Chapter 91 It's a miracle to come back alive

These "Zero" fighter jets are dazzlingly colorful: some have a shiny silver body with red identification marks and fairings; some have a dark brown body with purple identification marks and fairings.According to the different landing gear, there are two models of "Zero", one is the retractable landing gear, and the other is the fixed landing gear. Facing such a formidable opponent, the bomber squadron faced many difficulties.Henderson was the first to be bitten by the "Zero". The Japanese pilots intuitively felt that he was a skilled veteran, so they concentrated their firepower to attack him. The shells fired by the guns carried wisps of white smoke. Smoke rings formed around Sen's fuselage.

Henderson was outnumbered by two fists. When the "Zero" made the first attack, his plane caught fire and fell. Captain Glidden, the leader of the first team, immediately took over command from the squadron leader. Glidden was called the "Iron Man" among his teammates, but he did not act recklessly. Seeing the fierce and sharp offensive of the "Zero", he took the initiative to avoid the enemy's edge and led the squadron into the clouds. The target is the aircraft carrier, not the "Zero" type. The "Zero" type is eager to escort, so it will jump out to intercept.Glidden gave the attack signal again and was the first to charge through the clouds at about two thousand feet.

The timing was perfect, Glidden was in front, and the rest of the squadron followed, and the "Flying Dragon" aircraft carrier was just below them. Glidden and his teammates saw that the flight deck of the "Flying Dragon" was light yellow, and the entire deck was shining brightly. Except for a huge sun emblem painted in the middle, there was no camouflage on it. Trying their best to kill it, the pilots were all itchy, and all the planes entered the attack route one after another, and the bombing interval was 5 seconds. The "Zero" type chased after it in a hurry. After losing the protection of the clouds, nearly half of the "Dreadnought" were shot down by the "Zero" type, but the remaining half was still just like the name of the plane, fearless and brave.

The bomb dropped a beautiful barrage on both sides of the "Flying Dragon", and the dense water column and billowing smoke completely covered the aircraft carrier.But soon, "Flying Dragon" came out of the smoke like a dignified old actor coming out to call the curtain - even Yuan Tian, ​​who was watching the battle on "Akagi", found it strange that so many bombs could not be fired at once. No hits, even the two nearest bombs were about 50 meters away from it, one fell on the outside of the port side and the other on the outside of the starboard side. Lieutenant Iverson, a U.S. pilot, slid down from the thick clouds and chose a target that was different from everyone else, or that was ignored by everyone. He attacked the "Kaga" aircraft carrier.

There is a sun emblem on the front and back of the flight deck of "Kaga", without the superstructure, and it looks shorter and wider than the American aircraft carrier of the same level.It may be for this reason that it has not attracted everyone's attention like "Flying Dragon". Iverson dropped three bombs on the poop deck of the "Kaga", all three of which missed, the nearest of which was only 20 meters from the port stern. Although the bomb failed to hit the aircraft carrier's head, it was rushed. "Kaga" jumped up and down like a frightened monkey, fighting back desperately. The anti-aircraft fire on the flight deck almost formed a huge complete ring.

Iverson pulled the plane up abruptly and escaped from the anti-aircraft firepower net, but was immediately bitten by a group of "Zero" Types, and these "Zero" Types chased after them like crazy. After chasing for 30-40 kilometers, Iverson stopped until he got into the clouds. Iverson's landline was beaten up like a hornet's nest, and even the throat microphone was broken.When the plane landed at Midway Island, the maintenance personnel found that the fuselage was riddled with bullets, with as many as 259 bullet holes, and there was no aileron and only one wheel. , They really can't believe that Iverson can come back alive.

Of the 16 "Dreadnought" planes, only 8 returned, and all were injured, and some were scrapped on the spot.Although this attack did not cause any obvious damage to the mobile troops, it was enough to make Nagumo's mood worse. All he could feel was that there were more and more US attack aircraft, and even the "fearless" aircraft of the US military It seems that he has never left, and he is still hovering over the aircraft carrier. The requirement for the supreme commander on the battlefield is usually not to go into battle, but to think calmly, but in this case, no matter how determined Nan Yun is, he can no longer calm down.

He anxiously waited for the information from the reconnaissance plane, but time passed by, and there was no news from Ganli. At 7:58, Nan Yun finally received the radio report from Ganli.