"Bastards! Where are our fighter planes? Why haven't they appeared yet? Do they have to wait until the Germans bomb us to death before they come?" Lieutenant General Sakurai Shōzō's face was filled with fury.
"General, both the 3rd Air Force and the 4th Air Force have dispatched fighter planes to reinforce us. They're just still on the way," Rear Admiral Iwapachi Gōyū reported.
The Island Nation's Army Air Force fighter planes had to take off from airfields in the Philippine Islands. Compared with German fighter planes taking off from airfields in western Borneo, they had much farther to travel. Moreover, German Air Force fighter planes vastly outperformed those of the Island Nation's Army Air Force. In every air battle, the Island Nation's Army Air Force suffered far greater losses than the German Air Force. As a result, many Island Nation's Army Air Force pilots had become somewhat afraid of battle.
Although the Island Nation's Army possessed a fierce fighting spirit, when death was clearly inevitable, they naturally could not remain so brave.
In order to seize air superiority, the Island Nation's Army Air Force had also attempted to launch surprise attacks on German Air Force airfields in Borneo. However, the German Air Force's large aerial search Radar ultimately caused the Island Nation's Army Air Force's plans to come to nothing. They had no choice but to continue grinding each other down with the German Air Force. Yet it was obvious that such severely unequal battle losses would only cause the Island Nation's Army Air Force's losses to grow greater and greater. Eventually, they would likely be unable to sustain the war's consumption any longer.
"Without air support or artillery support, eliminating those Island Nation people under such circumstances is truly too difficult!" Lieutenant General Honda Masanori could not help