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As a result, the facilities at Pearl Harbor were barely in use until the end of 1945, but they simply did not serve the enormous role that the American military expected. The complete restoration of the Hawaiian fort was not until after the end of World War II, for which the U.S. government spent more than $1 billion, although there were many elements of more advanced equipment.

In addition, the fierce fighting and the forced labor and brutal massacres of the Japanese before the Hawaii almost killed the white residents of Hawaii, and the indigenous population was almost halved, as for the Japanese residents of Hawaii, many of them joined the Japanese army and "shattered" in the battle, which was also counted in the statistics of the death toll of American civilians, coupled with the special operation that the prince had only engaged in, the number of American civilians killed and missing during World War II exceeded 500,000. Regardless, the complete liberation of the Hawaiian Islands led to a sharp rebound in US President Franklin D. Roosevelt's declining approval ratings, and the United States was able to continue to hold out in this world war, and the main purpose of the campaign was finally achieved

The main reason why Oahu is so difficult to fight is naturally because of the strong fortresses, and the reason why the US military attack on the Azov Islands in the Atlantic Theater is much smoother than the capture of Oahu is largely because the Portuguese did not build strong coastal fortresses on the Azov Islands.

Of course, the Azov Islands are isolated from the sea, and their nearest archipelago, Madeira, is 1,000 kilometers away, leaving it to rely on a limited number of aircraft to fight the enemy in battle. The inability to obtain any external air support is an equally important reason. In the final analysis, it is still because the German Navy has lost all its aircraft carriers, and the Luftwaffe has too many battlefields to take into account, a total of more than 30,000 combat aircraft is really not exhaustive, and it is not easy to ensure the number of deployments on the Western European continent and the Soviet-German battlefield, you must know that now the United States alone has more than 100,000 combat aircraft, so Germany inevitably neglects the relatively minor Azov Islands, on which only dozens of land-based aircraft are stationed in Portugal, Wait until after the attack to urgently send a plane to transfer over. It's too late

But. Even if there are only a few dozen aircraft, if the attacking fleet is not protected by fighters, it may still suffer a big loss, but at this time the fleet aircraft carriers of the US Navy have all been sent to the Pacific Ocean. Therefore, in the battle for the Azov Islands, the US military used a large number of escort aircraft carriers to partially replace the role of fleet aircraft carriers. But it was surprisingly successful.

Due to the improvement of the catapult and the enlargement of the hull of the escort aircraft carrier. Although the number of planes on each Borg-class escort aircraft carrier is only 28, the US Atlantic Fleet has dispatched 20 escort aircraft carriers at a time. The total number of carrier-based aircraft is as high as more than 500, and it is simply a knife to deal with the defenders of the Azov Islands, which have limited strength

In addition, with the advancement of technology, the protection performance of the Borg-class escort carrier, especially the anti-sinking ability, has been much strengthened compared with the earlier Casablanca-class escort carrier, and it is no longer a "paper ship" that can be sunk by one or two high-explosive bombs. Of course, if you encounter the enemy's battleships or cruisers alone, it is still difficult to avoid the tragedy of the Borg-class escort aircraft carrier with a maximum speed of only 18 knots, but the Americans are obviously not stupid enough not to send them escort ships, not to mention anything else, just the four Montana-class giant battleships that the Americans think are more powerful than the Hindenburg-class giant battleships, it is enough to ensure the safety of the escort aircraft carriers, not to mention that the US Atlantic Fleet has also brought two old and strong South Dakota-class battleships this time, In addition, as always, there were hundreds of auxiliary ships with them, and even if the remaining ships of the German High Seas Fleet poured in, it would be difficult to please them in such a disparity of strength. Moreover, it must be noted that on the premise that their own safety is fully guaranteed, the carrier-based aircraft on the Borg-class escort aircraft carrier can also exert considerable attack capabilities

What's more, even if Wegener is not afraid, the high seas fleet, which has been retracted to the mainland, will not have time to rescue at all, because it took only three days for the US military to capture all the islands of the Azov Islands and eliminate more than 7,000 Portuguese troops defending the islands, while the US army's losses were only less than 1,000 casualties, 17 planes were shot down or destroyed, and 3 destroyers were damaged to varying degrees, of which the number of dead and missing was only 179, that is, the number of permanent attrition of the Portuguese army exceeded 40 times that of the US army. Such a disparity in exchange ratio fully revealed the gap between the second-class powers and the world's first power in this battle

The frightened Portuguese hurriedly asked for help from the mustache and the neighboring Spain, but the land forces sent by Germany and Spain could not go to sea, and the land-based planes of the air force were beyond the reach of the Azov Islands, which were far from the coast, and the high seas fleet did not dare to come and send them to death, and only the German submarine force could still harass the supply lines of the US military in the Azov Islands, but under the terrible anti-submarine power attack of the US army's more targeted anti-submarine tactics and scale increased to 31 escort aircraft carriers, 102 destroyers, and 356 escort destroyers at the most. After all, it still failed to stop the Americans from building the Azov Islands into the second forward base for counterattacking the European continent after the British Isles

Before the construction of the Azov base was completed, the US Atlantic Fleet had already launched an attack on the Madeira Islands, which were closer to the mainland, which was thousands of kilometers away from the nearest Axis land airfield, and the Luftwaffe stationed in the Arab Federation could theoretically provide support to it, but the problem was that Germany's Me262 jet fighters, which relied on air supremacy, had insufficient range and a combat radius of only a few hundred kilometers, which was simply out of reach. However, the performance of the German piston fighters with a combat radius is not as good as the F51D fighters of the US Army Aviation and the F8F carrier-based fighters of the United States Army Airlines, and the coasts of Western Europe are also under the great threat of strategic bombing by the US military, and the Soviet battlefield has contained a large number of German aircraft, and the air force that can be invested in West Africa is very limited, and it is simply not comparable to the US military that seems to be endless, so it failed to keep Madeira after all

After seizing Madeira, the U.S. military could use it as a base to carry out strategic bombing of the entire territory of the Moroccan province of the Arab Federation, as well as western Algeria and southern Portugal, even if the Luftwaffe urgently sent Me262 jet fighters, which none of the Allied fighters could compete with, it was still impossible to defend against (to be continued......