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- When Nimitz was picked up on a destroyer, the huge Japanese-American combined fleet had lost its former glory. .
Nowadays, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as devastated.
The USS Montana battleship alone was directly hit by three missiles. Although the hit rate was only 30%, this 30% was enough to be fatal. The violent explosion opened three large holes of more than ten meters on the side of the Montana. Even the two triple-mounted 406mm main guns on the bow of the ship were completely blown into the sea.
The middle one directly destroyed Nimitz's Japanese-American Combined Fleet Headquarters. Except for Nimitz, who was thrown off the bridge and fell into the sea during the explosion, everyone else was instantly swallowed by the fire.
Nimitz was rescued without saying a word. He was wrapped in a big towel and stood on the destroyer, looking at the fleet with flashes of fire everywhere.
I watched helplessly as the sinking warship rolled up its nest and swallowed up the sailors who could not escape in time.
His heart was bleeding, and in his mind, the moment when the Montana was hit echoed. He even clearly remembered the way the old guy Nagano Shushen was cut into pieces by the flying iron pieces, and he also clearly remembered the scene of dozens of staff members being bloody and bloody throughout the headquarters.
Whether it is Americans who believe in freedom or the Japanese Bushido spirit that claims not to be afraid of death, at this moment, they are just humble lives, not even much different from an ant that can be crushed at will.
Nimitz was in pain and did not need detailed battle reports. Everything in his eyes had already seen despair.
Nearly half of the twenty-four Essex-class aircraft carriers were on fire. Two of the eight Midway-class aircraft carriers had raised their bows and began to sink. Three of the other six were on fire, and only the other three were safe and sound.
Others, such as the Reading class, the Sai class, and the Lexington class, also lost more than half. Even Japan's small aircraft carriers were not spared. They either sank or were hit by bombs and caught fire.
Only the small escort aircraft carriers are better, and there is not much loss.
As for the battleships, the Japanese Musashi and Nara, like the Montana, became floating burning bases. Nearly half of other large battleships were hit.
Nimitz never imagined that within five minutes, the huge Japanese-American combined fleet would look like this.
The shrill siren suddenly sounded, breaking the silence around Nimitz.
Through the thick smoke, he seemed to see countless Chinese carrier-based aircraft approaching.
"Raise the command flag!" This was the first time Nimitz spoke after boarding the ship. The Chinese carrier-based aircraft followed closely. This is not surprising. If he didn't come, Nimitz would feel like a ghost.
Arriving at the bridge of this destroyer of less than 2,000 tons, Nimitz ordered the captain to turn on the wireless channel, and then Nimitz personally issued the final combat order.
"I am the Supreme Commander of the Combined Fleet, Admiral Nimitz of the United States Navy. Now I order all carrier-based aircraft that can take off to take off. Except for the destroyers with numbers ending in seven, which are conducting rescue missions, all other warships will be re-activated. Adjust the air defense position.
Gentlemen, this is a battle related to the honor and ultimate fate of the Allied Forces. I will watch you and face everything that follows together with you.
Warriors, fight! "
Around the Japanese-American combined fleet, more than a thousand Chinese fighter planes gathered.
Utilizing high-speed and rapid advance, the Black Hawk fighter jets have arrived at the central area of ??the Japanese-American fleet. These Black Hawk fighter jets carrying air-to-ship missiles unceremoniously dropped the anti-ship missiles they carried.
Although the lethality of the anti-ship missiles carried by the Black Hawk fighter jets cannot be compared with that of ship-to-ship missiles, the lethality is not small at all. Subsonic speed, a warhead of several hundred kilograms, even if it is not lethal to large warships, if there are more of them, it will still cause great damage.
Especially for a fleet that has suffered huge losses, it is more like a last-ditch attack in the game. Those injured warships could barely maintain a certain order, and the fire did not spread.
The new attacks put these scarred warships on the road to destruction.
The pilots of the Black Hawk fighter jets are very sharp-eyed and specifically look for those large ships that are injured and slow to move. With the help of airborne fire control radar, those anti-ship missiles accurately hit their targets.
When these Black Hawk fighter jets completed their attack, the fighter jets from both sides in the sky were already entangled. On the escort aircraft carriers in the combined fleet, fighter planes continued to take off to join the air battle. The warships below kept unleashing anti-aircraft firepower.
On the one hand, the elite, on the other hand, the quantity, the two sides collided fiercely.
The round of confrontation ended quickly, NimitzHe didn't ask about the outcome of the battle. Instead, the prepared bomber force was immediately launched into the air with the target directly ahead.
He has seen clearly that the direction where most enemy planes come is directly in front of him. At this moment, all scruples were gone, and Nimitz only had the idea of ??attacking at all costs.
From the perspective of the United States, any warship that can carry fixed-wing fighter aircraft can be called an aircraft carrier. During World War II, the United States produced a total of nearly 150 escort aircraft carriers. Thirty-eight of them are in the Atlantic, and the rest are in the Pacific.
There are more than 70 such escort aircraft carriers in the Japan-US combined fleet. The previous attack caused the loss of more than half of the main aircraft carriers of the Japanese and American combined fleets. Now these escort aircraft carriers are just showing their effect.
Although the displacement of these escort aircraft carriers is not large, they can only lift one bomber, which is considered to be an extra point of strength. What's more, more than one took off.
Most of the fighter jets in the air that had been fighting for one round did not land. Instead, they followed the bombers after they took off and rushed towards the front of the fleet.
The pilots of these fighter planes have completely abandoned all principles. Everyone's eyes are red. They are determined to die and don't care about ammunition and fuel at all. There are mostly Japanese carrier-based aircraft here, and there are also quite a few American carrier-based aircraft.
Nimitz, who saw this in his eyes, said nothing because he also had the same desperate impulse.
Half an hour later, when the Allied aircraft fleet saw the Chinese fleet group, they realized that this was the first time they saw the size of the Chinese fleet in this large sea battle.
It doesn¡¯t look like the overwhelming momentum of the Allied forces, but the several huge aircraft carriers in the fleet are impossible to ignore.
In the sky above the Chinese fleet, the alert aircraft group began to swoop down towards the Allied aircraft group. The fighter planes in the Allied fleet also rushed forward. The enemies on both sides were extremely jealous when they met, and the air battle became intense at the first moment.
The torpedo planes and dive bombers in the Allied fleet did not care about the Chinese carrier-based aircraft that intercepted them. Without any reason, he dropped to a height of four thousand meters and pounced on the Chinese fleet group without hesitation.
The dense air defense firepower was punctuated by anti-aircraft missiles one after another from time to time. The barrages gathered in front of the Allied bomber fleet. In an instant, the aircraft in front were hit by bombs.
The scene was intense and full of blood, especially those Japanese pilots who ignored the dense rain of bullets in front and just rushed towards the aircraft carrier in the fleet. Even those injured aircraft must crash into the nearest Chinese warship as much as possible.
Anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft phalanxes, anti-aircraft missiles, and the integrated artillery and artillery system on the Aegis anti-aircraft cruiser. With the cooperation of radar and driven by the enemy¡¯s crazy actions, the Chinese fleet¡¯s anti-aircraft firepower was brought into full play.
No soldier would allow himself to be underestimated. In the eyes of these Chinese soldiers, they have been underestimated by the enemies in front of them. This is something they cannot allow. .
Unconsciously, the Phalanx's rate of fire has reached its highest speed, and the rotating barrel emits a trace of white mist, which is a sign of high heat. Sailors who used to take great care of their equipment didn't pay any attention to this. Everyone also agreed with red eyes, looking at the large number of Allied carrier-based aircraft in the sky.
In this attack, Nimitz has already come out in full force. More than a thousand bombers, these were the first wave of forces taking off from the escort aircraft carriers and the still intact aircraft carriers. There will be a second wave. In order to attack, Nimitz had abandoned the most basic defense.
Nimitz has no regrets about the madness in despair. Because only in this way can he seize the last chance.
And these pilots did not disappoint Nimitz.
China¡¯s anti-aircraft firepower is really powerful. There are anti-aircraft guns at high altitudes, and even naval guns of destroyers and cruisers. There are anti-aircraft machine guns at medium and high altitudes, and there are Phalanx formations at low altitudes. There are also anti-aircraft missiles to supplement the firepower gap. Coupled with the coordination of fire control radars, under this kind of firepower, even the arrival of Black Hawk fighters, let alone these propeller fighters, would not be flattering.
"But the number of Allied fighter planes is still too many. When the number exceeds a certain limit, its situation will inevitably be different.
Nearly a thousand bombers and torpedo planes passed through the Chinese barrage. Although two-thirds were lost, 300 bombers were still intact. Aerial bombs and torpedoes fell one after another, and the Chinese fleet began to suffer damage.
Especially the fighter planes flown by Japanese pilots were even more crazy. These pilots did not even think of dropping bombs. Instead, they directly drove the fighter planes towards the Chinese aircraft carrier, increased their speed to the limit, and crashed into it.
Although the numerous Phalanx formations killed many such opponents, they still succeeded.
A Type 97 dive bomber belching thick smoke, with two pilots insideHe had been shot, and his chest was already eroded. But the pilot still held back his last breath and crashed into the nearest aircraft carrier in sight. In the last moment of consciousness, the fighter plane was loaded onto the second half of the deck of the aircraft carrier as expected, causing a fire to break out on the aircraft carrier.
This is a Shi Huangdi class aircraft carrier. It is the latest aircraft carrier built and has a displacement of 40,000 tons. At this time, the deck of the aircraft carrier was already covered with aircraft debris, and flying sparks were raging on the deck.
Fortunately, there were no fighter planes on the aircraft carrier deck at this time, and there was no ammunition piled up. This is due to the usual rigorous training, and of course you will be rewarded for your efforts. The empty deck also minimizes the chance of secondary damage to the aircraft carrier. It also makes fire-fighting work smoother.
This is the first aircraft carrier to be injured, and it will not be the last. Facing the crazy Allied carrier-based aircraft, in the next ten minutes, two other Shi Huangdi class aircraft carriers were also attacked by suicide aircraft. One of them also damaged the bridge, causing some casualties.
Several other cruisers and destroyers were also hit by the opponent's suicide attacks.
When allied fighter planes were no longer visible in the sky, all the soldiers felt a little short of breath.
Three aircraft carriers were damaged at once, which was unacceptable to everyone.
On the sea, many parachuting Allied pilots were struggling in the sea. Some even have small airbags installed, and the whole person sits on the airbag.
"I'm sorry, you dare to laugh." On the destroyer, a Chinese soldier saw an American pilot parachuting and looked at the burning aircraft carrier in the distance. He laughed and immediately became angry.
"Ta! Ta!" He picked up the heavy machine gun on the side of the ship and fired fiercely at the American pilot not far away.
This burst of gunfire seemed to open Pandora's box, and soldiers on other warships also began to pick up weapons and shoot at the enemy pilots in the water.
The bloody flowers were quickly swept away by the sea, and the Chinese soldiers who had already killed them showed no mercy at all. Some even picked up rifles and started shooting.
The fleet headquarters seemed to have no intention of stopping it, and acquiesced to the massacre in front of them.
In fact, this was not the first one used by China. Many Chinese pilots were massacred in this way. In the past, the United States also massacred Japanese pilots in this way, and Japan also did the same.
As for the Japanese-U.S. Combined Fleet, when the second wave of bombers took off, China's second wave of attack aircraft also arrived. Because the Japanese-U.S. Combined Fleet lost most of its fighter jets, this air attack caused the Japanese-U.S. Combined Fleet to once again lose four. Three battleships and more than a dozen escort aircraft carriers, the main aircraft carriers that were originally injured, have now disappeared one after another at sea.
When China¡¯s second wave of fighters returned, Nimitz¡¯s second wave of attack teams also arrived over the Chinese fleet. The two sides were entangled again.
At the cost of serious damage to two aircraft carriers, China once again completely wiped out the opponent's second wave of attack aircraft.
One day, two days passed like this, no one stopped, no one chose to retreat, the carrier-based aircraft of both sides took off one after another, using all their strength. The two fleets were also going back and forth in the Pacific Ocean.
When the attacks from both sides reached the tenth wave, Nimitz had no power to attack at this time. The entire fleet cannot even muster fifty carrier-based aircraft, and they are still unable to take off for combat. China has also completely lost three aircraft carriers. The number of carrier-based aircraft also dropped sharply from a thousand to six hundred.
The two sides that were approaching quickly started a battleship battle, even with the battle between carrier-based aircraft. Nimitz organized all the battleships that could still move into an assault formation and rushed towards the Chinese fleet. The Chinese battleships did not show weakness, and the two sides exchanged main guns at sea.
However, before the two sides fired a few shots, the chivalrous duel was broken by the arriving Chinese carrier-based aircraft. As a result, the Allies would naturally suffer a tragedy. Under attack from battleships and carrier-based aircraft, these remaining battleships did not even have a chance to escape. These battleships had suffered many injuries before, but now they were buried one by one in the cold sea without even a chance to repair them.
Although giving does not mean that there will be something gained, if you don¡¯t give, you will get nothing. In addition to at least three aircraft carriers and some cruisers and destroyers, China also had 400 carrier-based aircraft to finally completely cripple the Japanese-American combined fleet.
Nowadays, there is no intact large ship in the entire Japanese-American combined fleet. Whether it is a battleship or an aircraft carrier, they are all ruined.
When Nimitz collected the remaining warships, he discovered that in just two days, less than half of the huge fleet of thousands of warships remained, and all of them were supply ships, light cruisers and destroyers. , they are all battles.??Very low guy. And the logistics ships inside still account for two-thirds. There are only more than a hundred destroyers, and they are all old and young, and some are even antiques from the First World War. As for cruisers with stronger combat capabilities, there are less than five light cruisers and one heavy cruiser and one aircraft carrier. There were less than ten escort carriers left, seven of which were damaged.
The number of casualties is even more terrifying. Previously, the entire Japanese-American combined fleet had 700,000 to 800,000 personnel of various arms. Today, less than 100,000 people remain. And there are many who are not combatants. It is only a hair away from being completely annihilated.
Two days have passed. At this time, neither China nor the Allies have the strength to attack the other side.
On the Chinese side, many Seahawk-3s were lost, and dozens of Black Hawk fighter jets were destroyed by the opponent's anti-aircraft firepower. The remaining planes may have many scars. In the fleet, three First Emperor-class aircraft carriers were silent, seven were damaged, more than a dozen provincial-class cruisers were lost, and twenty or thirty city-class destroyers were sunk.
This is the power of three aircraft carrier battle groups. The death toll alone is more than 5,000, the injured are countless, and the missing people are also 2,000 or 3,000. This is the biggest loss since the establishment of the Chinese Navy. The cost of annihilating the Allied fleet is not small, but in a strategic sense, China is the absolute winner.
This is also the reason why China did not engage in a decisive battle with the Japanese and American combined fleets before. Although China has advanced weapons, the opponent is not a soft persimmon and has a large number.
Furthermore, many of China¡¯s main losses in this naval battle were caused by suicide attacks. If it hadn't been for the previous round of missile attacks, I'm afraid that even if victory still belonged to China in this naval battle, the result would have been many times more tragic than it is now.
In fact, there are too many reasons for the defeat of this naval battle. China does not count the advanced level of its weapons. The most important point is that China also occupied a certain degree of initiative.
The theory of aircraft carrier victory was something that Chen Shao deliberately inculcated when the navy was established. Although China¡¯s navy lagged behind for a hundred years, its aircraft carriers were no slower than other countries in getting started.
Whether it was the development of science and technology or the changes in the way of warfare caused by the development of science and technology, it was not until very late that it affected the thinking of the "battleship supremacy theorists".
As early as the Sino-Japanese War in the 1930s, it was already obvious that aviation must be regarded as a real force in modern warfare. In the first few months after the start of the Japanese-American Pacific War, the remarkable results achieved by the Japanese aviation forces completely confirmed and strengthened this view.
However, die-hards still belittle the role of aircraft in combat. They believed that these initial victories were a fluke. They insist that the fundamental nature of aircraft carriers is that they cannot withstand attacks. Shore-based aviation has a limited range and cannot play an important role in the vast Pacific. Therefore, the final outcome of a maritime war still depends on battleships as before.
These advocates believed that the firepower of a modern battleship was sufficient to enable it to defend itself against enemy air attacks.
At the other end of the scale are those who advocate the omnipotence of aviation, saying that they regard the initial air combat results as proof that battles and wars can be won by aircraft and aircraft carriers alone. This view is also terrible because it completely ignores the role battleships were supposed to play in World War II.
As a result, the pilots generally believed that the battleship force was completely useless, and as a joke, the battleship force was derided as the "Hashishima Fleet".
Naval aviation has indeed replaced the status of battleships and become the decisive maritime strike force.
Within the first two days of the war, Allied naval carrier-based and shore-based aircraft annihilated the battleship forces of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in the Philippines and the battleships of the British Far East Fleet in the Malayan Sea. Proved this.
Although Japan won the victory in the early stages of the war and caused the United States to suffer a loss, the latter learned from the painful early experience, reorganized its troops, changed its old things, and at the same time developed what it did not have. stuff to win the Pacific War. .
The Chinese Navy¡¯s use of battleships is a very vivid example. The prominent and important status of naval aviation and aircraft carriers does not mean that the Chinese battleships with powerful artillery have nothing to do and can only vaguely hope to fight in a big way.
Rather, before attacking the Allied islands, the Chinese battleships skillfully bombarded the Allied outposts, and they hit them hard, as anyone still alive among the Allied defenders on the islands can attest.
The Chinese Navy also makes good use of battleships to cover aircraft carrier forces. The formations led by these battleships, whose powerful anti-air fire network effectively prevented Allied aircraft from approaching andAttack the Chinese aircraft carrier.
The Allied naval chiefs are not ignorant of the changes quietly taking place in maritime warfare, but they seem unwilling to face the reality.
For example, two years ago, Rear Admiral Nishi Takijiro, Chief of Staff of the Japanese Eleventh Air Fleet, was transferred back to Tokyo from the southern route. On the way, he reported to the Combined Fleet Command the situation of operations in the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies. He focused on the change in emphasis in fighting the enemy, indicating that surface artillery warfare has taken a back seat to air combat and air-to-sea combat.
Onishi¡¯s opinion was met with a cold reception. This can be seen from the response of the Combined Fleet. He said that on such a fundamental issue, it is too early to draw conclusions based only on the local combat situation on the southern front.
On the vast ocean, shore-based aviation can only be used on a small scale. Aircraft carriers alone cannot provide sufficient aviation power for offensive operations. Battleships were valuable warfighting tools. Unless there is another way to defeat the enemy's battleships, you must maintain your own battleship strength.
This is the firm view of the battleship supremacists.
Another important reason for the Allied defeat was the adoption of the so-called "refined force policy" for naval aviation. Under this policy, all the best pilots were transferred to the aircraft carrier's flight team to perform combat missions. Opponents of this policy view this approach as short-sighted. They advocated that some of the best and most experienced pilots should be sent to the Naval Air Force as instructors in order to pass on their wisdom and combat experience to young and inexperienced trainees.
However, because the "selected force policy" was so successful in the Philippines and Indian Ocean operations in the early days of World War II, the Allies had very few, if any, pilots who were transferred from aircraft carriers to serve as instructors.
The result is that after the Mariana Battle, Japan did not have capable reserve pilots, that is to say, there were no pilots who could immediately perform combat missions to fill the vacancies of the pilots lost in this naval battle.
The best pilots who are added to the aircraft carrier after the war must undergo several weeks of basic training just to take off and land on the aircraft carrier, and they must also spend several weeks mastering combat techniques before they can perform combat missions.
This is Japan influencing the United States, because the United States has not defeated the Japanese in naval battles, and does not have its own set of experimental experience like later generations. Therefore, according to American thinking, Japan has rich experience in naval warfare and its aviation is also excellent. This will inevitably lead to the United States giving in to Japan.
When Japan launched the Pacific War, it was also lagging behind in terms of scientific and technological achievements, and has always been in a backward state. The most obvious and prominent example is the lack of radar.
Two days before setting off for the Mariana Islands, the battleships "Ise" and "Sunata" were equipped with radars. They were the first Japanese warships equipped with radar.
A few months ago, the Japanese naval authorities strongly advocated installing radars on four aircraft carriers. However, due to changes in the war situation, China launched a massive bombing campaign on the Japanese mainland and was eager to form formations with the U.S. fleet to cooperate, share secret code, and form a joint command. Many problems have caused the Japanese combined fleet to install basically no radar. Of course, there were other factors at the time. They believed that American radar could help them very well.
However, relying on others is not a long-term solution.
Just like the Mariana Islands before, if every warship in Nagumo Chuichi's task force was equipped with radar, there would be no such scene.
The radar can penetrate the heavy fog that hinders Nagumo's troops from advancing and approaching the battlefield. More importantly, radar can detect enemy reconnaissance aircraft and measure their position in time, so that Allied fighters can destroy the enemy aircraft before it can report its position to the enemy fleet. Radar can also provide early warning of enemy aircraft attacking the aircraft carrier. And if the reconnaissance aircraft is equipped with radar, it can detect the Chinese Pacific Fleet earlier than visual observation.
These speculations remind people of an ironic thing about the development of radar in World War II. A key component of radar is the directional antenna. This kind of antenna was first made by Dr. Yagi Shuji, a professor at Japan University.
In 1932, Yagi published his invention in China. Soon, he visited the United States, and several Chinese magazines published his invention.
The Japanese troops attacking Southeast Asia found that the electronic equipment there used Yagi antennas, but this was only a matter of temporary pride for them. Both Britain and the United States have taken advantage of this invention and developed it for their own use, but Japan itself has failed to do this.
It should be pointed out that the Japanese people¡¯s original surname is not suitable for large-scale production. People are willing to engage in handicrafts rather than assembly operations. As in the training of pilots, ship building, many important issues related to war, and the development of science and technology, Japan started fromFrom the very beginning, we discovered that we were lagging behind, and the gap became wider as time went by.
Indeed, there are exceptions, such as oxygen torpedoes, which are beyond the reach of German torpedoes. In addition, the performance of Japan's Type 0 and Gale fighter jets was indeed better than any aircraft used by the United States in the Pacific, but they were soon surpassed by new American products.
Japan¡¯s optical instruments are famous for a long time. There is no doubt that the high quality of night telescopes used by Japanese warships was one of the important factors that made Japan successful in night operations in the past, but night telescopes are ultimately not as good as radar.
Another important point is that the Allies have no experience other than winning easy victories against weak enemies. When it launched the Pacific War, it was a little worried. In Europe, however, the Allies surprised themselves and others by winning a series of great victories in the first few months after the war began.
Its initial worries about war quickly disappeared. As they continued to advance, the people at home and the soldiers at the front were ecstatic. It didn't take long for them to no longer take the enemy's ability to fight and resist in their eyes. Under such circumstances, many people developed an arrogant attitude of underestimating the enemy.
By the time of the Battle of the Mariana Islands, this level of psychological arrogance had reached the point where it permeated the thoughts and actions of the officers and soldiers of the combat troops. This overconfidence, aptly termed "victory mania," was widespread and pervasive at all levels of those planning and executing the Marianas campaign.
The previous war with the United States was smooth sailing for Japan, especially since it invisibly increased the Japanese Navy's self-confidence.
¡°Those who formulated the plan for the Mariana Islands campaign based their plans entirely on what they imagined the enemy might do, not what the enemy might do or was capable of doing. A decisive fleet battle is the goal pursued by the Allies, and the way to achieve this goal is to attack the enemy's key points. If the enemy does not come out to defend the Mariana Islands, that's fine. The Allies can use the island and several bases in the Micronesian Islands to the north as our outposts.
In this way, the Allied defense circle can be extended, and the Allied forces can advance along the Philippine line. Each step forward can support the next move until the enemy is finally forced to come out to fight.
However, in this assumption, the Allies did not see that the enemy's actions may be different from what we expected. Not only is the Japanese-American combined fleet so blind, a senior Allied spokesperson also declared at a joint army and navy meeting on the Mariana Islands operation: "In this operation, what we are most worried about is that the enemy is unwilling to confront our fleet. Refuse to come out and fight.¡±
This kind of arrogance and underestimation of the enemy could not be more wrong. The enemy is not only unwilling to come out to fight, but also wants it and is ready.
The Allies believed that we could take the enemy by surprise because we thought our plans would not be revealed. But that is not the case.
The dispersion of the Japanese-US combined fleet is another manifestation of arrogance. The reason for the dispersion was that the Allies had full confidence that if the enemy was once lured out and the situation required, the troops could easily be concentrated. However, after the battle started, the dispersed troops could not be concentrated for effective fighting, which fully proved the absurdity of this plan.
The Allied forces, especially the lower-ranking Japanese officers and soldiers, were no less infected with victory mania than the commander, but the impact was not as severe and the consequences were not as far-reaching, but the symptoms were obvious.
After previous missile attacks, when the aircraft carrier suffered a fatal blow, the vast majority of casualties were not caused by explosions or shrapnel, but by burns. Many of these burns could have been avoided if the crew had worn combat attire as required.
??In the final analysis, the root cause of the Allied defeat, not only in the Battle of the Mariana Islands, but throughout the war, is deeply embedded in the Allied national surname.
Speaking of Japan, Japanese people have a character that goes against reason and is easily impulsive, so their actions are aimless and often contradictory.
The tradition of local concepts makes them narrow-minded, stubborn, and conservative, and they are reluctant to adopt even necessary reforms.
They are indecisive and therefore prone to arrogance, which in turn makes the Japanese look down on others.
? Opportunistic, lacking in boldness and reading spirit, accustomed to relying on others and flattering superiors.
Lack of rationality often confuses wishes with reality, thus leading to lack of careful planning. Only after a hasty action fails will they think about it rationally. Even if they think about it, they often find excuses for the failure.
In short, as a nation, the Japanese are not mature enough and not good at adapting. Therefore, they do not know when to make sacrifices and what to do in order to achieve the main goal.Such a sacrifice.
These are the weaknesses of the Japanese nation. These weaknesses were reflected in the failure of the naval battle, which wasted all the deeds and valuable sacrifices of the men who fought there.
The misfortune that befell the Allies was due to these weaknesses.
The United States accommodated itself to Japan. Japan did not lead the naval battle, but many plans were proposed by Japanese staff. This is the crux of the matter. If it were the U.S. Navy in the later stages of World War II, it would have extremely rich experience in naval warfare and its own reading and tactical concepts.
Like the tactics formulated by the Japanese staff, Nimitz probably would have slapped him away without even asking. (To be continued. - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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