Section 516 The sun does not set and the dead come back to life
The biggest mistake ever made by the Luftwaffe was that at the end of August, it focused on attacking British air bases and aircraft factories, causing the British army to suffer heavy losses, exhaustion, and about to collapse, but out of the idea of revenge for the air raid on Berlin, it turned to attack London, so that the British Air Force gained a precious respite and quickly recovered its combat effectiveness, thus missing the victory in the Battle of Britain! In air defense operations, the British army adopted the principle of unified command, centralized use, all-round defense, and highlighting key points, with fighter planes as the mainstay, combined with antiaircraft guns, searchlights, and blocking balloons, and arranged them in depth and echelons. In addition, they changed their tactics in a timely manner, formed a large formation of five to seven squadrons to fight, and mostly adopted such tactics as trailing attacks, split attacks, and separate attacks in air battles, and won victories. But in the face of the air force of the Chinese volunteers, the British Royal Air Force is completely passive, whether it is the destruction of the radar system or the failure of the trailing attack, it is not the most deadly, the most worrying thing for the British Air Force is that the commander of the Chinese Air Force seems to have a tendon, and he has identified the British air defense system and all the targets related to the flight, and there is a great sense of not wiping out all the British air power, and the British Air Force is now not even a ten maintenance workshop, even if it is a fire-breathing physique, it cannot be maintained and maintained, which has been fighting in the field for more than a week in a row. Originally, Britain could also import fighter jets from the United States by virtue of foreign trade, but the United States did not enter the wartime system at all, and even if it received the drawings provided by Britain free of charge, the production of fighter jets was insufficient, and the pilots might be able to provide hundreds of pilots to Britain, but it was of no use. Second, the Chinese Volunteers adopted the strategy of driving away and sinking all merchant ships close to Britain, and the protests of the Americans were all about exhausting, and anyway, they were all air forces organized by volunteers, and China did not recognize the actions of these people as representing the behavior of the Chinese state. If this continues, the British Royal Air Force, which is constantly losing blood, is completely defeated.
Finally, after 5 June, the British Air Force was completely on its stomach, and as Marshal Kesselring put it, "the only thing that could stop the German and Chinese air forces in the skies of the British Isles was the balloons and the weather." "The Luftwaffe in a large-scale replacement of B6 "Whirlwind" medium bombers and F5 "Eagle" fighters are also resurrected, large-scale air strikes have lasted for more than a month, the battered British line of defense is as tempting as a ripe apple, but China does not want Germany to destroy the withered and decayed Britain, so the Chinese volunteers after completing the task of destroying the British Air Force, packed the Chinese cultural relics returned by France and Germany and part of the economic compensation, transferred to Tunisia, I went to cheer for the more funny noodle army.
Although the Germans were optimistic about the eventual victory over Britain, and the withdrawal of the Chinese allowed the Luftwaffe to finally regain its independence, was the centuries-old empire really so easy to bully? As early as November of the 17th year of the Commonwealth, a ministerial meeting of the British Commonwealth was held in London, and Britain discussed for the first time the economic plan in wartime. The meeting was organized by Anthony. Aiden, who became Secretary of State for Commonwealth affairs at the outbreak of war. At that time, it was believed that the main task of the overseas Commonwealth countries would be the supply of food and raw materials, while the United Kingdom would produce large quantities of arms and other industrial goods. However, Canada was able to make an important industrial contribution from the outset, while Australia and India had valuable industrial potential to serve the war effort. However, the first thing to strengthen is to expand the import of primary products from overseas. The United Kingdom has long-term contracts with Australia and New Zealand under which the United Kingdom is required to purchase all surplus staple foodstuffs and all wool available for export in Australia and New Zealand. Canada's trade in food with Great Britain (with the exception of wheat and flour) had been restricted before the war, and at this time the supply of food began to increase dramatically, especially the export of bacon and cheese to Europe. In the United Kingdom, food storage was increasing so rapidly that it was problematic to set up suitable cold storage for it during the British campaign.
One of the initial effects of the war on the economy of the Commonwealth, and one of the most enduring and important effects that later proved to be one, was the creation of the Sterling Zone, which included all the Commonwealth countries except Canada, as well as many other countries, and the participating countries had to accept a mutual agreement on the disposal of their gold and dollar reserves. The sterling area developed from the application of the strict exchange and management measures imposed during the war to normal banking operations in the pre-war years. Under this approach, many countries, including all of the self-governing Dominions of the United Kingdom, with the exception of Canada, and all of the United Kingdom's dependencies, colonies and protectorates, have deposited in London a portion of their contingency reserves and excess bank funds. The money was stored in pounds sterling, which was freely convertible until the seventeenth year of the Lunar New Year. When war broke out, the United Kingdom was fully aware of the need to convert its assets abroad into movable property, to preserve its dollar and gold revenues and to establish a foreign exchange regime. One or two countries with reserves in London refused to join the system, but a number of important countries followed the pre-war practice. At the same time, they agreed to deposit all their foreign exchange earnings in the United Kingdom. As a result of this agreement, the Sterling Area Dollar Public Fund was established to pool dollar revenues from countries commonly known as the Sterling Area.
The United Kingdom runs the public fund, which acts as a bank to disburse the United States dollars they need. Canada did not join the sterling zone due to its currency and economy, which is closely related to the US dollar. The Union of South Africa, although participating in the sterling zone, has its own separate gold reserves. All the other countries of the Commonwealth, as well as some of the countries of the Middle East, later remained within this tightly knit organization, which later had a tremendous impact not only in the financing of the war but also in the structure of trade after the war.
When Britain entered the war, it had $4.5 billion in U.S. assets, including U.S. dollar cash, gold, and convertible investments in the U.S. The only way to increase these resources was to mine new gold mines in the British Empire, mainly in South Africa, of course, and to export commodities to the United States, especially luxury goods, such as whiskey, fine woollen fabrics, and ceramics. In the first sixteen months of the war, another two billion dollars were obtained in this way. In those days when a battleship cost only tens of millions of dollars and a fighter only cost tens of thousands of dollars, this was undoubtedly a very large asset. In the first 17 years, Germany's annual military expenditure was only $3.4 billion.
On the industrial side, mobilization is also proceeding relatively rapidly. The United Kingdom can no longer be seen as a unique arsenal of the Commonwealth, as it was in 1914. Industrial production had to develop rapidly in the countries of the Commonwealth overseas. Britain sent key workers and technicians to manage factories overseas, and many regions began to draw up plans to expand production. Canada has established a sizable shipbuilding industry. Despite the loss of the mountainous territories of the north, India's industrial production capacity developed rapidly, so that by the end of the nineteenth century it was able to supply about three-quarters of the total amount of supplies needed by the armed forces of the region. Although all the high explosives used in India before the war had to be imported, and at the same time it was not possible to produce motor vehicles, radio radios, power machine tools or machines in general, there is such an achievement. In South Africa, there was a leading industrialist named Dr. H.J. van der Beer, who was given the responsibility for the development of industry. By the end of that year, the Union of South Africa had not only established a small but useful arms industry, but had also established itself as a large maintenance base for all forces fighting in the Middle East. Both Australia and New Zealand developed industries, with the former beginning to manufacture aircraft and tanks, and the latter taking advantage of their limited industrial production capacity to switch to the production of certain munitions.
In June of the eighteenth year of the first century, seeing that Britain was about to be picked up by Germany, the United States finally relented and agreed that Britain would take over the French order contract in the United States. In addition, new orders for aircraft, tanks and merchant ships were issued, and large-scale new factories were built in the United States and Canada. As of November, the UK had paid for all goods received. By this time, Britain had sold $335 million worth of American shares, which had been requisitioned in pounds sterling from private British holders. In total, the UK paid more than $4.5 billion in cash for military purposes during this period. Considering the protracted nature of the war, about two billion dollars in foreign exchange reserves are also retained to cover the worst-case scenario that may occur. Strong financial resources helped Britain survive the most dangerous period in the second half of the eighteenth year.
Although Britain no longer has the protection of the air force, but the Royal Navy can still watch Raeder's second fleet on the high seas, the Germans still have no way to cross the small ditch, after the Luftwaffe with B6 and Howling Eagle to carry out a surprise attack on the home fleet, the German army from top to bottom no longer believes that the Luftwaffe has the ability to independently deal with the British Royal Navy and ensure the implementation of the Sea Lion plan. Although the Luftwaffe without the big fat man had a good record, it had to face pressure from the army to compete for the main position of the Sea Lion operation, and without the big voice of the fat man, the Luftwaffe, which lacked a sense of presence, had to succumb to the army's plan to set up batteries to block the strait.
In August and September of the 18th year of the First Century, Germany began to set up forts on the southern shore of the English Channel. The forts were particularly concentrated near Calais and Greynose, and it was clear that their purpose was not only to prevent British warships from entering the strait, but also to control the shortest route across the channel. By mid-September, the following cannons had been erected for use in the area:
(1) To the south of Grey Nose Point, the "Siegfried" battery is equipped with four cannons of 380 caliber.
(2) In the north of Bougné, the "Frederick-Auguste" battery is equipped with three cannons of 305 caliber.
(3) At Gray Nose Point, the "Elector" fort is equipped with four cannons of 280 caliber.
(4) Between Calais and Whitenose, the "Duke of Henry" battery was equipped with two cannons of 280 caliber.
(5) To the east of Calais, the "Odenberg" battery was equipped with two cannons of 240 caliber.
(6) In the area of Gray Nose Point-Calais, the M.1, M.2, M.3, and M.4 batteries were equipped with a total of 14 cannons of 170 calibers.
In addition, by the end of August, no less than thirty-five German Army heavy and medium batteries had been erected along the French coast for defense, in addition to seven with captured artillery. Given that the Strait of Dover is only 36 kilometers wide at its narrowest point, these guns pose a serious threat to the British, not only for long-range shelling of convoys crossing the strait, but even for direct shelling of British targets in the vicinity of Port Dover. But the loss of this month cost the Germans dearly, because when everything was ready and only the east wind was owed, the east wind really rose, and it came very violently.