第6章6美国人战斗
安静走廊里突然出了跑动激烈音比较旷里发出了一连窜急促回响一名军少校拿着一份报文件冲进了中东地区美国陆军航兵轰炸机部队总指挥部挥舞着手里文件大喊道“不好了！总司令部来命令！”
几个正分析埃战况美国将领正围一张地图指指点点他们正讨论出动轰炸机攻击托布鲁克可行性这几天他们拟定出了轰炸亚历山大港甚克里特岛等计划结果都法改变现危如累卵北非战局
“紧急美国总部来命令部署中东地区31架b－17轰炸机部起飞轰炸罗马尼亚油田设施”这名来送文件少校军官看到这些美**方大佬根没有人注意自己于是接着口说道一副语不惊人死不休模样
果然看见这位少校说出如此重要消息所有人都抬起了自己脑袋原正盯着托布鲁克想办法美国陆军航兵轰炸机指挥官显然也听见了这句重要信息赶紧走过来一把扯走了少校手里报文件纸
Unlike a time bomb, his eyes exploded and he handed it to his brain, which completely short-circuited his place of thinking. Another general took the paper from his hand and he didn’t even know it was there.
The news written in that article is similar to that of the major who sent the messenger. The news is that all the B-17 long-range bombers that can take off have no fighters to escort, and the oil field facilities in Romania, Germany, have been completely destroyed, and the oil refinery there has paralyzed the German war potential, and the United States has finally won the war initiative to lay the foundation.
However, everyone knows that once this plan is implemented successfully, it means that the United States and Germany will face each other, and the whole Middle East will be shrouded in war, and the world war will break out completely with this attack, and no territory in the world will escape the catastrophe.
In fact, these problems are not considered by an American general. What they think of in their minds is his. In the dictionary of real soldiers, there is victory or defeat. There is no mess. No matter how these words are modified, it is just the means and process to decide victory or defeat
"Sure this is the news? At this time, if there is a false order, this kind of thing will cause very terrible consequences! " An American general looked up and visited the doctor. The major officer from the military intelligence room confirmed quite solemnly.
"General!" The major only waited until the other side looked at him and immediately saluted, saying, "The password has been confirmed, and the confirmation report has been sent to another set of backup passwords, and it has been re-verified that it is indeed the top secret order from China. There is no mistake."
That is to say, when we take off the bomber and cut into Romania and drop the first bomb, the war between the United States and Germany will be official. Barton will defend the Suez Canal to the death, and we will also destroy the Romanian oil fields with all our money. The general nodded and then turned to look at his colleagues. Gentlemen, from this moment on, we don’t have to hide and act. We unilaterally see that the war has already come to an end.
"It’s long overdue. Earlier, it was to maintain commercial routes and transportation routes. Now the other side has reached our door. If we don’t declare war, we can’t win the war." A major general pointed to a map and said, "Not only will we bomb Romania, but we will also bomb Crete and Italy! Blow up those damn Germans! "
Shouting slogans, of course, everyone has no problem. Anyone in this office can shout slogans. The key is to draw up a perfect war plan so that American bombers can enter Romania unnoticed and complete the first blow of declaring war, just like attacking Pearl Harbor.
It’s not that the United States hasn’t dispatched bombers to attack Romania. More than half a year ago, when the British were still in control of the sea system in the eastern Mediterranean, the Americans secretly dispatched two B-17 long-range bombers to the Balkans. These bombers were painted as British military standards. The northern airport in Greece took off and crossed Bulgaria and other countries to attack Romanian oil fields.
The plan is to destroy the production capacity of Romanian oil fields in one fell swoop, forcing the Germans to give up and continue to expand because of lack of energy, and also allowing the United States to control the industrial development in Europe by controlling energy.
However, this plan obviously didn’t go well as soon as it took off. The first batch of two B-17 bombers just flew to the border area of Bulgaria and Romania, and the headquarters lost joint deployment. The Bulgarian observer said that he did see the formation of his own bombers, but it didn’t take long for these planes to crash one by one in Romania.
Later, the Americans did not give up this method of solving the war once and for all. They once again sent B-17 bombers to Greece, the largest of which was almost seven, but all these planes were shot down, and none of them saw a real oil production factory near the Romanian border.
Intelligence shows that the German army has deployed advanced detection radar in Romania, which can guide interceptor fighters to intercept and attack invading enemy planes from takeoff when it finds targets of high-altitude bombers with a distance of more than 4 kilometers. This radar was named Eye of the Sky by the American intelligence department, while the actual German equipment code name was FI-5BK-GH1935b, nicknamed "glass wall". In fact, the limit detection distance of this high-alert radar to B-17 is 45 kilometers, and the judging height is much more advanced than the Americans expected.
Moreover, the deployment near the German oil field is not only a kind of high-alert radar, but also three kinds of radar equipment are deployed in the periphery of the Romanian oil field production area, covering the low dead angle, guiding the ultra-long distance discovery and forming the sub-regional dead angle monitoring.
In addition, in order to ensure the absolute safety of Romanian oil field, the German army deployed 11 anti-aircraft guns to form a ladder-type fixed anti-aircraft gun position, and 21 doors deployed rails and vehicle anti-aircraft guns to form a mobile anti-support unit, forming a static and dynamic multi-level fire prevention network.
At the same time, along with these anti-aircraft artillery units, there are also four fighter planes, two of which are fixed anti-aircraft fighters specialized in this area, and some of them are assigned to the Ukrainian frontier troops, but the fact that the airport is deployed is closer to Romania.
With such strict defense measures, it is simply a method for a target to enter the region to carry out large-scale destructive bombing. Before the war, the Americans disguised as British troops carried out many exploratory attacks on these areas and found that the Germans had no dead ends or slackened their deployment here. For the US Army’s aviation bomber troops in the Middle East, Romania represents a round-trip hell.
"Our bomber unit has no fighter escort. For them, there is no difference between entering the German land to bomb and dying. Now, all planes will bomb the Germans on a large scale. Who can ensure the success of the operation?" An army general sighed and said, "We can’t risk so many pilot lives."
"General, war is an adventure!" The commander-in-chief took a look at the complaining hand and said, "Even if our army is wiped out, it will be a win for the United States to be able to paralyze the German refinery!"
Another American general stared at the map and finally shook his head. He has always been a veteran general who pays more attention to practical actions. At this time, he interrupted the quarrel between two people and pointed to the map. He said, "To argue about how many planes will be lost, it is better to say that there is no room for success at this root. The former take-off base in Greece is already a Turkish territory … Now we have to go through Crete or Turkey to fly. This is not a sneak attack, but to die."
"Yes! Once our plane Crete or Turkey is discovered by the Germans or Turkey, it is estimated that we will be able to see German fighter planes flying to trouble us in Bulgaria and other regions. "Another American general nodded and agreed with this practical problem." Direct take-off bombing is definitely not a good choice. "
"This is not too worrying." The major who sent the newspaper showed off his faint feeling. His words made the whole office suddenly quiet. Everyone looked at the major and he was scared. Finally, he summoned up his courage and said, "There is a man named Doolittle. He thought of a way to send the whole plan in the form of newspaper later …"
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It was agreed that the dragon spirit would never break its word today! The third chapter asks for all kinds of fire support from the supporters of the Third Reich!
Chapter 61 61 Bold plan
By the time the plan was finally sent to the US Army Aviation Command in the Middle East, everyone was stunned by this genius plan. It was completely stunned. The whole bombing plan for attacking Romanian oil fields can be said to be perfect, and it is even called the perfect attack plan.
At this time, Doolittle, the commander who planned the bombing of Tokyo, did not shine in his original position, but the United States was eager to change the situation in the Middle East. In the original small attack plan, he used his imagination that day, and the United States formulated a bombing plan with a high success rate
The whole plan is carried out in two parts at the same time and complement each other. The first part is that the United States divides its bomber troops into two parts. One part is that 16 bombers form a huge bomber formation. The fighter cover suddenly shows a gesture of crossing the Turkish collar. Doolittle believes that such a gesture is enough for the Turks to immediately give an early warning to the German army.
Sixteen planes are large enough to attract the attention of the Germans. Less Germans will respond to this American plane invasion. Even the US Army Air Force itself is convinced that Germany will aim its anti-aircraft guns at the main direction of the attack and raise a large number of fighters to intercept this US Army Air Bomber Force.
At the same time, the remaining 15 American bombers on the other side will take off from the Soviet Union, and the formation will directly enter the Romanian territory from the Crimea region via the Black Sea to bomb the oil fields there in the shortest distance, completely destroying the main producing areas of German oil resources, and the American B-17 bomber taking off from the back of the Soviet Crimea is the real "killing trick" for the Americans this time.
At the same time, taking off from the Soviet Union has a superior advantage, that is, the distance is not long, but even if the P-4 aircraft is intercepted and interfered by German aircraft, the loss will not be as great as that of relying solely on bombers for escort bombing, so that half of the bombers will be sacrificed to ensure the smooth completion, which is more detailed and more feasible than the previous plan.
"Now there is only one problem left, that is, let the Soviets share the airport with us." A general of the US Army Air Force took a look and deliberately rushed from the United States to the Middle East, Major Doolittle, who is taking a nap in his chair to alleviate jet lag fatigue caused by long-distance travel.
When asked, Major Doolittle smiled shyly with his eyes open, and then said, "It’s very simple. I flew from Washington, DC to Las Vegas, then refueled and flew to the Soviet Union. After Moscow and Stalin settled this matter, I flew here again. The Soviet Union had no problem. They promised us to get the airport and facilities ready, even aviation fuel."
Stalin promised to be very happy about this. After all, the Soviet Union is now preparing for an important winter battle. If the Americans can make some trouble for the German oil supply surface before the winter war, the Soviet Union’s initiative to seize the battlefield will be smoother. Even if the Germans lose tens of thousands of barrels of fuel, it will be a great support for the Soviet troops on the eastern front, right?
Both Stalin and zhukov welcomed the bombing of Romania by American troops, and even expressed their willingness to dispatch a Soviet twin-engine bomber to accompany the American plane to increase the damage to Chengdu, an oil field in Romania. However, due to the difference in the flying speed of the bomber formations of the two sides, this coordinated warfare plan became impossible, and the Soviet bomber followed the American bomber to carry out the second bombing of the oil field when the US army returned.
Although the joint bombing of the United States and the Soviet Union eventually turned into a game of their own, in any case, Doolittle’s plan of bombing Romania really paved the way, and the preparatory work was done. So the Americans took action. On November 19, 155 American B-17 bombers were loaded with bombs and filled with fuel, just in case they were lost, they set off from the Middle East and flew to pro-Soviet Kazakhstan, and then transferred there to several Soviet field airports near the Black Sea.
The atmosphere among the pilots who stayed in the army was very heavy, because the fact that they left 16 B-17 bombers in the Middle East was doomed. They were responsible for flying the plane to die. The bait was that the United States of America would sacrifice those people in the future, but they remained calm because they were as willing to die generously in their motherland as those fanatical German SS.
On November 24, a sunny morning alarm sounded when the army aviation soldiers were stationed at the airport. All the American bomber pilots and ground crew members had been prepared to help them board their own planes. They were asked to parachute and escape when they were hit, and they could also tell their troops their ranks afterwards. The chaplain kept drawing crosses on one side of the plane, and the atmosphere became extremely strange for a while.
"God bless you!" In the blessing sound, these American pilots climbed the narrow hanging ladder and turned into the hatch. They flew for a long time. The machine gunners on both sides of the bomber department were checking the ammunition. Because of design problems, the gunners were afraid to get into their posts. They could sit in the narrow fuselage and talk to the gunners on the back of the machine gun turret. The topics were skills such as intercepting German planes from attacking themselves. They must pay attention to the German fighters coming in every direction and try their best to keep these fighters out of the effective range of the other weapons.
The amount of ammunition carried by the remaining aircraft was reduced because the pilots, engines and shooters were required to install additional armor protection plates. Although the thin 5 mm iron plate could not enhance the aircraft’s survivability, these pilots were determined to install such a layer of iron sheet to comfort their fragile nerves.
"You said this time bombing we can succeed? I heard that no plane could return to the starting base in the previous bombings. "A young American gunner asked the veteran partner next to him while wearing his parachute. The two of them were responsible for operating 127 mm machine guns on both sides of the fuselage of the B-17 aircraft. The recruits looked a little nervous and their voices trembled when they spoke.
"The young man can win without war. Just because the previous planes didn’t come back doesn’t mean we can’t come back this time … Of course, it doesn’t mean we can come back this time." The veteran beside him smiled and said, "Just fly back by our own efforts."
"runway 1 of hearts has been cleared, you can take off now!" "Red hearts 1 white! Preparing to take off! " The pilot in the cockpit of the plane is confirming his take-off order with the tower. Several airports nearby are busy. In the Middle East, the US Army Air Force is almost 152 bombers in they nest and the formation of four fighter jets is absolutely spectacular.
Some details have been changed in the original plan, for example, to ensure that the number of planes taking off from the Soviet Union can guarantee 15 B-17 bombers, not 15, but 155, so that even if there are mechanical problems, the number of planes taking off can still be guaranteed to be no less than 15.
So there are 155 troops left in the Middle East. In addition, the number of planes that can take off due to mechanical failure these days is 152 instead of 16 as originally planned. However, even so, when more than 15 planes cooperated with four escort fighters to approach the Turkish border, the Middle East was unprecedented in size, and many people looked up and looked up. After a long time, local residents had never seen such a scene here, and it was impossible to imagine that the war had long since bid farewell to machetes and war horses.