Chapter 1231: And Free France
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Contrary to the malicious conjectures of Vice Admiral Fraser of Britain (Canada), Charles Murphy was borne. De Gaulle and his Free French fighters never wanted to submit to the Germans who ruled Europe. Because in their opinion, the French Fourth Republic, which now followed Germany (now there is no Vichy France, and the France led by Petain is called the Fourth Republic), has completely lost its dignity and soul, betrayed the French nation, and became a follower of the German-dominated Pan-Aryanism.
In the end, the development of pan-Aryan ism will inevitably replace the original French national identity with the Aryan national identity, so that the French nation will be annihilated in the long river of history!
After the loss of the French national identity, the country of France will undoubtedly become a historical term, and thus be fully integrated by the so-called United States of Europe. In this way, the French nation and state are considered to be completely destroyed.
Such a bleak prospect for the natural Charles. What a French patriot like de Gaulle could not tolerate. Although the Shire. De Gaulle himself was not opposed to the establishment of a European Community and Franco-German integration, but he and his comrades envisioned not a pan-Aryan Europe, but a European community in which all peoples lived together in freedom, equality, and fraternity, with French as the main official language......
In addition to opposing the Fourth Republic over the question of whether France was dominant or German, there was another important reason for the Free French fighters to stand firmly on the side of the Free World - and that was that Saint-Pierre and Miquelon had been blockaded by the Americans with tens of thousands of magnetic mines, anchor mines, and shipwrecks. All ports, including the smallest fishing ports, were unusable, and every beachhead for landing or docking was covered with various obstacles, mines and mines.
Communication with the outside world throughout Saint Pierre and Miquelon can only be maintained by air, and communication between the islands can only be maintained by air. The island's 65,000 freedom fighters, 42,000 families and civilians of the Free French movement, and 6,000 French residents were also provided with supplies by airdrop. On average, Americans drop 200 tons of supplies on Saint-Pierre and Miquelon every day to keep 113,000 French people alive.
Moreover, the Americans also controlled the amount of reserves of the necessities of life on the archipelago through supply shipments. Now for a week without an airdrop, 113,000 French people in the archipelago will starve!
Germany simply had no room to supply the 113,000 French until it cleared the mines around Saint-Pierre and Miquelon and salvaged the shipwrecks that had locked the harbor...... A daily transport volume of 200 tons required sixty or seventy Fokker 42 conveyors. If these transport volumes are used to support the landing force, they can sustain at least one day of high-intensity combat for two heavy divisions.
In addition, the large military airfield built by the United States near the small town of Saint-Pierre was also destroyed two months ago in the name of expansion, but the expansion was not completed for two months, and the construction site was still full of potholes, and even the construction machinery left by the Americans on the island was completely destroyed because of the sabotage of "German agents."
In other words, even if the Germans took Saint Pierre and Miquelon with 113,000 French supplies, they would not be able to deploy Me264 and Me262T on the islands in the short term, which greatly reduced the value of Saint Pierre and Miquelon.
However, on the morning of April 25, 1945, the chairman of the French National Liberation Council, Charles Brown. General de Gaulle and the Director of the Armed Forces of the Free France, Henri Brown. Still, Giraud issued an order to impose wartime martial law, announcing that Saint-Pierre and Miquelon would soon be attacked by Nazi and fascist armies (Nazis meant by German and Fascist by French)!
After the order was issued, the two of them, along with other members of the French National Liberation Council who lived in the city of Saint-Pierre, left the city of Saint-Pierre with their families and entered the "Fortress of Freedom" in the northern highlands of Saint-Pierre Island, a miniature version of the Churchill naval fortress, but not too small, occupying almost a third of the island's land area, but without security guns with a caliber of more than 240 mm or armored turrets. The strongest firepower used by the "Liberty Fortress" was the American M1 240mm cannon.
In the vicinity of the Poin character of Newfoundland Island, which is more than 20 kilometers away from the "Freedom Fortress" (it is the apex of the peninsula, the terrain is relatively flat, with a sandy beach where landing, and is a key point for the Allies), there is a coastal defense fortress called "Pershing Fortress", which is about the size of the "Churchill Naval Fortress". The fortress has up to 4 twin 406mm armored turrets - 8 powerful 406mm cannons that can not only block the nearby ocean, but also cover the entire Saint-Pierre and Miquelon!
When Charles de Gaulle and Giraud rode in a French pre-war Renault car drove into the entrance to the "Fortress of Liberty", Henri . Giraud sighed softly, "Charles, I guess this is where we are buried, right?" β
"Where to be buried?" De Gaulle smiled bitterly, "Maybe?" If they did conquer Newfoundland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon would not have been spared. β
"Do you think the Germans will hit Newfoundland first?" Henry. Giraud asked rhetorically.
De Gaulle nodded, smiled and said, "Yes, if they really want to enter North America from eastern Canada, the capture of Newfoundland is a must, and the only right direction...... As for Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, the Germans were not unaware of the situation on the islands, and it was useless to seize them. β
"What? Did the Germans know about the situation on Saint-Pierre and Miquelon? "Henry. Giraud was stunned.
The Germans should not know that Saint Pierre and Miquelon had always been under the tight control of the Free French movement!
"Of course," de Gaulle sighed, turning his head to look at his assistant, "they have spies...... Many, lots of spies! It's hard to prevent it! So Saint Pierre and Miquelon is not their target, and we still have a chance of victory and revival. β
"A chance of victory?" Henry. Giraud was almost amused by de Gaulle's unwarranted confidence. What opportunities are there for France now? Even if the Germans failed in their attack on North America, their dominance in Europe would probably be maintained, right?
"Yes!" De Gaulle nodded, "France still has a chance for victory and revival." We may not be able to defeat the murderous Germanic people on the battlefield, but as long as we can arouse the love of French culture, spirituality and free thought, France will surely have a day of independence from the United States of Europe and regain its greatness! β
By this time, the car had stopped at the end of the passage inside the bunker, and dozens of veterans in their thirties and forties, who vaguely remembered the glory of France in the past, stood in front of two open thick doors and saluted de Gaulle and Giraud, who got off the sedan.
With the help of dim lighting, de Gaulle saw tear stains on the faces of every veteran.
De Gaulle did not immediately enter the door, but stood solemnly in front of the veterans who had just wept and said to them in a loud voice: "Soldiers, do not shed tears, do not weep, for France is only in difficulty, it has not perished, and it cannot perish."
As long as the flame of freedom in our hearts and the hearts of tens of millions of French people is not extinguished, France will surely get rid of the European community ruled by Germany in the future and become a great country again! So wipe away your tears and remember the French spirit of freedom, equality and fraternity!
Long live the free France! Long live the indomitable French! β
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While de Gaulle was shouting the slogan "Long live the indomitable Frenchman", hundreds of French officers and soldiers were flying the Fokker 42 long-range transport plane, assembled in a French factory and belonging to the French Air Force Transport Command, to Newfoundland.
These Fokker 42 long-range transport aircraft are part of a 508 Fokker 42 aircraft used in Operation Columbus. Most of the planes were loaded with weapons, ammunition and various supplies to be airdropped to Newfoundland, and some of the planes were loaded with heavily armed German paratroopers!
FranΓ§ois, who was forced to serve in the transport aircraft unit of the French Air Force as a machine gunner and cabin attendant. On the French Air Force Transport Plane No. 903, where Senior Private Mitterrand was located, there was a murderous German paratrooper platoon. The platoon commander of this paratrooper platoon was a Nazi murderer that Sergeant Mitterrand hated from the bottom of his bones - as you could tell by the knight's iron cross around his neck! As an Air Sergeant Major, to be able to wear a knight's iron cross to find the devil whose hands must be stained with the blood of liberal and GCIST fighters! It is likely that many French people were also killed......
Private Mitterrand sat in the cabin and stared at the somewhat terrible German devil with a gloomy face for a while, until the other party noticed him and cast a cold gaze, and then hurriedly lowered his head and pretended to look at his watch.
It's already 11 a.m. EST on April 25, 1945, and according to the orders from above, in a dozen minutes, these damn Germans will be jumping off the good plane.
Mitterrand thought to himself: the bullets of the Americans will pick up these aggressors! On the island of Newfoundland, there may be Free French warriors, but they are truly heroes, and they will surely kill all these hateful Germans.