Chapter 537 Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! Eleven
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, and most of the planes worth 10 million yen turned into wreckage in a 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 - this was the anti-aircraft guns on the ground 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!" Onya looked at the plane that fell rapidly and silently said in his heart - Little 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 everyone in it 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 a team of 5 aircraft, and each team has a predetermined target - the Japanese pilots participating in this attack are elites accumulated over the years, and 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 40 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.
Just one minute later, five aircraft led by Captain Kusumi also completed the bomb drop. This time, an 800-kilogram armor-piercing projectile penetrated the front deck of the "Arizona". Then I don't know if it penetrated the ammunition depot, causing a huge explosion!
Chapter completed!