Of course Peterson wanted to pull out and fight. First, Washington told him to weaken the Japanese fleet with Air Six as much as possible; second, he was teased by Tsukahara for a night, and it was difficult to explain to the lower level without saying a word.

At around 9 a.m., when the reconnaissance plane determined that the Japanese fleet was located 11 o'clock kilometers northwest of Panama, Peterson sent as much as possible to the maximum attack group. 27 o'clock multiple ranges were sufficient b-17 b-24b-29. At the same time, he drew 7 o'clock multiple p-51s with secondary fuel tanks to escort the attack group. The harm without escort Peterson was very clear.

However, because the b-1724s were too slow, the entire formation was dragged down. When they really came into contact with the Japanese fleet, it was already around 1:00 pm. Not only did the Japanese fleet run to more than 12 kilometers, but the interceptor fleet was already eyeing it. More importantly, Tsukahara fine-tuned the overall formation of the fleet. The aircraft carrier fleet was more than 1 kilometer behind the battleship formation, which was 10 kilometer from the Panama defenders.

Even if the secondary fuel tank is installed, the maximum range of the P-51s is only more than 27 kilometers, and they can only stay over the war zone for 5 minutes at most. Faced with the entanglement of Japanese fighter jets, the P-51s will either be shot down or will be forced to return due to fuel warnings. In less than 10 min, there will be only a group of bombers left in the entire airspace, which means that the fight will be unescorted until the end.

The bomber was hit by an unprecedented blockade, with more than 14o do-412 or b-319 pounced on the attack, and the big guys kept falling from the air.

Even the bombers that successfully dropped bombs were not hit high. Yesterday morning, Los Angeles 6 sank a water aircraft carrier. This batch of 6 sank only one Special 1L transport aircraft carrier and one oil tanker. On the battleship targets that are key attacks, the US military is still lucky:

Yamato was hit by a 1ooo pound bomb, which was minimally invasive;

The commander of the commander Shinno was hit by a 2ooo-pound and a half-armor-piercing bomb. Just when the US pilot was happy to think that the bomb with a delay of 25 seconds could drill the opponent into a big hole, the top of the commander tower was as thick as 5 armors that directly blasted the bomb and detonated it, and it was impossible to drill in. Before the disappointed pilot could come back to his senses, Akamatsu Sadaki's do-412 had already arrived, and four 2m cannons simply beat him into the sea.

The only thing that made Tsukahara feel a pity was that Chuyue, the two Akitsuki-class air defense destroyers, were sunk by 2ooo-pound bombs, which was a relatively significant loss.

However, for this result, the US military paid a high price. Only 94 of the 278 heavy bombers finally returned successfully, 36 of 79 P-51s were shot down, and 31 Japanese fighter jets were lost, of which 18 pilots finally parachute and rescued successfully.

Panama Air 6 lost more than 22o units in one day, with an overall combat loss rate of up to 62%. In addition, more than 1o aircraft lost in the morning, nearly one-quarter of the total number of aircraft were lost in one day.

Faced with such a battle, Peterson not only failed to vent his anger, but became even more depressed.

The Kakuda Fleet teased Los Angeles, the huge losses caused by the feint attack on Panama by Tsukahara Fleet and the two attacks on Air Six caused a huge shock in Washington. Everyone knew something was wrong here, but no one could tell what was going on.

Spruins initially judged that the Japanese army's feint attack on the west coast was to lure the Pacific Fleet out, and then the main force of the hiding joint fleet took the opportunity to fight to wipe out the Pacific Fleet. Therefore, the Kakuda Fleet swayed outside Pearl Harbor and then came to the west coast to cause trouble. But judging from the feint attack of the main force of the joint fleet today, this was not like the intention of attacking the two Japanese fleets 7 ooo kilometers away from each other, which was twice as far away from the Halsey Fleet to the Kakuda Fleet. If this could also be attacked, Spruins would not believe it if he died!

The evidence of the Tsukahara fleet's feint attack on Panama is very clear. The aviation group drew an ugly circle around Panama. Everyone did not believe that Japan could not find the assumption that Panama finally gave up its attack. If this is the case, what should the Japanese fleet retreat in the early morning? Shouldn't it be sent to send a second attack wave?

Nimitz frowned and asked, "Will the Japanese army deliberately consume our Aircraft 6 crew? From the last time the unit and the tanker were used to see that Japan did not care about the consumption of tankers at all. He had just lost the tanker here and got dozens of tankers from Europe. Hori Teiki's capital was much stronger than we thought."

MacArthur believes that this will continue very dangerous: Air 6 finally pulled back more than 4O units from China, and then repeatedly led to more than 7O units from China. Before it was fully arrived, multiple units had been consumed. This kind of loss of O was too much in one day, not to mention that Arnold was in great pain, other big players also felt it was unbearable.

After sitting for a long time, Clark proposed the hypothesis: "Will Japan create opportunities for the German offensive and involve our troops?"

"You can tell me in detail."

"After the Japanese occupied Midway Island and besieged Hawaii, we tried every means to draw a large number of crews to Hawaii; the Japanese army claimed to attack the west coast, and our army also transferred a lot of aircraft to defend the west coast; now the Japanese army began to attack Panama again, and the direction continued to strengthen and deploy more than 18oo aircraft; Needless to say, Recife has been continuously drawing troops to strengthen, and now it has exceeded 2oo aircraft." Clark walked to the map and drew a few arrows, without exception, not from the east coast. "Hawaii has strengthened, the west coast has strengthened, Panama and Recife have strengthened, where have they weakened?"

"East Coast!" Truman blurted out. No matter how he didn't understand military affairs, he understood Clark's arrow.

"There are currently about 25oo-oo units available on the East Coast. Although it is difficult to defend the coastline near oo kilometers, there is still a solution to it." Clark said in a worried tone, "The Germans on the East Coast may not be able to start for the time being, and I am particularly worried about this place now!"

He tapped the northeast corner of the map with a teaching stick.

"Newfoundland!" Nimitz was so shocked that he almost jumped up. MacArthur also frowned deeply, realizing that the problem was serious, Newfoundland was not a US territory, and the US military had only the obligation to assist in defense, so the defense preparations above were insufficient.

Since the London government changed the name of the country to "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Newfoundland", it has repeatedly claimed that it has sovereignty over Newfoundland. The US government naturally supported the Canadian government's sovereignty over Newfoundland, but whether the land belongs to London or Ottawa, it should not be under Washington. Therefore, it not only chose the British (Qiuji government) to be the governor of Newfoundland, but also sent British and Canadian troops to the island.

Before London and Washington broke, there were 4 British military divisions trained in the United States, and there were also some jet pilots and carrier-based pilots. After the two sides turned against each other, London could detain all the US troops as prisoners, but the United States could not detain the British troops. On the contrary, they had to provide equipment and supplies to serve them as force of the Qiuji government. Of course, the US military was not worried that the British troops were stationed in the United States, so they arranged two of the British divisions back to Canada and two British divisions to Newfoundland. In addition, there were 1 Canadian master and 1 American division in Newfoundland, with a total of 4 divisions and nearly 80,000 troops.

The aviation force on Newfoundland is also a combination of three policies. Although the Americans want to hold all British jet pilots in their hands to defend the east and west coasts, they have to be able to pass the face after all. Therefore, more than 1O meteor jets were deployed on Newfoundland Island, and nearly 2O were deployed in the Great Lakes area where Canada and the United States bordered the United States, it is said to be the Royal Air Force (Qiu Ji), but in fact it has to be commanded by the US Air 6. After this action, the United States naturally summoned all British, Canadian carrier-based aircraft pilots, and even the London government to launch alliances. All carrier-based aircraft pilots who fled from the British mainland to Canada were recruited into the US fleet.

Although Turner chased Truman and asked him to put the most pressure on Churchill, everyone thought Turner did it right and was great!

Clark elaborated on his personal point of view in detail: "In the first Newfoundland Battle, our Atlantic Fleet was full of main forces, and there were a large number of six aviations available for drawing on Prince Edward Island, which also caused the German army to extract teeth, and lost a total of 50,000 tons of ships and thousands of aircraft. Now the balance of power is even more unfavorable to us, and I judged the situation was very bad.

First, the Germans were familiar with the situation in Newfoundland and knew that the island's defense facilities were not particularly complicated;

Secondly, after the last battle, Newfoundland's main defense relies entirely on Air Six. Although there are jets now stationed, the forces of other Air Six (mainly the US military) have been continuously drawn, and the deterrence is weakened;

Again, the German army has rocket weapons. If they first use rockets to cover a wave 50 kilometers away in the middle of the night, the Newfoundland Air 6 and the 6th Army will suffer heavy losses, but the jets require much higher airport facilities and runways than propeller aircraft, and it is difficult to evacuate. In other words, it is easy to be destroyed in the first round of strikes. Once the German army gains a foothold in Newfoundland, its rocket weapons can cover Prince Edward Island in the next step, and maybe even the latter cannot be saved;

Finally, the German army had experience in the 6th. The signs of the battle in Iceland were already visible. Intelligence shows that its large fleets were about to be released again soon, with many 6th boats in it. Under the triple coverage of rockets, naval guns, and aviation forces, the Newfoundland anti-Land 6 operation is likely to fail. This is not the time to save the situation by investing an 82nd Airborne Division."

MacArthur thought to himself: There is no use for 82 divisions, Li Qiwei is still in South America!

Spruins thought differently: he expressed doubts about the combat effectiveness and fighting will of the British and Canadian troops, not because he doubted their level was not good, but because he doubted their battles. Why should he stubbornly fight with the Germans, and even the Germans admitted that Newfoundland was an integral part of the British Empire, and the last time the Canadian master exposed the problem of giving up quickly.

The more everyone discussed, the more they felt nervous...
Chapter completed!