At this time, the US troops and local residents on the island of Hawaii were spending Christmas Eve, and the US soldiers who were left on duty at this time were naturally unhappy, and the time was already in the second half of the night, and they inevitably began to be sleepy, and only one young radar soldier noticed the abnormality on the screen and judged that it was about 20 kilometers (this radar station was in a high position, which weakened the effect of the ultra-low altitude penetration of the Japanese aircraft group to a certain extent. A large number of targets were rapidly approaching here, and they immediately exclaimed, "Enemy planes! A lot of enemy planes! ”

Who knew that when he reported this discovery, he was ridiculed and scolded by the officer on duty, "Hundreds of enemy planes? Are we here? Is this possible? You don't think about it with your brain? There must be something wrong with that radar, what a fool! ”

"Well, what then? I won't fix it. The radar soldier had not been in the army for a long time, and he was scolded by the officer like this, but he didn't dare to die after all.

"What a piece of rubbish, I'm going to find someone to go to you, forget it, wait for a while, anyway, you don't have radar on the island alone. Damn, it's a holiday today, and those guys don't know where to be happy. The officer muttered as he stopped the call.

The young radar soldier was bullied by the veterans very badly as soon as he joined the army, so naturally he didn't have the courage to question the opinion of his boss, but he was still a little uneasy in his heart, and after pacing a few steps outside, he thought about it and returned to the radar screen, but found that the target was much closer than when he first found it. Although this radar soldier still needs to be improved, he already knows the basic knowledge of radar, and his heart is tight. "No, if it is a radar failure, even if the signals of these targets change, it will not be so regular, it will not be wrong, there must be a large group of planes approaching Pearl Harbor at a rapid pace, since the commander only guessed that it was a radar failure, but did not say that we have planes coming, these planes must not be ours, enemy planes! It can only be enemy aircraft! ”

The more he thought about it, the more worried he became, his eyes glued to the radar screen. I dialed the phone again. But he didn't expect to provoke the officer, "You bastard, is there any end?" Then he hung up the phone

The radar soldiers were finally still afraid of the wolf-like commanders. I didn't dare to call again for a while. After hesitating for a while, I finally mustered up the courage. I was about to pick up the microphone again, but I had already faintly heard a "buzzing" sound in my ears, and my face suddenly turned pale. I knew that even if the commander answered the phone now, it would be too late to prepare the base to meet the enemy

As the "buzzing" sound became louder and louder, there was no need to wait for the radar soldier to give a warning, and more and more US officers and soldiers began to realize the danger coming, but by this time it was already too late. Although it was not yet dawn, the accuracy of the airborne radar at close range was relatively reliable, and the lights everywhere on Christmas Eve were enough for the Japanese pilots to identify the warships and main buildings in the harbor with the naked eye (the outlines were outlined by the lights) and choose the targets they wanted to attack

The "Hornet," which had just entered service, was first hit by an 800-kilogram heavy high-explosive bomb, which immediately blew up a number of carrier-based planes parked on the flight deck, and the eldest section of the flight deck was blown up beyond recognition, and in less than 10 seconds, three 250-kilogram high-explosive bombs hit the "Hornet" aircraft carrier one after another, causing the fire on the ship to completely lose control.

The fire quickly spread across the deck of the giant ship, sending fuel tanks and mounted ammunition for one carrier-based aircraft (only part of the aircraft, otherwise the aircraft carrier sank faster. If it weren't for the excellent sinking resistance of the Yorktown-class aircraft carrier, this huge ship with a full load displacement of no less than 25,000 tons would have sunk quickly. However, even so, due to the serious shortage of personnel on board at the time of the attack and the lack of timely damage management, the aircraft carrier finally submerged in the sea after holding out on the surface of the sea for half an hour, and the "Hornet" aircraft carrier had completely lost its combat effectiveness as early as the first bomb (Note 1)

The sister ship of the "Hornet", the "Enterprise", escaped the Pearl Harbor incident in history, because it was on a mission to transport planes to Wake Island and was delayed by bad weather on the way back, but this time and space is no longer so lucky, three 800-kilogram high-explosive bombs caused it to suffer unprecedented heavy damage, and the time of complete sinking was earlier than that of the sister "Hornet".

The two heavy aircraft carriers were so unbombed, and the USS Wasp, which had a full load displacement of less than 20,000 tons, could not withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of Japanese aircraft, and a 1.8-ton super-heavy high-explosive bomb accurately hit the middle of the deck, directly blowing it into two and sinking to the bottom of the sea

Even if the first attack wave of the Japanese army terminated the mission and returned to sail, the substantial results they achieved had surpassed the historical "Pearl Harbor Incident", but Yamaguchi Tashi was not the historical "take it when you see it" Nagumo Tadaichi (this guy also came, but returned to his position as the commander of the lightning strike fleet that he was best at, and his job in the attack on Pearl Harbor was to lead the way), although he was overjoyed after receiving the good news codenamed "Tiger Tiger Tiger", he immediately asked his subordinates to make persistent efforts and continue to expand the results. At the same time, he ordered the second wave of attacks to begin, and he wanted to seize the opportunity to beat the water dogs and wipe out the main forces of the Pacific Fleet as much as possible in their lair

Note 1: As long as the flight deck of an aircraft carrier is damaged and the carrier-based aircraft cannot take off and land normally, it will no longer have any attack capability. The ship's anti-aircraft guns were also unlikely to survive the spread of fire, because anti-aircraft guns could not be protected by super-defensive main turret armor like large-caliber naval guns. Therefore, since the middle and late stages of World War II, although the survivability of heavy aircraft carriers has been greatly improved compared with before, unless it is attacked from underwater with torpedoes, otherwise, it is not easy to sink them, but if you just want to make them lose their combat capability, it is very easy, even if it is the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier of later generations, although dozens of anti-ship ballistics cannot sink (except for BT like Maozi's "Granite"), but basically as long as it takes a shot, it has to suspend the mission and go back to repair (to be continued......