USA.
Pearl Harbor.
[USS Enterprise] aircraft carrier.
The U.S. Navy held a grand welcome ceremony for Zhou Zhihan's arrival on the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier and invited him to give a live speech to hundreds of aircraft carrier-based pilots.
On the day of the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Base, the Chinese Air Force's performance that day overshadowed Japan's three ace pilots. Especially Zhou Zhihan's flying F4F Wildcat carrier-based aircraft shocked the audience when he performed a fuel-free emergency landing. , so in the eyes of American pilots, Zhou Zhihan was a super ace, respected by everyone, and the treatment he received was naturally very different from when he came to buy fighter jets.
As the war deepened, the United States believed that the United States could not survive the war alone. The U.S. military was getting closer and closer to participating in the war. They even heard arrogant rumors that the Japanese wanted to attack Pearl Harbor.
The United States conducted a rigorous military exercise on whether Japan had the ability to launch a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and concluded that this was entirely wishful thinking on the part of the Japanese and a complete fantasy. The difficulty is comparable to asking a seven or eight-year-old child to run a 100-kilometer marathon alone.
Although the military overturned the possibility of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, this incident also showed that the militants in Japan had included the United States on their enemy list.
At the same time, the U.S. Navy is also clearly aware that from now on, all fleets should prepare for a rainy day.
Zhou Zhihan's arrival came at just the right time. The U.S. Department of the Navy believed that the combat experience of this Chinese Air Force ace and the take-off and landing capabilities of carrier-based aircraft could bring great help to the U.S. Navy, which has been idle.
The deck and bridge of the USS Enterprise were filled with pilots and sailors. They wanted to know the current situation in China on the other side of the ocean.
Zhou Zhihan first thanked the American people for their help and support for China's Anti-Japanese War, and then briefly and clearly introduced the current situation of China's Anti-Japanese War to everyone.
An Air Force major asked Zhou Zhihan: "Colonel Zhou, your military rank has reached the rank of colonel, which shows that you have a distinguished record.
We all know that you are the chief instructor of the Chinese Air Force. Logically speaking, you should be sitting in the command room strategizing. I want to know what belief makes you continue to take off and fight. "
This is a very good question, and many carrier-based aircraft pilots also want to know this question.
At present, in the air forces of various countries, most lieutenant colonel officers no longer fly into the sky, but this Chinese colonel is still flying aircraft and fighting. Does this mean that China has a serious shortage of pilots?
Because not long ago, American Claire Lee Chenault (Chennault) established the Flying Tigers in China. Many American pilots went to China to join the Flying Tigers as volunteers to support China's war against Japan.
I heard that the salary of American pilots who went to China to join the Flying Tigers was very high, especially the one-year salary of outstanding pilots, which even exceeded Roosevelt.
Of course, what many pilots at the scene wanted to know most was, does China still need pilots?
According to letters written back by American pilots who participated in the Flying Tigers in China, they are respected in China and their salaries are very high. If they can shoot down two or three enemy planes a year, their salary can reach three to four thousand US dollars. The people are very simple, and the girls also like the American pilots who fought bloody battles in China...
Zhou Zhihan stood in front of the microphone: "Once, my boss told me that as an instructor, my duty is to teach more outstanding pilots, not to fly into the air and fight side by side with the pilots.
They think I'm too valuable, and they don't want me to fight in the air with the pilots I selected and taught. But those pilots were selected by me, they were trained and forced by me, and I respect them very much, just like them. Respect me as well.
My superiors want me to sit in the airport and give orders, but I don't want to do that. I want to fight side by side with the pilots I brought out to drive Japanese aircraft out of China's sky.
At present, China is in the most difficult moment of the war of resistance. We will inevitably fail in some battles, but we will win in the end because China has thousands of heroic sons and daughters who have made outstanding contributions to the fight against the invaders.
Also because there are always people with a righteous heart who stand up to defend justice at critical moments, such as the peace-loving and kind-hearted American people who made outstanding contributions to China's war of resistance.
The will of the volunteers is indestructible, and with the help of the righteous people of all countries, China's war of resistance will eventually win! "
Zhou Zhihan's impassioned words won applause from everyone on the aircraft carrier Enterprise...
When the applause stopped, Zhou Zhihan took out a poster of the Flying Tigers and distributed it to the dozen or so pilots at the front for everyone to circulate: "The Chinese people warmly welcome American pilots to China to support operations. If anyone is willing to go to China, you can come to us." Come here to sign up..."
Zhou Zhihan came to the United States this time to serve as an instructor for carrier-based aircraft and land-based fighters at Pearl Harbor.
Before Zhou Zhihan came to the United States, Chennault made a special trip to see him, hoping that he would continue to recruit pilots after arriving in the United States and use his influence to lobby the United States to continue to provide China with high-quality fighter jets.
Chennault believes that with the current number and combat effectiveness of Chinese and American pilots, they are still unable to compete with the Japanese Air Force, and the US government must continue to increase aid to China.
Japan has domestic fighter production lines and excellent fighter designers, which can continuously provide better fighters to the front. If one is lost on the front, the rear has the ability to add two more.
China has to buy all its fighter planes, so there will be one less fighter to fight.
For now, the Soviets have too much to take care of themselves, and the British are still licking the wounds of the war and waiting for things to be done. Neither country can continue to provide China with fighter jets as they did before. Now China can only get fighter jets. There is America.
Therefore, after coming to the United States, Zhou Zhihan would give a speech whenever he had the opportunity to make more Americans sympathize with China during the Anti-Japanese War.
Zhou Zhihan knows that some people will say that he has no spine, so why does he want more Americans to sympathize with China?
Zhou Zhihan didn't want to explain too much about this.
China is in turmoil. Without the sympathy and help of the international community, it is estimated that China would have fallen under the iron heel of the Japanese.
At the beginning of the war, without German weapons and equipment, the Chinese Communist Party would not have been able to exchange and force the Japanese army to change their combat plan at a heavy price in the Battle of Songhu. From then on, they would have dragged the Japanese army into muddy paths and mountain roads and won the strategic victory. victory.
In the early stages of the war, the Chinese Air Force was almost completely wiped out. If the Soviet Air Force had not come to help at the critical moment, the Chinese Air Force would have existed in name only like the Navy.
When the Soviets felt pressure from Germany to withdraw their pilots from China, the United States and Britain promptly extended a helping hand...
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The U.S. Navy knows that in the near future, the real opponent of the United States and the U.S. Navy will be Japan. Once the war starts, the Pearl Harbor Navy will face the Japanese fleet.
Zhou Zhihan has fought with the Japanese for many years. His experience can give American pilots an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of Japanese fighter planes, pilots and tactics.
In the following days, Zhou Zhihan first explained the performance of Japanese fighter aircraft to American pilots, especially the Zero combat.
If it had been six months ago, when Zhou Zhihan talked about the Zero fighter, American pilots would have curled their lips.
Zero fighter?
Is it more powerful than the American Mustang and Tomahawk?
But now, American pilots believe that the Zero fighter is very powerful, because many Flying Tigers pilots wrote back and said that they suffered a lot when flying Tomahawks against Zero fighters in China. Fortunately, Colonel Zhou Zhihan and Colonel Claire Lee Chenault, who devised highly effective tactics specifically for countering the Zero fighter.
As a time traveler, Zhou Zhihan clearly saw that the process of World War II is still moving forward according to the historical trajectory, cannot be changed, and no one can stop it.
The Japanese would soon attack Pearl Harbor, and the United States immediately declared war on Japan. China's war of resistance also took a decisive turn on December 8, 1941.
Zhou Zhihan also knew clearly that as a time traveler, he could not change the history of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which affected the entire trend of World War II.
Even if he could, he would not change it. Without Japan's successful attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States would not have learned from the painful experience and immediately declared war on Japan.
But he can change parts of the war. Since time traveling, his ability to change parts of the war has been demonstrated in many battles.
In the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, thousands of people in the United States lost their lives, and forty or fifty warships and more than three hundred fighter planes were destroyed. At this point, he can help the United States reduce the losses of ships and aircraft in the Pearl Harbor incident. , reduce casualties.
It hurts, but it still hurts mg. Only when mg people feel pain will they beat up Japan.
It is also necessary to help the United States in this incident. At least it can benefit China from this incident. As long as you appear in the right key position at the right time, the Americans will be grateful, and the American government will be grateful to China. Provide a steady stream of various war aid.
For example, when the Japanese took off from the aircraft carrier and began to drop bombs on Pearl Harbor, he could lead a squadron of American fighter jets to appear over Pearl Harbor in a reasonable and timely manner, disrupting the Japanese's unscrupulous bomb dropping and reducing American casualties. At this critical moment, the key appearance of Mr. Key must be just right for the Americans to see.
When the Pearl Harbor incident was a foregone conclusion, helping the United States was equivalent to helping China. Every additional American warship saved was equivalent to dropping a few more bombs on the heads of the Japanese devils.
But the prerequisite for all help is that he can take action after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor becomes a reality.
In addition to making people feel the pain, Americans must also be grateful to China and Zhou Zhihan.
