"Your Excellency Commander, Germany people are in Encirclement Offensive 2nd Carrier Fleet. Their tactics are very obvious, that is, first destroy the aircraft carrier's escort warships, and then attack the position. The aircraft carrier at the core. Now, the escort warships outside the aircraft carrier are being severely damaged or sunk by the Germany people one after another. Soon, the aircraft carrier will be attacked by them. "Lieutenant General Halsey is worried.
German carrier-based aircraft group's attack was like a textbook, teaching American Navy's senior generals a lesson. This made them realize that they seemed so unfamiliar in front of German Navy.
Admiral Nimitz nodded, and even he felt like a primary school student in front of German Navy. Although over the years, American Navy has grown a lot and become more powerful. However, that is only in terms of weapons and equipment. In this regard, there are still some gaps between American Navy and German Navy. However, the gap does not seem to be very big. American Navy If we work harder, we may be able to catch up. However, in terms of soft power, the gap between American Navy and German Navy is still huge. The application of German Navy on aircraft carriers and Carrier-based aircraft has been explored for many years. This has enabled them to develop a set of effective tactics. Under these tactics, German Navy can achieve maximum results at minimum cost. These are all things American Navy needs to learn.
If American Navy can have more preparation time, the gap may be further shortened. But sadly, they now have to go to war. This also caused the generals of American Navy to face very big problems. You can imagine how difficult it is to defeat German Navy at a disadvantage.
Of course, as generals of American Navy, they had no other choice. When failure would mean the country would be destroyed, they could only fight to the death. Otherwise, once they are really defeated, their country may no longer exist.
"I hope General Fletcher and the others can hold on!" Admiral Nimitz said.
"General, do we need to dispatch other Aircraft Carrier Formation warships to reinforce 2nd Carrier Fleet?" Lieutenant General Halsey asked.
Now German carrier-based aircraft group focuses on 2nd Carrier Fleet of Encirclement Offensive American Navy, and the other Aircraft Carrier Formation is not under attack. At the same time, because it is too spread out. So that other warships could not play any role at this time.
Admiral Nimitz shook his head. "This battle has just begun. German aircraft group has only appeared in the first batch. You can be sure that there will be many more German carrier-based aircraft group later. They will launch an attack on us. If other Aircraft Carrier Formation warships are deployed, once the other Germany fleets attack, we will be exhausted and even pay a greater price!"
Lieutenant General Halsey nodded and had no choice but to say nothing more.
At this time, the air search Radar discovered another incoming aircraft group. This is the first fleet to take off from the four 'Deutschland-class' aircraft carriers of German Navy's Mediterranean Fleet. 48 carrier-based BF-109 fighter jets protected 56 Dive Bomber and 56 Torpedo Bomber as they headed to the battlefield.
"Your Excellency Commander, the second batch of aircraft fleet of Germany people has appeared. The number is more than one hundred and fifty." A staff officer reported.
Admiral Nimitz's expression couldn't help but become serious. Obviously, just as he expected, German aircraft group began to attack them continuously.
"Let the air defense fighters rush to intercept!" Admiral Nimitz ordered.
"Yes, Your Excellency Commander!" Lieutenant General Halsey nodded.
However, there are not many American Navy Aircraft Carrier Formation air defense fighters now. After German Atlantic Fleet's first Carrier-based aircraft group launched an attack on American Navy 2nd Carrier Fleet, the escort fighters did not participate in the attack. Instead, they chose to stay on the periphery and continue to fight against American Navy's air defense fighters. Their purpose is to shoot down these American Navy air defense fighters as much as possible and clear the way for the subsequent fleet. In this case, the subsequent fleet can launch an attack on American Navy's Aircraft Carrier Formation without interference.
After a fierce battle, the number of American Navy's air defense fighters has dropped to more than seventy. As for the number of escort fighters of German Navy, there are only more than forty and less than fifty. American Navy's air defense fighters still have an absolute advantage in terms of quantity. However, their advantage was constantly being lost as the battle progressed.
After receiving the order, these American Navy air defense fighters began to think of ways to get rid of the escort fighters of German Navy and rushed to intercept another group of Carrier-based aircraft of German Navy.
However, those German Navy escort fighters were like psoriasis, clinging to them. Moreover, they constantly look for opportunities to shoot down these US military escort fighter jets, causing their losses to increase and their strength to decrease.
The initial number of American Navy air defense fighters was as high as 186, including thirty F4U fighter plane. But now, the number of these air defense fighters is only a few dozen. Moreover, most of them are still F4F fighter plane, and F4U fighter plane has almost been lost.
It is almost impossible to intercept the German military fleet with these dozens of air defense fighters. Not to mention the dozens of German military carrier-based BF-109 fighter jets and carrier-based FW-190 fighter jets chasing them. The first batch of German military Mediterranean Fleet aircraft were also escorted by 48 carrier-based BF-109 fighter jets. There is no problem at all for these carrier-based BF-109 fighter jets to massacre the F4F fighter plane of the US military.
This air battle can be described as very tragic. American Navy's air defense fighters tried their best to protect their aircraft carriers as much as possible.
The heroic pilots of American Navy flew backward fighters and used their raw combat skills to rush towards the advanced Carrier-based aircraft of German military. Then they were shot down one by one by those old birds. Many people don't even have time to parachute before falling into the sea.
However, these American Navy pilots knew that they were no match for German Navy. But they are still moving forward bravely.
However, the gap in strength between the two sides cannot be bridged by courage. American Navy's anti-aircraft fighters were quickly shot down during the battle. And German carrier-based aircraft group also started to expand Encirclement Offensive to Aircraft Carrier Formation of American Navy.