the Eastern Pacific Theater is on the Hawaiian Islands battlefield, President Roosevelt and Admiral Jeffrey Fell have already made up their minds and filled it with human lives, as long as they can keep the Hawaiian Islands from falling into the hands of the Japanese, even if they exhaust their national strength, they will not hesitate!

At the same time as the formation of the Third Army, Admiral Jeffrey Field, in accordance with President Roosevelt's instructions and at the request of Lieutenant General Harrison, ordered the second, third, fifth, and sixth infantry divisions of the Second Army assembled in Los Angeles to urgently replace them with the newly developed "Sherman" heavy tanks, self-propelled guns of 165 mm caliber, and other heavy equipment.

At the same time, the four infantry divisions of the Second Army were ordered to be on standby day and night, and once the Pacific Fleet returned to the mainland, it could board ships and sail for the Hawaiian Island battlefield.

In the vast sea, hundreds of troop carriers, without a fleet of sufficient strength to escort them, the Japanese only need to dispatch a few hundred bombers, they can easily bury the second wave of troops of the Second Army to the battlefield, more than 60,000 soldiers, on the bottom of the boundless Pacific Ocean.

Admiral Jeffrey Fell flew from Washington to Los Angeles to personally direct the work of boarding the ship, and after three days of long-awaiting, on the evening of 30 June, the Pacific Fleet rushed to Los Angeles.

Vice Admiral Folwood hurriedly greeted him, "Your Excellency Chief of Staff, the Commander of the Pacific Fleet, Fallwood, has led the fleet to arrive, please give instructions to Your Excellency the Chief of Staff!" ”

Seeing Vice Admiral Fallwood, Admiral Jeffrey Fell was very happy and said, "The general has worked hard, for a while, let's talk about the situation on the battlefield on Hawaii Island alone," and then, turning around and ordering the staff officers around him, "According to the plan that has been made, the troops will start to board the ship, and immediately supply the fleet, and after the troops have boarded, immediately!" ”

Lieutenant General Fallwood frowned without a trace, and secretly scolded himself in his heart, "This is too anxious, after three days and three nights of turbulence on the sea, just landed, I didn't even breathe, and I rushed back like a desperate person, can the sailors stand it?" ”

Admiral Jeffrey Field, that is a well-established character, Lieutenant General Fallwood is a little cautious, and he can still hide from him, he looks very sorry and says: "General Fallwood, the front-line war is urgent, I have to work hard for you, come on, just here, talk about the situation on the battlefield on Hawaii Island!" ”

Two senior American generals, just on the dock, talked about the situation on the battlefield on Hawaii Island, on the left and right, there was an endless stream of soldiers who boarded the ship silently, Vice Admiral Fallwood finished reporting, Admiral Jeffrey Fell nodded, did not say anything more, the situation is basically the same as Lieutenant General Harrison's report, it seems that he came to Los Angeles to supervise the war, it is correct!

Vice Admiral Folwood, however, refused to let go of His Excellency the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and asked: "Your Excellency Chief of Staff, does the Supreme Command have a clear answer to my request for replenishment of the fleet's carrier-based aircraft?" ”

Admiral Jeffrey Fell laughed and said, "General Fallwood, for your request, the Supreme Command has been listed as the top priority, and when you return to the warship, you can see that there are quite a few of them, which have been hoisted on the aircraft carrier!" ”

It took more than 60,000 US soldiers a whole night to board the ships one after another, leaving the Los Angeles Military Harbor at about 7 o'clock in the morning of 1 July and heading for the vast Pacific Ocean.

Standing on the deck of the flagship "McKin", Vice Admiral Fallwood's mood seemed very melancholy, his wife and two children said that they would come to the dock to see them off, but they did not leave the dock for a night, and his wife and children were on their way to the Los Angeles military port at the moment, and they were transferred from the Atlantic theater to the Pacific theater, and they did not have time to go home once.

Counting the seven or eight months without seeing his family, imagining that his wife and two children, with tears in their eyes, standing on the empty dock, looking at the vast sea, that lonely and helpless look, Vice Admiral Fallwood let out a long sigh, but he soon had no energy to miss his family, and the tedious affairs of the fleet occupied all his time.

Lieutenant General Folwood is very satisfied with the newly replenished carrier-based aircraft, both in terms of quantity and quality, and he is proud of the strong national strength of the United States, and the fly in the ointment is that the pilots who are randomly supplemented are all novices who have not been on the battlefield, and if their judgment is good, they should be from the Air Force Reserve Force, and such pilots, when facing Japanese aircraft, can they have combat effectiveness?

In this regard, Vice Admiral Fallwood is full of worries, however, the Pacific Fleet is finally fully manned, as long as it has experienced a few air battles, after the novice has seen blood, not to mention that he will grow into a qualified carrier-based aircraft pilot, Vice Admiral Fallwood is full of hope, just take the Japanese aircraft on the Hawaiian Islands for training! Until then, it's better not to run into the Japanese naval fleet!

Two days later, the Pacific Fleet sailed into the waters with a day and a night left to sail to the Hawaiian Islands, and at the bottom of the sea, more than a dozen submarines of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet were ghostly hanging behind the Pacific Fleet.

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