In fact, Pearson and the United States insisted that the British provide the planes they had promised to the United Nations in accordance with the agreement. Pearson was also quite angry about the British's breach of contract. Because by doing so, the British are undoubtedly putting the Americans in an awkward position.

Moreover, the British transported this batch of planes to Vladivostok, and the goods were already delivered to their doorstep, but they transported these planes to Australia and Malaya. In the eyes of Americans, this is quite unauthentic. You can't do this, the goods are going to be handed over to others, and they turn around and take it back.

The most crucial thing is that the Americans believe that because of their backward performance, these planes no longer meet the actual conditions of the European battlefield, and all of them have been retired from active service in the British army. Not to mention that all of your British air forces have been decommissioned, even in the air forces of other countries in the British Commonwealth.

In addition to South Africa, which is thousands of kilometers away from the battlefield, there is also a certain amount of equipment. Even in the Australian and Canadian air forces, there is no longer a front-line combat mission. In addition to the war losses in Europe and North Africa, you have thousands of planes idle.

Even if you think that this kind of aircraft is no longer sufficient in the European theater, there is no problem in dealing with the Japanese in the Asian theater. We want to use these aircraft to strengthen the defense of Southeast Asia in the current situation. But where do you mobilize badly? Do you have to take away these promised planes at the critical time when you British are cooperating with the Anti-Japanese Union for the first time?

In fact, the most helpless and waxing Americans in this matter are the Americans. At the resolute request of the big-bellied prime minister, a batch of A-20 attack planes promised by the Americans to be handed over to the Anti-United Nations at the end of the year was handed over to the North African theater, which was in dire need of tactical support aircraft, in order to contain the increasingly fierce offensive of the German African Army.

And when the Soviets asked the Anti-United Nations to return the Su-2 light bombers, they also patted their chests to make a guarantee, and the British would provide the same type of aircraft to replace the light bombers that the Anti-United Nations also urgently needed. But in the end, the British played a trick and transported the planes that had already arrived at the door of the Anti-Japanese Union to other places, which naturally made the Americans very dissatisfied.

When you British asked for that batch of attack planes, you patted your chest and promised that you would provide a batch of planes that were sufficient to meet the needs of the Chinese, and that they were outdated in the European theater, but that there was absolutely no problem against the Japanese. But now they are not keeping their word, which clearly makes the Chinese side doubt the sincerity of the Americans.

The American side has done what it promised you British, but you can't do it. The British side not only soaked the Chinese to a deep heart, but also took the American side to soak enough. In this matter, it is not human to make the Americans inside and out.

It's just that the Americans are angry at what Britain has done, but at this time, the Americans not only can't take action against the British, but on the one hand, they are still urging Britain to fulfill the agreement, and at the same time trying to cover up the British for this selfish practice.

But despite the repeated urging of the Americans, the prime minister just did not let go. I don't say no, I don't say I don't give, the three parties just drag it so inexplicably. Faced with the shortage of tactical support aircraft, Yang Zhen, who was approaching the time for the launch of the campaign, was an American who urged three times a day as a guarantor for this matter.

The only thing the United States could do after receiving Yang Zhen's telegram urging them was to keep urging the British to fulfill their promises. But no matter how much the United States urged, the British remained silent on this matter. It was not until February '42, when the Japanese army had swept across the entire Malayan Peninsula, that the attitude of the British changed.

In the face of increasing military pressure on the battlefield in Southeast Asia, and at the same time, Yang Zhen proposed that the Anti-Japanese Union would not be able to cooperate with the British in Southeast Asia because of the lack of urgently needed tactical aircraft. And in view of the fact that the United States and Britain have breached the contract first, the Anti-Japanese Union believes that there is no need to fully fulfill the agreement under the threat of full performance.

The pot-bellied prime minister urgently negotiated with the Americans and the Soviets, and in the shortest possible time, 300 Soviet freighters from the more than 700 aircraft of the same type equipped by the Royal Canadian Air Force for freedom of navigation in the Pacific Ocean were transported to Vladivostok for Canada.

There is no way, the batch of planes originally planned to be supplied to the Anti-Japanese Union have been swept by the Japanese army in World War Zero and World War I, and all of them have been lost in the Malayan Peninsula within half a month. Drawn from the British mainland, and with no time in time, the remorseful Britons could only open their mouths to their little brother, the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Fortunately, as the largest member of the British Commonwealth, it has its own military industrial strength. The Japanese have swept through Southeast Asia, conquering the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines in a short period of time, and Singapore is about to be lost. I am afraid that after the Japanese complete the Southeast Asian operation, the next step will be to attack the Canadian Air Force on the Canadian mainland.

After receiving the British's request for help, he did not use the Americans to do the work, and not only agreed to the British's request very readily. In the shortest possible time, enough stock was provided in full accordance with the requirements of the British. More than 10 pilots with rich experience in piloting the aircraft were also sent to Northeast China to serve as instructors with the ship.

In fact, what made the British pot-bellied prime minister finally relent, Yang Zhen's threat can only be one aspect. For him, the threat of the Anti-United Nations is just an itch in his boots. With the Americans coming forward to help suppress the Chinese, those Chinese will never dare to violate the agreement.

What really relieved him was that these planes were the objects of slaughter not only in front of the Germans. In front of the Japanese naval aviation, which had always been despised by the British, there was no chance of survival. In the Battle of the Malay Peninsula in January, in a short 10-minute air battle, more than 20 Battle light bombers invested by the British army were all shot down.

In the ensuing battle, the remaining light bombers of the same type were either shot down on the battlefield or blown up by Japanese planes on the airfield. By mid-January, less than a month after the Japanese attacked, the planes that had been transported to Singapore and subsequently transferred from Australia had all lost their embers in a short period of time.

After a real battle, it has been proven that this aircraft is not at all an opponent of the combat aircraft of the Japanese army. Even during the Japanese offensive against Malaya, British and Australian pilots, who were assigned to fly these aircraft, openly refused to fly such aircraft into combat. The planes that remained in the air battle were blown up one by one by Japanese planes on the airfield.

In less than a month, the Japanese army had swept across the Malay Peninsula, with its forces directed at Singapore and the Dutch East Indies, and the British army in Southeast Asia was facing complete collapse. The British, who urgently needed the Anti-Union to launch an offensive in the north and relieve the pressure on the British army on the battlefield, finally handed over a batch of modified aircraft to the Anti-United Nations.

It's just that although the British and Canadians moved quickly, but after such a toss and turn, all these planes arrived at the Anti-Japanese Union before the end of February. This is still the Soviets, under pressure from the Americans, who agreed to help with their precious freighter. If the British fleet alone had become a battlefield in the entire Pacific Ocean and could only be diverted to Iran, it was estimated that it would not be possible to transport it until the battle was over.

Although the Anti-League eventually over-acquired these much-needed tactical bombers, a large amount of the Anti-Alliance's extremely valuable time had been wasted on this endless and almost entire war-time affair. These planes, which arrived at the end of February, were simply unable to catch up with the launch of the campaign.

Although the anti-union who took over these planes originally flew the Su-2 light bomber, they had already lost the pilots of their original planes, and they worked overtime to carry out conversion training after receiving these planes. British and Canadian technicians who came at random also assembled the aircraft as soon as possible. But for this battle, the planes still arrived too late.

And for the anti-United Nations pilots who have been accustomed to using Soviet-made and American-made aircraft, the first British-made zuò fighter aircraft obtained by this anti-United Nations will take a certain amount of time to get familiar with both performance and British instruments. Even if you go to the battlefield without any modifications, it will still take a lot of time.

What's more, the British-made airborne machine guns on these planes were 7.7 mm British caliber, but the bullets randomly transported by the British were only 300,000 rounds. That is to say, each of these combat aircraft has two machine guns, a total of 600 machine guns, and each of them can only receive an average of 500 rounds of ammunition, which is almost a drop in the bucket.

And the Anti-Union, which had never used British-caliber weapons before, searched through the entire base area and could not find a single 7.7mm machine gun bullet. Although there are a large number of captured Japanese-made 7.7 bullets, the same caliber does not mean that the two types of bullets can really be used together.

Tactical aircraft are urgently needed on the front line, but the limited firepower for self-defense is not only insufficient, but also in a situation of severe malnutrition. In desperation, the anti-coalition air force could only concentrate its limited ammunition on 70 bombers, and give priority to ensuring the self-defense capability of these planes before putting them into use on the battlefield.

As for the remaining more than two hundred, in addition to leaving thirty to be handed over to the rear training base to familiarize the new pilots with the performance of the British-made aircraft. Others seized the time to improve and replaced these British machine guns with no ammunition with Soviet-made 7.62mm aviation machine guns that had been equipped with the original MiG-3 fighters but had been replaced by the 12-mm machine guns manufactured by the Anti-Japanese Federation itself.

It was not until late April that these British-made light bombers were put into the battlefield. And the first batch of aircraft put into service, only seventy. The rest are still working overtime in the aviation factory of the Anti-United Nations to transform and replace machine guns. What else could I do? Let this kind of plane stabbing the hands on the battlefield?

The British, who have always been selfish, made this move at a critical moment, which brought great trouble to the Anti-United Nations in this operation. At the beginning of the battle, the main tactical support aircraft used by the Anti-Japanese Alliance. Because of the lack of supplementary equipment, we can only continue to use the original American-made A-20 attack planes, as well as the French fighters that have been modified by the Anti-United Nations and switched to ground attack.

In actual combat, the A-20 attack aircraft is still extremely good, but the number is still unable to meet the needs. However, because the combat range of those French fighters was too short, they could only take off from front-line airfields, and their stay in the air was too short. And because of the innate design, it can only carry a maximum of 200 kg of bombs, or six air-to-ground rockets. When used as an attack aircraft, it can only be said to be barely enough to pay for it at best.

These French-made fighters were unable to fully fulfill the expectations of the Anti-Japanese Federation, and the newly arrived planes in the rear were delayed by a large amount of time because they arrived too late to change flight training, and they could not be put into combat at the first time. In addition, the air force has to face such a large combat area at the same time, and the limited ground support aircraft cannot meet the needs at all. Fighter planes can only be transferred from time to time to change careers, but it has affected the struggle for air supremacy, and it is very difficult to take care of one or the other.