Chapter 337: A Difficult Landing

Popular speculation about the Manhattan Project began even before the project, so after the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the British military government stopped all public media publication and discussion of the nuclear research program, and demanded that the National Academy of Sciences and other media dismiss the previous discussion of atomic theory and nuclear research, and avoid all articles containing words such as "uranium", "neutrons", and "atomic weapons".

The Manhattan Project was huge in scale and involved in a large number of people, with a total of 600,000 British soldiers involved in the project, and the project was secretly carried out in Tennessee, Ohio, New Mexico, and Washington. With such a large and fragmented program, measures to restrict the media are certainly not enough. There were many people involved, and how to make the German and former Soviet intelligence agencies return again and again in vain, or be deceived, the British Union soldiers also made great efforts.

First of all, each participant in the program signed a strict confidentiality agreement, and even the locals were informed that everything that was happening here was forbidden to spread out, while they encouraged each other to remain silent for the sake of the country.

The British Union soldiers have organized a group of very conscientious confidential personnel, who communicate with each other through code words, down to the pieces of paper that record data and the psychological state of each member of the plan, and monitor and record everything in detail, and deal with them one by one, so as to ensure that the confidentiality is not leaked. Since many of the scientists involved in the project were internationally renowned atomic physicists, in order to deceive the German intelligence agencies, they even gave each of their core R&D personnel a code name, and their actions were carefully arranged by the intelligence services, and guards were sent to escort them at all times. and even hide its clues in action.

The plan was kept secret so tightly that even its allies, the British, had to be wary, and some say that even the workers never knew what they were making in this vast factory covering several square miles. They only know that there is a small amount of something that is refined from a large amount of uranium ore.

December 1940. The former Soviet Union, through the military scout of the military attaché's secretary at its embassy in the United Kingdom, Kremel, learned about the fact that Britain was conducting a large amount of research on military applications of atomic energy by recruiting nuclear physicists on the British side, and found out through investigation. It is likely that the British Coalition is conducting the same research, and it is extremely sensitive.

The Soviet military reconnaissance department obtained the contents of a secret meeting between British President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Quebec, Canada, on December 19. The two giants signed a secret agreement to jointly develop an atomic bomb. After evaluation by a high-level meeting.

In February 1941, the General Reconnaissance Directorate of the General Staff of the Soviet Red Army used its underground spy in the British Army, Arthur ? Adams recruited a British chemist named Kemp, who provided him with a lot of useful information: (1) the British army had secretly spent 1 billion dollars on uranium research and production technology development; (2) Thousands of engineers and technicians are working on this job.

Hundreds of senior doctors are studying the effects of radioactive radiation on the human body, and specialized laboratories have been set up at the University of Chicago and Columbia University where the research is conducted, led by a special committee of military leaders and scientists; (3) The British coalition is designing air-dropped (nuclear) bombs that will produce radiation and shock waves that can kill all living things within a radius of hundreds of miles.

In March 1941, Adams obtained another 2,500 pages of information on the British Coalition's nuclear program and samples of nuclear material from Campna, which he presented to Moscow. The Soviet spy in the British coalition and George? Koval. Codenamed Delmar, he successfully broke into the British Army's Oak Ridge Nuclear Centre, worked in one of the laboratories, gained a lot of valuable information, and learned about three enriched uranium projects at Oak Ridge

In 1941, the British forces also detected Soviet spies and began to infiltrate the plan, and in the same year a special counterintelligence corps was set up to deal with espionage affairs, and in 1941 Oppenheimer reported to the head of the counterintelligence corps, Pash, that Morris was interested in approaching him and asked him to provide intelligence to the Soviet Union.

Klaus, a participant in the British nuclear program? Fox was also found to be having an affair with Soviet intelligence, and he confessed to other spies in 1941. And lead to Harry? Kim, David? Greengrass, Julius and Ethel? The arrest of Rosenberg and others, while the Soviet spy George? Koval and nuclear physicist Theodore? Hall narrowly escaped.

The British coalition and the Soviet Union are strategic weapons related to the future and destiny of the country. It is the same deceit, there is no distinction between allies, and there are only national interests.

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The Germans annihilated the British Mediterranean fleet. The route from Sicily to North Africa was also largely safe, and the British still had a fleet in Gibraltar at this time. Called the H Fleet, this fleet was far inferior in strength to the British Mediterranean Fleet. Now that even the powerful British Mediterranean Fleet has been annihilated, the H Fleet will definitely not dare to come to send it to death, since the H Fleet will not come to send, Li Mo will not take the initiative to attack the British H Fleet now, you must know that the anti-aircraft fire of the British Gibraltar Fortress is quite intensive, and this is not the time for Li Mo to solve the H Fleet.

Limer began to command the landing of a large number of German troops, and the few remaining French destroyers and some submarines could build an anti-submarine protection ring for these transport ships, and the German defense in Tunisia became more and more difficult, and the British allied forces were storming Tunisian ports every day, but unfortunately they were really unable to drive the Germans into the sea.

On the night of January 16, 1941, Li Mo commanded more than 400 ships to land in the port of Tunis, such a big movement, of course, the British army also knew, so they immediately dropped artillery to bombard the port, Li Mo also desperately counterattacked, in the whole night of landing, the German army still paid a lot of price, about 3,000 people were killed, and there were almost more than 50 tanks that fell into the sea, although the German army paid such a big price, or landed in the port of Tunisia. About 100,000 men landed that night, and the British forces were tightly surrounding Tunisia, and their numbers had increased to 500,000.

These 150,000 people to attack the 500,000 British coalition army, it is still possible to short distance, long distance is not easy to say, after all, this point of strength is too small, although this number of troops is not very many, it is not realistic to drive the 500,000 British coalition troops out of Tunisia, but Li Mo still ordered to attack, Li Mo just wants to drive the British coalition army to the back, expand the encirclement a little, so that the artillery of the British coalition army can not directly attack the Tunisian port.

On the morning of the 17th, the German army in the Tunisian encirclement launched a full-scale counteroffensive, and both sides sent a large number of planes to participate in the battle, and Li Mo did not hesitate to let his JU89 carry aerial bombs to participate in the battle.

…… (To be continued......)

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