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ship and achieve three hits. 5 dive-makers and 1 fighter are returned back.
Now 10 torpedo bombers are ready to take off. Five surviving aircraft manage to achieve two hits.
The dying Yorktown is towed to Pearl Harbor. On June 7th, a Japanese submarine is drowned by an aircraft carrier and a destroyer covering it.
The vigilant Enterprise and Hornet teams are assembling a group of aircraft for the last attack. There are no more torpedo bombers from the Americans, but there are 41 more dive-bombers. To repel the attack, «Hiryu» has only the 6th something like the newly commissioned «Zero» fighters. Americans lose three planes, but achieve four exact hits with 450-kilogram bombs. Teams of vitality pass before the numerous fires in the holds. On the morning of June 5, the Japanese command orders the flooding of the heroic «Hiryu».
Lightweight Japanese aircraft carriers, a group of «cannon» and transport ships in the battle of participation do not accept. The main groups of Japanese go to the West (to Japan), American aircraft, as far as possible in the conditions of worsened weather, cause them damage.
Losses of the parties:
Japan – 4 aircraft carriers, heavy cruiser, 250 sea-based aircraft, 2,500 personnel
USA – heavy aircraft carrier, destroyer, 150 aircraft, 300 people irrevocably.
…Loss in advanced technology can still be compared. The damage in people, though, it may be wrong to say so, is small in comparison with the population of both countries. Japan and the United States still have a long, tough struggle for the territory of Indochina, Korea and the numerous islands of the Pacific Ocean. The point in this war will put the entry into the Game of the Soviet Army and (formally – ensuring the «rescue of the person» of the Japanese before, as they say «circumstances of irresistible force») atomic bombings.
The industry of Japan is experiencing a shortage of materials, especially fuel, which is sufficient only for single kamikaze attacks. By the end of the Pacific War, the country of the Rising Sun is losing 350,000 soldiers and officers, 1.5 million civilians (including victims of nuclear bombing) and 1,200 units of aircraft (aircraft carriers, battleships, submarines, cargo ships). Losses of the USA and Great Britain – the data vary, from 40 to 250 thousand people, there is no general information on aircraft and ships.
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1. The bombing of Tokyo, 1945. Two US nuclear bombs account for only about 3% of all damage caused to Japan by non-nuclear air forces.
2. The blow of the kamikaze (yap «divine wind» – the common name of suicide pilots) for one of the US aircraft carriers. Losses are not as serious as one would expect – eight team members were killed, 11 planes lost, a hole in the deck was formed 3 meters long, 0.6 meters wide. In a winged car, 100 or 250 kg. The explosive, plus the kinetic energy of the fall. Not finding the goal, in principle, the pilots can still return to the base. One kamikaze (kaitensa) was taken out of the squadron of suicides after the ninth such return. Not all pilots are equally easily ready to part with life – some of them, staggering from nervous overstrain, were pushed into the cabins by soldiers of the maintenance group.
3. Yorktown. The aircraft carriers of the Yorktown type were laid in the mid-1930s, they have a displacement of 20,000—25,000 tons, a length of 250 meters, a width of 34 meters, a draft of 8 meters. Reserving is a belt at the waterline of 100 mm., A deck of 40 mm. The maximum speed is 50 km. h, the range of navigation without refueling 20 000 km., the crew of 2170 people, the air group of 96 aircraft.
4. Attacked «Yorktown.»
5. Pushed to Pearl Harbor «Yorktown».
6. Japanese aircraft carrier «Hiryu», in translation «Flying dragon». Year of foundation – 1936, displacement 20 000 tons, length 227 meters, width 22 m, draft 8 m. Booking – belt 50—140 mm, deck 25 – 55 mm. The maximum speed is 50 km. h. The range is 19 thousand km., the crew is 1100 people, the air group is 63 aircraft. Protective armament – six double 127 mm. anti-aircraft guns, 31 barrel 25-mm. anti-aircraft guns.
7. Smooth-decked vianos «Kaga» (from «Kaga province»). Displacement 44 000 tons, length 248 m, width 33 m, draft 10 m. Booking – 150 mm. bead, 40 mm. deck. The maximum speed is 45 km. h. The range of navigation is 18 000 km. Crew 2 000 people. Air group 75 aircraft.
8. Heavy cruiser «Mikuma» after the bombing.
9. The Japanese fighter Zero. The name is from «0» – the last digit of the year of release, 1940, coinciding with 2600 in its own Japanese calendar.
The product of the firm «Mitsubishi», the designer is Dziro Khorikoshi. First of all, the developer had to make the airframe as easy as possible. The available propulsion systems at that time did not allow to give out the required specific power with the heavier armor apparatus, and anything else similar at all. New, very expensive aluminum alloys (zinc, magnesium) partially solve this problem.
Be that as it may, the loss of the pilots due to lack of booking (even armored pins), as well as the principal refusal of pilots to take parachutes for combat missions, leads the Air Force of the Empire to a decline in the literal sense of the word. Very quickly, recovering from the first losses, the Americans reorient the industry from the production of luxury goods to the production of a variety of military products. The pilots do not disdain parachutes, and are quite satisfied with their armor protecting them. In the end, a country fully aware of the value of its citizens’ lives wins this war with an acceptable loss ratio.
The takeoff weight of the car is 2400 kg, the engine power is 940—1100 hp, the maximum speed is 560 km. h, practical range (very high for its time) 1600 km. Armament – two 20 mm. guns, two 7.7 mm. machine gun (in some cases 13.2 mm machine guns were used), 120 kg. bom load. From 1940 to 1945, 11,000 cars were produced.
The main competitor of Zero at the initial stage of the war was American P-40 Curtiss. The curb weight is 3800 kg., The engine is 1150 hp, the cruising speed is 440, the maximum speed is 580 km. h. (when diving). Armament – six 12.7 mm. machine guns. The bomb load is 680 kg. The range of flight is 1100 km. With all this, the P-40 significantly lose the «Zero» in maneuverability and ripeness.
10. American dive-bomber «Dontless» («Fearless»), he is also «Banshee» («The Witch»), the most productive airplane of the War on the Ocean. Crew 2 people, takeoff weight 4 300 kg., Maximum speed 410 km. h, the flight range is 1200 km. Armament – two coursework 12.7 mm. machine gun, double 7.62 mm. a machine gun of the rear turret, a bomb load of a ton.
11. P-40 «Curtiss»,