In fact, Pearson and the United States insisted that the British provide the aircraft they had promised to the Anti-Japanese Alliance in accordance with the agreement. Pearson was also quite angry about the British breach of contract. Because the British would undoubtedly do so.
It puts Americans in an awkward position.
Moreover, the British transported these planes to Vladivostok, and the goods were delivered to their doorsteps, but then transported these planes to Australia and Malaya. In the eyes of Americans, this is quite inappropriate.
That's right. You can't do this. The goods will be handed over to others, and then you will turn around and take them back.
The most critical thing is that the Americans believe that these aircraft are no longer in line with the actual conditions on the European battlefield due to their backward performance, and all of them have been withdrawn from active service in the British Army. Not to mention that they have all been retired in your British Air Force, even in the British Commonwealth.
among the air forces of other countries.
In addition to certain equipment in South Africa, which is thousands of kilometers away from the battlefield, even the Australian and Canadian air forces no longer undertake front-line combat missions. Apart from the battle losses on the European and North African battlefields, you still have
Thousands of planes are idle.
Even if you think that this kind of aircraft can no longer meet the needs in the European battlefield, there is no problem in dealing with the Japanese in the Asian battlefield. You want to use these aircraft to enhance the defense of Southeast Asia under the current situation. But where can you mobilize them from? You must
At the critical moment when you, the British, are cooperating with the Anti-Japanese Alliance for the first time, will you transfer these promised aircraft away?
In fact, the Americans were the most helpless and frustrated in this matter. The Americans promised to hand over a batch of A-20 attack aircraft to the Anti-Japanese Alliance at the end of the year. At the insistence of the pot-bellied Prime Minister, they were handed over to the urgently needed aircraft.
Tactical support aircraft on the North African battlefield to contain the increasingly fierce offensive of the German Afrika Korps.
When the Soviets asked the Anti-Japanese Alliance to hand back the Soviet II light bombers, they also made a huge guarantee that the British would provide the same type of aircraft to replace the light bombers that the Anti-Japanese Alliance also urgently needed. But in the end, the British
It was a cunning trick to transport these planes that had already arrived at the doorstep of the Anti-Japanese Alliance to other places. This naturally made the Americans very dissatisfied.
When you, the British, asked for that batch of attack aircraft, you patted your chest and guaranteed that you would provide a batch of aircraft that were sufficient to meet the needs of the Chinese. They were already outdated on the European battlefield, but would have no problem dealing with the Japanese. But now it is just a promise.
Unbelievable, this obviously makes the Chinese doubt the sincerity of the Americans.
The United States has done what it promised you, the British, to do, but you can't do that. The British side not only gave the Chinese people a hard time, but also took the United States with them. In this matter,
Make Americans look like humans inside and out.
It's just that the Americans are angry at what the British did. But at this time, the Americans not only cannot take action against the British, but instead urge the British to fulfill the agreement, and at the same time try their best to protect selfish people like the British.
Practice to cover up.
But despite repeated urging from the Americans, the Prime Minister refused to let go. Neither said he would give it nor said he would give it. The three parties just kept dragging on inexplicably. Faced with a serious shortage of tactical support aircraft, the time to launch the campaign was getting longer and longer.
Yang Zhen, who is approaching, is the American who has been urging me to provide guarantee for this matter three times a day.
The only thing the United States could do after receiving Yang Zhen's urging telegram was to constantly urge the British to fulfill their promises. But no matter how much the United States urged, the British remained silent on this matter until February 1942.
, the Japanese army had swept across the entire Malayan Peninsula, and the British attitude changed.
Facing the increasing military pressure on the battlefield in Southeast Asia, and at the same time, Yang Zhen proposed that the Anti-League would be unable to cooperate with the British in combat operations in Southeast Asia due to the lack of urgently needed tactical aircraft. In view of the fact that the United States and Britain had breached the contract first, the Anti-League believed that
There is no need to fully fulfill the agreement under threat.
The pot-bellied Prime Minister urgently negotiated with the Americans and the Soviets, and in the shortest possible time, 300 of the more than 700 aircraft of the same model equipped by the Royal Canadian Air Force were allocated for use in the Pacific while still allowing freedom of navigation.
Soviet freighters carrying grain to Canada were shipped to Vladivostok.
There was no way. The batch of aircraft originally planned to be provided to the Anti-Japanese Alliance had been swept by the Japanese army in the Zero War and World War I. Within half a month, they were all lost on the Malayan Peninsula. They were transferred from the British mainland.
When it was too late, the regretful British man could only open his mouth to his little brother, the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Fortunately, as the largest member of the Commonwealth, it has its own military strength. The Japanese have swept across Southeast Asia like a raging storm, and have successively captured the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines in a short period of time. Singapore is about to lose its security. I am afraid that the Japanese
After completing operations in Southeast Asia, the next step will be to attack the Canadian Air Force in Canada.
After receiving the request for help from the British, they did not use Americans to do the work. Not only did they readily agree to the British request, but they also provided sufficient stock in full compliance with the British request in the shortest possible time.
More than ten pilots with rich experience in flying the aircraft were dispatched to the Northeast with the ship to serve as instructors.
In fact, what made the British prime minister finally relent was that Yang Zhen's threat could only be from one aspect. For him, the threat of the Anti-Japanese Alliance was nothing more than scratching the surface. With Americans coming to help suppress the Chinese, those Chinese
We would never dare to violate the agreement.
What really made him relax was that these aircraft were not only targets of massacre in front of the German army. They also had no chance of survival in front of the Japanese naval aviation, which had always been despised by the British. During the Malay Peninsula Campaign in January
, in an air battle of just ten minutes, all the more than twenty Battelle light bombers invested by the British army were shot down.
In the subsequent battles, the remaining light bombers of the same type were either shot down on the battlefield or blown up on the airport by Japanese aircraft. By mid-January, less than a month after the Japanese army launched the offensive, these originally
The planes shipped to Singapore and subsequently transferred from Australia all lost embers in a short period of time.
Actual combat has proven that this kind of aircraft is no match for Japanese combat aircraft. Even during the Japanese offensive in Malaya, the British and Australian pilots who were assigned to fly these aircraft publicly refused to fly this kind of aircraft.
Air combat. Just let the remaining aircraft in the air combat be blown up one by one by Japanese aircraft at the airport.
In less than a month, the Japanese army has swept across the entire Malay Peninsula, and its frontline has been directed towards Singapore and the Dutch East Indies. The British army in Southeast Asia has faced complete collapse. It is urgent to launch a resistance alliance in the north.
The British, who carried out the offensive to reduce the pressure on the British army on the battlefield, finally handed over a batch of modified aircraft to the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
Although the British and Canadians moved quickly, after so much back and forth, all these planes arrived at the Anti-Japanese War before the end of February. This was because the Soviets, under pressure from the Americans, agreed to use their own
Precious cargo ships came to help. If the British fleet alone had become a battlefield in the entire Pacific and had to turn to Iran, it is estimated that they would not be able to transport it until the war was over.
Although the Anti-Japanese Alliance finally obtained these much-needed tactical bombers in excess of the quota, for a large number of Anti-Japanese Alliance, extremely precious time has been wasted in this endless wrangling that almost accompanied the entire war. This batch of bombers only arrived at the end of February.
The planes arriving at the Anti-Japanese Alliance simply could not catch up with the start of the battle.
Although the Anti-Japanese Alliance who took over these aircraft originally flew Su-2 light bombers, they had already lost the pilots of their original planes. After receiving these aircraft, they worked overtime to conduct conversion training. Those random British and Canadian technologies
The personnel also assembled these aircraft as soon as possible. But for this battle, these aircraft still arrived too late.
Moreover, for the Anti-Japanese Alliance pilots who are accustomed to using Soviet-made and American-made aircraft, this is the first British-made combat aircraft obtained by the Anti-Japanese Alliance. It takes a certain amount of time to become familiar with both its performance and British-style instruments. Even without any modifications,
Even entering the battlefield still requires a lot of time.
What's more, the British airborne machine guns on these aircraft are of 7.7 mm British caliber, but the bullets randomly shipped by the British are only 300,000 rounds. In other words, each of these combat aircraft has two guns, a total of six
One hundred machine guns can only receive an average of five hundred rounds of ammunition each, which is almost a drop in the bucket.
The Anti-Japanese Alliance, which had never used British caliber weapons before, searched the entire base area and could not find a single 7.7mm machine gun bullet. Although there were a large number of seized Japanese 7.7mm bullets, the same caliber did not mean that the
The two types of bullets can really be used interchangeably.
Tactical aircraft are urgently needed on the front line, but the limited self-defense firepower is not only insufficient in firepower, but also in a state of severe malnutrition. In desperation, the Anti-Union aviation force can only concentrate its limited ammunition on seventy bombers, giving priority to ensuring these
After the aircraft's self-defense capabilities are developed, it is first put into battlefield use.
As for the remaining two hundred or so aircraft, in addition to leaving thirty to the rear training base to allow new pilots to familiarize themselves with the performance of the British-made aircraft, the others are seizing the time to improve and use the original MiG-3 fighter equipment, but by this time they have
These British-made machine guns without ammunition were replaced by the Soviet-made 7.62-mm aircraft machine guns that were replaced by the 12-mm machine guns made by the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
After all this hard work, it was not until late April that these British-made light bombers were put on the battlefield. And the first batch of planes put into operation was only seventy. The rest were still being worked overtime in the aviation factories of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
Modify and replace the machine gun. Otherwise, what else can we do? Let this kind of aircraft go to the battlefield empty-handed?
The British, who have always been selfish, made this move at a critical moment, which caused a lot of trouble for the Anti-Japanese Alliance. At the beginning of the battle, the main tactical support aircraft used by the Anti-Japanese Alliance were due to lack of supplementary equipment.
, can only continue to use the original American-made A-20 attack aircraft, as well as the batch of French-made fighter jets that have been modified by the Anti-Japanese Alliance and converted to ground attack.
In actual combat, the A-20 attack aircraft still performed extremely well, but the number was still unable to meet the needs. However, those legal fighter jets, because their combat range was too short, could only take off from frontline airports and were stranded in the air.
The time is too short. And due to innate design reasons, it can only carry a maximum of 200 kilograms of bombs or six air-to-ground rockets. As an attack aircraft, it can only be said to be barely adequate at best.
This batch of legal fighter jets could not fully fulfill the expectations of the Anti-Japanese Federation. The newly arrived aircraft from the rear were delayed for a lot of time due to their late arrival and conversion to flight training, and they were unable to be put into combat at the first time. And the aviation force had to face the same situation at the same time.
In such a large combat area, the limited ground support aircraft simply cannot meet the needs. Fighters can only be transferred from time to time, but this affects the fight for air supremacy, which is a bit of a waste of time.