Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 57: Large cluster

Over the strait, the weather is good. There are a few thin layers of clouds floating in the low altitude. The height of four kilometers above the clouds, the blazing summer sun through the clear and bright windshield brings warmth to the cold cabin . Baidu search for Geli Literature Net

William Sperry held the joystick in one hand and unlocked the Type 10 oxygen mask with the other. He turned his head and looked to the right side of the cabin, deeply because he forgot to carry the camera. Regretful. Seeing such a spectacular sight is really a rare opportunity for a pilot to encounter several times in his life. It can be said to be a dream.

What is the concept of a large fleet of 500 aircraft? Wherever you look, there are densely packed airplanes of all sizes, layered on top of each other, vast and majestic, obscuring the sky.

Sperry wears a Luftwaffe summer khaki canvas flight cap, buckles his brand new goggles, and wears a linen summer flight jacket with a kapok life jacket, summer leather gloves and boots, standard The outfit of a German bomber pilot.

This is William Sperry’s twelfth combat flight. If he can return home smoothly this time, he will be proudly upgraded to a rookie. However, unlike other rookies in the Air Force, his rank The sign indicated that he was only a superior soldier. In fact, strictly speaking, he was not even a bird. He was a student pilot who was still completing level flight training and could only be regarded as a bird egg.

Although he has passed the B-class flight training and got his pilot flying wing, he still has a long way to go before he becomes a qualified bomber pilot. In the flight school, he always dreamed of killing the enemy through training as soon as possible, but the instructor told him that according to the current battle situation, after he passed the advanced bomber course to obtain the qualification certificate, I am afraid the war would be over long ago.

The news of the German victory on the battlefield is encouraging, but for a boy who wholeheartedly wants to prove himself on the battlefield, the news is bitter and frustrating. He thinks he might miss this There is a war.

Mr. Sperry Jr. still thought so two weeks ago. However, what happened in the next week made the young pilots feel like they were dreaming.

One day, the school suddenly notified the flight course to be temporarily suspended. All personnel immediately assembled at the school’s airport with their own flight equipment and personal luggage. Although the ignorant Air Force students did not figure out the situation. But the discipline and obedience that went deep into their bones made them ready to follow orders without hesitation.

After the assembly was completed, more than one hundred students were caught up with twenty U52 transport planes painted with aviation school identification codes and formed a formation to fly towards the west. Sperry found this through the window along the way. The route is very busy, with various transport planes and bombers shuttled in endlessly.

The students sat in the cabin and speculated about the destination of the flight. The answers are varied. In the end, some people thought they might go to Cologne, and some thought they would go to Strasbourg, but Sperry secretly guessed that it might be France, because he saw Second Aviation on the two U52s that joined the fleet later. The logo of the team, this discovery made him excited, and he secretly prayed to God that his guess was correct.

Almost everyone in the student team stays on the plane. Except when they land and refuel, they can go down and move their hands and feet, and even eat, drink and live on the plane the rest of the time. The entire fleet traveled day and night. When they woke up, they found that they were already in the German Air Force base outside Paris, France.

The flight instructor gathered more than one hundred students and answered their doubts. The time they have been looking forward to has arrived. The motherland now needs them to contribute their strength. The front-line war had a sudden turn for the better. The head of state personally formulated a war plan against Britain, and the time had come to collect the old debts from those arrogant and greedy British people. And these pilots will become a key part of the combat plan of the command. Compared with their predecessors, they are extremely fortunate because they have obtained a precious opportunity to feel the atmosphere of war on the front line of the battlefield. Able to obtain military exploits and honors in subsequent operations.

After the initial excitement and excitement. Sperry and his classmates began to feel a little horrified. They had not yet completed the formal bombing and combat training, and had no concept of air operations. They were not even rookie pilots. What role can it play on the battlefield?

At this time, more and more Luftwaffe aviation school students gathered at this base, including Hamburg, Berlin, Brandenburg, Leipzig, Hanover, fighter flight school, and advanced bomber flight. Schools, there are advanced transport aircraft professional flight schools. Within a week, thousands of bird eggs gathered in this base, and it is said that there are thousands of bird eggs on their way to France.

The grouping and training plan have been released. The trainees looked at the plans and felt that their brains were not enough, and they couldn't figure out the way of the head of state. What are they going to do? But think about it, the great heads of state are gods from heaven, and angels given to Germany by God. The number of angels can be found out by these mortals. Those who have doubts don’t immediately go to the airport chapel to find a priest to confess. Donate money.

The students from various aviation schools were assigned to dozens of frontier field airports and air bases in France according to their majors, where they would take over the aircraft they were going to fly and immediately put into flight training.

Sperry was assigned to the Green Ridge Field Airfield, where he obtained a light bomber, and was also distributed to him with a thick flight manual and a French dictionary. The German boy couldn't even dream of it. The first time he went on the battlefield, he was assigned a French plane and an army soldier was assigned to him as a machine gunner and partner. Is this a joke? However, an order is an order, and obedience is the only correct way to treat an order. Sperry and his friends immediately went into the hot training.

Take-off, landing, formation, maneuver flight, instrument flight, radio communication training. These students have long held flying wing badges. What they lack is only advanced professional courses and combat training, mastering an aircraft and conducting regular flights for them It's not very difficult, and soon they will be able to follow the lead plane for long-range formation flying.

But what puzzled these students was that they did not conduct combat training from beginning to end, such as ground attack and bombing. Their cadet group is equipped with fifty Breguet 693 bombers, which are classified as the most by the French. The guy who uses the attack aircraft can carry eight 50 kg bombs, and there are 20 mm machine guns that can shoot to the ground under the nose and belly, which can be called powerful ground fire, but they have never conducted a weapon use training.

When Sperry is the student representative. When he raised the doubts shared by all cadet pilots to his superiors, the base commander laughed and gave him an appointment letter. He was appointed as the leader of the first unit of the cadet brigade. At the same time, a combat plan was also included. The appointment letter was handed to him. Only then did he know. The High Command was not prepared to let them face-to-face with the British, and even strictly prohibited them from contacting the enemy forces. The task of the Cadet Brigade was to conduct various feign attacks under the command of the Air Force Theater Command. Disrupt the British combat rhythm. Strive to lure and mobilize the enemy’s air defense force, so that the regular Luftwaffe Air Force can find the enemy’s defense loopholes, occupy the best offensive posture and gain local tactical advantages, and ultimately destroy the British Air Force’s resistance capabilities to achieve absolute control. The strategic goal of air supremacy.

To put it simply, Sperry and his friends are a bunch of bait. After understanding his final role and reading the battle plan, Sperry found that he didn't seem to be disappointed. On the contrary, he had a sense of relief as if some burden was relieved. Only then did he realize that he was In fact, I have been worried about going to the battlefield.

After all, these boys know how capable they are. Although the soldier's homecoming is on the battlefield, and the shroud of horse leather in the well platform, there is still a psychological difference between death in battle and death.

Three days later, Sperry and his comrades flew the plane for the first combat flight. All fifty Breguet light bombers were dispatched. It took 20 minutes to take off and formation, and then the teams formed A standard bomber cruise formation, a huge fleet slowly climbing around the perimeter of the base, when the fleet reached an altitude of four kilometers, another fleet of fifty French Porte 630 twin-engine heavy fighters joined together. As the fleet gets closer to the coast, more and more formations have joined the formation. By the time it reaches the sky over the strait, it has become a huge fleet of 300 aircraft.

As early as when the fleet was still being formed over France. The British radar network had already spotted them, and immediately began tracking them. When the fleet turned and began to fly towards the British mainland on the other side of the Strait, the alarm bells in the British Fighter Command made a big alarm. What made the British feel nervous is the radar. The station continuously sent reports. It was discovered that new large formations were constantly being assembled in the French airspace, and now the known headings of several aircraft groups pointed directly to Dover, Hastings and Portsmouth. In terms of size and speed, it should be a German heavy fighter and high-speed bomber.

The British Fighter Command immediately ordered all the squadrons on duty of the 11th and 12th Air Forces to take off immediately. Twenty minutes later, the radar network determined that the leading German fleet had crossed the center line of the strait, and the Fighter Command ordered the remaining reserve squadrons to also immediately It took off and immediately climbed to six kilometers, fully intercepting the formation of German bombers.

The British Air Force pilots climbed towards the high altitude with full horsepower, and the squadron that took off before began to gather towards the predetermined area according to the instructions of the fighter command. In the air battle with hundreds of planes, how can't the blood of the British pilots be broken, the adrenaline secreted wildly, and the morale is extremely high, all of them secretly vowed to let the Germans know the real power of the Royal Air Force~ IndoMTL.com~ Let the Germans also taste the difference The smell of halberd sinking in the sand avenged Dunkirk's revenge.

The pilots of the British flight squadron who arrived early in the established airspace searched every inch of the sky in their vision with red eyes, only to find that the surrounding area was more than ten kilometers away from the plane, there was no feather. then. . . . The fighter command sent a message that the Germans had turned around and went back. . . .

That morning, if it was three, the Luftwaffe's fleet was advancing and retreating back and forth to the Royal Air Force, and the British fighter command was furiously thrown off the table by the exhausted pilots!

On the afternoon of the same day, the German army was dispatched for the sixth time. The British fighter command had nothing to say. Only two squadrons were sent to deal with it. As a result, forty-eight hurricanes were suddenly hit by 84. The BF109 was beaten up, and thirty U88s took the opportunity to level down the army material yard and fuel depot near Brighton and the camp of the garrisoned infantry regiment.

When the supporting flight squadron arrived, the Germans left long ago, leaving only a piece of ruined walls and hurricane wreckage all over the ground. The corpses of army officers and soldiers were everywhere and blood flowed into rivers. The fighter command was beaten to a half dead army. Angrily set off the table!

The tragedy of the Royal Air Force has just begun, and this is only the first day. (To be continued.)