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flanks during their withdrawal and keep close watch upon them. Allied forces
were simply too spent to cope with the Russian winter while conducting a
continuing offensive to push their enemies further to the east and south.
They would have to first regroup and re-provision themselves with weapons,
aircraft and ammunition of all types, including more AGM-999 missiles, before
they could sustain further major offensive operations. Both sides had worn
themselves out in the fighting around Moscow where over two and one half
million military personnel had died, and another four million had been wounded
in the course of six weeks of the most intense fighting the world had ever
known& and those figures did not begin to account for the horrendous,
unimaginable civilian casualties It would take the entire next year, and more,
to bury the dead and clean up the debris of war around Moscow.
Those same conditions would hold true in Israel and north of Anchorage, Alaska
where service personnel and citizens would be finding small pieces of debris
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for years to come. In the three epic battles, Anchorage, Israel and Moscow,
millions had died on both sides and millions more had been wounded.
Over the space of six weeks, these pivotal battles had been fought and decided
in three vastly separate places on the earth's surface. Their outcome would
ultimately be pointed to as the High Tide of CAS and
GIR power during the course of World War III and as a pivotal moment in the
history of all mankind.
But as monumental as the battles were, the fighting and carnage was far from
over and the ultimate outcome of the war was far from decided& and the entire
earth's population knew it.
Epilogue
December 22, 2008, 02:20 Local Time
125 miles West of Juneau, Alaska
The Gulf of Alaska, The Pacific Ocean
The four ships made their way northward, a small convoy carrying men and
supplies up to Anchorage for the Alaskan war effort. There were two older
naval transports, a newer Whidbey Island LSD class amphibious ship packed with
men and supplies, and a single Arleigh Burke class Aegis destroyer outfitted
with the new SUBT CIWS system.
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As they progressed , well over the horizon from shore, they were constantly
monitored by both an E-3
Sentry aircraft out of Elmendorf Air Base near Anchorage and by an E-2C AEW
naval aircraft off of the
Theodore Roosevelt. CAP aircraft from the base and the carrier were in the air
at all times. Further offshore, three Los Angeles class attack submarines,
recently outfitted with SUBT CIWS themselves, monitored the approaches to
Juneau and Anchorage, and the entire inside passage.
With the recent victory near Anchorage and the continuing successful counter
attack into the interior of
Alaska, the commanders of the ships and those tasked with protecting them
thought they were relatively safe. They were wrong.
Suddenly, on the threat boards on the Aegis destroyer, the U.S.S. O'Kane, and
aboard the Whidbey
Island class LSD, the U.S.S. Rushmore, warnings were sounded and sonar
operators picked up the unmistakable sound of rocket engines being set off in
the water resulting in the rapid approach of Killer
Whales. It was quickly apparent that six of the fearsome weapons were
approaching, one for each of the transports, and two each for the O'Kane and
the Rushmore.
The Captain of the O'Kane, who was the commander of the small convoy, had
positioned himself perfectly to handle any attack from seaward, exactly from
where these weapons were closing on his position. The Rushmore was directly to
his left and only one hundred yards away. Each of the transports were in a
tight formation, one ahead of and the other behind the Rushmore, well within
range of the destroyersSUBT CIWS. Though sweating as he received the sonar
reports of the enemy Killer Whale weapons closing on his formation, the
captain felt certain that he had the best defenses possible and was reasonably
confident his four SUBT CIWS turrets could engage and destroy all of them.
He was wrong again.
A good eight hundred yards out from the O'Kane, just as the weapons were
coming into effective SUBT
CIWS range, the two weapons targeting the Burke class destroyer rose and
broached the surface of the water, rising fifteen to twenty feet into the air,
continuing to approach the warship, but now increasing their speed and
approaching 700 knots. The forward Phalanx CIWS was immediately activated, but [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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flanks during their withdrawal and keep close watch upon them. Allied forces
were simply too spent to cope with the Russian winter while conducting a
continuing offensive to push their enemies further to the east and south.
They would have to first regroup and re-provision themselves with weapons,
aircraft and ammunition of all types, including more AGM-999 missiles, before
they could sustain further major offensive operations. Both sides had worn
themselves out in the fighting around Moscow where over two and one half
million military personnel had died, and another four million had been wounded
in the course of six weeks of the most intense fighting the world had ever
known& and those figures did not begin to account for the horrendous,
unimaginable civilian casualties It would take the entire next year, and more,
to bury the dead and clean up the debris of war around Moscow.
Those same conditions would hold true in Israel and north of Anchorage, Alaska
where service personnel and citizens would be finding small pieces of debris
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for years to come. In the three epic battles, Anchorage, Israel and Moscow,
millions had died on both sides and millions more had been wounded.
Over the space of six weeks, these pivotal battles had been fought and decided
in three vastly separate places on the earth's surface. Their outcome would
ultimately be pointed to as the High Tide of CAS and
GIR power during the course of World War III and as a pivotal moment in the
history of all mankind.
But as monumental as the battles were, the fighting and carnage was far from
over and the ultimate outcome of the war was far from decided& and the entire
earth's population knew it.
Epilogue
December 22, 2008, 02:20 Local Time
125 miles West of Juneau, Alaska
The Gulf of Alaska, The Pacific Ocean
The four ships made their way northward, a small convoy carrying men and
supplies up to Anchorage for the Alaskan war effort. There were two older
naval transports, a newer Whidbey Island LSD class amphibious ship packed with
men and supplies, and a single Arleigh Burke class Aegis destroyer outfitted
with the new SUBT CIWS system.
Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html
As they progressed , well over the horizon from shore, they were constantly
monitored by both an E-3
Sentry aircraft out of Elmendorf Air Base near Anchorage and by an E-2C AEW
naval aircraft off of the
Theodore Roosevelt. CAP aircraft from the base and the carrier were in the air
at all times. Further offshore, three Los Angeles class attack submarines,
recently outfitted with SUBT CIWS themselves, monitored the approaches to
Juneau and Anchorage, and the entire inside passage.
With the recent victory near Anchorage and the continuing successful counter
attack into the interior of
Alaska, the commanders of the ships and those tasked with protecting them
thought they were relatively safe. They were wrong.
Suddenly, on the threat boards on the Aegis destroyer, the U.S.S. O'Kane, and
aboard the Whidbey
Island class LSD, the U.S.S. Rushmore, warnings were sounded and sonar
operators picked up the unmistakable sound of rocket engines being set off in
the water resulting in the rapid approach of Killer
Whales. It was quickly apparent that six of the fearsome weapons were
approaching, one for each of the transports, and two each for the O'Kane and
the Rushmore.
The Captain of the O'Kane, who was the commander of the small convoy, had
positioned himself perfectly to handle any attack from seaward, exactly from
where these weapons were closing on his position. The Rushmore was directly to
his left and only one hundred yards away. Each of the transports were in a
tight formation, one ahead of and the other behind the Rushmore, well within
range of the destroyersSUBT CIWS. Though sweating as he received the sonar
reports of the enemy Killer Whale weapons closing on his formation, the
captain felt certain that he had the best defenses possible and was reasonably
confident his four SUBT CIWS turrets could engage and destroy all of them.
He was wrong again.
A good eight hundred yards out from the O'Kane, just as the weapons were
coming into effective SUBT
CIWS range, the two weapons targeting the Burke class destroyer rose and
broached the surface of the water, rising fifteen to twenty feet into the air,
continuing to approach the warship, but now increasing their speed and
approaching 700 knots. The forward Phalanx CIWS was immediately activated, but [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]