"Okay, let's go back to the south bank of the Snoqualmie River to build fortifications and hold Seattle first. This time I will also recommend to the Department of the Army to evacuate the city of Seattle. It is too close to the front line." I saw several people around me.
The generals all nodded in agreement with Patton's suggestion. MacArthur roughly arranged the work for the next few days and adjourned the meeting.
All the U.S. troops on the front retreated. Under the supervision of federal reconnaissance aircraft, the federal army engineers began to repair the mine strips in front of their respective defense lines. At the same time, they drove hundreds of American and Canadian prisoners of war to cut down trees on the south side of the defense line.
, clearing obstacles, a completely stubborn attitude. After these several battles, the federal military has probably figured out the combat strength of the US Army, and is more confident in holding the bridgehead of the Vancouver Port Area.
However, the federal army did not intend to just defend without attacking. Their intention to occupy the Vancouver Port Area was to use it as a frontline position to attack the United States. However, the federal army's offensive method was completely different from that of the US military. When General MacArthur returned to Washington, he
On the third day after the Department of Defense and the Department of War reported on the battle situation on the front line, federal troops launched their first official attack on American soil.
At around 1 a.m. on May 21, 50 Federal Air Force ab-2 level bombers were divided into 3 groups, escorted by the same number of Air Force fighter jets, and took off from three airports in Vancouver to attack the U.S. Army Air Forces within a range of 300 kilometers.
Three major airports carried out their first night bombings.
Prior to this, the federal naval aviation and air force aircraft had never shown the ability to operate at night. In fact, after they were equipped with aircraft equipped with airborne radar, they had already begun to focus on training night flight capabilities, but they had not yet been able to do so.
It was not used, mainly because none of them had ever encountered such an opportunity to fly at night.
Although federal air power currently suppresses U.S. military aircraft by virtue of its performance, if it bombs military targets during the day, it will definitely be discovered by U.S. radar and intercepted by local fighter jets. Although federal fighter jets can completely defeat U.S. military aircraft
, but the best way to reduce losses is to reduce losses as much as possible. After all, everything for the federal army needs to be transported by ship from distant lands, so save what you can.
Night flying is different from flying during the day. The flight altitude, direction, and distance of the aircraft are basically detected by airborne radar. The pilot's naked eyes are limited to staring at these instruments to observe the data. The most difficult part of night flying is not
It’s not when the plane is flying in the air, but it’s very difficult to determine the target position and land.
However, these two problems were soon solved. In addition to using a radio compass to determine their own direction, pilots or navigators can also use airborne radar to receive low-frequency radio waves emitted by low-frequency radio navigation stations built at the airport.
Determine your position
In this case, as long as the low-frequency beam of the navigation station can be accurately aimed at the target, the night-flying federal bombers can rely on its guidance to fly over the target. If in order to improve the accuracy, multiple navigation stations can be used to send multiple low-frequency beams.
Use radio waves to provide cross guidance.
After several years of exploration and testing, the current navigation accuracy of federal night bombers has reached 0.0 degrees, which can basically meet the purpose of strategic bombing at night. Moreover, most pilots of the three federal services have mastered this technology, radio navigation.
The device became the standard configuration of the aviation forces of the three federal services.
However, according to the radio component manufacturing process of the South China Sea Federation, the maximum range of this radio navigation station can only reach 800 kilometers, which basically meets the combat range of federal aircraft, but it is still insufficient for long-distance flights.
Ellensburg is the largest flight base of the U.S. Army Air Forces in Washington State. It is home to 4 fighter wings and 2 B-17 bomber wings of the U.S. Army Aviation, with approximately 450 aircraft. Originally, this place
is a military aircraft produced by Boeing Aircraft Company of Seattle
The test flight ground was expanded into a military aviation base after the start of the South American War. It has three full-length runways for the takeoff and landing of various aircraft. It is also equipped with complete radar stations, fuel depots, pilot living areas, and anti-aircraft gun positions.
It is a major take-off point for U.S. Army aviation aircraft attacking the Vancouver port area.
In the middle of the night, most of the pilots and base staff fell asleep. There were only a few radar stations and anti-aircraft gun positions, and some personnel on duty were sticking to their posts. Since Pearl Harbor was attacked by the South China Sea Federation, all the U.S. military's
The radar base is 200% cautious and closely monitors any signal in the radar sweep area, preferring false alarms to false alarms.
However, these tasks are usually completed during the day. During this period, night flights of aircraft were just beginning to be explored. No country in the world has tried to deal with night attacks and bombings, so the US Army is no exception.
As soon as it gets dark, most of the radars stop operating. In addition to ground warning, the entire base enters a relaxation period.
At 2:13, the only U.S. military radar that was turned on suddenly discovered an abnormal echo. The radar soldier on duty at that time was really not lazy to sleep. He just spent a few minutes to confirm that the radar was not malfunctioning, and then reported the situation.
He quickly reported it to the officer on duty at the base.
After receiving the early warning from the radar station, the officer on duty did not waste time. While notifying the air defense troops to enter the position, he also notified several other radar stations to start working while confirming whether the signal was the echo of the aircraft. 15 minutes later,
Other radar stations also sent confirmation messages one after another. They all determined that the signal was the echo generated by the aircraft, and it was not one or two aircraft, but a group of aircraft.
Nearly 20 minutes had passed since the signal was first discovered. At this time, the officer on duty sounded the air defense alarm of the base, but it was too late. Everyone in the base cursed the officer and his family on duty today.
By that time, the low sound of engines could be heard in the sky.
Two minutes later, the sky was suddenly broken by several shining balls of light, and many flares appeared over the entire base. They glowed fiercely while floating swaying in the sky, covering the airport runway and those beside the runway.
Hangars and buildings around the airport are shown.
At this time, several white light beams also lit up on the ground. The US military's air defense searchlights finally turned on. They moved back and forth, looking for their targets in the sky thousands of meters away. Soon, a twin-engine aircraft was
The searchlights were locked, and ground anti-aircraft artillery fire followed, but the aircraft did not dodge and continued to fly while throwing illumination bombs downwards.
"Whoosh...whoosh..." A burst of screams suddenly came from the sky above the airport. The veterans were suddenly stunned, and then they ran towards the open area like crazy, shouting "find bunkers! find bunkers" as they ran.
Those who have been exposed to Army aviation fighters and bombers for many years know very well that the sound is the vibration sound caused by the friction between the aerial bomb and the air when it falls from a high altitude, and the larger the aerial bomb, the deeper the sound.
As the first red-hot fireworks bloomed in the distance, the entire base began to shake, and then there was a loud explosion, and then the explosions became more and more rapid until they became one. Now those originally flashing lights in the sky
The flares with their dazzling white light are almost invisible, and
It's not that they were all extinguished, but the brightness of the fire on the ground was too high. The incendiary bomb mixed with napalm turned dozens of meters around its impact point into a big fireball. From the sky, it looked like a series of fireballs.
The giant torch illuminates everything on the base clearly.
In fact, this was not a real air strike. It was just two AB-2 bombers guiding the bomber group behind them to drop bombs. However, these dozens of incendiary bombs also caused a lot of damage to this US military aviation base.
, several of the incendiary bombs fell on the hangar, and the high temperature of the explosion detonated the aerial bombs stacked in the hangar. The violent explosion instantly blew the hangar and the two hangars next to it into pieces. (Unfinished)
