In the air battle on the 15th, if the Axis Navy was the first to discover the traces of the enemy fleet, it would definitely try to give full play to the cross-platform advantage, but the US military lost too many high-quality pilots in its hands, except for the top pilots who served as instructors to complete this tactic skillfully, the rest of the ordinary pilots were difficult to control, and the results of imitation were worse than normal, and finally the shipbuilding committee gave up its efforts to renovate the beveled deck of the Essex class in the 1945 fiscal year, and still focused on building traditional mass products. Trying to achieve tactical superiority in numbers.

The reconnaissance intelligence telegram received by Mitchell was the decoy fleet sent by Ozawa, with 2 grudge-class escort carriers, 2 battleships with fierce anti-aircraft firepower, one Richelieu and one Tirpits, 3 Rhine-class escort carriers, and 2 porcupine-class regional air defense cruisers and 8 Hedgehog-class air defense destroyers.

The overall configuration perfectly met the requirement of 40 percent of the troops, which made Mitchell believe that the first wave of attack groups attacking Puerto Rico in the early morning should have taken off from this fleet, and now they would attack only a few air defense fighters at most, so he believed that the attack group taking off from Puerto Rico would be able to complete the task.

Of course, Mitchell still had the necessary vigilance, he did not believe that the German army would dare to attack Puerto Rico with only such a small number of troops, and he believed that there should be an Axis aircraft carrier group in the rest of the farther seas, so he sent carrier-based reconnaissance planes to carry out search missions.

"The decoy fleet has been discovered, and so far, we have not found the American fleet." When the staff officer gave the news, there was silence in the bridge of the Zeppelin, and everyone knew that the situation had now developed to a very unfavorable point, and that not only had the enemy first discovered it, but so far it was not sure whether there was an American fleet.

"It is estimated that the attack wave of the US military will come soon, so let the decoy fleet turn its course and move east at full speed, and the original decoy fleet will return to attack aircraft to land in this team." Ozawa groaned slightly, and issued a new order, "The reconnaissance plane expands its search for targets, and it is necessary to find out the strength of the enemy's army!" ”

"The first attack wave has been fully released, including 48 fighters and 126 attack aircraft." At 7:38, the aviation staff officer reported the enemy situation to Mitchell, who only nodded slightly, and did not fully report in a relaxed manner.

He needs to think about more problems: According to the pre-war deployment, after all the fighters are released at 8 o'clock, the fleet will begin to return north, and the current enemy situation is very different from the initial estimate, and the fleet will not only not be able to return north, but must also always pay attention to the main forces of the other fleets in the search axis.

"Prepare the second and third attack waves, and if the enemy's main fleet is still not found at half past eight, the second attack wave will continue to attack the discovered target."

The staff officers behind him were surprised: there had been two waves of planes thrown into the attack of the German fleet, more than 400 planes, and the commander was still worried that there were not enough planes?

Hewitt can understand Mitchell's worries: Although the Air Force sent more than 200 planes, most of them were four rounds of heavy bombardment, and the anti-ship effect was not ideal, and to effectively counter-ship aircraft, it was necessary to rely on the BTD attack planes sent by the fleet, but it was unclear how much effect the 126 planes could receive. Judging from the situation of many battles, there is a big difference in the quality of the US pilots and the axis, and on the premise that the number of battles is basically the same, the ratio of battle losses in offensive battles is usually between 5:16:1; considering that if the side is shot down, it is killed or missing, and the other side still has the possibility of being salvaged, and the actual crew loss is between 7:1 and 8:1, which is a very terrible ratio, but it is also a ratio that has to be accepted.

Although the results reported by the US pilots themselves are very good, it does not mean that there are no smart people above, Ingram and Clark are very sensitive to numbers and analysis of battle results, and Mitchell's feeling is also very strong, so he does not feel that 400 planes are sure now.

The blazing steel whirlwind had completely flown over the decoy fleet, and the sudden fleet deployed by Ozawa showed a furious momentum in the face of a large group of US land-based aircraft: At a long distance, Richelieu's nine twin 128mm anti-aircraft guns sprayed fierce shells, raising a curtain of fire on the way of the enemy group's flight, which was a fierce artillery fire at the same level as the air defense tower, and at the medium range, the 108 fighters were divided into two echelons, front and rear, and suddenly aimed at the enemy planes scattered by evading artillery fire.

The German fighter jets equipped with the new BMW901 engines were now upgraded to Super Purple Electric and Super Gale, with better speed, climb efficiency, and more ammunition, and four 20mm MG213s aimed at the huge and clumsy B25\B29 and slammed them over, while the latter desperately pressed into a steel formation and fired back with 7mm heirlooms, while the escorted P47N and P51D did their best to coordinate interception.

Of course, the German army is very familiar with this style, and wasn't the tragic anti-air raid on the Western Front such a routine at the beginning? For veterans who have basically switched from the Air Force, fighting such a battle seems to be more energetic and direct than fighting the U.S. Navy.

As for the low altitude

Count on the fleet's anti-aircraft firepower, those perverted phalanxes, now even their own planes dare not easily pass by, there are more than 20 phalanxes below, plus the 40mm Bofors that has been stabbed by hedgehogs, it is already an absolutely forbidden airspace that cannot be touched.

One plane after another fell from the sky, and the warships below increased their speed to the highest speed, desperately fighting back with their anti-aircraft weapons while desperately dodging the bombs falling from the sky.

With a "boom", an aircraft finally dropped a 1,000-pound aerial bomb on the foredeck of Tirpitz, and as a result, a puff of black smoke rose from the whole warship, almost unscathed, and the speed and direction did not change at all; The same was true of the bombs dropped on the Richelieu, two on each of the fore and aft decks, and there was nothing they could do but return fire more violently.

It was just a matter of not being able to penetrate the battleship, and a bomb hit the Grudge, and the pilot was full of expectations to open the opponent's belly, but he did not expect that the armor belt of the Grudge that was bearing the bomb stubbornly withstood such a bomb, except for a slight twist on the runway deck, it also had no effect.

"Damn, what kind of aircraft carrier is this? Why is it so hard? ”

"This must be an armored aircraft carrier of the British!"

"Damn British!"

"And the damn French!"

The pilots cursed viciously in the air

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