Daytime bombing allows the attacking bomber formation to better maintain its own formation intact and can also better resist the interference of enemy aircraft. More importantly, the daytime attack can be better aimed at the target, and there will be no result of a large number of bombs missing the target.

Moreover, the choice of daytime bombing can also reflect the self-confidence and strength of the two sides from the side. The side that often dares to face its own enemy has a certain advantage in strength, and this is a concrete manifestation of the accumulated superiority in modern warfare.

Now the commanders of the US Army Air Force have to face the Luftwaffe strategic bomber units, which have begun to use their superiority and reason with their opponents. They had only 36 planes attacking their opponents, but the enemy had almost ten times as many troops.

"If it were me, I would order all the bombers to leave Iceland immediately, and now it's almost time to fill up the planes and fly back to the American mainland to be destroyed by the German bombers here. Hugh Dowding knew that the situation was not good, so he suggested.

Now he knew that Iceland's air defense, even with the reinforcement of jet fighters, was still so fragile, and that high-tech weapons could not withstand attrition in such a large-scale war, and even if they were powerful, they would be overwhelmed by superior opponents.

Faced with a potentially unstoppable German bombing, the British Air Force Commander, General Hugh Dowding, who had long been experienced in dealing with such problems, immediately came up with what he thought was the safest solution: to make the Americans retreat, leaving an almost empty Iceland to defend against the Luftwaffe bomber forces.

This was the best way he could think of to resist now, allowing the fighter unit to shoot down the German bombers as much as possible without pressure, using a hidden secret airfield as a backing, hurting the Germans and making them afraid to come to Iceland for air raids easily.

But the plan he is proposing now represents a lot to lose for the Americans. Because the infrastructure of the Icelandic base is not perfect at all, the United States is actually gambling with the mentality that the Germans dare not fight back.

The United States judged that the Germans should be very afraid of the British Meteor jet fighters based on the fact that Germany had canceled the reconnaissance planes sent to Iceland, so they thought that the Luftwaffe would not go to Iceland on a large scale to counterattack, after all, bombing an island that was almost deserted was a very unwise thing to do for the comparison of fuel and ammunition consumption.

Therefore, the American bombers that went to Iceland this time carried too many things, to the point of staggering -- a large amount of fuel and all kinds of ammunition needed by the US Army Air Corps were all transported to the Icelandic base, and this hastily built Icelandic base was actually not capable of holding so many things.

In the rush to build important facilities, such as waterworks, dormitories, and shore defenses, the entire Icelandic anti-aircraft infrastructure was essentially the same as nothing being built - there were no underground warehouses, no underground bunkers, and most of the fortifications were built directly on the surface.

Another headache is that Iceland's lack of infrastructure is negligible, so when large quantities of fuel and ammunition are delivered to Iceland, they have to be stacked in open spaces or simply stored in ordinary warehouses.

Once bombed by bombers, it was difficult to ensure that these valuable supplies would survive, and as long as there was a wave of air strikes, the fuel and ammunition hoarded by the Allies throughout Iceland would become German bombs, and the explosion would destroy everything in Iceland. With the loss of the Icelandic base, the strategic outpost that the Allies had managed to establish to contain Germany was easily destroyed by the Germans.

The commander of the US Army Air Corps looked at General Hugh Dowding helplessly, and finally said with difficulty: "Once our plane returns and flies back to the United States, all the losses here will ...... There really is only a loss. Our attempt to bomb Norway will be in vain, and our only chance of defeating the Germans will be completely gone!"

"As long as we have strength! As long as we live, we will have a chance to defeat the enemy! The opportunity will always be there...... But if we lose the strength to attack, then even if we find an opportunity, we will not be able to fight back!" said Hugh Dowding, who had comforted them with the words of the King of England to comfort them, and then he looked at each other, hoping to get their approval.

Time is money, time is life, time is the prerequisite for everything. While the Americans and the British were struggling with how to respond to the German air raids, the Luftwaffe bomber formation was already halfway through - a full 380 bombers had assembled into a huge air formation, and flew towards their target like migratory birds returning to their nests.

A large group of FW-190D fighters began to return one after another because of the range, they have completed their mission, these bombers safely sent to the designated position, and directly below these bombers, on a German submarine that serves as an observation and landmark, more than a dozen German naval officers and sailors are enthusiastically waving to the sky.

"This is the Moltke Bomber Wing! Our escort fighters are breaking away! They should be the last FW-190D fighters to leave their escort positions! All our safety now depends on the 30 Ta-152 fighters overhead!" A pilot reported the formation on a short-range radio, and the German bombers were still approaching Iceland in a mighty manner.

In fact, the Germans did not engage in boring radio silence, because their opponents, the British Air Force, had set up several high-powered radar stations over Iceland that could detect German aircraft at great distances - a distance that had not been tested, but judging by the efficiency of the British in intercepting German reconnaissance planes, it should have been no problem to detect them at a distance of more than 100 kilometers.

Coupled with the large number of British spies left in the north of England, German planes could have been discovered by the British as soon as they departed from there. At such times, turning off the radio does not seem to have any hidden effect other than to cause trouble for yourself. At least in the coordination of aircraft formations, the use of short-haul radios is permitted.

"30 T-152 fighters? This lineup is on the Eastern Front, and no matter how much less than half, the Soviets will not dare to let the planes rise into the air to provoke. Because for them, it is no different from sending them to death!" On the long plane of navigation, the commander laughed and joked on the radio: "Pay attention to the clouds ahead! If we calculate according to the range, we are almost in the air defense range of the British!"

"Bomber No. 144 calls! Bomber No. 144 calls! I have spotted a British destroyer! As expected, our operation must have been discovered!" The British were not fools, and they quickly mobilized destroyers and torpedo boats and other ships patrolling the vicinity to conduct long-range alert in the air, hoping to detect the German planes sooner rather than later - and now it seems that they have succeeded.

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"Give the order! Lift all the planes into the air!" the commander of the U.S. Army finally chose to compromise. After all, he did not have the courage to directly face the overwhelming bombing of Germany, nor did he dare to pin everything on the air defense operations of the pitiful 36 fighters.

The analysis of German intelligence was very close to reality, and the navy's assumptions were correct: because of the rush to build bases and the overconfidence in their own low value, the British air defense in Iceland was very limited. There were only about 50 anti-aircraft guns, and they were all scattered throughout Iceland, and half of them were fixed with cement on permanent batteries, so it was impossible to even temporarily concentrate them.

Just as the Americans ordered their planes to take off and leave Iceland, the air defense sirens were sounded just right. A British communications officer hurried to General Hugh Dowding and handed him a telegram: "General! The navy has discovered a large number of German planes, numbering more than 200! It is approaching the skies over Iceland!"

"Let's refuel urgently! Let all the planes that can take off take off at once! The fighters take off to meet the fight, and the bombers return to the United States!" Hugh Dowding glanced at the officers of the US Army Airlines, sighed, and walked briskly towards his command post. After all, this is the British base, he is the supreme commander of air defense here, and he must do his duty to defend everything here from the German planes.

"Uh......h Woo......" The piercing echo of the air raid sirens over Iceland, and the pilots of the British Royal Air Force had already sat in their planes, and they had already adjusted their instruments, and they were just waiting for an order to fly their planes to meet those hateful German devils.

"Start the engine, take to the air!" The ground staff commander standing next to the telephone received the order to take off and shouted loudly. In the distance, ground crews began to guide the plane into the take-off runway, and for a moment the sudden start of the plane's engine could be heard everywhere.

A British pilot got into his Meteor jet fighter and said with a radio communicator and the tower: "Meteor 7 is ready to take off! Everything is normal! If it's my turn to take off, please let me know immediately." "Ahead of him, the more fuel-efficient P-40 Rolls-Royce-engined modified fighter, has begun to climb.

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High in the sky, in the fuselage of a German bomber, a young German female machine gunner burrowed into the narrow turret, and she delicately turned the turret to aim the cannon at the most likely position of the enemy.

In her headphones, there was a noisy voice: "The shooters in all positions are immediately in combat readiness! The Ta-152 fighter is about to return!"

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