Tactfully declined the hostess's invitation, and John's whole body was immersed in the memories of the Coventry incident in his previous life. Pen ~ fun ~ Cabinet www.biquge.info history, there have always been rumors that Churchill chose to sacrifice Coventry in order to protect the British who had successfully cracked the secrets of the German army's cipher system.

Many people believe that at that time, the British government and the military had learned of the battle plan for the upcoming air attack on Coventry by cracking the German code. However, in order to prevent the Germans from discovering that the military code had been leaked, Churchill did not warn the inhabitants of the city in advance and did not take unconventional defensive measures, which eventually led to the razing of the thousand-year-old city to the ground. This has also sparked controversy in later generations about whether it is inhuman and moral to cruelly sacrifice partial interests for the sake of the overall good.

However, John himself did not believe such rumors very much. Because he knew very well that when the British Air Force defended London, Birmingham and other places before, it had already made many targeted defensive operations arrangements using the information obtained in advance.

Not so long ago, the British Air Force set up an aerial trap specifically for the Luftwaffe's 100th Air Group, which was planning to attack Wolverhampton. If taking precautions in advance would have allowed the secret of the "Innigma" machine to be deciphered, the Germans would have discovered it a long time ago.

There was no reason for Churchill to protect London, Birmingham and Wolverhampton at the expense of Coventry. You know, Coventry is one of the most important centers of the British munitions industry at present, with a large number of automobile, aircraft, machinery and machine tool manufacturing, as well as electrical and radio equipment factories.

In addition, Reginald Jones, the director of the British Air Force Intelligence Division, who was in charge of intelligence warfare against Germany, also refuted this statement that "Churchill abandoned the car to protect the commander" in his memoirs "Top Secret War", saying: "This is pure speculation and has no basis at all!" ”

Jones believes that the source of this conspiracy theory is a German secret cable deciphered by the Intelligence Service three days before the bombing, which mentions that the German army may bomb Coventry in the near future. However, Jones distinctly remembered that the cipher message they deciphered only said that the Germans would soon carry out a major bombing of the central part of England, and that the targets might be one of Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Coventry, and they did not even know the exact date of the bombing.

It was not until 17:30 p.m. on the day of the bombing that the Intelligence Service confirmed that the target of the attack was Coventry from the intercepted German navigation radio waves. But by the time this information reached the Air Force Command and Churchill, it was already past 6 p.m., and the bombing had begun at 8 o'clock. Therefore, Churchill and the Royal Air Force simply did not have time to take any effective defensive measures, either to save or not to save them.

Regardless of which of these two claims is true, it is an indisputable fact that the beautiful medieval city of Coventry was razed to the ground anyway. John didn't have any intention of stopping this tragedy, he just regretted that he should have taken the time to go to Coventry to take some photos when he was in the UK. In the future, the world may never see the beautiful St. Michael's Basilica again.

"Mr. Colonel, it's your turn." A freckled hostess walks over with a smile on her face, interrupting John's "memories".

"Thank you, Annie!" John ignored her wink, got up and went to call home. He had already seen that the waitresses at the service club were betting with him to see who could ask him out first.

John didn't mind too much about being a betting prop. He's not that incomprehensible, and these girls don't really want to have something to do with him, it's just a normal conversation, and he's seen a lot of this kind of thing in bars. In normal times, he wouldn't mind inviting these girls to the next door for a drink and chat. But forget it today, he will have an appointment with Lucius later. He was much more interested in Lucius, the "lemur", than in the hostesses.

"Hi, Ella, isn't Mommy home?" After the operator connected the phone, the voice of Little Ella came from the microphone first.

"Dad, Mom took my brother to Aunt Mary's house, and she hasn't come back yet." Little Ella replied crisply.

"yes, why didn't you go with you?" John asked curiously.

"I went to the movies with Linda in the afternoon, "The Adventures of Wood", it's good." Little Ella excitedly described the plot of the movie to him for a long time, and then asked, "Dad, can I take my brother to see it again?" I think he'll love it too. ”

This little guy, if you want to see it again, just say it, and take little Erekla out as a shield. John was amused by his daughter's thoughts, "Little Eric is too young, and he'll be scared if it's too dark in the cinema." Do you remember the year before last when you were scared to cry in the cinema? You were almost four years old by then. ”

"It's okay, he'll cry at home during the day anyway." Little Ella said heartlessly.

"Alright, don't toss your brother. Mom told me, you stuffed spinach into your brother's bottle the day before yesterday, didn't you? ”

"Grandma Susan said that eating more spinach can grow up faster." Little Ella's answer was very reasonable.

You treat your brother as a Popeye, John couldn't help but complain in his heart. He knew that little Ella actually liked his brother very much, but he didn't know how to express it in the right way. However, little Eric is really pitiful to have such a sister in the stall, and I am really worried that one day he will be "played" by Ella.

Fortunately, there is Adele and Grandma Susan at home, and John doesn't have to worry too much. "Let Mary take you to see it again tomorrow, Eric is too young to go to the cinema with you in a few years."

"Okay then." Although there are some regrets, the goal has finally been achieved, and little Ella will no longer be entangled in this matter.

After chatting with his daughter and asking about Grandma Susan's house, John hung up the phone after thinking that Adele and little Eric would not be able to return for a while. Before getting up and going to the bar next door, he thought about it and called Fred, an old subordinate who was serving in the Army Corps of Engineers.

Ever since John recommended Fred to General Somerville, he was assigned to the Corps of Engineers. Under the care of the first person in the American engineering corps (Somerville served as the U.S. military secretary of supply, commander of logistics forces during World War II, and was the first general of the U.S. engineering corps), Fred's development has been smooth, and he has been promoted to captain.

After Eric's birth, John met Fred once and learned that he had been transferred back to Washington to work in the engineering project department of the new Army Staff Office Building (Pentagon) of the Army's "Tianzi-1" project. John wanted Fred to help him inquire and see if he could figure out why Lucius was coming to the training this time.

Not to mention, Fred really knows a little bit about the inside story. It turned out that Lucius returned from the Philippines this summer and was transferred back by General Somerville to participate in the "Pentagon" engineering project. But when it came to choosing a site for the new office building, Lucius and Leslie, the direct head of the project, were left to choose a location. Colonel Groves (the same Lieutenant General Groves who would later oversee the atomic bomb) had a very unpleasant quarrel.

And Lucius and Groves are both General Somerville's confidants. Somerville didn't want the two to make their relationship too stiff because of work problems. Fred told John that there had been rumors in the engineering department that one of Lucius and Groves would definitely be transferred. Since Lucius was sent to the training, it was widely assumed that he would soon be transferred out of the project department, while Groves would stay on to continue to work on the project

John understood that Lucius had been sent to the training this time, presumably just to overdo it, so that Somerville would have time to reassign him to a suitable position. He had wondered how Lucius could be sent to the combat unit. Now it makes sense.