Chapter 18: The Normandy Landings

On June 5, 1944, the British coastline opposite the Omar Beach landing.

"Captain Miller, Captain Bell, Captain Gaxos, are the soldiers arranged?"

"Major, it's arranged, it's been rehearsed several times," replied Captain Miller earnestly.

"Major, is it necessary for us to prepare Plan B?" The two newly recruited captains did not take Henry's orders seriously at first glance.

"Not necessary? The landing battle in Sicily, the Allied planes dropped all the bombs on our own heads~"

"You can't expect a group of generals who have never commanded a joint operation of the sea, land and air to make mistakes, and on the battlefield, you can only count on yourself to return to the United States safely!"

"This is also an unprecedented large-scale landing operation in history, and you can only count on yourself now."

"If you're Captain America, when I didn't say it, I'll let Captain Miller be in charge of soldier training, and as a commander, I'm responsible for the soldiers' families."

"Captain Miller, you also go with you, take care of the inspection, if they can't do it well, let them charge forward like Captain America tomorrow, arrange for others to be in charge, and prepare two shields for the two of them."

"Yes, Major," Captain Miller took Henry's order in earnest, and turned to take the two captains to implement Henry's Plan B.

Henry has been depressed to death for the past two years, and finally waited for the US-British coalition to land on the North African battlefield, and once the siege was met, coupled with absolute air supremacy, there would be no logistics, and the German-Italian army of nearly 500,000 people was forced to surrender.

In half a year, the total number of soldiers on both sides was more than 1 million, and the number of dead did not exceed 50,000.

The Sicily landing operation, the first Allied command of the land, sea and air operations.

Henry, as a major, led his troops to land on two troop transports, but before he could land on the island, he was directly blown up by Allied planes, and half of the soldiers and two excellent captains were gone.

Henry, who was so angry that he had been on the battlefield for so long and had not caught many heads, found the air base and shot the British pilot with one shot.

Fortunately, the elder Bradley rushed over to save his life, otherwise Henry would have been dismissed, and later Henry was directly arranged to be reorganized in England.

Bradley the Elder, as in history, was made difficult by the British general Montgomery, the commander-in-chief of the Sicily landings, to make way for the British army.

Old Bradley could only climb the mountains and mountains and complete the task.

"In this Normandy landing, when the Allies outnumbered the Germans by more than ten times the number of aircraft, there was no problem in making a little more bold with my ability."

The decisive battle of several million people, which wiped out nearly 100,000 German troops, was victorious. Isn't this singing for the Soviets.

Anyway, this war made Henry very unhappy, and the angry Henry assisted the flower growers of this world with more than a dozen production lines of different weapons and the original design drawings of weapons.

"Wait for you to go to the battlefield in Korea, and kill you damned gringos!"

June 6th, three o'clock in the morning.

"Assemble~!"

"Stand upright, take a break~" Henry walked to the front of his troops and gave one last lecture before landing.

"We are the first warriors in this landing operation, but as commanders, I hope that you will complete the mission alive" Henry looked at every pair of eyes in front of him.

"I hope that when the war is over, I will receive the gratitude from your family in my heart"

"To seize the beach and land battle, you must first survive on the beach, not be a target of the German army"

"First, each person should bring a maximum of one canned food, throw away the rest, throw away those who didn't finish eating on the boat, and there is no place for you to eat on the beach"

"Second, when you hear the sound of rockets exploding, launch all the rockets in your hands, which craters can make you lie in them without being used as a target and not stepping on mines"

"Thirdly, three magazines and guns per person, no other loads, other spare ammunition in driftwood boxes and thrown out of the boat, I don't want to ask how many fools will drown in the sea if the tide rises today."

"Do you remember what to do when the ship is stopped?"

"Scatter, jump ship, disperse," the soldiers said in unison.

"Grab your raincoat and go!"

Henry led a team of nearly 500 people, got on 20 landing ships, and set off in full gear.

"Major, you don't need to be among the first to come aboard us," Captain Miller advised.

"Every single one of you was taught by me, Daniel Jackson, I taught him to snipe"

"Horvat, Leybin, I taught submachine guns, machine guns"

"You're the best captain I've ever met"

"Only with you can I feel that I can go home faster, it's as simple as that, everyone close their eyes and recuperate."

"I just want a head," Henry thought silently.

Halfway through, it started to rain in the sky, and everyone put on their raincoats.

"I'm glad I listened to the Major~"

"Yes, otherwise everyone on the shore would have frozen"

"It's still the major's words that are right, the general has never been to the front line"

The sound of talking and eating along the way, all the way.

Henry raised his wrist and looked at his watch, it was almost six o'clock.

"Give me the binoculars!"

"Telescopes, give it to the Major"

Henry took the telescope and looked at the beach, the turbulent waves washed away several abandoned tanks, and sure enough, they were inseparable from the eight or nine in history, what step Tan coordinated, cut ~

"The bazooka is half ready for smoke grenades, half armor-piercing, waiting for my order"

"Correspondent, send a telegram to the Navy, no German large-caliber tower guns were found, and all efforts were made to the beach to get close to the artillery fire support~... Let's just say that there is a reinforced regiment here, and the fire is full for 30 minutes."

"Major, we haven't landed yet, it's a lie," Captain Miller said with some concern.

"Because I'm your major, because I'm Bradley, and I'm the only one who dares to ask for fire support on the basis of my feelings, it's a big deal that I'll pay the army a few warships," Henry made a gesture of counting money, making a boatload of soldiers laugh.

1,000 meters from the beach, Henry waved his hand to silence the soldiers.

"Launch flares, rockets ready!"

The soldier rises 30 degrees, the jet port is facing outboard, and the cross is facing diagonally forward/.

"1 Platoon launch! 2 rows! 3 rows! "When the landing ship advanced 120 meters to the beach, 20 landing ships were launched one after another, and thick white smoke and explosions began to rise in front.

Henry, who had already changed his outfit and put on a hooded helmet with one click, lowered his head and held a gun to make a pounce, in fact, he had a murderous perception and a premonition of danger, it was not necessary to be like this, but pretending to be an ordinary soldier~

"1 row! 2 rows! The 3rd platoon "smoke and craters advanced another hundred meters.

"Prepare to disembark!" shouted from the landing ship.

"The first two rows are low and the back row is ready"

The hatch occasionally clanged with bullets, and the chains churned.

"Jump ship in the back!" Henry shouted.

Henry lowered the hatch and rushed out with his head down. Henry threw himself into the water and crawled forward quickly, occasionally hearing the screams of soldiers.

Soon they rushed to the beach, crawling forward, always one step ahead of the strafing bullets.

"Into the crater, wait for fire support!"