68 bombing on the first day
On the other side of the clouds, the German pilots soon saw another group of bombers taking off from a nearby airfield, with fuel tanks hanging from the belly of the ME-109E fighter jets flying above these JU-88 bombers. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The Luftwaffe did not relax their attack because of the victory, on the contrary, they seemed to know that they had created an opportunity, so they did everything they could from the beginning.
Garland watched in amazement as the commanders of one air force after another were given new assignments at his own headquarters, still unable to believe what was happening in front of him.
He felt that he was radical enough, young and energetic, full of desire to win, and that kind of competitive determination.
But now he found that his Führer was bolder and more aggressive than he was younger.
Having taken advantage of some of the British, the Führer threw in more planes, as if to exhaust all the strength of the German pilots in one fell swoop.
"What are you kidding, of course you can't rest tomorrow, believe me, after August 20th, you will have a chance to rest." Li Le stood in the distance, shook his head at the worried Goering and said.
Because he knew that during the Battle of Britain, there would be bad weather and the planes could not be dispatched, so Li Le did not reserve their rest time for the pilots at all.
We must seize the time, we must seize every opportunity, Li Le will use 20 days to bomb Britain to 1910!
The pilots on the front line looked over their shoulders, over the white clouds outside the windows next to their shoulders, and saw more planes flying in the distance.
Some planes are converging, while others are flying higher. Not one or two, but dozens, if not hundreds, of aircraft flying together.
For the first time in human history, such a dense sortie of aircraft attacked the enemy, and in the same way, there will be no more spectacular flights after the end of World War II.
The Luftwaffe's bomber units were invincible in the skies over Poland and were also baptized in the Battle of France, and their combat strength and morale were at their peak.
Now, they are the most powerful air force in the world, and by far the largest air force in the world!
Now the powerful United States has not yet woken up, and the B-17, which can block the sky, has not yet appeared in the skies over Europe.
Therefore, even the backward HE-111 and the small number of JU-88 are still the strongest bomber units that already have the ability to bomb in large formations.
Li Le not only bombed Rochester, but also Grace and Maidstone, completely destroying the British field airfields there.
He also had his own bombers to visit Plymouth, Canterbury and its environs, Ipswich, Norwich, Nottingham, Sunderland, Newcastle, Glasgow, Newcastle, Glasgow, Swans......
However, these places could not be completely destroyed in a day, and Li Le concentrated his forces and attacked in order from south to north.
And on the first day, he mainly aimed at the field airfields of the British, as well as the fighter planes parked in these airfields.
There were more and more planes in the sky, more and more than anyone could imagine, and the pilot flying on the far left couldn't even see how many planes were flying on his right.
And the German pilots, who flew in the middle of the group, found that they could not see the ends of the sides of the group in their field of vision.
The pilots of the fighter planes were stunned by the dense bomber formation, and some even found that cold sweat was oozing from their palms.
"My God, I really don't know why the British haven't surrendered yet." Piloting his own ME-109E fighter, a fighter pilot said to his wingman.
His wingman pilot apparently also agreed with the long plane's words: "I also doubt that after this battle, there will be anything left of the British." ”
Even the fighters, who have carried out countless escort missions, are still tired of seeing this spectacular sight.
At this time, they can feel their own power, feel the kind of destructive power that they can surpass the enemy and destroy any opponent!
Originally, the feeling of flying was unrestrained, but when flying in formation, all the pilots couldn't help but feel heavy.
Yes, it's not the agility of flying and the sense of floating, but the stability and strength that seems to be down-to-earth!
At this moment, the huge flight formation displayed in his eyes reminded all German pilots of the words steel and indestructibility.
"This is a long plane! This is a long machine! Just now we have flown over the median line of the English Channel! Be on the alert for enemy aircraft! Inside the headphones, the voice of the commander of the long plane came out.
All the pilots began to get nervous, and from this moment on, the place where they flew was the enemy's airspace.
"Watch your step! See the coastline? We're on the territory of the British! "Unlike several classic Allied bombers, the German bomber nose design was characteristic.
In order to get a good view, the Germans preferred the glass windows like flower houses when designing the bomber, and the pilot flew the plane with a good view, without that feeling of crampedness and oppression.
However, when watching the opposing fighter planes hovering over their heads and diving to attack them, the German pilots must not be in a good mood, and they will complain about such a design with insufficient defense.
On the ground, standing on a steep cliff on the southern coast of Britain, a soldier of the British Coast Guard on air alert lowered the binoculars in his hand.
He turned around and walked to the disguised watchtower behind him to get a call to the air defense command: "I saw a large number of German planes, they have already flown over my head!" ”
He couldn't help but take it for granted now, and he looked up from the morning to see the present, and he had seen countless German planes.
Some German planes flew over his head to bomb British land behind him; And some planes are returning to pass through here, and they are still so dense.
And the information he provided became less and less important, because the German bombers seen here were still densely packed, and the destination of the bombing could not be seen at all.
So he can only provide an early warning, but it is not a timely early warning.
Compared to the clairvoyant radar, if the British had radar support, they would have been able to detect German planes while they were still off the coast of France.
But now, relying on purely manual methods, the Germans have reached the coast of England before they can confirm the attack of these planes.
10 minutes or even 20 minutes of precious warning time was the key to the British air war on which it depended.
That time is now gone, and the radar, the amplifier that doubled the British fighter jets, has fallen into ruins.
Piercing air raid sirens sounded over many British cities, and several cities, including London, have already taken measures.
When the British soldiers stationed in the field airfield came out of the barracks and looked up at the sky, they were completely stunned by the scene before them.
It was the first time that these newly drafted recruits had seen an air raid on such a scale, and for the first time, an air strike that was directed at them.
For the first time, they saw German bombers start dropping bombs, right above their heads! No sooner had they started shouting loudly than the sound of the explosion drowned out the sound.
The lawn-planted runways left behind huge craters one after the other. Those parked Hurricane fighters were riddled with shrapnel flying sideways.
The shock wave lifted the camouflage net that covered the planes, and the explosion left the precious planes on the ground.
Hurricane fighters, which were supposed to soar in the sky, were now being destroyed one after another in hidden airfields that the Germans should not have known about.
Reluctantly, but unfortunately, these German planes were designed to deal with these hidden airfields.
Above the heads of the airport guards, countless bombers opened their bomb-throwing pods. Bomb after bomb bathed in the cold air high altitude, and the ringing devices above had begun to emit a slightly shrill scream.
"I've found the target area! See it very clearly, let's start dropping bombs! The observer at the front shouted a reminder to his comrade, and then a series of bombardier commands came from the headset.
"No. 1 starts dropping bombs!" "No. 2 starts dropping bombs!" "The first bomb on No. 3 has been dropped!" "4 The second bomb was successfully dropped!" Over another British field airfield, a group of JU-88 bombers is also launching its own attack.
With the sound of bomb throwing, the bomb body clicked slightly, and one after another the aerial bomb left the bomb bay of the JU-88 bomber.
"Boom!" Aerial bombs exploded in the airfield, and then, like a poem from a spring breeze in the night, the British airfield bloomed one after another with the flowers of death.
Because the investigation of the spy led to confusion in the British air defense command, the hundreds of German bombers were met by 17 British Hurricane fighters that barely took off.
Unfortunately, due to the absolute disparity in numbers, these fighters did not achieve any results at all, but were killed by the German fighter force as many as 13 of them.
At about 4 p.m. that day, the British fighter units began to urgently move north under the orders of the Prime Minister, and finally waited for an order of their own under the German bombing.
Only a pitiful 44 British planes moved north that day, and the rest were either damaged and unable to take off, or had been destroyed by the Luftwaffe.
The 14th Air Group in the south, with its 11th air squadron, was left with only such a small amount of money.