PS: The first blind date was blown, the following peace of mind code words, the weekend resumption of double shifts, ask for recommendation votes to comfort T-T

As a result, the German Stuka bombers really hung up high-explosive bombs and launched a large-scale attack on the flawed US fleet, because the Germans knew that Iceland could not hold it no matter what, so they did not blindly force their way into the center of the US fleet, but only bombed the cruisers and destroyers on the periphery that lacked support fire protection, purely for the purpose of killing and damaging the US military to the greatest extent, but with the characteristics of high-explosive bombs, it was more suitable for bombing those thin-armored warships.

Due to the dispersion of the ships, the density of the anti-aircraft fire of the US fleet was greatly affected, which gave the German bomber group an opportunity to take advantage of, and I don't know whether it was because they finally got the opportunity to attack, or because they had the intention to win even a little bit of life for Iceland's old fashion, hundreds of German Stuka bomber pilots actually killed red eyes, and after dropping the bombs, they followed the example of the Eastern army to play suicide attacks

"Yes, it seems that many of them have gone to China for exchange and study, and they seem to have been influenced by the Orientals!" In his opinion, Germany's industrial strength is strong, but human resources are insufficient, and learning from the Chinese and Japanese to carry out suicide attacks is not worth the loss, but he has always been a land-based fighter pilot, but he ignores the point, once the plane is shot down by the enemy in the air battle at sea, even if the pilot successfully parachutes. The chance of being rescued is extremely small, especially when the ship below belongs to the enemy, so it makes sense that the Chinese and Japanese pilots will choose to fly their planes and die with the enemy ship once they are shot down in the mission of attacking the sea

Even though the commander ordered to stop it, 17 German bomber pilots crashed into the U.S. warship in the battle, further increasing the U.S. fleet's losses. Soon after, the FW190B fighters with a long range bombed the US fleet and withdrew directly to the Faroe Islands, while the destruction of Iceland's stored air force supplies was handed over to the army that remained on the island, paying a heavy price of nearly half of the casualties and causing heavy losses to the US fleet. Only then did the pilots feel a little relieved that they had left early

At this time, the entire U.S. fleet was fully aware of how cruel the war the United States was involved in this time. Even the long-time fleet commander was now full of dejection, smoking cigar after cigar, muttering softly, "They won't let me do it anymore, no."

During a number of air raids launched by the Luftwaffe in Iceland. The US Atlantic Fleet paid an extremely heavy price. Four heavy cruisers, six light cruisers, 44 destroyers, eight supply ships, three landing ships, and one minesweeper were sunk successively. Another 1 battleship, 3 heavy cruisers and 2 light cruisers had to abandon the mission and return home early for overhaul because they were too seriously injured, and 139 carrier-based aircraft were shot down or crashed into the sea on their own, and the US officers and men were permanently attritioned (killed, severely disabled, and missing. More than 27,000 people. The Germans lost only 45 FW190B fighters and 76 heavy Stuka dive bombers (including 30 in the exploratory attack). It can even be said that the battle for Iceland had not really begun before the United States suffered its first major defeat since Pearl Harbor. However, even so, it was difficult to change the fate of the more than 15,000 German defenders in Iceland

The reason is very simple, although the combat ships of this fleet have lost almost half, there are still 8 capital ships, so the fleet has preserved at least three-quarters of its combat strength, and after the German planes on the island were forced to withdraw, the German army in Iceland has no way to launch a counterattack against the American fleet, and the strength of the US 1st Marine Division itself is not concerned, just the strong fire support provided by so many warships is enough to make the Germans frightened

In fact, the German defenders knew this, so they abandoned any stronghold within the range of the naval guns, and blew up some supplies and facilities that might be used by the Americans, and even the city of Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland, was set on fire everywhere, and withdrew to the mountains outside the range of the American guns with a large amount of supplies collected in advance. Although the Germans decided to fight in this way only after the reconnaissance planes discovered the US fleet, and the time was very limited, so the supplies they could take with them were limited, and the US troops could starve them all to death just by besieging them, all the officers and men of this SS infantry division had already made up their minds that even if they could hold out for one more day and kill one more American soldier, they would hold out as long as possible until Zuihou, so as not to let their friendly forces achieve greater results in other battlefields

Although Roosevelt almost suffered a cerebral hemorrhage after receiving the battle report, he still did not change his commander on the spot after all, which naturally made the commander of the US fleet secretly grateful, but after seeing the haze over Reykjavik, his face suddenly changed greatly. It was only at this time that the commander of the fleet finally understood why the Germans were not afraid of wasting when they engaged in ultra-high-altitude bombing with an ultra-low cost-effective ratio, and it turned out that they were determined not to leave any supplies for the enemy

The mess left by the Germans caused the American army to spend several more days cleaning up, but the commander of the 1st Marine Division of the United States Marine Division was secretly relieved that the expected very tragic beachhead battle did not happen, but what he did not expect was that although the German army retreated into the mountains, it continued to use the night to launch surprise attacks, so that the American army could not repair the large airport in Iceland for a long time. In desperation, the U.S. military gave up the idea of trapping the Germans in the mountains, and launched a strong attack under the cover of naval bombers.

Due to the urgency of time, the Germans did not have time to build strong fortifications, but the condescending superiority of the mountains still caused the attack of the US 1st Marine Division to encounter great resistance, and in the previous air raids on the fleet, this ace division also lost two or three thousand men because the landing ship was blown and sunk, and its strength was somewhat affected, and this battle was even more difficult to fight. But what made the US military even more a headache was the SS's super will to fight, they couldn't imagine that the European troops who did not despise surrender could fight to Zuihou alone in a desperate situation, and the last words of an SS sergeant, "Tell the Führer that I have done my best, tell my father that I still love him" has since spread all over Shijie (to be continued......