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Because Japan has just completed two heavy aircraft carriers and entered service not long ago, bringing the total number of Japanese aircraft carriers to 12, and the Japanese army's carrier-based aircraft have also been improved to varying degrees during this period of peace, Ozawa Jizaburo, who has now been promoted to commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, is not afraid of the US Pacific Fleet, "I'm not afraid that you will come, but I am afraid that you will not come!" ”

However, the performance of the US military's new aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft has exceeded Ozawa's expectations, and in particular, the F8F carrier-based fighters, which were finalized and put into service earlier than in history, have shown all-round superiority over the latest Zero fighters that the Japanese army has undergone three major renovations, and the US fleet's air defense capability is as strong as ever.

In the end, 4 heavy aircraft carriers, 15 destroyers and 11 other ships were sunk by the Japanese army, and many other ships were injured to varying degrees, and the number of planes shot down or blown up was as high as 522; The U.S. military lost only 1 giant aircraft carrier, 2 light cruisers, 16 destroyers, 9 other ships and 387 aircraft. Moreover, it must be noted that the number of ships wounded by the US troops in this battle was much smaller than that of the Japanese, and the injuries were generally minor

It is worth mentioning that the losses of both sides in this naval battle may have been greater, but because the US and Japanese forces have widely used the tactics of electronic jamming combined with smoke screen cover in this battle, the attack efficiency of the bomber groups on both sides has decreased significantly. The Japanese fleet, which was at a disadvantage, also relied on this method to get rid of the pursuit of the American army with difficulty.

However, the role of torpedo aircraft has been greatly enhanced as a result, and the sinking of the Midway-class giant aircraft carrier in this battle is the result of their battle. However, the reason why the Japanese were able to blow up and sink a US Midway-class giant aircraft carrier, but failed to sink even an Essex-class heavy aircraft carrier with relatively poor protection, was mainly because the Japanese pilots were more tenacious than their German counterparts, and they always stared at the larger Midway-class giant aircraft carrier to attack frantically

The greater significance of this naval battle in the North Pacific was that the Japanese Navy was unable to send a full aircraft carrier group capable of fighting for at least three months. However, the US Pacific Fleet still has five aircraft carriers that can be put into service immediately. At the same time, the time required for the repair of the damaged aircraft carrier was much shorter than that of the Japanese aircraft carrier, and there was no suspense about the ownership of the Hawaiian Islands.

But given the fortified fortress of Oahu and the fact that the airfield on Liszkosky Island had not yet been built, Nimitz did not immediately attack Pearl Harbor. Rather, it is "in the way of others." He also healed others. ”。 He led the main force of the U.S. Pacific Fleet to disrupt the sea supply lines of the Japanese land-based planes around the main island of Hawaii outside the combat radius, and at the same time took Johnston Island southwest of Oahu by the way, forming an encirclement of the Japanese army in Hawaii.

Johnston Island is small in size. But as strategically important as Midway was, the U.S. military built an airfield on the island long before Pearl Harbor, and after the U.S. military recaptured it and repaired it quickly, the tens of thousands of Japanese troops in Hawaii were completely in the urn, and even if they wanted to evacuate now, it was no longer possible

But what Nimitz didn't expect was that there was still a lot of ammunition and fuel left in the Japanese army at the beginning, which was enough to save a lot of Japanese defenders for a few months, and if the amount of training was reduced, it would not be difficult to hold on for more than a year. The reserve of rations is also quite sufficient, because Hawaii has a large per capita arable land area, and the agricultural production conditions are very good, and after the Japanese occupation began to force local farmers to switch to growing food, there is no need to worry about this at all

As a result, after a few months of dry consumption, it was the US military that could not hold its breath first, because US President Roosevelt had noticed that there was still a big country in the world that was still in the middle of things, and if World War II dragged on for a long time, the biggest beneficiary of this world war would become the Chinese, and this was obviously what he did not want to see.

In fact, Roosevelt personally did not have a bad feeling towards China, and even had a good impression, but as the president of the United States, it is natural that all decisions must be made in the national interests of the United States. Even if Roosevelt knew that he insisted on eating China's black fungus every day and avoided the bad luck of dying early due to a sudden cerebral hemorrhage in history, he would not sacrifice the interests of the United States to thank China

Supported by a large number of land-based aircraft and carrier-based aircraft, the U.S. Marines easily captured island after island, but when the U.S. forces attacked the French Friggate Reef, which was closer to Pearl Harbor, they were met with unprecedentedly stubborn resistance. The reef vein is made up of several islands and reefs, and the location is very important, and more importantly, one of the small islands has an airfield, which is not too big enough to cause a fierce rivalry

Due to the location, this battle could not be supported by land-based planes on Midway and Liszski Islands, but fortunately, the US planes departing from the Johnston Island airfield were still available, but the 100 or so land-based planes and the damaged carrier-based aviation units of the US Pacific Fleet alone were not enough to easily defeat more than 1,000 Japanese land-based planes on Oahu and the surrounding islands.

It's just that after the Japanese army in Hawaii became a lone army, it was impossible for the land-based aircraft on the islands to be replenished from now on, and if one was lost, one would be missing, while the U.S. military was able to continue to replenish from the mainland, so no matter what the outcome of this battle was, the fate of the Japanese army in Hawaii would not change in any way.

The Japanese army itself is well aware of this, but the advantage that the speed of launching planes at land airfields is much faster than that of aircraft carriers allows it to form a huge formation of 1,000 planes, and the commander of the Japanese army in Hawaii wants to deal a fatal blow to the US aircraft carrier formation, so as to break the US army's encirclement of the main island of Hawaii.

However, because of the superiority of the US early warning aircraft and the incomparably powerful air defense force, the desperate attack of the Japanese army in Hawaii did not achieve the desired results, although it successively sank three Essex-class aircraft carriers, it also almost completely exhausted the air power of the Japanese army in Hawaii, and in fact announced its own death sentence (to be continued......