Chapter 62
Fafnier and his companions spent a wonderful, unashamed, and shameless holiday in Paris, during which Dick the Clown Carr and his friends joined him, and met two old acquaintances, Second Lieutenant Eichmann Littbarsky and Second Lieutenant Richter von Haber, the pilots who had captured the Frenchman. A group of people were drunk and chased women all over the street during the holiday, and after the last time, they were all put in the bureau by the military police and spent the most difficult holiday time.
Soon, the German occupation forces issued an order to restrict the free entry of German soldiers into Paris when they were on vacation, and Fafnier and the others were kicked back into the unit, and the entire force was transferred to Calais to begin training for landing warfare. Fafnir watched as several tanks were loaded with diving equipment ready for testing, and stood aside and pouted desperately in disdain. The companions on one side couldn't help but laugh when they saw him behaving strangely, and the company commander turned purple with anger in the dissatisfied eyes of several senior officers, and grabbed Favenir and ordered the other soldiers to send the troublemaker to the barracks and confinement.
As Fafnier and the other soldiers had predicted, the tank diving across the creek was not the same thing as diving across the English Channel, and the experiment was a shameful failure. "This is the first ridiculous idea of the Third Reich to pat its head on the head......" Fafnier scoffed in the barracks.
However, the normal landing warfare exercises were still carried out in a step-by-step manner, and he and his companions practiced various landing techniques and technical problems every day, and constantly changed the content of the training in accordance with the orders of their superiors, so that it can be said that they succeeded in exhausting the energy of the German officers and men on the front line in the exercises one after another.
The British refused to surrender. On August 13, the Battle of Britain officially began. Fafnier's armored and army soldiers had nothing to do in France, and their friends in the air force were attacking one after another. Two pilots he knew had taken part in the Battle of Britain, with Hubbell escorting the bomber formation in the Messersmit 109 – poor for his plane's short legs, and Littbalski and his crew flying the JU88 to the British's radar station.
In early September, fighting began over London. German eagles scattered a rain of death over London, and German bombers dropped bombs over London both day and night. The Junkers 88 and Henschel 111 were covered by the short-legged 109 and long-legged 110 in groups over the UK, while the Spitfire and Hurricane brothers returned to the airfield with the short-legged 109 running out of fuel, while the Junker 88 and Henschel 111 desperately smashed into the group to attack the bombers when they lost cover. There were planes falling from the sky all the time, but after the British pilots fell, as long as they did not die, they could change planes to the sky, and after the German pilots fell, they were finished, and basically spent the next five years in British prisoner of war camps.
At the end of September, Second Lieutenant Hubbell's air force was ordered to stop its air cover mission and move to Germany for rearmament, and in the space preparing for the transfer, Hubbell met with a group of old friends Fafnier, Dornberger, Belvigen, O'Brien and Dickcar, who had been locked up in Paris, and they met in a bar outside the station, and when asked about the fighting, Hubbell told Fafnier: "Eichmann is dead, dead in the skies over London." ”
It turned out that Eichmann Littbarski drove a JU88 to bomb Britain in a series of sorties, and in late September, he made a night sortie to bomb London. After flying over London and dropping bombs, he tried to retreat with the British fighters, and in the midst of the anti-aircraft fire, it was not known whether it was Spitfire or the 20-pounder fire of the British, in short, his bomber was punched a big hole, the engine began to fire and leak, and the plane was falling rapidly. Eichmann gave the order to skydive, and he was the last to jump out of the cockpit that caught fire. As soon as the parachute opened, the plane he had fallen from passed by him, and it was not known whether it was the debris that had fallen from the plane or the anti-aircraft cannon that still relentlessly fired at the Juncker that tore Eichmann Littbarsky's parachute to shreds, and he fell like a stone...... Below are the roaring buildings..........
Second Lieutenant Eichmann Littbarsky, Luftwaffe JU88 pilot and captain. He died in the night battle over London, England, on September 23, 1940, at the age of 25.
Fafnier and his friends raised a glass of mourning for the death of a friend. Richter von Haber, on the other hand, was still depressed by the death of his friend, although he had received his ninth air victory a few days earlier. After everyone said goodbye, Hubbell returned to the airport to prepare for the transfer, while Fafnir and the others returned to the barracks with a sigh of boredom.
Fafnir spent the entire summer and autumn and into the winter training for the landing battle, but by the beginning of 41 an order transferred them to eastern Germany. After a few days and nights in a military vehicle, Fafnier got out of the car and stretched, this is eastern Germany, where they got off the car and changed to other military trains to prepare for Poland. Fafnir is now a sergeant, and in the training and expansion of the armored unit, he has obtained his own vehicle, the Type 4E tank after the overhaul, the number on which has been changed to 513, and he is now the commander and has his own subordinates.
Arriving in Poland, Fafnir waited until his tanks were delivered to the station. Not too far from the present-day Soviet border in Poland, the station was lined up with more than a dozen tanks and self-propelled guns. Now Dick the Clown Carr and Belvigan have been promoted to the rank and are now captains, Dick is also driving the No. 4E, and Belvigen is commanding the No. 3H. Dornberger and Juncker, who was wounded in the arm, became gunners for the other tanks, and at Faviniel's side were Sergeant Salfèr Lee Dirk, who had been incorporated into their unit in Poland, and the commander of the D type of the third assault gun, another new friend that Fafnier could talk to.
Fafnier knew that the Soviet-German war, the hardest and bloodiest war of World War II, was about to begin, and the bloody battle on the Eastern Front was about to test everyone's character and luck.
In April 41, the Waffen-SS made a big splash in Yugoslavia and conquered Yugoslavia in just a few days. A little earlier, in February, a new series in the German army, the Afrika Korps, was formed and put into North Africa. By April, news of the victory of the Afrika Army had come along with the WAFFEN's conquest of Yugoslavia, and the German army in Poland had been demoralized and envious of their African counterparts. At the same time, countless military columns were sent to Poland and Yugoslavia, unloading a large number of military supplies and legions that had established great achievements on the Western Front, and countless fighters and bombers were quietly transferred to Poland and Yugoslavia. The three German Army Groups had been formed and were waiting for June 22, 1941.........