The United States is superior in terms of national power. Although its geographical environment has little effect on the bombing tactics adopted by the federation, the United States' production capacity is the most powerful in the world. It can use massive aircraft, tanks, artillery and
It doesn't matter if you exchange your life with the South China Sea Federation, even if it's higher than the ranking. Anyway, if you want to compete for comprehensive national strength, the South China Sea Federation alone can't compete with the United States.
When the time entered November, the war in Europe gradually became more balanced. The German offensive gradually slowed down, while the Soviet resistance gradually strengthened. In North America, the federal army was still fighting fiercely with the US military in the Pocatello area.
The two sides were still going toe-to-toe with Maimang, each using their own advantages to attack and defend, and the fight was very enjoyable.
Although the U.S. military spent more than a month and suffered more than 200,000 casualties, it was not able to capture even an inch of the federal defense line. However, the federal defenders were not feeling well. The four main federal divisions stationed here have become 3
Due to excessive casualties, the 11th Mechanized Division has been dismantled and replenished separately.
The other three divisions were gone, and the ammunition of the federal troops was depleted very quickly. Several large arms warehouses in Seattle and Vancouver were already more than half empty. A series of federal cargo ships unloaded ammunition in the port area every day.
It can only meet the needs of the Pocatello area and the Federal Air Force bombers.
At this time, the U.S. military was not feeling so comfortable. Hundreds of thousands of casualties, more than 3,000 tanks, more than 2,000 aircraft, and more than 4,000 artillery were lost, which made the U.S., a big dog, very painful. What made the U.S. government even more worried was that
With Texas, Kansas, Nebraska
Falling under the wings of federal bombers, the U.S. government has begun to be less free with fuel and food. Although it can be maintained for a while by relying on reserves, more fuel will be consumed in the coming winter, because the eastern United States
Many cities in China use oil for heating.
In comparison, although the current losses of the United States are greater than those of the South China Sea Federation, the U.S. government has also conducted many calculations. Judging from the data they have obtained, if the South China Sea Federation wants to maintain this intensity of fighting, it can at most continue to do so.
It can be supported for one year. The resource reserves of the United States can be used for at least three years. But the biggest headache for the US government is not the consumption of resources, but the huge casualties of personnel.
The Battle of Pocatello has only been going on for one and a half months, and the total number of U.S. military casualties has exceeded 200,000. If this intensity of combat continues for another year, almost 6 million U.S. soldiers will need to be invested in the Pocatello area.
Two million of them need to die somewhere.
Two million. The United States currently has a total population of only 120 million. If the elderly, children, young people, and middle-aged people each account for a quarter, there will only be 60 million young and middle-aged people. And then men and women will account for half each, and there will only be 30 million left.
.200 direct casualties on the battlefield
In addition to several previous battles and the federal air force's bombing of large cities, it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of people died. The casualties in a war are 3 million, which is almost one-tenth of the entire young adult population in the United States.
Almost every household has a martyr, and every household has white flowers.
But at present, the U.S. government and military can only come up with one way to win. If they don't bite the bullet and argue with the South China Sea Federation, then the U.S. government will have to surrender to the South China Sea Federation. This is a temporary situation for the U.S. government and most of the American people.
Still unacceptable.
November 26, 1941, today is a unique holiday for Americans and Canadians - Thanksgiving. This holiday is a bit like our Chinese Spring Festival. On this night, no matter how busy you are, you have to put down your work.
, went to have dinner with the family, and their dinner also had some famous food, not dumplings, but turkey and pumpkin pie.
Although it was wartime, there was no sign of war at all in the big cities located near the Great Lakes region in the northeastern United States. People got up early to clean up their houses and decorate them beautifully, and then housewives began to take to the streets.
When purchasing the ingredients for dinner, even the least wealthy family should make the dinner as sumptuous as possible, so that the family members who have worked hard for a year can enjoy a wonderful night and pray for more wealth and happiness next year.
In the evening, just as families began to roast turkeys, a piercing air raid siren suddenly sounded over the city of Chicago. The frightened children and stunned adults found it very difficult to accept. Could it be that on Thanksgiving Day, those flying
Don’t the demons in heaven also take a day off?
Yes, although when it was determined to carry out strategic bombing of cities in the northeastern United States, several white staff officers and officers of the Department of Defense suggested that it would be better not to bomb on Thanksgiving Day, as that would arouse stronger hatred among Americans, saying
It may make Americans more supportive of their government's fight against the federation, which is not conducive to achieving the goal of using strategic bombing to destroy the enemy's will to resist.
But Liu Fu didn't care about this. He told the opposing officers: The South China Sea Federation does not have this festival!
It was finally decided by Liu Fu, President of the South China Sea Federation, that on Thanksgiving Day, the 26th, and in the evening when most people are at home waiting for the New Year's Eve dinner, the focus will be on Chicago, Detroit and the surrounding industrial areas.
bombing, and he specifically told the front line
Air Force Commander, increase the ratio of ordinary aerial bombs to incendiary bombs from 3:1 to 1:1, dispatch all long-range bombers that can complete this mission, and be sure to cause serious damage to these two areas at once, without any scruples.
Where is the residential area and where is the industrial area.
Thanksgiving Day in 1941 was a sad day for the American people in Chicago and Detroit. In the evening of that day, the two largest industrial cities in the United States were attacked by hundreds of federal air force bombers.
Aerial bombs weighing several hundred kilograms each are like leaves falling from the sky, falling one by one in the urban area and the factory areas surrounding the city.
Since that day is the most important holiday in the United States, most government departments are on holiday, and the US military's defenses near the two cities have also been slightly relaxed. More importantly, the federal air force's bombers have never flown such a long distance for bombing.
This led the US government to mistakenly judge that the maximum combat radius of federal aircraft was within 1,800 kilometers. Chicago was 2,000 kilometers away from Pocatello, and Detroit was 2,500 kilometers away.
The exploding aerial bombs overturned houses in the city, factory buildings and the New Year's Eve dinner tables of the American people. As the proportion of incendiary bombs was increased, fires quickly ignited in the cities and factory areas, and these fire spots were again destroyed.
As soon as other bombs exploded, they immediately flew into pieces and ignited nearby houses and factories. Although both cities were close to water sources, the lack of preparation by the local government and military ultimately killed these two cities.
After the federal bombers flew away, the two cities had become two lit bonfires on the southern shore of the Great Lakes, lighting up the eastern parts of Lake Michigan and Lake Erie. Even Toronto, Canada, more than 200 kilometers away, could be seen.
The sky to the west is reflected red.
However, the Federal Air Force did not seem to intend to let these two cities go. On the night of the 28th, dozens of bombers visited the still burning cities, and then used bombs and incendiary bombs to additionally bomb the areas that were not burning.
Again. The second air raid simply added fuel to the fire in these two cities. It not only caused many fires, but also affected many troops and fire brigade who were participating in the firefighting, so that in the subsequent
Within three days, no one dared to enter the city to put out the fire.
The two cities burned for five days before gradually extinguishing. Nearly 4 million people lost their homes, of which Chicago accounted for three-quarters. Since almost everyone was at home waiting for dinner during the bombing, the result
The explosion and fire caused congestion in the city, and many people were unable to escape from the city. The number of victims reached 90,000, and more than 30,000 people were missing.
Although the U.S. government angrily used almost every vicious and cursed word in English to condemn the South China Sea federal government's indiscriminate bombing that ignored civilian lives after learning that its industrial zone had been bombed, the rhetoric and humanitarianism
It cannot stop federal bombers from continuing to perform their missions. (To be continued...)
