After the Battle of Odessa, Fafnir left the Eastern Front, and he was transferred to the Western Front to join the temporary teaching force, which was deployed in France. Fafnier delivered King Tiger No. 223 to the battalion headquarters and arrived at the French station on June 20 by train with the crew.

As soon as he entered the station, he immediately tried to ask his superiors for leave, "The subordinate needs to relax and rest a little!" He brazenly made a request to the commander. For the sake of the face of the first tank killer of the empire, he got a vacation. Fafnier plunged headlong into the local bars and dance halls, sleeping and suppering night and night, spending all his allowances in just three days. In a bar near the station, he met his old friend Dornberger - now he was the gunner of a Tiger Hunter converted from the front line and had a few drinks together, and he was lucky enough to meet another friend, O'Brien, who had turned to a Hunter and was a car commander. Fafnier and Dornberger laughed at O'Brien's "short, small chicken × cannon" while showing off the black and thick of their respective vehicles. O'Brien sneered at each other and ridiculed Fafnir now that he has no car to drive, and he is already a eunuch in Byzantium. A few people fight, putting aside their experiences and their lost friends for the time being......

Returning from vacation, Fafnir had just returned to the barracks when he learned that their tanks were about to arrive in the evening. Everyone was curious about what kind of tanks would be rationed to them this time, and many bet that it would be either the Tiger or the Tiger King, for which thousands of marks had already been invested. At night, the train stopped at a small station outside the barracks, and the unseen tanks on the wagons attracted everyone's attention. Many sighed, and the allowance in their hands flew. Fafnier looked at these new tanks, and saw that this thing was very similar to the Russian Stalin 2 tank, without the staggered load wheels that German tanks were used to, and the body was relatively low, the turret was similar to the disc type and the Russian half-egg-shaped turret, and the gun was still the one he was familiar with, and the whole car looked smaller than the King Tiger. Sure enough, when the combat vehicles were subsequently assigned, the officer in charge introduced: "This is a new type of E series tank, this tank is numbered E50 'Lynx', with a weight of 46 tons, 900 horsepower, and a speed of 50 kilometers per hour, and the artillery used is still KWK43L71, and the defense is better than the Tiger King you used before." Then one by one the car groups received their own E50s, and Fafnier still painted the E50 with a tiger skull, and the car number was still No. 233, because his troop attachment had not changed, and he was still a member of the second company of the 503rd Independent Heavy Tank Battalion.

Not long after receiving the new tank, I just got familiar with the operation, and it is amazing that this tank actually has a new type of equipment - artillery high and low stabilizers, which makes it possible to greatly increase the hit rate. For the first time, Fafnier also got a taste of what strategic bombing is! When he first arrived, the bombing had just come to an end, and now the bombing began again during training. Fafnier watched from afar as stations, transport hubs, roads, factories, and even places where German troops might be stationed were being bombed day and night, especially at night, when it was a blazing fire. In the sky, German fighters were strangled with British and American fighters and bombers escorting each other, and Britain and the United States clearly had a numerical advantage. The bombers and fighters formed a three-dimensional defensive formation, and drove the German fighters to the perimeter with their powerful self-defense firepower. Taking advantage of the advantage in speed, the German fighters forcibly smashed into the "box" composed of bombers and fighters again and again, and attacked with the powerful firepower of the bombers.

On June 28, the air raids reached their climax, and Fafnier's camp was bombed extremely strongly, and the British bombers dropped the so-called "Grand Slam" of 5 tons of bombs, completely blowing the area into floating ground - fortunately, the tanks drove out of the camp in advance and used cover to cover themselves, so there were no losses, but the soldiers suffered heavy losses, and many people were shocked to death.

In the early morning of June 29, countless ships were scattered in the English Channel, and the sky was almost completely covered by British and American planes - Operation "Overlord" in Normandy began! Later that day, Fafnier and his men were ordered to complete the maintenance of their vehicles at once, and immediately board the vehicles to prepare for reinforcements in the Normandy area. And some of the infantry units had already reached Normandy early yesterday night - it was the luck of the Germans, and some of the troops had gone up to change their guards.

Fafnir had known one of the reinforcements the other day, and this person's mental fluctuations were obviously different from the other soldiers of this new unit - it turned out to be a veteran of the Eastern Front, named Martin, but Fafnir did not hear the surname.

Martin was a machine gunner, and at the beginning of this landing battle, he and other soldiers hid in a bomb shelter and endured the indiscriminate bombardment of bombers in the sky, and endured the shelling of British and American ships on the sea, until the observers at the front saw countless landing craft quickly approaching the shore before they came out to fight. The Germans used the remnants of their artillery to fire at the landing craft on the sea, and each gun barely had time to fire a few shells before being destroyed by British and American planes or naval guns, but they still succeeded. Several landing craft were hit by shells, some of them sank directly, and the soldiers on board desperately jumped out, but because of the heavy weight on their bodies, many people sank directly to the bottom of the sea. A few of the landing craft may have been detonated with ammunition or fuel, and exploded into a huge fireball, and the bodies and weapons on board flew around like scattered flowers, but many more approached the beachhead unscathed.

Martin and the other German soldiers immediately opened fire, and Martin's MG machine gun, under his precise control, landed directly on a landing craft that had lowered the baffle - 1200 bullets per minute instantly "cleaned" the ship, and the bullets landed so accurately that they almost did not fall on the hull, all swept into the group of American soldiers on board, a terrible massacre!

The slaughter did not end, and before the machine-gun fire was noticed by the attack aircraft, Martin manned the machine gun to sweep away three landing craft, and almost a hundred American soldiers died under his guns within 2 minutes. Martin immediately withdrew from the firing point with his co-shooter after shooting and killing the American soldiers on three boats. Then they saw a large number of American soldiers gathered under the breakwater and cliff on the shore, so they struggled to climb more than 200 meters of beach from the other side, and in the process of avoiding fire from both sides, after half an hour of hard work, they finally climbed a reef at right angles to the breakwater and the cliff. Martin and his assistant shooter hid under the reef and aimed at the group of American soldiers in front of him and began shooting. The flaming whip swept through the crowd over and over again, and before finally being sent to hell by an A1 attack plane, Martin turned the breakwater and cliff into a living hell – all in just five minutes. It is possible that 300 to 350 American soldiers will eventually die under Martin's machine guns......

Martin's decisive battle did not hold off the Americans for much time, and later in the day the British and American allies had broken through all the landing sites, consolidating the beachhead, and the German defenses in Normandy were gone— Although it caused great damage to the Allies, at least 25,000 people died or were about to die on the first day, more than 150 tanks sank directly into the water, and more than 50 tanks were destroyed on the beachhead, more than 100 landing craft were damaged, and more than 70 planes were shot down while supporting the beachhead, but now there is no formed German army in front of the Allies, and the nearest army is also a day's journey away, thanks to the complete destruction of the Normandy area by thousands of bombers, it seems that the end of German fascism is coming- Strange!