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Sunday, November 28, 1943 - another Sunday!

At 14 o'clock, with the issuance of Machar's order, the Axis fleet entered the combat state of maximum speed, and the four fleet aircraft carriers increased their speed to more than 28 knots and began to fly combat aircraft into the wind, and the artillery fleet further away also began to increase the speed to 27 knots and began to sprint with all their might.

Their goal is the same, to storm Newfoundland!

At 14:27, the fleet was less than 480 kilometers away from Newfoundland, and the first attack wave had been assembled and set off, and then, including the 12 HE-218 dive bombers that had just sorted, also assembled and set off again, Ozawa only left 40 air defense fighters for the fleet to cover the fleet, and in order to meet the needs of the fierce battle, the ground crews did their best to assemble the spare crews on the planes and prepare for the next wave of attack.

According to the schedule, the first attack wave will launch the first round of attacks at about 15:35, focusing on paralyzing the island's anti-aircraft fire, airfields, and destroying US planes as much as possible, and the second attack wave will arrive within 30 minutes, focusing on attacking ships at the dock, and all aircraft groups will return at 16:30. Due to the high latitude of Newfoundland, this is basically the rhythm of nightfall, which is greatly disadvantageous for enemy aircraft tracking and counterattacking, but for German elite carrier-based aircraft pilots with night combat skills, landing in the dark of night is commonplace.

This is why Ozawa carefully chose to launch his attack at two o'clock in the afternoon: the daylight during the attack was used to provide observation of the attack, and the night on the return was used to cover his own safety.

Seeing the huge fleet of planes leaving, Machar asked with a solemn face: "When will the artillery fleet arrive to attack?" ”

"Arrive at the scene at about 1 o'clock tomorrow morning for air raids, and if everything goes well, it is scheduled to launch a landing operation at 9 o'clock tomorrow, and if it does not go well, the landing operation will be canceled and only air raids and artillery shelling will be carried out."

"Let's hope our luck is as good as ever."

At 15:11 in the afternoon, Ensign Henry, who set off from Bermuda, piloted a B-29 modified reconnaissance plane to continue his reconnaissance and search mission, according to the commander's request, his plane was responsible for searching for targets within 1000 nautical miles, for him and his companions, this morning has been a whole morning search, but nothing was found, I thought I would ask to return to the base, but I didn't expect to receive the order to expand the search to the periphery again, even a minute of rest, but he did not complain, Is there a war?

Fortunately, the B-29 had a long enough range, and only a third of the fuel was used up in a morning search, and it was simply impossible for other aircraft to perform such a difficult task.

"Where are we now?"

The observer looked at the map and carefully recalled the overall voyage: "If I guessed correctly, I should have run more than 1,600 kilometers to Bermuda......"

Henry sighed: "Fortunately, the B-29 can fly at a top speed of more than 500 kilometers, otherwise we would not have been able to return home before dark." "Even if we return at the top speed, it will take more than three hours to return to Bermuda, but fortunately, Bermuda, which is located at a low latitude, is more than two hours later than Newfoundland.

"yes, but you have to watch out for some fuel, I don't want to bathe in the sea in this weather."

The plane flew forward for a while, and the observer said to himself: "I've seen it almost, but I still haven't found anything, where the damn German devils have gone, let's go back." ”

"Okay." Henry replied cheerfully, and made a motion to lower the wing in preparation for a side turn, when the observer suddenly exclaimed, "Look, there! ”

"Where?"

"Lower right" Henry looked over, and suddenly found a long series of black dots on the sea, vaguely illegible, but it should be a sign of the fleet.

He quickly lowered the nose of the plane and pounced, but something more shocking happened to him, and the observer exclaimed, "Oh my God...... In the distance, a fleet of ships was speeding northeast, much faster than he had just discovered......"

Henry increased the B-29 throttle to the maximum, and while accelerating the dive to reduce the altitude, he asked: "This is the fleet of the Germans?" ”

"I don't know...... But it's certainly not ours, Admiral Cunningham's fleet hasn't arrived yet, hurry up and lower the altitude. ”

"Ah, that's the fleet ...... of the Germans" In less than 2 minutes, the observers shouted, "it's their battleship......"

At 15:22, the US reconnaissance plane found the German landing and transport fleet, and 7 minutes later, it found the German battleship formation that was speeding forward, and after another 4 minutes, the tank saw the aircraft carrier formation in the distance......

"God forbid, the big fish has been found!"

With a "boom," an anti-aircraft artillery shell exploded not far below the plane, and a group of shells exploded around it, emitting clouds of black smoke -- this is the enemy fleet's certainty!

"Pull up, pull up...... I'll report ......"

Henry, while scrambling to pull up, rushed to the aircraft carrier formation, and the observer skillfully launched a telegram: "Discover the position of the German fleet, more than 1700 kilometers northeast of Bermuda, less than 500 kilometers from the island of Newfoundland, all the main German forces, repeat, find all the main German forces!" ”

Just as he finished sending it, eight Bf-219s were already firing heavily around the B-29 - originally they couldn't reach the B-29 from above, but in order to see more clearly, Henry risked lowering the altitude to more than 4,000 meters, and was inevitably shot down by the Germans.

"Sir, shoot down an enemy reconnaissance plane, but the telegram has been sent by the other side."

Marshal subconsciously looked at the wall clock and found that the hands were pointing to 15:35, so he laughed: "It's too late, the group should have made a surprise attack on Newfoundland!" ”

It was indeed too late, and at the same time that Henry discovered the flight of the German military and knew about the parent formation, the officers and men of the radar station on the island of Newfoundland suddenly discovered that a large number of enemy planes were approaching on the screen, and the group of air attack planes had been flying at a low altitude over the sea surface before approaching the island of Newfoundland, relying on the curvature of the earth to cover their own traces, and it was not until they were more than 60 kilometers away from the island of Newfoundland that they began to climb higher, and immediately appeared on the radar screen in an instant.

Convinced that he was right, the radar soldier double-checked with his companion several times before finally telling the sergeant major on duty.

The sergeant major in charge of management replied casually: "Oh, probably the strategic transport planes have returned from Great Britain......"

As soon as he said this, his whole body suddenly seemed to be petrified, and he remembered: Hasn't the strategic transport plane already returned on Friday? Routine maintenance and supplies are being carried out this afternoon, where is the fleet of transport planes returning from Great Britain?

Like a mad tiger, he roared: "Enemy planes, enemy planes...... This is an enemy aircraft, quick, quick, sound the air defense alarm! ”

The terrible air defense siren immediately sounded, and he grabbed the telephone and reported to the staff officer on duty in a breathless tone: "There is an air attack by enemy planes......

"Air raids, where? How many? ”

"Hurry up, let the air defense fighters take off, it's too late to ......"

"Good, good! I'll order it right away! ”

A large group of fighter pilots were playing poker in the duty room, bragging boredly about the delivery of supplies to Great Britain on Monday, and Sunday afternoon was a rare leisure time, when they scrambled to get out of the door at the sound of the siren, leaving behind a pile of pokers and chips.

Unfortunately, it was too late...... The distance of more than 60 kilometers is only a little more than 7 minutes of flight time for the He-218s, which are known as lightning bombardments.

"Attention formations, the air raid will be launched in 5 minutes! The fighter is out and is responsible for clearing the enemy fighters! "The commander-in-chief of the air raid, Colonel Frank, did not hesitate to give the order.

"Roger!"

At 15:40, the latest telegram was sent into the war room of the Joint Staff Committee, and everyone's faces changed greatly.

"Damn...... The Germans ran to Newfoundland...... Not good, they're going to blow up Newfoundland! ”

Arnold sat down in his chair in a daze, he had also received a telegram from Spartz today, reporting that a new round of strategic airlift to Britain would be launched tomorrow, and the supplies had been basically loaded, mainly fuel and medicines.

"......No," he roared in despair, "immediately order the Newfoundland and Canadians to complete their combat preparations and prepare for air defense, Newfoundland has a large number of ships and supplies, and there is no room for ...... to be missed."

The staff officers scrambled to give orders.

Marshall, Admiral King and the others all had solemn faces, and seemed to be stunned by this unexpected turn of events, Admiral King stared at the map for several minutes, and squeezed out a sentence from his teeth: "How many planes are there on Prince Edward Island?" How many planes are there in Maine? Let them immediately dispatch air strikes against the enemy fleet......"

Prince Edward Island is now more than 800 kilometers away from the German fleet, and Maine is about 1,400 kilometers away from the German fleet, and it is the closest place to launch an attack.

But it was destined to be a futile struggle, and at 16:42 the disillusioned telecommunications staff officer read a telegram from Spartz in a trembling voice: "Newfoundland is under a surprise attack by the Germans, and we are in dire need of reinforcements!" ”

Finished......

At 15:36, the German air raid group ignored the scattered anti-aircraft fire on the ground and broke through to the island of Newfoundland, and the He-218s were the first to dive down, and only then did they know what they had encountered, and the tarmac near the runways of the airport was full of dense planes - not ordinary small planes, all huge 4-engine heavy bombers or transport planes.

"Oh God...... Frank muttered to himself, "how much is that?" 300? ”

"Sir, the intelligence says that there are more than 1,000 planes, and it is estimated that there are other airports."

"Spread out in formation, search carefully, and don't miss any of the targets!"

"Boom!" With a bang, the first attack planes were the first to drop bombs, and the critical battle began with a stormy surprise attack...... (To be continued.) )