"Oh, God! Are they crazy? Vice Admiral Thomas Carson-Kincaid looked at the huge columns of smoke rising from the bridge and his hand holding on to the telescope trembled a little.

Thinking of the scene just now, he couldn't believe his eyes.

The war on Saipan is nearing its end, and there is no doubt that the Americans, who have air and sea supremacy, are about to win.

Even though there were three airfields on Saipan, the number of fighters of the Japanese was nothing compared to that of the Americans, not to mention that they no longer had enough qualified pilots to fly the new fighters, especially the Hainan Airlines.

The pilots, especially the pilots of the Hainan Airlines, are very strict, and the level is not in place, and it is difficult for them to take off and land on aircraft carriers.

The Japanese also have extremely high requirements for HNA pilots, but the HNA pilots they have trained with high requirements have almost consumed them unconsciously.

Earlier, they folded several aircraft carriers in the hands of Huaxia and dragged them to the bottom of the sea with the pilots of the Hainan Airlines. Even when the HNA fighters went to fight with the Huaxia Air Force on land, they suffered heavy losses after repeated defeats because of the backwardness of the aircraft. This has already made the Japanese Navy a bone breaker, and the reserve force of the Navy was activated early.

But most of these reserves were exhausted in successive battles with the Americans, and even some of the ones that had been cultivated after the start of the war were folded in them.

At present, Japan's qualified naval pilots are unable to make up even the full strength of the four aircraft carriers.

And in order to deal with the threat of China to the Japanese mainland, in order to deal with the crisis from both ends of the East China Sea and the Whale Sea, at least 2 ships are needed.

In the South China Sea, the Philippines also needs one aircraft carrier to protect the surrounding waters, which makes it difficult to send one aircraft carrier near the Northern Mariana Islands and the Southern Islands, not to mention the Indian Ocean, where one aircraft carrier is urgently needed to escort the Maldives and the Andaman Islands.

In response to the crisis in Guam. Japan simply squeezed out the newly repaired aircraft carrier Shozuru and the newly completed and commissioned aircraft carrier Amagi to go to Guam to help in the war.

However, the two Japanese aircraft carriers that were not satisfied with the formation encountered the 12 aircraft carriers that the Americans attacked aggressively. It has become a cup on the surface of the sea.

The Amagi aircraft carrier was sunk by three American aircraft carriers almost as soon as it appeared. The remaining Xianghe struggled to support, but to no avail.

There was no air cover at sea, and the Japanese warships were once again used as targets for American aircraft carriers.

3 destroyers, 1 cruiser and more than thirty auxiliary vessels were sunk in a row. One battleship was damaged, making it difficult for the Japanese Navy to protect itself, and it was no longer possible to take care of Saipan, which was a little farther away.

U.S. Marines landed quickly.

Facing Saipan, which has been repeatedly turned over by bombs and shells. The U.S. Marine Corps, which has a lot of experience in landing, is confident that this time it will be quickly bulldozed with low casualties.

But when they launched a large-scale landing battle, the Japanese air counterattack began.

When less than 100 warplanes appeared in the sky, none of the Americans paid much attention to it.

"Haha! Old-fashioned fighters were actually sent, could it be that the Japanese were so poor that the aircraft factories could not work? It's really sad and regrettable to be a Japanese pilot! A U.S. military officer holding a telescope to observe said with a smile.

"What is there to regret? The more the Japanese are like this, the more we like it, and they are coming to give us medals. Someone laughed.

"My baby Jenny might be able to spray a single heart, maybe several!" While preparing to take off, a US military pilot patted his plane and said to his companion with a smile.

"I have a hunch. I can also paint a star on my partner today! The machine gunner, who was casually walking towards the position of the quadruple 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun with an unlit cigarette in his mouth, was also laughing with his companion.

"I didn't expect that at the end of the day, we would be able to harvest a little more dessert!" Thomas Carson Kincaid, who was standing on the USS Enterprise, also joked to the staff officers around him.

Every American seems to have treated these Japanese fighters from the direction of Guam as a meal, not even a big meal. Just an appetizer.

But they didn't see the expressions of the pilots on the Japanese fighters who were desperate for death. Not to mention that this was the first performance of the kamikaze, otherwise their remorse would not have remained in the sea breeze near Saipan.

"Here comes my Ace Medal!" Bruce Fox shouted excitedly. Released the controller trigger of the machine gun. Known as "Hawkeye Blues", he clearly saw two chains of fire drawn into the thin armored fuselage of the Japanese, cutting off part of the tail and cracking the fuel tank of the half-worn Mitsubishi Type 96-1 fighter.

Although it did not detonate, looking at the black fuel that kept leaking out, and the shadow of the Japanese pilot who seemed to have his neck crooked, it was already a sign that the fighter plane was going to be finished, and I believe that the evidence on the camera was enough for Bruce to step into the ranks of the aces of the American HNA.

But before he could make up a few more shots to finally determine the record, the Type 96 had already been planted diagonally.

"Oh yes!" Bruce hurriedly checked that the camera in the nose was working properly and adjusted the best shooting angle. But looking at the fighter jet dragging the black smoke longer and longer, a trace of unease rose in his heart.

"It's so fast!" The thought in his mind coincided with the shadow of a cruiser below, and his eyes widened at the thought of his death on the Coral Sea.

A Japanese Zero fighter jet crashing into the aircraft carrier before dying slammed a large hole in the deck of the USS Enterprise while the shockwave of the explosion swept his Hellcat mount into the sea.

"Nope! Stop it......" he shouted urgently.

But it's over, not to mention the 40-mm anti-aircraft gun turret that hasn't fired yet, even if the front of the fighter has been sealed with seven or eight 12.7-mm anti-aircraft machine guns and the chain of 20-mm anti-aircraft guns, it still can't change the huge inertia of high-speed objects.

"Boom!" Huge inertia, along with 250 kilograms of explosives and the little remaining oil, sprayed a huge column of smoke with red and black flames on the Cleveland-class light cruiser below.

"Oh no!" Vice Admiral Thomas was not moved by the thick plume of smoke less than two nautical miles away from him, he had seen a lot of such scenes, but in just 10 minutes, a dozen equally thick plumes of smoke rose in succession over the entire surface of the sea, he was stunned.

When the first pillar of smoke was raised, the interception orders he gave in time did not work at all. The Japanese fighters did not entangle with the American fighters at all, and they all swooped away as fast as possible at the targets they had already determined.

Even though the fragments of the 12.7-mm machine guns and small- and medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns on the American fighters pierced the Japanese fighters, they still could not stop their downward rush.

At high speed and inertia, the fighters and anti-aircraft weapons of the Americans were simply at a loss.

Unless an anti-aircraft gun of a caliber of 40 mm or higher hits directly or at close range, blocking the speed and inertia with a scream of death, or directly disintegrating those fighters in the air, they could not be stopped at all.

There were not many large and medium-caliber antiaircraft guns on the US warships that had not yet withstood the test of the severe threat from the Japanese air, and the Americans, who had experienced a large-scale and frantic aerial counterattack by the Japanese for the first time, were also panicked and at a loss, and were simply unable to organize an effective interception and interception.

The Japanese fighters were like dumplings, landing on the US warships one after another or plunging directly into the sea.

Although they were just some old-fashioned fighters or bombers, they achieved amazing results in less than an hour.

The first large-scale kamikaze operation, a total of 92 warplanes were dispatched.

Among them, 31 American warships were hit, with a hit rate of more than 33%. In the case of the first time that the Americans were exposed to this kind of crazy counterattack, and the quality of the pilots was not bad, although it was also the first time to perform, the results were better than the average level of the kamikaze 25%.

The attack of 31 suicide fighters directly put 5 aircraft carriers and 1 battleship of the Americans out of the battle sequence, and 1 aircraft carrier was sunk.

1 cruiser and 2 destroyers and 1 oil tanker were sunk, 4 cruisers and 2 cruisers were damaged.

Moreover, this attack interrupted the air and sea support of the Americans, so that the US Marines suffered a counterattack from the Japanese troops defending the island in the following landing battle, and not only did not gain a firm foothold on Saipan, but lost the lives of more than 3,000 soldiers at once.

It's enough to make the flesh hurt Americans.

"Only by showing our indomitable fighting spirit and letting the Americans consider the price of persecuting us can we gain a certain advantage in the next negotiations!" Hideki Tojo used this fact to explain to Hirohito what it meant to make a small effort.

"Next, the Americans will accept our sincerity in negotiations!" Hideki Tojo, who received Saipan's latest record, smiled proudly.