"Woo woo" As the piercing sound of air defense sirens resounded over Pearl Harbor, this seemingly sleeping military port suddenly woke up.
Thanks to the internationalist fighters, Pearl Harbor was on the highest alert long ago.
Although it was Sunday, not a single American GI was drunk at the weekend's prom and drinking party.
No one was given a chance to take a vacation, and they were all locked up in the barracks complaining and preparing for war.
And when the air defense sirens sounded, the American GIs in Pearl Harbor were rising in formation, and in the middle of the melodious American national anthem, Japanese planes came.
"Pearl Harbor was hit by air, this is not an exercise, Pearl Harbor was attacked, this is not an exercise" After the air raid siren, loudspeakers in various parts of Pearl Harbor began to warn in words, adding the phrase "This is not an exercise."
Of course, at this time, even the sluggish American GIs knew that "it was not an exercise."
Because fierce aerial battles have been fought over Oahu's Hickem, Wheeler, Kanuhei, and Ford Island airports It turned out that shortly after the first Japanese attack wave arrived over Pearl Harbor, eight 40, eight 51 and eight F4F "Wildcat" fighters on standby on the runways of the four major airfields, two belonging to the Army and two belonging to the Navy, were urgently lifted into the air.
Due to the training of German foreign aid, Itaya Shigeru and others are very familiar with the performance and tactics of 40 and 51, but they have never seen F4F, but this does not prevent them from fighting.
The 64 Zeros, which were in charge of air superiority on the battlefield, immediately dropped the bombs they carried, and then divided into four large formations and swooped down on the US fighters that took off from the four US airfields.
While swooping away, some of these Zeros continued to gain altitude, taking up positions in the air as soon as they came up, and then condescendingly began to dive to attack the American planes that had just taken off.
Seeing that something was wrong, these American planes immediately flipped their fuselages and began to dive.
If you want to take advantage of the excellent dive performance to get out, this is the knock on the door taught by the British masters of the Americans.
The British told the Americans not to fight the Fokker Zero, but to pull up the dive attack, or dive up and escape.
As long as you keep diving and pulling high, you can always compete with the Fokker Zero.
But when these American pilots flying 51, 40 and F4F flew down, they realized that something was wrong, and there were Zero planes waiting for them below, and as soon as they rushed down, they were bitten by the Zero planes and bombarded by machine guns, and 6 planes were shot down on the spot Seeing a 40 shot down by himself falling headlong to the ground, Shigeru Itaya's mood suddenly improved, and at the same time, he also felt that Captain Hersmann of Germany was still a relatively reliable teacher, and he could really shoot down American planes with the methods he taught Thinking of this, he retracted his gaze and looked at the Hickam Airport below, and was immediately shocked by the scene in front of him.
At least 100 planes are lined up on the taxiway between the airport's runway and the tarmac There were twin or four-engine bombers, as well as single-engine 40 and 51 fighters.
All of these expensive, brand-new-looking planes don't end up in hangars, they sit casually at airports.
It's humid and rainy Hawaii, and if the plane is not stored in the hangar, it can be easily damaged by the wind and rain all day long.
Hundreds of planes worth at least tens of millions of yen, just throw them here casually, and the Americans don't take money seriously Itaya Shigeru's shock didn't last long before it was interrupted by a violent explosion.
It turned out that the Type 97 torpedo bombers and Type 99 dive bombers that arrived later had already begun to drop bombs.
The bombing effect was surprisingly good, and it is not known whether these planes were parked too densely, or if these planes still had a small amount of fuel in their fuel tanks, and a single bomb explosion would quickly spread to all planes A series of explosions soon occurred at Hickam Airport, and most of the planes worth 10 million yen were reduced to wreckage in a very short period of time.
Just when Shigeru Itaya and all the Japanese pilots were in a hurry, clouds of black smoke suddenly dispersed in the air, and it was the anti-aircraft guns on the ground firing, and the fire was quite fierce Itaya Shigeru knew that the Zero he was driving was not beaten, so he didn't dare to stay at a low altitude for a long time, so he hurriedly raised the altitude.
At that moment, he saw a Zero fighter set on fire, tumbling and falling.
"See you at Miyake Saka" Itaya looked at the rapidly falling plane, and silently recited in his heart a sentence of Little Hersman's suggestion about "broadsword and parachute" to no avail.
All the pilots of the "Akagi" flying squadron that made today's attack did not carry parachutes, and the officers among them all carried knives Mizu Mitsuo Nakasa, the captain of the "Akagi" flight team and also the commander-in-chief of the first attack wave, was leading a Type 97 torpedo bomber to fly to the dock where the American battleship was anchored at Pearl Harbor.
It was the densest anti-aircraft fire in the entire Pearl Harbor, and not only were the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns on the battleships desperately throwing a rain of bullets, but dozens of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns were erected on the docks next to these battleships, and they were now firing at the highest rate of fire.
Seeing the dense explosion of black smoke in the air and the rapid orange-red rays, Mitsuo Fuchida gasped, fortunately his plane today was hung with 800 kg of armor-piercing bombs modified from the shells of the main guns of the battleship Nagato, not aviation torpedoes, otherwise today would probably be the day of his godhood Thinking of this, Mitsuo Fuchida turned on the airborne radio station and the radio station of the bomber was not allowed to be dismantled, and began to issue orders: "Attention to the attack troops of the Akagi and Kaga, the 3200 altitude penetration, the Type 97 lightning attack aircraft is responsible for the first wave of attacks, the comet dive bomber is responsible for the second wave of attacks, and each squad is attacking the designated target, I wish you all a long military luck."
According to Minoru Genda's attack plan, the first attack wave would deploy 40 Type 97 torpedo bombers and 48 Comet dive bombers to bomb eight American battleships anchored in Pearl Harbor.
Therefore, all the "Comet" and Type 97 will attack in 5-plane squads, each squad has a predetermined target, and the Japanese pilots participating in this attack are elites accumulated over many years, and everyone can visually identify the model of the American battleship at an altitude of 3,200 meters, so there will be no repeated attacks and waste of ammunition.
The first was the attack of the Type 97 mine-strike aircraft, which dropped 800-kilogram armor-piercing shells horizontally at an altitude of 3200 meters.
A squad of 5 planes will form a formation of 5 planes, one in front of the other, and drop bombs one after the other.
Then there were six Comet dive bombers diving down from a height of 3,200 meters to drop 500 kg of armor-piercing bombs.
Whether it is an 800-kilogram bomb dropped from an altitude of 3,200 meters or a 500-kilogram bomb dropped in a dive, it can deal a fatal blow to the American battleship moored in Pearl Harbor After Mitsuo Fuchida gave the order, he piloted his own plane and led a 6-plane team to search for the flagship of the U.S.
Pacific Fleet, the USS Pennsylvania, which was assigned a task to Fuchida.
According to previously received information, "Pennsylvania" should be docked side by side with its sister ship "Arizona".
Because the two ships were of the same class and could not be distinguished at an altitude of 3,200 meters, the team led by Fuchida and the team led by Captain Kusumi who took off from the aircraft carrier Wyvern were responsible for attacking the Arizona, and they attacked the two "Pennsylvania"-class battleships on the inside near the dock and on the outside.
However, when Mitsuo Fuchida approached the berth of the American battleship, he suddenly found that there were only seven large warships on the surface that looked a bit like battleships, and there was only one "Pennsylvania" class.
"Nakasa, there is only one Pennsylvania-class" bombardier Yasuda reported loudly to Fuchida.
In fact, the "Pennsylvania" was undergoing repairs in the shipyard at this time, so it escaped disaster.
What Fuchida saw was the battleship "Arizona".
"That's it," said Mitsuo Fuchida, "and we're going to attack the Pennsylvania-class, and then we're going to have the Wyvern's Yukusumi team attack, and finally we're going to have the dive bombers on it."
Fuchida immediately adjusted the bombing sequence, first dropping bombs by two Type 97 squads, and then attacking by "Comet" dive bombers.
Five Type 97 torpedo bombers then circled in the air and formed a formation of five planes, braving anti-aircraft fire from a nearby pier on the sea and pounced on the "Arizona" on the water.
Since the VT fuze was produced in Britain in 1940, the United States has now obtained this technology, but has not completed the final design work and has not begun to equip the troops, and the US Navy is not equipped with the imitation Bofors 40 anti-aircraft gun, so at an altitude of 3200 meters, the anti-aircraft gun fire is not too strong.
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"Target Pennsylvania, put" At 8:05 a.m.
Hawaii time on December 7, 1941, Fuchida felt the plane move upwards as the bomber shouted, the result of the sudden reduction in the weight of the plane after the bomb was dropped.
Five 800-kilogram armor-piercing bombs fell rapidly from an altitude of 3,200 meters, one of which, I don't know who dropped it, hit the front of the "Arizona" turret No. 4, but the bomb did not penetrate the turret due to the angle, but slipped through the sloping tower wall, drilled through the back deck and into the commander's compartment on the lower level, and then exploded there.
Just one minute later, five planes led by Captain Kusumi also completed the bombing, this time also an 800-kilogram armor-piercing shell pierced the front deck of the "Arizona", and then it is unknown whether it penetrated the ammunition depot and caused a huge explosion t1706231537: