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As a result, until the end of 1945, the facilities at Pearl Harbor could barely be used, but they were unable to play the huge role expected by the U.S. military. The complete restoration of the Hawaiian Fortress would have to wait until the end of World War II, for which the U.S. government spent a total of more than 1 billion.
A huge amount of US dollars, although there is a factor of replacing a lot of more advanced equipment.
In addition, the fierce fighting and the previous forced labor and brutal massacre by the Japanese almost wiped out all the white residents of Hawaii, and almost halved the indigenous population. As for the Japanese residents of Hawaii, many of them joined the Japanese army and fought
The "Jade Broken" hit was statistically included in the death toll of American civilians. Coupled with the special operations carried out by the prince,
In this time and space, the number of American civilians killed and missing during World War II exceeded 500,000. However, the complete recovery of the Hawaiian Islands still caused a sharp rebound in US President Roosevelt's increasingly dismal approval rating, allowing the United States to continue to dominate this world.
By persisting in the war, the main purpose of this battle was finally achieved...
The main reason why Oahu is so difficult to attack is naturally the strong fortress. The reason why the US military's attack on the Azov Islands in the Atlantic Theater was much smoother than the capture of Oahu was largely due to the Portuguese
No strong coastal fortresses were built on the Azov Islands.
Of course, the Azov Islands are isolated offshore, and they are thousands and hundreds of kilometers away from the nearest Madeira Islands. In battle, they can only rely on a limited number of aircraft on the island to fight the enemy. They cannot obtain any external air support.
Support is also an equally important reason. In the final analysis, it is because the German Navy has lost all its aircraft carriers, and the German Air Force has too many battlefields to take care of. A total of more than 30,000 combat aircraft is really unable to
Taking everything into account, it is already very difficult to ensure the deployment numbers on the Western European continent and the Soviet-German battlefield. You must know that the United States alone now has more than 100,000 combat aircraft, so it is inevitable for Germany to attack the relatively minor Azov Islands.
The ground was neglected. There were only dozens of Portuguese land-based aircraft stationed above it. After the attack, it was too late to send an emergency plane over.
However, even if there are only a few dozen aircraft, if the attacking fleet is not protected by fighter jets, it may still suffer a lot. However, at this time, all the US Navy's fleet aircraft carriers have been sent to the Pacific. Therefore, in the Battle of the Azov Islands, the US military made an unprecedented victory.
A large number of escort aircraft carriers were used to partially replace the role of fleet aircraft carriers. However, they unexpectedly achieved great success.
Due to the improvement of catapults and the enlargement of the escort carrier hull, the latest Borg-class escort aircraft carrier of the US military can already take off and land carrier-based fighters normally, and even light bombers without the need to specifically reduce the load. Although each Borg-class
The escort aircraft carrier only has 28 aircraft, but the U.S. Atlantic Fleet dispatched 20 escort aircraft at once this time. The total number of carrier aircraft is more than 500, which is a killing blow against the limited Azov Islands defenders.
chicken......
In addition, with the advancement of technology, the protective performance of the Borg-class escort aircraft carrier, especially the anti-sinking resistance, has been much improved compared to the earlier Casablanca-class escort aircraft carrier. It can no longer be sunk by one or two high-explosive bombs.
"paper boat". Of course, if you encounter the enemy's battle alone,
Battleships or cruisers, the Borg-class escort aircraft carrier with a maximum speed of only 18 knots still cannot avoid tragedies, but the Americans are obviously not stupid enough not to send escort ships to them. Not to mention anything else, just the four U.S.
People think it is more powerful than the Hindenburg-class giant battleship
The powerful Montana-class giant battleship is enough to ensure the safety of the escort aircraft carrier. What's more, the U.S. Atlantic Fleet also brought two old and tough South Dakota-class battleships with it this time, in addition to hundreds of auxiliary ships as always.
Along with it, even the German High Seas Fleet
The remaining ships came in droves, and under such a disparity in strength, it was difficult to get a good deal. And it must be noted that, on the premise that their own safety is fully guaranteed, the carrier-based aircraft on the Borg-class escort aircraft carrier can also
Display considerable offensive capabilities...
What's more, even if Wegener was not afraid, the High Seas Fleet, which had retreated to the mainland, would not have time to rescue, because it only took the U.S. military three days to capture all the islands in the Azov Islands, killing more than 7,000 Portuguese troops defending the islands, and the U.S. military's
The losses were less than a thousand casualties, 17 aircraft were shot down or destroyed and 3
The destroyers were damaged to varying degrees, and only 179 of them were dead or missing. In other words, the number of permanent attrition of the Portuguese army exceeded that of the US military by 40 times. Such a disparity in the exchange ratio separated the second-class powers from the world.
The gap between the first powerful countries was completely revealed in this battle...
The frightened Portuguese quickly asked for help from Mustache and neighboring Spain, but the armies sent by Germany and Spain were unable to go to sea. The land-based aircraft of the Air Force were beyond the reach of the Azores Islands far away from the coast, and the High Seas Fleet was even less capable.
Don't dare to come here and die. Only the German submarine force can harass the U.S. supply line in the Azov Islands.
, but under the attack of the U.S. military’s more targeted anti-submarine tactics and the terrifying anti-submarine power of 31 escort aircraft carriers, 102 destroyers, and 356 escort destroyers at its peak, it ultimately failed to prevent the Americans from building the Azov Islands into a
The second forward base for the counterattack on the European continent after the British Isles...
Before the construction of the Azov base was completed, the U.S. Atlantic Fleet had already launched an attack on the Madeira Islands, which is closer to the mainland. It is thousands of kilometers away from the nearest Axis land airport. In theory, the German Air Force stationed in the Arab Federation is
It can provide support, but the problem is that the Me262 jet fighter that Germany relies on to ensure air supremacy has insufficient range and a combat radius of only a few hundred kilometers, which is simply out of reach.
The performance of German piston fighters with sufficient radius is not as good as that of the US Army's F51D fighter and HNA's F8F carrier-based fighter. In addition, the coast of Western Europe is also under a huge threat from the US military's strategic bombing, and the Soviet battlefield is even more constrained.
With a large number of German aircraft, the air force that could be deployed in West Africa was very limited and could not compete with the seemingly endless supply of U.S. troops. Therefore, they failed to save the Madeira Islands after all...
After capturing the Madeira Islands, the US military could use it as a base to carry out strategic bombing of the entire Morocco Province of the Arab Federation, as well as western Algeria and southern Spain and Portugal. Even if the German Air Force urgently sent in the Allied forces, there was no one.
The me262 jet fighter that fighter jets can compete with is still hard to guard against...(To be continued...)