By the time Marshal Speiler came out of the Chancellery, the air raids by the Americans were over. If you look up, you can also see the long trail left by the bomber group in the sky, and the small black flowers left behind by the explosion of anti-aircraft shells at high altitude.

"The Americans fly very high, and it is difficult to guarantee the accuracy of bombing at such an altitude. Of course, it will also be safer this way, and the anti-aircraft guns will be less of a threat to them. Field Marshal Sperler thought as he looked up at the tracks left by the American plane.

However, this is not something he can manage now. Just now, the Führer had relieved him of the post of commander of the Third Air Force and ordered Marshal Catherine to take over his place.

"Now it's Catherine's turn to be nerve-wracked." Marshal Speller thought about it as he walked down the steps of the Chancellery. A gust of wind blew, and some pieces of paper flew in the wind. Field Marshal Speller saw that a group of policemen were busy picking up the pieces of paper and gathering them together.

"What's that paper?" Field Marshal Sperler asked.

His adjutant immediately ran to the policemen, they had a couple of conversations, and then the adjutant ran back and handed a piece of paper to Marshal Speiler.

"Marshal," the adjutant handed him the piece of paper, "and he said that these were the leaflets that had just been dropped by the American planes. They didn't drop the bomb just now. ”

Field Marshal Speller lowered his head and saw that the leaflet read:

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"Residents of Berlin, we will visit again tomorrow at noon and drop real bombs, the whole of Berlin is already doomed to destruction, it is inevitable. Berlin is a sin city, the lair of the evil Nazis, and it is bound to perish, just as Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed. Don't be under any illusions that the Nazi air force will protect you. We're here today, have you seen even one of their fighters? Tomorrow, the heavenly punishment will come, and this is God's will, and it will be done! Those who were tied to the Nazi chariots, those who did not want to give the Nazis a burial, should flee from this sin city, just like from Sodom and Gomorrah, and not look back! ”

The final inscription was: "Commander of the Eighth Air Force of the US Army: Doolittle"

Marshal Speller crumpled the leaflets, he perfectly understood the intentions of his opponents. The adversary wanted to force the Luftwaffe to engage it with a strike on the city. Left unchecked, the blow to morale would be too great, and in the event of a mass exodus of city dwellers, the entire industry would collapse. However, the Luftwaffe now had no power to stop the enemy, and it had almost no choice but to fight to the death.

The day after tomorrow, Marshal Catherine will come and take his place, and he will have to rush back to organize tomorrow's interception.

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In the early hours of August 28, before the sun had risen, the first groups of attack aircraft began to take off. The first to take off was the Mosquito bomber, which was part of the British Royal Air Force. The Mosquito bomber is a wonderful flower of the Royal Air Force, and the Soviets' La-5-La-7 series are known as the two "sacred trees" (magical wooden aircraft) of World War II. In this kind of aircraft, except for the engine and other components, the main structure of the entire aircraft is wooden. Compared to those all-metal airplanes, wooden airplanes always felt like a backward thing during the First World War. However, the performance of the Mosquito bomber was top-notch throughout World War II. In particular, at high altitudes, it can fly at high speeds of up to 680 km/h. Faster than most fighters. Coupled with the fact that most of the aircraft were wooden, the reflected radar signal was small, difficult to detect, and difficult to intercept, compared to the Lancaster heavy bomber, the Mosquito bomber suffered less losses.

In fact, the Mosquito bomber had one of the lowest loss rates of World War II. Before Ron's crossing, he saw a post on the Internet asking what kind of combat plane would you most like to fly if you were to go back to World War II as a pilot? At that time, Ron did not hesitate to choose the mosquito bomber, because flying this kind of aircraft has the highest survival rate.

This time, however, the first Mosquito bomber was not tasked with bombing German targets, but jamming German radar. More than two hundred mosquito bombers flew to the target loaded with a special type of bomb.

Because the radar reflection area of the Mosquito bombers was very small, the German radars could detect them only at very close distances. Therefore, it is most appropriate to give them the task of dealing with radar.

The Mosquito bomber swarm flew all the way over the German radar station, then opened the magazine and dropped that special bomb. The bomb was not filled with explosives, but with a large amount of lightweight aluminum foil. When the bomb falls to a certain height, it explodes, throwing aluminum foil into the air. A large amount of aluminum foil floats in the sky, and when radar waves hit these aluminum foils, a large number of echoes are generated.

Now, the radar of the German army is completely useless because of the interference of these aluminum foils. Because there was no Doppler filtering technology at that time, the radar could not distinguish between the radar waves reflected by the aluminum foil and the radar waves reflected by the aircraft, so that the radar screen was lit up by the echoes of the aluminum foil, and nothing could be seen.

This new bomb was invented by the British not so long ago. It came in handy for the first time during the bombing of Hamburg. But this time it was used on a much larger scale, and the entire line of radar defense along the coast of Western Europe temporarily lost its effectiveness under such an attack.

This move was completely unexpected by the Germans. Now a new problem was before Marshal Sperler: during the period when the radar was blinded, there must have been enemy planes that crossed the cordon of the radar station. But what are these planes, how many of them there are, what are their lines. It's all unknown. If it is the enemy's bomber group that is crossing the border now, then it is necessary to take off fighters immediately to intercept it, and if it is completely light, and then rely on the news from the observation post to intercept it. But if it is a group of fighters who cross the border, and take off the fighters now, they will be in the dilemma of the 24th.

"It must be a group of bombers, otherwise why would the enemy interfere with our radar?"

"The real goal of the enemy is to consume our fighters! This is just to fool a fool like you! ”

The two staff officers simply quarreled over it. The other staff officers were also divided into three factions, either pro-bomber or pro-fighter say. Another faction? They were playing soy sauce.

"Inform the fighter units to be ready for action and ready to take off at any time." Marshal Speiler made the decision, "Inform the jet troops, all take off." ”

In the eyes of Marshal Speller, this hand of the Americans was purely a trick. Because if the Americans' battle plan remained the same, that is, they sent fighters first and then bombers after 40 minutes to 1 hour, the Germans would be at a disadvantage no matter how they responded. On the contrary, if bombers and fighters were sent at the same time, the Germans would be given a chance. Good generals often do very risky things in war, but they rarely take pointless risks.

Nevertheless, Marshal Sperler ordered all the ME-262 units to take off. He gave them the task of searching for enemy bomber units and not engaging enemy fighter units. If the enemy bomber is not detected within twenty minutes, it will immediately return home.

Actually, Marshal Sperler did not really expect any miracles from the ME-262, he just wanted to create an excuse for this unit not to participate in the battle. This kind of aircraft is the hope of turning the tables, but now their number is too small to play a decisive role at all, the pilots of the ME-262 are trump cards, and now the reliability of the ME-262 is too low, (the number of enemy planes knocked out will not be much more than the number of their own crashes) such a vain loss is too uneconomical. Although Field Marshal Sperler was about to leave his command, he still hoped to leave Marshal Catherine with something to count on.

In fact, for the sake of future counterattacks, Marshal Sperler even transferred many veteran pilots of fighter units to the units flying ME-262. So much so that there are many more veteran pilots in these units than jets. It's also keeping the fire in place for future counterattacks.

Of course, this is not without a cost. The cost will be seen right away. This time, among the units that actually went on interception missions, the number of veteran pilots dropped significantly. The rest of the rookies are sure to bleed.

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In fact, the way Ron's fleet departed hadn't changed in any way. The practice of jamming the radar station, of course, is good to be able to deceive the Germans, but if you can't, there is nothing to lose. It's like what a chess player friend from a previous life said when he taught him to play chess: when your position is clearly superior, it is best to simplify the situation quickly. Don't try to organize complex battles at such times, that will only give your opponent a chance to turn the tables.

If there is any difference between this battle and the previous ones, the only difference is the number of aircraft put into it, especially the number of bombers. Thanks to the participation of the Royal Air Force, more than 600 more fighters were put into operation in this operation, but this is of little significance. Because those 600-odd planes were all Spitfire.

Spitfire is good, but the voyage is too bad. These guys take off from the UK with a full tank of fuel, fly over the English Channel, and have to turn backwards. Although they had auxiliary fuel tanks on their batteries this time, they were of limited use, and at most they could fly to the north of France to clear the airspace. But in the north of France, German fighters were as rare as giant pandas.

The real difference is also in the bombers, the British took out 843 bombers in one go, and all the water is Lancaster heavy bombers! This made the number of heavy bombers in this bombing of Berlin exceed 2,000 in one fell swoop. This is the largest bomber group since the outbreak of the war.