"Oh my God, stop it!"

"Elevation angle 45 degrees, shoot in the air!"

Sudden ...... The U.S. troops shouted in horror and used antiaircraft artillery to desperately intercept them, and Japanese planes were constantly disintegrated by the dense rain of bullets. But the remaining Japanese carrier-based aircraft still rushed over frantically.

……

Rumble! Finally, a Japanese plane suddenly blocked layer by layer and crashed headfirst into the left side of the "Saratoga" aircraft carrier. The aircraft carrier suddenly shook violently.

Fortunately, the damage is not big! However, as soon as the US military breathed a sigh of relief, Japanese planes collided one after another. A Japanese plane happened to crash into the waterline at the stern of the "Saratoga," and sea water suddenly poured into the ship. The bow of the USS Saratoga was suddenly cocked high. The U.S. military hurriedly carried out damage management operations and opened the bow of the watertight ship, trying to maintain balance by injecting water.

However, two more planes crashed into the left waterline of the "Saratoga" one after another, and a large amount of sea water rushed all the way to the second-floor hangar, flooding the power compartment...... "Saratoga" began to slide to the bottom of the sea.

"Oh my God, what a crazy bastard!"

At the same time, the "Hornet" also suffered a heavy blow - a Type 99 bomber detonated the bombs piled up on the deck on impact. The violent explosion immediately swept the entire upper deck to Aleutian.

Not long after, the captain of the "Saratoga" announced that it had abandoned the voyage, and the aircraft carrier sank to the bottom of the sea half an hour later. Although the "Hornet" escaped by luck under the escort of destroyers, it was no longer able to take off and land fighters and completely lost its combat effectiveness.

The Japanese carrier-based planes, which had lost their targets, rammed into other US warships like crazy. Inflicted great losses on the U.S. military, but most of them were destroyers. Because destroyers have poor anti-sinking ability and weak firepower, suicide planes can often be easily obtained.

Finally, the last Japanese plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean after a fruitless ramming. The surviving U.S. soldiers all breathed a sigh of relief, sweating profusely, and were full of joy and fear for the rest of their lives.

"God forbid, is it all over?" One of the captains involuntarily drew a cross on his chest.

"Nope! The battle has just begun! Admiral Spruance, who was commanding the battleship "Washington", ordered: "All ships are immediately cleaned up and ready for battle, and in half an hour we will continue to move south until the Japanese First Air Fleet is completely destroyed!" ”

Someone immediately questioned: "Sir." But we don't have aircraft carriers anymore! ”

"Nope. We also have the Enterprise, which has completed emergency repairs and assembled some of the best carrier-based pilots from the Eighth Fleet! ”

At Admiral Spruance's insistence, the U.S. Eighth Fleet quickly launched a pursuit operation. Meanwhile. The 17th Air Force of the US Army also took off again from various airfields. Straight to the combined fleet of the Japanese army. As scheduled. They were to destroy the air defense of the Japanese ships with cluster bombs, and then the carrier-based aircraft forces would deliver the final blow.

At this time, Nagumo's fleet was fleeing in the direction of the Japanese mainland. In fact, Nanyun Zhong wanted to retreat early in the morning, but at that time, Xi Xuan's fleet had not yet broken through.

Now the main ships of Xixuan's fleet have basically been sunk or lost their combat effectiveness. And the Nagumo fleet does not have fighters capable of taking off, so there is no need to continue to stay in dangerous seas.

Thundered...... As soon as the sky to the northeast darkened, the bombers of the US Army's 17th Air Force once again flew over the Nagumo Fleet.

"Lock on to the target, drop the bomb!"

After the morning of live ammunition dropping, the skills of the US pilots have improved significantly. Under the careful adjustment of the radio controllers, fully one-tenth of the cluster bombs exploded right over the enemy ships, and another one-fifth of the cluster bombs were somewhat off, but at least some of the sub-bombs landed on the Japanese ships.

Boom, boom, boom...... The sound of explosions quickly engulfed Nagumo's fleet. At this time, the Japanese army was almost powerless to fight in the air, and could only maneuver the ships to dodge with all their might. It's a pity that land-based aircraft don't have long-range torpedo bombers, otherwise they wouldn't have had to wait for the "Enterprise" to catch up, and they would have been able to take out the Nagumo fleet now.

"Full speed ahead!"

While the 17th Air Force took turns to attack the Nagumo Fleet, the aircraft carrier "Enterprise" finally caught up. In terms of maximum speed, the "Enterprise" is not yet able to catch up with the Japanese aircraft carrier "Flying Dragon", but it is impossible for any ship to maintain the maximum speed all the time, and in terms of endurance, the "Enterprise" is far stronger than the Japanese aircraft carrier.

Of course, what was even heavier was that several Japanese tankers were blown up and sunk by the 17th Air Force, and the Japanese army did not dare to sail at full speed without fuel supplies, otherwise they would run out of fuel before they could return to Japan.

"The 1st squadron of torpedo bombers immediately took off, and the 2nd squadron prepared!" This is the torpedo bomber unit on the USS Hornet, which has now all moved to the Enterprise.

"The 2nd Squadron of Torpedo Bombers took off immediately, and the 1st Squadron of Dive Bombers was ready!"

……

Soon, all 90 planes on the "Enterprise" took to the skies for combat, and all of them were pilots with the best military qualities among the three major carrier-based aircraft units of the Eighth Fleet.

In order to achieve the strongest attack effect, the "Enterprise" did not even bring a single fighter plane in this pursuit, and the heavy responsibility of escorting the escort fell on the P38 of the army. Sixty dive bombers, thirty torpedo bombers, that's all the striking power on the "Enterprise"!

"Look, the rice beast's fleet!"

"No, it's dive bombers, and torpedo bombers!"

"Quick, prepare for air combat!"

……

The Nagumo fleet was already in a panic, but they couldn't even cope with high-altitude horizontal bombers, let alone dive bombers and torpedo bombers!

"Attention squadrons, again, priority is given to attacking Japanese aircraft carriers!"

"Roger, sir!"

"The target has been locked!"

"Attack!"

……

Under the unified dispatch of the CIC information center hovering at high altitude, US planes quickly launched an attack on the Japanese ship. In order to achieve the maximum attack effect, the US military adopted the method of concentrated attack.

Among them, the 1st Torpedo Bomber Squadron and the 1st and 2nd Dive Bomber Squadrons, a total of 45 planes, simultaneously attacked the Japanese aircraft carrier "Xianghe"; The 2nd Squadron of Torpedo Bombers and the 3rd and 4th Squadrons of Dive Bombers simultaneously attacked the Japanese aircraft carrier "Zuizuru".

Two aircraft carriers, which lost their air defense, were hit with seventeen torpedoes in an instant. More than two dozen bombshells, which were quickly sunk.

After dropping torpedoes or bombs, the bombers quickly returned home, and the rest of the planes concentrated on attacking the aircraft carriers "Akagi" and "Kaga".

The "Akagi" was hit by more than a dozen bombs, which exploded until the keel of the ship's hull was broken, and soon began to sink. Although the "Kaga" only suffered three bombs, one of them happened to fall into its huge chimney, causing the "Kaga" to quickly catch fire and explode, which was also a short life.

"Report to the chief, our army has sunk four Japanese aircraft carriers!"

"Great job. Lads. But now is not the time to rest. You must continue to attack and send all the Japanese monkeys to the bottom of the sea! ”

"Yes, sir!"

The chief of staff hurriedly reminded: "General, it's almost three o'clock in the afternoon. If we continue to attack. The carrier-based aircraft is about to return at night! ”

Admiral Spruance hesitated. Insisted: "Keep attacking!" ”

Soon, the US carrier-based aircraft were dispatched again, and under the guidance of the CIC Information Center, they quickly found the remnants of the Nagumo Fleet that were fleeing south in a hurry.

At this time, the Japanese army could not care about saving fuel or not. Or the question of whether they can return to Japan, they only know that escaping slowly is a dead end.

The CIC information center divided the US carrier-based aircraft into four teams, and the first and second teams simultaneously launched attacks on the aircraft carriers "Feilong" and "Canglong"; The third and fourth teams attacked the battleships "Haruna" and "Hiei".

Under the group of American carrier-based aircraft, the last two large aircraft carriers of the Japanese army were quickly sunk. However, the battleship was indeed more durable, and although it had been blown up to the ground, it was still "surviving". The first team that had eliminated the "Wyvern" aircraft carrier turned around and brought reinforcements, and as a result, the "Haruna" was killed, but the "Hiei" was still stubbornly adrift.

While bombing the Nagumo fleet, another group of B24 bombers also launched fierce air raids on the First Fleet (with battleships as the main axis) and the Second Fleet (with cruisers as the main axis) under the personal command of Isoroku Yamamoto.

Rumble! A submunition hit the bridge of the "Yamato" directly, and shrapnel almost hit Isoroku Yamamoto, who was in a command position.

Yamamoto Fifty-six looked at it and muttered, "Is this the new weapon of the Mi Army?" ”

The Black Island Turtle Man suddenly interjected: "Your Excellency Commander, I propose to send all the seaplanes and high-speed ships to meet the remnants of the Nagumo Fleet. ”

"Yaga, Kuroshima, you bastard!" Vice Admiral Ugaki, chief of staff of the Combined Fleet, angrily reprimanded: "Look at what bad ideas you have come up with, now the Combined Fleet has suffered such heavy losses!" Don't you know shame? ”

The Black Island Turtle Man lowered his head in shame, not daring to speak.

Yamamoto Fifty-six waved his hand and said, "Ugaki-kun, don't blame Kuroshima-kun, it's not his fault." Seaplanes and light cruiser units were ordered to immediately meet them, and only one person and one boat were to be picked up. The Empire could not afford to lose any more. ”

He bowed to the generals again, and said in a deep voice: "All the responsibility is borne by me alone, and I will go back and ask His Majesty the Emperor for my guilt." He locked himself in a reception room and refused to meet with his subordinates for three days.

It is worth mentioning that due to the timely arrival of Japanese seaplanes in the area of engagement, Admiral Spruance finally abandoned the plan to rely on battleships to attack the Nagumo fleet overnight and engulf the headquarters of the Japanese Combined Fleet. Subsequently, having lost most of its carrier-based aircraft on the night return, the Enterprise was unable to fight any longer, and Admiral Spruance ordered the return voyage.

At this point, the Battle of the Aleutians, which is known as the turning point of World War II, officially came to an end.

At the cost of sinking an aircraft carrier and a heavy damage to an aircraft carrier, the US military sank eight Japanese aircraft carriers, including all six large and medium-sized aircraft carriers, and also sank more than 20 Japanese ships, including a battleship "Haruna", two heavy cruisers, and a seaplane carrier, and won a complete victory! (To be continued......)

PS: Second watch! The naval battle is finally over, and it's so tiring to write about naval battles!