New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

() After returning to the United States and resting for a night, Ron was summoned by General Arnold again.

"General!" Ron walked into Arnold's office and saw Arnold looking up from a pile of documents.

"Ah, Ron." Arnold smiled, and he could see that he was in a good mood. "Sit down, you did a good job in Myanmar."

Seeing Ron sit down, Arnold handed him a document.

"Ron, look at this document."

Ron opened the file and read it.

This is a plan to build a series of airports in China and then use them as a base to carry out strategic bombing of Japan.According to this plan, the United States will deploy a group of b-29 bombers in Sichuan, China, to bomb Japan's Yawata Steel.

Ron read the document carefully, and then handed it back to General Arnold.

"Ah, finished reading." Arnold reached out to take the document, looked up at him, "Ron, you just came back from the Chinese theater, what do you think about this plan?"

"Ah, General, can you get me a room with a typewriter?" said Ron. "I have some ideas, but I'm not quite organized yet. I need a little time to sort it out."

General Arnold looked at him and laughed: "Haha, Ron, you are really a serious person. Very good, young people should be like this. Okay, I look forward to your opinion even more."

Then he called an officer and told him to take Ron next door.Ron thanked him and stood up to follow the officer out.

"Ah, Ron, wait a minute," Arnold stopped him, "You can take this too, it's more convenient to compare and write." General Arnold handed a document to Ron.Ron glanced down, and it was still the same document as before.

"Thank you, General!"

……

After two hours, General Arnold looked up from the file and asked, "Isn't Ron ready yet?...You go and see?"

"General, Colonel Ron is ready. Waiting outside," replied an officer.

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General Arnold looked at the piece of paper Ron handed him, and clipped it into the plan.

"Ah, Ron, it seems you don't like the plan."

"Yes, General. I think the efficiency of this plan is doubtful. This is because of capacity constraints in the first place." Ron was very firm.

"Well, if we only use the hump route, it is indeed difficult to support a large-scale attack on Japan in terms of capacity. But Ron, we may have another transport line in the future."

"General, do you mean the Burma Highway?" Ron asked.

"Ron, how do you know?" Arnold looked at Ron in surprise.

"General, it's not difficult to imagine. China no longer has access to the sea. Even if we don't consider whether the KMT army has such capabilities, even if we can launch an offensive and retake Guangzhou," Arnold hung a large-scale map behind him. En simply pointed on the map, "Guangzhou Port cannot be used until it is brought back to the Philippines. Therefore, the only possibility is the Burma Highway."

"Go on," Arnold said.

"General, this passage is just a road passing through the rainforest, and the capacity is quite limited. In addition, the road passes through the rainy rainforest and mountains, and the geological conditions are also very bad. Once it encounters the rainy season, it is easy to cause landslides and the like The problem is that its capacity is still difficult to afford a European battlefield-style strategic bombing."

"But Ron, Japan's industrial strength is far inferior to that of Germany, and there are not so many targets to be bombed."

"General, I don't think so. I have read some information, which mentioned that many industries in Japan, especially the production of parts, are completed by small family workshops. There are a large number of these small factories. To completely destroy their industry from the air, we cannot just hope to destroy one or two large factories. Moreover, even if the target is only those large factories, the transportation capacity is still not enough to sustain a long-term attack.”

Seeing that General Arnold didn't speak any more, Ron continued: "The second point is that starting from Sichuan, the bomber has a long voyage to pass over the area controlled by the Japanese army, which is equivalent to giving the Japanese themselves a long warning time." .In this way, Ri himself can take off fighter jets from here, here, and here to intercept multiple batches. However, our fighter jets will not be able to escort the bombers due to the limitation of range. In this way, our losses will be great."

"Ron, the B-29 we propose to use is an epoch-making bomber. It has a higher flying altitude, faster speed, and stronger self-defense firepower. They are enough to fight against Ri's own fighter jets."

"General, against Ri himself, it's not enough. The Germans will pretend to ram when they attack. But Ri themselves, they'll play real. In Guadalcanal, their wounded will pull while our men go to rescue them In Burma, they have also had many direct hits on transport planes. They are a bunch of lunatics! Unless you can kill them before they get close to the bombers, otherwise, the bombers will suffer great losses."

"So, what do you think is the best place to launch an air strike?"

"Of course, those islands in the Pacific Ocean that are close to Japan, such as here... and here!" Ron immediately pointed out these places on the map.

"Saipan, Iwo Jima, Okinawa...Well, if the Navy can take them, these positions are very good. And..." Arnold smiled, "The gang of arrogant Navy should not take them. Harder than taking the Philippines and Taiwan, isn't it?"

"General, I think so too." Ron smiled too.

"We will study your opinion carefully. In addition, your improvement opinion on p-51 is also good, and it will definitely be helpful to the manufacturer." Arnold stood up with a smile, "Good boy, you will be of great help. Promising. In addition, I have congratulated you, young man. Because of your outstanding performance in Myanmar, the army is going to award you the rank of brigadier general. The approval should be available soon. Well, you are so young and you are about to become a general. Work hard !" Arnold stretched out his hands and pressed heavily on Ron's shoulders.

"General, I have a new idea," said Ron.

"Oh? Let's hear it."

"General, you know that sooner or later we will land on the European continent to fight. By that time, our mission of close direct fire support and the mission of preventing enemy fighter planes from close direct fire support will increase significantly. And we, Neither in Europe nor in the Pacific has much experience in this area. And our enemy has been doing this since the beginning of the war. So, I think, can we invite some allied pilots to do it through diplomacy Communication. Especially pilots from countries experienced in near-surface small-group fire support and air superiority operations."

Arnold smiled: "Ron, the experienced country you are talking about refers to the Soviet Union? Although the Soviets are difficult to deal with, this idea is still very interesting, but how to say, it is always good to know the Soviets. We will consider your suggestion."

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In other words, General Arnold's efficiency is really not covered.Just a week after Ron returned to the "Reverse Cross", a list of Soviet pilots who came to communicate was placed on Ron's desk.

According to the description in the document, this Soviet delegation is not small, with nearly a hundred people, including officials, technicians, and some people who don't know who they are.There are not enough pilots, only a dozen or so.But some of these people are really interesting.For example this one:

"Walia, gender: female Age: unknown

Occupation: Fighter pilot..."

As for female fighter pilots, Ron had seen them in his previous life, but he had never seen one in this life.The reason for this is super simple.In his last life, the newer fighter jets were already operated by fly-by-wire. The control lever has a booster system, even if a large overload of about 10g is to be pulled out, the pilot does not need to exert much effort.And right now, it's World War II.The telex operation of Shenma is still based on the technology of Zentraedi.All fighters rely on brute force to pull and push the rod.And women are naturally inferior to men in strength, so female pilots are naturally pitifully rare, and female fighter pilots are simply unimaginable.So although I knew before that there were female fighter pilots in the Soviet Union, and even the queen card.Ron still finds it hard to imagine.What does this woman have to look like to be a fighter pilot!

Look down and look again, um, there is a photo attached, the photo looks very pretty.It's just that there is only the head in the photo, so you can't see the figure.

"Shouldn't he look like Long Aotian? He has a handsome face and a hulking back." Ron couldn't help thinking.

But Ron knew that the Soviet Union was different from other countries.The Soviets really believed in the equality of men and women.But the equality they understood was completely different from the so-called feminists Ron had met in his previous life.The Soviets sincerely believed that equality meant not only the same rights but also the same responsibilities.So they think that anything a man can do, a woman can do.Women have the same duties and responsibilities as men.Soviet women worked on the farms and produced in factories just like men, and just like men on the battlefield, they held steel guns and bayonets tightly, braved enemy fire, charged with shouting 'Ula', and then fought with those men. Xing soldiers shed blood and died on the vast land of Russia.They cannot be viewed from the perspective of ordinary women at all, they are not "secondary", they are completely men with a slightly different chromosome from ours.

While thinking wildly, Ron continued to look down:

"Record: Individually shot down 55 planes, collectively shot down (by cooperation) 22 planes."

Gosh!It's actually a super ace!You know, the fighter pilots of the Soviet Air Force are almost the hardest fighter pilots in the world.In order to protect the low-flying attack aircraft, they must not escape from the battle when they are at a disadvantage, and must not chase and flee the enemy when they are in an advantage.

Their enemy's playbooks clearly state that fighter pilots can disengage from combat when the situation is unfavorable. (As for our own bombers and ground forces, please be blessed. Let’s go, bye!) But the Soviet pilot’s tactical manual stipulates that fighter pilots must do everything possible to protect the attack aircraft and ground forces. All acts of war are crimes against the Soviets!

In terms of achievement determination, German pilots only need to have another aircraft to testify to their achievements.In the Soviet Union, in addition to this, ground troops are also required to testify, and the wreckage of enemy aircraft is also required to testify.Many times, Soviet pilots achieved victories over enemy-controlled territory, but were not acknowledged because the wreckage was there.The great Pokryshkin was even more unlucky. The war had been fought for almost two years. As a result, a fire burned all his previous records, so that he had to start from scratch and start counting again. (According to this buddy himself, without this fire, his record would reach three digits)

How could a woman who was naturally at a disadvantage in strength achieve such a result?