At 8:12, the second attack wave of the Japanese army fully returned, and nearly three hours had passed since the first attack wave attacked. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Of course, the situation at Pearl Harbor is still deteriorating, the heavy oil that expands the burning is flowing unscrupulously, the entire fuel depot concentrated in Pearl Harbor has been killed in the flames, the heavy oil is thrown high in the explosion and splashed around and then "adds bricks and tiles" to the fire, the fire dragon ruthlessly takes away everything they can sweep, the whole city is shrouded in a layer of smoke, even a few hundred meters outside the center of the flames can feel the scorching heat and despair, and the temperature of the central burning area has been continuously silted up to more than 1,000 degrees, all the trees, Vehicles, houses, and municipal facilities are all burning, and even the decorative iron blocks on the houses, kilometers and the iron fences of the houses are burned red and fall off, and then fall into the thicker and thicker layer of heavy oil and turn into a lump of black iron.

The fire continued to spread to the low-lying areas with the flow of heavy oil, and all the communities and people who were swept into it were all turned into black charcoal, and everything that could be burned was added to it to become new combustibles, and the heated air formed a strong convection, which, combined with the influence of the sea breeze at the end of October, added to the fire.

No one is afraid of it, and even the fire brigade has no choice but to block the flow of heavy oil to the core area as much as possible according to the requirements of the army. The black, thick oil even seeped a large part of the gully down the ground into the municipal sewer pipes, which at first seemed to reduce the amount of flow, but as the oil continued to accumulate and float in the sewers, eventually the entire sewer system began to burn - which made the military even more bitter.

Everyone knows that in addition to sewage pipes, underground pipelines also have electric wires and pipelines, gas pipelines, etc., even if there is a lot of naturally formed biogas in the sewage pipes that cannot be burned, there is usually no big problem, but now they are all flammable, explosive and dangerous goods. Usually an explosion anywhere is a big problem, and today it is estimated that it will not be spared.

Sure enough, as the fire spread, hundreds of manhole covers were blown open one after another, gas pipes were blown off, flames dozens of meters high were spewed, and underground and overhead cables were engulfed in flames, causing fragments of explosions and short circuits. However, all civilian power and communications on Pearl Harbor were also cut off, and the situation became even more chaotic.

Donald Krent, the commander of an engineer company, despite his humble status, ordered his men to work according to his requirements when the telephone was not working, the telegraph was not available, and the roads were blocked, and then he personally wore fireproof suits and gas masks, and ran into the city defense headquarters with great courage through the fire belt, telling them that he was ready to blow up a passage facing the port area and guide hundreds of thousands of tons of heavy oil to pour into the port - let them flow into the sea! Although heavy oil will float and burn on the surface of the water, at least there are not so many combustibles in the water, and it will not cause greater loss of life and property.

After discussing it for 5 seconds, several bigwigs decided to adopt this suggestion, on the one hand, authorizing him to act immediately and send 2 companies from the headquarters to his command, and on the other hand, to inform the surviving ships on the sea, so that they could leave quickly and avoid suffering. For the sake of solemnity and convenience, Ingram untied his epaulettes and pinned them to Krent's shoulders, and gave him his officer's cap: "Now that you are a temporary admiral, young man, gather all the men you can find, and be bold to do it!" In the future, if there is any responsibility, I will take it! ”

At the moment when Pearl Harbor was in flames, several other land, navy, and remnant planes on Oahu had taken off in batches and pounced on the north, but this counterattack and attack lacked effective unified command, and the order was very chaotic -- the explosion of Pearl Harbor and the fierce attack by the Japanese army not only made it extremely difficult to gather personnel in various places, but the overall command system was even more chaotic, and all officers only deployed counterattacks blindly or according to their own understanding. The pilots took off on their own in twos and threes, and then automatically formed an echelon when they met their comrades in the air -- at this moment, the US military was much more active than the Japanese pilots, who absolutely could not attack alone without the dispatch and orders of their commanders. The Americans don't care about this, they find the plane and fly it, and then they swarm and pounce to the north.

At 8:29, the first attack wave of the Japanese army returned to the four regular aircraft carriers of Katsuragi, Kasaki, Chitose, and Chiyoda, which were arranged in the rear, and landed completely. Only 98 of the 174 planes that came out of the sortie came back, and the overall battle loss rate was as high as 44 percent, and more than half of the planes lost were shot down by US fighters that took off one after another, a small part were shot down by ground anti-aircraft fire, and a small number were lost due to explosions and other reasons.

Horikichi nodded solemnly and personally thanked the pilots, who gulped down rice balls or chocolate (which Horikichi had requested) while bragging to the familiar and unfamiliar ground and reserve pilots around him.

In order to speed up the pace of operations, the ground crew has also begun to learn from the US military in directly pushing the seriously damaged planes into the sea; due to the cancellation of the third attack wave, the attack planes will be temporarily retracted, but the fighters will continue to replenish fuel and replace them with new pilots. Although the ground crew, who had been busy since 1 o'clock, were quite tired at this time, they were in high spirits because of the favorable overall battle situation, and except for the regret for their unfortunate dead or missing companions, the atmosphere was very optimistic, and the pilots were also elated, especially the young pilots who had fought for the first time, and they were dancing to others while eating, "It was really a sea of fire......

At 8:39, the forward radar sent a notification that some enemy planes were approaching, and the number was estimated to be between 40 and 50 aircraft. His estimate was correct, this was the army aviation stationed on the island of Hawaii, and after receiving the counterattack order, he did not go to Oahu to join in the fun, and went directly to trouble the Japanese fleet. The support fleet would now be more than 650 kilometers from Pearl Harbor and even farther from the southernmost island of Hawaii, but the American troops were still coming to the door.

Six minutes later, just after the exchange of fire, the forward radar reported that some enemy planes were approaching from the west, and the number was estimated to be more than 60 -- this was an attack group from Kauai, northwest of Oahu-- and they did not suffer any losses in the Japanese attack, and sent all the planes they could send, but their luck was not as good as that of the Hawaiian Island defenders -- although they were dispatched earlier, they searched for a while to find the direction of the Japanese fleet. Chiaki Matsuda sent another 40 direct cover planes to intercept the attack.

After 8:55, before the second attack wave entered the radar control screen of the side, it was reported that 40 to 50 enemy attack groups were coming, and Chiaki Matsuda, who was sweating profusely, sent 32 fighters, and now there were only 20 of the remaining direct cover planes left -- fortunately, Horikichi canceled the sortie of the third attack wave, otherwise he would not have been able to gather 124 air defense fighters, and now it would be more difficult to cope with the air attack.

After 9 o'clock, no more US attack planes appeared in the air, until the second attack wave of Taka Egusa, who returned at 9:17 a.m., appeared in the distance. Chiaki Matsuda's hanging heart finally let go, because the first volley air battle had been decided, the Japanese repelled the American army with a record of 9:37, and then the vacated fighters under the command of the Niyodo immediately dispersed to join the other two battle groups to help their fighters quickly overwhelm the opponent.

The losses of the American troops in the first round of attack were very large, they were shot down 107 planes under the interception of the Japanese army with an almost equal number, but only 19 Japanese troops were shot down, the results of the air battle were pitiful, and the effect of the sea attack was not significant, only the Japanese destroyers Shirayuki and Hatsuyuki (blowing snow class) were sunk, and the auxiliary aircraft carrier Shanying was lost, and the Shanying lost its take-off and landing ability, but it could still move, and the speed dropped to 11 knots.

However, the US pilots reported many results:

sunk 1 aircraft carrier, 2 cruisers, 3 destroyers;

damage to aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers 1-2 each;

It is also uncertain that 4-5 warships were sunk or damaged.

Instantly multiply the results of the battle.

And the situation of the Japanese fleet reported is even more terrifying:

found 28-32 Japanese aircraft carriers of various types (in fact, all the warships that look like aircraft carriers are counted, there are only 19 in total);

4-5 battleships (actually 0) - the U.S. army lost all the heavy cruisers in the previous battles, so in the eyes of inexperienced novices, heavy cruisers and battleships are indistinguishable, and they look like battleships at the larger ends:

more than 20 cruisers of various types (a total of 9 light and heavy cruisers);

more than 60 destroyers (32 in fact); In addition, there were more than 30 S-boats imported from Germany in the Japanese fleet (all of which were treated as destroyers by the US military).

Someone else cleverly added - the huge Japanese fleet covered the entire sea 700 kilometers north of Hawaii!

There were also too many errors in the number of Japanese fighters reported for aerial interception, and there were about 300 or more (actually 124). What is even more maddening is that because the first wave of the US counterattack was sent by three independent teams, the situation reported by each other still contradicted each other, and even the specific position of the Japanese fleet was wrong, some said more than 500 kilometers, some said more than 600 kilometers, and some said more than 700 kilometers.

Receiving this contradictory and bizarre telegram, Ingram and Doolittle, who were burned by the fire, also felt helpless, the two of them were still Japanese, and knew that it was impossible for the Japanese army to have another 4-5 battleships, and the battleships in the Tsunoda fleet and Tsukahara fleet were very clear, and the Japanese army had sunk in Panama and other two ships, and everyone knew that if there were still 4-5 battleships in the Japanese fleet with 3 Yamato-class, 1 Nagato-class, and 2 Kongo-class ships outside, it would really insult the IQ of the two.