At 7:30 a.m., John left home on time to go to work at the munitions building. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info Unlike before, after kissing goodbye to Adele and little Ella, he saluted an American flag and a French flag hanging in the garage door.

Ever since she went to the French embassy to attend that expatriate gathering, Adele has planted these two flags on both sides of the door of her garage. Today, saluting these two flags before going out every day has become one of John's must-dos.

While the French were losing the war in Europe, John's house became a hot topic in the community. Every day, French expatriates visit their homes, which have become one of the meeting places for French Americans in Washington.

Many of Adele's compatriots wanted to get more updates on the war in Europe through her husband, who held a "key position" in the Army Staff. To this end, Adele also hired a chef to make refreshments.

Ever since the implementation of the plan to aid British weapons, John's workload has increased exponentially. His team has grown from a handful of three or four Martins, Chandler, Miller and Pakarina to more than 20.

Every day, Crawford would compile data on the weapons he had looted from various places, and he would draw up transportation plans based on the traffic and distance of the storage sites. John divided his subordinates into three groups and adopted a modular division of labor model similar to parallel multi-machine processing. In the era when there were no computers, he had to use his knowledge of overall planning as much as possible to improve his work efficiency.

"Good morning, sir!" As soon as he arrived at the office, a smiling Pakarina brought him coffee.

What's going on? John was taken aback. Recently, because one person is responsible for the collection, printing, and distribution of materials for the entire department, I have to work late at night every day. This little beauty's anger is not ordinary, and she hasn't given John a smile for many days.

It wasn't until Pakarina circled him twice that John realized that he was "showing off" the new rank on her shoulders to himself.

A week ago, John saw that Pakarina worked in front of the typewriter for more than ten hours a day, so tired that the baby fat on her face disappeared, so he quietly typed a promotion report for her. It seems that the Army Women's Auxiliary Team has already approved it, and this little beauty has been promoted to sergeant.

"Congratulations, Sergeant Pakarina! It's been hard work lately, and you deserve it. John liked this cheerful and capable subordinate and was sincerely happy for her promotion.

"Thank you, sir!" Pakarina's big watery eyes smiled like a pair of crescents, "There is also good news, Captain Edith (Lieutenant, the commander of all the women auxiliary team members of the Operations Planning Division) said that he will send us two new clerks to come over, and we will be able to take up the post today." ”

It turned out that Pakarina was not only promoted to the rank, but also had two more soldiers under her command and became a "little leader", no wonder she was so happy.

John looked at her excitement and looked a little funny, and deliberately put on a straight face to "teach" her: "Sergeant Pakarina, if you are promoted, you should set an example, work hard, and set a good example for your subordinates." Go, help me get the materials for the Dallas Aviation School backup plane. ”

"Yes, sir!" Pakarina, of course, was not intimidated by him, stuck out her tongue mischievously, saluted, and turned and ran out.

"Really, the military is older than me, how can you look like a middle school student." John muttered and sat down at his desk and got into the day's work.

The recent Luftwaffe bombing of Wales, Scotland and South West England has led to rumours of an imminent parachute landing on the island. The British urgently needed a large number of fighters to defend their airspace.

Baron Beaverbrook, the cabinet minister in charge of aircraft production (who, along with Winston Churchill and Viscount John Simon, was a member of the British Cabinet during the two world wars), has issued a call to women across Britain: "Give us your aluminium and we will turn your kettle and pan into a flamethrower, a hurricane, a Blenheim and a wellington." ”

Baron Beaverbrook's appeal was enthusiastically embraced by British housewives, who flocked to the warehouses set up by women's volunteer service to hand in their own cooking utensils. The Times reported on an 80-year-old woman who walked a mile and a half to donate a saucepan, and the old lady told reporters: "It's very good, but I'm glad I can give it to the country." ”

Within a few days of the appeal, the British had collected hundreds of tons of aluminium. In addition to the kettle and pan, there are tennis rackets, cigarette cases, snack boxes, and even a prosthetic leg and a custom-made sports car with an aluminum body. Their owners want to turn these things they have into fighters and bombers. In some places, so many donations have been received that they have to be flattened with rollers to make room for warehouses.

However, the patriotic fervor of these British housewives did not immediately solve the problems of the Royal Air Force. At present, the production of British combat aircraft is far from meeting the needs of the military, and Sir Freeman sends a telegram almost a day, urging the United States to deliver "aid" aircraft as soon as possible.

Last week, President Roosevelt's ambitious "50,000 Combat Aircraft" plan was passed by Congress. But a plan is a plan after all, and with the current strength of the US aviation industry, it is thankful that 15,000 aircraft can be completed by the end of the year.

According to Roosevelt's agreement with Churchill, the Royal Air Force could receive 40% of the newly produced aircraft. But even Hughes Aircraft, which has the fastest response speed, will not be able to deliver the first Mustang fighter jets until September.

Before that, Crawford could only take his subordinates to various Army Air Corps bases to pick up the junk and see if he could squeeze a batch out of the backup aircraft to help the British deal with the current predicament.

In John's list of military supplies, combat aircraft are given the highest priority. Marshall's chief of staff had taken John's suggestion and agreed to send the planes directly to Newfoundland, borrowing the same way as the Finns had been aided, and handing them over to the Royal Air Force pilots waiting there.

Yesterday morning, he just sent the British the first batch of 2 squadrons of 32 Hawk-75 fighters (the export version of the P-36 fighter). In the evening, Crawford called him again and said that he had found 12 F2A Buffalo carrier-based fighters at the Dallas Aviation School and had gotten them in front of the Navy.

"Sir, Lieutenant Colonel Somerville is here." Pakarina returned with the materials John had asked for, followed by a lieutenant colonel of the British Royal Air Force.

Lieutenant Colonel Somerville was sent by the British military to receive supplies. Yesterday morning, he personally went to the Augusta Air Traffic Control Center to see off the first batch of aid planes.

"Good morning, Lieutenant Colonel. It's all going well. John got up and greeted the veteran pilot who had fought in World War I.

"Not bad, General Dowding (commander of the Royal Air Force fighter aviation) is happy to be replenished so quickly." Lieutenant Colonel Somerville was in a good mood, "At this rate, we will be able to make up for the loss of Dunkirk next month." ”

John was not as optimistic as he was, and Hitler still had illusions about capitulating Britain. By the time of the "Eagle Day", it is estimated that this number of aircraft will not be enough for the Royal Air Force to consume in a day.