The P-81 group easily distanced itself from the BF-109Gs and quickly climbed to higher positions. But the German BF-109 did not follow. According to the German air combat regulations, when the pilots decided that the current situation was unfavorable, they could decide for themselves whether to retreat or not. Obviously, the current situation is unfavorable no matter how you look at it, so the German pilots chose the most reasonable way in accordance with the regulations - to retreat directly.

The P-81 took the initiative to distance itself from the BF-109s, so when Pokryshkin found out, the enemy did not want to catch up at all, but simply turned around and went home. This distance became a talisman for the Germans - by the time the P-81s turned back, the BF-109s would have run away.

Since you can't catch up, you can only return honestly. However, what Pokryshkin did not expect was that in the serious air raids and air battles, he did not lose even a single plane, but when he returned, something happened.

When approaching the ground control line between the two sides, Pokryshkin sent several squads to several nearby German airfields to take a turn to see if he could easily collect a few heads. However, German airfields near the front line, noticeably more vigilant. The squads turned around and found nothing, but were instead damaged by ground fire. Among them, Kovalenko's P-81 was even more seriously damaged, and it staggered across the military demarcation line and fell headlong. But one-book-read-novel xstxt pity Kovalenko hurriedly parachuted. He thought that after landing, he would be able to get help from his army brothers and return to the airport soon, but who knows, damn it, suddenly a gust of wind blew...... Then, well, he landed in a large minefield in the middle of the zone of control between the two sides.

In order to rescue or capture the pilot, there was also a small but very fierce exchange of fire between the Soviet and German armies. In the end, with the support of air firepower, Kovalenko was slightly injured, but he was still snatched back.

But Kovalenko is not the most tragic, the most tragic is Pokryshkin himself. In order to support the battle to recapture Kovalenko on the ground, he took it upon himself to go into battle, and when the battle was over, he was fired at several 85-mm anti-aircraft guns as he climbed as he flew back. Yes, damn it, it's an 85-mm anti-aircraft gun, this is the Soviets' own anti-aircraft guns!

A direct hit of the 85mm shell cut off the rear half of the fuselage of Pokryshkin's P-81, and Pokryshkin managed to climb out of the plane, and because the altitude was too low, as soon as the parachute opened, the person fell to the ground. There was a crunch when his left foot hit the ground, presumably broken. Then he saw a large crowd of infantry rushing around, and the fellows were still shouting slogans such as "Ula", "Forward, Davarich, capture the fascist bandits alive", "Hands up, guns are not killed". It almost Pokryshkin straight away.

When the gang came to Pokryshkin, a private, who looked like a half-grown child who was only sixteen or seventeen years old, pointed a loaded ** sand at his chest, and cursed in his mouth: "You damn fascist, don't you hurry up and follow us!" ”

Pokryshkin almost fainted, where did you find this strange thing? Didn't he even recognize the uniform of the Soviet Air Force on his body and the lieutenant colonel logo on his shoulder?

"Alyosa, don't mess around!" One hand grabbed the ** sand in the half-grown child's hand and pointed the muzzle of the gun at the sky. It was a young man in his twenties with an ensign epaulettes. Turning his head, with a face full of shame, he stammered to Pokryshkin:

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, we ...... We don't know...... We haven't seen ...... We thought it was ...... You are ......"

What else can be said? What else can be said? In a series of battles in 41 and 42 years, the Soviet Union lost too many veterans. And the existing veterans were all concentrated in the elite troops with the title of Guards who carried out the attack mission. So much so that now some of the troops performing garrison tasks, and even the entire company, do not have two veterans. Therefore, when they see an airplane that they have never seen before, they automatically make up their brains to make it a German plane, which is a natural thing. What else can you say about these recruit eggs (river crabs)?

"Go find a stretcher, my left leg is broken." Pokryshkin said.

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And so the raid, codenamed "Joint Enforcement Operation", came to an end. During the operation, the United Air Force destroyed at least 83 German aircraft on the ground, including 15 jets. And that's just a count of the planes destroyed on the runway and tarmac, and the Germans should have lost a lot of planes in the hangar, but neither the Americans nor the Soviets could verify the number of losses. In the ensuing air battle, they shot down another 31 enemy aircraft. The Combined Air Force lost a total of 4 fighters, one was shot down by German anti-aircraft fire, one was accidentally shot down by its own anti-aircraft fire, and two seriously injured planes had to choose to hover in the air to run out of fuel and land on a dirt runway because they could not lower their landing gear. As a result, the pilot was fine, but both planes were badly damaged, and the possibility of repairing them was completely lost, and the only use for dismantling parts in the future was to be used.

Apparently, the operation was a brilliant success. At the same time, the United Air Force received commendations from the United States and the Soviet Union. At the celebration of Prohibition, a large group of American and Soviet pilots were released.

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But on the side of the Germans, the situation was different. In this attack, the losses of jets and pilots reached unbearable levels. After the war, according to German records, the Germans lost 36 ME-262 jets and 26 experienced jet pilots in this attack. At the same time, such an attack also shows that the eastern sky is also very unsafe.

"Action must be taken to stop them! They can't be left to do whatever they want! Can't we send bombers to blow up the airfield that the damn guys use? "In the wolf's lair, Hitler was roaring.

"Of course, we can do this, but I am afraid that bombing alone will not solve the problem completely. We need tougher means. An officer of the Air Force replied.

"What better way can you do it?" Hitler asked.

"The honorable Führer, SS Major Skorzny has some new proposals, and he proposes to us that the problem can be solved by a paratrooper assault."

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Skorzny was the commander of the newly formed "Fort Oning" unit. Originally, the Military Intelligence Directorate of the German General Staff had a subordinate special forces unit codenamed "Brandenburg". This team performed quite well in the Polish campaign in 39 years and the Western European campaign in 40 years. However, due to the gradual increase in the contradictions between Hitler and the officer corps, Hitler's trust in the Military Intelligence Directorate, which was subordinate to the General Staff of the Wehrmacht, also led to a decline in the status of the Military Intelligence in the intelligence system of the Third Reich. Much of its work began to be handed over to the Gestapo and the SS. In addition, in the eyes of the rather traditional German ** official corps, the "special operation" is nothing more than a "sneaky, very small husband" thing. The "Brandenburg" units were also not taken seriously by the Wehrmacht.

In 1943, the SS Foreign Intelligence Service also began to create its own special forces. This special unit was named "Fort Oning's Force". This unit was almost an SS replica of the "Brandenburg Army". At a time when the special operations represented by the "Brandenburg troops" were becoming less and less appreciated in the Wehrmacht, the idea of special operations was more and more loved by the SS. With the establishment of the "Orningburg Army" and their successful rescue of Mussolini in July '43, Hitler simply transferred the hundreds of well-trained officers and soldiers who remained in the "Brandenburg Army" directly to the "Orningburg Army".

Skolzyny, who rose to fame for successfully rescuing Mussolini, is an adventurous man, a big man 6 feet 4 inches tall, who has a huge scar on his face because of a "duel" with a classmate when he was in college. This earned him the nickname "Scarface". Now, with his power growing dramatically, so does Skolzny's ambitions, and he's looking forward to striking again to accomplish tasks that seem almost impossible. At this time, the news of the raid on several airports near Warsaw reached his ears. He immediately sensed that another opportunity was in front of him to make a difference.

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Two days later, one evening, a train pulled into a heavily guarded military railway station near Kyiv. A large man with a visible scar on his face got out of the car first, and then hundreds of soldiers dressed in camouflage and armed with a kind of extra-large submachine gun with a long curved magazine got out of the car one after another, and then boarded several half-track trucks that were already waiting there, and quietly left.