The Americans were in a difficult situation on the outskirts of Cherbourg, and with the urine nature of the Americans consuming ammunition, as long as they cut off their logistics, then they would soon fall into a situation of lack of ammunition - especially the US 2nd Panzer Division, which was heavily equipped with tank armored vehicles.

The German defenders of Cherbourg took the opportunity to launch a counterattack, and with the resistance of the elite battle groups on the periphery, they forced most of the American Second Armored Division, most of the British Seventh Armored Division, and the Canadian Second Armored Army to a narrow area of more than 20 square kilometers outside Cherbourg. And no matter how fierce the Luftwaffe aces were, the ammunition they carried each time they went out was limited, under the cover of the Allied Air Force regardless of casualties, and then under the all-out attack of Allied reinforcements, the encircled Allied forces finally tore through the blocking of the German battle group on July 9, and fled, and the Germans pursued irresolutely, and by July 21 the battle lines of the two sides finally stabilized.

The crisis between Cherbourg and Calais was temporarily lifted, and the five-day Calais-Cherbourg siege and annihilation war ended. In the battle, the Allies suffered heavy losses, and the elite armored troops of Germany who had been on the battlefield for a long time gave the "rookie" armored soldiers of the Allied forces a head-on blow, and the prestige of the E50 "Lynx" overshadowed the legendary Tiger and Leopard tanks, and the "Lynx" who participated in the battle There were a total of 35 vehicles in the front and rear, of which only 7 were completely damaged in battle, especially 5 were destroyed by Allied air force attack planes, 1 was hit by heavy artillery, and only 1 was destroyed by Allied tanks; a total of 77 Panther tanks participated in the battle, and 23 were completely destroyed and could not be repaired; 9 King Tiger took part in the battle, and all survived; 11 "Elephant" assault guns, the entire number of the Western Front, participated in the battle, and only one was destroyed by the Allied air force; and many No. 3, Assault guns No. 4 and self-propelled guns took part in the campaign, with 16 units destroyed, and the largest number was tank No. 4, with a total of 121 tank No. 4 taking part in the campaign and 43 units were lost. Heavy artillery lost about thirty pieces, the Luftwaffe suffered minor losses, and under the leadership of ace pilots, no more than 30 fighters were shot down in Germany, but the JU87 for the ground attack proved to be outdated, and the 103 JU87 that participated in the ground attack remained only 51 after the war. In fact, for the Germans, although they had successfully inflicted heavy losses on the Allies, these losses were still difficult to make up, and the Germans had actually lost confidence in holding Calais and Cherbourg.

The Allied forces have just successfully opened up a second front against fascism, successfully landed in Europe, and perfectly carried out the largest landing battle in history. The entire US Second Panzer Division was almost annihilated, and less than 200 of the more than 1,300 tanks and armored vehicles before the war broke through after the breakout, of which more than 400 tanks were all lost, and it is estimated that more than 170 were destroyed, and the rest were captured by the Germans. The division lost more than 6,000 of its 14,000 officers and men, and most importantly - they lost General George Patton, who was in charge of the Battle of Cobra, who was killed in the command vehicle by the Germans......

The British 7th Panzer Division also suffered huge losses, the whole division lost half of its men and two-thirds of its tanks and armored vehicles, Field Marshal Rommel avenged Alamein's revenge, and Canada's 2nd Panzer Corps was the first to retreat, but they suffered the least losses, almost completely ran out of the encirclement, but lost half of their technical equipment......

The Allies lost more than 30,000 people in the whole campaign, 700 tanks and self-propelled guns were destroyed or captured, and more than 400 artillery pieces also suffered the same fate, and the sky was once again ravaged by the German aces who sat at the top of the world's world, and more than 280 fighters, attack planes, and bombers were shot down.

Favenier successfully used American and British "rookies" to increase his tank count to 230, and on July 22, he received his Cross of Two Swords with Oak Leaves. On the same day, however, they received orders to retreat, and the German defenders throughout northwestern France began to retreat, especially those in Cherbourg and Calais, who were the first to withdraw from the two French cities after blasting the ports and destroying all the facilities.

The retreat of the German troops in the south of France also began, and they retreated to northern Italy. The Allies entered Calais and Cherbourg in mid-July to begin repairing port facilities. By August, a large number of Allied troops stranded in Britain were finally able to use the ports of Calais and Cherbourg to quickly land on European soil. By September alone, the number of Allied troops in Europe exceeded 2 million.

At the same time, the Allies quickly repaired and built many field airfields, and a large number of bomber units were stationed, and they began to prepare for the destruction of Germany's industrial base into a sea of fire and ruins. The bombing was non-stop day and night, and the German fighter units were exhausted by their fighter sorties, and the Luftwaffe was exhausted by the constant emergency combat take-offs. One night in September, 1,200 Allied bombers flew over Hamburg. Fafnier's friend, Captain Richter von Haber, had by this time become a pilot of a night fighter group, flying an HE219 Night Owl to fight the Allied bomber group. The battle lasted all night, and the hamburg below was in flames. By daybreak, Captain Hubbell had managed to beat his record to 145 planes and began his return flight to the airfield in the Netherlands. Just as he flew into the skies over Arnhem, the Netherlands, he was bitten by a new American P59 jet fighter, and the hapless Hubbell was shot down after a hard beating. Just as he was drowsy from the impact of the parachute on the ground, he saw a face peeking out of a small house—it was the face of an emaciated angel! The owner of that face looked curiously at the Luftwaffe captain, and Hubbell looked at the angel blankly. A voice came: "Audrey, hide!" The face disappeared, and as Captain Hubbell tried to look again, the German rescue infantry arrived, and they lifted the captain onto the barrel cart, and Captain Hubbell still stared blankly at the window where the face had disappeared.

He vowed to find the angel, but the next night's battle, Captain Richter von Haber was shooting down his 147th success, a B29D heavy bomber, and just as he tried to turn away, the HE219 "Night Stalker" crashed into the falling B29 out of control......

Fafnier has lost another friend, Captain Hubbell, a Knight's Cross recipient, who has gone to heaven to pursue his angel, perhaps he will go to hell