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    At 2:40 in the morning, MacArthur, commander of the U.S. Army in the Pacific Theater, had already fallen asleep in the air raid shelter at his residence.

    Since the Aleutian Campaign at the end of 1943, the U.S. Army¡¯s presence in the Pacific War has been extremely poor.  Except for the previous battles in the Philippines and Oahu, in which the entire U.S. military stationed in the two places was wiped out and only a few senior officers were spared, the U.S. Army showed its presence in a humiliating way. In the remaining two years, the U.S. Army performed like  He's a soy sauce guy.

    Some good people have calculated that in the past two years of the Pacific War, the number of U.S. Army casualties did not exceed 500, which was not even as many as those who died from accidents such as training accidents and diseases.

    For MacArthur, who loves his reputation and shows off his presence, this is intolerable.  Therefore, after the United States launched its first nuclear attack on Japan, MacArthur, the supreme commander of the Pacific Theater, stayed on Atura Island, the front line against Japan, and actively "accompanied" the atomic bomb to increase the number of  own "appearance".

    The use of atomic bombs changed the pattern of war, and even gave many Americans the idea that future wars could be won by just throwing atomic bombs continuously.

    Regarding the atomic bomb becoming the protagonist of the war, MacArthur knew that he was unable to stop this "historical tide", but he could "go down in history" as the commander who ordered the dispatch of nuclear attack aircraft.

    Together with Halsey, they "visited" the atomic bomb that had just been transported to Atura Island, and then "taken photos" with the atomic bomb as the background. The two top commanders of the U.S. Pacific Theater returned to their battleship to rest.  , and the other lived in a land raid shelter.

    After two years of operation, the U.S. military built multiple sturdy underground air raid shelters on Atura Island. The underground air raid shelters prepared for the command center can withstand direct hits from five-ton aerial bombs. MacArthur lived in the air raid shelters that night.

    That night.  MacArthur, who lived in the air-raid shelter, was awakened by loud noises and vibrations. When he instinctively pulled the light switch on the bedside, the light bulb was not lit.

    The room was dark.  It was equally dark outside, with only the noise of the on-duty and awakened staff filling the room.

    "What's going on? Is there an earthquake? Why is there a power outage? Where is the backup power supply?"

    MacArthur muttered.  While groping for a flashlight from the bedside table, and turning on the switch, there was finally a little light in the room.

    The noisy outside, sudden vibrations, loud noises, and power outages made these headquarters officers and soldiers who were "used to being comfortable" on Atura Island a little overwhelmed.

    "Why are you dazed? Turn on the backup generator!"

    MacArthur was talking on his cell phone, scolding his panicked men. There seemed to be something wrong with the small bulb of the flashlight in his hand.  The bright lines flickered on and off, very unstable.

    Even though he was in a bomb shelter several meters underground, MacArthur's ears still kept hearing strange rumbling sounds.

    At this moment, someone hurriedly ran over, shouting in panic: "Outside, something big happened outside! The sky seems to be on fire!"

    The person who yelled was the person on duty who woke up earlier. After the big stop caused by the nuclear explosion, he took a look outside the air-raid shelter.  Just in time to see the aftermath of a 100,000-ton atomic bomb detonating.

    The air raid shelter where MacArthur was located was at the end of Tula Island near the southern port.  And the submarine carrying the atomic bomb.  It washed ashore from the northern end of Tula Island, and the straight-line distance from his air raid shelter was nearly five kilometers.  Because it is far away from the center of the nuclear explosion, the power of the shock wave generated by the nuclear explosion has been greatly weakened when it reaches here.  And importantly, the entrance and exit of the air raid shelter happened to be in the direction facing away from the explosion center.

    The person on duty who ran out to see what happened was two minutes after the nuclear explosion. He happened to avoid the early optical radiation and shock wave, so he still had a chance to come back alive to report.

    soon.  MacArthur took some people from the dugout to the dugout.  The scene outside made his eyes widen in horror, and then he tried to fumble in his pockets out of habit.  He wanted to take out his favorite corn pipe, but then he remembered that he had put the pipe on the bedside before going to bed and didn't take it out.

    Although it is now three o'clock in the morning, the entire northern Atura Island is a sea of ??fire. From time to time, you can see the beautiful brilliance of ammunition exploding in the night.  Through the illumination of these brilliance, he could faintly see the huge mushroom cloud in the northern sky.

    "Atomic bomb!"

    When everyone at the scene saw this scene, they couldn't help but read these three words in their hearts.  In the past few months, the U.S. government has continuously touted the tremendous power of the atomic bomb. As the government spared no effort in "nuclear literacy", everyone at the scene realized that Atura Island had suffered a powerful nuclear strike.  .

    distanceAll characters within three kilometers of the center suffered near-destructive damage from this blow, and a little further away, the losses were also very heavy.  MacArthur's location was at the end, nearly five thousand meters away, but it was also severely affected by the nuclear explosion.  The shock wave generated by the nuclear explosion was like a passing typhoon of level 18, blowing away the unfixed equipment exposed on the ground. At the entrance of the air raid shelter, MacArthur saw his beloved Jeep overturned by the shock wave.

    The aviation fuel splashed from the shore oil depot destroyed by the nuclear explosion ignited a fire wherever it reached.  Standing at the door of the air-raid shelter and looking towards the port, fires ignited by splashing gasoline were everywhere on the harbor water and on warships.

    "Oh God, those five countries that have evil gods, do they also have the Sword of God? It's really scary!"

    The person who made this sigh was Navy Commander Halsey who was sleeping on the battleship USS Montana.

    Due to its distance from the center of the explosion and the obstruction by land, the U.S. Pacific Fleet suffered minimal losses from this hit.  The main loss was that some sailors on duty were looking in the direction of the nuclear explosion and their eyes were stabbed by the strong light, resulting in blindness.  In addition, in the subsequent shock wave, the warship shook violently, causing certain damage to the facilities on the ship. On some warships that shook violently, unlucky sailors who were sleeping fell out of bed and were injured.  In addition, some splashing oil fire fell on the warship, causing some small fires.

    None of these are fatal, but what is really fatal is that after this 100,000-ton nuclear explosion, not only Atura Island, but also the warships parked in the harbor.  The electronic equipment they carried suffered severe damage.

    Almost all of the radio stations and crystal equipment carried on the ship were scrapped, and only some backward old-fashioned tube equipment can still be used.  The ship's radar was hit by this attack.  There are also many damages.  The electromagnetic chaos caused by the atomic bomb explosion also caused the radars of the few warships that were still functioning normally to be filled with snowflakes.  There is no early warning effect at all.

    Emp, or electromagnetic pulse, is a physical phenomenon. Electromagnetic pulse is mainly used to destroy enemy electronic equipment. The electromagnetic pulse generated when a nuclear bomb explodes can cause great damage and burning effects to electronic equipment, especially transistor electronic equipment.  Not only are these fragile transistor radios and equipment using transistors, many warships have working generator coils.  It was also damaged due to the overload caused by the emp impact of the nuclear explosion.

    "Immediately generate electricity for other warships. We have been attacked by the enemy. All warships in the harbor must be evacuated."

    After realizing that he was under a nuclear attack, Halsey immediately ordered the warships in the harbor to ignore it.  However, when this order was to be conveyed, it immediately encountered the problem of "all radio stations on the ship were damaged and could not be used."  Fortunately, the battleship Montana's berth was far away from the center of the explosion, and the ship's generator was still working normally. It relied on the light signal of the searchlight to contact the surrounding ships, and finally conveyed the order.

    only.  It is a waste of time to communicate by light, and the huge fleet is anchored in the port and needs to be evacuated urgently.  It's impossible to do it without spending several hours, and even more time is needed when communications are severely disrupted.

    In the past few years, Germany has been deliberately selling large quantities of finished transistor radios and scattered transistor products to the United States at low prices.  These transistors, which are lightweight, stable, low in energy consumption and easy to maintain, are extremely popular with the foreign countries. Over the years, almost all military use is crystal equipment, and military radars also have a large number of transistor products imported from Germany.

    The emp produced by nuclear explosions is the biggest killer of transistor equipment.  The secret that Hannah had buried many years ago finally emerged at this moment.

    Only part of it is not powered on.  At the same time, transistor equipment on warships farther away escaped the nuclear explosion, but this did not include Halsey's flagship, the USS Montana.  In order to get in touch with the outside world.  General Halsey had to abandon the ship, take a small boat, and move to a nearby warship with a functioning radio station.

    But it still takes time, and time is the most precious at this time.

    Ironically, at 3:25 in the morning, forty minutes after encountering the nuclear explosion, the communications crew on the Montana finally found a way to communicate with other warships through radio: there were  In the chaos, the sailors suddenly remembered that there were also obsolete tube radios stored in the warehouse. In line with the idea of ??treating a dead horse as a living horse, the communication soldiers found the radio station that had been packed away and covered with dust from the corner.  After some debugging, replacing some spare parts, and struggling for nearly ten minutes, the radio communication was finally restored.  (Note: Old-fashioned vacuum tube radios are prone to failure and damage if left unused)

    At this time, Halsey had just transferred his headquarters to a nearby cruiser.  While Halsey was hesitating whether to return to the flagship, the cruiser came aboard.The communication radio station sent a telegram, which was from the outermost guard fleet two hundred kilometers away. Just three minutes before the nuclear explosion, the outer fleet discovered that there was an attack in the direction of the Comando Islands, which was being monitored in the northwest.  A large number of radar signals were suspected to be aircraft taking off from the Soviet airport stationed on the island.

    At that time, less than a minute after these flying targets were exposed on the warning radar of the peripheral fleet, the opponent airdropped a large number of aluminum foil dry tapes, interfering with the radar surveillance.

    After the one-year war, the United States absorbed the lessons of the disastrous defeat of the British and its own Pacific naval war, spent great efforts on the research of new radars, and successfully developed a variable frequency radar, which has strong anti-interference capabilities against aluminum foil interference.  The alert fleet quickly used frequency modulation to avoid interference, and notified the direction of Atura Island to prepare for night air attacks.

    However, before the alert fleet could send a warning telegram to Atura Island, the 100,000-ton atomic bomb was detonated at zero altitude on Atura Island.  The violent nuclear explosion destroyed all the air defense facilities and land-based aircraft exposed on the island.  The emp full-band obstruction caused by the nuclear explosion even caused the radio communication between here and the outside world to be interrupted for nearly half an hour.

    In 1946, aircraft carriers usually did not send night fighters for air defense operations.

    In this era, once a carrier-based aircraft is released, landing or finding an aircraft carrier at night is a big problem.  In order to allow the released aircraft to find the aircraft carrier deck to land when it lands.  It is necessary to turn on the headlights to provide lighting instructions. In the waters where submarines are infested, this is simply an act of seeking death. Turn on the headlights at the same time.  It is also equivalent to telling the opponent that I am here.  Come and blow me up.

    Although the guard ships deployed on the periphery are also accompanied by aircraft carriers, these are escort aircraft carriers. They are not large in number and have few ships and aircraft. From a tactical and technical point of view, it is impossible to fly a large number of night fighters to intercept the opponent's night bombers.  .  For pilots, night air combat and daytime air combat are completely different things.  The former is more difficult to train pilots and has additional requirements for aircraft performance.  Even when the aircraft carrier conducts sorties far away from land-based airports, night air defense missions are still handled by carrier-based aircraft on official combat aircraft carriers.  (Note: Historically, the Americans developed the 4u night version for night air combat missions on ships, but in fact Japanese aircraft did not have the ability to search and attack the US fleet at night. In the end, the 4u night version was usually only used for night air defense at island-based airports.  )

    The biggest shortcoming of the entire night air defense system of the U.S. fleet centered on Atura Island is its over-reliance on the land-based airport on Atura Island.

    After suffering huge losses in the Battle of San Francisco, the Americans developed a professional night fighter, the Black Widow P61, which is an excellent night fighter.  The P-61 was the first practical night fighter, the first to use infrared search technology (airborne radar) and the first generation of night fighters with stealth colors.

    After the U.S. Navy entered Atura Island.  Every night, four P61s were cruising and flying over Atura continuously at night. At that time, there were a total of 60 P61s parked in the open air at the island-based airport for backup duty.  In addition, Americans suffered heavy losses in the Battle of San Francisco.  Twenty old biplane night fighters were even placed on the island as backup for "low-speed" rogue attack aircraft such as the Needlebat and Swordfish.

    The Americans are not careless about night air defense, but they did not expect that their opponent would directly use a 100,000-ton enhanced atomic bomb, and directly wipe out all the land-based air defense on Atura Island in one blow.  strength.

    The full-band blockage caused by the atomic bomb detonation caused the US military ships stationed here to lose radio warnings from the outside. Nearly forty minutes of air defense warning time were wasted. Even if there was an early warning, it would not be of much use because it was anchored in the harbor.  It is impossible for an aircraft carrier in such a state to accelerate to a speed that can release night fighters in forty minutes.

    Three (crab) thirty-six minutes.  The buzz of airplanes came from the sky above Atura Port, and then.  When the sailors of the Pacific Fleet, awakened from their sleep by the nuclear explosion, looked up at the sky, the first thing they saw was a huge fireball crashing into the ground like a meteor.  Then it hit the sea and burst into flames.

    This is a P61 night fighter faithfully flying at night over Atura Island.

    When the atomic bomb exploded, a total of four P61s were conducting night patrol flights over the sea area. At the moment of the explosion, two of them had their noses facing the center of the explosion. The pilots faced the flash of the nuclear explosion, and as a result, their eyes were blinded by the bright light on the spot.  The plane crashed.

    Although the other two P61s were flying with their backs to the center of the explosion, the lagging one was too close to the center of the explosion and was overtaken by the shock wave generated by the explosion, causing the aircraft to lose control and eventually crashed.  Only one of them survived, but the pilot's body had already endured a large dose of nuclear radiation, and he was also close to death.

    Being loyal to his duties, he also insisted on patrolling over Atura Island where he could not land.?, the transistor radio on the plane had been scrapped, and the field below was in a mess. Unable to land, unable to contact and unable to find a landing site, he was circling in the air blankly when a nuclear attack aircraft from the direction of Comandor Island had already arrived.  Kill to.

    The first to arrive over Atura Island was neither Germany¡¯s latest Me26 (Crab) 4 long-range bomber nor the Soviet Union¡¯s Tu-4 bomber, but eight TA154 night fighters led by Li Huamei.

    Li Huamei did not take action, but took command from the center. Under her guidance, the other TA154 pilots easily shot down the P61 fighter piloted by the pilot who had suffered a large dose of nuclear radiation.

    At 3:38, me26 (crab) 4 flew over Atura Island.

    Although since the first nuclear explosion, the US warships in the harbor have been collectively trying to make fire and want to leave, but except for the fast-starting destroyers, those large warships are still unable to move.

    At 3:40, the second nuclear bomb detached from the me264 magazine, and its target was the warship parked in the port, which was desperately building fire and accumulating power to move.

    At an altitude of 6,500 meters, Me26 (Crab) 4 dropped an 80,000-ton enhanced atomic bomb.

    On the sea, every U.S. warship used all the anti-aircraft guns on the ship to fire crazily in the air, but to no avail.

    At 3:44, another white light tore through the darkness of the North Pacific. Less than six kilometers away from the first nuclear explosion, a huge mushroom-shaped fireball rose again.  (To be continued)
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