Sometimes even the wingmen of the formation are not visible. — Dreves gritted his teeth and controlled himself, knowing how important his mission was in the battle. At this time, the commander of the rear crew reported to him the loss of two aircraft. It turned out that two "Junker aunts" planes suddenly disappeared in the thick fog.

The German heavy bomber JU89, which Limer invested in to continue to develop, has now established a production line and is in trial production. The JU98 bomber is basically comparable to the American B-29, and the bomb load of the JU89 and the B29 are both ten tons, but it is not as long as the B29, but this can be solved by carrying less ammunition and more fuel. Limer had already told the Messerschmidt company to immediately organize production, and Germany would order at least 300 planes.

Lieutenant Colonel Dreves thought to himself that this was probably just the beginning, and he could not afford to fly like this again, so he gave the order to return. Some of the planes landed at Aalborg Airport in Denmark, which had just been occupied, while others returned to their original airfields. The commanders at Kesselring's headquarters realized from the return report that what they had been fearing had become a reality, and they sensed that Norway could not be subdued without a fight. It was 8:20 a.m. Dreves' fleet flew in the air for more than three hours.

The second attack wave was flying towards the Fornebu airfield at an interval of 20 minutes from the first attack wave as originally ordered, and the officers and men of the 5th Parachute Regiment were on board. When the paratroopers could not land as planned, Kesselring received a stern order from Field Marshal Brauchitsch, ordering him to immediately recall the next few attacking troops. It was a paratrooper of the Wehrmacht, and Brauchitsch was now the Minister of Defense, and of course he felt sorry for his elite paratroopers. Kesselring, however, did not approve of his superiors recalling his troops. He said Brauchitsch directly: "Even if the airfield is not occupied, we can force the landing." The troops that landed first may have broken through the enemy's defenses for us. ”

It was very polite that Kesselring did not accuse Brauchitsch of overstepping his authority, it was still based on everyone's previous friendship, which belonged to the Wehrmacht.

Brauchitsch, however, believes that if this continues, both the "Junkers" and the paratroopers will suffer heavy losses, and who can bear this responsibility. Kesselring replied only to Brauchitsch:

"I can't order them to return, if something goes wrong, naturally the former enemy command of this exercise is responsible to the superiors."

This can only be understood but not spoken. There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone. And only then did the voice continue to come out:

"Well, General Kesselring, I see, you should do what your superiors order. Something happened, of course, the responsibility of the former enemy command. ”

The commander of the second attack wave, Colonel Wagner. He believes that he is close to the Fornebu airport. However, although the dense fog on the ground is very thick, it has already shown signs of dissipating due to the action of the sea breeze. So let the swarm continue to hover in the air. In this way, the captains are put to the test of instrument flight and bad weather flight. The fog is thickest near the coastline. The pilots of the second attack wave seemed to be more experienced, and they managed to fly to their targets in the gloomy clouds and fog, despite the adverse weather conditions.

The voyage of "Aunt Juncker" helped them, and after circling for an hour, the general outline of the coastline could already be seen, and after the navigator determined the direction, the group began to adjust the course and fly towards the target. Their luck was really good, the weather was sunny and the visibility was good near Oslo. The leading crew of the "Juncker Aunt" aircraft has already reached the skies over Fornebe. Wagner watched downward and circled for a week. It is a small airport surrounded by rocky mountains, with two concrete runways with a steep slope and the runway terminus is connected to the water. I saw two planes spewing flames at the airport. It seems that the battle is going on, and German fighters are hovering over the airfield.

Suddenly, the captain's voice suddenly came from Varna's walkie-talkie:

"Report, Colonel Werner, the Norwegians are laying out ** on the runway, what to do."

If the Norwegians blow up the runway, then even if Varna's occupation of the airfield is a failure, Varna thought for a moment, and then ordered:

"The other planes landed normally, and the plane immediately forcibly landed and ran on."

Varna was ready to fight desperately and let "Aunt Juncker" run to force a landing without enemy machine-gun fire, which was a gamble. There are always some gamblers in the troops led by Li Mo, who eat and drink spicy food when they win, and on this runway when they lose, people are dying.

Wagner gave the captains a landing signal, and "Aunt Juncker" entered the landing in a small circle. As Wagner's plane approached and landed, the heavy fire of the Norwegian troops guarding the airport hit his plane,

"Dada...... Da Da ...... Flutter flutter"

Countless bullets hit the "Aunt Junker" who was forcibly landing, and more than a dozen paratroopers in the cabin were killed at that time, and even the captain was hit in the fatal part, and the co-pilot hurriedly increased the throttle and pulled the plane up again.

The tragic voyage of the BF109 was less than five minutes in the sky over Forbene before returning home, and there was really no way to stay here, so the support operation was completed by the long-range BF110, and the German 110 Messerschmitt-110 fighters under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Hansen were responsible for covering the mission over Forneb.

The BF110 was Germany's only twin-engine heavy fighter, the BF110 fighter had great firepower and endurance to be able to protect the heart of the enemy force from bombing deep into enemy territory, and this fighter was called an escort fighter or destroyer at the time.

In general, the BF110 is still successful, but due to the excessive body, the action is not as agile as a single engine, so the BF110 is more used for formation escort, tactical bombing and night air defense operations, and the nickname of the BF110 is "saboteur".

Lieutenant Colonel Hansen was dispatched to carry out the cover mission at the scheduled time. Thirty minutes earlier, they had clash with Norwegian fighters. At 8.38 a.m., they were attacked from the side of the sun by 29 Norwegian fighter aircraft. The Gladiator is a British-built single-seat fighter. Hansen did not entangle with the Norwegian fighters, but arrived over Forneb at 8:45 a.m. as scheduled to carry out the task of covering the paratroopers' airborne landing.

In a short and fierce air battle, Hansen's 40 planes lost two, and the remaining 38 Messerschmitt-110 fighters, after finding the Forneb airfield, attacked the Norwegian anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine gun positions in and near the airfield, and hit two Norwegian fighters that had landed, and the two planes on fire on the airfield were set on fire by the low-altitude attack of Hansen's squadron.

Unaware that the parachute assault detachment had lost due to bad weather, Lieutenant Colonel Hansen, after suppressing the Norwegian ground anti-aircraft fire, was still patrolling over the Forneb airfield, waiting for the plane carrying the paratroopers. As the minutes ticked by, three red fuel warning lights warned Hansen that he was running out of fuel. It was calculated that in the sky over Foneb, there was only enough fuel for 20 minutes, during which the paratroopers had to take the airfield, and now the time has passed. At this extremely critical moment, at 9:05, a three-plane formation of the "Aunt Junker" transport plane flew in, and Hansen breathed a sigh of relief.

…… (To be continued.) )u