"How many?"

The Kuroshima Turtle and Mikawa Jun looked at each other, but didn't take it seriously.

The top of the sky is just a few American night aircraft that took advantage of the weakness of Japanese aviation forces' lack of night fighters to harass Oahu. In the "Jet-1 Operation" plan, it was expected. And it also deployed several squadrons of moonlight night fighters in the Hawaiian Islands in a targeted manner.

"Go and inform Commander Takasu and the Army's Hawaiian Front Command." The Kuroshima Turtle ordered.

Takasu Shiro has been sick recently, and the Military Command has decided to withdraw it and replace it with Takahara Nishiso San. However, Takahara is now the Minister of Naval Aviation and has to hand over a lot of things to the next post, so he cannot take the new job immediately. He can only let his sick husband Takahara continue to be the commander of Oahu.

However, the sick man Takasu managed the Central Pacific Fleet in an orderly manner and did not delay anything. The reason for this is mainly because the Central Pacific Fleet was not the protagonist. The island guarding forces on the Hawaiian Islands, including aviation forces, are mainly from the army commanded by Yamashita Tomoto. The sea forces are not under the jurisdiction of Takasu, but are under the jurisdiction of the 8th Fleet Commander Mikawa Junichi and the 6th Fleet Commander Takeo Takagi (in charge of submarine ships).

The so-called Central Pacific fleet only governs naval artillery, shore-based aircraft and electric probe stations on the shore.

In addition to various special attack teams reserved for suicide aircraft, the shore-based aircraft are moonlight night fighters, Zero fighters, Zipin-Reformed Fighters, Galaxy Land Bombers, Type 1 Land Attack Planes, East China Sea Anti-Submarine Patrol Planes and some seaplanes.

Although there are hundreds of commonly used aircraft, there is no way to compare with the Army's more than 2,000 aircraft. Besides less than 200 Purple Lightning and Galaxy, other aircraft are not the main force and can only fight the Army's aircraft. However, because the Japanese Army does not have night fighters, the night combat in the Hawaiian Islands is the responsibility of the Navy's moonlight twin-engine fighter aircraft.

"Mr. Mikawa, let's see how our navy's moonlight can clean up American planes."

After the Kuroshima Turtle Man issued an order to send a moonlight fighter plane to the Navy's 251 Air Force, he invited the Sanchuan Army to go out to watch the battle one by one. Sanchuan did not refuse, and the two took their adjutants to a large observation post on the top floor of the headquarters bunker.

It was already late at night on March 3. Although there was a bright moon hanging in the sky, the visibility was still very low, and the darkness was so dark that it could not be seen clearly. Only huge columns of light were sweeping around in the night sky. This was the searchlight on the ground searchlights searching for the target. Because Japan's ground anti-aircraft guns were not guided by fire control radar, they could only use this primitive method to search for the target.

However, the light column shook in the night sky for a long time, and no US plane was found. Just when Black Island and Mikawa were both a little bored, several white "little suns" suddenly appeared in the night sky with dazzling light.

The Kuroshima Turtle narrowed his eyes and said to Mikawa beside him: "It's a flare! The Americans threw it down... Now the moonlight plane can finally make a contribution!"

As a night fighter, the moonlight fighter is really a bit simple. It has no airborne radar and no night vision telescope. It can only rely on the "Cat-Eye Warrior" to fight with searchlights. 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 the chance to show its skills.

The searchlights soon focused on the top of the slowly falling flares, and an aircraft that seemed to be an F4U fighter suddenly was swept by the searchlight.

"I found it, it seems to be a f4u," Kuroshima Turtle smiled, "The moonlight plane can deal with it."

In fact, what he saw was the f4u-2 night fighter, a carrier-based night fighter and also the ace in Halsey's hands. It flew from an aircraft carrier more than 500 kilometers away from Oahu. The number was not large, and only 24 f4u-2s came, and there were not many aces that could fly such aircraft at night to take off and land from the aircraft carrier. However, the 24 f4u-2s with radar are still enough to deal with Japanese moonlight night fighters without radar.

So the f4u-2 night fighters are the first tonight. Their mission is to find Pearl Harbor, drop flares, and engage in battle with Japanese night fighters.

The flares dropped by the f-4u-2 guide the direction for the four BQ-7 suicide aircraft that followed and four B-17 control aircraft responsible for remote control of the BQ-7.

The so-called BQ-7 suicide plane sounds quite intimidating, as if it is like the Japanese Kamikaze Special Attack Plane, but in fact it is not the case. The bq-7 is actually a remote-controlled aircraft modified with a B-17 bomber. This aircraft is operated and taken off by two pilots. During the flight, the pilot handed over the control of the plane to the control plane, and he parachuted out of the plane.

The control plane of the bq-7 controls the aircraft through the "Shuang-Asong" radio remote control flight system. It is to install a TV camera in front of the cockpit instrument panel, transmit the image of the instrument panel back to the control plane, and at the same time install another TV camera inside the nose of the aircraft to take the forward field of view. Then the control plane remotely controls the bq-7 to crash into the target based on the images sent back by the two cameras.

This is actually a very primitive and luxurious "missile". Because the B-17 is too large and the flight speed is slow, it cannot be used to attack surface ships and mobile targets at all. It can only be used to deal with fixed targets, and rely on the B-17's huge load of ammunition loading 9-10 tons of explosives or napalm bombs to impact.

The four BQ-7 suicide planes that launched today targeted one of Pearl Harbor's Hikem Airport or Wheeler Airport.

Because the US Navy discovered through aerial reconnaissance that Japan's largest airports on the Hawaiian Islands were the two large airports that originally belonged to the US Army Air Force that bombed the west coast of the United States, most of which were based on these two airports.

If four bomb-filled bq-7s could be used to hit the runways of these two large airports, it would at least be considered anger for Americans who were attacked by bacteria on the West Coast.

In addition, using "suicide aircraft" to attack is also a means of scaring people. The purpose is to make the Japanese mistakenly believe that the US military will capture Oahu at all costs!

The 24 F4u-2 night fighters in the air soon found the Shikham Airport, which was renamed "Naval Oahu No.1 Airport". This was actually the target exposed by the Japanese themselves. Their moonlight planes took off from there, but were discovered by the radar on the f4u-2. Not only was the general location of the airport exposed, but even the "Moonlight" planes themselves were shot down.

In addition, the Japanese Navy also deployed a large number of anti-aircraft guns around the "Oahu Navy First Airport". Because it was discovered that the American f4u-2 flew over their heads, they fired one after another. Because there was no radar fire control and radio near-explosion fuse, all the shells fired were blown away, and the target was further exposed.

The f4u-2 in the air threw flares over the airport, and the pale light enveloped the long runway and the empty apron.

"The target has been found!"

The voice of Navigator Jack came from Captain Joseph Kennedy's headset in command of a B-17 control aircraft. The navigator turned out to be the navigator of the Army Aviation Reconnaissance Plane stationed on Oahu, and was very familiar with the situation in the Hawaiian Islands and Oahu.

"Okay." Captain Joseph Kennedy was carefully flying his plane and keeping the altitude above 4,000 meters. At this altitude, the Japanese army's 20mm anti-aircraft guns, 25mm anti-aircraft guns and 37mm anti-aircraft guns were helpless.

"Drop the flares." Captain Kennedy ordered the b-17 he drove to drop the flares to confirm the target.

"I am Joseph Kennedy," he then pressed the throat communicator, "the commander of the impact combat. Now I order: the impact begins, the airport below the target!"

"A plane! Heijimajun, look there, in the direction of the first airport, a plane rushed down from the world!"

The Turtle Man in the Black Island suddenly heard the shouts of Mikawa Junichi and quickly turned his head to look over. In the light emitted by the flare, a huge B-17 bomber was slamming his head down towards the ground.

Has been shot down? The Black Island Turtle Man was thinking about this. The plane had suddenly crashed into the end of the runway of "Airport No. 1". Then a huge ball of fireballs rose up, followed by a deafening roar. Look at the sound, it seemed like a slap of ammunition depot was blown up!

Kuroshima and Mikawa felt that the ground under their feet were trembling. Before the two of them understood what was going on, the buzzing ears sounded again: "It's another enemy plane, it hit it!"

"Boom..."

This time the explosion was not much like before. The explosion was not that loud, but it ignited a fire that was so violent that it was ignited. I don’t know if it was lit at the airport’s oil depot, but it was the flames soaring into the sky.

"One more, another one..."

When the Kuroshima Turtle saw the third and fourth American B-17 planes roared and crashed into the ground, the whole person suddenly trembled. A terrifying thought suddenly appeared in his mind. This was a suicide attack! The American samurai drove the plane toward the Japanese target on the ground!
Chapter completed!