If it was the former Tsunoda, the one who didn't pay much attention to the life of the pilot, he would immediately order the fleet to turn to escape after releasing the attack group, but after Horikichi repeated education, he began to understand a truth, warships can be built repeatedly - now there are still 6-7 Yunryu-class or Axis class piled up on the slipway of the country, all of which can be completed next year, and then the construction of warships will start one after another, and it is not enough to buy it from Europe, it is said that Europe started construction of 9 ships in one go after the final draft of the Axis class drawings, and this does not include the production of the British, If Britain waits for construction to start, at least 14 Axis class ships can be built a year. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info When the time comes, if the ship is not enough, ask Germany to buy it, and this time the tanker will not rely on Europe?

However, excellent pilots are not so easy to obtain, especially pilots who can fly and attack at night, all of them are elites who have been cultivated hard and accumulated by big waves and sands, otherwise why would the Americans not be able to change the oil rotation of the crew? Isn't it because you can't afford to lose the unit? Because of Horiyoshi's reminder of this attack, Arima Masafumi arranged a route to fly to Canada first, and then fight south from Canada, with a sortie distance of more than 750 kilometers, and at least another 650 kilometers when he returns, and 1,400 kilometers to come and go.

Therefore, Arima Masafumi suggested that the warships simply stop where they were, and only start to retreat when the attack was successful and Guan Wei Zhongsa was sure that the fuel was enough to return to the sea, otherwise if the aircraft did not have enough fuel, the fleet would be ready to travel about 50 kilometers forward to meet it. The only exception is the escort aircraft carrier Condor, which is the slowest and only undertakes the task of air defense of the fleet, and at the same time, in order to avoid dragging down the fleet when it runs, it is simply arranged to run 50 kilometers in advance.

After everything was planned, the Tsunoda fleet sent a telegram to inform Horiyoshi and Tsukahara: The surprise attack on the Boeing factory in the Second Air War was successful!

The surprise attack was indeed a success, with the loss of 16 planes, Tsunoda destroying more than 70 percent of the buildings and equipment in the core of the Boeing production area, as well as 184 B-29s that had not yet been put into service, which alone were worth more than $100 million. In addition, more than 1,200 people were killed or injured at Boeing factories, National Guards, and aircraft crews -- many of them from stampedes with each other, some of them from incendiary bombs, including more than 60 very important production line engineers. The only thing that made the Americans rejoice was that since the attack took place in the early hours of the morning, the specialists of the R&D department, almost all of whom were resting, survived.

The loss of Boeing's production base is quite serious from the Japanese side, and if Mitsubishi is bombed to this extent, it is estimated that the entire base camp will be fried. But for a truly developed country like the United States, the effect is only mediocre. The same is true of the original strategic air raids by the United States against Germany, which seemed to be blown up in ruins, and it did not take long to repair them as usual. According to preliminary estimates, it will only take 6 weeks for the production line to be fully restored, but due to personnel and equipment, it will take about 12-14 weeks to return to full production capacity, affecting the overall aircraft production capacity of about 4,000 aircraft.

After hearing that the loss was not too big, Arnold relieved his heart, more than 4,000 aircraft production capacity can only be pressed to other factories, not long ago made a decision, multiple models of aircraft production line to compress production, adjust the structure, this is also an important opportunity.

But the attack was still like a slap in the face of the Truman administration, and even though Truman showed signs of breaking the jar because he didn't care about the presidential election, Arnold still didn't dare to slack off, ordered all available bombers to attack, and asked Canada for reinforcements. Originally, he also wanted to send planes from Los Angeles and San Francisco to the north to carry out bombing missions, but his subordinates dissuaded him, and they knocked on the Tsukahara fleet, which is said to have reached Mexican waters, and Arnold immediately reacted: Yesterday the Japanese army could raid Seattle through the territory of Canada, but who knows if the Japanese army will raid Los Angeles through the territory of Mexico tomorrow? Now that all the planes are transferred to Seattle, what if the Japanese army comes to attack the front line of Los Angeles tomorrow and the day after tomorrow?

What's more, there is a transport fleet in the waters of Los Angeles, which is a life-saving fleet in Hawaii - not only has a lot of fuel, but also a lot of land and sea planes, and if this fleet is wiped out again, he estimates that he will have to follow Turner's resignation and leave.

Therefore, he only sent land flights from the direction of Seattle and Portland to attack, and at the same time reached out to the Canadians to ask for assistance.

The judgment of the army aviation staff is basically accurate, and the Tsukahara fleet is indeed in Mexican waters, but it is estimated that there is a slight mistake in the matter, and the Tsukahara fleet will barely reach Los Angeles in three days, instead of the day after tomorrow as they think.

The Seattle Army Air bomber group, which was scrambling to prepare for takeoff, did not take off its first plane until 7:15 a.m., and did not assemble until 7:54 a.m. to officially set off, which was almost the time for the Japanese pilots to fly over the fleet and prepare to line up for landing. The only wiser thing for the Seattle Army Commander was that he did not send reconnaissance planes to search for it first, but directly dispatched the attack group, divided it into several waves to search and prepare for the attack, and agreed that it would be best to find the Japanese fleet's group and inform them of its location and wait for the other groups to assemble before going into attack -- this gave the Japanese troops time to breathe, and the returning attack group could calmly land, replenish, and then continue to go up after changing the replacement team.

Arima Masafumi was very tight about the distance and time, and the fuel tanks were almost empty after the last few planes fell, and if they delayed for a few more minutes, they could fall into the sea. However, the pilots themselves are not worried, and the later they land, the more experienced they are, and they are as familiar with the plane as their own bodies.

Tsunoda ran to the deck to high-five the pilots, and then cheered on the ground crew and sailors: "It's up to you next!" ”

The sky was shining, the sun was already rising, the Tsunoda fleet was cleaving the waves and escaping at a high speed of 27 knots, and the Seattle air raid group was in hot pursuit.

It was not until 10:27 that the US bombers discovered the trace of the Tsunoda fleet, and the latter also noticed that there were not many US planes in the first batch to attack, and the staff report also intercepted the US military telegram, so he guessed that other formations of the other side were searching, so he boldly ordered the air defense fighters that had been on the task of direct cover of the fleet since early in the morning to take the initiative to attack, "after defeating the enemy forces, they quickly landed and resupplyed, and other planes carried out air defense tasks."

32 Do-412s immediately and ferociously pounced on nearly 50 US attack aircraft.

"The Boeing factory in Seattle was attacked in the wee hours of the morning, and the fleet has now been severely damaged by the Army Airlines? General Arnold wanted us to go for the volley, but Spruance disagreed? "At about 1 o'clock in the afternoon, Halsey, who was leading the TF50 fleet to prepare to receive the transport troops, received a telegram from Washington and immediately wondered: What are the Japanese going to Seattle for some reason?

"Didn't you say that you blew up Boeing? They probably thought that if we bombed Boeing, we wouldn't be able to build an airplane. ”

After listening to McCain's explanation, Halsey couldn't help but laugh dumbly: Don't say that Boeing can't be blown up like this, even if it is blown up, it is impossible to paralyze the production capacity of heavy bombers, the American aircraft factory is all over the country, but the shipyard in Seattle is one of the only three shipyards on the West Coast that can build escort aircraft carriers and liberty ships, and he thinks that in the current situation, it is more important than the aircraft factory (Arnold is furious: As far as your naval shipyard is concerned, my Army Airlines aircraft factory doesn't matter?). ）

At 10:41, Japanese air defense fighters repelled the first wave of American attack groups; 11 minutes later, the Japanese fighters returning early in the morning assumed the main air defense mission and repelled the second wave of American attack groups; Seven minutes later, a third wave of attacks was repulsed...... This wave of US attack groups consisted of some army aviation and some of the naval aviation, and due to improper mutual coordination, they all entered the battle in turn with a scale of about 30 to 50 planes, and not only failed to inflict significant casualties on the Japanese troops, but on the contrary, they suffered heavy casualties themselves, and 73 of them were beaten down, and the Japanese army lost only 14 planes, and the nine parachuted pilots were "fished" by the destroyers, and they took a short rest to prepare for the sky.

It was not until 11:18 a.m. that the US military gathered a large formation of nearly 200 planes to attack it, and more than 20 minutes later, the group retreated and sent a report on the results of the battle that "our attack group had inflicted heavy damage on the enemy fleet."

In fact, the heavy damage is obviously wrong, it was the Seattle defenders who exaggerated the results in order to save face for themselves, whether intentionally or unintentionally is another matter, but the report sounds quite impressive:

sank 1 aircraft carrier of the Japanese fleet (the escort aircraft carrier Condor was hit by 4 bombs and sank), suspected to have sunk 1 fleet aircraft carrier (Yunlong was hit by a near-miss bomb, but in fact it was not damaged), and 1 fleet aircraft carrier was severely damaged (1 1000-pound bomb was hit in the stern of the Amagi, the loss was not too large, and it did not affect the take-off and landing);

1 enemy super battleship was heavily damaged (the Musashi was hit by 2 1,000-pound bombs, not even a medium bomb), and 1 other battleship was suspected to have been sunk (the King Kong was actually only 3 near-misses);

Sink at least 1 heavy cruiser, 2 light cruisers, 4 destroyers, and severely damage 1-2 enemy heavy cruisers, light cruisers, and destroyers (in fact, the Kaohsiung heavy cruiser was hit by a 1,000-pound bomb, counting Zhongchuang, two Qiuyue-class air defense destroyers Wenyue and Changyue were sunk, and the rest were nearly missed).

In addition, more than 90 Japanese planes were shot down in air defense and offensive operations (in actual offensive battles, the Japanese lost 16 aircraft of various types and 33 fighters in air defense battles).

In order to achieve these results, the US Army and Navy Airlines lost more than 100 additional planes in addition to the losses just now, and lost a total of 226 planes of various types in the four rounds of attack battles before and after, and another 19 planes were scrapped after returning to the airport, with an overall loss rate of 69 percent!

The war between iron and fire, which was originally very serious, was completely turned sour by the comedy that followed by the Canadians......