Near the French coastline, the front-line field airfield of the 26th Brigade of the 3rd Fighter Wing of the German JG3. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

THE SKY WAS FILLED WITH RETURNING PLANES BOMBING LONDON, SOME JU-88 BOMBERS AND HE-111 BOMBERS TO FLY FARTHER TO AIRFIELDS, AND SOME ME-109E FIGHTERS WAITING TO LAND.

Everyone was in a hurry to land, because everyone had not much fuel left in their planes.

When many planes land, the bottom of the fuel tank can already be seen. The fuel pointer pointed at the dangerous red zone on the dashboard, making all pilots nervous.

On the beach, you can see army soldiers training swimmers and landing on the beach, and you can also see fishing boats responsible for salvaging pilots who have fallen into the water.

Although it was to lure the British pilots out of the decisive battle, the German pilots in this decisive battle were not as easy as they imagined.

The landing gear of the ME-109E fighter is designed to be very rubbish, with two landing gears that open from the fuselage to the wings, which are very dangerous when landing.

Because the distance between the landing gears was too small, flying the ME-109E fighter to land was a technical job.

This is one of the reasons why the ME-109E fighter is not so friendly to novices, it is too agile, even when landing, it is a little too agile to jump out of the way.

One fighter jet after another, with their noses painted yellow, landed on the wide airfield lawn.

Before the engines of these planes could be turned off, ground crews came to help, dragging the tired pilots out of the cramped cockpit and allowing them to recover as quickly as possible.

Another ME-109E fighter stumbled to the ground, and several officers and seasoned ground crews quickly surrounded the stopped plane.

After setting up the ladder and leaning on the Mickey Mouse with a cigar on the fuselage, the ground crew helped the pilot inside to lift the quadrangular glass hatch cover above his head.

"Sir! Congratulations on shooting down 35 enemy planes! The two ground crew officers stood up to the officer who climbed out of the plane, smiled and congratulated each other on their achievements.

Garand, who was wearing a round leather hat, took off all kinds of equipment on his body and handed the round leather hat to an apprentice pilot next to him.

These apprentices were part of Goering's "Air Force 50,000 Reserve Pilot Program" and a huge plan to build the Air Force that Li Le strongly promoted.

Because of this plan, Garland was full of affection for the Führer, believing that the Führer was definitely a great leader with a vision.

He handed the inflatable life jacket and parachute to the ground crew to tidy up, and then took his large-brimmed military hat from his men and fastened it diagonally to his head.

"How many planes did our JG26 wing lose?" Garland asked the officers behind him as he walked in the direction of the pilot's lounge.

Hearing this question, the faces of several people became no longer so jubilant. One officer bowed his head and did not speak, and the other had to speak: "We lost 6 fighters......"

Garland froze for a moment, then continued to walk forward. He knew that no victory could be achieved without a cost, but now it seemed that the price to be paid for the conquest of England was not ordinary......

A group of ground staff frantically ran to the airport runway, passing by Garland and others, but did not stop to salute.

The cacophony caught Garand's attention, and he turned around to see another fighter descending on the runway.

Because it wasn't far away, he saw the glass in the cockpit on the landing fighter, which had shattered.

Apparently it was a wounded fighter, and Garland turned around, followed the ground crew, and ran with him to the returning fighter whose propellers were still turning.

Soon, he ran to the side of the fighter, and at this time he could see the dense machine gun bullet holes on the fighter's fuselage.

It wasn't the first time he'd seen it, and many returning fighters were likely to find bullet holes left by the enemy in their fuselages.

Some were left by enemy fighters, others were traces left by shrapnel from enemy anti-aircraft guns.

In short, these marks are not uncommon, and what shocks Garand is the red blood on the bullet-shattered glass in the cockpit.

"Medic! Medic! The ground crew who climbed onto the plane glanced inside through the shattered glass, turned around and called out loudly to the bottom of the plane.

The medics, carrying the medical kits, climbed onto the wings of the plane with the help of everyone.

He glanced into the cabin, then reached in and touched the pilot inside, shaking his head below.

"Man is dead! The bullets hit him in the chest and stomach and he just died. The medic regretfully gave his conclusion.

The ground crew lifted the cracked and bloody hatch and unbuckled the dead pilot and dragged his body out of the plane.

"Valiant fellow! He took his last breath to stop his plane. A ground veteran with a French cigarette sighed beside Garand.

Many people stretched out their hands and held the body firmly on the grass next to the plane.

Garland looked at the tail of the plane, the yellow rudder with three black vertical short lines.

This means that the pilot of the plane shot down three enemy planes during his lifetime, and he is also a good old pilot.

Only today, he closed his eyes forever on the field airfield in France, and could no longer fly in the boundless sky.

"May your soul rest in peace!" Garland prayed as he looked at the pilot, whose body was already cold, lying on the ground, and at the familiar face, which was covered in blood.

It's sad to watch someone you know leave. In the morning, the pilot had breakfast in the same cafeteria with Garand.

But after a mission, the other party just lay quietly on the grass, closing his eyes forever.

"We owe him avenging! In the afternoon, I still have to lead the team myself! Shoot down those damned Brits! Garland looked at the corpse and said this to the officer beside him after praying.

It was a winless battle, and for every British fighter shot down, Germany had to pay almost the same price.

Britain lost almost 60 planes, but Germany also paid a heavy price of 53 planes.

This includes those who fell in the strait, those who were wounded and could not continue fighting, and bombers with a larger number of people...... Killing a thousand enemies and losing 800 oneself does not make people feel the joy of victory.

On the German side, when Garand looked at the corpse of his pilot and decided to continue fighting, Dowding was also determined to fight to the death in the British fighter command on the other side of the Channel.

The outcome of the battle at London pleased His Majesty the King and Winston Churchill, who had already characterized the bloody battle as "a great victory" within minutes of the departure of the German fighters.

The radio was jubilant that they had shot down more German planes, and that the German invaders would soon abandon their aggression against Britain because they had suffered too many losses.

But the fact that the British suburbs, which are still burning and exploding and billowed with black smoke, is clearly a powerful irony of this statement.

"Only 33 Hurricane fighters can be delivered on time this month, which is a disaster for us." After getting the news that the production of the Hurricane fighter was cut again, Dowding almost passed out.

He lost about as many fighters in a day as he had barely accumulated in the past week.

Now, his losses are even greater, and he has no chance to accumulate any more money, but the production of fighter jets has dropped to an unprecedented level, how can he not despair?

Because he is not a member of the Navy, it is not known what happened to the J-18 transport fleet.

This matter is still top secret at the top, and Churchill has not dared to disclose the real impact of the sneak attack on the J-18 fleet for fear of being controlled by German spies.

The flotilla was attacked, which dealt a major blow to the British fighter line. This month, the production of Spitfire fighters will be reduced by at least 100 units, and the Hurricane fighter is almost in a situation where production will be stopped.

This strangulation war against British industrial production has actually had the desired effect, making it difficult for the British war machine to maintain the current scale of the war.

The army demanded that Britain produce 300 anti-tank guns and strengthen their deployment to increasingly dangerous coastal lines.

At the same time, they demanded the production of more tanks to neutralize the possible armor superiority of the German landing force.

Unlike in history, the Luftwaffe temporarily achieved its tactical objectives, which put Britain under even greater pressure - the threat of a German landing!

The threat forced Britain to spread out its valuable production capacity and strengthen its army forces guarding the coastline.

You must know that the main force of Britain now is the 330,000 frightened birds that have been evacuated from Dunkirk.

These demoralized and discouraged soldiers brought back with almost nothing but rifles.

If they want to be effective again, they must have heavy weapons and equipment such as artillery and tanks and armored vehicles, right? Otherwise, what is the difference between them and the police?

But the production of these equipment also requires a factory! These factories were now being bombed by the Luftwaffe, and the bombing was very accurate.

In the space of a week, the production of tanks in Britain was cut by half, and steelmaking was also affected considerably. The speed of artillery production could not keep up with the requirements, and even because the spare parts could not be put in place on time, semi-finished products could only be stacked in warehouses and waited.

None of this was Dowding's concern, he was most concerned about the replenishment of fighter jets, but it turned out to be the news that made him desperate - fighter production was also affected!