After entering 1946, the first American F-80 jet fighter was finalized into service and quickly appeared in the skies over Western Europe, although due to the short time, the American pilot's control of the jet fighter was not as good as that of the German counterpart, but the performance was still much stronger than the piston fighter. As for the problem that the combat radius of jet fighters is too small to escort the strategic bombers throughout the whole process, as long as the strategic bomber group can be protected from driving through the English Channel, it is also of great significance, because as long as it reaches the skies over the European continent, even if the bomber is shot down by the Germans, it can cause some results, and it is better than falling into the sea meaninglessly

Because they didn't know what was going on at first, the German jet fighter pilots who relied on the excellent performance of the Me262 still flew over the English Channel to intercept them, but after encountering the US F-80 jet fighters that could threaten them, the loss rate immediately rose sharply, and after being shot down in the channel, the pilots would die even if they successfully parachuted, and those who could skillfully fly jet fighters were elites, and for the Luftwaffe, which was increasingly short of pilots, the loss was too great. As the production of the F-80 and the speed at which it was equipped with troops, the Luftwaffe wisely abandoned the strategy of "keeping the enemy out of the country", but this made the strategic bombing of the Allies even more arrogant

After the Allies seized air supremacy at sea, due to the serious setbacks of the Soviet army on three fronts, in order to prevent the Soviet government from being unable to hold on to compromise and sue for peace with Germany, Roosevelt resolutely decided to open a second battlefield on the Western European continent in advance, and the landing site was unexpectedly chosen in northern France, which should be heavily garrisoned according to common sense.

But because at this time the main forces of the German army were attacking in the USSR. A large number of air defense units and air forces were deployed in the three Low Countries and the mainland to deal with the increasing strategic bombardment of the Allies, hundreds of thousands of people went south to support the Arab Federation, and the guerrilla warfare in the Balkans also contained hundreds of thousands of German troops, coupled with the unusually large occupation area also greatly dispersed Germany's limited forces, and the German government is now unable to continue to expand its army (and the expansion of the army will not be able to guarantee the production of arms), so it can only withdraw troops from France, which is not at war, for the time being, making France's defense unprecedentedly empty, But also concentrated in the Calais area, where the Germans believed that the Allies were most likely to land.

As a result, under the cover of eight American and British battleships, two or three hundred auxiliary ships, and several thousand aircraft, the Allies successfully landed in Normandy, and the French and communist guerrillas, who had been fighting against Germany since the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, immediately rose up in response. The Vichy French army also had a number of units defecting in formation. As a result, the situation in France was completely eroded

At this critical juncture, Mustache had to urgently transfer the Afrika Korps to the north, and at the same time draw troops from the troops stationed on the mainland to fight with them in the north and south, although these troops were not the strongest elite of the German army. But the German Army is the first in the world. Since at the moment the German army is still in full swing. Even the combat effectiveness of these second-line troops is very strong, and they have actually defeated many elite troops carefully selected by the US and British governments, but only because of insufficient troops. After all, the Allies were not able to drive them out to sea quickly, and the situation gradually deteriorated as the Allies continued to bring troops from the sea.

Fortunately, after learning of the landing of the Allied forces, the mustache immediately ordered the main force of the invading German army to abandon the attack on the southern front and immediately withdraw to Ukraine to strengthen the defense, although this made all the previous achievements of the German Army Group South come to naught, but let Germany squeeze out 800,000 elites to return to the mainland, and this huge force soon changed the balance of strength on the French battlefield.

At the same time, the German High Seas Fleet and numerous submarines, under the all-round protection of more than 10,000 German land-based aircraft, took the initiative to attack the Allied escort fleet that ensured the retreat of the landing force. The U.S. and British governments did not expect that the mustache would be so crazy that he would relax the local air defense to put as much air power as possible into this big war, and after the mustache carried out a purge of the officers of the air force, no one dared to oppose the air force's naval operations, which greatly improved the Luftwaffe's ability to attack ships

As a result, the 4 older battleships on the Allied side were sunk, and only the 4 Montana-class giant battleships with unusually strong bodies dragged back to the British naval base with a broken body, and the Allied auxiliary ships lost more than 100 ships, in addition to 3754 aircraft shot down or destroyed by the Germans, and the total number of dead and missing was no less than 60,000, and the Germans also paid for the sinking of two Bismarck-class battleships and the heavy damage of two Hindenburg-class giant battleships. Seventeen other surface ships and 29 submarines were sunk, 5,018 aircraft were shot down or destroyed, and more than 20,000 people were killed or missing. And if you take into account the huge indirect losses caused by the Soviet-German battlefield abandoning millions of square kilometers of land in one go, giving the Soviet army a chance to re-offensive, and the huge indirect losses caused by the sharp decline in the country's air defense capability and greatly increasing the effectiveness of the Allied strategic bombing, it is even more difficult to estimate with data

However, the mustache's desperate gamble succeeded in forcing the Allied fleet to abandon the landing force and withdraw to Britain, creating the conditions for the German ground forces to annihilate the more than 700,000 Allied forces entrenched in northern France. Soon after, the German army on the Western Front, which had increased to more than 1.2 million troops and was still receiving reinforcements, launched a full-scale offensive, and although the resistance of the Allies exceeded the expectations of the German army, it did not escape the fate of total annihilation

In the battle, which lasted for more than a month, more than 300,000 US troops were killed and missing, and more than 200,000 were captured. The number of British killed and missing was close to 200,000, and the number of prisoners was even higher. And such a staggering casualty figure does not take into account the results before the start of the German general offensive, otherwise it would be even more terrifying

This tragic defeat caused a great deal of mourning in the media and the people of the United States and Britain, but the subsequent evolution of the situation fully demonstrated that it was Roosevelt's adventure that broke the deadlock in the European theater. The first is that the losses of the German army were equally heavy, with more than 600,000 casualties in land battles alone, and more than 800,000 if the losses of allies and servant armies are included; The temporary weakening of the country's air defenses gave the Allies better strategic bombing aircraft, resulting in a more than 5% drop in German industrial production in 1946 compared with the previous year, which was fatal in the heat of the war, and more than 700,000 civilian casualties made the already underpopulated Germany miserable (to be continued......