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Before the outbreak of World War II, the total population of Australia was less than 7 million, and New Zealand had a population of only 1.6 million, but the two countries had conscripted more than one-seventh of their population into the army during the war. The spontaneous resistance of the populations of both countries did not drive the enemy out of their territory, but instead led to a brutal massacre by the Japanese army. In addition, the Japanese occupation forces, which lacked labor, also forced the people in the occupied areas to engage in heavy labor such as road construction and mining, resulting in a large number of people dying of exhaustion and disease.

In recent years, more than 600,000 soldiers and more than 1.3 million civilians have died in Australia, while 200,000 or 300,000 soldiers and no less than 600,000 civilians have died in New Zealand.

Although the descendants of these former criminals finally gave in helplessly under the butcher's knife of the devil, when the Allies returned and rebuilt the governments of the two countries, the hatred that had been suppressed with great difficulty immediately erupted like a volcano, and the daily necessities brought by American cargo ships allowed the people of the two countries to survive even if they did not work. Therefore, almost all the men of the two countries who could hold weapons (basically only middle-aged and elderly people and young people remained), and even many women, enthusiastically joined the army, vowing to pay off the blood debt from the Japanese army. The U.S. government is happy to take advantage of this to reduce the casualties of American youth, so in the Australian war, the Australian and New Zealand armies began to occupy an increasingly important position, and the brave people of the two countries also shocked the world

However, although the courage of the Australian and New Zealand troops is commendable, after all, most of them are old and weak and women, and their combat effectiveness is not much stronger. In a situation where the Japanese army had a clear advantage both in strength and geography. They were never able to regain the northwestern part of Australia from the Japanese, except for sending countless heads.

Not to mention the ANZ army, even the extremely powerful US military was forced to abandon the attack on Australian land, but the US army launched an attack on the island of New Guinea at the same time. Nimitz saw it clearly. As long as you can seize the South Seas. The hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops entrenched in northwestern Australia simply could no longer hold on.

But what Nimitz did not expect was that at this time, the first batch of 150 J-2 jet high subsonic fighters purchased by the Japanese army from China had formed combat effectiveness, and Yamaguchi Tawen deployed all of them to Port Moresby on the island of New Guinea. As a result, the incoming US land-based aircraft group was dealt a devastating blow.

In this air battle, a total of 752 US planes were shot down, of which 261 were the most advanced F-80 jet fighters in the United States, while the Japanese army only lost 223 planes, of which only 36 J-2s were shot down and 17 were destroyed, and the fact that many J-2s were beaten into a sieve but still struggled to drive back to the airfield showed that the J-2 was completely different from the crispy characteristics of the Japanese planes, which surprised the US pilots. After the news was transmitted back to the United States, some smart people soon realized that these new Japanese planes should come from China, and Roosevelt could not help but be deeply shocked by the speed at which China was upgrading its weapons and equipment, and he became more and more vigilant against China, and urged the military to get the Pacific theater done as soon as possible.

Although the attack on the island of New Guinea suffered a small setback, the advantage of the large number of American troops still allowed them to make a breakthrough on another front, taking advantage of the shortcomings of the Japanese army, the American army successfully seized the Marshall Islands, Wake Island, Caroline Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands in succession, not only wiped out more than 300,000 Japanese troops successively, but also opened the road to the Philippines, and at the same time posed a threat to the Japanese mainland

The urging of Lien Zhan Lianjie and Mr. President fostered the mentality of the US military in the Pacific to rush for success, but the US Pacific Fleet was counterattacked by the Japanese Combined Fleet and land-based air forces in the waters near the Ogasawara Islands. The Japanese army had 2 Kongo-class battleships in this battle (which were used as decoys, and their own defense was much weaker than those new battleships, so they hung up.) Two Yamashiro-class heavy aircraft carriers and 16 other ships were sunk, and 177 carrier-based aircraft and 264 land-based aircraft were also lost, but they succeeded in sinking a total of 8 Essex-class aircraft carriers and more than 40 other ships of the US military, and shot down and blew up nearly 1,000 US carrier-based aircraft, which can be said to be a complete victory.

However, within a few days, three newly completed Midway-class giant aircraft carriers were incorporated into the Pacific Fleet's combat sequence, making the US Navy's carrier-based air force and the number of capital ships in the Pacific once again surpass Japan's

However, the U.S. military, which had realized the strength of Japan's defenses, gave up on the idea of directly attacking the Ogasawara Islands again (Note 1) and turned instead to attack the Philippines, a puppet state that had fallen to Japan. But unlike history, the Japanese army is equipped with a large number of assault rifles imitating China's Bayi type, and its excellent reliability is very suitable for fighting in the rainforest, plus they have been very adapted to the climate and environment of the tropical rainforest in recent years, so the performance is very good

Note 1: The Ogasawara Islands are quite far from Guam and Saipan, the two closest air bases to the U.S. military, not to mention relatively short-legged jet fighters, even the P51D piston fighters with a large combat radius are a bit difficult (enough, but too much fuel is consumed during the flight, and the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced, so it is better not to send them.) It can only rely on carrier-based aviation, which has a relatively limited number of jet aircraft and does not yet have jet aircraft, but the Japanese army can send land-based aircraft and carrier-based aircraft to fight side by side at the same time, and it is natural to achieve victory. Speaking of which, Nimitz and other senior commanders of the U.S. forces in the Pacific were also proud of their successes and pressed by the top, which made such a mistake, but they obviously won't make the same mistake again (to be continued......