Chapter 972: Normandy...

"Gentlemen, the Germans think we will arrive in Calais from Dover in the shortest distance, and that is where their defense is strongest."
"We arrived in Normandy through the long strait, which will surely surprise them. The enemy will fight back violently on the first day, but we will defeat them."
"Gentlemen, this is our opportunity." Six months before the operation began, Eisenhower made the following speech, and now they are doing just that.
Summer, June 3.
This is an extremely bad season. The waves on the sea are ups and downs, the rain falls like a pour, and the boat swings with the waves.
Not to mention the Army, even some navies also suffer from seasickness, holding the iron barrel and vomiting all day long.
Even worse, just 24 hours before the landing date, a sudden storm exacerbated the phenomenon.
According to forecasts, the tides in Normandy will take two weeks to subside.
The command headquarters issued an order to postpone the combat date, which also means that ships and soldiers need to drift on the sea.
This is the worst case. The entire Allied Command is frustrated and annoyed. Perhaps the attack will be blocked.
Eventually, some people made a prediction that the sea surface will improve on the evening of the 5th.
The visibility is higher, the rain becomes smaller, and there is enough time to launch the attack, the duration...
unknown.
No one knows where this gamble will go. On the 4th day, Eisenhower even asked his secretary to use a typewriter to prepare a post-defeat speech for him.
Or a last word, if he fails, he will bear the consequences of this gambling.
On the night of the 5th, it was drizzling and the weather was very bad, not to mention the heavy fog.
It was in this weather that sixteen DC-101 heavy transport aircraft carried 82 and 101 airborne divisions to Messener.
The Mason Cannon was the biggest threat to this landing.
It is powerful enough to smash all the main battleships of the Allies in one shot, and its range can cover the entire Normandy Strait.
Therefore, they must resolve the entire huge threat before the landing takes place.
The mission of the Airborne Division was to destroy the fortress of Messenel, leaving them little time. After 3 hours, the army would launch an attack from the sword booth.
500 people, including the same number of dummy, were loaded on the plane.
They need to distract the Germans. After reaching the target, after the parachutist jumps, the transport opportunity allows the dummy to disguise as a paratrooper and land at another feint.
They appeared smoothly over the target, and the air current on the sea made the flight a little bumpy.
With the first cannon, orange fireworks appeared in the sky, and enemy anti-aircraft fired at them.
"It's now..." As the command sounded, the door opened, and the humid air mixed with gunpowder smelled a shock.
"Jump, quickly..." The urged voice was anxious in a hurry, because on the right side, a DC-101 was shot at the right wing.
It was on fire and became a flare, but this situation soon changed.
When he found himself on fire, the pilot began to leave the formation, and at the same time let the paratroopers leave at the fastest speed.
However, they also departed from their destination.
The tense time did not end with the parachute jump. The first time after landing, Sergeant Otters, who was in charge of the battle, really felt the pressure.
A team of 500 people with weapon boxes and supplies.
But now there are only 100 people appearing in front of him, no weapons boxes, no engineers.
In other words, he has 80% of his troops and toolboxes, all of them fell to the damn, wrong place without trace.
Waiting continued, Sergeant Otters' face looked pale and uneasy, but he soon realized that many people were counting on him.
With 2 hours and 40 minutes left, if he did not destroy the turret by then, the landing battle would become the Allied Good Friday.
Otis led the troops forward, and the'paratroopers' who landed inland successfully attracted the attention of the Germans.
Otis, who successfully arrived at the fort, fired the first shot of this landing battle with the care of the 100 men and the Germans.
The loud horn sounded, and the 101st Division, the most elite unit, charged the battery.
The bullets flew past the ears, the world in front of them began to slow down, all the sounds began to go away, some fell down, some were shouting something loudly.
These are no longer important, there is only one voice inside; rush forward and kill it.
After losing half the manpower, Ottos's troops took the first fort.
Faced with the German soldiers hiding in the bunker, they chose to use phosphor powder grenades, painful suffocation and burning from the body made some German soldiers choose to commit suicide.
Then comes the second, third...
At 5:30 in the morning, the battle was over and all the turrets were destroyed.
In order to ensure that they were damaged enough to be repaired in a short period of time, Sergeant Ottos ordered the bunker to be blown up.
Even if the cannon is not completely destroyed, the destroyed bunker passage can block their intentions.
After 20 minutes, a huge fleet appeared on the sea.
As the sun rose and the line of sight became clear, this huge fleet was finally exposed to the German army's line of sight.
It was like a wall erected abruptly on the sea, and a huge iron wall pressed against them from the sea. Launched shelling at the beach.
They need to destroy obstacles and potential enemies as much as possible to make landing soldiers safer.
At the same time, give confidence to those hesitating young people.
Most of them are only 18 to 20 years old, and they are all good guys who were recruited between 41 and 43.
And now they may never be able to return, what a damn, cruel war.
If there is really a goddess of war, then she must be a bichi raise...
The plane glanced overhead and continued inland after a round of bombardment on the beach.
Their mission was to travel inland, delay possible reinforcements and cause trouble for the Germans.
For this landing, a total of 8 divisions of the Allied Forces received night and day training for 6 months.
At the same time, the most elite American 82 and 101 airborne divisions were trained, which is crueler than any training they have done before.
In actual combat training, the Allied forces even destroyed two cruisers due to negligence and killed 7,000 people.
They thought they were fully prepared, but when the beach was near, all the talents clearly realized that it was not enough, which was far from enough.
After a terrible sea journey, accompanied by seasickness, vomiting and fear, it was not smiles, bread and milk, but also no cola, coffee and women.
Only the cold sea water and the breath of death greeted each other, with the lethal hello from the machine-gun fire.
The landing ship could not directly rush to the beach, because the front was full of obstacles, it would only be self-defeating.
So they can only step on the icy sea water, bear the resistance brought by the waves, and rush forward with the flying bullets.