The anti-aircraft guns of all types on the German battleships and aircraft carriers opened fire at full power, and the American bombers who dived into the air and dropped bombs fired fiercely. A large number of continuously flying bullets formed a dazzling whip thousands of meters long, flying vertically and horizontally in the air, and the scene was spectacular. Whenever they touched it, the US fighters all rolled and fell into the sea in a metal explosion: for the aircraft of this era, the 40-mm machine gun was as sharp as a can opener within the effective firing range!

However, most of the American bombers calmly shuttled through this wanton roaring barrage, dropping heavy bombs one after another on the German warships that were maneuvering at high speed on the sea. Giant water columns like mountains rush up one after another, and the silver waves are rolling, like thousands of snow lions and white horses galloping and rushing. Looking at the surging waves that were about to rush to the bow of the ship, Scheer's teeth were already tightly clenched in one place: in the face of his own capital ships with fierce firepower and fast speed, the attack efficiency of these American bombers is definitely not low, and even if they are replaced by their own long-trained dive bombers, they may not be much better than the other side. I thought that the combat power of this remote US Navy should be weaker than that of the British Navy, but I didn't expect that I had always underestimated this distant enemy!

Before he could think about it, Scheer suddenly saw a monstrous wave burst out on the deck of the aircraft carrier "Hindenburg" in front of him, like a volcanic eruption, and countless fragments shot into the sky under the violent shock wave. Thick smoke poured out, flames were rushing, and more than a dozen fighters that had not yet had time to be included in the hangar suddenly fell into a sea of fire, and even the aluminum metal on some fighters was molten under the unprecedented high temperature!

"This is definitely an 800kg level aerial bomb! Damn the Yankees! "Seeing the tragic situation of the Hindenburg. Scheer was shocked again: the opposing bombers were not only fast. Even the bomb delivery accuracy and bomb load weight are excellent. If there is another opportunity to confront this force in the future, I will certainly attach absolute importance to it, and I will not give them any opportunity to take advantage of it in terms of reconnaissance and attack.

The scorching wind swept into the heat and the fire wave was pressing, and the soldiers on the Hindenburg who had been attacked quickly began to move, dozens of water dragons whizzing through the rubber hose and rushing towards the high temperature of the flame that seemed to distort the air. The vaporized and tranpiscent sea water condenses at high altitudes, forming large white artificial clouds. Thankfully, the Germans were relieved of the loss of the soldiers. The high-explosive bomb landed on the armored flight deck up to 180 meters long, and the 125 mm thick Wsh homogeneous steel steadily resisted the attack of the high-explosive bomb, and the hangar below it was unharmed. With nothing else to ignite on the empty armored deck, the Damage Keeper quickly suppressed the wreckless fire and extinguished the fire with apparent speed. After the mist cleared, I saw that the wide armored flight deck had only been blown out of a light white crater the size of a basin in the previous thunder explosion, and not even the tiniest hole appeared. The soldiers took the quick-setting cement and quickly filled it to the same level as it had been before the attack.

As if to mock the attacks of the Americans, shortly after the fire on the Hindenburg was extinguished. The last German Do-22 torpedo plane, which ran out of fuel, landed peacefully on deck in a rickety glide. When the US military aircraft fleet flew into the sky. The German aircraft carrier's recovery of the fighters was almost completed, and the only part of the fighters was given room to land safely under the cover of their own powerful anti-aircraft firepower. Seeing this situation, the US bomber pilots were dumbfounded: After being hit by a 1,800-pound high-explosive bomb, the aircraft carrier was restored to its original state in less than 10 minutes, and even the take-off and landing planes were not affected in the slightest!

Undeterred, the American pilots who were hit continued to launch a dive bombardment on the behemoth, which was more than 270 meters long. Huge columns of water like cliffs constantly dance through the air around it, stirring up thousands of piles of snow foam. Under the blast of the near-miss, the underwater hull of the Hindenburg was torn apart, and a large amount of seawater began to pour into the interior, but for a heavy aircraft carrier with a standard displacement of up to 35,000 tons, the underwater impact of this kind of power, which was significantly less powerful than a torpedo, obviously could not pose a lethal threat to it. The damage was quickly contained by the German soldiers who either simply closed the watertight doors of the inlet compartments or plugged and pumped the water. In the end, several near-misses only caused about 3,000 tons of water ingress to the aircraft carrier, which was not a fatal blow to the heavy aircraft carrier with its huge tonnage and extremely high freeboard.

And in the face of bombs that hit the hull directly, the Hindenburg also withstood these attacks from the air. The 125 mm armor deck, which covers the entire length of the hangar, is designed to be completely immune to high-explosive shells: when a high-explosive shell with a huge reload factor hits the area, it will not gain anything but a magnificent wave of fire like a cloud and a shallow dent in the armor plate. With guò quick-setting cement, the German damage management unit was able to undo the damage caused by the strike in ten minutes.

Bombs that hit the area outside the armored flight deck of the battleship, although they caused considerable damage to the aircraft carrier itself, there were various items around the explosion point that could keep the flames burning; However, these parts are all non-core areas such as sailor cabins, and even relatively important pipelines are extremely scarce, and they are completely outside the periphery that can be sacrificed. Since the core module was not damaged in any way, and the generators and pumps on the aircraft carrier were running in an orderly manner, the German damage management forces were able to calmly control the spread of the fire and gradually extinguish it. Even the 454kg armor-piercing bombs dropped by American aircraft were equally helpless in the face of the Hindenburg's strong horizontal defenses: the American pilots sadly found that their armor-piercing bombs were not as effective as conventional bombs, the latter could put a fire on the aircraft carrier that was always at a constant speed, while the former, due to the extremely low reload coefficient of the explosives, was tantamount to scratching his boots when he could not penetrate the armor of the core module!

After nearly an hour of fighting, the Hindenburg, which suffered a major blow, was hit by a total of nine bombs, but to the disbelief of the American pilots, the giant ship was still speeding at a speed of more than 31 knots, and the remaining anti-aircraft guns on the ship were also firing into the air incessantly. The roaring flames waned as the soldiers put it out with the effort, eventually disappearing from the blast point along with the pitch-black smoke. The other two German aircraft carriers that were attacked were almost the same, with a few bombs only destroying some minor areas around the hull, and the core was still functioning normally. After dropping the bombs, the US bombers could only return home with reluctance, and the originally noisy air gradually calmed down.

Minutes later, the last group of American bombers dropped bombs on the scarred Hindenburg. Since all the German short-range anti-aircraft fire that could be reached was firing at the few remaining fighters, the American pilots did not dare to enter the low altitude to dive, and in the end several bombs were lost. Looking at the figure of the beautiful fuselage who pulled up the nose of the plane and went away, Scheer's heart that had been hanging finally relaxed. With a strong defense, its aircraft carrier fleet survived the repeated attacks of more than 60 dive bombers, and the catastrophic sinking scene did not occur. Despite the obvious flaws in his own command in this battle, the American carrier-based air force was fortunate not to be perfect: the slow, monotonous torpedo planes were blocked by the light short-range anti-aircraft fire of their own fleet, and they could hardly launch any effective torpedo attacks, which laid the foundation for the preservation of their carriers.

Scheer ordered the fleet to close its formation. The ships that were scurrying around the sea due to battlefield maneuvers began to respond to the signal command of the flagship of the detachment and turned to return to their normal queues. Soon, the losses of the fleet were reported to Schell: 2 destroyers were sunk, 1 destroyer and 1 cruiser were heavily damaged, and together with 4 aircraft carriers that were hit at different ranges, the total casualties of the German fleet exceeded 800. Nineteen early interception fighters were shot down by the other side, and 39 fighters tethered to the deck of the aircraft carrier were destroyed in the bombing, and the latter was also the direct incentive to attract American bombers to attack the aircraft carrier. However, the pilots who landed the fighters on the aircraft carrier have long since been withdrawn, and these fighters, with a total value of nearly 10 million marks, will soon be replaced.

By comparison, the U.S. Air Force lost a total of 78 aircraft, which may seem like a huge number, but when you consider that nearly half of them were TBD torpedo aircraft, its losses in a normal attack are not so staggering. Because the crew of the plane was much smaller than that of the battleship, the American army lost only 105 people in this battle, and more than a dozen parachuted pilots were rescued by the German ships, and they will be behind bars for a long time to come. Facts have proved that even in the face of a large fleet with dense and perfect anti-aircraft firepower, the aviation that breaks through from the air still has the ability to successfully launch an attack. The real way to keep these air intruders out is still to send a large number of fighter jets to intercept them in advance.

"Your Excellency, our second wave of attack aircraft has won a decisive victory. 5 more British battleships, 4 cruisers and 9 destroyers were sunk by us during the battle, and they are now fleeing towards a layer of rain! An adjutant hurried into the command tower with a telegram in hand, and reported to Scheer with joy the results of his group's attack on the British fleet. Most of the elite of the British main fleet was unsurprisingly withered under the air raids, and now all that remains is a few remnants of the defeated army. (To be continued......)

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