In the distant Valparaiso Bay, there was a faint sound of artillery, and after a transmission of dozens of nautical miles, it was already faint and almost thunder.
This is the 561st Battlecruise, 562nd Heavy Patrol and 568th Destroyer Squadron shelling the batteries of the new Asbanian Navy in the Gulf of ValparaísoValparaíso, which was originally home to the headquarters of the Chilean Navy and the home port of the fleet.
Now the Chilean Navy fleet has been reorganized into the Pacific Fleet of the New Asbanian Navy, and Valparaiso is the logical location of the Pacific Fleet headquarters and home port.
However, the Pacific Fleet of the New Asbanian Navy in Valparaiso Harbor had long since disappeared before the arrival of the US Navy, and there was not even a single merchant ship or fishing boat left inside, leaving only an empty harbor for the US fleet to shell.
The batteries of the New Asbanian Navy in Valparaiso Bay are also very old antiques, although a few 170-caliber K18 cannons purchased from Europe are placed, but how can this level of artillery deal with the American "Alaska" class battle cruiser lead cruiser, and the latter has 30512-inch main guns that can destroy the old coastal batteries without much effort.
After the destruction of the batteries of the New Asbanian Navy, it was the turn of the landing formation of the 56th task force.
Although it cannot be compared with the previous fleet that counterattacked the Hawaiian Islands, the landing formation of the 56th task force is still very large, with hundreds of landing ships, as well as a large number of minesweepers, escort destroyers, inshore fire support ships converted from landing ships, and various work ships are mostly converted from flat-deck destroyers.
Like a floating city on the dark sea, it slowly approaches the bay of Valparaiso, illuminated by bursts of artillery fire.
At 3 a.m. on August 10, 1944, the landing formation, commanded by Vice Admiral Turner, arrived on time at the offensive launch line.
The entire fleet began to circle and rearrange the formation.
Under the command of officers, the well-trained American sailors, who had experienced the baptism of war in the Hawaiian Islands, skillfully carried out one after another preparations for landing operations.
Small minesweepers opened the way, and inshore fire support ships and light escort destroyers covered large and small landing ships heading into shallow water.
Occasionally, a column of water rises on the surface of the sea, and a loud noise is heard.
Mines laid by the New Asbanian Navy were exploding, some of which were detonated by American minesweepers, while others happened to hit landing ships or small ships close to the beach, causing casualties.
However, compared to the sheer size of the U.S. landing fleet, this loss was insignificant If this is all that the new Asbanian Navy was able to inflict on the American landing formation, then there is no doubt that the landing operation was a success.
However, the American fleet on the sea still did not dare to be careless, because the US Navy knew that the Germans had deployed submarines in the port of Valparaiso, and it was a new submarine that was difficult to deal with In the past six or seven months, the number of merchant warships sunk by submarines in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea suddenly began to rise sharply, while the number of German submarines sunk by the United States has greatly decreased.
Many escort destroyers cautiously escorted around the landing ships, and from time to time fired a bunch of hedgehog bullets into the sea, hitting the calm sea as if it were boiling.
Vice Admiral Turner, along with the commander of the 1st Marine Division, Rear Admiral Alexander Archer van der Grift, was on the battlecruiser "Hawaii", holding binoculars and watching the landing.
Both of their hearts were in their throats, they had fought the bloody battle on Niihau, as if everything was as calm as it was now at the beginning of the landing on Niihan.
But then it became a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
At this time, quite a number of officers and men of the 1st Marine Division of the United States were already fully equipped and riding on the landing ships and landing craft, holding their breath and concentrating, waiting for the moment when the ships rushed to the beach, and countless deadly ammunition came from the hidden places on the beach However, when the bottom of the landing craft really hit the sand, and the moment the front hatch was lowered, the beach in Valparaiso was still quiet, and the shells and bullets that were denser than the rain did not appear.
Not even sporadic firepower "There is no one to defend" Major General Vandergrift seemed to be stunned by this scene, and was stunned for a long time before he spit out a sentence.
Vice Admiral Turner, who saw the red flares that symbolized the success of the landing rising all over the beach, also exhaled: "It seems that there is really no one to defend it, it seems that we overestimate the Chileans, they simply lack the courage to fightValparaiso will soon be ours, and then Santiago" "The battle report on the Chilean front has already arrived, and the US troops took advantage of the dark sky cover to carry out a landing and beaching in the early morning of the 10th, and successfully landed on the undefended Valparaiso beach.
The port of Valparaiso was also occupied by the US forces on the morning of the 10th," Major General Stauffenberg, who had just been promoted to chief operations officer of the General Staff, was frowning and talking to Hersmann, who was looking at the map in the war room.
The abandonment of Valparaiso was a decision made by the General Staff a few days ago, and it could not be held there in any case, and in the eyes of several marshals and generals in the General Staff, it was not a bad thing to let more American troops ashore, and only by letting them go ashore, the 10th, 11th, and 12th Task Forces, which had departed from Belém, belonged to the 1st Fleet, could they get the chance of a decisive battle.
However, Rear Admiral Stauffenberg was still a little worried, not that he was worried that the three task forces of the European Combined Fleet would not win, this was a matter for the navy, and he did not have to worry about it as a rear admiral.
But whether Juan Peron's throne under the ass will be shaken by the fall of Valparaiso and Santiago is a question that needs to be seriously studied by the Operations Directorate of the Grand General Staff.
Since once the United States has gained a foothold in Valparaiso, it will soon deploy B17 and 51 there, and Buenos Aires will be bombed at that time, and it is very likely that Juan Perón will be blown up "Buenos Aires is definitely going to be bombed," Hersman suddenly opened his mouth at this time, "Let's make an air defense war plan, and it is not a problem to mobilize enough 127 anti-aircraft guns and FW190 and HE219 to be bombed in Buenos Aires, the question is how many American planes can be shot."
At present, the German 127 anti-aircraft gun is equipped with a radio proximity fuse and a radar fire control system, while the three series of BCD of the FW190 are all high-altitude types with strong interception capabilities.
The HE219 is a very good night fighter, and it also has ferocious firepower.
Anti-aircraft artillery and FW190 and HE219 are enough for American bombers.
Major General Stauffenberg asked: "Reich Marshal, you are trying to use the bombers of Buenos Aires to consume the Americans" "That's not the whole purpose," said Hersmann lightly, "and in the preparation of the plan for the air defense war, there was also a plan to send several mountain divisions to the Andes at the same time, and in addition, to have the SS men go to New Asbania to recruit volunteers.
He looked at Stauffenberg, "Klaus, do you understand what I mean?"
Stauffenberg was an adjutant for Hersmann, so he didn't understand "Imperial Marshal, you want to take the opportunity to send our troops into Argentina, and then you can't leave" Hersman laughed: "That's the second purpose" "And the third purpose," Stauffenberg asked, "is to use the American forces stationed in Chile as hostages to force the U.S.
Pacific Fleet to fight our 10th, 11th, and 12th task forces in the waters near Chile."
Hersman nodded and said, "It's better to have a decisive battle in the Pacific than a decisive battle in the Caribbean."
The Bureau of Operations will immediately draw up a plan for the troops to be stationed in the southern port of Chile in Puerto Montt, and the paratrooper units will be transferred there as soon as possible.
In addition, at least a few more squadrons of FW190ADFGs were deployed to the Puerto Montt airport. ” "Yes, Imperial Marshal" "Mr.
President, we have taken Valparaíso" United States, White House.
On the afternoon of August 10, Admiral Ernest King brought Roosevelt good news for a long time.
"Thank God" President Roosevelt, who was in the cabinet room, let out a sigh of relief, "We finally caught the Germans off guard" "Mr.
President," Admiral William Leahy also looked very excited, "I think that this turning point in the world war has finally arrived, because we have just captured an important stronghold that the Germans must recapture, and the Germans cannot cross the Andes to launch a counterattack, they can only bypass the South American continent by sea, which is very beneficial to us." ” Not to mention the Andes in 1944, even decades later, it was also an impassable moat.
With a small number of troops holding a few important passes, the Germans' heavy forces could not reach Chile on the Pacific coast.
The United States, on the other hand, could take the opportunity to transport one or more heavy divisions to Chile, so that the Germans would have to fight back by sea if they did not want their little friend Argentina to be bombed every day "If the German fleet does sail into the Pacific," Roosevelt's brow furrowed slightly, "are we sure of defeating them?"
"No," replied Admiral Ernest Gold, "Europe is ahead of us in aviation technology and has powerful remote-controlled missiles. ” "So what's the point of us directing them to the Southeast Pacific," Roosevelt asked.
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