The airport that Brandt was going to attack was called Grays Harbor Airport, near Graceport on the west shore of Concepson Bay. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info Port Grace is located near Concepson Bay, in the middle of two peninsulas jutting into Concepson Bay, and when viewed from the air, the terrain looks like an open pair of scissors.

At the two pointed ends of the "scissors", the terrain is very dangerous, and they are all cliffs dozens of meters above the sea. With only a small number of troops to defend it, there is no possibility of landing. Moreover, the pointed heads of these two "scissors" peninsulas are also covered with large areas of primeval forest, which is very conducive to the concealment and lurking of troops. Moreover, the entrance to the harbor (between the two tips of the "scissors") is very narrow, only 1,300 meters wide, and can easily be blocked by M1 cannons (240mm caliber), mines and torpedo boats.

Therefore, from a military point of view, Grace Harbor is difficult to occupy from the sea. So the Americans did not have a lot of troops deployed here, the ground forces only had an infantry battalion, an anti-aircraft artillery battalion and a British Canadian militia battalion (guarding the harbor area of Port Grace), as well as a coastal artillery company (armed with 4 240mm cannons), and a tank company equipped with M4 tanks.

As for the "heavily guarded" airfield that Brandt was going to take people to occupy, there were only two anti-aircraft artillery companies guarding it, and there were no tanks or other armored vehicles.

When Brandt, with more than 100 of his men, approached the airfield with a 105mm recoilless gun, two 127mm anti-aircraft guns and four 90mm anti-aircraft guns arranged near the airfield were firing. However, the target is not an aircraft in the air, but the ground near the airport.

It turned out that someone had arrived a step ahead of Brandt and was attacking from another direction, trying to seize the airfield. The defenders of the airfield had no choice but to use 127mm and 90mm anti-aircraft guns as howitzers and fire high-explosive shells to bombard the attacking Germans.

However, these anti-aircraft guns did not hit accurately and did not stop the attack of the German paratroopers. As Brandt's men approached the airport from the east, near the woods to the west of the airport, the distinctive sound of MG42 tearing linen was already ringing, and it appeared that German paratroopers were attacking. Soon, Brandt also heard a dense explosion, not 127mm shells and 90mm shells, but 80mm mortars.

"Spread out, spread out and get ready to attack." Brandt ordered the more than 100 people who followed him to disperse, and at the same time ordered the recoilless gun crew: "Rack up the LG45 recoilless gun and prepare the high-explosive shells...... How many rounds are there? ”

"Only 24 rounds."

"It doesn't matter, wait until you see the red flares and fire at the positions of the Americans." Brandt said, "Shoot 12 high-explosive rounds as fast as you can." ”

"Understood."

Brandt asked again: "Signal Corps?" Is the Air Force in touch? ”

"Sergeant Major, I've been contacted, there are 8 Fokker 636s, all with rockets."

"Not bad." Brandt nodded, then gestured to several platoon commanders and squad leaders who were leading the troops, and shouted, "Begin!" Begin! ”

The attack began immediately, and it did not quietly approach the sneak attack, but more than 100 people formed a straggler line and advanced with great liberty. After walking for a while, you can see the barbed wire fence at the edge of the airport.

"Phew!" Across the barbed wire, an American defender opened fire, but fortunately he used a rifle instead of a machine gun, and he didn't hit accurately. However, the German paratroopers who were marching still fell to the ground and aimed their FG42 paratrooper rifles in front of them. Several MG42 machine guns were erected, and the muzzles were pointed forward. Brandt sent a few more soldiers to crawl forward and cut the barbed wire with large iron tongs.

Probably spotting someone cutting barbed wire, an ambushed M2 large-caliber machine gun began to fire, and the bullets hit the gravel ground with the sound of "Tutu, Tutu" gunfire, stirring up clusters of smoke. One of the MG42 machine guns, which had been waiting for a long time, immediately let out a roar of tearing linen, and the FG42 paratrooper rifle also began to emit a crisp and coherent sound of point fire. Soon the Americans' machine guns were dumbfounded, and there was no second machine gun to fire again, and no M1 rifle shots rang out.

"Sergeant Major, it's done!" By this time, the soldier in charge of cutting the barbed wire had already completed the task.

Brandt pulled out a flare gun, aimed it at the front, and then shouted the order: "Borol cluster, attack!" ”

The Borol cluster is an improvised platoon cluster, one of three platoon clusters in Brandt's hands.

Thirty or so prostrate German paratroopers jumped to their feet, formed a line of paratroopers, and charged forward with FG42 rifles. All MG42 machine guns also opened fire at the same time, and tongues of fire swept past the front of the American positions.

At this time, the machine guns and rifles of the Americans counterattacked were also fired, but to Brandt's disappointment, the Americans were very sparse with bullets, and the defenders were obviously not many. With a slight exhalation, he pulled the trigger of the flare gun, and a red flare was fired. Seeing the flares, the 105mm recoilless gun, which had been prepared for a long time, immediately began to fire rapidly. The 18-kilogram grenades exploded one after another around the US positions, and when one grenade exploded, a large cloud of dirt, sand, gravel and other miscellaneous objects were thrown into the sky. The tremendous power stunned the American GIs who held their positions for half a platoon, they were not battle-hardened veterans, and many of them retreated back into the trenches and did not dare to rise to the ground. The defensive firepower suddenly weakened, and taking advantage of this opportunity, the charging German paratroopers had already reached the front of the American position, and more than two dozen M39 oval grenades were thrown out, accurately falling in the trenches of the American troops, and blowing up the Americans who were shrunk to avoid the 105mm grenades.

Brandt, who was half-crouching and watching the battle, saw the situation in front of him, and then listened to the sound of gunshots, and already knew that the invincible German Superman had won again. After all, the paratroopers are all veterans of bloody battles with the Soviet Red Army on the Eastern Front, and their actual combat effectiveness on the battlefield is not at all comparable to that of the Americans, who have not been on the battlefield.

"Sergeant Major!" At this time, someone shouted at Brandt, "We have taken the position!" ”

"Good! Good job! The expression on Brandt's face changed, and he was a wicked Nazi (he was actually a non-partisan), "Let Borol stay here, and the others will follow me!" Long live Germany! Long live the Emperor! Long live the victory! ”

"Long live Germany! Long live the Emperor! Long live the victory! ”

Hearing the cheers of the Germans, the Frenchman Mitterrand's face turned slightly pale, it was not the first time he had been on the battlefield. In 40 years he fought in the war with the Germans and was taken prisoner. However, he felt that the Germans who had caught him in 40 years were obviously not as powerful as the current Germans......

The Nazi paratroopers were advancing, and Mitterrand could only move forward as a French fascist, and as he passed through the freshly taken American trenches, he saw the bodies of two Germans lying on the ground, and his mood was slightly better. But then he saw more American corpses and prisoners of war with terrified expressions on their faces, and saw American munitions scattered everywhere, machine guns, rifles, submachine guns, and even a few Germans fiddling with a freshly erected 60mm mortar - Mitterrand did not remember the Americans firing mortar shells, which were most likely captured before they could fire.

After crossing the barbed wire fence and trenches, Mitterrand saw an airfield full of more than a dozen huge bomb craters, and the towers and simple hangars of the airport, as well as warehouses and personnel dormitories, were also bombed into rubble, apparently unusable. He also saw a number of tracked construction vehicles and trucks loaded with dirt and gravel being dumped on the airport, which were supposed to be used to fill the pits, but were now abandoned on the airport in one piece.

There was also an anti-aircraft gun position at each of the two corners to the south of the airfield, and about a dozen 127mm and 90mm anti-aircraft guns were constantly firing grenades, but they were not accurate at all. Just as Mitterrand followed the Germans into the airfield, he heard a rumbling explosion behind him, and when he looked back, it turned out that the American shells had landed on the outside of the trench line that had just been captured, where Brandt's company cluster had been located.

It is clear that the Americans were completely stunned, there was confusion in command, and there was no direction for even the shelling.

"Sergeant Schumacher, take your men and bring that 60mm mortar to attack the anti-aircraft artillery position on the right!" Brandt felt that he should continue to take risks. He divided the two platoon-level clusters in his hand into two and went to attack two anti-aircraft artillery positions that were at least the company level. If it had been the Soviet Red Army guarding there, then seventy or eighty Nazi paratroopers would have suffered heavy casualties, but the Americans here do not seem to be able to fight.

What happened next proved that Brandt's judgment was correct, and a dozen of the Americans' heavy anti-aircraft guns were fighting indiscriminately from beginning to end, and their 40mm "Bofors" guns, which were originally extremely threatening to the infantry, were constantly firing at the air - at this time there were more than a dozen Fokker 636s in the air, but they were not within the range of the 40mm guns.

What made Brandt even more fortunate was that the Americans actually watched the German paratroopers approach their anti-aircraft artillery positions, and calmly erected 60mm mortars and 105mm recoilless guns - which is equivalent to letting the enemy infantry directly touch the door of their artillery positions! The occurrence of such a situation can only show that the US troops guarding the airfield are really not well-trained elites, and most of them are just some chaotic antiaircraft artillery units, which have no field experience at all, and their training is insufficient.

As a result, dozens of 105mm and 60mm shells were bombarded into the interior of the two annular antiaircraft artillery positions of the US troops, and the American troops inside were knocked over, and after another charge, the two annular antiaircraft artillery positions were easily taken down.