The American people's reaction to this war has also changed from disgust to support. Americans are no less enthusiastic about defending their country than people from other countries. The reason why they are unwilling to participate in the war is because they feel that it has nothing to do with them.
It should be held high. But things are different now. The enemies are attacking at home. The United States has sacrificed tens of thousands of naval soldiers. All Americans are anxious. They vow to pay with blood.
A large number of American young people took off their work clothes and suits and joined the military. Many housewives also walked out of the house again and entered factories to take over the jobs of their husbands and children. The American press no longer scolded the government every day, but turned 180 degrees.
A U-turn began to encourage Americans to take up arms and defend their homeland. Even the newspapers and radio stations controlled by David no longer dared to blatantly favor the South China Sea Federation, and had to follow suit to boost the fighting spirit of the American people.
All this was just like Liu Fu's memory of his previous life after he attacked Pearl Harbor. Not only did it not frighten the Americans, but it aroused their already strong fighting spirit. However, Liu Fu was not afraid of the Americans' fighting spirit.
After regarding the United States as his main enemy, Liu Fu had no intention of poking the United States in the butt with an awl just like R himself did back then, thinking he could knock the Americans down.
If you want to completely defeat the Americans, you must hold machine guns, drive tanks and airplanes, and bring live war to their doorsteps, living rooms, and backyards, let them see the cruelty and bloodshed of war, and let them see the cruelty and bloodshed of war.
Only when there is no hope of victory can we defeat this originally martial nation. Although Americans cannot become one nation, they have formed the same national character.
When the U.S. military on Oahu surrendered, the federal navy and army quickly occupied several surrounding islands, thereby controlling all of the Hawaiian Islands. When choosing their bases, the federal army, like their American counterparts, still
Oahu is used as the main garrison because there is really no suitable flat land for development on the other islands. At best, a few observation posts and radar stations are built as a warning force on Oahu.
Americans have paid great attention to the construction of Oahu in recent years. The airports on the island are all standard military airports, with concrete runways more than 1 meter thick. Hangars are half buried underground. Oils are buried deep underground.
There are more than 10 various shore gun groups in the warehouse, some of which are fully enclosed gun positions dug into the mountains, which are very strong and concealed.
What makes the Federal Navy drool even more is the port area of Pearl Harbor. Not only is the water depth here enough, but the port area is naturally divided into four parts. Different types of ships can be docked according to their purpose and tonnage. Besides, except for the south, it is surrounded by mountains. As long as the arrangement is arranged
Good enough warning area.
It is quite difficult to sneak attack here. The reason why the US military failed at the beginning was that they did not know enough about aircraft and focused most of their attention on the sea. As a result, the federal aircraft group broke in from low altitude and disabled the navy and air force.
, which knocked off the hard shell of Pearl Harbor.
If the Federal Navy is allowed to use this place as a naval base, it only needs to add a bomber wing of the Federal Air Force. Relying on the existing aircraft carriers, the Federal Navy can respond to more than three times the enemy navy's attack, because road-based aircraft cannot be competed by naval aircraft.
The range and bomb load are far
More than naval aircraft, and with this island, the federal army does not have to worry about supply problems, but the attacking fleet cannot last too long. The fuel and ammunition they carry are limited. As long as they cannot defeat the defending fleet, then they
You will always be in a passive position of being attacked.
Now, if this will soon become a reality, the transport fleet carrying the landing troops will not only have the Federal Army and their tanks, but also a Federal Air Force bomber wing and fighter wing with a total of more than 330 aircraft.
, more than 3,000 pilots and ground control personnel will use the three U.S. Army Air Force airports being repaired as temporary air bases to protect the air security of the entire Hawaiian Islands.
With the entry of the Federal Air Force, the number of aircraft carriers in the Federal Navy seems to be a bit too much. This will not only weaken the domestic maritime defense of the Federation, but also increase the difficulty of logistics supply. Since the Federal Navy has not had large-scale operations in the near future
,
Therefore, only 3 Federal-class aircraft carriers, 1 escort carrier, 2 Ocean-class heavy cruisers, more than 30 destroyers, and more than 30 submarines were left in Pearl Harbor. The remaining combat ships escorted the transportation on January 18.
The fleet returned to the Federation.
According to the arrangements of the federal Department of Defense, a naval base, a submarine base, an air force base and an army base will be established on Hawaii Island. Most of the Americans have prepared these infrastructures. The remaining work is to clean up the port.
Shipwrecks, repairing some shore guns and bunkers, leveling runways, building hangars, etc.
What makes the federal army very happy is that the Americans not only built complete military facilities here, but also built many hospitals, schools, and residences. There is basically no shortage of everything in the entire port area, including several movie theaters.
The engineer troops of the federal three armies saved a lot of effort.
In the plan to rebuild Pearl Harbor, the most time-consuming and labor-intensive work is the work of several large material warehouses, oil warehouses and ammunition warehouses. The federal Department of Defense requires that this place be built into a forward springboard for attacking the United States, so not only must there be sufficient
The armed forces must also have huge storage space for combat readiness materials.
Since these materials are very important, we cannot just build a big house like an ordinary port. We have to take advantage of the mountainous area and build all these warehouses in the mountain. This cannot be built in a day and a half. Fortunately, the United States*
The * team is not lazy either. They originally dug several underground warehouses to store oil and ammunition, which can basically meet the current requirements.
The South China Sea Federation stopped at Hawaii Island and started large-scale civil engineering construction on the island. It will be unable to continue eastward in a short time. The US Navy's Pacific Fleet has now become a coast guard fleet and will not be able to cause any harm to Hawaii Island in the short term.
Threats, neither side can do anything about the other, they can only stare across the sea.
However, with the Pearl Harbor base in Hawaii, the scope of activities of the federal submarine force is even larger. The east side of their warning circle is directly drawn to the west coast of the United States. From time to time, submarine forces are sent to harass those west coast port cities. They are in the port
Mine the waterways, or track American ships, and once they escape the escort of the American fleet, surface and capture these ships, except, of course, passenger ships.
Americans who have lived here peacefully for hundreds of years are now beginning to taste what war is like. Port cities on the entire West Coast of the United States have been paralyzed. A large number of cargo ships are afraid to leave the port, although no passenger ships have been attacked.
Due to the incident, many shipping companies have also temporarily suspended passenger flights. Countless cargoes are piled on the docks and cannot be shipped out. The U.S. Navy and Coast Guard patrol outside the port at all times to prevent federal submarines from sneaking into the port to carry out sneak attacks and sabotage.
Starting from the Port of Vancouver in the north, almost all the ports on the West Coast of the United States such as Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and San Diego have entered a state of war. The U.S. government learned from the British
Based on London’s experience, many air-raid shelters have been built and hundreds of huge air-raid balloons have been released over several major cities. The tops of buildings in many cities have been turned into positions for anti-aircraft guns and searchlights, and citizens have to do this every week.
Withstood several air defense warning drills.
Although this tense atmosphere makes many Americans uncomfortable, they are not very afraid. Many young people will run to the port area to see the salvaged federal mines or bombed ships. In addition to the harsh air defense
Outside of alarms and paralyzed ports, the word war does not seem to have much impact on the optimistic American people.
Ordinary people are not afraid of war because they have nothing to lose except their lives. For the middle class and wealthy people in these cities, war is still quite scary because it has already revealed its true nature before it really hits.
The ferociousness.
The transportation and shipping industries of many port cities have been hit hard by the cold winter. They have gone bankrupt or closed down. More wealthy people have chosen to leave here and move to cities in the central and even eastern United States to stay away from possible wars. Their bankruptcies and escapes
, the city has gradually lost its vitality, consumption power has also declined, and even real estate prices have begun to plummet. The entire western coastal region of the United States seems to have returned to the period of economic crisis. (To be continued...)
