Chapter 91: Good Luck in Yorktown
"Bill, are you scared?" Louis kept adjusting his stance in the air. The number of anti-aircraft guns that can hit this altitude is not very large, and according to the ten-second rule, when flying at this altitude, as long as the same speed and direction of flight are not maintained for more than ten seconds, then it is impossible to be hit.
"No, Captain, I'm not scared at all!" Louis thought that Bill would be alarmed when he heard that he was going to bomb an aircraft carrier alone, but Bill seemed to be calm: "I was in your plane, and I believe that even if we crash, we will be able to take that ship into the sea together." ”
"Very ambitious, Bill!" Louis understood, and Bill was mentally prepared to die in battle: "But we won't crash, those guys' bullets don't even want to hit us!"
Louis had already flown above the farthest aircraft carrier, began to adjust the attitude angle, and gradually aimed the fighter at the aircraft carrier below.
"Sit tight, Bill! this dive is probably more exciting than any other!"
"I see, Captain!"
It was not a casual decision that Louie would come and bomb this aircraft carrier alone.
The Japanese fleet on the opposite side had four main aircraft carriers, and these four aircraft carriers were the most threatening presence on Midway and several aircraft carriers on their side. Among them, the Akagi, Kaga, and Soryu, even without Louis's participation, would have been severely damaged by the attacks of their comrades, thus losing their combat ability.
The Akagi and Kaga were being bombed by their own comrades, and the Soryu was set fire by the 3rd Bomber Squadron that had taken off from Yorktown.
Only the Wyvern was not attacked in any way, so Louie chose this guy and tried to destroy all four aircraft carriers of the opposing side in this attack.
The dreadnought bomber began to dive at high speed, and when the angle was adjusted to enter the dive state, Louis directly opened the flaps and controlled the speed at two hundred and fifty knots.
If he could, he wanted to dive bomb without opening the flaps, so that the bomber could gain a very terrible speed, but even if he could withstand it, the fuselage of the fighter could not hold it, and in order to avoid the embarrassing event of disintegration in the air, he could only dive in the normal way.
The Force induction was fully released, and a clear three-dimensional image seemed to appear in Louie's mind, presenting all kinds of situations around the fighter, including the flight trajectory of various bullets and shells, and which bullets might hit his plane, all of which Louie understood clearly.
He didn't bother with most of the shells, and those anti-aircraft shells were more like fireworks to welcome him, welcoming him from a safe position.
There were only a handful of shells that could pose a threat to him, and Louie could avoid them by simply moving the joystick or pressing the pedal lightly in advance.
From a distance, dive bombing is almost straight to the target, in fact, from a high altitude to the sea, the aircraft carrier is just a small black dot, in the process of diving, you need to use the sight to lock on to the target, and then keep correcting the course.
At this altitude, even if you think you have taken a good aim, if you really don't adjust and go straight down, the final landing point will be quite far from your goal.
Similarly, anti-aircraft gunners on the ground have similar problems when aiming at aircraft in the air, even if you think you have already aimed at the target in the sights, and the shells have been fired only to find that they do not pose any threat to the opponent at all.
What's more, both the dive plane and the ship on the surface are moving at high speed.
As for Louie, he chose the 'safest' passage when he locked on to the target and adjusted the course, perfectly avoiding all the threatening shells, and the few that were not too threatening grazed his fuselage at most, except for some sparks, did not cause any substantial damage at all.
"Three thousand feet!" Bill in the back seat stared at the altimeter, at this time he didn't even bother to pay attention to the situation around him, even if every now and then a bullet would pass through the fuselage, bringing a spark, but he didn't feel panic or fear at all.
"Two thousand feet!"
Louis would not be afraid, for him it was a very ordinary dive, and the anti-aircraft fire of the Wyvern and the surrounding destroyers only created a slight obstacle for him, and was not a threat at all.
"Fifteen hundred feet!"
Louis jerked on the joystick, gradually adjusting the plane from dive to level flight, and dropped the bomb on the red dot that he had been aiming at for a long time.
In the process, he was even able to 'see' the stunned, incredulous and desperate eyes of the soldiers on the Wyvern, especially the commander, who stared with his mouth open and looked suspicious of his hallucinations, and Louis waved his hand at the commander after dropping the bomb, and then piloted the dreadnought away from the Wyvern that had turned into a sea of fire with a terrifying explosion.
"Captain, you did it!"
The bomb dropped by Louis smashed through the flight deck of the Wyvern, and judging by the scale of the explosion, it must have detonated the ammunition on the Wyvern, causing a large explosion, and judging from this explosion, the Wyvern would lose its combat ability even if it was unsinkable.
At this time, Dick Best, who had completed the bombing first, also noticed the explosion here, and was so surprised that he didn't care that he was not out of danger, and directly contacted Louie by radio: "You guy really did it!"
A single plane dives to bomb and severely damage an aircraft carrier, this kind of thing sounds too fake, even if it is Dick Best in history, it took two wingmen to sink the Akagi, and the sinking of the Wyvern is a formation attack of more than a dozen bombers together.
"I said it earlier!" Flipping the joystick frantically, his feet kept pedaling, and Louie's dreadnought kept performing snakeskin maneuvers at ultra-low altitudes.
After the dive bombardment, he also plunged headlong into the center of the Japanese fleet, surrounded by enemy warships, pouring fire on him frantically.
Something happened that made the Japanese army collapse, even with such a dense firepower network, the bomber swayed left and right to do all kinds of aerobatic actions, and it seemed that it would be torn to pieces by countless bullets at any time, but not a single bullet could hit this guy!
In the blink of an eye, the bomber was gone, leaving a group of sailors staring dryly.
"Captain, it looks like we're out of the danger zone. ”
After completing the bombing and pulling the plane into a level flight attitude, it is the right thing to use the high speed obtained by the dive to get out of the danger area as soon as possible, so Louis just rushed forward at a low altitude for a while, and even passed several destroyers, and greeted them warmly with a machine gun.
"Now, we can go back. ”
After Louis piloted the plane out of the Japanese fleet, he soon saw Dick, who had also just escaped the danger zone, and the entire Sixth Bomber Formation suffered heavy losses during the dive, and even fewer could rush out after completing the dive, and returned sporadically in the direction of the Enterprise, most of which were still followed by the reluctant to let them go, and chased after the master's house.
"That's McCluskey's plane, it looks like he's in trouble!" Dick had always been upset about McCluskey, but he wouldn't mix his personal feelings into the fight, and Dick rushed to the front of him.
In addition to McCluskey, there was another Dreadnought being chased by Japanese fighters, and Louis recognized it as Frank's plane, so he and Dick worked together to shoot down the enemy plane and save their comrades.
"Thanks to you for arriving in time, Dick and Louie!" McCluskey also breathed a sigh of relief, his arm had been injured in the battle just now, and now he was flying in pain, and he didn't know if he could really escape the pursuit of the Japanese fighters.
"When we get back to Pearl Harbor, you can treat us to a drink. ”
"No problem!" was already far away from the Japanese fleet, and there were no enemy planes chasing after them, although there was not much fuel left, it should be enough to support them to return to the Enterprise: "You can drink as many glasses as you want." ”
After returning to the Enterprise, the injured McCluskey landed first, and then several planes came to a steady stop on the deck without incident.
As soon as I got off the plane, I saw Deakins who had come back first. After such a battle, it was a joy to see friends when they returned, and Deakins was also happy to see the two return safely.
"How did you come back so quickly?"
"I was lucky that after the bombing, none of the Japanese wanted to keep me. ”
Louis and Dick were entangled with the Japanese fighters for a while, and they were delayed for some time.
"Do you know? Louie is so crazy that he went to bomb a Japanese aircraft carrier by himself, and he made him successful!"
Although the battle was not completely over, some of the results had been passed back one after another, the dive bomber formation dispatched by the Enterprise successfully dropped bombs on the Akagi, Kaga and the Wyvern, and the Soryu was attacked by the dive bombers of the Yorktown, which means that the four Japanese aircraft carriers were hit by bombs, but it is not clear to what extent these aircraft carriers were injured.
"Well done, boys!"
Spruance, the commander who got the news, personally ran to the deck to greet the returning pilots, and was surprised to hear that Louis actually flew a plane alone to blow up the Wyvern.
"It's a miracle. ”
When the formation carries out dive bombing, a large number of pilots will die in the process of diving, and there is no difference between an aircraft attacking an aircraft carrier and sending it to death, Louie actually succeeded?
As for the fact that Louis did not obey the order and broke away from the formation alone, it was not worth mentioning at all after such a great victory, and everyone ignored this detail. Even if someone asks, they will only get a reply: 'The pilot has the authority to make decisions based on the situation on the battlefield!'
"I've had good luck all the time. ”