Jul 9, 2024
Lieutenant mundt leaned less than half of his body into the cab from his map. He was driving the plane intently. Lieutenant Fogg took a pair of binoculars and observed the ground situation ahead. All three of them had oxygen masks hanging by their ears. Not long ago, they climbed to the height of 7ooo meters to avoid the attack of a group of American warplanes. In this thin air place, pilots had to assist oxygen equipment to get enough oxygen.
Such a large-scale formation has been flying in American territory for nine hours, but the German bomber group has not been really threatened. When it passed Tennessee in the afternoon, two batches of American fighter planes went up to pursue it. But it is ridiculous that those p5 fighters are so poor that even the Dornier dd bombers flying at a cruising speed of 260 kilometers per hour can’t catch up with the interception war-even though Boeing P; Up to now, the greatest effort made by the Americans to intercept the German bomber group is to send four Beechcraft aircraft carriers from the base in northeast Tennessee in the evening. They released 24 fighter jets at a height of more than 4ooo meters. These small planes quickly climbed to the same height as the German bomber group of 5ooo meters. To get rid of these poor flying insects, 125 Dornier 44 bombers did one thing ―― climbed 500 meters, 600 meters and 6500 meters. 7ooo meters German bombers are still rising, but those p4 are in big trouble at the height of 6ooo meters ―― their motivation is non-supercharged, and the pilots in the open cabin can’t stand the motivation and get enough oxygen, so they have to give up the pursuit.
Thanks to the supercharging technology of Mr. Cults, the boss and chair designer of Mercedes-Benz, Hawk, Germany, was able to break through the ceiling of 6ooo meters (it was only in the automobile in 1919 that the first supercharged motivation of fighter aircraft was "free", which was the mainstream of the supercharged motivation technology before the turbocharging technology appeared). In addition, the pilots of the Dornier dd bomber also wore special flight cabins and oxygen equipment, which made it possible to fly at high speed because the supercharged technology was still in the development stage and the supercharged cockpit was not adopted at this time. However, the actual ceiling of Dornier was ooo meters.
This kind of long-range strategic bombing, an important part of Titan’s plan, was emphasized by the German high command. The generals believed that the greatest threat to the fleet was not American fighter planes and airships, but the real threat would come from the ground-in 1924, it was time for Germany and Japan to confront the United States with two military technologies, one was airship, and the other was that warships were heavily equipped with anti-aircraft guns. In a South Dakota-class battleship, 127mm, 76mm, 4omm and 2omm anti-aircraft guns were everywhere.
Interceptor fighters taking off from Lynchburg struggled to pull the German fleet in the dark, but p5 and p7a’ s own motive sounds seemed to interfere with the judgment of American pilots. It wasn’t long before they met an airship formation flying from Norfolk. Although these big guys seemed to be arrogant, their ceiling was only 5ooo meters, and even the best German airships could reach this level, they only had the ceiling advantage in front of the plane in the early days.
It took a long time for this group of fighters and airships to pluck the rope before the German bomber group appeared in high altitude. These Dornier 44 institutes returned to a height of 5ooo meters to save fuel and protect pilots. On the one hand, the navigation technology of long-range bombers is not yet quite up to the visual navigation method. Dead reckoning algorithm and astronomical navigation are still the three main navigation methods. Line navigation can only be achieved at a relatively close distance and when there is a signal launcher. Therefore, it is more beneficial for German navigators to judge their own course from the ground characteristics-most of the major cities and towns in the United States, the world’s largest industrial power, still have lights on at 9 o’clock or 1o’clock at night. Unless the US government is determined to control the surface lights, the German bomber group will still be a very important navigation method.
At present, the German fleet has 310 kilometers behind it, and the p7a first climbed 24 planes, only 210 kilometers. Although p5 is slow, the positions of both sides are doomed that they can intercept in front of the German bomber group this time. At this time, the "Beeches" in the airship formation have also released their own small p4 fighters. In just ten minutes, 36 6 6-base fighters and the airship took the fighter plane to become the obstacle of the German bomber group.
German pilots in Dornier also showed that Major Garcoby, who came from low-American fighters and airships, made a decisive decision.
"The signal fleet climbed and we lost those Americans by altitude!"
Lieutenant Mutt immediately used the tail signal light to signal the German fleet in the rear, so he had four high-powered motives. Dornier climbed one by one, merged with the machine guns on the belly, and flew to the front. A group of American fighter planes caught fire in front of these 125 heavy bombers flying in close formation. Now American pilots must not only evade from their hands, but also constantly avoid each other’s fierce fire.
Many machine guns flew like a stream in the air, disturbing many Americans’ good dreams.
Washington White House
"What? Not only did they not shoot down a German plane, but they injured three fighters and let the other side swagger through our defense circle? "
Warren Harding jumped up from his seat when he heard the news from Lynchburg Barracks. Although American fighter planes fired at their targets before flying to their maximum ceiling, it was difficult for them to hit their targets when their 762 mm machine guns were 5oo yards away, not to mention the German bombers who were more than 1ooo meters taller than themselves.
In this way, 125 German bombers flew to the heart of the United States.
In this gorgeous office, the senior generals of the 6 th Army, General Leonard Wood, General Williamson, Chief of Staff of the 6 th Army, General Payton March, and General William Simms, Chief of Staff of the Navy, etc. are not worried. The American army lost badly in the southern part of the soil all afternoon, but it was late, but even they were facing the other side’s attack. Now the German way of fighting really makes them more and more puzzled. You know, this is only the first day of the war, and the most powerful German navy has not yet made a move!
"Our planes and airships turned out to be like this!" Warren Harding slammed his fist on his desk.
"Mr. President …" General Kono Jackson, the garrison commander in Washington, looked awkward.
"Still ask? Anti-alarm allows citizens to hide in the nearest hole as soon as possible! " Warren Harding looked extremely depressed when he gave this order.
"I hope it won’t cause a big panic!" Williamson muttered
"I hope we have enough defense facilities!" General Leonard Wood shook his head.
At 11: 42 pm on July 7, 1924, less than 12 hours after the war broke out, an alarm sounded in Washington, the capital of the United States. The frightened citizens told each other that the plane was coming!
At 12: 31, German bombers flew over Washington, and the whole city was filled with suffocating tension. Most of the lights went out, and searchlights were still moving in the sky to defend Washington. More than 12o anti-aircraft guns were fired continuously from 35: 00, and six fighter squadron pilots were on standby in the engine room. However, in the noisy night, the US defense team did not drop even one bomb during the performance. A quarter of an hour later, the German fleet left Washington.
The pilots and bombers of the German bombers are nervously calculating the target position of the fleet route. It is not a fluke that they flew over Washington without dropping bombs. The Americans thought that they had found the wrong target. The Kaiser and his high command did not simply think that flattening Washington would make the Americans surrender. Don’t forget that the British occupied and burned Washington in 114, and their adventure aroused Americans’ determination to resist. It is better to actually drop bombs on the industrial arteries of the United States.
At 12: 49, the German bomber formation flew to Baltimore, more than 60 kilometers northeast of Washington. Minutes later, the first bomb fell from more than 600 meters, thus kicking off the strategic bombing.
Baltimore is not only an important seaport in the northeastern United States, but also an important industrial city in the United States, the strongest industrial country in the world. In the 192o, American industry was mainly concentrated in two regions ―― the northeast coastal industrial zone formed by Boston, new york, Chicago and Baltimore Washington, and Detroit, Chicago, Sao Paulo constitutes the Great Lakes Industrial Zone. Because both of them are located in the northeast of the United States, they are also known as the Northeast Industrial Zone of the United States. The main reason why the United States is the largest industrial zone in the world is that it is rich in natural resources and convenient in transportation. Most of the steel, machinery, automobiles, power and chemical industries in the United States have hit the nine industrial cities of Boston, new york, Baltimore, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago and Sao Paulo.
A string of high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs fell from Dornier bombers. Although this kind of high-explosive bombing is not accurate, the power of 100 tons of high-explosive bombs and 200 tons of incendiary bombs is enough to turn a large area of Baltimore into a sea of fire and fall into the port area. The bombs seriously damaged the docks, warehouses, railways and shipyards there, and some large cargo ships moored in Hong Kong fell into the fire factory in the north of the port area. Bombs in chemical plants and smelters triggered a series of fires and explosions. Two huge chemical tanks in Squet Chemical Plant became deadly killers. Thousands of people inhaled toxic gases and were injured and even died. During the bombing lasting more than half an hour, shipbuilding, arms and machinery industries in the south-central and southwest were not lucky. This famous industrial city was burning in the dark, and even Washington, more than 60 kilometers away, could see the red sky.
Warren Harding was right in his window.
After the bombing, Hawk turned around and flew back to Washington again. Although the US military dispatched a large number of fighters, it could watch these heavy bombers flying in Germany fly away.
Tu Mei Chapter 12 See the wind and steer the war country
New york USA.
Born in the middle of the night, 20 kilometers away, the bombing did not directly disturb the city. The news that Baltimore was violently bombed was far faster and farther than the wave. Half an hour after the bombing, many people in new york learned the fact that the Germans bombed Baltimore through various channels.
Among them, the most natural response belongs to new york newspaper tycoons, and Tristan, the owner of the new york Times, was just angry because he woke himself up by talking. Just a few seconds later, the fine media giant immediately thought of the headline, so he quickly instructed his men to immediately stop the morning newspaper printers from rearranging overnight and printing 500 thousand copies.
After that, Mr. Tristan still felt uneasy about waking up his driver. He wanted to go to the office building to look at those people who were very uneasy. Such an explosive news would definitely increase his newspaper sales. Does it mean that Tristan felt that he should not consider it?
At the time of Tristan Ford Car Street, the whining alarm suddenly sounded in the downtown area. Most new york citizens were very unfamiliar with this sound because they were worried that the anti-attack exercise would interfere with the normal economic activities of this important commercial and industrial center. In addition, both Washington and the military believed that the war would not explode until 1925. The military had never conducted an anti-attack exercise in new york before, and the solo attack alarm woke up many new york citizens who were sleeping. People knocked on their windows or simply walked into the street.
People looked up and saw many black shadows on the bright star when the hum never came.
At 1: 33 in the morning of July, 1924, the violent explosion first came from the most prosperous Manhattan area in new york. From the explosion, people can see that the flames of the sky are constantly increasing in successive explosions, and then the four districts of Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Richmond are also caught in violent explosions. Fires as high as tens of meters rise everywhere, and the whole city becomes brighter than day.
Restan was stunned. His driver hurriedly pulled over to the side of the road. This stupid decision killed them. Only half a minute later, a 1oo kilogram heavy incendiary bomb landed less than 10 meters away. Like thousands of new york citizens, they failed to escape the big bombing that day.
It was not until about a quarter of an hour after the bombing of the German fleet that the new york authorities organized citizens to enter the bunker to escape. However, a large number of citizens were as flustered as frightened wild boars, which made the urban scene completely out of control. The German bomber pilots who bombed in new york could not control so many 2oo Dornier bombers. In more than half an hour, they threw more than 5ooo aerobombs into the port, industrial and commercial areas of this bustling city, all of which became key targets, including 7 shipyards and 4 oil depots. Three arms companies, an iron and steel factory and three automobile factories were seriously damaged. Among the large-scale industrial facilities, only the urban thermal power plant was destroyed, but a large number of incendiary bombs destroyed most of the city’s lines. The urban area of new york was still in a state of big stop soon, which seriously affected the treatment of injured citizens in hospitals. In fact, more than ten hospitals of all sizes have been damaged in the bombing.
In the fierce bombing of the German fleet, American fighter planes stationed near new york still made a weak ascent to intercept several cruisers moored in new york Harbor and fired their own naval guns. These did not pose a threat to the incoming German heavy bomber squadron. 200 Dornier returned safely after the bombing, which became the best excuse for Germany and its allies to mock the US government afterwards.
Afterwards, Americans learned that this German bomber squadron actually flew from Guadeloupe, which is more than 200 nautical miles away from the east coast of the United States, for nearly 10 hours before arriving in new york. It was associated with the fact that the bombers loaded by the American and British submarines attacked that German fleet on July 5 were sent to Guadeloupe. Americans could not help but feel ashamed-it seems that the 200 German bombers bombed new york this time were not Germans, and the fleet loaded bombers in Guadeloupe would 2ooo join the attack on American soil. According to the intelligence personnel, more than 20 cargo ships were loaded with more than 100 Dornier bombers.
It was afternoon tea in Tokyo on the other side of the ocean when new york was violently attacked.
In the courtyard, cicadas take pains to scream and increase people’s irritability in summer. In a room with very western decoration, the Regent and members of the cabinet and senior generals of the military are sitting with serious faces.
On the afternoon of the same day, the Japanese government announced that the United States would sever diplomatic relations in accordance with the terms of the German-Japanese-Singapore Secret Treaty, but they did not expel the US Secretary of State and his party who had come for a secret meeting. On the contrary, secret negotiations between the two countries continued.
It is an important choice for Hirohito and others to declare war by declaring war on the east or negotiating to ask the US government to hand over the Philippines and Hawaii. Then Japan and Germany will attack the United States from both sides of the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. I am afraid that it will be the only choice for the US Navy to force France to support both lines at the same time and transfer the Pacific fleet back to the soil. In that case, the Japanese army will easily seize the Philippines and Hawaii, and the negotiation day will most likely benefit the American government and force the Americans to hand over the Philippines and Hawaii. In that case, the US government can avoid the problem of two-front war, and the Pacific fleet can quickly return to the soil and then cross the Panama Canal to meet the Atlantic fleet, if the American Atlantic fleet has not been defeated by the Germans at that time.
If you don’t argue or make peace with Japan, you will gain the control of half of the Pacific Ocean in the Philippines and Hawaii, and it will also belong to the Japanese navy. However, the Japanese government’s choice is a very important war for the United States and Germany. Even if the Japanese navy can’t hold off the American Pacific fleet, it will make that fleet suffer some losses. If the United States loses, it will also get some war benefits after the war. And despite some treachery, it can avoid unnecessary casualties and losses, and at the same time it makes it more difficult for Germany to win the war and change the war situation.
In addition to war and two opinions, the third possibility of the theory is that Japan and the United States reached an understanding and formed an alliance, and then Japan entered the Indian Ocean to bully German African colonies. However, this theory may have been strongly rejected by the Japanese Admiralty once it came out ―― they have been studying under the German Navy since the end of the war, not to mention the close naval combat effectiveness of the two countries. As far as the Japanese naval generals are concerned, they would rather fight with Americans than risk a powerful German war, and they will also be detained with a shit bowl of biting off the hand that feeds them.
After an afternoon of discussion, the people in this room were temporarily divided into two groups, the Admiralty and the Cabinet hardliners, who supported the declaration of war on the United States and sent troops eastward. The conservatives in the 6 th Military Department and the Cabinet believed that Japan should look at the situation first and then talk about it. At present, the actual ruler, Prince Hirohito, has been sullen and has no opinion.
Seeing that the meeting was about to come to an end, the news that new york was attacked and suffered heavy losses suddenly changed the atmosphere in the meeting room through Japanese spies coming from the United States.
"First Baltimore and now new york. In just a few hours, the two most important industrial cities in the United States suffered a heavy blow! Gentlemen, this situation can’t be more obvious. We should bet when the market is very optimistic! I think since the Germans’ hopes of victory have greatly increased, it is time for us to declare war on the United States and attract the German government’s dissatisfaction with us in the future! "
Minister of the Navy Murakami came together to talk about it. Just this afternoon, the German ambassador has conveyed the meaning of Berlin twice. The German government hopes that the Japanese government will fulfill its allies’ obligations as soon as possible and delay the main force of the US Pacific Fleet stationed in Hawaii as long as possible.
Sitting next to the Regent, Prince Miyabo nodded slightly. The experience of German navy fighting side by side in South America made him more firmly support Japan-Germany friendship. In addition, his father, Miyako Zhen’ ai, was one of the veterans of the Japanese imperial navy, and he was also the most influential royal figure among the active naval generals. After he nodded, the opinions of the whole navy were self-evident
The Minister of the Army, Yu Yi-cheng, doesn’t think so. In summary, the opinions of him and most members of the cabinet are five words and will sit quietly! At present, the four strongest countries in the world are Germany, the United States, Japan and Russia. If Russia is not superficial, then Japan’s biggest potential rivals are Germany and the United States. If these two countries lose each other in this war, it is doubtful that they will reap the benefits.
"Since the Germans are sure of winning, there seems to be no need for us to participate. Isn’t it good to wait for the good news of Germany’s victory?"
Yu Mi’s words were supported by cabinet minister Kikuiwu Kiyoko, minister Katsumida and others. For these civil servants, not fighting means not supporting a large number of troops, but also making a lot of money by reselling arms. Of course, selling arms to the United States must be cautious. No one dares to offend Germans at this time, even those who have always been arrogant and Japanese.
"The Germans are training in America, but our powerful fleet is going to rust in the harbor. Do you want to see this happen?" The village unceremoniously refuted the conservative opinions.
Yu Mi did not give in. "Isn’t it killing two birds with one stone to send observers to America to sum up the experience of the German-American war to improve the combat capability of our army?"
"Observe where it is better than going to war in person?"
"It is unbearable for the government to recover its financial situation slightly this year at the cost of casualties when it participates in the war!"
"We will be accused of having no faithless people!"
"That’s enough!" Hirohito, who has been silent for a long time, finally got angry. The 23-year-old young man’s face has a domineering look as he gets older. Even those who have been through the war will be forced to retreat. For a moment, the conference room is quiet and terrible, and people have that hateful cicada in their ears
"Isn’t it a laughing stock to make trouble before you join the war?" Prince Hirohito looked coldly at the two factions that were just quarreling fiercely. This situation is not surprising at the Japanese Pavilion or the military meeting. 6. The battle between the commanders, the state faction and the naval Samoyed faction has been going on for a long time. It seems that the two sides have become a permanent way to resolve their enemies. Even if their opinions cannot be recognized, they will never let the other side succeed. It is rare for the two sides to reach an agreement.
After a long pause, Hirohito turned to a more peaceful tone.
"At noon, I received a personal letter from the German envoy!"
At this time, regardless of faction, everyone in the meeting room wanted to know what Hirohito would say next.
It took a few seconds to keep everyone’s appetite alive. Regent said in a slightly green voice