If the battle-damaged bombers really can't hold out to the west coast, they should also parachute over the Pacific Ocean as much as possible, and easily do not parachute in the interior of Japan. Because according to the agreement reached between the Anti-Japanese Federation and the United States, the United States will send submarines to the coast east of Japan in the form of rotational stationing. That is, he carried out the blockade mission against Japan, and also participated in the rescue of the pilots of the Anti-Japanese Union.

In exchange, the Tumen River Estuary will be provided as a temporary anchorage for U.S. Navy submarines to refuel and replenish supplies. When US Navy submarines are operating in the Sea of Japan, the Anti-Japanese Union will provide air cover and support as much as possible. Moreover, this rescue tactic of the Anti-Japanese Federation was also extended to the US air crew after the US military participated in the bombing of Japan.

Although the Japanese took the extreme measure of shooting the anti-United Nations air crews who were shot down over the mainland and captured once they were captured, they could be shot without any interrogation. Even the common Japanese people joined in the massacre of parachuted air force personnel. As well as the submarines involved in the rescue of the US military, they are always in a situation of half-heartedness and always insufficient numbers.

However, thanks to the efforts of the Anti-Japanese Federation to continuously improve the means of rescue, the Anti-Japanese Federation suffered considerable losses in the early days of the bombing of Japan. The permanent loss of aircrews involved in bombing operations is always kept within a manageable range. Although the number is not small, it can almost be said to be at a negligible level compared to the European battlefields of the same period.

Most of the bomber crews that were shot down over the Sea of Japan or crashed over the Sea of Japan were rescued as long as they parachuted. During the entire air raid on Japan, these seaplanes rescued more than 1,000 air crews, accounting for almost 60 percent of the air crew of the anti-United Nations war-damaged planes.

In addition to the seven or eight hundred people rescued by the US submarines, the loss of bombers and aircrews of the Anti-United Nations was the smallest among all the strategic bombing forces in the entire World War II. Although the bombing intensity became more and more intense, and the battle damage was not light, the vitality of the bomber unit was always retained.

Thanks to the American-made B17 and B24 bombers, as well as the British-made Stirling bomber, the sturdy airframe and extremely strong survivability. In addition, the width of the Japanese mainland from east to west is not large, and the main bombing target of the Anti-Japanese Union, Honshu Island, is only 250 kilometers at its widest and 50 kilometers at its narrowest.

As long as these bombers were not directly hit and disintegrated over Japan, or all four engines were out of order, they could basically struggle to parachute or make a forced landing on the west coast of Japan. In particular, the B-XVII bombers and Stirling bombers, even with their wings knocked out in half, were able to struggle to fly out of the Japanese archipelago.

Even the sturdiest Stirling bomber, itself a bomber converted from the Sunderland seaplane, can still ensure a certain amount of buoyancy when it makes a forced landing on the sea. All this ensured that most of the crews of battle-damaged bombers could avoid parachuting over the Japanese mainland.

In this unusually tight rescue net woven by the Anti-Japanese Federation, most of these personnel have been rescued. Compared with the success rate of the US submarine rescue on the east coast of Japan, which is only 20 percent, the rescue effect of the Anti-Japanese Union can be described as quite outstanding.

You must know that even when the US military participated in the air raids, the US submarine rescue operations were much more active, but they were far from reaching the 60 percent rescue rate. It was also these rescue measures that avoided excessive casualties and captures of the aircrew due to battle damage, which affected the attendance of the bomber unit.

Large seaplanes were used as refueling planes within the combat radius of the P-40 fighters taking off from Hunchun, and seaplanes with a light and flexible fuselage were used as a first-line search method despite their short range. It is still the idea that Yang Zhen pondered from the air tankers of later generations.

Although the current air refueling technology is not yet mature, the Anti-United Nations does not have the ability to manufacture similar equipment. However, when the sea surface wind is small, the large transport aircraft can be converted into tanker planes by taking off and landing on the water, and the small planes can be refueled on the sea surface, so as to effectively extend the combat radius and search range of these small aircraft.

Along the Sea of Japan, which is more than 1,300 kilometers wide from east to west, a search and rescue network will be formed as closely as possible to rescue as many aircrews of war-damaged planes as possible. Judging from the post-war statistics, the search and rescue network of the Anti-Japanese Federation, which combines far and near, still basically meets the needs in the absence of naval vessels.

Despite the fact that in the face of the fighters sent by the Japanese, the losses of these search and rescue aircraft themselves were not small. But overall, the effect can even be described as excellent. By the time the Yak-9 long-range escort fighter was put into use in the past four years, the search and rescue planes had basically achieved zero losses except for their own failures.

The intensity of the anti-Japanese bombing of the United Nations against Japan was not as strong as that of the United States and Britain in the same period. It also aroused great criticism at home, within the party, and in the military, but it was a considerable blow to the morale and will of the Japanese people. It also played a considerable role in the maintenance of the war potential of the Japanese.

In order to eliminate the bases where the United States and Britain transferred bombers to the Anti-United Nations, the Japanese even launched successive attacks on India in spite of the already long battle line, in an attempt to cut off the rear bases for the United States and Britain to transfer bombers to the Anti-United Nations. Its army aviation also gave up almost all its ground support missions, and launched air strikes on the base areas of the Anti-United Nations in an attempt to wipe out the bomber groups of the Anti-United Nations on the ground.

In the fourth or third year, the Soviets were also very itchy when they saw the effect of the anti-Japanese bombing against Japan. In order to test their strategic bombing level, they sent the only dozens of Pei-8 bombers, changed into American military uniforms, and painted off all the markings on the fuselage several times. The Soviets obviously wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to accumulate some experience in long-range bombing.

However, the Soviets, who obviously did not want to openly tear their faces with the Japanese at this time, only participated in a few raids on Toyama, the center of metal smelting. After the loss of six bombers, the Pe8 bomber ceased to participate because of its poor reliability and after gaining some experience in long-range bombing.

Subsequently, these Peiba bombers were transferred to the Anti-Japanese Federation and then withdrawn to China. There is no way that the engine reliability of these planes is too poor, and the planes will be lost after a few more plays. It didn't matter if the Soviets lost all the planes, but if the parachuted crew were captured, it would have serious consequences. So the participation of the Soviets was still quite limited.

Although Yang Zhen was quite satisfied with the performance of these Peiba bombers, Yang Zhen did not dare to use them easily because of the poor reliability of the engines of these bombers. In the end, the engines of the more than 40 Pei-8 bombers were replaced with spare engines of a batch of American-made B24 bombers before they were put into actual combat.

However, this batch of Soviet-made four-engine heavy bombers was unlucky not because of anything else, but because of the lack of effective engines. After replacing with much more reliable American-made engines, the performance of these Soviet-made bombers was not inferior to that of the British-made Stirling bombers, and the number of more than 40 was not too small.

Of course, this batch of Soviet goods was not given for free, but in exchange for 50,000 tons of high-quality thermal coal. At this price point, it is still very cheap overall. Of course, these bombers need to be equipped with a communication system, an in-flight intercom, and an engine replacement. But overall, the cost performance is much better than those Ye II bombers.

In fact, the engines of the 100 B24 bombers, the Anti-Union actually did not spend money, and they were not even included in the Lend-Lease project. Because after Yang Zhen took over these bombers, he immediately handed them over to the Americans for the Americans to carefully study the heavy bomber technology of the Soviets.

The Americans used 100 B24 bomber engines in exchange for this Pei-8 bomber, plus the previous Ye 2 bomber after studying it all over again. A very important conclusion was drawn that this type of aircraft of the Soviets was nothing more than a bunch of garbage. Although the voyage is relatively long, it basically does not pose any threat to the United States and Britain.

And the performance is not only far inferior to the new bomber being designed by the United States, but also inferior to the bomber that the United States and Britain have now put into the battlefield. Both the bomb load under a large range and the equipment on the aircraft are quite backward. By the standards of the United States and Britain, this bomber does not even have real combat capabilities.

A hundred high-horsepower engines, in exchange for such a conclusion that anyone feels big-headed, is still very cost-effective in the eyes of the Americans. The strict secrecy measures of the Soviets have kept them untouchable to the outside world. The Americans, although they believed that the Soviets' aviation technology was too far from their own, did not believe the propaganda of the Germans.

The Americans, though, looked down on the Soviet Navy, and the Air Force, which was at best a tactical air force in World War II. But the Americans were still very interested in whether the Soviets could build a bomber that would fly directly from Kamchatka to Alaska and threaten the American mainland.

With this rare opportunity to master the latest Soviet bomber technology, the Americans are still very willing to spend money. In fact, the Americans have always been interested in Soviet-made aircraft equipped by the United Nations. Both bombers and fighters are quite interested. The Americans not only sent pilots to test the Soviet-made bombers equipped by the Anti-United Nations, but all of them were veterans.

At present, although the United States and the Soviet Union are fighting fiercely because they are facing the same enemy, the Americans are really trying to help the Soviets. But today's friends don't mean they won't be enemies tomorrow. Just as the Americans always left a lot of hands for the aid of the United Nations and only gave second-rate equipment, the aid to the Soviet Union was not strong there.

The equipment on the ground is given what is given, trucks, tanks, armored vehicles, almost everything is needed. But for the control of the aircraft, it is quite strict. Not to mention that not a single strategic bomber is given, but not a single fighter is also given. Mustang fighters, only a few of the initial B type. At the same time, many means were taken to spy on the aviation intelligence and development of the Soviets.

The attitude of the United States and Britain determined their cooperation with the Soviets, and the intrigue would always be hidden in it, and the day the war was won, that is, the day the two sides parted ways. Cold war? Without this war without gunpowder, where would Yang Zhen have so many opportunities?

The attitude of the Soviets towards the United States and Britain is the same, and their latest aviation technology has always been strictly secret. Many Soviet planes often appeared on the battlefield, and the United States and Britain only learned that the Soviets still had such a new aircraft. When the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR went to England for a meeting on this Pep-8 bomber, all the maintenance was carried out by the Soviets themselves.

It was quite difficult for the British to get close to this bomber. It was not until after that meeting that the United States and Britain learned that the Soviets actually had such a long-legged ultra-long-range bomber. But this aircraft of the Soviets, despite the heavy losses on the battlefield. However, strict secrecy was taken against the United States and Britain, and the Americans had no access to it at all. This time the Americans seized the opportunity, and a hundred engines were nothing at all.