The Third Reich: The Return of the King

“General Steiner is in a good mood!”

Nimitz and his men were lining up to check on the deck of the aircraft carrier to prevent any scattered parts from hindering and threatening the take-off and landing of fighter planes.

The deck area of an aircraft carrier looks large, but for fighter planes, this area is really small.

Taking off and landing in such a small place requires very high skills from the pilots.

Therefore, the pilots of carrier-based aircraft in various countries are basically carefully selected from the pilots of the Air Force.

Most of them are old pilots with very long qualifications, and most of them have actual combat experience.

Moreover, they have to receive on-board training to adapt to the narrow living space of warships.

After receiving these trainings, the most difficult steps are taking off and landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier.

Because the area of the deck of an aircraft carrier is relatively small and the runway is not long enough, it is impossible for fighter planes to slowly taxi and land like on land airports.

They have to hit the deck directly with a bang like a slap, and then use the With the help of the arresting cable, they can reduce their speed to zero in a very short time.

During this period, if they fail to hook the arresting cable, they need to immediately increase the power to take off to prevent sliding off the deck and falling into the sea due to stall.

At the same time, it is also necessary to avoid hooking the arresting cable but making a misjudgment, resulting in the misfire causing the fighter to disintegrate or roll over directly on the deck of the aircraft carrier.

This kind of training is very difficult, and it requires a high level of psychological quality and technical strength from the pilots.

It is difficult to find 20 pilots who can take off and land safely on an aircraft carrier out of a hundred air force pilots.

Therefore, for the navy, any pilot is extremely precious. In order to protect these pilots, the ground crew on the aircraft carrier are extremely careful in the maintenance of the aircraft status, and they will immediately check the status of the aircraft after takeoff and landing.

Make sure that no pilot will take off with a problematic aircraft to fight.

As for the work like they are now queuing on the deck to check whether the deck is damaged or there are scattered parts, it is even more common.

“Haha, we are getting close to our goal, so we are just moving around!”

Steiner stopped and took the initiative to come over and shake hands with Nimitz.

Nimitz looked at him in surprise and asked:

“General Steiner, how did you know we were approaching our destination?”The

First Fleet is currently in radio silence. In order not to be discovered by the enemy, they have not turned on the radio to contact the outside world for several days.

In this case, how did Steiner determine their position and know that they were approaching their destination?

You know, Nimitz and the rest of the fleet use nautical charts and sextants to determine their positions. Combined with the various tools in their hands, they can roughly determine their positions.

In addition, they will also let the fleet’s warships launch sea reconnaissance aircraft and go out to investigate the surrounding situation.

So compared to the army on the ship who are completely in the dark, the navy at least has one eye open and will not see nothing.

However, Steiner actually knew that they had reached their destination, which surprised Nimitz.

Could it be that the fleet’s confidentiality work was not done well?

Otherwise, why would this group of army get such confidential information?

You know, the intelligence that they are approaching their destination is only known to him and a few captains of the main battleships, and there is no plan to inform the entire army yet.

“Don’t be nervous, no one leaked the secret, I guessed it from your abnormal behavior!”

Seeing Nimitz’s face change drastically, Steiner said with a smile

“Abnormal behavior?”

Nimitz was very interested in what the other party said. He wanted to know what the other party meant by abnormal behavior.

“Well, the battleship Tirpitz left the main force two days ago and sailed south. I think it should be a squadron that went forward to explore the way in advance, right?”

Nimitz nodded. The battleship Tirpitz went south with the battleship Scharnhorst. The fleet also included two Admiral Hipper heavy cruisers and a Nuremberg-class light cruiser.

The main task of this fleet is to send seaplanes to scout the situation in advance. According to the nautical chart, they are only a few hundred kilometers away from their destination, which is within the strike range of the aircraft carrier battle group.

If they can get enough intelligence, they can directly dispatch the bombers on the aircraft carrier to bomb the enemy on the island.

This is why he organized so many people to conduct inspections on the deck.

In the next period of time, they are likely to need to take off fighters to perform missions.

In order to avoid being in a hurry and miss the opportunity, it is obviously better to prepare earlier!

“Another point is that you are moving too much!”

Steiner pointed to the crew members of the aircraft carrier who were lined up in a straight line in the distance and carefully checking on the deck of the aircraft carrier.

Nimitz laughed dumbly. He knew how the other party saw it.

The disappearance of the battleship Tirpitz was a signal that they were close to their destination.

The aircraft carrier began to conduct a large-scale inspection, and used elevators to lift the fighters in the hangar to the deck. Some ground crews have even boarded the aircraft for maintenance.

These actions are all preparations for the next battle. Considering that there will be humid sea breezes on the deck of the aircraft carrier, in order to protect the aircraft, if there is no combat arrangement, these aircraft should stay in the hangar, so that they are not easily eroded by sea water.

Once the aircraft leaves the hangar, it means that it is very likely to have received a combat order.

Considering the combat radius of the fighter, Steiner judged that they were not far from their destination, and this judgment was very accurate!

“Well, if our route had not deviated, we would be only about 350 kilometers away from our destination at this time!”

“Oh? You didn’t lie to me?”

Steiner was immediately excited when he heard the news. After drifting on the sea for these days, he and his men were eager to land.

After all, staying in the narrow space on the ship for a long time can drive people crazy.

Although they are marines, they spend most of their time on land, which is very different from the real navy.

“Of course, you can see that yourself, right?”

Nimitz said with a smile

“Great, we can finally get off the boat!”

“Do you dislike our aircraft carrier so much?”

“That’s not the case, we’re just not used to living on this iron box, the land is more suitable for us!”

Steiner said with a smile