The paratroopers selected from the 1st Special Service Team of the United States and Canada have undergone rigorous night parachute training, highly rigorous combat training, and various wrestling, survival and parachute training in bad weather conditions.

So even if they were asked to skydive from a 150-mile-per-hour plane, these pilots would be able to skydive from the night sky full of tracer bullets with ease and confidence.

And when they parachuted, they also used fake paratroopers to distract the German anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine gun groups.

However, before departure, in addition to the members of the 1st Joint US-Canada Special Service Team, this time the airborne operation; The British and American forces also dispatched more than 15,000 paratroopers to cooperate with the airborne operation.

Moreover, each batch of airborne flight brigades will be equipped with airborne navigators to prepare signals and pilot.

In order to ensure the accuracy of the airborne route of the British and American paratroopers, the British and American navigators will use the Eureka device, aviation beacons and other things to guide the correct direction of the route in a short distance. There are even patrol boats and submarines to show the way forward.

And in order to avoid the detection of the German army, these German troops used radio silence to maintain silence.

In the event of a cloud pile, they will also receive an early warning from the paratrooper team.

However, there are also times when they do not get the warning in time and rush into the clouds.

However, the biggest advantage of skydiving at night is that the timid soldiers do not see the land below the plane when they parachute out, so in the dark, their nervousness and fear before landing will disappear a lot.

However, before the parachute jump, all the main British and American parachutists would let the airborne navigators enter the airdrop zone first, mark the airdrop area for the flying team, and they would also use the Eureka radio automatic direction finder and Horofen rays to mark a large T-shaped shape on the ground, and then let the paratroopers know where they were going to parachute and assemble.

Of course, this method is also good, but once the flight team enters the clouds; They would also have jumped the wrong T-dive site marked by the navigator.

Because when the teams come out of the clouds, they either go off course, or fly too high or too low.

Therefore, once the airdrop deviates from the direction, those paratroopers who are airborne will have a lot of tragic situations, and there will be casualties, or they will not reach the battlefield to fight at all.

When the convoy or glider unit is smoothly heading to mainland Italy, or to Sicily; Many paratroopers, including members of the Joint U.S.-Canada Special Service No. 1, either sat quietly, silently thinking about their own thoughts, or slept casually on the cabin floor, or prayed to God.

There were even soldiers reading Bibles, or smiling and chatting, eating, drinking, and ......

Because these British and American officers and soldiers are using what they think is the best way to alleviate the feeling of fear, to relax their whole body.

Because many people are very afraid that they will die in this airborne operation, even those pilots are very nervous.

Because many of these pilots had not been trained to fly at night, and how to evade the counterattacks of German anti-aircraft artillery and fighter groups at night, even night training in bad weather conditions had not been tried.

The worst thing is that the planes they are flying now have few weapons and equipment, and the armor is also very weak.

Moreover, the fuel tanks of their planes still have no protection, and once they are hit, they will immediately catch fire and explode.

Although transporting a paratrooper unit of an airborne division is required at least 400 C-47 transport aircraft; Such a scale seems huge, but these transport aircraft are used to transport goods and personnel, and the use of combat effectiveness is very poor.

It was no match for the German fighter group and anti-aircraft artillery group, and even if the British and American air teams were organized in a formation of 50 planes per 50 planes, none of the pilots who knew the inside story were in a cheerful and relaxed mood.

When the lead pilot does not navigate the group of planes behind through the light on the transparent pilot cabin; The pilots were extremely nervous, and they were worried that they would suddenly encounter German searchlights, tracer shells, anti-aircraft guns, fighter groups, and other unexpected events.

For example, the terrifying missile swarm of the German army, as well as the bad weather and thick clouds obscuring the view.

"How long do we have to reach Italian airspace?"

In the cockpit of a transport plane, pilot Tom said to his companions.

"It should be soon!"

"We've been flying for a long time and should be able to get to our destination soon!"

His companion driver, Barbo, responded.

It's just that as soon as his words fell, he heard some thrilling explosions in the distance, which came from the heart.

This was followed by a lot of searchlights, tracer shells, and the sound of shelling......

In the face of the first round of anti-aircraft artillery shelling from the Italian mainland, the nervous mood of these British and American airborne troops suddenly reached its peak.