In a secluded airfield, busy ground crews load ammunition for large bombers.

These aerial bombs look quite huge, and the planes carrying them are also quite large.

Just by looking at the four engines mounted on their wings, it can be inferred that this aircraft can definitely be called a heavy long-range bomber.

However, these planes did not belong to the Luftwaffe or the U.S. Army Air Corps - after all, the planes they used were copies of the B-17 and B-17.

Again, the plane was not Lancaster or Halifax, because Britain had destroyed all the heavy bombers and completely withdrawn from the war.

Moreover, this is a Soviet-controlled airport, and the busy ground crew in it are also soldiers of the Soviet Red Army.

They carried as many bombs as possible on the planes to ensure that they could drop the maximum number of bombs during a bombing process to improve the effectiveness of the bombing.

"This time it's a mission! Probably, everyone will not be able to come back, for the sake of the Soviets! We must give our lives! "Standing on the edge of a plane, the commissar of the USSR was cheering on the pilots.

For everyone, in the face of interception by German fighters, the probability of not coming back is quite high.

After all, although they have fighter escorts, the escort fighters are in most cases difficult to protect themselves in the face of German fighter interception.

Performing such a mission is almost to send them to death, so the Soviet pilots who perform such a mission can be said to be the most heroic and fearless fighter pilots.

In the real history of World War II, when the Allies had the upper hand, the proportion of bomber pilots lost was still one of the highest among all services.

All the more so, now the Luftwaffe has an advantage in the sky. Any time you take off an aircraft to attack the German army, you need the courage to sacrifice your life and forget your death.

The Soviet pilots standing in front of this Soviet commissar were all immature faces. No sooner had they graduated from flight school than they were assigned to bomb the Germans.

And the plane they want to fly is also rare in the Soviet army, a new type of bomber - the PE-8 bomber.

This heavy bomber, known as the Peiba, was a Soviet heavy bomber designed and built by the Soviet design bureau itself.

At the time of its birth, the Soviet top brass almost gave up the production and construction of such aircraft because "the Soviets did not need offensive weapons like imperialism."

Later, after twists and turns, the PE-8 heavy bomber began to be mass-produced, and the Soviet Union produced less than 100 of them.

Most of the PE-8 long-range heavy bombers were deployed in Ukraine to target Romanian oil fields.

And most of these bombers were shot down over Romania by German fighters in the first month of the Soviet-German war.

Now there are less than 20 PE-8 heavy bombers left, deployed at airfields near Gorky. They were originally deployed here to train pilots and navigators for large bombers.

It is regrettable that as the war situation continues to deteriorate, the Soviet army has to find a way to send all its forces to the battlefield to support it.

The bomber training unit in front of him was thus pushed to the front line and ordered to carry out the combat mission of bombing the German army.

It was not that the Soviet army was the head of the army, and it did not give up if it did not hit the southern wall, but insisted on carrying out daytime bombing against the interception of German fighters.

The main reason was that the pilots and navigators of the USSR were novices, they could not fly at night, and there were almost no formations and suicides at night.

So they chose to fly at night, and before they could create trouble for the German army, the novice rookie pilots of the Soviet Air Force were themselves killed by the trouble they created.

Because of this, the Soviet bomber units, although they suffered heavy losses, generally carried out only daytime bombing.

"Comrades! I will take to the skies with you as an ordinary pilot! I'm also on the plane, and I won't back down! The commissar clenched his fists and waved his arms as much as he could to make everyone who listened to his speech pluck up their courage.

In many movies, the political commissar of the Soviet army is portrayed as a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, fooling his subordinates to send them to death. But this is not the case, and in many cases, the commissars take the lead in joining the battle.

As a result, a significant part of the Soviet commissars died in battle, becoming one of the easiest Soviet officers to die in.

Sure enough, after hearing the news that Comrade Political Commissar was also going to fly together, the young Soviet pilots, who were still a little depressed just now, also became excited.

"That's it! Gentlemen! Start boarding! Let the Germans see what a real warrior is! The commissar fastened the fur hat used by the pilot to the top of his head and ordered loudly.

On his orders, the Soviet pilots dispersed and climbed onto their respective planes. The propellers began to spin, and one plane after another began to prepare for takeoff.

"Ulla!" On the ground, the ground crew waved their hats and flags to see off these heroes who looked at death as if they were home.

Even though the engine was noisy, the pilots still heard the melodious cheers. They also opened the side windows of their planes and cheered loudly: "Ulla! ”

Amid cheers one after another, the massive PE-8 bombers began to glide forward before climbing up at the end of the runway.

As all these bombers took to the air, the soldiers on the ground ran onto the runway with all sorts of things.

They were clinging to bundles of branches, camouflage nets and small trees. It only took a short time, and the long airport runway, when viewed from the sky, disappeared without a trace.

Before these take-off bombers could fly far, the airfields on the ground completely disappeared. Such an efficient camouflage was also forced out by the strength of the Luftwaffe.

In real historical time and space, the camouflage of German airports in 1944 is much more professional and efficient in comparison.

"Target Moscow! This task is truly desperate! The formation was formed in the sky, and on the bumpy plane, the political commissar who had just delivered a speech complained depressedly.

Who would have thought that the last flight he got would be to bomb the capital of his own country? Who would have thought how painful it would be for a political commissar who believed in the Soviets as if he were a god?

"Let me die in the skies over Moscow! That's at least a good home for me! The middle-aged commissar turned off radio communications and muttered to himself.

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