New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

No one expected that the first battle of the p-38 in Guadalcanal would come so quickly.

August 8th is a sunny day, since the morning, there is not a trace of cloud in the sky.The fiery red and huge sun hung high in the sky. Under the shining of the sun, a stream of humid heat rose from the jungle, and the entire Guadalcanal Island was like a big steamer, hot and humid.

In such a climate, everyone feels lazy, as if all the strength in the body has been drained.In the morning, there were sporadic roars of mortars from the defending marines near the airport.Fire is said to have been fired at some suspicious locations.

At 7 o'clock, I suddenly received a police report, saying that the lookout post had spotted a Japanese aircraft attacking. The Japanese army does not have an advance base, and all aircraft can only take off from Rabaul. Due to the limitation of the flight range, they can only stay in the air above Guadalcanal for 15 minutes. Get a report two hours before the plane arrives.Not long after, a more detailed report came out: the entire Japanese military fleet consisted of 18 Zero Fighters and 6 Type 1 Land Attackers, flying at an altitude of about 4000 meters.

Ron has 19 F4F Wildcats, 15 P-39 Flying Snakes, and his most trusted 15 P-38s.It should be said that it has sufficient chances of winning if it is used to deal with these Japanese aircraft with a forecast.However, the specific operational plan still needs to be discussed.So, all the fighter pilots gathered together in a temporary big tent that was ventilated on all sides.

"...The enemy's situation is basically like this. Now I will talk about my plan..." Ron didn't let everyone express their opinions to discuss tactics.Instead, the method of directly assigning combat tasks is adopted.The first reason for doing this is to save time, and the second reason is that he has not really established his prestige in this team from all over the world, so he needs a victory completely under his direct control.

Ron's plan was not complicated.He just divided his fleet into three combat groups according to the type of aircraft: one decoy group and two attack groups.These clusters will take off about half an hour before the arrival of the Japanese plane, and then quickly climb to an altitude of 3-4500 meters to stand by.

The decoy group consisted of 15 P-38s with their lowest intended position. After the Japanese aircraft group appears, they will first use the Zero Fighters escort to attack, and then they will lure the Zero Fighters to climb at a large angle. When the Zero Fighters climb weak, the first assault group composed of f4f wildcats will start Dive down from high altitude to attack those zero fighters who are weak in climbing.At the same time, the P-39 Flying Snakes will also attack the six Type 6 land attack aircraft.

Speaking of the P-39 Viper, it's not actually a bad aircraft, at least the Soviets didn't see it that way.This aircraft is not equipped with a turbocharger, which makes its high-altitude performance a mess.But this also reduces its weight and enhances its low-altitude performance.And it uses an extremely rare rear-mounted engine, allowing it to install a huge 37mm caliber gun and two .50 machine guns in the nose.Artillery of this caliber can be used as the main gun of the tank in the era when the p-39 began to be developed.Has terrible lethality.Ron didn't know what other Japanese aircraft in the Pacific Ocean could withstand such a shot.The Soviets drove it, shot down one German plane after another, and destroyed one German tank after another.The great Pokryshkin drove it and won the honorable title of Hero of the Soviet Union three times.Even the front three-point landing gear it pioneered became the most common way of taking off and landing in the jet age.However, the Pacific Ocean is not a suitable battlefield for it.Compared with Zero Fight, whether it is climbing or his originally good hovering, it is an overall disadvantage.So much so that its powerful firepower is useless.In the end, it ended up only being a trainer in the reserve force.

But this time, their mission was no longer to fight Zero, but to deal with a few bombers.In this way, their 37mm guns can do a lot.

At 8:10, the fleet took off on several runways one after another.First the Flying Snake, then the Wildcat, and finally the P-38.It was already 38:8 when Ron took off with the last p-20.

At around 8:50, all the planes had reached their scheduled positions.At this time, Ri's own fleet also appeared in Ron's field of vision.

Apparently, Ri himself also discovered them, and Zero Zhan began to climb faster, ready to face them.But obviously, Ri himself has rarely seen the P-38 before, and lacks understanding of its amazing speed.Coupled with the weird shape of the p-38, Ri himself made an error when judging the distance.So much so that the close rate of the two sides exceeded the expectations of the Japanese pilots.When caught off guard, the situation of facing She head-on appeared.

Even if the machine guns are on the wing and the bullet density is not high against the F4F, zero combat will suffer. What's more, in the case of being caught off guard, the machine guns are installed on the nose, and the long-distance bullets are dense. The p-38, known as the air sniper, has a super high speed against she.

When the two sides were still 800 meters away from meeting (due to the high-speed approach of the two sides during the confrontation, the firing distance can be much farther than that of the tail chase), Ron opened fire, with 4 .50 machine guns and a 20mm on the nose The gun spit out tongues of flame cheerfully, turning the front windshield red.

The Zero Zhan on the opposite side obviously didn't expect the enemy to be able to fire and shoot accurately at such a long distance, so the push was a little slower.And this moment of difference is the most fatal.

Ron clearly saw that the Zero was trembling in the rain of .50 machine gun bullets, and then several 20mm shells hit it directly.Its wing on one side broke off directly, and the propeller on the nose part also fell off, spinning and twisting wildly in the air.Surrounded by flames and smoke, the rest of the fuselage tumbled and fell into the sea below.

Even if the pilot hadn't been killed or even injured in the bombardment just now, it would be very difficult for him to parachute out of such a plane.Besides, even if he jumped and fell into the vast sea, what chance would he have of surviving?

The two sides staggered, and Ron pulled up the nose and began to climb.The same goes for other p-38s.

Since the start of the war, Ri himself has not encountered a plane that can climb as high as Zero.Any enemy plane that had dared to show off before them was reduced to flames and debris.

So Zero War also chose to climb violently.

Masao Murayama is also an old pilot. He has repeatedly smashed the American and British planes climbing in front of him into fireballs.Therefore, he is full of confidence that he will be able to achieve the next record soon.But he soon discovered that these strange planes with two bodies were different from any enemy plane he had ever encountered.It climbed while circling, it looked so easy, no less than his own Zero War, (even easier than Zero War, but Murayama didn't want to admit it) and the altitude rose to 5400 meters in a short while, at this altitude , Zero War's engine is obviously weak.He crawled slower and slower, more and more weakly.But the twin in front of him didn't seem to be affected by the altitude at all.At this moment, he suddenly discovered that there seemed to be something flickering at the angle where the sun was.

Lawrence stared at a Zero Fighter following the p-38 and swooped over. Since his back was facing the sun, the enemy plane could not find him.The enemy plane was in a state of weak climb, almost as if it was hanging in the air with its propeller.This is completely a fixed target. If he can't even hit this, Lawrence feels that he should be kicked by HNA and sent to Army Aviation to mess around. (Actually, Army Aviation also advertised this way)

Four .4 rounds bathed the bandit from head to toe.Orange flames and black smoke billowed from the plane.Apparently the plane couldn't be saved.

The Zero War, which was climbing, was attacked by such a round, and several planes were shot down immediately.But Murayama was still alive, and the alert just now temporarily saved his life.He pressed the nose of the plane desperately, and the plane veered to the right first, then spun and fell headlong.The action just now allowed him to avoid the flying bullets, but it also made him stall and enter the spiral.

Release the control lever, hit the rudder to the middle, and then push the rudder stick hard in the opposite direction to the rotation.But nothing worked, the plane was still spinning and falling.In the process of spinning and falling, the entire situation of the air battle fell into his eyes: many planes were falling with thick smoke.One, one, and another... They are all planes of the Great Japanese Empire!

But Murayama had no time to grieve for others.In just a few minutes, his altitude has dropped to 2000 meters. In front of him, the pointer of the altimeter is still spinning like crazy. If he can't recover from the spiral, he will crash on the sea. .

Release the control lever, hit the rudder to the middle, and then push the rudder stick hard in the opposite direction to the rotation.

Release the control lever, hit the rudder to the middle, and then push the rudder stick hard in the opposite direction to the rotation.

Release the control lever, hit the rudder to the middle, and then push the rudder stick hard in the opposite direction to the rotation.

I don’t know how many times I have done this, but when the sea was getting closer and closer, and even the waves on the sea could be seen clearly, with the blessing of Hachiman Bodhisattva, the plane finally got out of the spiral.

Murayama let out a long breath, stretched out his hand to wipe the bean-sized beads of sweat on his forehead, and showed a gratified smile.This was also the last expression of Murayama.The next moment, a string of .50 bullets entered his cockpit, knocking off his skull.Bright red blood and ruddy semi-fluid brains splashed all over the canopy...

Ron flew the P-38 over Murayama's plane.This is his second victory today.He already has 9 victories so far, as long as there is one more, he can be called a double ace.It's a pity that although there are many planes in the sky now, there are none in Japan.

"It's no wonder that the Germans can shoot down hundreds of trump cards, while the American trump cards are only a few dozen at most. There are too many monks and too little food." Ron looked around, hoping to find a fish that slipped through the net, thinking resentfully .At this time in the sky, the other vultures were also wandering in hunger and thirst like Ron, unwilling to leave for a long time.

Just as Ron and the others dug a big hole to bury the zero battle, "Sook the Airplane" was also driving his p-39 to attack the Type 1 land attack.There are only 6 enemy planes in total, but there are 15 hungry mouths on my side.If you don't do well, let alone eat meat, I'm afraid you won't even have to drink soup.So when the enemy plane's self-defense machine guns started to sweep at him, in order not to miss the opportunity to attack, Su Ke just made a small barrel roll to dodge.Still rushing straight to the enemy plane.

Now the first type of land attack is getting bigger and bigger in Suk's front windshield, Suk fired, and the two .50s and the four 4mm on the wings spoke first.The opponent's self-defense machine gun immediately went silent.Then, just when Suk looked like he was about to mount a low enemy plane, the 7.62mm gun on the propeller shaft began to speak.One shell, just one shell hit the wing of the enemy plane, and with a flash of red light, the huge wing of the Type 37 Land Attack was broken in two from the middle.

Su Ke excitedly pulled up the fighter plane, ready to find the next target.But at this time, he saw enemy planes falling with flames all over his eyes...

In this one-sided air battle, the final result was an astonishing 24:0!