After getting the US military equipped with a new fighter, Koga Fengichi felt the difference between Captain Harada and Yamada Road... Even if Koga Fengichi was not from an aviation force, he didn't know very well about fighter jets and air combat, but he also knew what the emergence of this new fighter jet meant. Koga Fengichi even knew that the US military would have the first new fighter jet, and there would be the second and third new fighter jets.

So, it can be foreseen that in the near future, the number of US military more Japanese fighter jets will not only be the quantity they thought before, but also the quality of them. Koga Fengichi seems to have seen American planes soaring over Japan.

Koga Feng was right when he thought about it. Then it was the time when the US military was in a big explosion in technology. Not only was it the "Hellcat", but the "pirates" and "thunder" that had been developed before were also put into service one after another. The US military even moved radar and night vision devices to the plane and developed fighter jets that could fight at night.

But of course Koga Fengichi could not say this to his subordinates. He was stunned for a while and then cursed at the microphone: "Bastard, the Americans just turned the fighter plane into shape and scared you! That's just an American trick! What's more, what we use to defeat the enemy is always spirit and will, do you understand?!"

"Yes!" Yamada Daoyuki replied, but whether it was Koga Fengichi or Yamada Daoyuki, they knew in their hearts that this was just a lie. This is OK to deceive the 6th Army, because the 6th Army really has many examples of winning by relying on spirit and will, but the navy and aviation...

If both spirit and will can defeat the enemy, can we fight the US Navy without fighter jets or warships?!

When the Japanese army was shocked by the emergence of new US fighter jets, the US military felt a bit powerful and incapable of making it happen.

The "Hellcat" was used by the US military as a secret weapon. It has never put this fighter into actual combat before, in order to catch the Japanese off guard. On the other hand, it also gave the Japanese a psychological shock.

But now, when the US military sent the "Hellcat" to the battlefield to show off its skills and give the Japanese a little color, they basically had no opponents.

"Has the Japanese fighter plane disappeared?" Brigadier General Schmidt, who was in charge of commanding the capture of air supremacy, asked strangely.

Originally, he estimated that the Japanese would have 200 to 300 fighter jets in the Marshall Islands... This was probably derived from the photos taken by the reconnaissance planes, but it was later proved that it was just a trick of the Japanese.

"General!" The staff officer took a telegram and said, "This is a telegram from the escort carrier that they had just received. They had blown up many enemy planes at all airports!"

Schmidt took the telegram and looked at it, then nodded and said, "It seems... we came too suddenly, and the Japanese were so unprepared that their fighter planes were blown up at the airport before they could take off!"

Schmidt had reason to explain this, not only because there were not many enemy planes in the air in the US fighter jets, but also because the US military launched a raid on the Japanese airport when it was carrying out the first bombing.

So Schmidt thought that this was the result of the successful raid. Although the battle made him a little dissatisfied, he originally hoped to use this battle to verify the performance of the "Hellcat".

What Schmidt didn't know was that the US military's raid was actually a failure.

Since the Japanese army wanted to implement the "z" plan... the core of the so-called "z" plan is to preserve its strength. To preserve its strength, it must appear before the enemy planes arrive and withdraw in time.

Therefore, one of Yamamoto Road had long been laying out his eyes and ears on the surrounding islands and reefs, just like the US military setting up a coast guard in the waters of Guadalam. However, now because the Marshall Islands are the territory of the Japanese, they have set up a guard to warn the Japanese army. This is also the basis for the implementation of Yamada Road's "z" plan. Otherwise, the radar currently equipped by the Japanese army would not be enough to display US fighter jets.

Therefore, the fighter jets on the Japanese islands and reefs received the news early in the morning before the US fighter jets arrived and took off in time.

As for the Japanese fighter jets bombed by the US escort aircraft carriers... they were just models used by the Japanese to deceive the Americans. Many of them were even built with wooden boards.

After believing that he had fully grasped the air supremacy of the Marshall Islands, the US military launched a bombing of Japanese islands and reefs.

The bombing lasted for two days... The two-day bombing was much smaller in scale and time than the seven-day bombing of the US military in Tarava.

This is because the US Navy is not prepared enough and the ammunition supply is not sufficient, which determines that the scale and time of the bombing will not be too long.

On the other hand, compared to the battle where Tarawa mainly bombed two islands, attacking the Marshall Islands requires dealing with six Japanese islands at the same time... three targets in the center of the island and three targets outside the island, which makes the US military's forces relatively dispersed, so the bombing time cannot last too long.

More importantly, at this time, the US military had already doubted the effect of the bombing. Most of the U.S. Navy generals felt that... the fortifications of the Japanese Tarawa could still be kept intact during the seven consecutive days of intensive bombing, so the bombing of the Marshall Islands would not have much effect.

But this was not the case after the war.

This is mainly because the fortifications built by the Japanese army on the Marshall Islands are far from the fortifications on the Tarawabito Island. Many islands are even built on the ground and are more easily destroyed due to their daily needs.

Of course, there are Kwajalin Atoll, the main naval and aviation base of the Japanese army.

Unlike the Battle of Tarava, the bombing of the Marshall Islands added a highlight. This highlight was Zhang Chiti's suggestion to occupy the island and use artillery to suppress the Japanese artillery.

Generally speaking, each artillery regiment of the US military has three howitzer battalions equipped with 1o5mm caliber m2a1 howitzer, plus an m1a1 howitzer battalion equipped with 155mm caliber guns.

However, at this time, the US Navy knew one thing that if it was necessary to bomb the Japanese fortifications on the island, if it was to be effective, it would have to use large-caliber artillery, so before the attack, it replaced all the 1o5mm howitzers with 155mm caliber.

Practical combat proved that this choice was wise. The 155mm caliber m1a1 howitzer can shoot 43 kilograms of ammunition to 15 kilometers, which can well destroy the Japanese fortifications and provide fire support and cover for the 6th troops. The effect is even much better than warships and fighter jets.
Chapter completed!