The Japanese pilots who attacked Pearl Harbor this time were all the best of the best, and all of them were extremely skilled.
When Shigeru Itani piloted the first plane to take off from the aircraft carrier "Akagi", the remaining 182 fighter planes took off one after another within 15 minutes, assembled over the air fleet, and lined up according to numbers.
At this time, a ray of sunlight appeared on the eastern horizon. Suddenly, the western sky was filled with vitality. The black clouds that looked like devils just now turned into orange, red, white, and blue watercolors.
Lieutenant Colonel Mitsuo Fuchida led a group of high-altitude bombers to fly over the aircraft carrier Akagi. The red and yellow identification colors on the tail fins of his aircraft were easily distinguishable from the yellow identification numbers of other squadron leaders.
Nan Yunzhong waved his hand.
Immediately, the flag carrier used the flag to display the slogan "Go".
The sailors on the aircraft carrier [Akagi] were so excited that they burst into tears when they saw the "departure" signal given by the flagman. They desperately waved their hats or small flags with the word "Z" in their hands, watching the fighter planes flying from The aircraft carrier flew over and headed for Pearl Harbor.
At this time, in addition to the six aircraft carriers, the officers and soldiers on the battleships parked not far away also saw the war eagles soaring in the sky. Many of them burst into tears, jumped, and cheered to see off their warriors.
Nagumo Chuichi, Yamaguchi Bunta and other generals stood on the aircraft carrier, looked at the plane going away, and saluted with attention!
Finally, the fleet disappeared from the sky.
Nagumo Chuichi stood on the deck: "Order, all fleets turn to the south with full starboard rudder. The destination is 180 nautical miles from the northern end of Oahu."
"Hi!"
The herald immediately conveyed the commander's order, "Right full rudder to the south, target, 180 nautical miles north of Oahu."
"Full right rudder!"
The chief mate's voice came from the bow of the aircraft carrier.
Then, the aircraft carrier [Akagi] turned in the opposite direction, leaving behind a cheerful wave of golden morning light.
All the fleets behind followed closely behind.
The east shines brightly, and the mighty mixed fleet heads towards Oahu.
In the original plan of Nagumo Chuichi and others, they believed that these 183 aircraft would encounter fierce resistance from the Americans when they attacked Pearl Harbor.
In their expectations, the fighter-bomber group led by Lieutenant Colonel Mitsuo Fuchida might be severely damaged.
Therefore, Nagumo Chuichi drove the aircraft carrier as close as possible to the attack zone and waited there for the fighter planes to return.
As soon as the fleet entered orbit, the sailors on the aircraft carrier began to get busy again, because today's attack was not a wave...
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Pearl Harbor.
Just as Lieutenant Colonel Mitsuo Fuchida led his fleet to take off perfectly and assemble in the air, goddess luck once again extended an olive branch to the Americans.
The entrance to Pearl Harbor is a channel densely covered with coral reefs, so the US military took advantage of the complexity of the geographical environment a long time ago to lay a secret protection net at the entrance to prevent torpedoes and submarine attacks.
When a war breaks out or there is a threat of war, this kind of protection net will be deployed at the entrance of military ports in almost all countries at night, which is an effective protection for the base.
During wartime, this kind of network can indeed provide a security guarantee for military ports.
But in peacetime, this protection net also has a shortcoming that is not very convenient to use, that is, it is equipped with a rafter, which is a protective device similar to a door bolt.
The rafters are closed when no warships enter the port, and they are opened only when a warship enters the port.
As a result, when a large warship returns to port, it must be followed closely by various small ships such as destroyers, frigates, patrol boats, and supply ships, so the rafters must be kept open.
However, the large and small ships returning to port sometimes do not always follow the large warships, and sometimes there is a distance between the ships.
According to port regulations, when a ship in front enters the harbor and the ship behind it has not caught up in time, the officer managing the entrance to Pearl Harbor must close the rafters until the following ship arrives. Open it again.
As time passed, the officer managing the entrance got very tired of this, and sometimes simply left the rafters fully open.
Anyway, this protective net and rafters are under the water. Only a few managers know whether they are closed or not. The most important thing is that now is peace time... now is peace time... peace time...
The officer who manages the entrance believes that in peaceful times, it is really annoying to open and close the rafters dozens or hundreds of times a day...
In this way, the rafters have been silently opening under the water.
The omnipotent Japanese spy knew this unknown secret.
At 5:50 in the morning, when the minesweeper "Condor" entered Pearl Harbor, it discovered that there was a strange black shadow on the sea about one kilometer south of the entrance to Pearl Harbor, moving straight towards the north entrance of the harbor. Although This thing was surprisingly small, but the soldiers on the minesweeper still judged based on experience that it should be a submarine.
The appearance of a submarine in Pearl Harbor is nothing new, but this submarine seemed too small and bizarre, and it suddenly disappeared after sailing for a while, which immediately attracted the attention of the crew.
Why did my submarine suddenly disappear when it was about to enter the Pearl Harbor channel?
Something is wrong.
American submarines always surface when returning to port, so that they can be easily identified and identified. Moreover, the waters of Pearl Harbor are very shallow. If the submarine suddenly dives into the shallows before entering the port, it is easy to hit the mud on the seabed and be damaged.
Immediately, the crew used a new type of ship string light that was not noticeable at all to ask for help from a destroyer not far away.
The destroyer received the signal and rushed over immediately!
At the same time, the destroyer received a sidelight signal from the large target towing ship [Mars] - at the entrance, it was being followed by an unknown object suspected of being a submarine.
The destroyer immediately ordered the Mars to stop entering the port, stay in place, wait for reinforcements, and block what appeared to be a submarine from entering Pearl Harbor.
The captain of the destroyer saw that the sea was empty, and the identifier on the destroyer did not find any suspicious problems. He was about to drop a few depth bombs and forget about it, but soon they saw the mysterious little thing again.
It is a small submarine.
The destroyer rushed towards the suspicious target at full speed and launched an attack until it hit the object about 100 meters away. At the same time, a US military reconnaissance aircraft returning to Oahu discovered the sound of the destroyer's shell. After the light, reinforcements came immediately and dropped two bombs, all of which hit the target.
After being attacked by U.S. destroyers and aircraft, the submarine finally ran aground on the east coast of Oahu.
The submarine was piloted by a Japanese navy lieutenant named Kujuan Heno. After he was captured, the U.S. military found a map on him that marked the locations of warships in Pearl Harbor.
The duty officer at Pearl Harbor sensed the crisis and immediately reported it to the commander-in-chief, Admiral Kimmel!
But Kimmel drank a little too much last night, and no one dared to disturb him before 7 o'clock in the morning, so the olive branch extended by Lady Luck to the Americans was once again ignored!
The scene of an American destroyer hitting a Japanese submarine happened to be seen from a distance by Zhou Zhihan and his team members during their morning jog!
