Chapter 243: Bombing the U.S. Mainland

Bombing the United States, which is not difficult for the Red Guard Corps, can be bombed from Hawaii and arrive on the west coast of the United States.

But this kind of bombing, in fact, did not have much effect.

At present, the Red Police Corps does not possess high-level guided bombs, and the television-guided bombs it has require extremely high optical visibility in daytime to have the effect of guidance.

As for daytime bombing, what we have to face is a large number of air defense forces in the United States, and TV-guided bombs need bombers to be lowered to an altitude of less than 6,000 meters, and the Americans' radars and fighters will easily intercept the bombers.

Such bombing, just to send people's heads, is meaningless at all.

In order to adopt a safe high-altitude bombing and fly at an altitude that cannot be reached by US fighters, it needs to fly at least 13,000 meters or more, and at this altitude, no antiaircraft gun or fighter in the world can intercept it.

However, a huge problem is that this kind of bomb dropped at a height will be far away from the target by thousands or even thousands of meters, and the dropped bomb will not be able to accurately hit the target that needs to be attacked.

The actual bombing effect of this kind of bombing is almost zero.

However, despite this, Fan Yize did not deny Ling Liang's bombing plan for the US mainland, whether the bombing was effective or not, it was enough to make the US mainland no longer safe.

The actual strategic effect is not really to hit any important targets on the US mainland, but the only purpose is to tell the United States that your territory is within the range of our attack.

The three bomber wings, having received the order, immediately blew the horn of departure.

Three groups of bombers departed from the Hawaiian Islands, three bomber formations, a total of one hundred and eight bombers.

The three target cities bombed: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles.

These are the three important industrial areas of the western coastal cities of the United States, and are the concentration areas of aircraft manufacturing and emerging industries in the United States, and more than half of the aircraft in the United States are manufactured in Seattle and Los Angeles.

A large number of steel smelting, transportation industry, automobile industry, machinery manufacturing industry, are concentrated in this area.

As mentioned above, with the current bombing capability of the Red Alert Air Force, it is impossible to inflict fatal damage on these industries, and at most it will be a minor trouble, which will hit the morale of the United States and the morale of the people.

Three groups of bombers set off, and after more than 10 hours, in the early morning of the US Western time, the sky gradually brightened, and a piercing air defense siren sounded on the west coast of the United States.

One after another, the US Air Force fighters took off their fighters urgently, but when the US fighter group, guided by the ground radar, came to the correct airspace to intercept the target, they all helplessly found that the enemy could indeed see it, and it was right above the head of the fighter group.

However, the current fighters of the United States simply cannot reach the bombers at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters.

Several American fighters were really unwilling, and repeatedly climbed to the extreme altitude, and also fired at the sky, but in vain, they were simply unable to attack bombers that exceeded the extreme altitude.

There were two American fighter jets, and because of the loss of altitude control, the aircraft suffered a mechanical failure and crashed. Flooring.

A huge group of bombers, completely ignoring the fact that the Americans jumped up and down, and did not mean to lower the altitude.

After arriving over the target city, open the magazine directly in the high altitude and drop all the bombs it carries in one go.

Dense bombs fell towards the city on the ground, and the sound of whistling air currents made people's scalps tingle.

Although the indiscriminate flying bombs targeted the main industrial areas of the three cities, less than one-twentieth of the bombs actually landed in the industrial areas, some of the bombs landed directly on farms in the suburbs, and some bombs landed in the cities.

Most of the bombs aimed at the harbor fell on the sea and in the city far away from the bay, and the few bombs that fell in the harbor did not cause serious damage, and the only result that can be called the result was that a 10,000-ton transport ship was hit by a bombshell, which was filled with ammunition and fuel to blow up a large number of facilities at the dock, and also caused hundreds of casualties.

The indiscriminate bombs also destroyed several houses, and it was inevitable that there would be some accidental injuries, which was unavoidable.

Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco are all in chaos, and the city is full of panicked crowds, howling sirens, and fast-moving fire brigades and ambulances.

A large number of reporters rushed to the area of the explosion, and some people photographed the dense black spots returning from the end of the sky.

In the sky above the three cities, a group of American pilots looked with great resentment at the bombers returning home after dropping bombs, and some pilots took photos of the appearance of these bombers and the process of bombing and dropping bombs along the way.

At noon that day, a large number of newspapers published reports of the air raids.

Bombers from Hawaii in the Pacific bombed three major cities in the western United States, killing and injuring thousands of people and suspending several factories.

The newspaper ruthlessly pointed out that at that time, the radar on the west coast of the United States had discovered the target in advance and quickly took off fighters to intercept it, but the fighter planes could not attack the bombers at all.

A US military spokesman explained that the bombers dispatched from Hawaii and the bombers bombed by Germany to Britain and the Soviet Union are advanced strategic bombers that surpass all bombers in the world.

In this regard, the Pentagon also said that it hopes that the people will not be nervous, and in order to avoid being intercepted, this kind of bomber does not dare to drop bombs below an altitude of less than 10,000 meters, and drops bombs at an altitude above 10,000 meters, and the bombs do not know where they will float at all, and they cannot aim at ground targets.

The US Air Force and major aircraft manufacturers have stepped up cooperation to develop interceptor combat planes capable of flying to the height of intercepting enemy bombers, and will certainly not allow enemy bombers to do anything wrong on the US mainland.

When the United States officially explained that it was reassuring the people, Roosevelt also signed an order in retaliation for the Hawaiian air raid on the west coast of the United States.

The newly established US Army Air Force quickly dispatched the Super Fortress bomber, which had not even begun its test flight.

The U.S. Army Air Force's 58th Bomber Wing is stationed, and the four B-29 Super Flying Fortress bombers that the American Boeing Company has just completed production and ground testing have been delivered to the 58th Bomber Wing on their first successful flight.

The four bombers were stationed in the wing, where they inspected their equipment, loaded ammunition, and added aviation fuel, and Boeing's designers repeatedly told the flight crews of the US Air Force bombers to pay attention to various things.

In fact, the Super Flying Fortress is only in the production stage, and it will take at least a few months before it is delivered to the Air Force for service, and the test flight work will not begin until one or two decades away.

At this time, he went directly to the battlefield just to show the attitude of the United States.

The Super Flying Fortress was able to start test flight production at this time period, mainly because of the consequences of Fan Yize's instigation of the little wings.

The performance of the Air Fortress bomber in Europe has made the United States pay full attention to the development and production of strategic bombers, and the United States is about to enter the war, in order to change the situation in the European theater, the United States needs a bomber that can bomb Berlin into service.

As a result, the speed of research and development of the Super Flying Fortress has also accelerated, and although the accident rate cannot be guaranteed, it can still fly, and it can fly that far, and it can fly high enough.

Therefore, the U.S. Air Force chose this bomber, otherwise sending other bombers to Hawaii would be an act of death.

The US Air Force believes that its own fighters cannot intercept bombers at altitudes above 12,000, and the enemy cannot intercept such bombers that can fly to altitudes of 10,000 to 12,000.

The four Super Fortresses, each carrying 1.5 tons of explosives, were fully loaded with fuel, and each bomber was accompanied by Boeing technicians, and the four bombers took off from the air base on the west coast of the United States and flew towards Hawaii.

This time, the United States is determined to find out the situation in Hawaii and then drop bombs on Hawaii to return home, which will greatly boost the morale of the people at home.

For this, even on one of the bombers, brave American journalists followed.

The four US bombers flew at an altitude of 12,000 meters and had already entered the Pacific Ocean, and everyone on the plane was very nervous.

The navigator quickly calculates the bearing and speed, and the random personnel of Boeing are engrossed in watching the flight data inside the aircraft.

This is a test flight, and if these four bombers can bomb smoothly and return safely, it means that this bomber can be equipped with troops one after another.

The U.S. military has also placed an order for more than 2,000 aircraft, which is an unprecedented aviation military purchase, and Boeing is under tremendous pressure.

The bombers that have not yet been painted with the number and have not been painted with the US Air Force logo have been selected, but they are only painted with protective paint, and in the cabin, no one is not nervous.

Because no one knows how long this thing can fly safely, there are maintenance personnel ready to deal with mechanical failures that may occur at any time.

The future is bleak, and everything is unknown.

Fortunately, after four or five hours of flight, the plane has always maintained a stable flight, and at an altitude of 12,000 meters, there is no fault in the pressurized cabin, and everyone's nervousness has gradually slowed down.

"We're two hours away from Hawaii."

The voice of the supreme commander of the operation came from the pilot plane, and the heart that had just been put down hung again.

Especially the crew of the 58th Bomber Wing, which is not the first time that the 58th Bomber Wing has dealt with Hawaii.

In the past half month, a total of eighteen Flying Fortress bombers of the 58th Wing disappeared without a trace after leaving for Hawaii.

It's a lie to say that they are not nervous, that they are not afraid, but they are all military men and cannot refuse their tasks and orders.

A completely new bomber does not give them a sufficient sense of security, because no one knows what level of combat and capabilities the enemy has.

But judging by the fact that the enemy has bombers capable of flying to an altitude of 15,000 meters, it is not easy to mess with.

"George, do you think this height is really safe?" One of the gunners in the pilot asked the other gunner.

Another machine gunner, George, kept looking at the airspace outside the glass cover, and seemed to be in a bad mood, and said, "Damn, I'm not God, how do I know." ”

"This altitude is frightening, I really hope that the enemy's fighter planes can't fly up, and then let me aim easily." Among the self-defense machine guns under the belly of the machine, the machine gunner who was the first to ask questions looked at the numbing height below and said expectantly.

"Aren't you two afraid?" The only reporter accompanying the army, with his headphones on his headset, asked the two machine gunners who were chatting.

"What's the use of being afraid, it's already at this altitude, hurry up and finish the bomb, hurry home, I miss the bar." George said.

The machine gunner in the middle turret also said loudly: "I don't know what the situation is in Hawaii, my brother is still serving in the Marine Corps, I hope he is still alive." ”

"Don't talk about that, my wife and son are also in Hawaii, damn war." Someone in the headset spoke.

For such chats, no one stops them, so that at least everyone is not overly nervous because of the silence.

"I hope to be able to go to the beach in Hawaii soon to see beautiful women......" Before George, who was in the top turret, finished speaking, he saw a group of black dots appear in the sky in the distance, and hurriedly exclaimed: "Damn, I found an enemy plane, in the direction of eleven o'clock, ...... above us"

The captain and co-pilot in the cockpit also saw a large number of black spots flying in the distance for the first time, and the captain hurriedly picked up the binoculars to look at them, and exclaimed: "Damn, it's fighter jets, they fly higher than us." ”

"Immediately send a telegram to the command of the Air Forces, the enemy's fighter interception altitude, more than 12,000 kilometers."

"Damn, we're going to die." George screamed, because the group of planes in the distance was getting closer and closer, he hurriedly operated the turret and pulled the trigger on the air target flying in the distance.

The triple turret, with two 12.7mm heavy machine guns, spews tongues of fire, but is of no use at all.

The correspondent tried to send a telegram back, but the radio was busy, and he was so anxious that he shouted: "The radio is not working, that's why our bombers have been losing contact, we must return at once and report this important problem." ”

"Return immediately." The pilot also made a quick decision, but it was too late.

The group of interceptors in the distance quickly came to the bombers, dived and attacked, and the barrage flew in the sky.

"God forbid"

The reporters in the cabin prayed instinctively, but it was useless, and the four bombers faced the dozens of fighters intercepted, and they were simply sheep into a wolf pack, and the result was already doomed, and they were soon eaten to the point that there was no hair left.