The Rise of the Third Reich

The plan called "The Final Battle Plan" by Hideki Tojo is officially code-named "Operation Jet-1" and was drawn up by Admiral Koga Minedai, Commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa, Commander of the First Mobile Fleet. A big plan, and it has the full support of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Minister of the Navy.

Unlike the German General Staff on the other side of the world, which gave up on fighting a decisive battle with the United States long ago, the Japanese have not given up their illusions of severely damaging the United States through several decisive naval battles to force it to sue for peace.

Not only do the army officers who know little about the situation in the United States believe that Japan still has the ability to win a decisive battle, but even Marshal Yamamoto Isoroku, who is famous for his knowledge of beauty, now also believes that the Japanese navy still has the strength to fight a decisive battle.

When the news that Germany agreed to provide 84 Me264 long-range bombers reached the ears of Yamamoto Isoroku, he was inspecting the newly commissioned battleship Shinano.

The Shinano battleship is the third ship of the Yamato-class battleship. It was once converted into an aircraft carrier in history. However, it was very unfortunate that it was sunk by an American submarine on its maiden voyage... It is basically a big joke.

In this time and space, because of the special steel provided by Germany, the battleship Yamato performed well in the Battle of the Hawaiian Islands. Therefore, the Shinano and the fourth Yamato-class ship Kii did not stop work, and they all worked day and night to build them. Now the Shinano has finally entered service, and the battleship Kii will begin sea trials in September and will be ready for service before the end of October.

In this way, the Japanese Navy will have four super battleships including Yamato, Musashi, Shinano, and Kii.

If there were to be a battleship decisive battle in the Hawaiian Islands, Japan would have an absolute chance of winning!

In addition to the two Yamato-class battleships, the "Taiho" aircraft carrier, which the Japanese Navy has high hopes for, was launched in January 1943. It is currently being outfitted and is expected to be commissioned before the end of October 1943.

This large aircraft carrier with a standard displacement of 29,300 tons and a full load displacement of 34,200 tons is also a trump card in the hands of the Japanese Navy. It will also assume a major role in the "Jie-1 Operation" - this aircraft carrier is a so-called "unsinkable aircraft carrier" and has Strong armor protection can approach the U.S. fleet in wartime and provide a landing platform for fighter jets taking off from other aircraft carriers. In fact, the "shuttle bombing" mode is used to increase the combat radius of the Japanese carrier-based aircraft group, which can put the Japanese aircraft carrier in a very safe position during combat.

The idea of ​​designing and building the "Dafeng" aircraft carrier is actually to "protect the ship", which is completely contrary to the idea that the United States and Germany are now beginning to treat aircraft carriers as consumables.

In addition to the "Taiho", Japan's "Akagi" aircraft carrier and the "Kaga" aircraft carrier have been undergoing armor strengthening modifications at the Wujun Port Shipyard since May, laying down armored aircraft carriers similar to the "Taiho" The deck is equipped with flywheel catapults and 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns imported from Germany (replacing many battleships of the Japanese Combined Fleet with Bofors anti-aircraft guns is a huge project and cannot be done overnight. It can only be modified in stages. So far, Only a small number of ships have been refitted so far). According to the plan, the "Akagi" and "Kaga" will also complete all modifications before the end of 2043.

By then, the Japanese Combined Fleet will have three "unsinkable aircraft carriers" that can perform tasks approaching the enemy fleet!

The number of "sinkable aircraft carriers" owned by Japan has now increased to 16, namely the "Shokaku", the "Zuikaku", the "Flying Eagle", the "Falcon Eagle", the "Otaka", "Kumotai", "Okitaka", "Condor", "Haiying", "Chitose", "Chiyoda", "Ryuho", "Shōho", "Ziho" , "Longxiang" and "Fengxiang".

"13 battleships, 19 aircraft carriers... With such a powerful fleet, the victory of the Jie-1 battle is certain."

Marshal Nagano Shushen, the Chief of Naval Command who inspected the Shinano with Marshal Isoroku Yamamoto, was also full of confidence in the "Operation Jie-1".

He said to Yamamoto: "After this battle, the empire should be able to achieve a decent peace... As long as we can retain the Hawaiian Islands, our empire will be able to compete with the United States and Germany in the future and rank among the top three powers in the world."

Yamamoto Isoroku nodded and said with a smile: "Now that the defense of the Hawaiian Islands has been completed, 300,000 brave men of the army and navy are ready. It depends on whether the army can use 84 long-range bombers to force out the US Pacific Fleet... As long as the Americans launch a massive counterattack on the Hawaiian Islands, not only will they be able to achieve an unprecedented victory, but they will also be able to kill a large number of U.S. landing troops, perhaps hundreds of thousands of them, and the United States will never dare to fight again!"

The core of "Operation Czech No. 1" is to kill and injure the US military! Not only must it cause a devastating blow to the U.S. Pacific Fleet, but it must also annihilate a large number of U.S. landing forces. According to Koga and Ozawa's vision, the U.S. military will be placed on the Hawaiian Islands and use the strong fortifications and powerful Japan there. Army, inflict heavy damage.

After the US troops landed on the mainland, the Japanese combined fleet suddenly counterattacked, severely damaging and even annihilating the main force of the US Pacific Fleet together with Japanese shore-based aircraft. In this way, the American landing force will be completely wiped out.

According to the estimates of those naval elites like Yamamoto Isoroku, Koga Mineichi, and Ozawa Jisaburo, Americans who live in affluence and prosperity must be afraid of death. If the Pacific Fleet was lost in World War I with hundreds of thousands of casualties, then the domestic situation in the United States would be There will inevitably be an anti-war wave, and the U.S. government will have to accept a humiliating peace!

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"Comrades, the vast and fertile Siberia is calling us, the new generation of Soviet youth. You will use your wise minds, hard-working hands and iron will to turn Siberia into the most beautiful communist homeland in the world..."

Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn is now sitting on a train heading to the distant Novosibirsk Oblast, and the sweet female voice that inspires the hearts of Siberian builders once again rings in his ears - Comrade Solzhenitsyn is now He is a glorious Siberian builder with a Novosibirsk city registration in his pocket!

Like all the young Soviet officers on this train, he accepted the call of the Bolshevik Party in Building 2 of Lubyanka Square and wrote an application letter pledging to dedicate his life and future generations to the cause of communism and the construction of Siberia. of. I went to Siberia completely voluntarily to take root!

Well, Building 2 on Lubyanka Square is definitely a good place to do ideological work. Things that couldn't be explained elsewhere, but when they got there, under the gaze of the anti-revolutionary personnel, people's ideological realm immediately improved, and everyone cried and shouted to go to Siberia to engage in construction.

Solzhenitsyn was no exception. He immediately developed his literary talent and wrote a touching application letter. I don’t know if it was because the application was so well written, but when he left Building 2 on Lubyanka Square, he also got a notice to go to Dzerzhinsky Vocational School for short-term training, so he walked two nights later than others. week, and also received a blue hat.

He is now also an honorable Cheka soldier, and has been assigned to a unit that sounds very good, the Special Section of the Novosibirsk Branch of the Soviet Academy of Physics. Although the current situation of the Soviet Union is very bad, the special feature of a scientific research institute is always a relatively leisurely and comfortable place, even if the institute is far away in Siberia.

Just when Solzhenitsyn was sitting on the eastbound train with a relaxed mood, imagining his relaxed and comfortable life in the future. His future superior, the head of the Ninth Bureau of the NKVD, Zavinia Kim, together with Kurchatov, the director of the Novosibirsk branch of the Institute of Physics, in the office belonging to Beria in Building 2 on Lubyanka Square Accepted the summons of Beria, who was in charge of the Soviet nuclear bomb project.

The desk in front of Beria was filled with document bags marked "Top Secret" on the cover. They contained top-secret information about the Manhattan Project stolen from the United States by the Special Military and Technical Reconnaissance Department controlled by Beria!

Due to the lack of a large number of Jewish scientists from Europe, the progress of the Manhattan Project in the United States was much slower than in history. However, by the summer of 1943, the Manhattan Project in the United States had made some progress because it absorbed some scientists who had fled from the United Kingdom and obtained a lot of information about the German U Project collected by the British intelligence agency.

Although the confidentiality level of the German U Project is very high, the British intelligence agency is not a vegetarian. It can still obtain many clues from the periphery of the U Project, thereby inferring the progress and general research and development direction of the German U Project - for example, the Germans Norway's acquisition of heavy water, large-scale purchases of uranium ore, efforts to find uranium isotope separation methods, and suspected construction of large-scale nuclear reactors were all discovered by the British intelligence agency.

Therefore, the Americans can now determine that a self-sustaining chain nuclear fission reaction is possible, and the Americans have also conducted two unsuccessful reactor tests, but they still accumulated experience and obtained valuable data.

In addition, American scientists Seaberg and MacMillan also discovered element 94 in an experiment to prepare transuranium elements, and also confirmed that element 94 can also trigger nuclear fission reactions. Because they were busy with nuclear reactor experiments, West Borg's discovery of plutonium was delayed by two years, while German scientists discovered element 94 plutonium as early as 1940.

The discovery and research of element 94, as well as the confirmation that Germany had made greater progress in nuclear fission research, made the Americans and Stalin feel considerable urgency. Therefore, Stalin issued an order to Beria in the summer of 1943. Order: Develop at all costs!