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But the ultra-high hit rate of dive bombers comes at the cost of their own high loss rate, especially carrier-based aircraft pilots, because it is not easy to rescue at sea, the plane is almost equivalent to a death sentence, in fact, most of the carrier-based dive bomber pilots were shot down without even achieving any results, and Rudel has sunk 4 ships, including the Lexington, a heavy aircraft carrier with a displacement of more than 40,000 tons, but he is still alive. The reason for this is that Rudel can ensure the hit by dropping bombs at an altitude of less than 1,000 meters when bombing light warships, and for large warships, it only takes 1,500 meters, and it is precisely because the larger altitude brings enough kinetic energy to the bombs, and his plane will carry semi-armor-piercing aerial bombs that need to penetrate the horizontal armor of enemy ships before they can exert their power, rather than high-explosive aerial bombs that are more commonly used in dive bombing.

For dive bombers, the higher the bomb drop, the safer, this is Rudel's survival secret, but it is undeniable that his luck is indeed very good, the pilot who drove the plane to sink the Yorktown Jishu is not much inferior to him, the same height when the bomb is dropped and avoids the bad luck of being shot down by the US anti-aircraft artillery on the spot, but he still died under the dense barrage attack of the large-caliber anti-aircraft guns of the US fleet, and Rudel's landline became the only Stuka bomber to return safely, He also survived this indiscriminate attack, which is naturally a credit of luck, considering that Stuka flies very slowly, and it is not as easy to escape as a fighter.

The American troops, who were bombed by German planes and sank two aircraft carriers, were mad. And the Japanese were also deeply stimulated by the miracle of the German bombers, and if the Germans had won more than their own battles, what reason did they have to reprimand the Germans for violating their previous agreements? Moreover, their self-esteem as good pilots made it impossible for them to tolerate the performance of their German counterparts over their own. For a time, they almost went crazy and rushed into the formation in the face of the fierce anti-aircraft fire of the US troops and the strafing fire of the enemy fighters that had swooped down from high altitudes, and after the five destroyers blocking the road on the periphery were sunk by Japanese planes, the Japanese planes, which had already lost nearly 100 planes, finally rushed to the vicinity of the US capital ships, but there were still many air defense warships here to protect them

A US light patrol with a displacement of nearly 10,000 tons was the first to be attacked, and was hit by two 250-kilogram high-explosive bombs and one 800-kilogram bomb successively, and finally sank into the sea after holding out tenaciously for more than ten minutes, but its sinking was purely because it was in the way. The real targets of the Japanese fleet were always the two remaining American aircraft carriers.

However, the U.S. military, which has already learned a lesson, is quite in place to protect aircraft carriers. Especially for the relatively difficult to defend against the low-altitude enemy, the five battleships played the role of a barrier, and the Japanese bombers wanted to threaten the two aircraft carriers, they first had to pass the terrifying anti-aircraft fire of the battleships. You must know that the American battleships pay the most attention to air defense. There are nearly 100 anti-aircraft guns on a battleship!

Furthermore. The U.S. fighter fleet also poses a huge threat to Japanese aircraft, although the overall performance of the F4F is far inferior to Japan's heavy Zero fighter, but because the Americans have fought with the Chinese J-1 with similar characteristics before. Knowing that they could not dogfight with this kind of super-maneuverable aircraft, they could only grasp the small defect that their bodies were light and difficult to dive at high speed, give full play to the relative advantage of the F4F's faster dive speed, and play a one-hit detachment tactic, which also made the US planes rarely get entangled with the Japanese planes, giving the fleet more room for air defense and artillery fire, and forming a good cooperation between the two "1+1" 2", which also formed a solid barrier in front of the Japanese aircraft group. At the same time, the two American aircraft carriers did not forget to take advantage of their high speed to move away as quickly as possible, which further increased the difficulty of the Japanese planes to sink them

However, in the face of this almost impossible barrier, the madness in the bones of the Japanese was stimulated, and the usually proud Japanese pilots shouted "onboard" and rushed to the enemy ship like the army horse manure they despised so much in the past. The two U.S. heavy cruisers and one U.S. light cruiser that were blocking the road were shot in multiple places, and they both sank not long after, and the Japanese aircraft group finally rushed to the front of the U.S. capital ship at a great cost.

Although it was difficult for the 800-kilogram high-explosive bomb to sink the battleship with thick armor, the "North Carolina" blocking the body of the USS Saratoga was inevitably incapacitated after being baptized by four heavy high-explosive bombs in a row, and dozens of Japanese planes flew over it and pounced on the USS Saratoga, which was moving away at a rapid speed.

Before that, several Japanese bombers that had dropped their bombs had crashed into the USS Saratoga under the pilotship of a frenzied pilot, and although the US planes and antiaircraft guns were desperately firing, one Japanese plane still dragged the billowing smoke and crashed headlong into the heavy aircraft carrier with a full load displacement of nearly 40,000 tons, which immediately damaged the flight deck, made it lose its ability to take off and land aircraft, and also caused some damage to some other facilities.

After the Japanese aircraft group finally opened the torpedo launch line, the USS Saratoga was doomed, although the captain of the ship dodged 11 torpedoes and 4 bombs with his superb pilot, the Saratoga was hit by 3 torpedoes and 5 bombs, and sank into the coral sea after 17 minutes

Seeing the large number of US air defense ships rapidly approaching in front of the Raider, the more than 30 Japanese pilots in Zuihou realized that it was no longer possible to blow up and sink one of the enemy's aircraft carriers. During the battle, dozens of US antiaircraft gunners went crazy, some of them committed suicide by jumping into the sea, some of them were dazed and opened fire on their comrades, and some of them simply fainted, and even those US officers and men who withstood the pressure looked like they had palpitations when they recalled the battle in the future

Even before the USS Lexington was sunk, Nimitz had already confirmed that the Battle of the Coral Sea was difficult to win, and that the outcome of Zuihou was not what he expected, and it was difficult to say which side won (to be continued......