In the summer of 1942, the 6 th Army of the Sea was dispatched to attack the Aleutian Islands, but their intentions were strikingly similar in history. That was to induce the US Navy to divide its troops. The North Americans were still improper, and the US military commanders stationed in the Aleutian Islands also made early response. The few residents were evacuated to the security area and the ships and warships were dispersed. The Japanese army did not take advantage of the attack and did not invest enough to occupy the entire archipelago. Finally, it captured one person, Artu. Chisca and other four islands have also built a field airport and a small military port on the largest island of Skika. At first, a squadron fighter plane and two submarines were assigned to carry out harassing attacks on the islands and ports controlled by the US military from time to time. However, due to the harsh local climatic conditions far from the soil base, the equipment was damaged by freezing in the cold and was damaged by two attacks by the US military. Now it is in a semi-abandoned state, and the Japanese troops with hundreds of people are hiding in their cold shelters on weekdays. The so-called combat reconnaissance has not been exposed to combat in most cases since the arrival of German volunteer pilots!
"Come on, I go! When it is a thermal motivation! " Conveniently, the first officer loosened his scarf, and the partner, the second officer, had no objection. Seeing this situation, the officer hurriedly said
"Then I will report the names of Lieutenant Barkerwei and Lieutenant Schmid!"
The first officer tilted his head and replied politely, "OK, we’ll be out on time!"
The * * officer was relieved and hurriedly went back to the house.
"From the whole rigorous training last year, it seems that the military high-level officials have long anticipated that we will fight in this harsh environment. Anyway, we are fighting in Germany, not the United States!" The first officer has some big brother demeanor. He patted his partner on the shoulder. "Let’s go. Check a plane before Maxi. I can trust those clumsy American ground crews!"
As if to ease the atmosphere, the second officer let go, "They are still dedicated, but sometimes their nerves are too relaxed!" See you guys later! "
The other two officers took out their hands from their pockets and posed, and some of them were tired and lazy.
Not long after, American soldiers launched two silver-gray planes from the hangar. Although the color of this "silver gray" is close to that of the "German gray" in Europe, it still looks quite different. The designated position of the wing is printed with a blue background and a white five-star American military logo.
After the last routine inspection, the two pilots finally climbed into the cockpit and pulled the canopy. For them, everything here ―― the environment, climate and customs are unfamiliar, but the landline is still an "old buddy". The lines are thick, the nose is tilted, the back is tilted and the tail is tapering. Together, they are nicknamed "Kuzu" Woolf.
Chapter 139 Not alarmist
Chapter 139 Not alarmist
The news that the Japanese air force Saipan exploded again in Aleutian Islands was delivered to the US War Staff as soon as possible, and it also reached the German General Staff on the other side of the globe in a short time. The topic of Kuzu war confrontation during the regular military meeting naturally became the hot topic of the generals. The first two fighters have never fought each other, and even face-to-face drills have not been carried out. All comparisons are based on paper data, and even the data on combat performance are still inferred from Americans. The figures are not very accurate!
"If fighting in reciprocal conditions, I believe that our Fokker Woolf fighter can easily kill the Japanese!" Speaking is the youngest lieutenant general of Adolf Garlander’s national army, the war ace and the director of the military fighter unit. He is also a close comrade-in-arms and private partner of the German Chancellor. Now, in addition to being the principal of the Stedinghang School, he also holds the post of senior war staff of the General Staff. There is no doubt that his assertion is loved by German generals and immediately received a warm response, but soon the young army will turn the tables.
"But … the voyage problem will once again become a factor that limits my ability to put pilots to good use! It’s a pity that our plane can stay in the Japanese-occupied island for 5 to 10 minutes after taking off from the US military base, which is not enough to complete a war. If you remember, we faced such a problem at the beginning of the British War and were once in a very passive position, so I think it is necessary to wake up that our volunteers and fighters are not suitable for fighting there. Once shot down, the pilots captured by the Japanese army are likely to cause big trouble! Perhaps the defensive war in Saipan is more suitable for our’ Kuzu’! "
Because it is recess, the generals are relatively free to express their opinions and sit in prominent positions. It is not easy for several marshals to express their views by listening silently or smiling or putting away their expressions.
Feng richthofen, deputy chief of staff in charge of military affairs, personally stated that "General Garland’s concern is really that we reached an agreement with the US government at the beginning, and the US military can deploy these volunteer equipment according to its own war arrangements. We have no interference in this, and even if we make suggestions, they may not take them seriously. Moreover, if our fighters fight against the Japanese army, it will also help us to compare and summarize the detailed first-hand information of our military exhibition in terms of technology! As for the potential risks in diplomacy, we must say that up to now, a large number of military arrangements are at risk, including the naval task force that has just set sail, but I think that as Prime Minister Logan said, diplomatic thorny issues should be left to diplomats who are good at arguing, and soldiers need to deal with military matters! "
Although he has a deep background of honor, Feng richthofen seems to be easy-going and broad-minded in his work, and he always gives active support to the research of new weapons and the improvement of old weapons. However, technical progress is often not completed overnight. Because of the initial design, new jets such as bf1o9 and fe262 are more likely to be mass-produced and their equipment maintained daily, and their combat performance has not been enlarged to the point where human factors can make up for it!
When German generals and experts in Berlin put their enthusiasm into talking about military affairs, in the distant and cold Aleutian Islands, the invaders and defenders have staged many actions against each other and returned to Skika Island. On the 6 th, the fighter planes dispatched by the 6 th Army conducted reconnaissance on the islands around the Dutch port, but the visibility was not ideal due to the rain and fog weather. The fighters of both sides appeared in the same area several times, but not now. After several days of fighting, the other side arrived in Skika Island, and the first Japanese fleet finally unloaded the goods. It is so difficult and dangerous for the naval officers and sailors in the fleet to finish the voyage as soon as possible, but some of them have already learned the news. In the coming period, the military will continue to send more fighters and equipment to Skika Island and the Japanese army to occupy the other three islands, occupy the Aleutian Islands and then board the Alaska War Blueprint. However, it is not difficult for people with strategic vision to guess that the military department is interested in the Aleutian Islands and Alaska. Their biggest thorn in the side is that the American fleet, which has just occupied Saipan, is weakened but still capable of giving a fatal blow to the joint fleet at any time.
It was at this delicate stalemate stage that a new force finally advanced into the Pacific Ocean, and their masts were hung with the great Italian flag!
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Chapter 14 A good soldier in Athens
Chapter 14o A good soldier in Athens
The island is the largest island at the southern tip of the Mariana Islands, with an area of 549 square kilometers, which is three times that of Saipan. Moreover, when the Pacific Ocean exploded, the Stars and Stripes had been flying on this island for 43 years. In the summer of 1942, the Japanese navy, together with six battleships, four aircraft carriers and 26,000 troops, occupied the island once a week, thus becoming a Japanese propaganda department. In that summer, the American soldiers became synonymous with a glutton of food, and the elite Japanese imperial army continued to be invincible!
Just 309 days after the sun flag was raised on the island, an American fleet lined up in battle formation angrily returned to the island waters. In this fleet, in addition to anti-submarine escort ships, there were fierce heavy artillery ships and huge heavy aircraft carriers, and their scale and combat power were even worse than that of ten months ago. The Japanese fleet was blowing in the sea breeze, and the battleships were adjusted to their course. With the sound of the battle alarm, the sailors on the deck returned to the cabin as soon as possible, and some key positions remained in the open air.
In a moment, the huge roar resounded through the sea like thunder on a sunny day, and the huge flames with dazzling shock waves actually pressed out giant pits on the undulating sea surface!
The reverberation of thunder reverberated in the horizon for more than a minute before a series of thunderbolt-like rings rose from the direction of the island, and the smoke rushed to hundreds of meters high. In the past two hours, the smoke columns were mixed together and formed a strange Tianzhu. Fiona Fang can be seen for dozens of nautical miles!
On this day, the protagonist is destined to have a group of firepower. Although silver-white planes appear from time to time during the shelling process of surface warships, compared with the American No.6 fighter plane waiting in high altitude and the American Navy warships hovering in the fleet, their number is really insignificant, and the tiger can’t compete with the wolves no matter how fierce it is. The fact that this area has been staged several times in a row a few days ago is exciting, but after the bloody consumption, the defensive side will give up the control. After the war, a large group of bombers took off from Saipan and bombed the island and the Japanese military base around it into vegetable fields in just two days. The US fleet shelled and then boarded the
Before the shelling was over, six ships were full of courage. American cowboys rushed to the northern beach of the island. Less than two Sunday after the end of the Mariana naval battle, the naval forces were still harassing the American troops stationed in Saipan frequently. In this unstable situation, it was widely speculated that the American troops would temporarily turn to defense. However, the United front thinking was subverted when the American navy suddenly launched another heavyweight attack!
The first batch of U.S. troops boarded the 6 th in the bright sunshine and rushed to the beach inexorably. Because the accompanying destroyer had cleared up the Japanese coastal offensive with rapid fire, these soldiers did not encounter too strong resistance when crossing the beach, and judging from the situation of the Japanese remaining positions, the soldiers stationed here were not particularly strong in firepower. After the fall of Saipan, the Japanese Ministry immediately decided to send more combat troops to the main islands of the Mariana Islands. However, the U.S. Navy submarine force has been deployed in the surrounding waters early. Since the explosion of the great naval battle in Saipan, they have sunk 17 Japanese ships with them, and thousands of Japanese fighters have sunk into the seabed, and countless war materials have been added. After the occupation of Saipan by American troops, American air forces stationed on the island will soon attack the Japanese troops stationed on the island in the war radius.
The beachhead battle is progressing smoothly. After boarding the sixth ship and returning to the fleet, the US military commander immediately sent an agreed signal to the war headquarters in Saipan. About half an hour later, a large group of war planes flew from the north to lead more than 100 fighters and bombers to attack the Japanese strongholds and positions on the island. The follow-up planes flew flat to the middle of the island in the most important area of the Japanese anti-fire posture. These planes suddenly opened their doors and jumped off the plane like dumplings with the fighters. In the sky, there was a scene of a girl scattering flowers, and white umbrellas floated with the wind. The first assault parachute dropped in the Pacific battlefield!
It is worth noting that there are 415 foreign volunteers in the 3,000-strong army, most of whom come from the other side of the globe. Although the ethnic group is not limited to Germans, all of them have served in the German Defence Force without exception and participated in a series of battles on the eastern and western fronts. After they came to the Pacific Ocean, they not only brought their experience in fighting in Europe with high salaries paid by the US government, but also brought them to American officers and men who are still lacking in this respect-although most of the wars in Europe. They were all born in six places, but German officers and men still made them proud to board the Six Wars several times, including invading Britain earlier and then boarding the Six Crete Wars in the Mediterranean, and storming the coastal islands of Lithuania and Estonia in the Baltic Sea in the middle and late period of the War. It is even more worthy of the pride of German officers and men that they have won every action they participated in and the victory in the battle has played an extremely important role!
In people’s eyes, one of the characteristics of the German army’s six battles is that most of the time it was accompanied by paratroopers, and the rz round parachute became a landmark equipment in the battlefield documentary. Although the German army rarely used this tactical parachute since 1941, due to the windy weather in the Pacific Island War, a number of improved rz round umbrellas arrived in the United States and were experimentally equipped in two paratroopers’ battalions, one of which was in the first batch of descending troops, and German volunteers also served as instructors with the team without fear.
The experience of reducing troops and fighting is not unique to Germans. The Japanese army also has its own paratroopers. In the Philippine campaign that lasted for more than four months, they sent paratroopers twice to reduce the war. In the case of solo warfare, they did show some performance. However, the Japanese officers and men deployed on the island did not cooperate with the experience of reducing the war and did not receive anti-war training. In the US military, the dominant airmen bombed and paratroopers suddenly attacked. They lost the Dajun airport in Barriga, and the troops stationed around them failed to organize an effective counterattack at the first time. More than 3,000 US paratroopers tied up from the ground and took a bold and
From the experience of Saipan War, it can be seen that the U.S. military’s new No.6 ship can directly transport crawler-type heavy construction machinery to the beach, and these amazing big guys can repair two conventional runways in half a day-if the U.S. military lets go to expand to the next morning, a large number of American fighters will be able to enter smoothly, and even if the joint fleet arrives in the war, they will have to suffer a lot. The Japanese commander of the island finally dispatched his strategic reserve force, 4ooo, and more Japanese troops will be in the sky. Japan tried to go through the jungle to the main battlefield in the northern part of the island. However, the US government reported this situation to the US military for the local spy line. From cargo ships and oil tankers, the escort aircraft carriers "Borg" and "Suwani" took off and the Japanese army threw high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs at the secret March. The raging fire formed a huge fire wall, and the heat wave rolled in. Don’t say that walking through it is just like a tank.
Throughout the history of World War II, the Italian army was funny from the end to the end, and the Germans were stubborn and rigid. As always, only the Japanese army showed ups and downs in the war. They could fight the offensive battles in the Philippines and South Asia, and they could also show extreme stupidity in the central Pacific islands. Seeing that reinforcements arrived in a short time, the second batch of paratroopers were worried that Barriga Dajun Airport would become the key for the US military to win the island battle, relying on the coastal fortifications of northern coastal towns to defend the Japanese troops. Elite fighters were drawn from various units, and a death squad of 2oo people was formed. They tied white cloth, drank spirits and carried bayonets through the dense forest, and made a death charge from the northwest corner of the airport. Although there was a battalion-sized American army in front of them, these embattled paratroopers had Browning machine guns in their hands. Garland semi-automatic rifle imported from Germany mg sounded for the first time in the central Pacific island. This weapon should make American officers and soldiers feel frightened. Now it has turned into a harvesting sword for imperial soldiers. In less than 40 minutes before and after the battle, the Japanese organized three charges, none of which was able to rush into the American defense position, and in the process, the American fleet aircraft arrived only once and strafed and bombed the Japanese troops. Looking at the mess in front of the American position, hundreds of Japanese soldiers were withdrawn to the Woods, waiting for the coming night.
In the positions and fortifications closer to the coast, Japanese officers and men certainly have extremely tenacious fighting spirit and determination to die, but they are faced with an army with extremely strong logistics after all. Naval guns and planes are almost suppressed in countless ways, and American troops are also supporting auxiliary rocket launchers and explosives with tanks and infantry guns, tearing up the Japanese army’s painstaking defense line step by step. By dusk, more than 20,000 American soldiers transferred from large transport ships to six ships, and dozens of tanks and armored vehicles landed on the beach. However, the Japanese army deployed more than ten "adzuki" tanks and anti-tank guns on the island, and most of them were arranged in a difficult way
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Chapter 141 Hunter Pioneer
Chapter 141 Hunter Pioneer
Major Hernando ludendorff, one of the international volunteers, went through the so-called "retirement formalities" on the second Monday. Although he will be able to return to the National Defence Force in two to three years, at least before that, he can no longer appear in public as a German. Now, the naval commander who is related to General ludendorff, the famous chief of staff of the Sixth Army during World War I, is dressed as a standard U.S. Navy submarine officer in an American-made s1-class submarine with a strange shape. The high-powered telescope scans the wide and swaying sea over and over again.
At dusk, the sun is setting like blood, and the fierce fighting in the outer islands is still going on at 300 nautical miles. The guns can’t reach here, but it is also a part of the battlefield. After the end of the Mariana naval battle, the joint fleet closed its mind and took the initiative to evacuate, paying a high price. The American fleet stayed without fear. This seemingly subtle difference is changing the course of the Pacific War. Major ludendorff, an outsider with the original meaning, obviously didn’t come here to show off his own combat skills-in 1939 and 1942. In 1998, he successively commanded three submarines of different types to sink a British warship, seven cargo ships and oil tankers, three Soviet warships and four cargo ships and oil tankers. In addition, he sank two American civilian fast freighters flying the British flag in the Atlantic Ocean, which was finally confirmed. This record was not in the top ten in the German navy, but it was already the number one ace captain in the US navy.
Beside Major ludendorff, the official of the United States is Lieutenant Colonel Viszler, the real captain of this submarine. He is also the commander of the 4th submarine detachment of the US Pacific Fleet. This detachment of submarines with seven types of warfare is ambushing in the Philippines near the route to the Mariana Islands. After getting the news that the US military attacked the island, the Japanese joint fleet is likely to come to support quickly. If it can intercept halfway, even if it can’t kill one or two capital ships, it can delay their pace and storm the island. When American troops win some time.
"fortunately, there will be moonlight and stars tonight, or it will be dark. It is almost impossible to observe a sailing ship with lights off a few nautical miles away!"
Ludendorff speaks fairly fluent British English, and it is quite convenient to communicate with Americans, which is also an important reason why he can stand out from many applicants and become the first batch of international volunteers.
Lieutenant Colonel Viszler looked down at the red dot on the chart and marked the predetermined latent positions of seven American submarines. They were about ten nautical miles apart from each other. According to ludendorff’s suggestion, they were fanned instead of a straight line in people’s inertial thinking. It seems that there is no difference, but it is an effective experience summed up in actual combat. First, you should know that German submarine commanders often use this formation when searching for British fleets-although the search efficiency is far less than that of airplanes, they can swing the detection range of conventional submarines to the maximum.
With the help of wolf pack tactics, the German navy severely damaged the Atlantic shipping line of the British Empire with a limited number of submarine troops in the middle and early stages of the war. Otherwise, the arrival of a large number of American-made equipment will greatly enhance the British army’s ability to defend the soil, and it is very likely that the quantitative change will lead to qualitative change, which will help Britain win the decisive war and move towards the Battle of Anti-Deng 6!
Lieutenant Colonel Viszler doesn’t seem to be interested in this. He calculated that "if the Japanese fleet sails at the highest altitude for the first time after receiving the news, it won’t be here until this time of the day! Tonight we can have a good sleep and recharge our batteries! "