The Panama Canal is located in Panama in Central America. It crosses Panama Gorge and connects the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean. It is an important shipping road. It is known as one of the seven major engineering miracles in the world and the "World Bridge".
One of the two artificial waterways, the other is the Suez Canal.
Before the canal navigation, the ships driving between the east and west coasts of the United States had had to bypass the grace of South America. After using the Panama Canal, it can shorten the range of about 15,000 kilometers.
The port of South America can also save a voyage of up to 6,500 kilometers. Slot ships between Europe and East Asia or Australia, through the canal, can also reduce the range of 3,700 kilometers.
The Panama Canal is 81 kilometers long, the water is about fifteen meters deep, and the river is 150 meters to 310 meters.
The ship gate, the ship passes through the canal, usually takes seven hours.
The Canal's strategic significance for military is not to mention. We must know that in the Japanese and Russian War, Tsar Russia raised 38 major warships and about 20 auxiliary ships from its Baltic Sea and the Black Sea Fleet.
Keeping neutrality and not allowing the Russian expedition fleet to go through the Suez Canal. The Russians can only go around the southern end of Africa to Vladivostok. They all the way to expedition to the Malaysian Strait, but they were hit by the Malaysian Strait.
Outside of Vladivostok, the remaining troops were overwhelmed. The total loss of ships reached 270,000 tons, which is still larger than the total loss of both sides of the Nikka Naval War in the First World War.
For ***, which has been stolen by the Hawaii Islands, if the Panama Canal is destroyed, the sailing time between the US ships in the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean will be doubled.
The idea of is undoubtedly decisive. For the United States, if it is necessary to go to such a far road to the West Coast, its land defense and the counterattack in the Pacific region in the future will have an adverse effect.
According to the "US -Pakistan Tress" signed on November 18, 1903, the Panama government supported by the United States and its Panama government guarantees Panama's independence.
It is given to the United States and paid $ 10 million to Panama in the United States. Since the 1913 canal, pay 250,000 US dollars per year.
Although the United States has always realized the importance of the Panama Canal, it is generally believed that as long as the Philippines, Midway Island, Hawaii Islands and other island chains are not lost.
Sea Defense Battery.
Before the Pearl Harbor incident broke out, the situation in the Pacific region was tight. The US Navy urgently built more than ten turrets on the Pacific side of the canal, and introduced British radar technology at the same time to build coastal radar base stations to monitor the Pacific direction of two hundred nautical miles.
Airspace. The Army in the Canal District of Panama has been deployed for more than 11,300 people, including artillery, air defense soldiers and equipment tanks, and armored vehicles.
Then, then
With the start of Japan and the United States at the end of last year, a series of combinations of the Japanese army fought down and hit most Americans dizzy, but Roosevelt was not dizzy. He sensitively realized that the Panama Canal is the core part of the entire West Coast defense circle, only the Panama Canal
Keeping unobstructed can strongly support the Pacific battlefield, so we deliberately strengthened the protection of the Canal District, and once again mobilized more than 32,000 Army to Panama. Once needed, it can fight back to the enemy of Panama north -south at any time to ensure the safety of the canal.
At the same time, Roosevelt ordered the Navy to step up the construction of Yongshu Fort and Workers in the Canal District. The Bo Fos 40mm high guns purchased from Sweden and the Euridon 20mm air defense machine guns purchased by Switzerland will be deployed to the ship's vessels and dams near the canal and dams in the dam and dams of the canal.
, To prevent the raid of *** Navy aviation.
The terrain of Panama and the surrounding areas is mainly mountainous. The highest peak is as high as 3,000 meters above sea level. Here the rainforest is densely set, the mountains are dangerous, and there are many cliffs in the coastal area.
The huge price, even if you are lucky enough to enter the canal district, you will have to lose.
Panama's China and America are simply the back garden in the United States. As long as they can stick to it for a few days, the large troops are constantly reaching.
The only way for the Japanese army is to destroy the Panama Canal.
However, it is not easy to do this. Although the Navy has an absolute advantage now, even if it is a large -caliber guns, it is not easy to destroy the canal water channel in the rock mountain body.
The place is the two vessels that maintain the water level on the canal, but the vessels are not built in a place near the bay. They rely on the nearest ship gate on the Pacific Ocean to go deep into the inland for 9 kilometers.
Boom on the shore may not be able to hit accurately.
The biggest possibility of the Japanese army is the air strike. Once the dam was destroyed, the lake in the dam, the calamation will be paralyzed, and the entire canal will quickly be paralyzed.
The concrete is built, and the gate is a steel with a thickness of 1.5 meters. The intensity of fighting torpedo and air bombs is even better than the hull of the battleship. The width of the gate is only more than 30 meters.
The battleship is much more difficult.
In this case, the *** Navy appeared strangely in Panama Gulf again, and gave Americans a hit.
After the Pearl Harbor Incident, the Japanese War Fleet and the Second Aircraft Carrier Fleet stayed in the Hawaii Islands. Waiting for the army to launch landing on the Army and launching landing on Walhu Island.
Running for nearly 5,000 nautical miles long distances, when the Americans were blank, they approached Central America.
At 6 o'clock in the morning, the sun is still hanging on the horizon of the East. The US Army Air Force is responsible for the officers and soldiers of today's training and duty tasks, all concentrated in the airport restaurant to eat breakfast.
In addition to the war in Europe, Asia and the Pacific, those government members and members continued to show up in the news, calling on men to participate in the army actively, women enter the factory to work together to defend the beauty and democracy and freedom of the United States.
After more than a year of training, and with the large number of aviation schools opened before the war providing sufficient manpower, the number of pilots in the United States has increased significantly. Now there are more than 10,000 pilots with hundreds of hours of flying experience, and this number
Still increasing.
Precisely because of the rapid increase in the number of pilots, the navy and army's aviation fleets are constantly being established.
In order to strengthen the homeland defense force, on the eve of the fall of France in June last year, the United States formed four aviation military districts: northeast, northwest, southeast and southwest. When the British air battle was at its most intense, these military districts changed their designations to No. 1, No. 1, and No. 1.
2nd, 3rd and 4th Air Forces.
Outside the mainland, the Philippine Air Force was established in July last year and was reorganized into the Far East Air Force in October. The Hawaiian Air Force was officially established in November last year. The Panama Canal Air Force was established at the same time. Before the Pearl Harbor incident, the Alaska Air Force
Also started to set up.
Among them, the air force stationed in the Panama Canal Zone, in order to strengthen its organization, has three fighter squadrons, equipped with two types of American P37 and P40 fighter jets; three bomber squadrons, one equipped with B17 long-range bomber squadron, and the other
There is a squadron of dive bombers and a squadron of torpedo planes; a squadron of reconnaissance aircraft is mainly responsible for guarding the Gulf of Panama within a radius of 500 kilometers.
"Woo-"
As the shrill air defense siren sounded, most of the American pilots who were having a meal were still wondering if the commander of the flight team was conducting an emergency flight drill again. The Japanese fleet had suddenly arrived and began to dive, pull up, and lift the nose of the aircraft.
It sprayed violent ammunition from its wings, dropped strings of aerial bombs from its buttocks, and violently bombarded the fighter jets, bombers, and reconnaissance aircraft parked on the airport.
U.S. military commanders and pilots panicked and fled in all directions. Many people were asking why the radar did not detect the opponent in advance? Could it be that the instruments purchased with a lot of money were just decorations?
This is an unjust accusation. It turns out that the Japanese have a large number of expatriates in South America, and they are very familiar with Panama and the surrounding areas. The Japanese base camp and the Japanese navy that carried out this air strike have already been well aware of the defense situation in Panama.
In order to avoid being discovered by the US military in advance, the Japanese naval task force arrived at the Gulf of Chiriqui in the south of Panama and Costa Rica the night before. After a brief preparation, more than 300 fighter planes took off from the deck of the aircraft carrier as dawn appeared on the sky.
, headed all the way north, crossed the mainland before sunrise, arrived at Mosquitos Bay in the northern Caribbean Sea, and then turned south toward the canal area.
When the Japanese aircraft approached, the US military radar operators actually saw the flashing bright spots on the electronic display. However, the Americans used British radar technology and did not have an identification friend or foe system. Looking at the heading of the fleet, they mistakenly thought it was coming from the United States.
Fighter planes flying from the east coast.
The radar operator called the person on duty at the headquarters, but the person on duty went to have breakfast. While waiting for a reply, the Japanese fighter planes had already flown to the canal area. Under the cover of the Zero fighter planes, the 99-ship bombers were facing
At the airport, U.S. Army Air Force fighter planes that had no time to take off carried out indiscriminate bombing.
I have to admit that the Japanese tactics were very deceptive and sudden. At this time, there were no people on the anti-aircraft gun emplacements concentrated near the canal locks and dams. The 97 ships separated from the Japanese aircraft group attacked.
Rushing quickly towards the dam on the Atlantic side.
More than ninety 97 warships attacked, and the first wave of attacks on the dam and locks achieved miraculous results. They completely destroyed the locks with only twenty-six torpedoes (of which fourteen were missed). The water of Wanqing Lake followed the collapsed
The locks and dams poured down toward the Caribbean Sea. Several freighters of several thousand tons heading toward the canal were hit by the monstrous water and capsized instantly.
The Japanese were refreshed and rushed along the canal to the Pacific side again. However, by the time the fleet arrived at the dam on the Pacific side, half an hour had passed, and most of the US air defense personnel had already entered the gun positions.
They started shooting wildly in the air, trying to prevent the Japanese fighter planes from approaching.
The Japanese fighter jets and dive bombers, after destroying all the U.S. Air Force fighter planes at the airport, promptly rushed towards the dams and gates of the canal area. The overwhelming number of fighter planes tried their best to suppress the ground anti-aircraft fire and inflicted heavy damage on the 97th Ship, which was the main force in the attack.
Attack to create opportunities.
This time the Japanese paid a heavy price. After paying the price of twelve fighter planes exploding in the air and disintegrating, and twenty-one crashing to the ground or exploding on the water, nearly half of the more than forty torpedoes hit the target, approaching the target.
The locks and dams on the Pacific side also collapsed.
You must know that the Panama Canal relies on locks to regulate ships. The entire canal area is actually suspended more than 20 meters above the sea level. Now two dams on the east and west coasts have been destroyed one after another. For the canal area
, is undoubtedly a devastating disaster.
Due to the huge drop, Gatun Lake, Alajuela Lake, Miraflores Lake and other lakes connected to the canal are pouring water crazily into the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Dozens of ships passing through the canal area,
Either they were overturned by the raging torrent, or they were stranded after the water level dropped rapidly, and the entire canal area quickly fell into a state of paralysis.
As the first wave of aircraft groups left, the second wave of Japanese carrier-based aircraft strike groups arrived.
This time, the Japanese fleet did not take a detour and flew directly from the Gulf of Chiriqui over the Azuero Peninsula, targeting ports, military camps, oil depots, airports, radar stations and other facilities in the Panama Canal area to launch devastating strikes.
While the carrier-based aircraft was operating, more than a dozen destroyers entered the Gulf of Panama to lay mines. A large number of mines flooded the mouth of the canal, rising and falling in the waves.
Chuichi Nagumo did not send out the third wave of aircraft. After the second wave of aircraft returned, he led the fleet and quickly left the Bay of Chiriqui, met with the destroyer fleet in the south of the Gulf of Panama, sailed directly into the Pacific, and disappeared without a trace.
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Nanhua, Xinjing, Xuanwu Building Conference Room.
After receiving the news from the U.S. government that the Panama Canal was attacked by Japanese naval aviation, the senior officials of the Anjia Army, including An Yi, were all dumbfounded and couldn't believe the audacity of the Japanese navy!
"Be good!"
After listening to the telegram dictated by Li Yufu, director of the Communications Department of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Jiang Shangmin, deputy commander of the navy who attended the meeting on behalf of the navy, blurted out:
"In long-distance continuous operations, successively attacking the Hawaiian Islands and the Panama Canal, these bastards of the Japanese Navy have simply used aircraft carrier tactics to the extreme! If the canal zone really suffers heavy damage as reported by the Americans, the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans will be completely separated.
It's coming. From the east coast of the United States to Asia, we must detour through the southern tip of South America. In a short period of time, the U.S. troops deployed in Australia and New Zealand will lose important supplies and personnel assistance. Now we are in big trouble!"
An Yi was stunned at this moment.
I just received an emergency telegram in the United States. An Yi thought it was to coordinate the rescue of the Philippine U.S. military affairs, so she asked Li Yufu to read it, but what she didn't want to get was such a shocking news.
"The situation is a bit bad!"
Yang Jie, who has always been steady, is not sure of being unwilling to speak, he can't sit still. He stood up and walked to the map. He looked carefully and turned his head and said to An Yi:
"Chairman, everyone, *** people have almost hit the United States' life door this time! With the paralysis of the Panama Canal, the U.S. navy has really fallen into the wind in the Pacific region.
The eyes of those guys in the base camp have reached the extreme to the first line of Hawaii. It is expected to shrink the defense next to it, and take Hawaii as a magnet stone that attracts the US forces.
And New Zealand, completely expel the country and the United States and other countries, and then wait for the opportunity to find the opportunity to talk about peace talks. For ***, this is the best result that can be expected!
"However, I lost my calculation. I didn't expect that the eyes of *** were so far away. While attacking the Pearl Harbor, I also stared at the Panama Canal! Now the hit in the United States is more than I expected.
It is much more heavy. It is expected that after half a year and a year, the Panama Canal will want to recover. At that time, not only Hawaii is operated by the Japanese army, but I am afraid that even Australia and New Zealand will occupy it.
"
"In the current situation, the Japanese army is changing every day. We can no longer limit the war situation to the Middle East. The entire line has launched an attack!"
"Brother Geng Guang, please rest assured, the Americans are not so easy to yield!"
An Yi is very clear how powerful the United States mobilized in World War II. A documentary about the Pacific War I have seen during reading has said that the United States has manufactured more than 130 aircraft carriers in the war.
The boat is at all. At all, seeing Yang Jie's face was worried, he quickly comforted:
"Americans's war potential, far above ***, don't say anything else, the population is only more than twice that of ***, plus almost endless industrial potential, it only takes two to three years.
It can save the disadvantages of *** combat. *** People want to use force to coerce the United States to surrender, it is almost impossible!
"*** people have two consecutive sneak attacks, not only will not dispel the will of the United States' combat will, but will completely irritate Americans! Even if the Panama Canal cannot be navigable for the time being, the United States can detour from the Atlantic Ocean, attack *** in Madagascar and Lanyin
The islands' military base. I think that the next step will definitely choose the time to counterattack to encourage the morale of the military. "
Deng Bin, Zhao Dongquan, Yang Fei and others listened to Anyi's analysis, and they were excited.
Yang Fei said loudly: "Before we were afraid of fighting too hard, we caught the Japanese army. Now there is no need to worry about it? There is no back arrow in the bow, and the two loud slap in the person gave the American guy a profound lesson.
It is estimated that the American guy also began to regret why he had provided so many steel and oil to ***, and there were a large number of advanced weapon manufacturing techniques ...
"Haha, this continuous attack by the Japanese has vented the grievances we suffered before. Think about how much pressure the B17 bombers equipped by the Japanese army put on us in Hangzhou Bay three years ago? Now we finally have
It’s America’s turn to enjoy the bitter pill…”
"Yang Fei, don't tell me, I'm actually quite relieved! I wish I could laugh three times now. What Americans have done in the past is just shooting themselves in the foot!"
An Yi's words made the atmosphere in the conference room extremely cheerful. Then he changed the subject: "However, the current situation does not allow us to gloat about others' misfortunes, so we still have to support the Americans from all aspects, otherwise the situation will be extremely serious.
It may continue to rot!
"Indeed, as Brother Geng Guang said, the time for our war is now ripe! However, it is already February, and summer is coming soon in Myanmar and India. After March, the temperature in East India and Myanmar will rise rapidly.
The temperature can reach as high as 40 to 50 degrees Celsius. Fighting under such conditions cannot bring out the combat power that the troops should have! Also, before launching a full-scale counterattack, there must be a period of accumulation of supplies. Fighting is very easy.
, but how to ensure logistics? If we run out of guns and bullets while fighting, who will we cry to?
"I want to make a message here. After the rainy season in September, we will launch a full-scale attack. Before that, everyone has to be patient! Of course, everyone is not patient in vain. By July of this year, after many years of construction,
It is time for Panzhihua Iron Mine to produce large quantities of iron. In addition, several large domestic iron mines have successively invested in
production, our steel output will exceed 30 million tons. By then, our steel supply will be fully guaranteed. In the past few months, several key railways will be opened to traffic, and many elephant roads through the jungle will change.
It will become a flat asphalt road, and then our mechanized troops can march straight in.
"Moreover, in the past few months, the Japanese army will definitely continue to mobilize troops to fight in New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand. When we launch a counterattack, the Japanese army will be caught off guard and will have no time to mobilize enough troops for rescue! We can completely attack them in one go
The three areas were leveled, connecting Siberia, Japan, Central Asia, West Asia and India, doubling strategic depth and comprehensive national strength, laying the foundation for a powerful country in one fell swoop. What do you think of my suggestions?"
"Very good!
Yang Jie pondered for a moment and looked happy: "This is the safest plan. If we don't launch it, it will be fine. Once we launch it, it will be earth-shattering and we will achieve a decisive victory!"
The other generals kept saying wonderful things, and Deng Bin said with a smile: "If Hutou and Xia Jian knew that there would be a major counterattack after September, I don't know how successful they would be. In the past year or so since they took Siam, they have
We both can’t hold it back anymore!”
"Don't tell them yet!"
An Yi looked around the generals and said seriously: "As long as we know about this matter, wait two months before the war starts, and then transfer the heads of several front armies to Nanhua to jointly improve the battle plan."
It is not that they are afraid of leaking secrets, but that the Japanese army will discover abnormalities through the subtle changes in our army. The Japanese launched the Pacific Operation, which was very risky and sensitive to subtle changes in the outside world.
"The Persian Gulf area is far away from the mainland and has inconvenient travel. It is not a must-defend area for the Japanese army, so they don't care much about our attack. But East India, Myanmar, and Malaya are different. They are all in the area around the Lanyin Islands.
It is an industrial base, one is an oil production area, and the other is an important production area of natural rubber and tin. Any missing piece is as painful as cutting their flesh! Once an abnormality is discovered, they will immediately mobilize troops to make up for the deficiencies in the defense line. For us,
, so passive!”
Speaking of this, An Yi turned around: "Okay, this topic stays later and talks slowly. We continue to discuss the plan that the Air Force and the General Staff just formulated last night to save MacArthur and his army. Everyone speaks ...
". "
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