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"The Zeppelin reported that an armor-piercing bomb weighing about 700 kilograms penetrated the aviation deck on the right side of the midship, and fell into the hangar before a big explosion occurred, blowing up more than 20 Ju87 carrier-based aircraft , causing a fire!"

The voice of the communication staff's report had not yet fallen, and a loud noise was uploaded from the Zeppelin in the distance. This time, an aviation torpedo weighing more than 500 kilograms hit the bow of the Zeppelin, piercing a Hundreds of tons of sea water poured into the oil depot, and the Zeppelin tilted about 15 degrees after only a dozen seconds. The captain of the ship had to order water injection to maintain balance.

Less than 3 minutes after being shot this time, another 700-kilogram bomb penetrated the aviation deck at the stern of the Zeppelin and penetrated into the power compartment of the Zeppelin. There was a big explosion, destroying two A steam turbine caused the aircraft carrier to lose two-thirds of its power, and its speed dropped to less than 8 knots!

"Damn!" Seeing that the only aircraft carrier in his hands was hit by two heavy bombs and a torpedo within 10 minutes of fighting the enemy plane, Lütjens' eyes almost burst into flames.But he was helpless. The seven battleships of the B fleet except the Richelieu, Jean Bart and Veneto Vittorio who were close to the Zeppelin were using all their anti-aircraft guns to cover the Zeppelin. Battleships are too far away to help.And those American pilots flying dive bombers and torpedo planes, like the Japanese kamikaze, launched waves of shocks in the face of the fire net-like anti-aircraft artillery, and went forward one after another, seeing death as home!

The Battle of Bermuda finally reached its climax.

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"Jack, look, what is this?"

A radar officer of an American T-6 long-range reconnaissance aircraft circling in the waters near the US-British First Task Force in the southwest of Bermuda, Sergeant Ripak suddenly found some subtle flickering on the radar screen.

"Maybe it's...a flock of birds, or is there something wrong?" Jack, another radar soldier, stared at the screen for a while and shook his head.The dots of light flickering on the edge of the screen are very unclear, not like airplanes, and certainly not fleets.

"Should we report to the captain and let him move the plane closer, maybe..." Sergeant Li Parker said here, the light spots on the screen had disappeared without a trace.At this moment, none of them knew whether they flew out of the detection range of the radar, or was it a false alarm caused by a radar failure?

"I guess it's broken, right? Have someone check it out when you return to the base." Jack shrugged, indifferently.The radar of this era has just appeared, and the technology is not very good. It is very normal for the failure rate to remain high.Of course, if the two radar soldiers knew what they discovered just now, they would probably be shocked!

At this moment, in the blue sky about 1000 meters away from the sea, 102 P-35 missiles are flying westward at a speed of about 650 kilometers per hour.Compared with the time when they just left the Z Fleet, there are nearly 20 fewer missiles, and those missiles have crashed halfway due to various technical failures!However, Lieutenant Yasuda Toshizo, who commanded this special missile unit, was still safe and sound.

"Kingfisher No. 10 is calling for Flying Fish, Kingfisher No. 10 is calling for Flying Fish, please answer..." A German call suddenly came from the airborne radio station of the missile piloted by Lieutenant Yasuda Toshizo.He knew that Kingfisher 10 was the code name of a surface reconnaissance plane sent to search for American aircraft carriers, and that Exocet was the code name of the missiles he commanded.

"My flying fish, I'm flying fish." Yasuda Toshizo quickly replied through the radio.

"Found the US aircraft carrier, bearing XXXX, heading due north, speed 30 knots, over." The other party immediately reported a certain position about 100 kilometers away from Yasuda's missile group to Yasuda.

Yasuda randomly adjusted the frequency of the radio to the communication frequency of the missile force, "I am Lieutenant Yasuda Toshizo, and now I am issuing an order. The US aircraft carrier is at XXXX. Attention everyone, the five-fifth formation, the primary target is the US aircraft carrier, and the secondary target is the heavy cruiser , light cruiser again, and finally destroyer. I wish you good luck and see you in Kudanzaka!"

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"Sir, there is a strange target on the radar screen."

A hundred kilometers away, the radar director on the US aircraft carrier USS Liberty suddenly walked quickly into the combat command center.

"What strange target?" Admiral Halsey frowned.

"I don't know. It may be an enemy plane or a flock of birds. The radar screen is very unclear."

Admiral Halsey, who was in a good mood after receiving the news of the severe damage to the Zeppelin aircraft carrier, frowned slightly. He didn't understand what the other party meant, turned his head to look at Chief of Staff Welch, and asked, "Colonel, what are you doing?" look?"

"How many people are there? How fast is the speed?" Welch did not answer Halsey's question, but asked two questions one after another.

The radar director frowned and shook his head slightly, "I don't know, I don't know how many of them there are, and I can't measure their precise speed, but I can be sure that they fly very fast."

"Soon? How fast?" Halsey pressed.

"Woo... woo..." At this moment, the air raid siren suddenly came to mind!The communications staff officer of the fleet put down the phone in his hand and shouted: "Admiral, the lookout post has spotted the enemy situation! There are about 100 small planes of unknown type rapidly approaching us, and the distance is less than 20 kilometers away!"

"What!" Halsey gasped, almost stunned by the news.He hurriedly ordered the carrier-based plane to take off to fight, and then raised the binoculars to search for the enemy plane in the sky.What came into his eyes was a slender body, like a bullet, with two short and small wings, no propeller, just a "UFO" carrying a pipe that seemed to be breathing fire. Fly to your own aircraft carrier at an extremely fast speed!

"Fire! Order all anti-aircraft guns to aim at those...those UFOs and fire, don't let them approach us!" Admiral Halsey has basically confirmed that those flying things are some kind of secret weapon of the Germans!You must not let them get close, or your fleet may suffer serious damage.

The fleet was already in an anti-aircraft formation, and the gunners on all the anti-aircraft gun positions were always on standby.Therefore, as soon as Halsey's order was issued, streams of fire formed a tight fire net around the aircraft carrier.The two "UFOs" that rushed in first were shot and exploded.But before the American and British naval officers and soldiers below cheered, more "UFOs" crashed into the fire net!Moreover, the flying speed of these flying objects is extremely fast, and the flying altitude is only about 1000 meters. As soon as they get close to the aircraft carrier, they will directly hit them down!Aircraft carriers can't dodge at all!Just hearing the sound of earth shaking and mountain shaking, the 20000-ton aircraft carrier seemed to jump on the sea. Many officers in the command center were injured, and even Halsey himself had a long gash on his forehead and was bleeding.

Several young officers who got up first saw that Halsey was lying on the ground with blood on his face, they hurriedly rushed over, hurriedly helped their officers up, and someone gave Halsey a handkerchief to hold his wound.

"Find out the damage, hurry up! Call the P-38 fleet and tell them to come over quickly." After giving a few simple orders, Halsey hurried to the platform of the ship island and looked down.

The flight deck of the USS Liberty is already in chaos. The undertrained sailors are running like headless chickens. Flames are radiating from a huge hole on the deck. Dozens of damaged tubes Team members are scrambling to water the fire with rubber hoses, trying to control the fire.

Suddenly, another loud roar came from not far away, and Halsey hurriedly turned his head to look. It turned out that another aircraft carrier, HMS Dreadful, was hit by a "UFO", and the fire was raging. Soaring from its midship!At this time, there were at least seventy or eighty such "flying objects" circling in midair, and from time to time, one or more flying objects fell from the sky at the same time, hitting the American ships sailing on the water. ...

"They are manned! This is... a suicide weapon! When are these Germans the same as the Japanese?" Halsey immediately understood what these strange flying machines were.But it seems to be too late to understand now, Halsey's fleet has no way to deal with these small high-speed aircraft now!In just a few minutes, the USS Liberty and the USS Formidable were each hit by three more powerful P-35 missiles.Immediately afterwards, one bad news after another was sent to Halsey.

"General, the stern of the Liberty was hit, and the damn thing went into the engine room, where it exploded, destroying both steam turbines!"

"The island of the Dreadnought was hit, and Captain Jackson was killed! Another UFO penetrated the bow of the Dreadnought at the same time, and the explosion ignited an oil depot and caused a fire!"

"Commander, the acting captain of the Formidable reports that the fire is completely out of control, requesting to abandon the aircraft carrier!"

"Damn it!" Halsey thumped the bulkhead hard. Everyone knew that this hopeful naval battle was already doomed because of the sudden appearance of "UFOs"!It's just that I don't know how many such terrible weapons the other side has, and I don't know if the United States still has any hope of winning the war!

Just when everyone was already feeling desperate, a piece of good news, which could be regarded as great news, reached the Liberty.

"Your Excellency, Admiral, we have sunk the Zeppelin aircraft carrier! We and the aircraft of the Second Task Force have sunk the Zeppelin!" The excited shout of the communication staff seemed to bring a little optimism to the entire command center.However, Colonel Welch, the chief of staff of the fleet, suddenly seemed to remember something, and walked quickly to Halsey and reminded in a low voice: "Sir, we must report the situation here to Norfolk immediately, and ask them to order the second The mixed fleet retreats immediately!"

"Okay, quickly generate electricity for Norfolk. Also, order the Fourth Flying Wing and the British Seventh Flying Wing to withdraw to the Second Task Force." Halsey said here, a trace of pain slipped across his face expression. "The order can be described as USS Abandon Ship."

At this moment, someone yelled, "They're coming again! Dodge!" It turned out that three P-35 missiles passed through the anti-aircraft fire and swooped down on the USS Liberty.

There is no escape!

In the combat command room, everyone's hearts seemed to have fallen into an ice cellar!This is a "UFO" piloted by a pilot!It's not the kind of inertial-guided bomb, so how do you hide it?

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Three loud bangs.The explosion started from the midship, followed by the bow and stern. All three P-35 missiles hit! The huge shock wave brought by the 1500 kilograms of high explosives engulfed all kinds of metal fragments and turned the flight deck of the USS Liberty into a hell on earth.All the sailors on the deck were either swept into the sea by the shock wave, or smashed into pieces by the flying metal fragments, and engulfed by the soaring fire on the flight deck.

The ear-piercing abandonment sirens soon sounded from everywhere. This ship was hit by 5 P-35 missiles, and it was like a torch on the burning aircraft carrier USS Liberty, and it suddenly became a mess. Everyone hurriedly put on their life jackets, scrambling to be the first to run towards the lifeboat...

Chapter 0937 opens the door of the United States (six) the missile crisis

Washington, the White House.

Amidst the sound of messy footsteps, Admiral Leahy, the Chief of Naval Operations of the United States, lowered his head, with a gloomy old face, and slammed into the Oval Office of the President of the United States, even forgetting to knock on the door.

"William, what's the matter with you?"

President Roosevelt put down the documents in his hand and looked up at this old friend who seemed to have lost his soul.Admiral Lexi, who used to have a neat military appearance in the past, now has disheveled hair, red eyes, and he doesn't know where he lost his military cap. He can tell at a glance that he has suffered a major blow.

"Mr. President, the United States...America is about to be invaded by the Nazis! We have been defeated. The Nazis have a secret weapon. We have no way to deal with it. We are going to die..."

Laixi's words were a bit confusing, but the general meaning was still understandable.It seems that the United States has lost the Battle of Bermuda!And the Germans also used some kind of powerful secret weapon!What!The secret weapon, could it be...

Roosevelt's eyes showed a bit of fear, and he looked at Lexi and asked: "What is the secret weapon? Is it a particularly powerful bomb?"

"No, it's not a new type of bomb, but a... new type of suicide plane!" Admiral Leahy frowned tightly, looking very painful. "This aircraft uses a new type of jet engine, and can reach a speed of 650 kilometers per hour! And it is very small, and it is not easy for radar to detect them, so it is difficult for our navy to defend. In the battle this morning, our USS Liberty aircraft carrier, The British aircraft carrier HMS Formidable, as well as two heavy cruisers, three light cruisers and two destroyers were taken by them..."

"Wait," Roosevelt interrupted Leahy suddenly, and the president looked at the admiral suspiciously. "William, what did you just say? A new suicide plane? You mean the Germans in the Atlantic are now using suicide planes!"

The Chief of Naval Operations took out a telegram and handed it to Roosevelt: "This is a telegram from Admiral Halsey forwarded from the Norfolk base. Halsey is very sure that the Germans' secret weapon is a manned suicide bomber." Aircraft!"

Roosevelt's expression became serious. During this period of time, due to the war between China and Japan, the United States avoided the dangerous situation of fighting on both sides. He, the president, just breathed a sigh of relief. He did not expect such an accident to happen on the Atlantic battlefield.

"William, then, has the Navy lost the Battle of Bermuda?"