As the German Navy's land-based aircraft attacked the American Navy's Capital Ship formation, the Aircraft Carrier Formations of the three great fleets never gave up their search for the American Navy's Aircraft Carrier Formation.
The task of attacking the American Navy's Capital Ship formation had been handed to the land-based aircraft on the Azores precisely so that they would retain sufficient strength to attack the American Navy's Aircraft Carrier Formation.
However, to attack the American Navy's carrier formation, they first had to find it. Only after determining the location of the American carriers could they launch an attack. Otherwise, no matter how vast their carrier-based aircraft formations or how formidable their strength, it would all be futile.
Aboard the Home Fleet's flagship, the aircraft carrier Poseidon, Marshal Lütjens got up after sleeping for less than four hours.
"How is the situation?" Marshal Lütjens asked upon entering the operations room.
"Your Excellency, our land-based aircraft are currently launching a fierce assault on the Americans' Capital Ship formation. The anti-aircraft fire from those American warships is very powerful, and our land-based aircraft have suffered considerable losses. However, as more and more American warships are destroyed by us, their anti-aircraft fire will soon weaken. Then, once our land-based aircraft launch an Encirclement Offensive against the Americans' Capital Ships, we will certainly sink them," Lieutenant General Karl Wetzell reported.
Marshal Lütjens nodded. Since the German military's aircraft carriers had demonstrated such formidable power in naval battles, it was understandable that the American Navy's warships had strengthened their anti-aircraft fire. However, when faced with aircraft attacks that blotted out the sky and covered the earth, relying solely on a warship's anti-aircraft fire to hold them back was undoubtedly extremely difficult.
"How many aircraft does the base on the Azores plan to send into the attack?"