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Once the various components of the artificial harbour were built, up to 400 parts with a total weight of about 1.5 million tonnes would need to be transported from the construction site to the south of England for assembly and finally towed across the Channel by tugboats. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The entire project was finally completed in early August 1941, and it was in fact a complete seaport, the size of the British port of Dover, through which the Allies could unload all their supplies without taking the port.

In addition to the artificial port, the Allies also had an initiative - an undersea oil pipeline. This is due to the fact that a large number of mechanized troops will participate in the war after the landing, and the demand for fuel is huge, so in order to ensure the supply of fuel, the Allies have set up a special agency responsible for the submarine oil pipeline, which is also led by Tennant.

A total of four mild steel pipes with diameters of 15 mm and 25 mm were laid, from the British shore to the moorings in the sea and then to the landing beachhead. It can deliver 600 tons of fuel oil per hour from the UK to the beachhead, which can basically meet the requirements.

The Allied pre-war preparations had been incredibly meticulous, for example, given that the first airborne troops were composed of soldiers from several countries, and that at night they were dressed in different costumes, equipment, and languages.

In order to solve the difficult problem of identifying friend from foe, each officer and soldier of the Airborne Forces was given a "cricket" toy worth only a few cents, which was only the size of a lighter.

The identification method prescribed by the Allies was one "kaba" as an inquiry, two "kaba" as an answer, and a small toy of a few cents solved the big problem.

Although the Allies were superior in technology and equipment to the Germans, only a very small number of the millions of landing troops had participated in battles, and the vast majority had no actual combat experience.

Earlier, Lieutenant Colonel Paul? Thompson set up a training base in northern Devon, England, selected a beach with similar topography to the beachhead where the US troops landed, set up minefields, anti-tank trenches, pillboxes, barbed wire, obstacles, and so on according to the German fortifications he had detected, and then imagined various possible situations in wartime, and organized repeated training of troops.

At the same time, the British army also trained the participating troops on remote beaches in the east of England. Such high-intensity actual combat training will certainly cause damage to the equipment, and the Allied logistics repair personnel rushed to repair it day and night, ensuring that on the eve of the landing, the intact rate of the landing craft of the US and British troops was as high as 97.6 percent and 99.3 percent respectively.

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The Allies were actively preparing, Rommel was also not idle, the completion of the Normandy defenses was in charge of Field Marshal Gluck, the commander of Army Group B, the reconstruction of the Maginot Line was the responsibility of Field Marshal Moder, and the assembly of the Ardennes Forest was in the responsibility of Field Marshal Manstein, deputy commander of the Western Front.

What most concerned Rommel was the military production of Germany and its allies, and after Rommel's early transformation, Germany's weapons production has made great progress.

Three years ahead of schedule, it reached the production that Germany could only achieve in 1944, such as airplanes, Germany's annual production reached more than 29,000 units, more than 21,000 tanks, and countless other weapons. (These productions were not achieved until 1944 in Germany, and in 1945 they were drastically reduced by Allied bombing.) ）

In this month, at Rommel's request, German arms manufacturers implemented a three-shift production model, producing more than 2,800 aircraft of various types and more than 2,600 tanks of various types for Rommel, of which half of the Leopards were produced.

In order to prevent Britain and the United States from discovering his conspiracy, Rommel could not transfer tanks and planes from the Soviet Union on a large scale, and since he could not do so, he could only produce them, and the planes and tanks produced would be directly distributed to the corresponding troops.

At this time, Germany's combat aircraft at this time have been maintained at about 9,000 because of the huge consumption on the Soviet front, and more than 5,800 aircraft have been deployed on the Soviet front.

After all, the Stalin regime still had more than 3 million troops, and Britain and the United States had never stopped supporting them, and if it were not for the fact that Britain and the United States wanted to land in France, Rommel would definitely destroy Stalin in one fell swoop, and then he would consider the plan to land in Britain.

Now that the Anglo-American coalition is determined to open up a second battlefield, Rommel can only temporarily let go of the Stalin regime, because of the changes in the current situation, Rommel has to quietly transfer troops from the Soviet front to deal with the Anglo-American landing operations.

There were about 1,500 planes in Germany itself, 450 planes on the French front, and about 1,000 planes and 200 planes in the other occupation areas, which was the entire strength of the Luftwaffe. The more than 2,800 new planes added this month were all deployed by Rommel around the Maginot Line, under the unified command of Air Marshal Catherine.

Marshal Catherine was able to draw more than 4,500 air forces around the Maginot Line, with 2,800 new ones, 500 of which could be transferred from Germany itself, and all of the more than 1,000 planes in the occupied areas were withdrawn to the German mainland, and with the 450 planes withdrawn from France, it was just over 4,500 planes, but compared with the air force of the Allies, it was also 1 to 3, and Germany still did not have the qualifications to fight for consumption.

Rommel knew deeply that the air power in his hands was still too weak, and that the blitzkrieg would not have succeeded without the cooperation of the air force.

Rommel planned to concentrate all of Germany's air forces and have an air force life-and-death duel with the Allies on the Maginot Line, and if necessary, the planes deployed on the Soviet front could also be transferred to participate in the war, and the German fighters deployed in the Soviet Union could be transferred to a shortest day.

In fact, Rommel did not want to engage in an air duel with the Allies, but to use a sufficient number of aircraft to ensure the implementation of his super blitzkrieg.

Rommel's withdrawal of German troops from the rest of the occupied territories was also smooth, but the twenty-three elite German divisions deployed in northern Italy were not so easy. Because of the coup d'état in Italy, Edward has been arrested and locked up in a hotel on the top of a hill.

Edward was originally supported by Rommel to control Italy, and Edward also came to power through a coup d'état, and before the coup d'état, Edward was only a small major general, and there were many people in Italy who were dissatisfied with Edward.

These disgruntled people, under the mediation of British and American spies, were quickly linked, and they suddenly attacked and put Edward, the Italian prime minister, under house arrest.

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