Of the seven C-47s that landed this time, two were attack AC-47s, and the rest of the C-47s were either loaded with various supplies or carrying personnel. The planes quickly unloaded their cargo and personnel, took off on the narrow runway, and flew back to England.

The most important of the unloaded supplies was a radio system. With it, we can better command the operation. However, it will take time to install and debug this system, so at least today, the 21st Attack Aircraft Wing will not have much combat action except for the transfer.

The combat units that transferred to this "forward airfield" included half a squadron of P/A-38 attack aircraft, two AC-47 "air gunboats", and six P-81 fighters for air defense. In the coming days, with the completion of the new apron at the airport, the remaining half of the squadron of P/A-38 attack aircraft will also be transferred here.

It was already about five o'clock in the afternoon, the sun had already tilted to the west, and night was coming soon.

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On the road to Saint-Sauvo, a large convoy is riding the darkness. It was the 17th Waffen-SS Panzergrenadier Division marching overnight. In the general public's mind, the Waffen-SS units were the sharpest units of the German army. Actually, this view is not entirely correct. Of all the 38 Waffen-SS divisions, the real jīng sharp ones were the dozen or so in front. It can be said that the Waffen-SS divisions after the SS-12 Panzer Division "Hitler Youth" were basically garbage. For example, the famous SS-13 "Holy Knife" and SS-14 "Ukrainian Volunteer Division" are all Waffen-SS divisions whose combat effectiveness is not comparable to that of a regiment of the ordinary Wehrmacht. However, the SS-17 Panzergrenadier Division was the best of the Waffen-SS divisions in the lower number. Although they can't be compared with the SS divisions of Jīng Rui in the top 12, they are not the same scum as the "Holy Knife" and the "Ukrainian Volunteer Division". In the history of the plane before Ron, although they rarely appeared as protagonists, they were still quite tenacious when fighting with those ace troops.

As a low-ranking Waffen-SS unit, the SS-17's equipment was completely incomparable to that of the top-ranked Jīng sharps. The gap in both equipment and personnel is significant. Although the word armor is in the name, in fact, the armored strength of this division is no stronger than that of an ordinary American infantry division. In fact, as the richest American military in World War II, the luxury of their equipment was the envy of the Germans. Aside from the lack of heavy tanks, almost any American infantry division placed on the German side should be called an Panzergrenadier Division or even an Panzer Division.

The SS-17 did not have Tiger tanks, and even Leopard tanks were few, and the main force of his armored forces was the Type Four H tank and the No. Three assault gun. These weapons were inferior to the M4 tanks with long-barreled 76mm guns and M-10 tank destroyers in the hands of the Americans. So the Germans didn't really expect this division to repel the Americans, they just hoped that it could hold the Americans back for as long as possible and buy enough time for the destruction of Cherbourg.

The weather was fine tonight, and the sky turned yīn after dark, and the cloud height was only about a thousand meters, which made the SS-17's march much less likely to be interfered with by enemy fighters. Such an opportunity, of course, had to be seized, so tonight, they let go of their guts, and every car turned on its headlights and sped on the road.

During the night, the SS-17 safely covered the distance that would have taken two nights. However, the rapid march also brought a big problem, the troops were stretched very long, some infantry units were left behind, and the SS-17 was equipped with not enough cars to pull all the infantry, so they had to be half by car and half on foot. In the past few days, due to the impact of air raids, the troops in the car marched no faster than on foot, so when it was dawn, everyone could rest together in a hidden place, and wait until the evening, when the original car was on foot, and the original car on foot. No one has been left behind when they walk like this. But tonight was different, for the chariots had gone too far, and if the foot troops were to ensure that they were to march to-morrow night, they would have to make their way during the day.

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The change in the weather at night worries Ron. Although meteorologists say that after dawn the weather will improve, although it will not be clear, it will not rain, and the height of the clouds will gradually rise above 3,000 meters - this is enough. But Ron was still uneasy, because even decades later, with the help of artificial Earth satellites and supercomputers that carry trillions of operations per second, weather forecasts are often unreliable. Not to mention this time.

It's just that Ron doesn't have a good way, although he is a traverser, he is not a son of a plane like Liu Xiu who can shoot meteors. Although Ron was nominally a Christian, like Patton, he brought the chaplain and told him to pray to God that tomorrow would be clear. If tomorrow the weather is fine, I will give you a medal; If the weather doesn't shine, I'll ask you to write a letter home to every soldier in the whole army, and Ron really can't do it. Anyway, it was useless to be anxious, so Ron had to go to bed honestly.

The house made of the newly cut down trees had a faint fragrance that Ron could even tell the smell of oak, camphor, fir and oak, and the aroma of this mixture suddenly reminded him of Nadya. Nadya has a smell very similar to this fragrance, and at that time she asked Nadya what perfume she used, but Nadya replied that she had never used perfume. Well, I haven't written to Nadya for many days since Drì, so maybe I should take the time to write a letter to her tomorrow. Ron thought so and slowly drifted off to sleep.

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The next day Ron woke up early, got out of bed, and he got two pieces of good news. The first piece of good news is about the weather. As the Allied meteorologists predicted, today the height of the clouds has risen a lot, and the attack aircraft can move. However, Ron did not have much hope for daytime movements, and according to Ron's estimates, he encountered at most a small number of trash fish during the day, because according to the German marching habits on the Western Front, they walked at night and rested during the day. They must be hiding in some places during the day, but you won't find them.

As for the second good news, after a night of hard work, the radio command system has been installed, and now it is under intense commissioning, and it is estimated that it will be put into use in another hour. This is definitely good news, and air combat, especially at night, is absolutely not possible without this.

Although he didn't have much hope for the day's results, an hour later, after the radio command system was fully available, Ron sent a group of planes, including the two AC-47 attack planes, out.

In fact, the original intention of sending them out this time was just to familiarize the pilots with the air conditions in the expected combat area and prepare for future battles. In addition, it is also to let the pilots on the AC-47 who were accustomed to flying transport planes find the feeling of attack aircraft.

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Major Crawford poked his head out of the woods and looked at the sky. A group of P/A-38 attack planes had just passed over them, and in order to avoid the attack, everyone went into the woods in one fell swoop.

"All out! The whole team! Crowchen cried out. So the soldiers of his battalion came out of the woods, formed their formation, and continued on their way.

"It's so painful to walk during the day!" Crowchen walked as he could, grumbling inwardly, "Those guys ran as hard as they could last night, and they didn't want to think about how miserable we were during the day!" What else do you say that you are infantry, the target is small, easy to hide, even if you walk during the day, there is no problem. They don't know, as long as there is a plane during the day, we have to quickly hide, wait for the plane to pass before we can come out, every time we come out, we have to count the number of people, the whole team, just less than 20 minutes, I have been in the team three times! If we continue like this, we won't be able to catch up today. ”

But complaining is complaining, the road still has to go, and the plane still has to hide. Crouchen walked with his battalion for another ten minutes or so, when the sound of an airplane engine was heard in the sky again.

"Don't let people walk!" At this time, there were no woods on either side of the road, only wide dark green meadows. But this is not a problem, the soldiers' uniforms are very similar to the faces of the grass, as long as you lie down in the grass, it is basically impossible to spot them from the air. So Crowchen waved his hand, and everyone left the road again, ran to the grass and lay down.

The two planes flew closer, and Crawford raised his head and saw clearly. That's just two C-47 transport planes.

"It's just a transport plane, it's not a threat. Are they going to go to the back and drop the paratroopers? After a while, send a report to the troops behind, and report it. Now let's hurry up and walk. Crowchen thought. So he stood up, waved to everyone, and motioned to leave the transporters alone and move on. So the soldiers also got up and walked towards the road.

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The sudden emergence of so many people from the grass below startled the pilot Stephen.

"These guys are hiding well, why should they expose themselves?" He said to the co-pilot Joaquin.

"I must think that we are transport planes, and we can't do anything to them." The co-pilot didn't have time to answer, but the gunner Koku made such a judgment.

"Dare to underestimate us and give them a great look!"

"Don't worry, they're preparing the whole team. Wait until they're lined up on the road......" Cocu said, reaching out and fondly stroking his 25mm Gatling.