Chapter 97 keep the captain's words in mind

Waldron was very devoted to the war. He usually didn't have a mission on the plane. Others would talk about the mountains or make jokes. He always sat alone, looking at the ceiling, thinking about tactical issues and how to beat the Japanese. This pondering was not in vain, and Waldron's battlefield intuition had reached an astonishing level.After the attack, he seemed to always have a rope tied to the mobile unit. When others were still at a loss, he led the group to find the target as soon as they turned a corner. At 9:18, the last plane of Tomonaga's fleet landed on the deck. At this moment, the cruiser "Chikuma" in charge of security also spotted the US torpedo plane, so it immediately built two smoke screens, and attacked the air force. shooting. "Chicheng" followed suit and began to evade.

Genda, observing from "Akagi," said to himself: "They're finally here." At a glance, the incoming torpedo swarm looked like a group of waterfowl flying on the lake in the distance, not only slow, but also not flying high, so Genda thought that the plane was flying so low on purpose, and couldn't help muttering to himself: "They The way you approach the enemy is really weird!" Without fighter escorts, some pilots were worried about being attacked, but Captain Waldron shook the wings without hesitation, calling for his teammates to dive with him. Before reaching the place where the torpedo could be launched, the torpedo plane was attacked by as many as 40 "Zero" fighters, almost all of them were Japanese fighter jets.

Most of the torpedo planes were shot down mercilessly by the "Zero" before they could drop their torpedoes.Their wings were still shining in the sun just now, and in a blink of an eye, the fuselage exploded into a ball of fire, dragging black smoke and falling into the sea. Caolu saw with his own eyes that a torpedo plane crashed into "Chicheng" desperately, and wanted to die with it. When seeing this scene, even Caolu felt that he was about to die, but the plane failed to hit the bridge after all. In the end, he fell headfirst into the sea. Grass deer was in awe, and he offered a short prayer for this heroic pilot.

In the entire torpedo squadron, only the pilot Guy approached the target and entered the firing range of the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery. Guy was a student at the Agricultural Mechanical College before joining the Army.This was the first time in his life that he flew a torpedo plane, and it took off from an aircraft carrier. He had never even seen it before, let alone flying it, but as soon as the plane took off, there was no doubt in his mind.Captain Waldron usually taught them by precept and example, gave them lectures every day, and led them to do all kinds of difficult training, which made him know what to do under what circumstances.

During the team's dive like moths to a flame, Waldron's aircraft fuel tank was the first to be hit by the "Zero".When the fire plane flew past Guy, he saw Waldron stand up and try his best to break free from the burning cockpit, but obviously failed... The few remaining "Destroyers" all spun and disappeared.Then, the radio operator and machine gunner on Guy's plane was also killed on the spot, and he became the only survivor of the torpedo plane fleet. In the Battle of Midway Island, the resoluteness and bravery shown by American pilots in the attack broke all records in the history of American aviation.Long before take-off, Waldron thought that once the "destroyer" went into battle, he might never return, so he specially sent a mimeograph material to each pilot, which read: "If we only have The last plane, I'm asking this plane to go up and hit the enemy."

Keeping the captain's words in mind, Guy quickly pulled the plane up from above a destroyer and rushed towards the "Cangryu" aircraft carrier. Due to the failure of the electric bombing device, Guy pulled the manual device and fired a torpedo at the "Soryu", and then rushed towards an anti-aircraft gun in the front of the ship.He had completely disregarded his personal safety and was determined to kill the Japanese gunner with a machine gun, but the machine gun jammed, so he had to pull up the plane sharply near the bridge, and then turned sharply above the stern and flew away.

The moment he approached the bridge, Guy saw a small Japanese captain on the bridge jumping and screaming anxiously. "Canglong" turned a corner, and the torpedo galloped past it, but what was unexpected was that the aircraft carrier did not actually notice that Guy had fired the torpedo, and that evasive action was entirely the result of luck. As soon as Guy flew away from the "Canglong", five "Zeros" rushed towards him in a straight line.The wing of Guy's plane was hit and snapped off, and the fuselage plummeted like a rock. He jumped out of the plane and grabbed a black cushion and rubber life raft.

The "Zero" fleet was still shooting ferociously at him, and Guy was forced to cover his head with a cushion to avoid the enemy's sight.It was not until the air battle gradually shifted to the north that he got out from under the cushion and inflated the life raft. Guy is bumping in the waves alone, his most respected captain is dead, and all those energetic brothers are gone. There are 20 people in the team, and he is the only one who escaped from birth. For a young man who has not experienced much , What kind of loneliness and sadness is this? Guy was rescued the next day.Only ten minutes after his plane was shot down, another batch of torpedo planes launched a desperate attack on the Japanese ship.