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Chapter 531 Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! Eleven

"Woo! Woo! Woo..."

As the harsh air defense alarm sounded over Pearl Harbor, the seemingly sleeping military port suddenly woke up.

With the blessing of internationalist warriors, Pearl Harbor has long been on the utmost alert. Although today is Sunday, no American soldier was drunk because of the weekend dance and cocktail party. No one got the opportunity to take a vacation and was locked in the barracks and complaining about the war.

When the air defense alarm sounded, the American soldiers in Pearl Harbor were rising in a whole squad. Halfway through the melodious American national anthem, Japanese planes arrived.

"Pearl Harbor was air strike, this is not an exercise! Pearl Harbor was air strike, this is not an exercise..."

After the air raid alarm, someone from radio speakers everywhere in Pearl Harbor began to use language warnings, and added, "This is not an exercise."

Of course, no matter how slow the American soldiers were at this time, they knew that it was not an exercise. Because the fierce air combat had already begun over the Hikem Airport, Wheeler Airport, Kanuhe Airport and Ford Island Airport on Oahu!

It turned out that shortly after the first Japanese attack wave arrived over Pearl Harbor, eight p40, eight p51 and eight f4f Wildcat fighters on standby on the runways on four major airports (two of which belong to the Army and two belong to the Navy) were urgently launched.

Because he had received training from German foreign aid, Shigeru Hiroya and others knew the performance and tactics of p40 and p51, but they had never seen f4f, but this did not hinder their combat. The 64 Zero-types responsible for the battlefield, immediately dropped the bombs they carried, and then divided them into four large formations, and rushed towards the US fighter jets that took off from four US airports.

While rushing away, some of these Zero aircraft continued to raise the height, occupying the high-altitude positions as soon as they came up, and then began to dive to attack the American aircraft that had just taken off. When these American aircraft saw something wrong, they immediately flipped the fuselage and began to dive. If they wanted to use their excellent dive performance to escape, this was the knocking of the British masters of the Americans. The British told the Americans not to fight with the Folk Zero, but to pull up the dive attack, or dive and then escape. As long as they kept dive and pull up, they could always compete with the Folk Zero.

But when these American pilots flying p51, p40 and f4f dived, they found something wrong. There were actually Zero aircraft waiting for them below! As soon as they rushed down, they were bitten by Zero aircraft and shot down the cannon, and shot down 6 aircraft on the spot!

Seeing a p40 shot down by himself fall head-on to the ground, Shigeru Hitani was in a good mood. At the same time, he also felt that Captain Hessman of Germany was a relatively reliable teacher. He could really catch American planes with the method he taught!

Thinking of this, he withdrew his gaze and looked at the Hikem Airport below, and was immediately shocked by the scene in front of him.

On the taxiing curve between the airport runway and the apron, at least 100 aircraft are arranged densely!

There are twin- or four-engine bombers, and single-engine P40 and P51 fighters. All of these expensive, brand-new aircraft are not placed in the hangar, but are casually placed at the airport.

This is a wet and rainy Hawaii. If the plane is not collected into the hangar, it will be easily damaged by wind and rain all day long. Hundreds of planes are worth at least tens of millions of yen. Just throwing them here casually is not going to be too serious, right?

Shigeru Hitani's shock did not last long, but the violent explosion was interrupted. It turned out that the Type 97 torpedo bomber and Type 99 dive bomber that arrived later had already begun to bomb.

The bombing effect was unexpectedly good. I don’t know if these planes were parked too densely or if the fuel tanks of these planes still contained a small amount of fuel. As long as one bomb exploded, it would quickly affect all the planes!

A series of explosions soon occurred at the Hikem Airport. Most of the planes worth 10 million yen turned into wreckage in a very short time. Just as Shigeru Hitani and all the Japanese pilots were clamoring for pleasure, balls of black smoke suddenly spread out in the air. The anti-aircraft guns on the ground were firing, and the firepower was quite fierce!

Shigeru Itanya knew that the Zero-type he was driving was not ready and did not dare to stay at low altitude for a long time, so he quickly raised the height. At this moment, he saw a Zero-type fighter jet being fired and rolling and falling.

"See Miyakesaka!" Onanya looked at the plane that fell rapidly and silently recited in his heart that Hessman's suggestion on "big knife and parachute" had no effect. All the pilots of the "Akagi" flight team that attacked today did not bring parachutes, while the officers among them all carried swords...

The captain of the Akagi flight team, Mizuno Nakasa Funata, who was also the commander-in-chief of the first attack wave, was leading a Type 97 torpedo bomber to fly to the dock where the American battleships in Pearl Harbor were parked. It was the place with the most intense air defense firepower in the entire Pearl Harbor. Not only were the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns on the battleships desperately shooting rain, but dozens of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns were also set up on the docks next to these battleships, and are now firing at the highest rate of fire.

Seeing the densely exploded black smoke balls and the rapid passing orange light, Mitsuo Furida took a deep breath. Fortunately, his plane was hung with an 800-kilogram armor-piercing bomb (modified from the main gun of the Nagamon battleship) rather than an aviation torpedo, otherwise today would probably be his day to become a god!

Thinking of this, Mitsuo Furida turned on the airborne radio (the radios of lightning strikers and bombers are not allowed to be dismantled) and began to issue an order: "Akagi, Kaga attack troops, pay attention to the 3200-level penetration, Type 97 lightning strikers are responsible for the first wave of attack, the 'Comet' dive bomber is responsible for the second wave of attack, and each team attacks the designated target. I wish all martial arts long-term!"

According to the attack plan formulated by Shizuki Genda, the first attack wave will be deployed to 40 Type 97 torpedo bombers and 48 Comet dive bombers to bomb 8 American battleships parked in Pearl Harbor. Therefore, all "Fetat" and Type 97 will attack with 5-air teams, and each team has a scheduled target. The Japanese pilots participating in this attack are elites accumulated over the years. Everyone can visually identify the model of the American battleship at an altitude of 3,200 meters, so there will be no repeated attacks and waste ammunition.

First, the Type 97 lightning strikers launched an attack, which dropped 800 kilograms of armor-piercing bombs at a height of 3,200 meters. A team of 5 aircraft will form a five-plane formation, one in front and one behind. Then, six "comet" dive bombers dive down from a height of 3,200 meters to drop 500 kilograms of armor-piercing bombs. Whether it is an 800 kilograms of bombs dropped from a height of 3,200 meters or a 500 kilograms of bombs dropped by dive, they can all give a fatal blow to the American battleships anchored in Pearl Harbor!

After Mizuo Shizuda issued the order, he flew his own plane and led a team of six aircraft to search for the flagship "Pennsylvania", the US Pacific Fleet's flagship. This battleship was a mission assigned to Shizuda.

According to the information obtained before, "Pennsylvania" should dock side by side with its sister ship "Arizona". Because the two ships are of the same level and cannot be distinguished at an altitude of 3,200 meters, the team led by Shizuda and the team led by Captain Kusumi (responsible for attacking Arizona) that took off on the aircraft carrier of the Flying Dragon attacked the two "Pennsylvania" class battleships on the inside (near the dock) and on the outside respectively.

But when Mizuo Furida approached the berth of the American battleship, he suddenly found that there were only seven large warships on the water that looked a bit like battleships, and there was only one "Pennsylvania" class.

"Nakasaki, there is only one 'Pennsylvania' class!" bombardier Yasuda reported loudly to Furita.

In fact, the "Pennsylvania" was undergoing maintenance in the ship at this time, so it escaped. What Yuantian saw was the "Arizona" battleship.

"It's it!" said Mizuo Fuchida. "We will attack this 'Pennsylvania' class, and then let the Yukusumi team of the Flying Dragon attack, and finally let the dive bomber be launched!"

Yuantian immediately adjusted the bombing order, first dropping bombs by two Type 97 teams, and then attacked by the "Comet" dive bomber.

Five Type 97 torpedo bombers then hovered around the air and formed a five-plane formation to rush towards the "Arizona" on the water with the anti-aircraft artillery fire from the nearby docks on the sea.

Since the VT Fuze (the United Kingdom produced a prototype in 1940, the United States has obtained this technology, but has not completed the final design work yet) has not started to equip the troops, and the US Navy is not equipped with the counterfeit Bofos 40mm anti-aircraft gun, the anti-aircraft gun firepower is not very strong at an altitude of 3,200 meters.

"Target 'Pennsylvania', release!"

At 8:05 am on December 7, 1941 (Hawaii time), as the bomb dropper shouted, Ainta felt the plane jump upward, which was the effect of the sudden reduction in the weight of the plane after the bomb was dropped.

Five 800 kilogram armor-piercing bombs fell rapidly from an altitude of 3,200 meters. One of them (who was left behind) was hitting the front of the Arizona 4 turret. However, the bomb did not penetrate the turret due to angle problems, but slipped down from the tilted tower wall, passed through the deck behind and drilled into the commander's compartment on the lower level, and then exploded there.
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