New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

There is an airfield for the Japanese army on Wright Island. Because there are not many flat lands on the island, in fact, only the estuary near the sea has some large flat lands. Naturally, this airport can only be here.The large flat land is also one of the most suitable locations for landing, so the landing point of the Americans is naturally very close to here.That being the case, such an airport has naturally become the target of attack.Although there are not many Japanese planes on the airport (those planes were exhausted in the previous naval battles off the coast of Taiwan), the carrier aviation of the U.S. Navy still seriously plowed the airport with bombs.Since then, when the U.S. Navy fleet used artillery fire to support the landing troops, it suspected that there were mortar positions of the Japanese army near the airport, so it used the 203mm guns of the heavy cruisers, the 152mm guns of the light cruisers, and the 127mm guns of the destroyers. Washed the airport from head to toe.If it weren't for the consideration of the Army's need for the airport, or more precisely, the Navy wanted to be freed from the task of protecting the landing point as soon as possible, the Navy might even simply use the battleship's 406mm gun to launch another one.

Although it was not ravaged by the 406mm cannon, when the landing force finally occupied the airport, the airport had been destroyed in a mess.After that, it took more than a week for the army to clean up the Japanese soldiers near the airport, and then, finally, the repair of the airport could begin.

It was at this time that Ron came to the airport for the first time.When he arrived at the airport in a jeep, there were no buildings taller than two meters on the airport.Barracks, hangars, and towers were all reduced to rubble, and the ruins reeked of corpses.Even though it's November, you can still see blowflies flying around everywhere.

"General, there may be Japanese corpses buried in these ruins. The weather in the Philippines is hot and humid, and the corpses rot very quickly.

We've got to clean it up first, then sanitize it thoroughly.Otherwise, infectious diseases will occur. "A lieutenant officer of the army explained to Ron. At this time, a crawler forklift came over and scooped up a large piece of ruins. Ron saw that half of the dead body was hanging on the big shovel Swinging up and down, some dark and rotten pieces of meat fell from above like mud, exposing the half-black and half-white bones of the corpse. A gust of wind blew, and the stench forced Ron to take several steps back.

Ron can be considered battle-tested, but as an aviation soldier, he really doesn't have many opportunities to see such things.When he was still fighting the enemy as a pilot on the front line, it was even difficult for him to see what the opponent looked like; and when he took up the command post, he had no chance to see such a scene.

The forklift dumped the half of the carrion and other ruins onto a dump truck, which would carry these things to a flat ground a few hundred meters away.The army's soil machine made a deep trench there, and the dump truck would pour all these things into it. When it was almost full, the Americans would come to bury them with soil.

"After the ruins are cleaned up, we will conduct a thorough sterilization here. We will soak every inch with carbolic acid." The captain continued to explain to Ron, "Then we can rebuild the building."

"How long will this take?" Ron asked. [

"Soon, General. It will take three days after thorough cleaning and disinfection, and then at most one week, we can set up the barracks and hangars. The tower will be slower, two weeks is not too much difference. Then , Well, you can use it. But you know, these buildings are in a hurry, you can’t compare him with a villa in Manhattan, this thing won’t last long.”

"Oh, and we don't need him to run for long," said Ron. "Let's go over to the runway and see."

The damage to the runway wasn't as bad as Ron had expected.It can be seen that the Japanese were very serious when they built this airport. The concrete pouring of the runway was very thick. Except for the serious damage left by the 500-pound bombs dropped by some fighter jets of HNA, others such as 127 , 152, 203 and the like caused much less damage.According to Ron's estimation, the two main runways can be restored to the point where aircraft can take off and land in at most one day.

Compared with the two main runways, the condition of the dirt runways on both sides of them is worse. The dense artillery fire has turned the dirt runway over and over. Potatoes are planted on it.However, Ron knew that dirt runways were destroyed as quickly as they were repaired.Press it hard with a roller, and it's almost ready to use.

Since the main runway is fine, Ron is sure that the airport will be ready for use in at most three weeks.

"Well, this airport has two main runways and three dirt runways. In this way, at least two to three squadrons of aircraft can be accommodated. In this way, the general framework of a wing can be set up."

Just when Ron was looking at the airport with great ambition, imagining that three weeks later, a p-81, p-38 and p-51 fighter jets would take off from here and kill the Japanese kamikaze planes. Without staying, when the Japanese ground troops were blown to pieces, he suddenly heard a strange howling sound in his ears.The army captain standing next to him immediately threw him to the ground and crushed him hard on his back.

"What's the matter?" Before Ron could understand, he heard an explosion coming from very close.It made his ears ring.At this time, he also heard a shout: "Japanese! Throwing barrels!"

The captain who was on top of him rolled off him and crawled aside.While changing the m1 carbine in his hand from his left hand to his right, he said to Ron, "General, are you okay? Follow me, there are a few gun holes not far ahead!" Then he crawled forward with After a few steps, at this time, several more shots were fired from the jungle not far from the airport, and they hit Ron and the captain around. "Follow me and run the word 'z' in a while." The captain said. After finishing speaking, he climbed a few more steps, then jumped up, ran a few steps along the "z"-shaped line, and then jumped into a cannon pit.Ron followed him and jumped into the gun pit.

At this time, the U.S. military at the airport has also reflected it.Several m2 60mm mortars that reacted first began to bombard at the maximum rate of fire in the direction where you shot out in the jungle.At the same time, an American M5 Stuart light tank also drove onto the runway, heading towards the pit where Ron and the others were hiding.The tank drove to the pit and stopped in the middle of the forest, and then began firing into the jungle with a 37mm gun and a 762mm machine gun.

"Didn't it mean that the nearby Japanese troops have been cleaned up?" Ron asked the captain squatting in the pit.

"It's supposed to be clean, but in the jungle, you know, many things are hard to say. The Japanese will dig holes again. They may hide in the hole we didn't find, and at night, they will infiltrate this way. , This is probably infiltrated. Fucking little devil, playing this kind of unscrupulous thing every three days!" The captain slammed fiercely, and then made such a rather detailed discussion. explain.

"Why not just cut down some of the jungle and put barbed wire and machine gun bunkers around the perimeter of the airport?" Ron asked.

"That's what we plan to do next. When the general waits for your troops to take over the mobile field, there will be no more such things." The captain said.Then he muttered in a low voice: "Actually, recently, there have been far fewer little Japanese doing this, and they probably died. I guess by then, most of the little Japanese around here would have died."

As the captain said, the area near the airport is basically under the control of the US military.Only some ghosts hiding in the jungle have not been completely wiped out.But these guys can't stay in the jungle for too long—that kind of place is not a place where humans can stay for a long time. Don't look at the Americans who often call the Japanese yellow-skinned monkeys, but the Japanese are neither Taishan nor shellfish. Lord, if you stay in the jungle for a long time, if you don't need the Americans to fight, you will die. [

At this time, the gunfire outside faded away.It stopped after a while.Then the jeep also drove to the pit.When the two came out of the pit, they saw a group of soldiers coming from the jungle, some of them were dragging the corpses of Japanese soldiers...

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In other directions, the American offensive began to become less smooth.After the U.S. army invaded the depths of Wright Island, the Japanese army's resistance became stronger and stronger, and the undulating terrain and dense jungle seriously affected the U.S. military's superior firepower.Especially the firepower of naval guns, at such a distance, they dare not fire casually.Otherwise, the chances of blowing up your own people are definitely not low.

The Japanese used various natural or man-made caves and bunkers to resist the attack of the US military. Sometimes, the Japanese would quietly hide in their caves, waiting for the US military to walk over them, and then After the front was fired, the Japanese came out from behind and shot the Americans in the back and threw grenades.The jungle that blocks the view further increases the success rate of the Japanese tactics.This kind of resistance caused the US military's offensive speed to drop to a slow speed.This also made the organizer of this battle, General Big Big Wolf, very depressed.

However, this morning, Big Big Wolf finally got the good news that he had been waiting for for a long time, the airport was put into use.A long-awaited weapon that could deal with jungles and bunkers finally came in handy.