Chapter 1454 Aleutian Islands

The United States has deciphered the telegram code of the island country's radio communication, which is only known by a few high-level people. After all, this is too important.

After deciphering the code, you can know the movements of the island country, but this does not mean that you can know everything.

For example, after close investigation, they knew that the island country would conduct a sneak attack on its own island, but they didn't know where it was. In the radio communication of the island country, it was called the code name of AF.

Nimitz and others fell into hard thinking. For the island country, where do they want to attack the United States? Obviously, either Midway or the Aleutians.

According to their guesses, Nimitz thought of a way to leak out the lack of fresh water in the Aleutian Islands through an undisclosed method, hoping to arrange a merchant ship to replenish the Aleutian Islands with fresh water as soon as possible.

As a result, on the same day, in the radio communication of the island country, it was notified that the AF lacked fresh water, and hoped that the attacking force would bring enough fresh water.

In this way, the target has finally been determined, which is the Aleutian Islands!

This is a masterpiece of nature. Looking at the map, in the north of the Pacific Ocean, southwest of Alaska, there is a semi-circular band of islands, intermittently extending from east to west, almost reaching the Kamchatka Peninsula in Asia. It is more than 2700 kilometers long.

Taking Anadyr Bay at the northern end of the Bering Sea as the center point, and taking the distance from this center point to the Aleutian Islands as the radius, the Aleutian Islands are almost all distributed on this circle.

If the Bering Sea is compared to a river, then the Aleutian Islands are like a long string of "stepping stones" protruding from the water. Starting from the Alaska Peninsula, you can "walk" to the "river" by stepping on these "stones". opposite shore.

This is the Aleutian Islands, which traverse the North Pacific Ocean in the form of a crescent moon and are a strategic location for the United States' belt in the northern Pacific.

From Europe to America, no matter whether it is sailing or aviation, it will not take the warp coil, which is relatively long, but first go north to high latitudes, and then go south, which can greatly save the voyage.

In other words, the Aleutian Islands are on the shortest route between the island country and the Far East to North America and Northern Europe, and they are also the closest place between the United States and Russia.

If the island nation captures this place, the island nation's bombers can easily fly to the west coast of the United States to bomb, and the island nation's fleet can also start from here and radiate to the west coast of the United States, which is quite unfavorable for the United States.

There are also factors that will seriously threaten the water channel for the transportation of materials from the United States to the Soviet Union.

The island country and Germany did not form an alliance, but the relationship between the two sides was close. Back then, the islanders bombed Pearl Harbor by relying on a large number of German bombers.

The appearance of German submarines in the Arctic must have something to do with the island countries. The German factor makes the Aleutian Islands even more the target of the islanders.

Overall, the Aleutian Islands are composed of five groups of islands, Fox, Andreanov, Sishan, Rat and Neal, with a total of 159 large and small islands, with a total area of ​​about 18,000 square kilometers.

In the archipelago, there are only 3 excellent ports, among which, the former Dutch Harbor is close to the east coast of the Alaska Peninsula, which has strategic value in the military and has always been the US sea and air base. At the northwestern tip of the Aleutians is Attu Island, the final island in the U.S. territory and the closest island to the Soviet Union. The island has many harbors, the situation is dangerous, and it is a natural ship berth.

From a geographical point of view, Attu Island is definitely the first island that the islanders want to capture. It is close to the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union did not have a strong naval and air force here. .

After that, the islanders will continue to expand eastward, gradually encroaching on the entire Aleutian Islands, and even hitting Alaska to the east!

"Nimitz, your analysis is correct." Roosevelt nodded: "So, what are you going to do next?"

"Concentrate all our main forces, including three aircraft carriers, in a decisive battle with the island nation's navy in the Aleutian Islands, and kill the island nation's navy in one fell swoop!" Nimitz said.

The three attack aircraft carriers are already the largest that the United States can dispatch.

In the Battle of Pearl Harbor, the United States lost two aircraft carriers. In the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Yorktown sank, and the Saratoga was dying. It is still in the shipyard and is said to have been repaired.

Nimitz's plan included this aircraft carrier.

The other two, the Hornet and the Wasp, are both newest.

The construction of aircraft carriers takes time and cannot be accomplished overnight. Now the United States has put all its strength into national defense, and a large number of warships have begun to be built. On the slipway, at least eight aircraft carriers are under construction, not including a large number of aircraft carriers. Escort the aircraft carrier.

However, none of them have been built yet. Now these three ships are already the limit of the Pacific Fleet, and they are all the assets of the United States. Nimitz wants to get them all out. This is simply a gambler's desperate gamble.

If they win, they can seriously damage the island nation's fleet and curb the island nation's expansion in the Pacific Ocean. After all, the island nation's industrial capabilities are even weaker, and their warships have a long construction cycle, which cannot withstand the consumption of war at all.

This is of course good, but once it loses, the United States will be forced to the west coast by the island countries, and the US Navy will no longer be able to operate in the Pacific Ocean.

It definitely takes courage!

Nimitz is a man of courage, and Roosevelt is also a man of courage. After receiving Nimitz's report, Roosevelt just pondered for a while, and immediately made a decision: "Nimitz, do as you want. !"

America needs victory, a bold navy, and inspires the nation through victories in the Pacific!

At the same time, it will not necessarily fail. Although there are not many aircraft carriers, they can mobilize the air force to go there. There are many airports in the Aleutian Islands that can take off and land fighter jets. With the support of land fighter jets, their odds of winning are much higher.

They didn't know, they made a miscalculation, they thought about heavy losses, and they thought about defeating the island nation's fleet, but they didn't think about it, the battle they planned didn't happen at all, they were tricked!

With Roosevelt's affirmation, under the leadership of Nimitz, the U.S. Pacific Fleet took action again.

Just as the meeting was about to end, the Secretary of State submitted the last question: "President, those Nissi, they are constantly submitting enlistment reports, they want to join the military and fight in the front."

Nissi, the Japanese descendants in the United States. When the war between the United States and the island countries broke out, these immigrants were quite pitiful and became the targets of the American people. The United States moved them all to the west coast of the United States and concentrated them.

Now, the Nissi will show their loyalty!