The two battleships [Oklahoma] and [Nevada] belong to the "Nevada" class battleships.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the U.S. Navy conducted firepower tests on battleships, which proved that the medium-thickness armor in the traditional protection system of battleships was unable to defend against large-caliber armor-piercing projectiles.
In view of this, the U.S. Navy urgently needed a thickly armored battleship.
After referring to other similar battleships and integrating its own technology, the United States finally designed the "Nevada" class battleship.
The first battleship, the USS Nevada, was commissioned in 1916.
In 1930, both the Nevada and Oklahoma underwent large-scale modernization at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Almost the entire superstructure was rebuilt, using a new triangular mast, which was originally set on the side. The 10 main guns were moved to the open deck, five at the front and rear.
The transformation was drastic. The Americans installed eight 127mm anti-aircraft guns on both sides of the bridge and the forward mast, and two 76mm anti-aircraft guns on both sides of the rear mast. An aircraft catapult was added to the stern to eject reconnaissance aircraft. , can also eject combat or bomber aircraft.
The width of this battleship has been increased to 33 meters, the hull length is 177.7 meters, the standard displacement is 27,500 tons, the maximum speed is 21 knots, the draft is 8.7 meters, and the endurance is 5,120 nautical miles.
But no matter how thick the shield is, there will still be spears to pierce it. The heavy armor that Americans rely on for their heavy tasks obviously cannot withstand the attack of a 1,000 kilogram torpedo.
The Type 97 torpedo plane was 40 meters away from the water. Goto slowly pushed the lever and continued to descend. He could clearly see the sailors on the Oklahoma running onto the deck and making a mess. Some of them had already entered the anti-aircraft machine gun array. position, but there were no bullets in the cannon and the loader was not in place. The machine gunner's scream was ridiculous.
[USS Oklahoma] There is no ammunition in all weapons. It only takes at least five minutes to output the ammunition in the magazine to the deck without preparation.
At this moment, Goto's eyes collided with the machine gunner's from a distance.
A cruel sneer appeared at the corner of Goto's lips: The American must have been scared to death.
Goto adjusted the bomb release angle, pulled the torpedo launch lever with his left hand, held the operating lever with his right hand, slightly pulled the lever as the nose of the aircraft sank, and the torpedo penetrated into the water. The Nine-Seven Style was as relaxed as a weight was relieved, and it climbed happily.
The Type 91 torpedo slid into the water and quickly floated, swimming in the Americans' straight eyes, like a big shark biting the Oklahoma.
Goto couldn't help laughing. Until this moment, the Americans on the battleship still didn't fire. They were so hasty that they never thought that war would come. After seeing them launch torpedoes, all the Yankees jumped up like flies and fled around. It was so cute, especially the American sailor who just made eye contact with him. He was The first person to jump up...
"boom!"
Goto rolled sideways during the climb and looked back. He saw that the torpedo he launched first touched the line while running and won the championship. Then a white water column rose hundreds of meters into the sky, mixed with fire, and the Oklahoma almost jumped out of the shock. water surface.
The powerful shock wave held up the bottom of the Type 97 torpedo machine. Goto felt that this feeling was very wonderful. It would be great if he could carry two torpedoes, so he could experience it again. After the torpedo hit the target The pleasure was gone.
At this moment, Goto felt that he was the happiest person in the world.
"Hit, sir!"
The roar of machine guns came from behind.
"Long live the Emperor!"
Goto and his machine gunners cheered at the same time, venting their joy.
Immediately afterwards, torpedoes launched by several other torpedo planes also hit the giant ship. Explosions sounded one after another. A mast on the ship was directly blown into two pieces, and the upper part flew in the air, spinning like a sharp sword. It was inserted into the cement floor next to the shipyard, causing spider web-like cracks to appear on the ground.
Pillars of water rose into the sky, mixed with the corpses of sailors, spinning in the air, and then crashed down on the devastated and burning ship.
Several torpedo planes led by Goto attacked from the same side. All the torpedoes launched hit the right side of the Oklahoma, directly lifting the side of the ship. Seawater poured in crazily along the wound, and the battleship was like A huge hippopotamus, the entire belly of one side was opened by the explosion, and the keel and canine teeth were exposed. The equipment inside the ship was blown to pieces. The electrical appliances burned and crackled, and the flames shot up into the sky diagonally, spraying dozens of meters away. It was a scene. Spectacular and terrifying.
Then, the steel behemoth rolled over to one side in a dizzy manner, and the ship let out bursts of painful groans that made the sailors despair.
Fuel spurted out from the shattered hull like a profuse hemorrhage, and ignited immediately when it caught fire.
Being caught off guard, some sailors were still struggling and wailing on the hull of the Oklahoma, and some jumped into the water full of dirty oil and blood in a panic.
Fortunately, after receiving advance warning from the Flying Tigers, the sleeping sailors in the cabin escaped nervously and orderly. Although many people were injured, it was not as tragic as the Arizona.
Torpedo planes and bombers screamed and rushed towards the giant ship, launching orderly and fierce attacks in turns.
The Zero fighter jets inhumanely fired at the sailors who jumped into the sea and densely floated on the water. For a while, the sea was covered with blood and corpses.
Immediately afterwards, the Type 99 high-altitude bombers roared over, and the bombs rolled down and hit the "Oklahoma" that had been tilted up the side of the ship, making the giant ship jump up and down again, and finally looked like [ Arizona] tilted upside down in the water, leaving hundreds of sailors on the bottom of the sea.
Most of the sailors trapped in the Oklahoma were both lucky and unlucky compared to the sailors trapped in the Arizona.
The more than 800 sailors who followed the Arizona as it sank died soon after being submerged in the sea.
More than three hundred sailors on the Oklahoma were trapped in the cabin and did not die immediately. They seemed lucky to survive in the cabin, but unfortunately, the rescue team did not find them.
On the second day after the Oklahoma sank to the bottom of the sea, the rescuers at Pearl Harbor worked hard to open several holes on the Oklahoma with a welding gun based on the knocking sounds in the cabin. A life-saving hatch and rescued 33 people.
The first thing the sailors who thought they were going to die but regained life after they surfaced was to hug each other and cry bitterly, and vowed to fight for blood and shame.
It was because these 33 people were rescued that the rescuers mistakenly thought that the remaining trapped sailors were dead, so they gave up the rescue operation.
In fact, just as the rescuers used welding torches to cut out the openings, the crew members trapped at the bottom saw hope, but no matter how loud they shouted, their voices could not travel far.
What made them even more desperate was that there was not even a single hard object that could hit the hull in the cabin they were in.
So they could only shout loudly, shouting together until their throats were hoarse, broken and bleeding, and the rescuers outside could not hear their voices.
In this way, the rescuers thought that all the people inside were killed and gave up their aid.
What's more, Pearl Harbor was in a mess at that time, with many ships needing to be salvaged and many crew members needing to be rescued.
Therefore, when the rescuers put their ears to the drum and could not hear the knocking sound from inside the Oklahoma, they gave up the rescue.
Four days later, the survivors on board the Oklahoma realized that the hope of rescue was very slim, so they stopped shouting and crying, wrote their names and suicide notes with blood on the walls of the ship, and then slowly Slowly lacking oxygen, dying slowly from hunger, darkness, and fear.
Before death, many people's gums cracked and they kept vomiting blood, which was very miserable.
Later, when people salvaged this tragically fateful battleship, they saw the bloody writings and suicide notes left on the wall and realized that the remaining crew members had persisted for 17 days.
When these crew members with extremely miserable deaths were brought to the shore, everyone present burst into tears.
