Harris quickly reported the situation to Halsey and requested that the Japanese fighters be replaced with American fighters.

To Harris's surprise, before he could even say anything, Halsey agreed to Harris's request, which meant that things went even more smoothly than Harris had imagined.

The reason for this is not only that Halsey and other US generals have no choice but to delay the progress of President Chiang, as Zhang Chi thought, and not only because the "Hellcat" will be put into service soon and the "Wildcat" will be phased out, but also because of the problem of cooperation on the battlefield.

In fact, soon after making the decision to use Japanese fighters, many admirals realized that the decision was a bit rash.

The reason is that if you do this, it will cause a series of chaos when fighting...... U.S. pilots can't tell which are Japanese fighters and which are Chinese military fighters, and even if the Chinese military fighters are painted with the U.S. military livery, it is useless, because when the battle is tense, often no one looks at the fighter plane's livery but only the model, especially in the battle, more often than not, they chase the enemy plane's ass and beat it instead of looking at the side paint.

So there is no doubt that there will be chaos in the air battle.

And that's not all.

If the Chinese forces were to use Japanese fighters, the coast monitors would probably not be able to identify them, and there would be a series of false alarms, which would create confusion in intelligence.

What is even more serious is that the anti-aircraft firepower of various types of warships on the sea surface also depends on the type of warship...... What if you see that the Japanese aircraft will fight or not?

Let's fight! It is likely that it will be a fighter plane of the Chinese army.

Don't fight, if it's a Japanese fighter, it means letting them attack the aircraft carrier.

So after thinking about it, Halsey and others thought that they could not be greedy for this small bargain, and that even if these Japanese fighters were thrown away as garbage, they would not be allowed to fly into the sky.

Of course, this is just an extreme statement, after all, it is not easy to capture enemy fighters, especially Japanese fighters, and at the same time it is an honor, and it is impossible to throw them away as garbage.

Halsey's idea was...... Is it possible to use these Japanese fighters as exercise planes, that is, to simulate the Japanese aircraft group when training pilots, so that on the one hand, they can be used to test the tactics of the US military, and on the other hand, they can also cultivate the combat skills of pilots?

The idea, of course, is good, because there is such a saying among pilots...... The first three air battles have the highest mortality rate, and if you survive these three times, the chances of surviving in the future will increase exponentially.

With this kind of exercise, which is very close to actual combat, the pilots can cross the crisis of these three air battles in the rear as much as possible during the training period.

Fortunately, Harris preemptively reported the problem, otherwise Halsey would have had to relay the order.

But Halsey understands now...... This cannot be done for the time being, because if he does, that Principal Chiang will cause some other trouble for Rabaul, and finally make Rabaul's aircraft carrier battle group unable to form combat effectiveness.

So on this point, Halsey and even the United States were very cooperative, and they even expressed their dissatisfaction to President Chiang from time to time, saying that if this situation continued, these troops would not be able to play a role on the battlefield until the end of the war.

President Jiang made a lot of excuses to the United States, saying that China was on this condition and that he couldn't do anything about it, but he was secretly rejoicing in his heart: what he wanted was such a result, what he wanted was that the troops could not be put into the battlefield, otherwise why would he send these elites to the Pacific theater to help the Yankees fight?!

Originally, he wanted to bring back the two infantry divisions in the Pacific, but now he ...... In order to avoid the suspicion that the Yankees said that he "preserves strength", let's put it aside for now!

As for the next crew, because Principal Jiang believed that the pilot would not be able to form combat effectiveness so quickly for a while, he was very relieved to send everyone out.

So a force of 10,000 people soon entered Burma through the Yunnan-Burma Highway, transferred to a train across Burma to Yangon, and then rushed to Rabaul by ship from Yangon.

As for Rabaul, fortunately, Xu Zhengkai, who was sent by President Jiang, was an ignorant second-generation official, and after this major general arrived in Rabaul, he didn't care about the formation and training of the air force at all, but complained about the air in Rabaul all day long......

In his words, it was, "What the hell is this place? It's hard to even catch your breath, is this a place for people? How can pilots train in such a place ?! ”

Rabaul is the condition...... There's an active volcano right next to it, and it's either smoke or ash all day long, and if you put anything outside for a few minutes, you'll soon have a layer of ash, so the air quality is really a bit out of sight.

But the soldiers are all soldiers who fight, and they live with their heads pinned to the waistband of their trousers all day long, so who cares about this, not to mention that the wind on this sea is strong, and the air is not as bad as imagined.

Harris is also interesting, since Zhang Chi told him that Xu Zhengkai could not find out about the training of Chinese pilots, Harris seems to have opened his mind.

He specially transferred a few Chinese GIs from the navy...... During this period, due to the harsh domestic environment in China, many Chinese fled abroad to earn a living through various means, and being a soldier was one of the means of making a living, so it was really not difficult to find a few Chinese soldiers.

These Chinese GIs didn't have to do anything, they just accompanied Xu Zhengkai to this island, to play on the beach, and sometimes even went to the bar of the American GIs to pick up girls...... Perhaps, he will also think in his heart, anyway, what Shangfeng wants is not to train pilots to be famous, but to train these pilots to be famous, so it doesn't matter if it's better?!

But what Xu Zhengkai didn't expect was that he didn't care about it, but someone took care of it.

While Xu Zhengkai was out drinking, Harris was training Chinese pilots in Rabaul...... Of the 237 pilots, Harris transferred more than 300 fighters of all kinds at once, as well as a large number of maintenance equipment, parts, maintenance and maintenance personnel.

Of course, these fighters are not entirely used for training, in fact, 237 pilots simply cannot fly so many fighters, because the "Dreadnought" bomber needs two crews, and the "Avenger" torpedo attack plane needs three crews, so that more than 100 fighters of all kinds are enough for training.

The reason why more than 300 fighters had to be transferred was because the US military needed to use Rabaul as a base to launch the next round of counteroffensive.

(To be continued.) )