The four p38s with excellent combat performance were divided into two teams, each of which launched an attack on the two "one" land-based attack aircraft of the Japanese army. In a few seconds, the four p38s spit out flames.

Because the Japanese "One" land-based attack aircraft was slowing down and preparing to land, they did not even have time to react and avoid it. At one time, the two "One" land attacks were hit by several bullets and began to catch fire... This is also the disadvantage of all Japanese fighter jets. They have almost no armor and are prone to fire after being hit.

Even though the "One" land attack had already caught fire, Michelle did not give up. He turned around in the plane and continued to chase the two "One" land attacks. Not long after, one "One" land attack staggered into the sea, and the other "One" land attack crashed in purple flames, and the wreckage was scattered in the jungle below.

At this time, five Japanese Zero Warfare escort aircraft arrived, and Michelle had no intention of fighting them at all. He handed over these Zero Warfares to his subordinates, and he circled twice over the two crashed "One" land attacks... Because the height of the "One" land attack was not high when it was destroyed, Michelle was a little worried that the crew in the land attack would be lucky to survive. If there was Yamamoto Iroji, their operation would have failed.

But there was only a thick smoke and wreckage below, and nothing could be seen. On the other hand, the Japanese reinforcements that took off from Baler Island were about to arrive soon, so Michel had to order a retreat.

The whole battle was very straightforward, only three minutes from the beginning to the end.

At 9:38, the US fighter jets returned to Guadalam. The Japanese army's zero-war speed was far from p38, so they only chased for a while and gave up unwillingly. The sky above Baler Island returned to peace again.

After leaving the battlefield, the first thing Michel did was not to count the casualties and count the results as usual, but to contact the destroyer impatiently.

"Beaver, beaver!" Michel called the destroyer's code name: "Are we intercepting Yamamoto Izuru's fleet?"

"Did you do it?" A surprised and happy voice came from the walkie-talkie: "Yes, we all saw it on the radar, that is Yamamoto Iroku's landline!"

"yhea!" the pilots screamed excitedly, and some people clenched their fists and cheered loudly.

Michelle had no expression. He just said to the destroyer coldly in the walkie-talkie: "The mission is over, guide us back!"

"yes!"

Michelle knew that even if they successfully shot down Yamamoto's landline, it did not mean that they had killed Yamamoto Iroku, especially the plane that fell into the sea... Because of the buffering of sea water, the crew's possibility of survival was very high.

Thinking of this, Michelle regrets why he didn't shoot again on the sea surface of the "one-type land attack crash" just now... Although this is contrary to the spirit of the battlefield, these should not be taken into account in special circumstances.

The "battlefield spirit" mentioned here refers to the unwritten rule that pilots from both the United States and Japan have an unwritten rule, that is, if each other's fighter planes are hit, then the air combat will end here, and neither pilot on both sides will shoot at pilots who fall to the ground or parachuting.

Of course, this unwritten rule is a great advantage for US pilots... Japanese pilots usually do not have parachutes in their fighter planes, and they usually drive planes to rush towards warships before crashing, so few Japanese pilots survived in this case.

Facts also prove that Michelle's concerns are necessary. Most of the crew members of the "One" land attack that were shot in the sea were rescued, but the US military was lucky... This "One" land attack was a plane taken by Yamamoto Irosoft Chief of Staff Ugaki. He struggled to swim to the shore before the plane sank into the sea and survived by chance.

This means that another "I" is Yamamoto Izuru's landline... It fell to the ground, and the survival rate is much smaller.

Sure enough, the Japanese search team members found the wreckage of the plane in a jungle, and they also found the body of Yamamoto Izuru... Yamamoto Izuru was still tied to the seat by a seat belt, and only one bullet penetrated from his jaw and then shot out from his temple. One thing is certain is that he had died before the crash.

Since the bullet was 12.7mm, Yamamoto Iroku's death was extremely terrifying. Half of his head was lifted, red and white liquid everywhere, and his whole face had been deformed and could not recognize his original appearance. However, the Japanese soldiers could still determine their identity from his uniform, medals and swords.

An hour later, Michelle, who was in a state of mind, took his p38 squadron back to Guadalam... When he went out to perform his mission, he wanted to take a detour to avoid the reconnaissance of Japanese destroyers and seaplanes. There was no need to take a detour when returning. Anyway, the Japanese had no plane to catch up with p38, so he reduced the range by half.

Before Michelle could get out of the cockpit, she was pulled out by the happy crowd and then threw it into the air.

Michelle was still a little puzzled at this time, because he was still unsure whether he had killed Yamamoto until now, so he didn't understand what his comrades were happy about.

But soon someone told him: "Don't you know yet? You succeeded. We intercepted the Japanese telegram and confirmed that Yamamoto Izuru was dead!"

After hearing the news, Michelle was so happy that she danced with joy and completely lost the steadiness she had when she was commanding just now.

"We did it!" Michelle cheered with all his strength: "We did it!"

General Nimitz was extremely happy after receiving the news. He sent a telegram to Halsey: "Congratulations to you, Colonel Zhang and the hunters for their successful battle! The 'duck' that was hunted this time seemed to be mixed with the corpse of a 'peacock'!"

"Duck" refers to the destroyed Japanese fighter jets. In this battle, the Japanese army shot down a total of three "zero" fighters and two "one" land-based attack aircraft, while "peacock" refers to Yamamoto Izuru.

From then on, this unprecedented aerial ambush was passed down to later generations as the famous "hunting peacocks".

As for Japan, of course, it suffered a heavy blow because of Yamamoto Izuru's death. The Japanese base camp regarded this incident as a "Class A incident". They did not even dare to send Yamamoto Izuru's death back to the country because they were worried that it would affect the morale of the people in the country and support for the war. It was not until more than a month later that they had to release Yamamoto's death: "General Yamamoto Izuru, the commander-in-chief of the United Fleet, was attacked by the enemy on the way to guide the battle on the front line in April and died heroically on the combat plane!"
Chapter completed!