Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

"Is Stalin crazy?!"

Molotov soon sent a telegram to Washington, and the senior officials in Washington who received the telegram were confused.

In this telegram, Stalin ordered them to contact Vichy France immediately to prepare for the invasion of Europe? Also wearing de Gaulle by the way? What's the point of not missing the opportunity and not coming back again?

"Judging from the contents of this telegram, even if Stalin is not really crazy, he must have some mental problems." But it is no wonder that since the outbreak of the war, various blows to Stalin have been continuous. He lost a large area of ​​land, his eldest son rebelled, his younger son died unexpectedly, several marshals defected to the enemy, and even his top confidant betrayed him; tons of dirty water was poured on him. Suffering this series of blows, I'm afraid no one with a strong heart can bear it.

"Then everyone below has gone crazy together? No one has noticed Stalin's abnormality?" Everyone under Stalin can't be blind, right?

"Even if they were aware of it, no one would dare to mention it." Think about who would dare to say to Stalin, Comrade Stalin, we suspect that you have a mental illness, please go to a mental hospital for a few days. Anyone who dares to speak like this will be immediately sent to Siberia to dig potatoes. But now it is impossible to go to Siberia, and he might be dragged out and shot.

"It seems that there is really no hope for Moscow." Vice President Truman sighed depressedly, crumpled the message into a ball and threw it into the trash can, and continued to listen to people discuss the situation in Moscow. "It took the Germans less than a day to break through the first line of Soviet defense."

"Have our expeditionary forces been deployed on the first line of defense?"

"About 100,000 people were deployed southeast of Moscow to resist the Romanian army's attack. However, the number of the Romanian army far exceeded ours, and their weapons and equipment were all German. Our army failed to hold on and suffered heavy casualties. "

"The Soviet military leaders decided to abandon the second line of defense and withdraw all defenders into Moscow."

"But street fighting is not the weakness of the German army." It is no exaggeration to say that the German army that has defeated Leningrad, Smolensk, and Stalingrad is already the army with the most experience in street fighting in the world. In addition, Moscow has now lost its support force, and the street fighting is nothing more than a desperate struggle.

At this moment, the radar station on the coastline sent a report that a group of German bombers had been discovered, numbering close to 1,000!

Commander Arnold sighed. "Sure enough, the Germans are not focusing all their energy on Moscow."

But when everyone thought that the German bomber formation would bomb the cities in the northeastern industrial area as usual, they instead headed straight for Washington. To be precise, it wasn't Washington. According to the direction of their flight, it seemed they were heading for Newport News?

Commander Arnold muttered somewhat uncertainly. "They're not trying to bomb the Newport News Shipyard, are they?"

Newport News is an independent city in the Hampton Anchor area of ​​Virginia, located on the southwestern tip of the Virginia Peninsula on the north bank of the James River. It is an important port for the North Atlantic route and domestic water transportation, and an export port for tobacco, automobiles, timber, pulp, grain, coal, etc. There are world-famous shipyards.

In 1886, entrepreneur Collis Porter Huntington founded the "Chesapeake Dry Dock Construction Company" in Chesapeake Bay, Hampton Roads, southeastern Virginia, in order to transport coal. Soon after The name was changed to "Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company" and later to "Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS)". Huntington erected a stone tablet inscribing his ideas. "We want to build good ships here. If we can make a profit, we must do it even if we make a loss. No matter what, the ship is always good."

In 1898, Newport News Shipyard produced the first battleship: the USS Killshark (BB-5). Compared with other older shipyards, the young NNS caught up with the cross-generational wave of iron-hulled ships, steam engine technology replacing wooden-hulled ships, and sail power as soon as it started. It also caught up with the important moment when the United States decided to establish a standing navy at the end of the 19th century. , the plant quickly became a supplier of a new generation of U.S. Navy ships.

In the "Great White Fleet" that sailed around the world in 1907, 7 of the 16 ships were built by Newport News Shipyard, and 6 of the 22 Dreadnought-class battleships of the U.S. Navy were also built by the shipyard. From then until the 1930s, about 27 battleships, cruisers, and destroyers were built, as well as several cargo ships and passenger ships.

During World War II, the U.S. shipbuilding industry experienced a major explosion. Although a large number of ships of various types were sunk by German submarines, by 1943, the U.S. Navy still had 30,000 ships of various types totaling 4.5 million tons. In order to make up for the losses at the front, 1,661 merchant ships were built that year, with a total tonnage of 12.48 million tons, an increase of 50 times compared with 1939 before the war began.

While NNS produced many cruisers and destroyers, it also produced 14 heavy fleet aircraft carriers, including nine Essex-class aircraft carriers (the United States produced a total of 27 heavy fleet aircraft carriers throughout World War II).

Later, Newport News Shipbuilding was not only the largest shipyard in the United States, but also the only shipyard capable of designing, building, and performing nuclear fuel replacement and overhaul of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Newport News Shipyard is responsible for the construction of 100% of the U.S. Navy's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, one of the two largest nuclear submarine manufacturers in the United States, and the construction of 50% of the destroyers (the remaining 50% is built by General Dynamics). Judging from the products produced by the Newport News Shipbuilding Company, it is no exaggeration to call it an American national treasure.

General Leahy's face turned pale after hearing Commander Arnold's words. "Probably not. The Newport News Shipyard has deployed 50 150mm anti-aircraft guns and hundreds of other caliber anti-aircraft guns. With the intelligence capabilities of the Germans, it should be impossible not to know." Even the German ME-264D high-altitude Bombers are also seeking death if they forcefully break into 150mm anti-aircraft gun positions. So far, the German ME-264D bomber group has not approached any 150mm anti-aircraft gun positions. It is obvious that they are quite afraid of this kind of anti-aircraft guns.

But what happened today? Could it be that the bomber group was collectively lost? Or just passing by?

However, he still called his adjutant and gave instructions. "Inform the defenders of the Newport News Shipyard to be more vigilant and never allow German bombers to approach."

As the saying goes, what you are afraid of will come, the German bomber formation is really coming towards the Newport News Shipyard.

As for the 50 150mm anti-aircraft guns, the Germans certainly knew about it, but this time the bombs they carried were extraordinary and could be dropped without flying over the target.