James Brown and Andre didn't have any ugly looks on their faces. They went to the battlefield and their life or death was uncertain.

Maybe we won’t be able to see the sun tomorrow, so what does a mere plane mean?

What's more, in the same batch as them, 4 transport planes were gone, and 8 fighter pilots were also gone.

If they are still alive and standing on the earth, the God of Luck has come to protect them.

They also knew that their car would definitely not be able to fly. Even if it could fly, they would not dare to fly, because they might accidentally fall down somewhere.

So he nodded: "We will take the intact transport plane back. As for these fighter jets, it is estimated that the processing results will be placed here first.

Let’s see how the headquarters handles it!”

Chen Shanhe asked: "Don't you want to send someone to repair the plane, so you can fly it back?"

James Brown knew that maybe the magical leader in front of him didn't understand what was needed to repair the aircraft, so he said directly: "Mr. Leader, the maintenance of fighter jets like this requires specialized aircraft repair shops and repairmen who are familiar with aircraft maintenance.

But here you have only one apron, not even an airport.

You don’t even have qualified ground handling and aircraft fuel replenishment functions.

Therefore, maintenance of aircraft is out of the question.

It is very likely that these aircraft will no longer be needed!”

Now, the US military is more nervous about pilots than aircraft.

A P40 fighter only costs $50,000, but training a fighter pilot does take a lot of time, and this time and investment cannot be exchanged for money.

They couldn't possibly let a few pilots fly back desperately for these fighter jets that were about to fall apart.

Pilots are more expensive than airplanes. This is a universal rule in any era.

Unless it is a test aircraft that has just been put into production and no accurate data has been collected yet.

Therefore, these fighter jets in front of us, maybe not just a few fighter jets, but also the two seriously damaged transport planes, probably don't need to fly back.

"No more!" Chen Shanhe thought thoughtfully.

Andre disagreed with this statement: "Generally, only those damaged beyond repair will be discarded.

An aircraft like this that can barely make an emergency landing still has maintenance value. Maybe after the war has eased, people should be sent to deliver parts and maintenance technicians to repair it.

After all, a fighter jet costs US$50,000, a transport aircraft is more expensive than a fighter jet, and the salary of a worker in the United States is only US$50 to US$80 a month.

The command will not just watch hundreds of thousands of dollars being thrown away here."

But James Brown is a bit pessimistic about the prospect of the war. They are not optimistic about the Japanese offensive now, especially in terms of the air force.

In front of the Zero fighter, they are all just lambs to be slaughtered.

Just today, their 10 fighter jets, plus the transport planes, are not without combat effectiveness. 20 planes can't even defeat a single Zero fighter.

After 7 fighter jets were shot down and 3 fighter jets were damaged, only two old Japanese fighter jets were shot down. The only loss of the Zero fighter was caused by ground air defense towers.

So James Brown was a little pessimistic about the prospects of war.

"I don't know when the war will ease, but the Japanese army may have already sent troop transports to transport infantry to the United States by then!"

This is what James is feeling right now.

This kind of mentality is rarely mentioned in the history books of later generations, but this is the mentality of the United States and Japan after they suffered a huge setback at the beginning.

Especially in Southeast Asia, tens of thousands of American troops and hundreds of thousands of British troops surrendered to the Japanese army in an organized manner.

The U.S. military in the entire Asian theater had a very pessimistic and Japanese-phobic mentality in 1942 and before 1942.

This is why the American heavy machine gun shooter who claimed to have wiped out more than 3,000 Japanese troops appeared in the United States. This is the prototype of Captain America.

Of course, no one knows whether there is actually such an American soldier who can kill two to three thousand Japanese troops with a heavy machine gun.

But in this era, Americans need a shot in the arm, because they are really afraid of Japan!

Of course, it is not impossible to kill two to three thousand people with a heavy machine gun.

After all, there is another German who has been prosecuted. During the Normandy landing, the beast of Omaha Beach, Hain Sefro, killed more than 4,000 American troops by himself.

Of course, he himself did not admit to this crime. He only admitted to killing about 1,500 to 2,000 US troops, and absolutely did not admit to the crime of killing 4,184 US troops on the beach.

He said in court that this was a slander against him, but in the end it seemed that the court did not recognize this number, nor the number of 4,184. The judge and jury guessed that it was about 3,000.

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After listening to the words of James Brown and Andre, Chen Shanhe had a trace of regret on his face: "That's such a pity. I believe victory in the war will come eventually, but I believe it won't be so soon.

However, the U.S. industrial strength is strong, so there is no need to worry about so many aircraft. As long as the people are fine, fighter pilots with rich combat experience are much more valuable than aircraft.

When we go back, I believe you can fly a new plane."

Sentiment and reluctance are actually far away from the people on the battlefield.

Whether it's to his fallen comrades or to the plane he pilots.

People who go to the battlefield face parting and reunions that may never come again every day.

Anyone who has been on the battlefield several times will not be willing to give up on anything like new recruits. They are very open-minded.

Maybe.

Those who look away may be more likely to die in battle!

Every veteran on the battlefield will not be too emotionally invested in the new recruits. This is a problem common to veterans from almost all participating countries in the world.

Because recruits are the most likely to die on the battlefield, because they will panic, be afraid, be reluctant to give up, and have too many emotional fluctuations, which will lead to various mistakes on the battlefield.

Only after the new recruits have gone through several battles, will the remaining veterans be regarded as the same kind by the veterans.

The same goes for pilots.

so.

James Brown and Andre, after meeting the surviving transport plane pilot, said goodbye to the American soldier who died in the battle after the rescue efforts failed.

Oops...this one died in battle.

To be discussed.

The U.S. military has a very strange rule. Deaths in the U.S. military are not considered killed if they fall on the ground. They must happen to die on the battlefield and die in battle. Even if they are carried back by medical soldiers and die in a field hospital, they will not be counted as killed.

Doesn't count as death.

For example, if a pilot is shot dead in the air, or the plane explodes, he will be considered dead only if no one is alive.

If you parachute and fall to the ground and die, it doesn't seem to be called death in battle.

So Chen Shanhe didn't know whether the pilot they rescued died on the operating table without being rescued. To the US military, whether this was considered a death in action or not.

Because there is a big difference between the US military's death benefits in action and non-in-action death benefits.

That's why we are stricter in this aspect.

Or rather weird.

Of course, I don’t know if this weird rule is implemented now. Chen Shanhe is very curious. He has heard of such a rule before.

But I don’t know if this provision was enforced during World War II.

Although the equipment sent by 4 transport planes was lost, there was still a lot of equipment sent by the remaining 6 transport planes.

Besides, it has not been delivered to me, so this transaction does not count.

This is what Chen Shanhe thinks.

In order to thank these pilots for their hard work in transporting these equipment and to show consideration for the sacrifice of so many of their comrades, a very sumptuous reception banquet was arranged for the pilots.

Of course, good wine is also essential, as well as Orleans roast chicken, which in the future does not originate from Orleans, but from the northwest of our country.

Among these pilots, the one with the highest rank was not the heartbroken James Brown or the slightly stronger Andre, but the captain pilot who was still eating and drinking happily even if his colleagues died in front of him.

"My name is Jin, sir!"

The captain pilot was the highest-ranking pilot in this operation and his name was Kim Halverk.

Originally, the pilot of the transport aircraft had the head of the transport aircraft pilot, and the fighter pilot had the head of the fighter pilot. However, when there were only two noncommissioned officer pilots left in the fighter pilots, the commander of the transport aircraft pilot took over naturally, and the remaining two fighter pilots

power of command.

"Jin, when do you plan to leave?"

Chen Shanhe asked that he didn't know much about air combat, not to mention that the US military pilots were not his soldiers and he couldn't arrange them.

I had to ask and then cooperate.

"We have a day off today, and we will take off before dawn tomorrow.

You also need to use a fire at the airport boundary to signal.

If we wait until daybreak before taking off, we will not be able to escape the pursuit of the Japanese Zero fighter jets.

The Zero fighter is too fast.

Once we leave the airport, we may be annihilated."

Chen Shanhe nodded and said yes.
To be continued...