529 tragedy
81_81266 "......" The American general would like to look at the calendar to see if it's April 1 April Fool's Day. His subordinates even told him to sound the battle alarm and get dozens of naval warships in an entire military port ready for battle. Didn't anyone tell them what the consequences would be?
"Are you mistaken, today...... It's Sunday......" Finally, the general replied to his men with some sluggishness.
While all the U.S. Navy soldiers were enjoying the scattered sunshine of the week, the Japanese pilots were already approaching the target of the attack, and dozens of U.S. warships were parked in the harbor, including the U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier Enterprise.
"Uh......h Woo......!" However, the sleeping American sailors did not realize that the danger was coming, and they rubbed their sparse sleepy eyes, not knowing why the elves were so big for a while.
An American soldier was brushing his teeth and did not stop his movements after hearing the alarm bell, he stood on the deck and watched the planes approaching his battleship in the distance, breathing in the fresh air and feeling the cool sea breeze.
However, when he stared wide and saw a huge red sun symbol on the wing of the plane flying opposite, he didn't know what he should do next for a while.
"Day...... Japanese planes!" His mouth was full of foam, and he was so frightened that he crawled back to the cabin, and his naval comrades on the opposite side who had just woken up shouted loudly.
"What are you talking about? Mess. A soldier who was still yawning had just stepped out of his cabin and said shirtless to his panicked comrades.
"The Japanese, the Japanese are calling!" the soldier who brushed his teeth said loudly, swallowing the foam.
However, with this scream, the first bomb dropped by the Japanese had already landed on the battleship Arizona not far away. The huge explosion set off a dazzling flame, which at once woke up all the American soldiers who were still sleepwalking.
A Japanese fighter jet shot a tongue of fire from the head of the US warship, and the cannon hit the steel and burst out a spark. One by one, the American sailors running outside the hull were shot and fell, blood dripping down the hollowed-out iron staircase, eventually staining the wooden battleship deck.
Because the battle alarm was sounded in advance, the United States did not completely sit idly by this time, and some soldiers did arrive at their combat posts dozens of seconds in advance, and now they were able to fire at those heavenly targets in the first place.
As an anti-aircraft gun position on the battleship suddenly opened fire, the Japanese pilot was caught off guard and quickly adjusted his flight attitude, so the torpedo under the fuselage lost its angle, and the torpedo, which was originally aimed at the battleship, plunged through the bow of the target ship not far away and hit a destroyer not far away.
"Shao Zuo! They're returning fire! They're returning fire!" a pilot called out to his commander as he looked in horror at the flare erupting flam of the American battleship's anti-aircraft gun position not far away. He kept changing the trajectory of the plane, and finally found a battleship that did not fire, and hurriedly dropped his bomb.
Once again, a huge explosion came, and Japanese aerial bombs hit another American battleship. The command room of the battleship was hit by a bomb, and immediately a huge flame rose from it. And at this time, more than a dozen planes were forming an attack formation, diving down and began to drop bombs on the USS Enterprise.
As the battle began, the American soldiers on the ground began to run to their anti-aircraft gun positions, where there were a lot of weapons and equipment that could meet the Japanese planes, this is the main military port of the United States, and the anti-aircraft fire is naturally absolutely dense and powerful.
However, the Japanese planes apparently expected this, and most of the anti-aircraft gun positions in the US port had been marked on the map by Japanese intelligence officers, and these anti-aircraft gun positions were the main targets of the Japanese Zero fighters this time.
The Zero fighters were able to carry two 60-kilogram aerial bombs, which could be used to bomb these fixed anti-aircraft fires, so when the American air defense units that had just entered their positions were hurriedly shaking the handles to raise the barrels of the anti-aircraft guns, the Japanese Zero fighters swooped down in the sky.
It has to be said that the U.S. troops, who have been absent from the battle formation for a long time, are not very strict in their training on weekdays, they are used to dealing with all kinds of exercises, and because they are more lazy and procrastinating on weekends, when they hear the alarm, they subconsciously regard this attack as a realistic exercise, and do not immediately organize a counterattack.
By the time they had confirmed that the attack was not a show, the catastrophe had indeed occurred, and the tragedy had already been made. Most of the anti-aircraft anti-aircraft artillery positions, which were densely packed with almost invulnerable guns, were blown into ruins by the Japanese naval aviation before they could fire back, and many soldiers died in their own gun positions, and they were only one step away from firing back at the opponents who had taken their lives.
"Boom!" the battleship Arizona was hit by an aerial bomb for the second time, and the battleship was now starting to roll sideways, but not too fast. Because of the scattered anti-aircraft fire in the vicinity, the Japanese bombing was not as accurate as expected, which left a certain amount of time for many American warships to react.
However, the Japanese pilots were indeed well trained, and they began to adjust the pace of their attacks, giving priority to attacking those ships whose anti-aircraft fire had not yet been opened, so that the speed of the attack could be guaranteed, and the attack could achieve greater results within the specified time.
One U.S. warship after another exploded and caught fire, and the harbor was filled with smoke, and U.S. Navy soldiers began to jump into the sea en masse, because their warships were now slowly sinking. Japanese planes flew low over the American soldiers on the sea, using their planes' machine guns to sweep through the sea.
"The battleship Arizona is sinking! I see it sinking! Contact their captain! Let them start the damage immediately!" the destroyer captain next to him shouted loudly to his men.
However, his soldiers were in a mess at the moment, some were looking for their pets, some were in a hurry to put lifebuoys on their bodies, and many more were shooting into the sky with the qiē they could find, hoping to drive away the lingering Japanese fighter units.
The Japanese torpedoes hit the American battleship again, this time the USS Enterprise, which had already been on fire because of a bullet on the deck, and now the side side was hit again, making the situation worse for the giant ship that was being attacked in a big way. The sailors on duty above had already given up on rescuing, and they jumped into the water to escape, trying to stay away from the battleship behind them, which could no longer be saved.
"This is the Pacific Naval Fleet! Our fleet has been attacked by the Japanese! The harbor is in chaos! Request for support! Ask for support!" A loud cry for help came from a radio earpiece that had been thrown on the ground, and next to this radio earpiece lay an American officer who was bleeding from all his knots.
This is the U.S. Army Air Corps' airfield control tower, which had been smashed into a sieve by a Japanese plane a minute earlier, the officers and airfield dispatchers inside had died, and the only survivor was crying out to retrieve his arm.
The ground airfield of the United States was attacked by Japanese planes at the same time, and it had long been turned into a sea of fire. Hundreds of new American P-40 fighters neatly placed on the ground were like targets deliberately prepared for Japanese aircraft, and these fragile weapons of war were destroyed on the ground in droves and turned into piles of burning scrap metal.
The American base in Hawaii, having lost its airfield, is even more vulnerable, Japanese planes are raging in the skies, and the American fleet at this moment has nothing to do but struggle. One American battleship after another was sunk by the Japanese Navy, and some cruisers knocked over lifeboats in the process of escaping from anchor, and the blood of American soldiers stained the entire harbor red in the sea.
A few minutes later, with a loud explosion, the battleship Pennsylvania was detonated in the ammunition bay, bursting like a lit firecracker, breaking in two in a second. Just two minutes later, the battleship ran aground and sank inside Pearl Harbor.
Just ten minutes later, the USS Enterprise sank along with the USS Lexington, one after another at the bottom of the sea at their berths. Only one flagpole left on the Lexington was exposed to the sea, and the American flag on it was still fluttering in the sea breeze.
"Pearl Harbor has been attacked by Japan!" said a secretary in Washington, holding a telephone receiver and looking at his boss, President Roosevelt, waiting for him to give a series of countermeasures. The secretary had a frightened look on his face, because at this moment he could not even believe that the United States would be attacked by other countries.
At this time, Roosevelt could not see any expression, and he himself did not know whether he was excited that the United States could finally find an excuse to enter the war, or whether he should feel sorry for the American soldiers who were being attacked.
"The aircraft carrier fleet was hit hard, and the Japanese air raids have not ended until now. The USS Enterprise has just been confirmed to have sunk, and there is no concrete news on the other warships. The secretary's voice trembled and said, "The fleet in Pearl Harbor has suffered heavy losses!"
Roosevelt seemed to come to his senses, and he ordered his men: "Prepare a speech, and the United States will immediately declare war on the enemy who provokes us!" - 4521 + 37625 - >.