Of course, reporting the results of the battle is a very serious matter, but the situation is different today, and it must be considered and weighed comprehensively -- both of them understand this truth. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Now the army and the navy are supported by three strengthening agents: the first is that the tragic situation at Pearl Harbor has aroused their incomparable anger; The second is that the results reported by the comrades-in-arms are very encouraging; The third is that they heard that the main fleet of the navy is rushing to encircle and suppress it at the fastest speed, and that reinforcements will be sent to the west coast, and they have a lot of expectations in their hearts.

But Ingram and Doolittle are sober, and this is nothing more than a false fire, as long as the brain is clear at night, the scene will not be able to hold back tomorrow. But that's tomorrow, and it must be maintained today, so the shot in the arm of the battle must not only be fought, but also fought with "skill". As for the idea of giving up the counterattack, the two of them just thought about it, and ruled it out in less than 5 seconds - what are you kidding, Pearl Harbor was beaten, burned, killed and injured more than 10,000 people, you are the commander, you have the final say? Do you want to go to court-martialed in the future? If you can fight, you have to fight, but if you can't fight, you have to fight, this is a matter of attitude!

At 2 p.m., according to the photos obtained by the reconnaissance, Ingram polished the report of the second round of counterattacks and reported it internally, and at the same time lowered the judgment of the enemy situation:

sank 5 Japanese aircraft carriers of various types (including 1 fleet aircraft carrier) and damaged 1, at present, the Japanese army still has 18 aircraft carriers, including 4-6 fleet aircraft carriers (there are only 15 warships that actually look like aircraft carriers);

sank 1 light and 1 heavy cruiser, and the Japanese still had 10 cruisers of various types (actually 8);

sank 8 Japanese destroyers of various types, damaged 2-3, and 34-38 are left (28 are actually left);

Sinking 5-6 Japanese frigates and torpedo boats, more than 40 are currently left (only 2 were actually sunk, and 32 remained).

This was the result of the announcement of all the participating troops in Hawaii, and then added to the report of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: It was believed that the Japanese fleet had not found the battleship.

This tone is very vague, because in the first round of enemy briefings, the Japanese army had 1-2 battleships, and then said that they had sunk 1 battleship, which seemed to fit well in a tight fit, but in fact, Ingram knew that the Japanese army did not have battleships after looking at the photos of the sea, and he also thought that it was impossible to sink the battleship -- only 4 planes of the HNA had torpedoes, and it was too difficult to blow up and sink a battleship with 8 torpedoes, and the pilots kept saying that it was even less like sinking with bombs, and that a battleship was not a ship that could be easily sunk by bombs after all. But it was too demoralizing for him to speak, and Doolittle understood it as soon as he read the prepared message.

When the war report was sent to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Nimitz, Spruance, and even Lehi and MacArthur understood it, and even Truman understood the connotation from the generals' somewhat "relieved" and helpless expressions. Well played! Keep playing! Let the Japanese have no return! Let General Halsey wipe them out! ”

Arnold and Clark swallowed a few words. Clark did not want to provoke the anger of the people, and today his proposal for peace with Japan was met with noncommittal resistance, and Arnold did not think about the future at all, and the adjutant whispered to him at noon that the ward had been set, diagonally opposite the door of General Marshall's ward. He is now thinking about how to find a suitable time to live in, and he must live in it before Dewey officially takes office! As for the commander-in-chief of the independent air force, let whoever can do it, anyway, he Arnold can't do it.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the US military aviation plucked up its courage and launched a third counterattack, and this time it was finally organized into a group after multi-party coordination, instead of a small group of chaos after dispersion, and a total of more than 300 planes were divided into two echelons. The Japanese fleet is now more than 850 kilometers north of Hawaii, and the naval attack planes are not very reachable, so they can only send 19 F4U to escort the ground airline, but even if they can reach the navy, they will not be able to gnaw at all -- there are only 63 attack planes left in the entire navy, but the pilots on the escort aircraft carrier who were sunk in the port are said to have rescued two-thirds of them, which can be regarded as a relief to Ingram.

The third counterattack was that Doolittle took out all the last batch of B-29, B-17, B-25, and B-24 in the army's possession, and even because of the lack of skilled pilots, he also pulled the surviving pilots who had attacked once in the morning. However, the shorter planes were still retained, and Doolittle and Ingram could not have really wiped out all the planes - what if the Japanese attacked again tomorrow?

Chiaki Matsuda also knew that this was almost the last fight of the US military, and he sent all the remaining fighters according to Horiyoshi's instructions, and actually gathered more than 170 planes, and many Japanese pilots also went into battle twice, and even some pilots rushed out of the cold sea after resting for just over an hour. In terms of tenacity and endurance, the grassroots officers of the First Flying Force, who have been trained and carefully selected for thousands of years, or the Japanese pilots who have been trained hard in the preparatory department of the Second Flight since the age of 16, are much stronger than the American pilots -- they have always been trained as soldiers, and many pilots of the US Army Aviation used to be nothing more than pesticide sprayers!

Japanese pilots also have a significant psychological advantage: if they are shot down, it is a big deal to parachute, and there is a 60% probability that they can be rescued by their own people!

At the same time as a large number of fighters left, after several hours of hard work, the blasting and evacuation near the port of Pearl Harbor was finally successful, and the burning heavy oil slowly flowed into the Pacific Ocean along the channel where the Cren Agent Company exploded, and then burned on the surface of the sea. According to incomplete statistics, a total of nearly 320,000 tons of various fuel oil were reimbursed in Pearl Harbor, and there were about 60,000 tons of various types of fuel in the islands other than Oahu, excluding the fuel used in today's sortie. Fuel is now Hawaii's most important regulated product, and no one is allowed to use it without Ingram and Doolet.

The third attack of the American army lasted a full 70 minutes, and the losses of both sides increased again, and the Japanese lost nearly 150,000 tons of ships this time:

The light aircraft carrier Chiyoda sank, with the loss of 19 attack aircraft;

The escort aircraft carrier Asama Maru sank, and the Tatsuda Maru was broken, and was later sunk by its own destroyers;

the loss of the second escort aircraft carrier with fuel losses, the loss of 1 aircraft carrier with 23 aircraft;

The heavy cruiser Chikuma was heavily damaged and announced the abandonment of the ship, and the Suzuya was created;

The light cruisers Kamitsu and Kiso were sunk;

The destroyers Yukumo, Cirrus, and Fengyun sank successively (all of which belonged to the Yukumo class), and the Akizuki and Wakatsuki air defense destroyers sank or abandoned after being heavily damaged.

In order to achieve this result, the pilots of the US Army Aviation really worked hard, and more than 300 planes attacked, but only 81 returned home, and after deducting the 14 planes that could no longer be used after landing, there were only about 300 combat planes left in the entire Hawaii, and even if other auxiliary planes such as water reconnaissance, transport planes, and reconnaissance planes were added, there were only 400, which was only a fraction of what it was before the campaign began.

As the sun sets, the sunset reflects the sky red, and the Japanese destroyers are desperately trying to salvage those who have fallen into the water, so many warships have sunk or abandoned their ships, and there are thousands of sailors who have escaped by jumping, all relying on light cruisers, destroyers, and torpedo boats to save people. By the end of October, the sea had begun to shiver cold, and it only took more than an hour of immersion to finish; In addition, there are heavy oil masses leaked from sunken and damaged warships on the sea, and some are even burning, making rescue work more difficult. In addition to their own side, there were also many American crew members soaked in the sea, and although the Japanese officers and men were very annoyed, they still rescued them as much as possible.

Now there is no captain who chooses to sink with the ship, because Horikichi said very clearly that there will be a large number of warships in the mainland to be replenished, and everyone must survive as much as possible, otherwise who will drive the warship?

"The chief has an order, and the Tsukumo will be punished!"

Vice Admiral Shima Kiyoei looked at the heavy cruiser Tsukuma floating and struggling on the water, and sighed: "Let the Nobu destroyer carry it out." ”

"Why me again?" The captain of the Nobu muttered, and carried out the order helplessly.

At 18:09, nearly 900 kilometers off Pearl Harbor, the 2,000-ton Yangyan-class destroyer squeezed out of the group of ships and launched four powerful 93 oxygen torpedoes at the Tsukuma.

"Boom" several columns of water flew up, and the Tsukumo, with a displacement of 11,000 tons, was blown into several pieces and sank neatly.

In addition to the ships, the Japanese lost a lot of aircraft, in addition to the planes that were sunk on the warships, they also lost 86 fighters in the air defense operation (the battle loss rate was nearly half, of which 54 pilots were rescued). When the two sides withdrew their troops, the Japanese army could still use a total of 266 intact aircraft. Katsuragi, Kasaki, and Chitose recovered 171 aircraft at full capacity, the escort carrier Goshawk recovered 28 fighters, the remaining 4 escort carriers recovered 38 fighters, and 2 aircraft carriers, one blank, and one with 29 in stock.

In the entire Hawaiian campaign, the U.S. military fought from more than 1,400 planes to just over 400 left, and lost more than 700 crew members (some planes were destroyed on the ground or in ports, many personnel survived, and some were shot down in air defense battles, and some pilots escaped), which not only directly broke the backbone of the Hawaiian Army Airlines, but also beat the skilled crew of the U.S. Army Aviation to a dangerous level of only about 2,300.

Before the start of the war, Horiyoshi had a total of more than 580 planes (including spare planes and spare planes on aircraft carriers), and the aircraft loss rate exceeded 55 percent, but the pilot loss rate was not so much, with a total loss of 157 groups, and the overall loss rate was nearly 30 percent -- mainly because the relatively high loss rate of the first attack wave raised the overall loss, and the later air defense operations benefited from "fishing dragonflies," and the loss rate was still within the acceptable range.

In the opinion of Matsuda Chiaki, the cost of using the losses of more than 200,000 tons of ships, hundreds of aircraft, and thousands of sailors in exchange for the results of attacking Pearl Harbor and consuming American aircraft and crews is still high, and the staff officers are also a little depressed. The battle isn't over yet! ”