Chapter 283: The Normandy Landings
A month passed in the blink of an eye, at 6:30 a.m. on June 6, 1944, the code name of this combat operation "Operation Overlord" was fought by the United States, Britain, Canada, Free France, Poland and Nazi Germany, which was the largest battle in Western Europe, the largest landing campaign in the 20th century, and one of the most influential landing battles in the history of warfare.
The Allies will be star-studded, Dwight? Eisenhower (Commander-in-Chief), Arthur? William? Ted (deputy commander), Walter? Biddle? Smith (Chief of Staff), Bernard? Toil? Montgomery (Army), Bertram? Ramsay (Navy), Trafford? Leigh Mallory (Air Force), Omar? Bradley (1st U.S. Army), Milley? Dempsey (British 2nd Army) Duncan? Glenheim (1st Canadian Army),
In the face of the Allied army's navy, land and air force, the star-studded army was under the power of the army, and it was famous, compared to the Nazi German army, it was much more pitiful, and there were only a few town guard generals, Geld? Feng? Rundstedt (Commander-in-Chief of the Western Front), Erwin? Rommel (Army Group B), Friedrich? Dorman (7th Army),
The Allies have mobilized 36 divisions, with a total strength of 2.88 million troops, including 1.53 million in the army, equivalent to the entire army of the United States at the end of the 20th century, from June 6 to early July 1944, the United States, Britain, and Canada's million troops have dispatched as many as 170,000 vehicles and 600,000 tons of various supplies to attack the Normandy campaign.
The surging Normandy started in the early morning, all kinds of ships, gunboats, and landing ships were dispatched one after another, the first to be dispatched was the battleship, and the dense artillery fire attacked the Normandy fortifications fiercely, and the entire Normandy fortifications shook the mountains, and the small col of the Normandy beach filled with gunpowder was bombarded several feet.
In the Commander-in-Chief of the Western Front, Gerd? Feng? Under Rundstedt's decisive order, the Nazi army successfully survived the fierce artillery bombardment, and when the landing ship began to land on the beach, it carried out howitzers and heavy machine gun counterattacks, and the army suffered heavy casualties.
The rumbling sound of the cannonballs has never been peaceful, and the lucky ones have safely taken refuge in the shallow sea set up by the Nazis, which were used to block the Allied landing ships, and have now become a place for the Allied Army to hide from bullets and shells, and the unlucky ones were blown up directly, or fell on the shallow beach deep in their chests, and their bodies floated everywhere on the shallow beach,
Boom~ A bow speedboat transport ship exploded, a cannonball shit bombed the speedboat transport ship, and hundreds of Allied soldiers directly blew up, poof... Poof... A group of deadly human sticks rained down from the sky, and on the bow landing ship, a soldier disgustingly swept the hot internal organs from the top of his steel helmet, which immediately caused a boatload of people to vomit, it was so disgusting,
Hundreds of assault transport ships charged straight towards the Normandy shoals, a large transport ship released a large number of transport assault boats, immediately closed and began to retreat, the rest of the transport ships fell down the gate one after another, released a large number of transport assault boats, against the danger of fierce shelling, straight towards the beach, the blue water has become sticky blood red at this time,
A lieutenant officer on the transport assault ship pulled his throat and shouted: "Little girls of Spade Company K, now is the time to verify whether you are a girl, pick up the gun in your hand, strive to be a man, if you want to admit that you are a man with a target, rush me, kill those sons of bitches Nazis, dogs..."
When the transport assault ship opened the front door, the Allied GIs immediately jumped into the waist-deep sea with all kinds of weapons on their shoulders, and ran desperately towards the beach obstacle under the shouts and shouts of the lieutenant officers.
Boom ~ When several shells fell on the side of the dense Allied soldiers and exploded, the sad severed hands and feet splashed all over the sky, and when the recruits found that the broken feet were floating on the sea, they almost fainted, which hero's parts, it was too sad, and when they died, they had to suffer the end of five horses, and when a head floated over, it scared many recruits who had just entered the battlefield,
Compared with the difficult landing on the Allied side, the Nazi side was not very good, the pillbox array was broken by artillery fire, and directly used the corpses of their companions as sandbag fortification obstacles, and set up crane guns to shoot fiercely at the Allied forces to prevent the Allies from attacking their front-line positions, and the Tiger Tank Elephant Tank also followed closely to pull onto the battlefield,
Commander-in-Chief of the Western Front, Gerd? Feng? Rundstedt gathered at this time with the commanders of the various divisions of the defensive line, hiding in the basement of the command in the rear area of the front line with an ugly face, the Allied first battleships struck hard, and the Normandy defensive line was crushed, and there were loopholes in many places.
Commander-in-Chief of the Western Front, Gerd? Feng? Rundstedt's whole face was dark, and he suddenly slammed his fist on the command platform and shouted angrily: "I only want to know one thing, why the Allied firepower is so fierce, but our firepower is only a little bit, why is this, don't tell me any nonsense that there are more people on the other side and less than us, you know, the line I am guarding is very stable." ”
The Nazi officers present all bowed their heads silently, the rumbling artillery fire and the sound of falling sand were intertwined, the Allies had already fought with the first front, the first line collapsed, then the second and third lines must not be guaranteed, none of the Nazi officers present dared to speak up, nor did they dare to challenge Gerd? Feng? Rundstedt's temper,
"Commander, the Führer has a telegram." Gerd? Feng? When Rundstedt was angry, a communications soldier had just sent a telegram from Berlin in his hand, and when Gerd lost at the front, he had already reported the news here as soon as possible, and now Gerd was also thinking about one thing, that is, retreating, the Allied firepower and numbers were too different from his side,
Gerd opened the telegram handed by the communications soldier and looked at it, his face suddenly became ugly, Hitler actually wanted to desperately stick to Normandy by himself, even if he fought until there was one soldier left, Gerd didn't know that the Soviet Union had hit the Nazi nest, he just felt that the Führer's order was a little too impersonal,
Under the puzzled faces of the Nazi officers, Gerd shook out the telegram in his hand with one hand, his face became a little decadent, and he waved his hand weakly and said: "Look at it, the Yuan wants us to stick to Normandy, what do you think about this, just say it now, I won't have a chance to say it later." ”
Although Gerd's words were a bit too false, when the Nazi officers saw the Führer's telegram, they all looked at each other, stubbornly defending the Normandy Line, the handwriting was very short but very fatal, and the two words were a fatal thing for the Nazi officers, and it made no difference if they were dead or dead, and the situation in front of them was like this, and it was a matter of time before they lost.
A Nazi officer stood up and took the brunt of the boastful talk about his strategy: "Sir, maybe we can pull the line back a little bit, so that we can avoid the shelling of Allied ships, and then there is, the Allied landing is only the vanguard infantry, we can rely on the armored forces to counterattack back, so we can..."
Another Nazi officer immediately retorted: "Ignorance, if we retreat, it is equivalent to giving up the strong defensive line to the Allies, and then we will be in trouble if we want to fight back, and behind the Normandy defense line is all the way to the flat land, there is no other fortification at all, if the heavy firepower of the Allies arrives, aren't we asking for our own hardship, I don't approve..."
At the meeting of the bunker command post, there were immediately diehards and retreaters, and the two sides expressed their opinions in response to the old saying, the public said that the public was justified and the mother said that the mother was reasonable, and the quarrel between the two factions immediately developed to the point of almost rolling up the sleeves and drying the frame, while Gerd sat on the side and did not make do, he was waiting for the two sides to finish pinching each other before making a final conclusion,
Compared with the quarrel on the Nazi side, the Allied side is similar, there is a fiery rogue general commonly known as George. Patton, as the commander of the Third Army, at this time he was not used to the Allied side of his mother-in-law's Lopasso, he attached importance to the tank armored attack, and he shook the Allied commander present with a big cigar in his mouth,
George. Barton slammed the podium with one hand and scolded angrily: "You bastards, soft eggs, all of you are unseeded guys, you've been here for a long time, except for talking about some fucking nonsense, I really don't see any good advice, and the life of the GI is wasted for you guys to sit here." ”
Angry, especially the officers on the British side, who is not a fiery fellow, George. As soon as Patton's provocative words opened his mouth, they immediately provoked their angry denunciation. Patton's words really made them feel embarrassed for a while, especially when there was a group of gloating Yankees who were waiting to see the excitement without saying a word.
George. Barton angrily pointed at them and said: "Damn, Lao Tzu said that you don't be unconvinced, look at you one by one, you are all like this bear, I really expect you to win the battle, the soul is not millions, you have to brag here, Lao Tzu is not empty to accompany you, Lao Tzu should be a hero, get out." ”
George. When Barton turned to walk out, he suddenly walked to the door and turned around and pointed at Omar? Bradley scolded: "Omar, you don't laugh at that good thing, the great hero Cruz that Lao Tzu has been thinking about for a long time, just let your fucking mess die in battle, you are really a broom star, scourge spirit, the war is over, Lao Tzu has a fight with you, and his heart is irritable." ”
Omar? Bradley's mouth was too wide to close like an orangutan's face, and he didn't know when his round-rimmed glasses fell to the ground. Patton's challenge, big and small, really shocked Omar? Bradley, elite Marines killed, Omar? Bradley really didn't receive the news, he has been busy with the frontline war,
Until George. After Barton threw out a battle report, Omar? After Bradley picked it up and looked at it, his face became ugly, all the elite marines who participated in the destruction of the launch ship were missing, the fleet sent by Pearl Harbor found that the incident site was full of oil, and the shocking news that the tragic death and injury of Kyoto, Japan was close to hundreds of thousands of people,
'What's going on,' Omar? Bradley was a little dumbfounded, and when the guard behind him picked up his glasses, Omar? Bradley confirmed again and again, looked at it and watched, and finally came to the conclusion, what's going on, even Omar? Bradley himself does not know whether the elite marines have completed their mission or failed,