"Fire!"
Aboard the flagship of the American Navy's Capital Ships formation, the Battleship Montana, Admiral Husband Kimmel personally gave the order to open fire.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The Battleship Montana's four triple-mounted 50-caliber 410mm Main Guns began to roar in fury.
Orange-red flames flashed from the muzzles as shell after shell screamed toward the German military base at Ponta Delgada.
After the Battleship Montana opened fire, the other four Montana-class Battleships followed suit and began firing as well.
For a time, the five Montana-class Battleships, with their sixty 410mm Main Guns, madly poured shells onto the base at Ponta Delgada. With such overwhelming firepower, they needed only an hour to blast the German military base at Ponta Delgada into ruins.
The Heavy Cruisers, Light Cruisers, and destroyers accompanying the five Montana-class Battleships also began firing one after another.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Shells slammed into Ponta Delgada's airfield, blasting out enormous craters. The hangars were hit as well, and some aircraft that had not been moved into underground hangars or cave shelters in time were blown into scrap metal. Even some of the airfield's buildings were inevitably destroyed. Before the naval Battleships' 410mm Main Guns, everything seemed so fragile, as though made of paper.
"Damn it, the Americans really have come. Return fire! Destroy them!" The German military base commander gave the order.
After receiving the order, he had remained in the coastal fortress, waiting for the Americans' arrival.
"Boom! Boom!"
This fortress was equipped with two triple-mounted 50-caliber 410mm coastal defense guns, four triple-mounted 50-caliber 380mm coastal defense guns, and quite a few medium- and small-caliber coastal defense guns. After coming under attack from the American fleet, all these coastal defense guns began returning fire.
"General, the Germans actually built a fortress here." Rear Admiral Corville looked astonished.
"Hmph! So