Good steel has to be used on the cutting edge!

This time, Company E was tasked with parachuting near St. Mary-de-Mont, about ten kilometres south of Notre-Dame's Church, with the aim of eliminating the German defenders in the village, seizing the exit from Highway 2, and then blowing up the communication line from Madeleine to the interior.

The task of the independent company was to clear the artillery and heavy machine-gun positions near Omaha Beach to ensure the safety of the airborne troops of the other brother units that followed behind.

This will have a bearing on whether or not the two airborne divisions, with a total of 13,400 officers and men, can be successfully airborne.

This time, the Allies will send hundreds of C-47 transport planes to carry a number of officers and men to the air.

Whether the independent company can successfully take out the artillery and machine-gun arrays arranged by the Germans near Omaha Beach will have a very important impact on the success or failure of this airborne landing.

If the Separate Company could not complete the task quickly, the Allied Airborne Forces would become a target for the Germans.

With reliable intelligence, the Germans had set up a dense group of empty positions near Omaha Beach, and they had also placed heavy defenses.

The commander of the 101st Airborne Division, General William C. Leigh, gave the Independence Company an order that the Germans must be cleared of their anti-aircraft positions on the ground within half an hour after the parachuting.

Of course, even the task assigned to Independence this time is top secret, and the old men in Chongqing, including China, do not know about this operation.

But all the officers and men of the Independence Company know that the first battle that will determine the moment of history is coming, and whether they can once again make China's lion dance armband prestige the world depends on this time.

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Officers and Men of the Army, Navy and Air Force of the Allied Expeditionary Force: You are about to embark on the Great Crusade, for which we have been working hard for several months, and now the eyes of the whole world are watching you, and people are looking forward to your triumphant return, and the world wants peace......

This is a letter from General Eisenhower to every officer and soldier who will go to Normandy.

On June 5, at 7:15 p.m., the first platoon of Yan Zhi and Zhao Fugui boarded a C-47 transport plane.

Before getting on the plane, Zhao Fugui didn't know where to get a few stacks of yellow paper, and when the first row was ready to start boarding, Zhao Fugui burned those piles of yellow paper, and then he didn't know what spell he prayed to make the soldiers quickly jump over the burning yellow paper, and he finally got on the plane.

Seeing this, the platoon commanders of the 2nd and 3rd platoons, Fang You and Xu Zheyou, also took out a few stacks of yellow paper, and before preparing to board the plane, they learned from Zhao Fugui to burn up, reciting the bird language that they probably couldn't understand, and beckoned their soldiers to jump over from the fire.

At 11 p.m., the C-47 made a loud rumbling noise, began to taxi on the runway, and when the plane climbed to 1,000 feet, it began to circle, forming a V-formation every three, and finally forming a huge V-shaped formation group, flying towards France.

There are so many planes in the air that you can't see the sky at a glance when you sit in the cabin.

Before boarding the plane, the soldiers had already taken airsickness medicine, and in the loud roar, many people began to feel sleepy soon after getting on the plane, and fell asleep in a daze.

At 2 o'clock in the morning on June 6, after the group of British Airborne Divisions carrying the 101st Airborne Division flew over the small island between Guernsey and Jersey, the pilot of the plane shouted to Yan Zhi: "In 18 minutes, you will start parachuting!" ”

The previous parachute jump was completely different from this time, before boarding the plane, I heard the soldiers of other units say that the place where they were preparing to be airborne this time was densely packed with Germans, so they could only choose to be airborne at night and during the day, and they could only be the target of the Germans.

The purser opened the cabin door, and Fan Xiaosi, who was standing in the No. 1 position, immediately felt a breath of fresh air rushing towards him, and immediately blew the turbid air in the cabin into a whirlpool and swayed outside the cabin.

All stand up, hook!

"Boom!"

Suddenly, with a loud bang, a fiery dragon, splitting through the darkness, swooped straight from the ground to the sky.

Then, a deafening sound of cannons came from all directions, and countless fire dragons burning in various colors rose from the ground in all directions, soaring into the sky, which was spectacular!

Immediately after, Yan Zhi felt that the plane he was on began to jolt violently.

"The Germans spotted us and they started firing at us." The purser hurriedly shouted, "All of you, be ready to skydive at any time." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, about 100 meters away from their plane, a C-47 was hit by artillery fire on the ground, and instantly turned into a huge fireball and exploded, Yan Zhi could even see the blurred faces of the soldiers in the cabin in the moment before the plane exploded.

The powerful shock wave generated by the explosion of the plane, like a huge mushroom storm, suddenly spread out to all sides to produce a super strong shock wave, which lifted the plane that Yan Zhi and they were riding almost upside down, and tossed up and down, so the soldiers who had already stood up fell into a ball in the cabin, making the impact of various guns, and cursing, fortunately, everyone's hooks had been hung up, and when the plane flew normally, the cabin was full of all kinds of small marching items.

The Germans seemed to have been waiting here for a long time, and for a while, the anti-aircraft guns on the ground, as well as artillery of various calibers, fired all kinds of blue, green, and red shells, making a deafening sound, weaving a huge net of fire, and went up to the sky.

The three crew members of the plane, apparently experiencing artillery fire for the first time, saw the plane not far away burst open, and the captain stepped on the accelerator like a panicked female driver.

The artillery fire in the night sky was extremely spectacular, everywhere there were red, blue, purple mushroom cloud-like shock waves, and each shell bombarded the sky, like a spectacular long dragon, galloping, fangs and claws, and rushing towards the planes in the air.

The purser lost his previous composure, and he cried out, "God, let us get out of this hellish place!" Then he saw the paratroopers in the cabin and was stunned for two seconds: "Hurry up, you guys jump quickly, if you don't jump, we all have to play with this plane." God......"

While the purser was talking, two more planes were hit by intensive artillery fire not far from them, one of them dragged its tail of black smoke and flew into the distance, the hatch opened, and soldiers continued to parachute, and the other C-47 fuselage rolled out of control and rolled three or four times before it exploded, and the exploded fuselage almost hit the plane that hit them like a meteor, so frightened that the captain shrank his neck and just let go of the accelerator.

"Hurry up, brothers, jump, jump!"

Yan Zhi shouted loudly, urging the soldiers to hurry up and parachute so that they could get out of this damn airspace and this C-47, which was about to become a grave in the air.

In the firelight, Yan Zhi saw the frightened purser glance at another fuselage on fire, and the plane with thick smoke behind him fell to the ground.

The plane slowed down, and the captain tried to compose himself, cursing the damn Germans and the damn trip.