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"President, General Nimitz's fleet has arrived in Perth, and General MacArthur also called back to agree to urgently serve as Chief of General Staff." Li Hai worried, "The current problem is that Pearl Harbor is under the siege of the Japanese army. The Franklin in General Nimitz's fleet can be completely repaired in Australia, but the Hornets must enter the Hawaii Naval Shipyard for maintenance. Now the fleet is facing the situation of the joint fleet hovering outside Hawaii and cannot be successfully docked, and the risk of forcing in is too high."

This risk is predictable. At present, even MacArthur's plane dares to fly directly to Pearl Harbor. If it is intercepted, it will be a very terrible thing.

Truman grabbed his hair in distress: "What do you think you should do?"

"The loss of Christmas Island may be inevitable. The only feasible way is to let TF48 replenish fuel and supplies in New Zealand, then detour the coast of New Zealand and then turn northeast, first heading towards the Galapagos Islands, then turn north to California." Turner drew a route, "We have our army's land aviation on the Galapagos Islands, so it is safer to enter the island's air defense circle and the Central American air defense circle. Of course, it is inevitable to detour long distances."

Looking at the route he outlined on the map, Truman couldn't smile bitterly. It was more than just a long journey. This detour was almost doubled as the original shipping line, which was more than 10,000 nautical miles. Can this fleet withstand it?

As if he saw his thoughts, Li Hai explained: "The fleet itself can support sailing at a distance of more than 10,000 nautical miles, and you can also go to the Galapagos Islands to make up for it in the middle, so there is no need to worry about the endurance issue, the only problem is time."

"General MacArthur also returned to his country on a warship?"

“This is safer.”

"So, if everything goes well, how long will it take for me to see both of them."

"It may take 7-8 weeks." Li Hai calculated and gave a number.

"7-8 weeks?" Li Hai nodded, "If you just meet Nimitz and MacArthur, it will take at least 6 weeks. 7-8 weeks I mean the fleet."

Transfer from Perth to the East Coast and complete Franklin repairs: 1 week;

Arrival in New Zealand and complete material replenishment: 5 days;

From New Zealand to Galapagos Islands: 28-30 days;

From Galapagos Islands to California: 1 week

The only time that can be saved is that the two military heads disembarked in the Galapagos Islands and rushed back to the United States by plane.

"Okay." Truman agreed helplessly, but he was thinking in his heart that the situation in the Pacific and South America will be decayed in 6 weeks.

"After General Nimitz's two aircraft carriers return and complete repairs, there will be two fleet carriers, two battleships and 14 escort carriers available in the Pacific Fleet's strength." Turner made a calculation again, "If we can kill 1-2 enemy fleet carriers and 1-2 escort carriers in the next aviation war, we will have the opportunity to be evenly matched. At the same time, we will have two other Essex class and one Iowa class available in the Atlantic Ocean."

Speaking of Iowa class, Turner felt a little glad. When Hewitt led the transport fleet to Port Saiguru, Turner, who was frightened by German submarines, demanded that New Jersey return to the mainland immediately, it would be useless to stay in Port Saiguru anyway. Hewitt was very unhappy at the time, but he could not resist the joint orders issued by Turner and Li Hai. As a result, before the arrival of the German main fleet, the only battleship on the east coast retreated along the Brazilian coastline under the protection of four destroyers and arrived in the Caribbean Sea, and then returned to Norfolk.

Of course, some people may think that if the New Jersey stayed in Port Seguru, the Roosevelt cluster might be able to last longer, but it would be meaningless to have a long time. The New Jersey was placed in Port Seguru, and it would be a dead end. It would be a great beach as a fixed fort.

But when Truman turned his attention to Arnold, he, who had always been obedient, finally broke out this time: "No, I don't agree to do this! Now the loss of China Airlines is too great and has reached an unsustainable point. In the past half month, it has lost nearly a thousand units in Pearl Harbor, and nearly a thousand units have been lost in South America (losing nearly 2,000 aircraft). The skilled aircraft we have has been reduced to less than 3,000 (excluding the strategic air transport part, this is the result of Arnold allowing a large number of novices to follow and participate in the attack). If we still want to fight, we can only protect one battlefield: either give up the South American support war or give up the Pearl Harbor aviation war. Otherwise, not only will the pilot mutiny, you will not set up an independent air force next year, and will directly cancel the China Airlines because no one will fight."

As soon as this sentence was released, Eisenhower, who represented the Army and Turner, who represented the Navy, were silent. The two are now in a surprisingly similar situation. Ike is acting as Marshall, until MacArthur comes to take over, Turner is acting as Admiral King, until Nimitz takes over.

But the next second, the two of them spoke at the same time.

"Give up South America for the time being." Turner said first.

"Give up the Pacific Aviation War for the time being." This is Eisenhower's opinion.

"Ike, the Pacific battlefield cannot be given up. If we weaken it a little more, we will open the business and settle the main force of the joint fleet. You are the deputy commander-in-chief of the Pacific War Zone." Turner advised earnestly, "Besides Hawaii, we have Australia and New Zealand!"

"No, I am the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army. The situation in South America is more dangerous than that in the Pacific. You have said that according to the current consumption level, the Japanese in Hawaiian cannot fight, but South America is not necessarily the case. The Germans are aggressive and George is too dangerous. Even Clark's troops in Recife dare not say it is safe." Eisenhower explained, "They are more urgent and need more support!"

"Hawaii, Brazil is only..."

"Brazil still has more than 100,000 troops. Once all South America is lost, the next domino is the Caribbean. If the Germans deploy aircraft, fleets and even rockets to the Caribbean, will America be safe in the future?"

Seeing the two of them quarreling louder, Truman slapped the table hard: "Don't argue, I'll give you a suggestion. China Airlines is responsible for the Pacific aviation war, and China Airlines is responsible for supporting the South American Army. How about it?"

It was the two of them that had a bitter face: it took a long time to find out that all the better land-based pilots of HNA on the East Coast were drawn by Turner into the carrier-based aircraft training team. Although there were many remaining crews and aircraft, they were all new rookies. It was simply a dream to expect them to go to South America, and it was almost the same to send people to their heads.

As for the carrier-based pilot, there is no need to think about it, Turner will not hand it over even if he dies!

"How could this happen? How could this happen?" Truman hugged his head in pain.

Li Hai, who had not spoken, sighed: "Let's do this, I'll give you a compromise plan: Mainland Airlines will mainly maintain the South American battlefield, and the Pacific aviation warfare will not lose more than 100 units per week. The Navy will provide another 50 units, which means that there will be no more than 150 units in a week. We will continue to maintain the pressure on Japanese tankers."

Since Li Hai spoke like this, Arnold, Turner, and Eisenhower could only nod and agree, although it was not the most satisfying, it was barely acceptable.

Thinking of Eisenhower's mention of the Rockets just now, Truman asked in a complicated mood: "How is the situation of the German Rockets? How is our Rockets?"

"I can't explain this clearly, I have to ask Professor Carmen and other experts."

Carmen, who was in charge of the US Rockets program, immediately rushed over when he heard the president's call, but there was not much optimism on his face.

"We found some rocket wreckage in London. After analysis, we believe that the opponent's range is between 400-500 kilometers. Judging from the situation of the Brazilian Rockets this time, the range is at least between 600-800, and maybe there is more room for improvement. After two comparisons before and after, we believe that Germany has made three progress in the rocket field:

First, the accuracy has been improved even more. The Brazilian Rockets have increased their accuracy by more than one-third compared to the London Rockets. We have not fully figured out what to do.

Second, propellants have been innovated, which not only tend to be safer, but also improves combustion efficiency, which is conducive to supporting a longer range. We have fully mastered the old fuel formula, and the new fuel formula is still being analyzed;

Third, in addition to ballistic rockets that burst out of the atmosphere, the Germans also developed aircraft used in the atmosphere, which is generally similar to an unmanned jet with high technical content and lower cost."

“When will we have the same thing?”

"It may take another 3-4 years."

Von Carmen explained embarrassedly: "The only progress we have made at present is to turn the concept and design proposed by Professor Goddard in the 1930s into reality and re-tested the test. The test was completely successful and better results, but this is the technical level 10 years ago; we imitated the German rocket in London to create 24 imitations, carried out 19 launches, and exploded immediately after 9 complete failures or exploded in situ; after 7 failures in the middle of the flight, it exploded or crashed due to unstable attitude; only 3 successes were successful, but the best one lasted only 47 seconds, and the worst one was less than 130 kilometers."

In fact, the British took out a complete V2 rocket from the silt of the Thames River, but the three army leaders were unanimously hiding it from Churchill, and they did not hand it over to the Americans. Instead, they tried every means to hide it and make it themselves. The Americans reversely imitated the samples with only some collected wreckage, and their skills were very good. Of course, they burned a lot of money, and they burned them all without seeing them for more than 300 million US dollars.

After listening to Carmen's report, Truman was a little disappointed, but it was not revealed on the surface. Nothing was achieved overnight. High-tech is even more so. The capture of Tiger tanks has long been there, and it is still impossible to imitate it now? According to the Army, whether it is the newly developed m26 or the m26/sp obtained after hybridization, it is still not a match for German Tiger 2.
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