William?? Captain Darcy is a veteran pilot, having served in the Royal Air Force's Lancaster heavy bombers for almost four years. He has carried out many bombing missions, bombing cities at night, air raids on Tirpitz and even bombing the Ruhr Dam.

Berlin's goal is not new to him. He bombed the city as early as the Battle of Britain in 1941. It's just that in the past, when the air raids on Berlin were carried out, it was all at night. If someone were to ask what Berlin was like, Mr. Darcy would probably answer like this.

"Berlin was dark and (except during the first air raid) with countless searchlights against the air. Anti-aircraft fire was also strong...... What, what do you say the buildings in Berlin look like? I could see a little bit of it when the bomb exploded, but it was too short for me to see clearly. But this time, I had to drop the bomb on the Reichstag of the Germans. ”

But this bombing is different, this time the Royal Air Force Lancaster heavy bombers will also bomb Berlin during the day. In fact, the British had been paying attention to the bombing tactics of the Americans since the beginning of the massive daytime bombing by the American Army Aviation. For example, such a thing as a box-shaped formation, almost as soon as it appeared, it was copied by the Royal Air Force. It's just that the Royal Air Force planes mainly fly at night, and they are not used very often.

843 Lancaster heavy bombers were lined up in a large four-story box formation, and Darcy's bombers were inconspicuous in the middle of the group. But in fact, he and the Lancaster with whom he was on a special mission were not the same as other Lancaster bombers. They are on a special mission, which is codenamed "Mandarin Duck Tea". The vulgar mission code name is said to have been proposed by an American general after learning the details of the plan. In order to delight and delight the zealous allies, the British used this code name. Of course, such an action code also fully illustrates one point, that is, the Yankees are all uneducated inferior people. The bombers carrying out this project were specially modified to carry only one bomb in their bomber's special magazine, which was called a "stilt cabinet".

The "Tall Cabinet" is a giant bomb made by the British Air Force during World War II, dropped by specially modified "Lancaster" bombers to deal with the reinforced concrete fortifications and buildings of Nazi Germany. The bomb weighed 5.4 tons, was 6.4 meters long and nearly 98 centimeters in diameter, and dropped from an altitude of 6,000 meters, could blow up a crater more than 20 meters deep and 30 meters in diameter on the ground.

It's just that this bomb is so big that although the Lancaster bomber has been modified, it still can't completely pack this bomb into the magazine, and when it flies, half of the bomb is exposed. Now the bombs are targeting some of the most iconic buildings in the city of Berlin. Like the Parliament Building and the Prime Minister's Office. After learning about the plans of the British, Ron thought to himself: "If the Soviets invade Berlin in the future, as they did in the original history, where will they finally plant the red flag?" ”

Several groups of American P-47 fighters flew high above the British bomber group. These aircraft are responsible for providing close escort for this large fleet. If German planes carrying air-to-air rockets or air-to-air missiles appeared, they were to disperse or destroy them before they could attack.

At a longer distance, there were several large formations of bombers of the American army. The large formation, which obscured the sky and the sun, dragged a long, silver-like river-like track, was truly spectacular.

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The Germans' interceptor fighters were always attacked by the Americans at lower altitudes, and there were even fewer planes that could actually withstand artillery fire and climb to the corresponding altitude. In general, the damage inflicted on the bomber group was limited. However, there were still some German fighters who achieved relatively good results.

For example, there was a group of BF-109s, and while protecting the JU88 from climbing, they were scattered by the P-51 that pounced. After the team was broken up, some of the old birds realized that the lone fighter could hardly pose a threat to the bomber group, so they all went home. On the contrary, some rookies, after being separated from their teammates, continued to search for Allied bombers on their own, encouraged by the concept of "loyalty to the Führer".

It is relatively easy for a single plane to avoid a group of American fighters for a simple reason: one plane is always better concealed than a hundred.

So some of these sporadic fighters were able to escape the search of the American fighters responsible for clearing the airspace and successfully approached the bomber group.

Under normal circumstances, the good fortune of these fighters should end there. The self-defense firepower of the bomber group in the box formation is not something that a few lone fighters can challenge, not to mention that the pilots of these planes are rookies who may not have a hundred hours of flight time.

But these rookies did something that stunned the bombers. An FXSTXT2 machine gun gnawed hard. The badly damaged fighter ended up crashing into a B-24 bomber. Naturally, the German fighters were smashed to pieces, and the B-24 bombers that were hit were also broken in two.

Two minutes later, the British also received news that the bomber had been hit. A lone BF-109, after approaching the British bomber group, directly rammed a British Lancaster heavy bomber on the mission of "Mandarin Duck Tea". It's just that the British were lucky, and before they collided, the German pilot was hit by a Lancaster self-defense machine gun and lost control of the plane. So his plane didn't hit Lancaster's vital point, only half of its hanging tail was knocked off. However, although the Lancaster was barely able to fly, it was obviously not possible to continue on the bombing mission. It had no choice but to break away from the formation, then casually dropped the oversized bomb and turned back. It's just that Captain Reginald would never have imagined what the bomb he dropped at random would blow up.

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A convoy is speeding down the road. At the head were two BMW R42 motorcycles with MG-75 machine guns, which, judging by the epaulettes with two lightning bolts on the clothing of the occupants on the motorcycles, belonged to the SS system. Behind the two motorcycles was an open-top Audi sedan, and in the back was a Henschel 11D1 truck filled with SS soldiers armed with MP-44 assault rifles.

In the back seat of Odd, two people were talking.

"Dr. Xernid, are you really sure that the Holy Grail is hiding in that place?"

"Yes, my research convinced me of that! But, Captain Bach, are you sure that we are so swaggering to rush under the enemy bomber swarm? ”

"Doctor, these are heavy bombers, and they don't have time to drop bombs on small targets like ours. They won't even notice us on the ground...... The Führer would very much like to get his hands on the Holy Grail as soon as possible, so we have to seize every second. ”

"Hearing you say that, I feel a lot more at ease." Dr. Schneid leaned back in his chair and looked up at the sky, "Wait, Captain Bach, look, what is that thing falling?" ”

"Hell, it's a bomb! Hasten! ”

“boom！”

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Reginald flew alone in a Lancaster heavy bomber towards England, and now there were clouds underneath it, and nothing could be seen.

"Hell, where are we? Peter? ”

"Captain, we should be over France, and the strait should already be visible below." Navigator Peter?? Kuningham replied after looking at the route map.

"Okay, let's lower the altitude."

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A moment later, the wounded Lancaster emerged from the clouds. A sprawling city appears before the eyes of Captain Reginald.

"Hell, you said we were up in the strait, so where is this?" Reginald roared.

"Captain, I'll check ...... again"

Just then, a huge iron tower appeared under the front of the plane.

"No need to check, damn it, we're in Paris now! Hurry up and climb! ”

But by this time, the anti-aircraft artillery below had already opened fire. The Lancaster bomber was immediately filled with flower-like smoke from the explosion of anti-aircraft shells.

"Engine No. 1 is damaged!" Soldier McGinsh shouted.

"Engine No. 3 is on fire! Engine No. 4 caught fire! ”

"The plane is not working, guys, we're going to skydive." Reginald said, "Hell, skydive over the city!" ”

"Captain, there's a big clearing over there!" Navigator Peter?? Kunningheim said.

"Well, I hope you're a little more reliable this time. Get ready to skydive! Reginald adjusted his course and gave the order to skydive.

Everyone jumped out in turn, and as the captain, Reginald was the last to skydive. The parachute carried him across a lake inhabited by white swans, over an iron fence, and down to a river with lots of floating logs. Wait, those logs move! Oh my! Alligator! Help!

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The frantic counterattack of a few German pilots did inflict some losses on the Allied fleet, but the huge fleet was still unstoppable. Berlin is already in the sights of the navigators.

"Prepare to enter the attack course!" There was an exciting shout over the radio.

At this time, the anti-aircraft guns on the ground were also shooting frantically into the sky. From the most common 75mmflakl/60 anti-aircraft guns, 88mmflukabxstxtmflukabwehrkanone 40 anti-aircraft guns, all kinds of large-caliber anti-aircraft guns equipped with the German army opened fire one after another. All sorts of shells constantly exploded in the bomber group, and the whole sky, like a basin of boiling water with foam. One bomber after another was hit by anti-aircraft guns, caught fire, fell.

But none of this could stop the Allied bombers. A firm voice came over the radio again:

"Deploy a box formation, and each detachment enters the attack route and prepares to drop bombs."

Under artillery fire, bomber formations began to enter the attack course......