The new fuel air bomb in general satisfied both the United States and Britain. It is said that the plan for the landing operation was revised specifically for this purpose. The Allied command identified the existence of such a bomb as top secret, and in order to protect this secret, even the safari mission of the 21st Attack Aircraft Wing was terminated. Because the Allied command feared that if the pilots of the 21st Attack Aircraft Wing were shot down, the Germans might learn the details of such a bomb from them. In this way, before the arrival of D-Day, dragged down by this damned bomb, the attack of the 21st Attack Aircraft Wing on the German-controlled zone had to be completely terminated.

In order to prevent the sudden disappearance of the 21st Attack Wing from alarming the Germans, the Allied Command transferred some units from other units of the 8th Air Force to take over the tasks of the 21st Attack Wing. Ron felt it was a good opportunity to expand the 21st Strike Wing. This is because it is not difficult to select some pilots from other units to fly attack planes, but it is not so simple to prepare a command and logistics system for these improvised pilots. It's going to take a little bit of time to get all these things together. So, Ron thought, the easiest way was to simply form the pilots and planes into two new squadrons and hand them over to the 21st Attack Wing.

And by this time, the construction of the second airfield had also been completed, and the new squadron could be deployed there. Ron proposed this idea to the commander of the 8th Air Army, General Doolittle. A day later, he was replied that his 21st Attack Aircraft Wing would receive a squadron of P/A-38 attack aircraft and a squadron of B-25 light bombers.

Ron was overjoyed by the change, as it nearly doubled the strength of Ron's 21st Attack Wing. Now, the 21st Attack Wing has become a super wing with 5 flying squadrons. Still, to be honest, there's nothing unreasonable about this approach. Because Ron was already a brigadier general. In the U.S. Army Air Corps, the commander at the wing level is generally a colonel. Only in some special wings will there be brigadier co-captains, such as Ron's previous "reverse cross". And now, it makes quite sense to make a brigadier general's wing a little special.

Two new squadrons were assigned to the newly built airfield. It's the one whose progress has been slowed down by the rabbit. In honor of the bunnies who slowed down the construction of the airport, the airport was named "Rogue Bunny Airport" by a guy with a bad taste.

In fact, raiding the German-occupied territories was now a relatively simple task. Since the Luftwaffe was expelled from the sky, the greatest threat to Allied aircraft has become German anti-aircraft guns. It is true that the density of anti-aircraft guns of the Germans is not small, but compared with fighters, anti-aircraft guns have a fatal weakness, that is, they are almost immobile compared to aircraft. This makes it naturally passive in the battle with the aircraft. Germany's industrial capabilities are good, but in any case it is unlikely that it will fill all of Europe with anti-aircraft guns. This meant that there were always very few targets that could be protected by a large number of anti-aircraft guns. Most targets will always be exposed to aircraft attacks without the cover of anti-aircraft guns.

So the day after the new squadron was improvised, they set off for France to continue their raiding mission. As for the effects of their actions, we can learn something from such a letter.

"Since 44 years, driving on roads in France, especially near the French coast, has become a very dangerous thing. American attack aircraft and bombers hovered over these areas almost all the time, both day and night.

Last Friday evening, our convoy was transporting a convoy to Boulogne-sur-Mer. You know, my dear, that in the present days, if it is not necessary, the motorcade will try to march at night to avoid the enemy bombardment.

It was dark on all sides, and I couldn't see anything clearly, even the road surface. The bombing by American planes left much of the road completely in ruins. Of course, compared to those roads in Russia, these roads are in good condition. It's just that when we drove here at night, we didn't even dare to turn on the lights in order to avoid being discovered by the enemy. Only the car at the front of the convoy was responsible for guiding the way, which had a flashlight to illuminate. Compared to the headlights, the light of the flashlight is as dim as a small candle.

We went in the dark, and we might not be able to walk 50 kilometers in one night. Sometimes, because we can't see the road, some vehicles get stuck in craters, and when it's almost dawn, we have to abandon it.

On the highway, at intervals, there will be a shelter. Most of these shelters are in the woods near the road. We'll drive the car there before dawn and hide it. Every time we got out of the car, we immediately had to go back to the road. We need to get rid of some traces on the road before dawn. Because the enemy is not stupid, if there are these things, they will judge our approximate position and bomb them indiscriminately. If you don't get it right, the whole team will suffer.

But even if that's all in order, you shouldn't think you're safe, and don't even think about running to the car to catch up on sleep. This is not Germany, this is France. All the French people hate us, they want us to be finished. Here there are rebels everywhere. These guys will quietly hide and wait for the enemy attack aircraft to appear, and they will quickly fire flares into the sky, and then the enemy attack aircraft will launch a merciless attack on the location they have pointed out.

At dawn that day, we were struck by that. At dawn, we finished clearing the trail and went back into the woods, but we didn't go to the car. Only the Croatian named Klaus was thirsty and ran to the car to get water. At this moment, the bomb fell, and 15 cars, along with Klaus's unlucky bastard, immediately ......"

While the two new squadrons were wreaking havoc over France, the original three squadrons were not idle, they were even busier than the two new squadrons that were attacking every day.

The British found a beach in Ireland. It is said that the conditions of this beach are very similar to those of the target beach, so the training destination of the 21st Attack Aircraft Wing was set here.

Judging by the current situation, in the absence of interference, the efficiency of the attack of the 21st Attack Aircraft Wing on targets is still good. However, there will not be such good conditions in actual combat. In actual combat, you have to think about the cooperation with the landing force, and you have to take into account the enemy's anti-aircraft fire. Therefore, the next step is to strengthen the coordination ability of the 21st Attack Aircraft Wing, as well as the assault capability under enemy anti-aircraft artillery attacks.

After hanging a large 1.5-ton bomb, the flight performance of the P/A-38 deteriorated significantly. This made the threat to anti-aircraft guns quickly increase. There are two ways to solve this problem. One is to increase the height of the bomb, but this will undoubtedly bring about a bad consequence, that is, the bombing accuracy will drop sharply, and the possibility of accidental injury will increase sharply. At the same time, although this got rid of the threat of 37-mm caliber anti-aircraft guns, it also put itself under the threat of large-caliber anti-aircraft guns.

The second way is to suppress the enemy's anti-aircraft artillery fire first. This is also done in two ways. The first is to arrange for other attack aircraft to carry rockets to escort them. However, there are the following problems in this way, that is, if the enemy's anti-aircraft guns do not take the initiative to fire, these escort aircraft may not be able to detect the enemy's anti-aircraft guns; And as soon as the enemy anti-aircraft artillery fires, the main attack aircraft is already in danger.

The second approach is bold. That is, the artillery fire is used to suppress the exposed target on the ground, and the attack aircraft drops bombs in the interval between the artillery attacks. This requires a high degree of mastery of the timing of the attack. Otherwise, maybe some unlucky guy will be shot down by his own howitzers.

In the end, the second option was accepted by everyone. All that's left is the training.

At a distance of about 12 km from the beach, two cruisers were firing at the beach with live ammunition, while at the same time, a group of landing craft was rapidly approaching the beach. A thousand meters from the beach, a large swarm of rockets suddenly rose from a landing craft and fired at the beach in a dense manner. Before the smoke and dust of the missile and rocket explosions cleared, a group of P/A-38s whistled down......