"Then," Smith asked, "What is the purpose of the Colonel thinking the Japanese do this?"

"To hide their flight division." Zhang Chi replied: "To be precise, it is to preserve its strength!"

"Save strength?"

Zhang Chi nodded: "In our country, our army is often far inferior to the Japanese in terms of equipment and supply conditions, so we adopted a tactic to not directly confront the Japanese, preserve our strength and give the opponent a sudden blow."

"Oh!" Smith said suddenly with a clue: "What the colonel means is the Japanese using this tactic?"

"That's right!" Zhang Chi replied: "It's just that the Japanese use this tactic is not people, but fighter jets!"

Halsey stared at the map silently for a while, then nodded: "The expansion of the airport is not to enter more fighter jets, but to accommodate each airport, which is to build an airport for more hidden places."

"Yes!" Zhang Chi nodded.

"So we misjudged the intentions of the Japanese from the beginning." Smith said angrily: "And the fighter jets that we bombed were probably just models. We were deceived by these damn Japanese!"

"But" Johnson asked, "What does this have to do with the annihilation of the Japanese air power?"

"Of course it's relevant!" Smith said: "Because this represents the Japanese fighter jets may be anywhere, Mili Atoll, Kwajalin Atoll, or even scattered on some unknown island. They will only appear in front of us when they need to fight, and we don't even know which island they are on, nor whether we blow up the real fighter jets or models!"

Hearing this, the naval generals couldn't help but remain silent.

At this time, the United States had the most powerful industrial system in the world, which could help the US military defeat any enemy.

However, the US military was unable to defeat such an enemy that could be almost invisible and could not be defeated. The US military also showed extreme discomfort when facing wars like this. For example, the Vietnam War later.

"Maybe" After a while, someone suggested: "We can build an organization similar to the Coast Guard, so that we can know where the Japanese fighter planes are hidden."

This idea is correct. The fighter is no better than the person hiding in the jungle. It flies in the sky and will be discovered at any time. The efficiency of the Coast Guard Team has been verified.

but

"It took our intelligence agencies more than three months to establish a coastal guard team in the Australian and New Zealand area!" Halsey said: "That's because Australia and New Zealand were once a British colony, and the people supported us, but here."

Needless to say, this is a Japanese colony, and they will obviously support Japan more. It is not only difficult, but even dangerous to establish an institution like the Coast Guard here, because the people will inform the Japanese.

"Then" someone suggested: "Why don't we use destroyers to do this? We have radar, don't we?"

"Distribute them to the sea and become the target of the Japanese?" Halsey said with a word.

Destroyers can indeed discover Japanese fighter jets, but the single destroyer cannot withstand the bombing of Japanese fighter jets. This idea is tantamount to driving destroyers one by one to become prey of Japanese fighter jets.

"Then" Smith turned his attention to Zhang Chi.

"Why do we have to destroy the Japanese Flying Division?" Zhang Chi asked in confusion.

Looking at the stunned US generals, Zhang Chi continued: "Will it interfere with our landing operations? Will it cause major casualties to our landing troops? Not today's failure is because of our carelessness. We have two main aircraft carriers in each direction, three escort aircraft carriers, and we also have Hellcats. If the Japanese fighter planes dare to appear near Kwajalin, I think our pilots will give them a lesson!"

Everyone couldn't help but nodded. They didn't realize this, but were just used to fully grasping air superiority before logging in.

"Actually, I think," Smith continued: "The most effective tactic against the Japanese is actually to occupy their airports, especially Kwajalin Airport. Because this can not only reduce their airports, but also divide all their airports into two. In other words, occupying Kwajalin Airport can crush the Japanese's plan to preserve their strength and leave them invisible!"

Smith's words soon gained recognition from everyone, because anyone knows that if you own Kwajalin Airport, you can use the land-based aviation force to draw a air defense area of ​​hundreds of kilometers. When the US military has radar and "Hellcats", it is difficult for the Japanese aviation brigade to pass through this area.

"I agree with you, General!" Halsey said with a grief: "I even believe that this is the reason why the Japanese used the flight division when we landed on Kwajalin Island. They had to defend Kwajalin Island. But we lost all the tank landing ships!"

Halsey's words instantly overwhelmed all the sounds in the conference room.

Without a tank landing ship, it means that the US military can only launch an attack on the Japanese defense line with weapons such as rifles and mortars, especially the Japanese army is still prepared at this time, and the US military's attack even has a time limit for the time limit for the US military, otherwise the Higgins ship will be stranded, which is too demanding for the US military.

"Can't we use Higgins to transport Sherman to land?" Zhang Chi asked.

During the Battle of Tarava, the US military used Higgins ship to transport the "Sheerman" tanks loaded with waterproof devices to the shore.

But Halsey shook his head in frustration: "The theoretical maximum load of the Higgins ship is 37 tons, which is still a transportation-type load. The Sherman tank and waterproofing device almost reach the maximum load of the Higgins ship. This makes the Higgins ship very deep draft, and the result is that it is easy to overturn in the artillery fire, and even in the early morning our army's attack, unless we decided to make the Higgins ship stranded from the beginning!"

"On the other hand," Smith added: "Kajalin Island is windy and waves are strong on the side of the sea. If the Shikin ship is forced to strand and Sherman land, the waves are likely to pour into Sherman's waterproof system to stop Sherman's engine."
Chapter completed!