Chapter 10: Trafficking
Ringing, he reached out and pressed the alarm clock on the bedside. Ron rubbed his sleepy eyes. The hangover from last night's carnival still made his head hurt. It seemed that William was very fond of that wine shop.
The negative description of vodka is not unreasonable. He got up from the bed, walked to the window, and opened the thick curtains. The strong sunlight unique to the tropics suddenly shone in. Ron felt that his eyes were completely white and he could not see anything.
Already.
Ron stretched out his hand to block his eyes. After a while, the dazzling white light gradually faded away. Now, through the window, you can see the sea, the beach, the coconut grove, and the highway around the coast, with all kinds of vehicles on the road.
At an intersection a little further away, you can still see several military policemen wearing white helmets maintaining order.
At this time, there was a knock on the door. When the door was opened, Tom, Pato and the others were standing at the door.
"Hey, you're up? Just like yesterday, we thought you wouldn't be able to get up today."
It was like yesterday? Yes, yesterday was a battle between the navy and the army. Under the leadership of Ron, the army relied on its numerical advantage to launch fierce attacks on the navy one after another. The first one to fall was Petrov, and this Belarusian was not
He has a small capacity for drinking, but he prefers to drink himself instead of drinking others. When the Russians fell suddenly, William quickly followed suit.
Unfortunately, the end of the foreign war did not mean peace. After the navy was subdued, the inhumane civil war broke out. The far-right elements of the army, led by Tom, began to slander Ron as a collaborator, so Ron also won the cup.
The utensils fell under the table.
"You guys, yesterday you said that we would all speak out... It gave me a headache now and I almost couldn't get out of bed." Ron complained. As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he realized that they were wrong and the second half was very bad.
Ambiguity. Fortunately, the guy opposite him was not a descendant of the forum, so he didn't even notice that sentence.
"It's so early, what's the matter?" Ron immediately changed the subject.
"Go report to the Army."
Oh, that's what happened. I washed my face in a hurry, put on my army uniform, went downstairs, got into a truck with a few people, and then the truck started to drive slowly. The truck walked along the coastline for a while.
He turned a corner and followed a path into a coconut forest. The sunlight filtered through the huge leaves of the coconut trees, casting mottled and swaying light and shadow on the road. For a moment, Ron was reminded of his previous trip to Hainan Island.
experience.
The truck stopped in front of a barracks. This is the barracks of the Army Aviation Corps stationed on Oahu. Looking east from here, through the gaps between the dense coconut trees, you can vaguely see the
with several fighter jets.
A major received them. He welcomed their arrival. The officer also told them that the Army's arrangement for them was for them to join the aviation team nearby. However, considering their hard work along the way, they had one month.
I could go back to the United States for a family visit. It was already lunch time. After lunch, I just returned to the dormitory. I got another good news: there was a plane heading to the United States the next day.
This news made Tom and the others extremely excited. Tom's home is in a small town by the Mississippi River, where he has his wife and three children. Pato's home is near Atlanta. He doesn't have a wife yet, but his parents are still there.
Climbing out of the trap of war and going home to see it first, even if it is only temporary, is still a wonderful thing.
As for Ron, well, judging from the fused memories, his hometown is in California, where he has parents and two older brothers. His father is an aircraft engineer and has been working for ** companies for decades. His eldest son, Ron
Ron's eldest brother inherited his father's talent in mechanics. He graduated from Massachusetts and is now responsible for weapons design in an arms company. He is now married and has twin daughters. As for Ron's second brother, he is a
Doctor of Medicine. But, well, he doesn't like to talk much, and he is a bit weird and not gregarious.
However, compared with Tom and the others who were eager to go home and were extremely excited, Ron's feeling was a bit strange. After all, the soul in this body has changed. But the warm feeling of home left by the previous owner
It can still affect him. Moreover, the nostalgia for another home-a home he can never go back to makes him have a strange welcome-rejection mentality towards that home in the United States.
"Forget it, just go back." Since you have inherited this body, you must also assume some of the responsibilities of this body accordingly.
However, things often change at an unexpected speed. Just a few hours later, Ron received the order: due to the needs of the war, his vacation was postponed. Now, the war situation in the Pacific requires experienced pilots like him to stay.
Fighting. Now the land aviation on a certain island needs to be urgently strengthened, and the regiment that Ron just joined will be transferred there to strengthen the island's defense. However, Tom and the others' vacation will continue to be valid.
The order did not specify where they would go, but Ron knew very well that their destination could only be - Midway Island.
More than a month ago, on April 18, 1942, 16 Army Air Forces B25 bombers taking off from the USS Hornet, led by General Doolittle, attacked Japan's Tokyo. This was the first time in Japan that
Suffered a real air attack. Previously, the Chinese Air Force also conducted a night attack on Japan, but the Chinese did not drop bombs that time, they just dropped some pieces of paper. Those who placed their hopes on "peace-loving"
The leaflets "Japanese people" are basically useless. Because the "peace-loving Japanese people" are too rare, and their number may be less than that of giant pandas suffering from albinism.
But this time it was different. The Americans dropped real bombs, and they dropped them during the day in front of Japanese people all over Tokyo. Although the bombs dropped were not many and the damage caused was very limited.
But the pressure they put on the Japanese was unprecedented: Didn't it say that the Japanese Empire was invincible in every battle? How come the capital of the empire was actually bombed by American monsters? The Japanese judged that the bombers took off from Midway Island, in order to ensure the empire's
Safety. Combined Fleet Commander Yamamoto Isoroku decided to use a huge and decisive force to capture Midway Island in one fell swoop. At this time, the US intelligence agency made a technological breakthrough.
In close cooperation with relevant units in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, the U.S. Naval Intelligence Agency began to successfully decipher some of the codes of the Japanese Navy's main communication system JN-25. By early May, the coalition made a major breakthrough in cracking JN-25.
, and thus gained the ability to spy on the Japanese Navy's plans. The JN-25 allowed the coalition forces to know that the "af position" would be the next attack target of the Japanese navy. However, the coalition forces were unable to decipher the location of the "af position".
Some senior U.S. military generals believe that the "af position" is the Midway Islands, while others believe that it is the Aleutian Islands. However, no matter how advanced the coalition decoding technology is, they still cannot decipher the correct location of the "af position." Just as the U.S. military's top brass is injured
While thinking about it, a young officer came up with a clever idea to confirm whether the "af bearing" was Midway Island. He asked the commander of the Midway Naval Base to ask for help from Pearl Harbor using a low-security radio code, saying that Midway
There was a problem with the fresh water supply station on the island, causing the entire Midway Island to face a water shortage crisis. Soon after, the U.S. Naval Intelligence Agency intercepted a jn-25 message, which indeed mentioned the water shortage problem in the "af position"
.So the "af position" was confirmed to be Midway Island, which was the next attack target of the Japanese Navy.
This is a battle related to the direction of the entire war. Therefore, the US military decided to secretly strengthen the defense force of Midway Island. The mobilization of Ron's troops was a decision under this situation. For Ron, this battle is impossible to avoid.
Already.
Since you can't avoid it, then face the challenge head on. There is not much time left, but hurry up. At least there is a chance for these rookies who have not been on the battlefield to learn how to get rid of zero war, and even
How to use the scissors crossover tactic to win.
That night, with Ron volunteering to fly, all the pilots in the wing gathered together and listened to Ron explain how to use left roll and dive to get out of zero combat, and how to use scissor crossover to cooperate in combat. The pilots were very enthusiastic, but
Ron still found that their capabilities were still far behind those on the Yorktown who had experienced the test of war. This made him particularly worried about the subsequent air battle.
And when Ron learned about the fighters equipped by the wing, his worries became even more serious. All the wing needed to fly over were some bombers. As for the fighter pilots, when they got there, there were Marine Corps F2A Buffalo fighter jets (historically
The last battle of the U.S. Buffaloes and the one that really cost them their jobs was the Battle of Midway. When 108 Japanese planes roared toward Midway in the early morning of June 4th, 26 Marine Corps Buffaloes were flying in a small number of wildcats.
The result was very tragic. Although the Catalina patrol plane that had been bravely tracking the Japanese aircraft group accurately dropped the flare above the Japanese aircraft, the F2A was captured before it could even get close to the bomber.
36 Zeros were surrounded. 17 were shot down on the spot, 7 were injured, and only two returned safely. None of the "Zeros" were lost, which was completely one-sided. The U.S. Navy had to admit that if the f4f could barely compete with the "Zero"
If you deal with it in this way, the f2a will undoubtedly be a waste), and the navy's f4f is available for use.
"Oh, my God, you must give me a f4f, don't let me be a shepherd boy!" Ron couldn't help but regret not accepting the navy's invitation. A good wingman is your other life. A good wingman
The crew must be familiar with each other and trust each other. But in just a few days, it would be good if Ron could become familiar with the other pilots. It is definitely a dream to reach this point. But he stayed with the guys in the Navy.
Chapter completed!