Let's see if this looks like a huge pocket, we just have to wait for the Allies to land, let them rush to the Maginot Line, as for whether they land in Calais or Normandy, it doesn't matter so much, as long as we make them pay a heavy price when they land. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

If the Allies don't land, how can we destroy them? Our tanks don't have wings, they can't fly in the English Channel, colleagues!

As for whether the Allies landed in Calais or Normandy, it can be verified this evening, because the Allies will definitely be the first to carry out the airborne landing in the landing area, Marshal Gluck, the four armored divisions that reinforced you will now be assigned to you with full authority, and these armored divisions must first ensure the safety of the bridges and roads behind Normandy.

At the same time, I have a very special order for you, that is, your tanks must not rush to the coast, and it is better not to get within the range of the Allied naval guns, so as to avoid our tanks being bombarded by the Allied naval guns, and do not drive the damned Allied troops into the sea to feed the sharks, we are still waiting for them to throw themselves into the net! ”

"Haha...... Well, my commander-in-chief, Gluck promised to complete the task. ”

"Hmm...... Here is a detailed plan with specific combat steps and retreat routes for each of your troops, and the operation code name for this campaign is ...... Furnace.

The purpose of the battle was to land the British and American forces with heavy losses, then resist step by step, retreat in an orderly manner, gradually consume the enemy, lure the enemy deeper, and finally encircle and gather annihilation.

Everything for Germany, all of you. ”

"Hey! Rommel. ”

Half an hour before the landing on 25 August, Garbo reported to Germany that the Allies were attacking Normandy. -- This time was carefully designed by Britain and the United States, and Germany did not have time to react when it received the information.

All this information was transmitted to Rommel in time, and these double agents are still acting, and now is not the time for Rommel to expose them, Rommel has to let the Allies know that he has been deceived by them.

Then "Garbo" sent a telegram to Germany for 120 minutes, reporting in detail that the 40 divisions of the Allied false First Army Group were entering a state of imminent battle, that a large number of landing ships were gathering in Dover, that the real landing was about to begin, and that Rommel had not bothered to pay attention to this false information.

The task of the Allied airborne forces in the Normandy landings was to land in shallow and deep depths 10 to 15 kilometers from the coast on both sides of the landing beachhead, to prevent reinforcements from enemy reserves, and to attack the German coastal defensive positions from the flanks and rear to cooperate with the landing at sea.

Since the Allies landed only 6 to 8 infantry divisions in the first day or two, they were put into operation only after a large landing field was established for the division to deploy.

If the Germans broke through the line of defense of the landing force before the armored forces landed, it would bring disaster to the landing. Therefore, the actions of the Airborne Forces in the initial stage of the landing were crucial for the success of the landing.

The airborne troops participating in the war were the 82nd Airborne Division of the US Army, the 101st Airborne Division, and the 6th Airborne Division of the British Army. This is the entire airborne force of the Allied forces in Europe, and the 9th Transport Wing of the US Army and the two transport aircraft groups of the British Army are responsible for air transportation, with a total of 1,800 transport planes and 1,200 gliders.

From 15 airports in the south of the UK, the airborne distance is between 200 and 250 km. Each airborne division is divided into three echelons: assault, follow-up, and sea-fring, with the assault echelon formed by the parachute regiment landing by parachute landing five hours before landing, and the glider airborne infantry regiment being the follow-up echelon landing by airborne landing 15 hours after the assault echelon parachuting.

The tanks, armored vehicles and other heavy equipment in the airborne division and the rest of the troops formed a follow-up echelon to consolidate at the landing site and then land by sea. The airborne landing is scheduled to take place at 1 a.m. on 25 August, and the landing time is 6:30 a.m. on 25 August.

At 20 o'clock on August 25, the Allies dispatched 2,775 bombers to land 96 kilometers off the coast of Normandy and drop 9,267 tons of bombs on the front for two hours of direct aviation fire. Due to the dark night and bad weather, the expected effect was not achieved, and only temporarily suppressed the German defensive positions.

At 22 o'clock, the Allies took off two groups of planes, the first batch of 24 planes at 1:00 on the 6th in the vast area from Le Havre to Lesse to drop 2,000 fake paratroopers and a special detachment of 8 people, as soon as the fake paratroopers landed, they automatically ignited firecrackers to simulate the sound of gunfire, and after the special detachment landed, a sound simulator was set up, and various sounds such as pre-recorded gunshots, cannons, officers' orders, soldiers' speeches, and the sound of cars driving were emitted, causing the momentum of airborne landings everywhere.

For a time, the German command received a large number of reports, some of which reported the landing of Allied airborne troops, and some of which reported that the Allies had airdropped fake paratroopers.

The second batch of 26 planes, each carrying 13 people, landed in each predetermined area at 0:16 on the 6th, except for two groups that were wiped out by the Germans and one group did not arrive in time, the remaining 23 groups all set up guidance signals on time, marked the airborne landing field, and prepared for the next large-scale airborne landing.

At 23 o'clock on August 25, the assault echelons of the three airborne divisions, with a total of 24 paratrooper battalions and 17,210 people, took off by 1,038 transport planes.

Eisenhower personally went to the departure airfield of the 82nd Airborne Division to march for the soldiers, and all the planes were painted with three white bars as identification marks on the vertical tails, and adopted a dense formation of nine planes in the shape of a zigzag, with 36 to 45 planes forming an echelon, flying at an altitude of 1,500 to 1,800 meters.

When they reached Normandy, they were fired upon by German anti-aircraft weapons, which increased the altitude of the parachute jump from the predetermined 150 meters to 500 meters, the flight speed from 180 kilometers to 330 kilometers, and the wind speed on the ground was as high as 10 to 15 meters per second.

In addition, the German army opened the sluice gate of the Kotuntan Dam first, and the river flooded a large area of grassland, and aerial reconnaissance did not find that it was no longer a grass but a swamp that was covered by grass, and many paratroopers who were expected to land on the grass fell into the swamp. Despite the fact that the paratroopers had considerable trouble during the landing, they immediately went into battle as planned.

When the landing began on 25 August, the strategic deception of Britain and the United States entered a new stage, creating the illusion that the Allies were about to land in Calais.

The statements made by the heads of government of the Allied countries on the Normandy landings were carefully planned by Britain and the United States, and there was a faint hint between the lines that there would be another greater victory.

Only Charles de Gaulle, the leader of Free France, could not contain his excitement and put aside the Anglo-American speeches and made an impassioned speech.

Unexpectedly, these positive and negative speeches, true and false, can indeed confuse people, and the Calais defenders even asked Rommel to send troops to reinforce somewhere, but Rommel turned a deaf ear to this request and began to joke internationally.

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