The pirate fighter's maiden battle was not as good as expected.

Because the Thunderbolt fighter pilots who fought with them had long been prepared, once they were in an unfavorable position in the air battle and were bitten by the opponent, they would resort to the rogue means of escaping and fighting fuel consumption, or reduce the altitude and fly the plane into the air over nearby islands or their own warships to seek cover from ground anti-aircraft artillery. On the other hand, some veteran pilots of Japanese planes who are overconfident will drive their planes in the air to perform maneuvers such as rolling and shearing, while US pilots who are not familiar with the character of the "wild horse" under them in a hurry will often fall into the trap of losing control of their bodies once they make similar maneuvers in air combat.

As for the Navy's Sky Thunder fighters, because they resemble pirates, in order to prevent them from being accidentally hit by their own anti-aircraft fire, they only participated in the bombing operation on Oahu in the early stage.

At an altitude of more than 6,000 meters, the Feiyan using laminar wing wings has a great advantage over the early Corsair in terms of speed, and its comprehensive performance is actually slightly lower than that of the Corsair fighter at this time. In terms of numbers, the pirates with only forty planes have the absolute upper hand......

Before the war, the Feiyan fighter pilots, after being warned by Li Huamei in advance, also deliberately lured the pirate fighters to an altitude of 7,000 or even 8,000 meters to engage in air combat. Although this altitude is also the superior combat altitude of the Corsair fighters, at this altitude, the Pirate's friendly planes, the P40 and F4F, which are not equipped with two-stage supercharging, are only half a breath, and the performance of the aircraft is strictly reduced. Although these fighters can barely climb to this level, without the second level of supercharging, they are just the belly of the fish for the opponent to brush up the results.

When conducting air combat at this altitude, Yan zhòng lacked friendly Corsair fighters. It is necessary to face the embarrassment of being besieged by the opponent's superior aircraft due to insufficient numbers.

As for air combat below 5,000 meters, there is no two-stage supercharge, and the Thunderbolt fighter with engines optimized for air combat at medium and low altitudes is not afraid to engage in entanglement with pirates, and even the fastest Feiyan has no upper hand in this fight.

At this time, the pirate, a bunch of small problems on his body have not been solved, in the air battle. With a violent temperament, he was like a fierce horse to the pilot, extremely difficult to maneuver, always having all kinds of accidents, convulsions from time to time, and his appearance did not live up to the expected assumptions.

In the day-and-air battle, only two of the forty pirates were downed and several were damaged, but they were defeated by their opponents as many as 14. The rest of the Corsair fighters were worn out of fuel by their opponents in this unfair air battle, crashed or crashed due to runway problems during forced landing. The death can be described as extremely humiliating.

The pirate's friendly plane, because its performance is far inferior to that of the opponent, and the opponent has the advantage of home and ground anti-aircraft artillery support, the rogue tactics of running and fighting fuel consumption if they can't beat it are also heavy losses and few results.

As far as the Japanese fighter pilots are concerned, they have only one task in the sky: to protect their own airfields from the "crazy before death" strafing of these US planes that have no way back. The Japanese pilots had too many tactics to choose from, and the pilots were generally higher than the American planes, and the air combat exchange ratio between the two sides was also extremely ugly.

And on December 12, in the air battle. The Japanese side lost only more than two dozen aircraft and five pilots. The losses are minimal.

Because of the "airfield trap" encountered by the US Air Force over Wahang Island, the US military has completely given up the illusion of continuing to support Oahu in the air, and no longer dares to throw its planes and pilots into this battlefield from which there will definitely be no return.

In the air battle on the 12th, the three Japanese aircraft carriers headed by the Musashi cruising off the coast of Oahu did not take off fighter planes to join the siege of the Polish and American planes. Instead, after receiving information from the US aircraft group, he led a mobile fleet to search and pursue the location of the suspected US aircraft carrier.

The island below the battlefield of the air battle on Oahu is full of Japanese radar stations, and there are relevant air traffic controls that can guide Japanese planes in air combat. There is no need for the humanoid radar of "Yamato Nadeshiko" to intervene.

Before the war, three air carriers including the Musashi were placed here, and the original intention was to ambush the American aircraft carriers that were in transition. However, because the Pacific Theater was too large, when Halsey flew the plane that day, his fleet was more than 400 kilometers away from the position of the Japanese mobile fleet, far away from the range of the ship's spirit, and Lin Han's family did not find the trace of Halsey's fleet in time.

After the plane was released, Halsey did not stay long on the battlefield and immediately ordered the fleet to turn around and return to the west coast of the United States.

In the afternoon of the same day, a total of 20 sorties of Caiyun reconnaissance planes took off from the three aircraft carriers Musashi, Wyvern, and Soryu, and conducted an extensive search of the sea area where the US fleet was suspected of being in Zài, but due to the wrong direction of pursuit, no trace of the US fleet was found until dark.

Li Huamei, who was unwilling to lose her goal, continued to search and pursue in the northeast direction that night, and the pursuit lasted for three days, and even once moved the fleet to a distance of 500 kilometers close to the US coastline, but she never found it

Traces of Halsey's fleet.

At that time, Li Huamei thought that the American fleet would sail in the direction of San Francisco when it returned, but in fact, the destination of the Halsey fleet was Los Angeles in the south, which deviated by nearly 1,000 kilometers. Because of chasing the wrong direction, the distance between the two sides is getting farther and farther.

Li Huamei, who was unwilling to return empty-handed, and Lin Han, who was uneasy and kind, dispatched hundreds of planes from three aircraft carriers late on the night of 17 December to bomb the port of San Francisco at night.

It was the first time in history that the continental United States had been hit by an air raid.

Despite the war, U.S. cities on the West Coast did not have nighttime lights in place. Therefore, when Japanese planes bombed San Francisco, it was very easy to find the target from "a starry ground".

Although the Americans have air defense units and a large number of air defense aircraft and radar stations in San Francisco, the vigilance of the military is extremely poor due to the absence of the fleet. It was not until 10 minutes before the start of the bombing that the suspicious target was detected by the Guò radar, and then the complicated reporting procedure wasted a few more precious minutes, and the air defense alert was not raised in the port until before the Japanese bombing. By the time the bombing began, the Americans, who had been in peace for too long, had no experience in dealing with air raids at all, and actually forgot to cut off the power to the whole city and carry out emergency light control, and the whole of San Francisco was still brightly lit at that time.

The Japanese planes easily locked onto the target and dropped more than 200 bombs of various kinds on the port of San Francisco, destroying and damaging dozens of merchant ships of various types and destroying some port facilities.

For the Americans, the losses of this bombing were not broken, but the impact on the soul was extremely great.

For the past 100 years, Americans thought that they were sitting on two oceans, and their geographical advantage made their homeland safe, but this sense of security was burned to the ground on the 17th with the skyrocketing fire that broke out in the harbor.

For a time, many cities on the West Coast of the United States were full of rumors, and all kinds of rumors continued, causing countless chaos.

After the bombing on 17 July, President Wilkie, who was once again slapped in the face by the "Japanese dwarf" from the west, angrily accused the Japanese of the "barbaric action" of bombing the city in a radio address to the whole people the next day, and then made up for the fact that the United States should strengthen air defense alert on the west coast.

Because of the bombing by Japanese planes, after that day, since December 18, 1942, since Edison's invention of the electric light and the second electrical revolution, the night lights on the West Coast of the United States for nearly half a century were extinguished on this day.

Fearing continued air raids by Japanese aircraft, the entire West Coast of the United States was followed by strict nighttime light control.

In the original history, although the United States participated in World War II, the country was still peaceful, "dancing, singing, and nightclubs were crowded with traffic every day", but in this plane, with the fire of the old Golden Harbor, Americans on the West Coast were destined to spend a Christmas without lights in the dark.

After the end of the air battle on 12 December, the Japanese air force stationed in the Hawaiian Islands made frequent sorties for the next 10 days, and within 10 days, HE177 dropped 1,200 10.5-ton super bombs on Oahu -- before that, in order to ensure that the Japanese side could supply enough super bombs, not only Germany, but also the Soviet Union intervened and helped the Japanese produce the "Great Herax" bomb body, but the Soviets named this kind of aerial bomb the Great Ivan. Due to the huge consumption of ammunition, Japan's weak industrial strength could not provide such a large amount of refilled gunpowder in the short term, so it had to use foreign exchange to import gunpowder from the Soviet Union and Germany.

In order to ensure that these bombs could be delivered to Japan in a timely manner, the shells of these super bombs were built and now they were not made by water, but by rail, starting from Germany and crossing the border into the Soviet Union, and then crossing the entire Soviet Union by guò railway to Vladivostok on the coast of the Sea of Japan in the Far East, where they were loaded and shipped to the Hawaiian Islands. For this reason, the Soviet side also opened a special train for the shells of these bombs to ensure that they were transported all the way.

Stalin helped Japan so "kindly" because after the Soviet bearded man met Lin Han, a traverser, he also wanted to see how much blood could be put on the Americans in the Pacific Ocean by Japan, which had China, the Soviet Union and Germany behind the blood transfusion and contribution, and whose national strength and industrial capacity were only one-tenth of that of the United States.

Relying on the export of a large amount of military supplies to Japan, the three Sino-Soviet and German families are squeezing out Japan's small amount of money little by little.

On 24 December, with the return of the mobile fleet led by the Musashi from the west coast of the United States, the general attack of the Japanese naval and land forces on Oahu officially began on this day. (To be continued......)

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