502 Heroic and fearless liftoff
As the Germans continued to expand on the British mainland, several field airfields were occupied, and although they had been badly damaged, they could be repaired more quickly than a new one. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
On the night of February 15, 1941, the battlefield was ten times calmer than Germany had expected. The British navy did not fight back like crazy, and the Germans only used a few small boats to transport some bits and pieces to Britain.
The English Channel was unusually calm, as if waiting for the dawn of the 16th. Most of the German soldiers had fallen asleep. In particular, most of the paratroopers in Student retreated from the front-line battlefield.
After a day of rushing, the 1st SS Panzer Corps, that is, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd divisions, had all been ashore. It also included three separate SS Panzer Battalions, the 1st of which was Wittmann's unit.
The Army's 1st Army of the Western Front Expeditionary Force was also almost entirely ashore. This force included the 112th and 113th and 114th Divisions, as well as the 9th Division. Two of these divisions were elite mechanized infantry divisions.
If the 1st Paratrooper Corps, that is, the 1st and 2nd Paratrooper Divisions and the 3rd Division, the German army on the British mainland already had three corps with more than 130,000 troops.
With such a large force, the demand for logistical supplies and the consumption are very staggering. In Germany, half of the day is spent transporting, and the other half of the night can only be transported by air to relieve the pressure.
Even then, the consumption is quite staggering. Even with the reduction of the number of armored troops participating in the battle, the gasoline consumption is still staggering.
If it weren't for the fact that the German oil fields in Libya could already feed back to the mainland, the Germans would not even have the gasoline fuel to support such a campaign.
Now it's different, Libyan oil is too much, and the quality is better than Romanian's. With this gasoline, Germany can use gasoline freely and develop more advanced engines.
In the past two months, three diesel engines have been put into operation in Germany, and tank engines and ship engines have been developed accordingly.
The aero engine has also improved some performance, and the FW-190D has been replaced with a newer engine, and the flight performance has been greatly improved, which makes the pilots on the front line very happy.
With field airfields on the front line, German fighters could finally fight their rivals in the skies over London.
Previously they had only half an hour or so to pester, but now they have a new field airfield to contain planes that have run out of fuel.
Although fighter jets are still theoretically not allowed to stay at front-line field airfields, it is much better to have such a backup airfield than to have none.
When the first light appeared in the sky on February 16, German fighters began to take off from French airfields as if they had heard a battle alarm.
One FW-190 fighter jet after another took off against the wind, and the weather forecast called five consecutive days of sunny days, which has now been fulfilled for half the time.
The sunny weather lasted for three days, and German fighters could take off with impunity at this time to attack British ground targets.
Once again, Stuka is the Grim Reaper on the battlefield, and the FW-190 and ME-109E are the escorts of these Grim Reapers.
The ME-109 fighter was one of the most produced fighters of World War II, and the production of this fighter did not stop the day before the fall of the Empire.
It is a miracle that Germany, in the face of the bombing of the Allies, which covered almost the entire territory, was able to continue to produce ME-109 fighters when many weapons and equipment could not continue to be produced.
The miracle was actually made by the ME-109 series of fighters, the production process that was as simple as the extreme.
Therefore, it is irrational to stop the production of the ME-109 fighter, and the right thing to do is to let this fighter continue to exist and give full play to its residual heat as much as possible.
Others don't know, and Li Le can't possibly not know, although this kind of fighter is relatively inferior to the enemy's heavy fighters and strategic bombers, it can also be a sharp weapon for slaughtering Soviet planes on the Eastern Front.
Even at the end of the road in 1945, Luftwaffe pilots could rely on ME-109 fighters to fight on the Eastern Front and take advantage of Soviet pilots.
Therefore, while increasing the production of FW-190 fighters, Li Le is also desperately building ME-109 series fighters.
Now Germany has no shortage of elites and trump cards, what is lacking is a massive amount of ordinary weapons and equipment that can cover these elites and trump cards.
Now, thousands of ME-109 fighters have become the backbone of Germany's fighter force. The FW-190 is still the work of the FW-190, and air supremacy is still the strength of the ME-109.
It was really a good time, and the current ME-109 fighter was a little more advanced than the British Spitfire, and there was no need to think about the problems caused by backward engines.
In fact, the performance of the fighters improved by five percent when the German fighter force in France gave priority to high-grade aviation fuel extracted from the Libyan oil fields.
The immediate improvement allowed the German design department to see the impact of fuel on aero engines. They don't get the best fuel, because the best fuel is in the Gulf of Mexico, which is exclusively available from the United States.
Dozens of German fighters formed a covering force and flew over the clouds over London. The fact that the Luftwaffe once again appeared over London after a long silence meant something in itself.
JU-88 BOMBERS FLEW OVER LONDON IN DROVES AND DROPPED BOMBS ON THE ALREADY BATTERED CITY OF LONDON.
The loud explosion was like an alarm clock, panicking civilians in the city of London.
"How? The air defense sirens went off for only a few minutes before the bombs fell, did these bastards oversleep too? "An officer was scrambling to put on his clothes when he heard an explosion in the distance outside the window.
The air reconnaissance system, which was originally built from Dover onward, has now been completely eliminated.
Several of the concealed radar stations have now been destroyed by the German ground forces, and some of the Sentinel Observation Posts are no longer there.
In this way, the German fighters, after entering the skies over Britain, were detected by the alert in the direction of London. When the battle alarm is sounded at this time, it will be too late.
Therefore, chaos is inevitable now. Also because of the shorter warning time, the preparation of anti-aircraft artillery units lagged behind.
By the time the German bombers began to drop bombs, the British anti-aircraft artillery units were ready to attack. The shells hardly posed a threat to the bomber group, since German bombers had already stormed into the center of London.
"Pack up the valuables!" As he pushed the door out of the house with the child, the officer reminded his wife.
In the distance, large puffs of black smoke were already rising from the streets, and the huge explosion rattled the nearby glass, but luckily the German bombers did not seem to be bombing in this direction.
"Not good!" The officers who reacted realized exactly where the Germans were bombing the target, and the direction that those slender JU-88s were facing was the area where Buckingham Palace was located.
The royals had taken refuge in the basement, and this time the German bombers seemed to be targeting Wilminster, where Buckingham Palace was located.
Soon, the first bomb landed in the chapel of Buckingham Palace, and the bomb hit the target impartially, destroying the two-hundred-year-old building in one fell swoop.
Most of the buildings here are pre-Victorian, but unfortunately the war has destroyed everything, and by the time the second bomb exploded, most of the glass on these buildings had shattered.
"Hello? And here is the Air Defense Command? What the? The palace was attacked by German bombers? Are you kidding? An officer put down the phone in his hand and looked at General Dowding to the side.
He spoke with difficulty, and said the news he had just gotten: "Sir! The planes of the Germans attacked London, our early warning system was destroyed, and there was no way to determine the target of the opposing side in advance. ā
The subordinate was already quite tactful, and Dowding knew that now that he had lost four radar stations, there was no way to provide early warning to London.
Even, now he could only get the news of the arrival of the German planes almost at the same time as the citizens of London. In this case, any early interception is impossible.
"Let the fighter units take off immediately and do not pursue...... Just expel the German bombing of London will suffice. Dowding gave the order to fight back, and there was a little helplessness in his tone.
He no longer dared to let his fighter unit venture over the German-occupied territories, where a shot down would be a loss of a pilot.
Now he lacks qualified fighter pilots, and the end of his barely supported position with novices is that his losses have skyrocketed to the point where it is intolerable.
After half a year of training, the number of skilled pilots has risen to more than 10,000. And the British skilled pilots plummeted, and there were already less than 400 people.
If it weren't for the large number of pilots that had to be stationed on the Eastern Front, Germany would now be able to fly more than 5,000 planes, giving Britain a complete experience of what despair is.
But even if the Luftwaffe could not use all its strength, the British Air Force could no longer hold on. Most of Dowding's pilots are American volunteers, and these people are constantly decreasing.
The battle alarm sounded again, and the British pilots ran exhaustively across the lawn in front of them. The camouflage net was lifted by the ground crew, and one fighter jet after another was neatly parked there.
The engines began to spin, and Spitfires and Hurricanes rushed off the runway. In the distance, the P-40s had begun to form in the sky, and the British but brave air force, although weak, once again faced a formidable enemy and fearlessly rose into the sky.
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