Chapter 1187: Bombing 3
"Concentrate your fire on the V1500! The bombs they carry are too deadly! "After seeing these Super 4-engine bombers with a bomb load of more than 2,000 pounds, Captain Wolfgang immediately intercepted them with his own 5 twin-engine K-4 seaplanes! Like a seasoned cavalryman, Wolfgang drove his plane through the flanks of the British bombers, a route that was too horizontal for the British bombers to aim, and the German fighters could attack the enemy's huge wings. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Six twin-engine planes crossed in front of the British bomber formation in turn, and when the two sides were 600 meters apart, dozens of machine guns on 16 V1500 and FB27 bombers intertwined a dense net of fire in front of the German plane's track!
"We literally navigated through a storm! It's just that the raindrops are bullets! I saw a J-1 fighter jet torn to pieces in an instant by a dense barrage of bullets, and I also experienced the feeling of dozens of rounds in the armored cockpit. The screeching sound echoes in my ears, and then you can see with your own eyes the sawdust flying all over the body, and the dense impact of bullets has deformed the armor plate, and I have no doubt that this steel plate will shatter at any moment! A German pilot recalls the scene.
THE HUGE SIZE BRINGS EXTRAORDINARY RESISTANCE TO STRIKES, AND THE TWO 12.7MM LARGE-CALIBER MACHINE GUNS ORIGINALLY MOUNTED ON THE WINGS OF THE K-4S SEAPLANE WERE REMOVED IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE WEIGHT DUE TO THE NEED TO INSTALL PONTOONS. And the firepower of 4 machine guns is slightly insufficient! Wolfgang and his wingman failed to completely deal with the monster in front of them in two attacks, and both planes fired at least forward shots, removing a third of the upper wing on the left side of the plane, and the fuselage was also riddled with bullet holes, but the latter still flew firmly towards the target. Faced with many more bombers than them, Wolfgang was really a little desperate!
"We feel powerless, we can't provide adequate shielding for our fleet, I feel like we've done our best, but still to no avail, we're ready to give up and hand over the distant fleet to the god of fate for judgment, but not until we see ......." After the war, Wolfgang described his mood and what he saw at the time.
Just when he was about to give up intercepting this wave of V1500 bombers, the most threatening wave, he found that a K-1 seaplane quickly approached the opponent from the upper part of the British bomber, and then almost faced the opponent's diagonal design firepower, directly pressed the plane down, the fighter dived down quickly at an angle of 45 degrees, and the target was a V1500 bomber 700 meters away!
"It's a madman!" A British pilot watched in disbelief as the German plane, which was on fire and rushed towards the wingman next to him. In just a dozen seconds of the incident, the J-1 seaplane successfully crashed into the huge nose of the V1500 bomber!
Rumble! The violent collision smashed the German plane to pieces in an instant. And the fuel left over from the ignited fuselage spread to the British bomber's fuselage with the help of this fire! The V1500 bomber went straight to the sea like a monster with its head shattered! Two minutes later, there was a loud bang. A wide curtain of water rises from the sea.
In the face of a sudden and heavy air attack, the fighting spirit and tactics of the German High Seas Fleet's air forces in this battle of disparity of strength shocked both sides, and this impact seemed to have made a start, and a few minutes later, the pilot, Ensign Paul, piloted a damaged J-1S plane and staggered off the wing of an O-400 bomber. This time, though, he hit it very skillfully.
The pilot got close to the target plane and broke the wing of the bomber with wheels! Although the plane was also badly damaged, it managed to save its name, didn't it?
"At a time when everyone is doing their duty, we should not, and we must not, back down! Even weaker comrades-in-arms risked their bodies and lives for victory. And we have better weapons, but we are thinking about retreating, this is an absolute shame as a soldier! I swear, this is the first time I've had this idea, and it's the last! Wolfgang wrote this in his later memoirs.
A large number of planes on both sides fought desperately in an area of hundreds of square kilometers, traversing 3,500 meters from the sea to the air, hundreds of planes fought frantically, hundreds of machine guns of various types roared desperately, during this time, more than 6-figure bullets were fired, and the dense rain of bullets tore those unfortunate guys, and they were torn to pieces by ferocious fire in just a few seconds. From time to time, planes fall from the sky with flames all over their bodies. The pilots of both sides used their blood and loyalty in the blue sky to interpret the efforts and costs paid by the two empires for victory!
In this battle, about half of the total number of seaplane units of the German Navy were shot down. Although the losses of the British were not large in terms of quantity, they were much higher than those of the Luftwaffe in terms of the number of people lost and the value of the aircraft, and the cost of an O-400 twin-engine bomber was as high as 9,000 pounds, and the cost of a J-1K fighter was less than 2,000 pounds if converted into pounds.
Of course, more importantly, through the German pilots' sacrificial attack, many British bombers dropped bombs in a hurry, which was equivalent to reducing the threat of British bombers to the German fleet in disguise. However, even so, the German fleet still paid heavy losses under surprise.
The first to break through the defense was an O-400 bomber, when the German aircraft focused most of their energy on the V1500, an air giant, an O-400 from a height of 200 meters with the help of the cover of the sea background quickly approached the German fleet, and the British were lucky enough, the bomber after throwing this bomb, formed a ricochet effect, only to see the bomb bounce on the sea surface and passed, and then jumped up for the last time. smashed on a light cruiser that had no time to dodge!
This 1,000-pound high-explosive bomb was absolutely extraordinary, as if it had been hit by a heavy torpedo with a terrifying charge, and the entire hull was directly blown to pieces, and from the air, the side of this battleship, surrounded by gunpowder smoke and flames, seemed to have been gnawed by some kind of sea monster! THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE 270KG OF EXPLOSIVES NEUTRALIZED THE UNDERWATER DEFENSES OF ANY LIGHT CRUISER, AND JUST THREE MINUTES LATER, THE 4500-TON LIGHT CRUISER SANK TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.
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