Two months passed quickly. On April 2, 1941, a federal navy fleet arrived at Pearl Harbor. The size of this fleet was larger than the two fleets that attacked Pearl Harbor combined. It
It includes 5 federal-class heavy aircraft carriers, 6 medium-sized aircraft carriers, and 3 escort aircraft carriers.
Mother ship, 4 Ocean-class heavy cruisers, more than 40 large destroyers, 30 submarines and nearly 50 transport ships. This huge fleet set out from near the New Guinea naval base and took nearly 11 days to arrive at Pearl Harbor.
When the forward of the fleet entered the port area, the tail of the fleet was still 20 nautical miles away.
After dozens of days of repairs and expansion, the current Pearl Harbor has roughly restored its pre-war appearance. Most of the sunken ships in the port area have been recovered by private salvage companies hired by the federal government, and they will be used as salvage materials.
The fees were paid to the salvage companies
Companies, except that they can no longer be used as warships, the salvage company has full discretion to decide their use. Whether it is sold as scrap iron to steel mills, or towed back to the shipyard for renovation and continued use as cargo ships, it has nothing to do with the federal "government"
It's about the military.
This obviously advantageous deal was also Liu Fu's idea. The Federal Navy originally planned to have frogmen dive to install explosives on these sunken ships, and then blow up all the underwater reefs to avoid affecting the Pearl Harbor area.
Driving safety inside.
But Liu Fu pointed out that destroying the hulls of these warships in this way is too wasteful. They are all made of high-quality steel. As long as some sunken warships are salvaged and repaired, they can continue to sail on the sea. Since the Federation
The government and the federal military really can't spare the time to salvage and repair these sunken ships. So why not let private shipyards and businessmen in the federation do these things, so that the waste can be used to allow federal citizens to earn war dividends, and at the same time,
Can help the federal military save money.
The Federal Navy did not take it seriously at first, thinking that the president was a bit whimsical. During the war, ordinary people wanted to be as far away from the battlefield as possible. Who would take this risk for a few broken ships? But the president had spoken, and the people in the Navy Department could not refuse.
We had no choice but to hold a simple bidding fair in China and issue bids to private shipyards and companies capable of salvaging sunken ships.[
Who would have thought that as soon as this news was released, dozens of private shipyards and specialized waste recycling companies came to consult. After the specific number of sunken ships and how the salvage costs were settled, the number of companies bidding increased again.
There are more than 40 companies, most of which do not have the ability to bid independently, but they have spontaneously formed several large groups to jointly bid.
The people at the Navy Department were a little "confused" at first. They didn't understand why these ordinary people had to go so far away to retrieve the sunken ship. But when the experts at the Naval Shipyard got the news, they gave them the answer.
Question. Some of those sunken ships can be repaired and used as cargo ships, but the remaining damage is too
In serious cases, they are dismantled and sold for scrap. However, the price of these scraps is much more valuable than ordinary civilian scraps, because these ships are built according to warships, and the materials used are very different from civilian ships. As long as these winning bidders can fish them out
After repairing and selling the two destroyers, their capital was returned, and the rest was earned.
Driven by profit, people's motivation is poor. The 10 winning group companies have hired thousands of people in the federation, and even went to South Korea to hire more than 2,000 local veteran sailors and fishermen. Haohao
"Dang" and "Dang" rushed to Pearl Harbor, they used professional salvage
boats and cutting equipment, they picked up all the small ships as a whole, and after a little repair, they towed them back to the federal mainland. But they couldn't fish out the battleships and aircraft carriers, so they used explosives to blow them up, gas welded them, and cut them like ants chewing bones.
All the same, they were broken into small pieces and put on a cargo ship to be transported away.
It took these thousands of people more than 50 days to clean up the water in the port area, and even swept away the steel cables of the anti-submarine net laid by the Americans. A few brave people
The businessman also went to the Naval Logistics Department and found the managers to ask those
Broken aircraft, shore artillery, etc., after getting a satisfactory answer, it only took 4 days to sell the shore artillery with its base, which weighed several tens of tons and were blown up by the Federal Air Force, on the mountains on both sides of the port.
After dismantling it, nothing was spared as long as it was metal.
These companies returned to the Federation and became bidders in the blink of an eye. They treated the broken warships, broken steel plates, and broken cables they had brought back as treasures and sold them to steel mills, cable factories, and shipyards by type and grade.
, two companies even approached the Federal Navy Department, hoping to sell three of the repaired American destroyers as cargo ships to the Republic of China Navy through the federal military.
In any case, the federal companies involved in this matter are all full of money. Even the employed workers have earned several years of salary, and the federal navy has also saved a lot of expenses to deal with it.
With this rubbish, something that seemed like a waste of time and money turned into a win-win good thing in an instant.
Liu Fu never thought that the effect of this would be so good. He just wanted to learn from the practices of later generations and save some expenses for the federal government. The federal military also got inspiration from this incident, and they deliberately
An evaluation organization has been established in the logistics department to evaluate many logistics tasks. Without affecting the principle of confidentiality, more tasks that are time-consuming, laborious and costly for the military are subcontracted to private companies for operation.
However, the fleet arriving at Pearl Harbor this time, including the transport ships, are all ships of the Federal Navy. For such a mission involving military secrets, it is better not to involve private companies. The fleet is not only transporting oil, but also "medicine"
and troops preparing to land on the West Coast of the United States, and more than 100 fighter jets were added to the Federal Air Force stationed at Pearl Harbor.
In the early morning of the fifth day after the fleet arrived at Pearl Harbor, the two reorganized attack fleets quietly set sail from Pearl Harbor and headed for the west coast of the United States. The first attack fleet consisted of three heavy aircraft carriers
, 2 medium aircraft carriers, 2 escort aircraft carriers, 2 Ocean class
The heavy cruiser is the main force, covered by 30 destroyers and 15 submarines, and sails to Canada's southwestern port of Vancouver. The fleet will forcefully enter the Strait of Juan de Fuca and air attack several US and Canadian shore artillery and air defense positions here.
and safely sent the landing troops to the Vancouver port area.
The Second Attack Fleet consists of 5 heavy aircraft carriers, 4 medium aircraft carriers, 2 escort aircraft carriers, 2 Ocean-class heavy cruisers, more than 40 destroyers and 25 submarines. Their target is the largest of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet on the West Coast.
Naval Base Port of San Diego, also called San Diego. This
The port is close to the U.S.-Mexico border and is a naval city in the overall sense. It is the largest warship maintenance port and submarine station of the U.S. Navy on the West Coast. According to intelligence from the Federal Military Intelligence Agency, two U.S. aircraft carriers escaped from Pearl Harbor.
, also appears in this port and often enters the port for supplies.
The Second Attack Fleet mainly provides cover for the First Attack Fleet. Their attack time is one day earlier than that of the First Attack Fleet. When most of the US attention is drawn to the direction of San Diego, the First Attack Fleet
The fleet just launched an attack on Vancouver. By that time, the U.S. Navy and Army Air Forces had no time to support Vancouver, which was 2,000 kilometers away. The Canadian army was basically useless in the eyes of the federal navy.
The main purpose of this plan is to seize a stronghold on the West Coast of the United States so that the heavy bombers of the Federal Air Force can be used in future battles. Otherwise, the aircraft of the Federal Naval Air Force alone will not be enough to destroy most of the industrial cities and transportation hubs on the West Coast of the United States.
The Hawaiian Islands are too far away from the west coast of the United States, and even extremely modified Federal Air Force bombers cannot return home after completing their bombing missions.
As for setting the final target in Vancouver, the main reason is that the Canadian army is too weak. Even with all-round help from the United States, its defense strength is much worse than that of other American cities. And although Vancouver is a Canadian territory, its
The location is just a few kilometers north of the U.S.-Canada border. If you don't look at the national border, this is no different from an American city. For the range of the Federal Air Force bombers, a few more kilometers or a few kilometers is not a problem. (To be continued.
