As the big battle approached, the soldiers of Company E became restless, and they felt more and more that Mark? Lieutenant Sobel will take them to the devil's pocket.

As for Sobel's goodwill when he led the soldiers and the independent company on the march this time, the vast majority of the soldiers of Company E thought that it was Sobel's return.

So the sergeant majors of Company E held an emergency meeting and demanded that Sobel be replaced.

Colonel Xinke, under pressure from the imminent war of the United States, transferred Captain Meehan of B Company to Company E as company commander.

Winters performed well in the independent company, and under his tutelage, the soldiers became more and more mature in parachuting skills, and they were transferred back to E Company by Colonel Xinke as the commander of the 1st platoon.

The soldiers of Company E, under Yan Zhi's training, have made a qualitative leap in both physical fitness and fighting skills.

Other allies would often invite Yan Zhi to their camp to give lectures, which made the quality of their soldiers improve rapidly.

The 116 Infantry Company was transferred to the German battlefield. Their poor performance at the Maicall military training base, as well as repeated defeats at the hands of the Chinese Independence Company, humiliated the 442nd Japanese Infantry Regiment, and the 116th Infantry Company was almost completely wiped out on the battlefield.

Although it was the E Company that first broke the world march record held by the Japanese, the performance of the Independent Company still shined, so President Roosevelt vigorously supported China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, strengthened the size of the Flying Tigers Air Force in China, and strengthened the friendly military exchanges between the two countries.

The footsteps of the great battle are getting closer.

The Independence Company was encamped with the 101st Airborne Division in the western part of England, about ten miles from the west coastline, where the best paratroopers from Britain and the United States were assembled.

Here, all the soldiers can eat whatever they want, without any scruples, and can drink and eat as much as they want.

The soldiers of Company E believed that this was a fattening boost before the pig was killed.

Everywhere in the assembly area, there were troops wearing German uniforms and carrying German weapons, wandering around, in order to familiarize the soldiers of the attacking troops with the appearance of the Germans and the weapons used by the Germans.

During this time, all the equipment of the soldiers was in place, their paratrooper uniforms, which were literally a number of marching backpacks, on the legs, arms, chest, waist and waist, were pockets, which were filled with soap, blades, socks, toiletries, as well as flashlights, maps, motion sickness medicine, three K-class dry food, ammunition, compass, anti-personnel grenades, an anti-tank mine, a smoke grenade, and a high bomb, and each soldier was given two boxes of cigarettes.

Intimately, the 101st Airborne Division prepared an emergency hunger bag for each soldier, which contained chocolate, chewing gum, coffee powder, sugar, and matches.

And the soldiers of the independent company themselves pickled Chinese pickles, including dried radish, dried salt beans, salted peppers, pickled sword beans, cowpeas...... After eating big fish and meat in the United States for a long time, I began to miss the pickles of my motherland. It smells of home.

Winters had already taught the soldiers how to use the equipment, but there were too many things to bring, and since the soldiers of the Independent Company were generally short, they put on loose parachute suits, and then brought these supplies, all of them were like bloated Humpty Dumpty, and it was a little difficult to walk, not counting the pistols, rifles, machine guns, bullets and other weapons they had to carry.

The most important point is that each soldier was given a metal cricket signal, which pinched to make a unique "kaba, kaba" sound, which was used as a way to identify each other.

Holding the cricket signal and pinching it a few times, Zhao Fugui muttered to himself: "Could it be that the frogs and toads in Europe are any different from our China?" ”

Fan Si, who was a little nervous before the war, said: "All the people in Europe are female frogs and female toads, and they can't understand your husband's call." ”

Zhao Fugui: "......"

When wearing equipment for training exercises in peacetime, the soldiers of the independent company will try to minimize their belongings, and when they are about to enter the battlefield of life and death, the soldiers will bring as few items as possible that are not necessary, and free up space to put more ammunition.

In terms of ammunition supply, the United States is not as angry as it is at home, as long as you can take it.

Skydiving in a safe place is not the same thing as skydiving over a battlefield where artillery is rumbling.

Parachuting in a safe place, I can breathe freely in the air, but when I get to the war zone, all I am surrounded by is the sound of swishing bullets, and I am constantly being hit and crying for help.

Just before all the troops were assembled and ready to begin the attack, General Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces, gave orders to all the attacking Allied forces to attack the mission.

Omar. The U.S. First Army, commanded by Bradley, consisted of the 7th and 5th armies.

The 7th Army consisted of the 101st Airborne Division, the 82nd Airborne Division, and the 4th Infantry Division;

The 5th Army consisted of the 1st Infantry Division and the 29th Division.

Eisenhower gave the 1st Army the task of establishing beachheads on both sides of the entrance to the Duvo River.

The French coastline forms a right angle at the mouth of the Duvo River, with the coast of the province of Calvados to the east and the base of the Cotentin Peninsula to the north.

The task of the 5th Army was to capture the coast of Calvados

The 7th Army was to capture the base of the Cotentan Peninsula. The area to Utah Beach will be on the easternmost side of the East Road area, and their front will be 70 kilometers long, making it the most difficult area of any landing force to attack.

Eisenhower wanted to give the Eastern Combat Force enough width to commit enough infantry divisions in the first wave of the attack to form an overwhelming advantage and build fortifications behind Hitler's "Atlantic Wall."

The area that the 101st Airborne Division was to conquer was near the beach of Omaha, where the cliffs rising from the ground, 200 to 300 feet high, were stationed, and an artillery position of the German defenders was stationed, which directly threatened the Allied landing ships, and if this artillery position was allowed to fire continuously, the losses of the Allied forces would be unimaginable.

It was extremely difficult to parachute in this area, because in the vicinity of Omaha Beach, a large number of machine-gun and artillery positions could be placed.

The Germans knew the importance of the artillery position on the cliff, and they calculated that if the Allies wanted to seize it, they would have to make an airborne landing.

So the Germans filled the open space around Omaha Beach with anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft heavy machine guns.

Therefore, this difficult task was entrusted to the 101st Airborne Division.

As for which unit of the 101st Airborne Division will land, the landing in this area has not yet been determined.

So Eisenhower ordered that whichever unit of the 101st Airborne Division landed in the vicinity of the area, those artillery positions and heavy machine-gun positions around Omaha Beach must be cleared to ensure the smooth passage of planes carrying troops from other Airborne Divisions.

General Eisenhower personally gave the commander of the 101st Airborne Division, William? Major General C. Leigh called that if his troops could not clear those German Rao artillery and machine-gun positions around Omaha Beach, then the losses of the Allies would be very heavy.

So the commander of the 101st Airborne Division, William? Sharp. Major General Lee decided to send E Company and the Chinese Independence Company to Omaha Beach. 166 Reading Network