"Several" The Black Island Turtle Man and the Mikawa Army glanced at each other, but they didn't take it seriously.
At the top of the day, a few US night planes took advantage of the weakness of the Japanese air force to harass Oahu, and this was expected long ago in the "Jie-1 operation" plan.
Moreover, several squadrons of moonlight night fighters were deployed in the Hawaiian Islands in a targeted manner.
"Go and inform Commander Takasu and the Army's Hawaiian Front Command."
The Black Island Turtle Man commanded.
Takasu Shiro has been ill lately, and the Military Command Department has decided to withdraw it and replace it with Tsukahara 243.
However, Tsukahara is now the head of the Naval Aviation Headquarters, and he has a lot of things to hand over to his successor, so he can't take up his new post immediately, so he can only let the sick man Takasu continue to be the commander of Oahu.
However, the sick man Takasu also managed the Central Pacific Fleet in an orderly manner, and did not delay anything.
The main reason for this is that the Central Pacific Fleet does not play the leading role.
The forces defending the islands on this side of the Hawaiian Islands, including air forces, mainly belonged to the army under the command of Yamashita Fumi.
The forces at sea were not under the jurisdiction of Takasu, but were in charge of the submarines by the commander of the 8th Fleet, Mikawa Gunichi, and the commander of the 6th Fleet, Takagi Takeo.
The so-called Central Pacific Front Fleet only has jurisdiction over naval batteries and shore-based aircraft on the shore, as well as teleprobe stations.
Among them, the shore-based aircraft, in addition to the various special attack teams that are prepared to be used as suicide aircraft, are the Moonlight Night Fighter, the Zero Fighter, the Purple Electric Fighter Fighter, the Galaxy Land Bomber, the Type 1 Land Attack Plane, the East China Sea Anti-Submarine Patrol Plane, and some seaplanes.
Although there are hundreds of commonly used aircraft, there is no way to compare them with the more than 2,000 commonly used aircraft of the army.
And except for less than 200 purple electric reforms and Galaxy, other aircraft are not the main force, and can only be used by the army's aircraft.
However, because the Japanese Army did not have night fighters, night operations in the Hawaiian Islands were handled by the Navy's moonlight twin-engine fighters.
"Mikawa-kun, let's go and see how the moonlight of our navy packs up the American planes."
After giving the order to the Navy's 251st Air Force to send moonlight fighters, the Kuroshima Kameto invited the Mikawa Army to go out to watch the battle one by one.
Mikawa did not shirk either, and the two of them took the adjutant to a large observation post on the top floor of the bunker of the headquarters.
It was late at night on March 3, and although there was a bright moon hanging in the sky, the visibility was still very low, and it was dark that I couldn't see anything clearly.
I could only see huge pillars of light sweeping around in the night sky, which was a searchlight on the ground searching for targets, because Japan's ground anti-aircraft guns were not guided by fire control radars, so they could only search for targets by this primitive method.
However, the pillar of light shook in the night sky for a while, and not a single US military plane was found.
Just when Kuroshima and Mikawa were feeling a little bored, suddenly several white "little suns" that emitted a dazzling light suddenly appeared in the night sky.
Kuroshima Kameto squinted his eyes and said to Mikawa beside him: "It was the flares that the Americans dropped, and this moonlight plane can finally make a contribution."
As a night fighter, the Moonlight fighter is also a bit rudimentary, with no airborne radar and no night vision binoculars, so it can only rely on "cat's eye warriors" and searchlights to fight.
Therefore, only when the searchlight on the ground finds the target, or the target in the air is exposed by itself, can the Moonlight fighter have a chance to show its skills.
The searchlights quickly focused on the top of the falling flares, and a plane that appeared to be an F4U fighter was suddenly swept by the searchlight.
"Found it, it looks like an F4U," Kuroshima Kameto smiled, "The moonlight plane can deal with it." ” What he actually saw was the F4U2 night fighter, a carrier-based night fighter and Halsey's trump card in his hands, flying from an aircraft carrier more than 500 kilometers from Oahu.
There are not many of them, only 24 F4U2s are not much, and there are even fewer aces who can fly such planes to take off and land from aircraft carriers at night.
However, 24 F4U2s with radars are still enough to deal with Japanese moonlight night fighters without radars.
So the F4U2 night fighters were leading the way tonight, and their mission was to find Pearl Harbor, drop flares, and engage Japanese night fighters at the same time.
The flares dropped by the F4U2 were to guide the direction of the four BQ7 suicide planes and the four B17 control planes responsible for remote control of the BQ7.
The so-called BQ7 suicide plane sounds quite bluffing, as if it were the same as the Japanese kamikaze plane, but in reality it is not like this at all.
The BQ7 is actually a remote-controlled aircraft converted from a B17 bomber, which is controlled by two pilots to take off, and during the flight, the pilot hands over the control of the aircraft to the control plane, and he parachutes out of the plane.
The control machine of BQ7 controls the aircraft through the "double Asong" radio remote control flight system, which is to install a TV camera in front of the cockpit instrument panel, transmit the image of the dashboard back to the control aircraft, and at the same time install another TV camera in the nose of the aircraft to be responsible for shooting the field of vision ahead, and then the control aircraft remotely controls the BQ7 to hit the target according to the image transmitted back by the two cameras.
This is actually a very primitive and extravagant "missile", because the B17 is too large and flies slowly, so it cannot be used to attack surface ships and moving targets at all.
It can only be used against stationary targets, relying on the huge bomb load of the B17 to carry 910 tons of explosives or napalm to strike.
And the target of the four BQ7 suicide planes that struck today was one of the Hickham or Wheeler airfields in Pearl Harbor.
This is because the US Navy has discovered through aerial reconnaissance that Japan's largest airfields on the Hawaiian Islands are these two large airfields that originally belonged to the US Army Air Force, and most of the 264 bombing on the west coast of the United States were based on these two airfields.
If four bomb-filled BQ7s can be used to ram the runways of these two large airports, it will at least be regarded as a bad breath for the Americans who have been attacked by germs on the West Coast.
In addition, the use of "suicide planes" to attack is also a means of scare, the purpose of which is to make the Japanese mistakenly believe that the US military wants to capture Oahu at all costs The 24 F4U2 night fighters in the air soon found the Hikem airfield, which had been renamed the "First Airfield of the Navy on Oahu".
This was actually the target exposed by the Japanese themselves, from where their moonlight plane took off, only to be detected by radar on the F4U2.
Not only was the approximate location of the airfield exposed, but even the "Moonlight" planes themselves were shot down several times.
In addition, the Japanese Navy also deployed a large number of anti-aircraft guns around the "First Naval Airfield on Oahu", because they found that the American F4U2 flew above their heads, so they opened fire one after another.
Because there was no radar fire control and no radio proximity fuse, all the shells fired were missed, and the target was further exposed.
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F4U2s in the air dropped flares over the airport, and the white light shrouded the long runway and the empty tarmac.
"Found the target" Captain Joseph Kennedy, who was in charge of commanding a B17 control plane, heard the voice of Navigator Jack in his headset, who turned out to be the navigator of an Army Air Corps reconnaissance plane stationed on Oahu, and was very familiar with the situation in the Hawaiian Islands and Oahu.
"Okay."
Captain Joseph Kennedy carefully piloted his plane, keeping the altitude above 4,000 meters.
None of the anti-aircraft artillery could do anything.
"Drop flares."
Captain Kennedy ordered the B17 he was piloting to drop flares to confirm the target.
"I'm Joseph Kennedy," he then pressed the lower throat communicator, "Shock Commander of Operations."
Now I command: the impact begins, the target below the airfield" "A plane Kuroshima-kun, look there, in the direction of the first airport, a plane rushed down from the sky" The Kuroshima Kameto, who was watching the battle, suddenly heard the shouts of Mikawa Junichi, and quickly turned his head to look over, only to see that in the light of the flares, a huge B17 bomber was planted headfirst down to the ground.
The downed Black Island Turtle Man was just thinking about it, the plane had slammed into the end of the runway of "Airport One", and then an unimaginably large fireball rose up, followed by a deafening roar.
It was as if an ammunition depot had been blown up Kuroshima and Mikawa felt that the ground under their feet was trembling, and before the two of them understood what was going on, the staff officer's shout sounded in their buzzing ears: "It's another enemy plane, it crashed down" "Boom" This time the explosion was not quite the same as just now, the explosion was not so loud, but it ignited an unimaginably violent fire, and I don't know if it ignited the oil depot of the airport, anyway, it was a fire.
"One more, one more" When Kuroshima saw the third and fourth American B17 planes roaring and crashing into the ground, the whole person suddenly trembled, and a terrifying thought suddenly appeared in his mind, this is a suicide attack, and the American samurai piloted the plane to the Japanese target on the ground The Americans have also begun to engage in "kamikaze attacks," and the Americans are also going to play "one plane and one ship."
How can this be done?
Japan doesn't have so many warships to change planes, and how can the battle for the Hawaiian Islands continue?
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