Nine Hundred and Ninety Six Fire at the Same Time
readx(); No one can imagine that in the real historical time and space, when the German pilots looked at the densely packed battle marks on the fuselage of their planes, they slowly raised their heads and looked up at the sky, watching those flying over their heads It was such a feeling when there were hundreds or thousands of Allied bombers.
No one can know that in the real historical time and space, those German ace pilots who have experienced many battles drove their own planes and rushed towards their opponents dozens of times their own strength. What kind of despair and helplessness is it when the machine fires like a moth like a helpless shuttle.
In real history, in an air battle in 1945, a German ace pilot desperately used his plane to crash into an Allied bomber. His behavior was spontaneous, but the ending was tragic—— This also outlines the embarrassing situation of the Luftwaffe at that time from one side: they have tried their best, but unfortunately they cannot prevent those terrible war machines from destroying their hometown.
The pilot was called Heinrich Ehler, and he shot down 208 enemy planes in his lifetime. Just judging from his record, he is enough to be called an excellent fighter flying master. How lonely and desperate is it for such a person to lose confidence in himself?
In the real historical time and space, a Luftwaffe commander sadly told his hands: "The acrobatic independent battle has ended reads();. There is no more searching and hiding in the sky, chasing and catching each other." Enter from the tail of the opponent, choose the most appropriate time to shoot the target you selected, etc. All this has passed, and the fighter jets are no longer facing the opponent's pilots, but the huge air fleet. The machine gunner strapping himself in the turret is the infantry of the sky. So these fighter pilots, in the end, can only fight in large formations."
Now, at this moment, the pilots of Iceland and Britain are facing the test of such extreme conditions. In front of them were not 100 German bombers, nor 200, but a full 380! Just how spectacular are these planes gathered together? In the most congested city, find one of the most congested streets, stand on one side and look at the other - all the cars you see may not add up to 380!
At this time, imagine, a certain distributor with leaflets, he wants to stuff the leaflets in his hand into the windows of every car as much as possible-can you feel the collapse of these British fighter pilots now?
The infrastructure in Iceland is very imperfect, so the number of aircraft that can be accommodated at the same time is indeed not large. When the Allied forces deployed more than 300 bombers here in one go, they took up too many resources of the entire Icelandic airport, so that they could not Simultaneously deployed more fighters.
Originally, this was supposed to be a classic raid that caught Germany off guard. When the Germans organized a counterattack, Iceland became a dispensable abandoned child. When the Germans come to Iceland to bomb, they can only face a bunch of worthless cement facilities-the Americans bombed the iron ore factories in Norway, and the Germans can only bomb the Icelandic military base.
Everyone consumes ammunition and fuel together, and loses valuable pilots. This is the rhythm that the United States most wants to see.
It's a pity that no one could have imagined that the Germans came so fast that they hadn't consumed the mountains of military supplies on Iceland. Nearly a hundred B-17 bombers unable to take off due to failures and maintenance, tens of thousands of tons of high-quality aviation fuel, and piles of aviation bombs. It is impossible to take away so many things in a short period of time, which means that they must be thrown here and left for the Germans to destroy.
More than 100 b-17 bombers have been ordered to take off urgently. These planes do not have sufficient preparation time, and there is no time and no way to load valuable military supplies. They could only fill up the fuel as quickly as possible, and then hurried westward to escape this piece of land that was about to be destroyed by the Germans.
Running counter to these American bombers were the pitiful 36 fighter jets of the British and American Air Forces. These aircraft were divided into three forces and scattered into this unequal interception air battle. The reason why these small and pitiful forces should be dispersed is also because of the helpless actions of these aircraft due to differences in command and performance.
As a very capable commander of the British Air Force, Hugh Dowding was certainly unwilling to disperse the only air defense force in his hands. But in the end he found helplessly that the best way to use these planes was to let them fight on their own. The American fighter jets are not subordinate to the British Icelandic Air Defense Force in command, so bringing them together temporarily will affect their performance even more.
The British's own Meteor fighter jets are too fast and have surpassed the remaining P-40 Rolls-Royce improved fighter jets, so they can only fight in separate formations-only the British's own P-40 Rolls-Royce is left Rice has improved and can also be formed into a team.
So after a brief discussion, the British and the Americans reached a unified opinion: the three forces shot down as many German bombers as possible from three directions, broke up these bomber formations, and protected the ground facilities to survive as much as possible. This time bombing.
After countless improvements, the American P-40 Rolls-Royce improved fighter jet can finally barely fight the German aircraft at an altitude of 10,000 meters, but barely flying to this altitude, after all, it is just barely flying. The Americans have begun to focus on the development of their p-51 fighter jets, and the German intelligence agency has received news in this regard, and it is said that the prototypes have all been tested and flown.
It is a pity that at this moment the British Air Force does not have a new type of aircraft such as the p-51. They can only use outdated or unreliable gadgets to deal with the terrible opponent reads(); who has already bullied their doors.
"My God!..." When the first British pilot hiding in the clouds saw the German bomber fleet, he was so frightened by the sight that he couldn't speak fluently. He saw a large group of planes in the dark, and there were no counts. These planes seemed to have no end, stretching to the end of the sky in the distance.
"Found the target!" The Royal Air Force commander leading the team, James, the ace pilot who was born in the British air battle from the officer to the captain, drove his own p-40 fighter jet, frowned and reported to the ground command center: "They are overwhelming , unless a blind person can find it with just a glance.”
"Climb! Climb! Prepare for the first round of dive attack! All pilots, please pay attention! Full power! We don't have much time to jump above their heads! We must seize the precious opportunity!" James loudly announced the attack command, and then he began to increase the power of the engine, allowing his p-40 fighter to quickly climb to a height above the enemy plane.
He was the first to rush out of the clouds, and behind the p-40, the p-40 fighter jets that followed each other accelerated and rushed out. A total of 19 planes, like proud knights, rushed towards a total of 380 German bombers.
"Long live the King!" a pilot wailed over the radio! Although they all tried their best to calm themselves down, his voice still trembled a little in the face of an enemy that was 20 times their size.
Soon they came to the sky slightly higher than the German bomber fleet, and the hoarse tremor of the engine also proved that they really had no ability to fly higher. So these planes changed to level flight, and then began to accelerate into a dive state, quickly approaching the well-formed German bombers.
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"Enemy planes are coming!" A German pilot saw these fearless British warriors when he started to climb from the British plane. He thought he would find more British planes, but when he saw more than a dozen British planes climbing desperately and then approaching, he knew that the enemy was not as powerful as he first estimated.
At the time of take-off, the German army estimated that the British would take off and intercept more than 100 planes, so General Dick was even prepared to lose 100 bombers this time. But now it seems that the German army has indeed overestimated the British army's defensive strength, and the number of enemy planes is at most only half of the estimate.
However, they still did not relax their vigilance. After all, according to German intelligence, the British also had a "new fighter jet" that flew fast and made a lot of noise. The document mentioned that the aircraft was a new type of jet fighter, faster and more powerful.
As more and more sounds of preparations for battle came on the radio, the machine gun turrets on the German bombers were pointed in the direction of the incoming British aircraft. A female machine gun shooter pulled the trigger and pushed the first shell into the inside of the barrel. She stared at the distant black dots through the circle of sight, expressionless.
"Attention all pilots! Keep in formation! Don't panic! Provide our shooters with the most stable attack platform, and they will be able to kill those vulnerable fighters before the enemy planes shoot you down!" the frontline commander of the German bomber fleet said. Speaking on the communicator, he warned all the pilots loudly.
"Long live the Führer Akado? Rudolf!" A machine gun shooter shouted loudly in the earphones, her voice was firm and high, as if she had already known that the victory would eventually belong to Germany.
"Long live Germany! Long live the Führer! Wait for the enemy plane to approach before firing!" The German commander calmly issued an order: "The countdown begins! Three, two, one... fire!"
At the same time, on the opposite side of them, in the cockpits of the light and flexible P-40 fighter jets, the British pilots also pressed their fire switches.