"idiot!"
Shindo's left arm was in pain, and blood spurted out and dyed the dashboard red. He subconsciously lowered his head to check the injury on his left arm. His face showed pain, and his eyes were filled with resentment. His hatred for Zhou Zhihan suddenly increased countless times. The skin on his left arm was torn, the bones were exposed, and there were bone residues stained on the clothes. The blood tendons that usually looked blue turned pale white due to excessive blood loss. He knew that if he did not stop the bleeding in time, he would definitely die, but at this time Zero War was in decline. posture, release the joystick with your right hand and bandage your left arm, the nose of the aircraft will sink and quickly point to the water.
What's even more terrible is that when flying against No. 214 Wildcat just now, the Zero Fighter's throttle was pushed to the bottom, the fighter's speed reached the extreme, the left arm was broken, and the throttle method could not be recovered. The speed was accelerated due to the dive, and the operating stick also became laggy. Sticky feeling.
Seeing that Wildcat No. 214 was surrounded by his own aircraft, Shindo pulled the lever and the fighter planes recovered from the dive. At this moment, he saw two speedboats with machine guns coming out of Pearl Harbor and chasing him at high speed in the direction where he left. Come on, obviously the Americans are coming for revenge.
Shindo curled his lips contemptuously. He wanted to catch up with me with just two speedboats. It was really as arrogant as a dream.
Suddenly, a strong smell of gasoline rose in the cabin.
This is because the oil pipeline was affected by shrapnel and was not completely ruptured at first. After the dive acceleration just now, the fragile fuselage did not protect the damaged internal oil pipe enough, causing the oil pipe to rupture and gasoline to gush and leak.
Shindo instantly tasted despair.
He knew that in this case, the fuel would soon leak out and even burn.
Shindo knew he couldn't go back. He looked towards the east, with tears in his eyes. Then he roared, gritted his teeth, pressed the lever, and the fighter plane made a U-turn and flew straight into Pearl Harbor. He wanted to pull the trigger before he died. A large battleship backed up, and then at a glance he saw the USS West Virginia, which was burning with fire and had a big hole in its stern.
In the first wave of attacks, Captain Banning, the captain of the West Virginia, was seriously injured. The 22-year-old black cook private, Taylor, the heavyweight boxing champion of the West Virginia and the entire Pearl Harbor. Miller came to treat Banning, and then organized an anti-air defense line with all the sailors on the ship.
When Zhou Zhihan first arrived at Pearl Harbor from China, he had seen Miller resolve his differences with white sailors in a formal boxing match because they were facing injustice. At that time, the majority of the onlookers were white people. , Zhou Zhihan was optimistic about Miller Sheng, and since then, a good relationship has been established between the two.
That night at the Spring Tide Hotel, Zhou Zhihan defeated a Japanese sumo wrestler, and Taylor Miller made a lot of money.
Before World War II, black people had been discriminated against for a long time. They suffered a lot of pressure and resistance in employment and other issues. Even if they dedicated themselves to national defense, they could only hold low-level jobs, such as cooks or coal workers, and faced many difficulties in promotion and awards. So restricted that no black man had ever won an important Navy medal before World War II.
But this did not prevent Miller from heroically rescuing many white comrades at critical moments.
Suddenly, Miller saw a black smoke-belching plane make a turn in the air, and then dive down at high speed towards their battleship. He was stunned for a few seconds, and immediately understood what the Japanese wanted to do, and shouted to his comrades around him: : "Defense, the enemy has launched a suicidal attack, we must stop him!" Miller shouted and ran towards the 5-inch anti-aircraft gun.
"defense……"
"The Japanese launched a suicide attack... knock him down..."
The sailors on the ship also saw fighter jets swooping down, dragging thick smoke, shouting and shooting into the air with machine guns and rifles, but with little effect.
Although the small bombs carried by the Zero fighter are not powerful enough to sink large warships, the power they produce when diving into a warship with bombs definitely exceeds the power of an 800 kilogram bomb, not to mention that it also carries fuel.
Because the ship's power system was paralyzed by torpedoes, the five-inch anti-gun required manual operation. However, the five-inch anti-gun was too heavy and fierce. Several sailors had tried it before, but they all failed because they could not carry the heavy gun and launched a rotating defense. Forced to give up.
Taylor Miller stepped under the shoulder frame of the five-inch anti-cannon, gritted his teeth, picked up the anti-cannon, and shouted: "Reload!"
"Reload!"
Infected by Miller's courage, the sailors roared loudly one by one, and the bombloaders ran over.
Seeing that there was not much ammunition for five-inch anti-guns, several sailors ran into the ammunition depot that was smoking black and could explode at any time, and took out several boxes of five-inch anti-gun bullets.
Seeing that the sailors gave up racial barriers at this moment and showed the same hatred of the enemy, the injured ship's chaplain Captain Herwell Fudge was very moved. He took a bandage and joined the air defense position to boost morale and asked everyone to "praise the Lord and work hard to spread the word." "Ammunition", this sentence immediately became one of the most inspiring slogans in the war.
"come……"
Taylor Miller was like an iron tower, carrying a five-inch anti-cannon and rotating the gun body. He fired fiercely at the Zero fighter that swooped up. He roared loudly. His morale ignited the fighting spirit of his companions. Everyone picked up all the weapons they could. Defense weapons, shooting into the sky together.
Shindo took out the photo he had with him during the dive and looked at the family photo in the photo. At this moment, he began to regret it, but there was no way out.
As a squadron leader, he set an example by not carrying a parachute when taking off. Now he finally regretted it and paid the price for his heroic moment.
One of the reasons why he could only choose a suicide attack was the presence of Lieutenant Colonel Mitsuo Fuchida who was supervising the battle in the air at this time.
Among the Japanese pilots, some of the pilots who finally chose suicide attacks were influenced by militarism, and some were forced to do so.
Once a Japanese pilot is captured, it will have disastrous consequences for his family in Japan.
"goodbye……"
Shindo roared loudly, said goodbye to his relatives far away, held the joystick in hand, and pounced on the West Virginia.
Suddenly, Shindo felt a powerful impact penetrate the fuselage, and then his whole body trembled with the fighter. A few seconds later, he felt that his body was torn apart in an instant, and as the fighter flew, The wreckage crashed into the sea.
"Oh haha..."
Watching the Zero fighter explode in the air, the sailors on the USS West Virginia cheered loudly in celebration. Several sailors stepped forward and hugged Miller. If it weren't for him, most of them would have been buried in the sea along with the battleship...
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The huge fleet of aircraft left a messy condensed wake in the blue sky outside Pearl Harbor, like abstract paintings, bringing endless fantasy to people.
The Zero Battle Squadron led by Captain Makino Saburo used a U formation to encircle Wildcat No. 214 head-on.
Saburo Makino, as the leader, formed a four-finger formation to face Wildcat No. 214, and the other four two-finger formations quickly surrounded it from both sides.
Zhou Zhihan saw that the formation of this zero battle squadron was a bit strange. He did not dare to be careless. He pulled the lever and the square and round body of No. 214 Wildcat jumped upwards.
Things come first in a matter of seconds.
At this critical juncture, it is not appropriate to fight with the enemy fighter groups. The top priority is to assist Pearl Harbor in defending against enemy bombers and reduce the losses of the US military.
"It's not that easy to run away. If you enter my circle, no one can escape!"
Saburo Makino sneered, seeing that Zhou Zhihan wanted to increase his height and escape from the encirclement of Zero War, so he immediately followed the pull lever. Zero War was like a light petrel, fluttering its wings upwards and continuing to press the No. 214 Wildcat head-on. At the same time, The other 11 Zeros also followed the upward pull and jumped very tacitly. This shows that the training level of this squadron is quite high.
