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Fortunately, in 1944, a large number of U.S. capital ships were completed and put into service, so that the U.S. Navy, which had been forced to be a turtle for more than a year, finally had the confidence to take the initiative

In 1944, 10 Essex-class aircraft carriers, 2 Cypban-class light aircraft carriers, 3 Midway-class giant aircraft carriers and 4 Iowa-class battleships were completed one after another, so that the number of capital ships of the US Navy was restored to 21, and the Montana super battleship was also launched to complete the initial test, and the Navy was convinced that the four Montana-class battleships could form combat effectiveness in the first half of 1945 and would become their trump card against the German Hindenburg-class battleships.

Compared with the United States, Japan, which has the strongest navy among the Axis powers, has only 12 capital ships, and there is a large gap in the performance of its warships compared with American ships, so it is difficult to compete with the US military, not to mention the weaker German navy, and the navies of Italy and Vichy France are even less worth mentioning. However, now that the British Royal Navy is no longer in power, the US Navy has almost to fight the entire Axis camp alone, and the Panama Canal locks have not yet been repaired, so the US Navy cannot take care of both sides, so whether to deal with Germany or Japan first has become Roosevelt's biggest headache

The senior admirals of the U.S. Navy generally preferred to deal with the German High Seas Fleet first, not entirely in retaliation for more than a year of grievances. The main thing is that the commanders of the navy believe that the strength of the high seas fleet is obviously weaker than that of the Japanese combined fleet, and as long as a large number of submarine hunting fleets formed by the United States with escort aircraft carriers as the core enter the North Atlantic to carry out anti-submarine missions, the German high seas fleet will definitely rush to sweep it, and at that time it will not have the protection of a land-based aircraft group, and it will only have six old aircraft carriers (compared to the US and Japanese aircraft carriers), which is relatively easy to deal with.

At the same time, the annihilation or cripplement of the German High Seas Fleet would greatly weaken the German naval blockade of the British mainland, and the shipbuilding industry, which had been forced to suspend work for more than a year, would be able to resume operation, further enhancing the overwhelming superiority of the Allies in production capacity. And the British Royal Navy was able to return to sea to fight. It can also provide a great boost to the U.S. Navy, which was fighting alone before.

In addition, most of the capital ships of the United States were built at shipyards on the east coast, and now the Panama Canal is not passable, if it is necessary to deal with Japan in Asia first. The warships would have to make a detour to the southern tip of the Americas. The journey is tens of thousands of kilometers. It will take at least a month more, and although few of the generals and commanders of the US Navy have read "The Art of War," it is impossible not to understand the truth that "soldiers are noble and fast."

And the ships of the East Coast of the United States want to enter the Pacific Ocean. On the way, we have to pass through Argentina, which has joined the Axis powers, although Argentina's national strength is far inferior to that of the United States, but it is also a big South American country, and for more than a year, with the support of Germany, it has established a modern air force that is not weak, and there are more than 1,000 combat aircraft that can be dispatched at any time, even if the US Navy has now recovered its strength, and under the unfavorable situation of labor expeditions and supply lines will be frequently harassed by German submarines, it wants to occupy Argentina without paying much price and taking a long time. It's not an easy task.

In fact, the US government is also more inclined to take political and diplomatic means to solve the problem of Argentina, and at the same time, it has been trying its best to persuade Brazil, the number one power in South America, to join the alliance, but the situation of the previous allies was too bad, so it has not received any effect.

In addition, the bad news from the Soviet-German battlefield made Roosevelt somewhat worried that the Soviets would not be able to hold out and make peace with the Germans in private, so even if he was unable to open a second battlefield for the time being and could inflict heavy damage on the German army at sea, it could boost the confidence of the Soviet Union and other allies to continue to fight. So in the end, Roosevelt agreed to teach the Germans a lesson in the Atlantic first, and at the same time continued to urge the repair of the Panama Canal locks to speed up the progress.

Due to the lessons of the previous two attacks, the US government not only increased the total number of troops stationed in Panama to 100,000, but also built dozens of military airfields in Panama, a small country, almost frantically, and successively stationed 3,000 aircraft. If the devil wants to successfully sneak attack Panama again, it is already difficult to reach the sky

In fact, it is precisely because of the early warning aircraft and the self-confidence that the performance is superior to that of the Axis powers and can ensure that the enemy can be discovered before the enemy is discovered, that the US Navy can make up its mind to seek a decisive battle in the Atlantic, otherwise if the German planes discover the US fleet first, it will definitely be scared away directly, and how can this decisive battle be fought? And if it is encountered before the fleet is assembled, there is a danger of being broken by each of them

But the Americans don't know that after Germany corrected the wrong research direction, the speed of radar jishu progress is not inferior to them, and although Germany is indeed inferior to the United States in terms of large aircraft, the United States has changed the C-54 large transport aircraft into an early warning aircraft, and can even take off from land to provide services for the US fleet in the Atlantic, which completely makes up for the defects that the aircraft carrier cannot carry large early warning aircraft, but the Germans have very imaginatively changed the twin-type H-1 to an early warning aircraft, Although its small size does not allow it to carry too large a radar, it is a wooden structure, and the reflectivity of radar waves is relatively low, so in actual combat, it can find a large air target suspected to be a US early warning aircraft before it is discovered by the US AWACS aircraft and notify its own fleet to evade it.

And it is worth mentioning that in order to give full play to this advantage, the Germans have also optimized the shape of the airborne radar of this carrier-based early warning aircraft to further reduce the radar wave reflectivity

It is worth mentioning that the jishu of the twin-engine heavy carrier-based aircraft was not developed by the Germans themselves, but the research results of the French Navy at the beginning, and after Wegener came to power, he attached great importance to absorbing the scientific and technological achievements of the occupied territories, client states and allies, which is one of them. The accumulation of several years of leading Shijie in Europe is quite amazing, and if Germany in history can make full use of it, it will not lose so quickly (to be continued......