Hearing Truman's words, the White House cabinet meeting room suddenly became silent. The full seats of ministers and senior generals of the American federal government frowned and did not say a word.

Outside the window is the green lawn of the White House. The sun is bright, the grass is swaying in the wind, and the sun shines in. When we arrive in this conference room, it becomes a little cold and wet under the low atmosphere.

The United States' defenses in the Caribbean and North America seem to be solid. In the United States, Canada, Central America and the Caribbean, there are no less than 20 million regular soldiers in the allied countries, and there are no less than 6 million ground troops on the front line, and they are well-equipped! There are also a large number of militias that can be supplemented with regular soldiers. In addition, there are countless ships and aircraft at sea and in the air, with a total of only a lot more than the Nazi enemies on the other side of the Atlantic.

Such troops and such weapons and equipment should be able to defeat all enemies who attempt to invade.

If it were in the past, the enemy of Europe would not have even the slightest idea of ​​invading the many fully armed American soldiers across the ocean.

But now this war is unprecedented, with advanced weapons that were unimaginable before the war, so that the Nazi enemies could destroy American cities and kill American people from the air or underwater without climbing to the land of North America.

Even if everyone holds a gun, they cannot fire at invisible enemies!

I don’t know how long it took, but the American generals who were thinking hard about countermeasures suddenly heard President Truman’s low voice.

"This is also our chance to severely attack German maritime forces, right?" the president said tentatively. "Since we have guessed the Germans' goals, can we set a trap? If we can defeat the Germans near the Bermuda Islands, we may have a decent peace."

Ernest King and William Lech looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time: Do you set up a trap to condom the German devils? Can the Germans set up a trap? Maybe the seven German aircraft carriers that just set off were just bait... In terms of anti-ship capabilities, the German army is much stronger than the US army.

"What's wrong? Is our sea and air power no longer able to fight?" Truman saw that the two admirals were not speaking and asked again.

"Mr. President," Naval Operations Minister Ernest King looked embarrassed, "If we lose... we may have to accept an embarrassing peace treaty."

"Is there a high possibility of losing?" Truman asked with his eyes wide open.

"Mr. President," William Lech took over the topic and said, "The Germans now have more than 7 large fleet aircraft carriers available, and there are eight of their Zeppelin-class ships in the Port of Beren, Brazil. In addition, although their Kesselin-class aircraft carriers are not up to the standard of large fleet aircraft carriers, they have not few carrier-based aircraft and are not very slow in speed. They can be used as fleet aircraft carriers.

Moreover... our bomber also encountered German air defense missiles over Buenos Aires! This air defense missile flies very fast and has guidance methods, and is very accurate in fighting. If this weapon is installed on a surface ship, it will cause great losses to our attack aircraft group. So we are more secure in following the original "Story of Liberty" plan."

Ernest King and William Lexi's words made Truman very frustrated. He had already clearly felt that the US Navy had lost its spirit of destroying the enemy. Even when the US Navy's main battleships were completely lost in 1942, Truman did not find that the senior naval generals were so timid and afraid of the enemy. At that time, everyone had the confidence to win, and knew that the difficulties were only temporary. As long as those ships built in batches were launched and put into service, the US Navy would be invincible.

However, since the Battle of Bermuda, Truman has never felt the confidence to win from any US Navy general. The lack of confidence is reflected in specific command, which is to act conservatively and dare not fight decisively. Although he still has the largest naval gross tonnage, aircraft carrier force and carrier-based aircraft fleet in the world, the US Navy has almost become an existence fleet on the Atlantic Ocean. It has been shrinking near the East Coast of the United States and in the Caribbean for several consecutive months, and has almost become an existence fleet.

After the 1944 US election vote, the Atlantic Fleet simply gave up the blockade between the Bermuda Islands and Nova Scotia Peninsula and no longer sent a large number of destroyers to patrol near the blockade, so as not to be sunk by the German me264 missiles.

So now, only the F-13 with an/aps-20 radar installed on the Bermuda Peninsula blockade is left to patrol back and forth. The blockade effect is a lot worse than the original F-13 (the improved version of B-29) equipped with the S-band An/aps-20 radar can barely meet the early warning aircraft, but the effect of the early warning aircraft is not comparable to that of later generations with "balance beam" or "large pot lid". Only by patrolling with surface ships with high-performance radar can the blockade and alert tasks be completed better.

Now, facing the fiercely stormy main force of the German aircraft carrier force, it is not surprising that the US Navy once again chose to retreat without fighting.

"So what should we do?" Truman spread his hands, "Are we just watching the German fleet approaching the East Coast and launching countless missiles into New York and Boston?"

The Americans have now mastered a lot of information about German cruise missiles and know that the launch method of this weapon is three major categories: shore-based, ship-based and air-based. The missiles that can be used to attack the United States are all launched from surface ships and air. Among them, air-launched missiles are limited by the number of me264 long-range bombers, and cannot reach the "number of countless". The number of ship-based missiles with surface ships as the launch platform is hard to say. Information shows that as long as the catapult is installed on the ship and a few additional solid rocket boosters can be used to launch the missile into the sky. This means that the Germans can transform low-value ships such as freighters and tank landing ships into missile launch platforms in large quantities!

“There won’t be countless missiles launched into New York and Boston,” William Leach told the president immediately. “We have a way to stop the German fleet from approaching the east coast of the United States.”

"Is there a way?" Harry Truman looked at William Lexi suspiciously, waiting to listen to the following.

William Lech said: "The key to preventing the German fleet from approaching is the airport in the Bermuda. As long as the airport is not destroyed, the German fleet will not dare to cross the Bermuda-Nova Scotia blockade."

"But what do we have to do to keep the airport from being blown up?" Truman asked. "We can't deploy too many shore-based aircraft there, right?"

"Yes," Naval Operations Minister Ernest King took over the question, "the airports there are limited in size and can only deploy up to 300 fighter jets."

The land area of ​​the Bermuda Islands is not large, and the flat ground where airports can be built is even more limited. Although American engineers have started to expand the airport day and night since the end of 1944, the scale of the airport is not very large.

“Is 300 enough?”

"Enough!" Ernest King replied, "All fighters can be deployed, and air-optimal fighters such as P-51 and F6f must be deployed. About 10 escort aircraft carriers can be sent from Norfolk base to support air defense operations in the Bermuda Islands, and these aircraft carriers are also equipped with F6f fighters.

In addition, at the airport along the coast of Virginia, we can also place 300-400 p-51 and f6f. In this way, we can use 900-1000 air superiority fighter jets for air defense operations in the Bermuda. Although it cannot annihilate the German aircraft carrier forces, it is enough to strike their carrier-based aircraft. As long as we can win the air battle over the Bermuda, the German fleet will naturally not dare to approach the east coast of the United States."

In fact, this is a retreat tactic that completely gives up the attack!

"Is this the Joint Conference's combat plan?" Truman asked.

Although he was disappointed, he was a civilian president who knew nothing about naval combat after all, and he could not propose his own combat plan. Moreover, he could not think of anyone who could replace General Ernest King to lead the Navy Operations Department.

Before the Battle of Bermuda, Nimitz might be a candidate who could replace Jin, and Spruenz and Halsey could also consider it. But now Nimitz resigned because of his defeat and retired from active service and returned home to retire. Halsey was simply captured by the Germans and imprisoned in Nuremberg concentration camp. I wonder if he is learning German now?

Although Spruins has not yet fallen, he has now become the pillar of the US Navy and serves as the joint commander of the Pacific-Atlantic Fleet. If he is transferred to the Navy Operations Department, who will command the fleet?

So now Truman can only continue to believe in the battle, which is now the bear-like Naval Operations Department and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

"Yes," William Lexi nodded. "This is what the Joint Conference plans."

"So...where are the fighter jets drawn?" Truman asked again, "Now there are no 600 air-optimal fighters along the Bermuda Islands and the coastal areas of Virginia?"

Air-optimal fighters are not interceptors, nor are they night fighters. They are used to fight in the air to seize air and low-altitude air supremacy, and are not very effective in intercepting bombers and missiles. Therefore, they are all deployed on the front line that may have contact with enemy fighters. There are some on the Bermuda Islands, but there are not 300 aircraft, and there are not many on the east coast of the United States, with a total of about 1,000 aircraft, which is still very scattered.
Chapter completed!