After the Battle of Odessa, Fafnir left the Eastern Front battlefield. He was transferred to the Western Front to join the temporary teaching unit and was deployed in France. Fafnir delivered No. 223 Tiger King to the battalion headquarters and teamed up with the vehicle crew
The members took a train together and arrived at the French station on June 20.
As soon as he entered the station, he immediately tried to ask for leave from his superiors. "I need to relax a little and have a rest!" He shamelessly made the request to his superiors. For the sake of the Empire's No. 1 tank killer, he got the leave. Fafni
He dove into the local bars and dance halls to get drunk and have sex night after night. In just three days, he spent all his allowance. In a bar near the station, he met his old friend Dornbei.
Geer - now he is the gunner of a Tiger Tiger assault gun modified by the King Tiger brought back from the front line. The two drank a few glasses of wine together and were very lucky to see another friend - O'Brien.
This guy has changed his career to drive a Stalker and is a vehicle commander. Fafnir and Dornberger laughed at O'Brien's "short and small cock gun" while showing off the black and black color of their respective tanks.
Rough. O'Brien retorted, mocking Fafnir as he had no car to drive and was already a eunuch in a Byzantine palace. Several people had a fight, temporarily putting their respective experiences and their friends who had disappeared.
aside...
After returning from vacation, Fafnir learned as soon as he returned to the military camp that their tanks would arrive in the evening. Everyone was very curious about what kind of tanks they would be given this time. Many people bet that it was either a Tiger or a King Tiger. For this reason
Thousands of Marks have been invested in gambling. At night, the train stopped at a small station outside the military camp. The tanks on the train that had never been seen before attracted everyone's attention. Many people sighed, and the allowances in their hands flew away.
Fafnir looked at these new tanks and saw that this thing looked very much like the Russian Stalin 2 tank. It did not use the staggered road wheels commonly used by German tanks. The body was also relatively low, and the turret was similar to the saucer shape of the Russian tank.
Different from the half-egg-shaped turret, the artillery is still the cannon of the King Tiger that he is familiar with. The whole vehicle looks smaller than the King Tiger. Sure enough, when the tanks were assigned later, the officer in charge introduced
: "This is a new type of e-series tank. The number of this tank is e50'Lynx'. It weighs 46 tons and has 900 horsepower. It can run at a speed of 50 kilometers per hour. The artillery used is still kwk43l71, and its defense is better than what you used before.
The King Tiger is even better." Then each crew received their own e50. Fafnir still painted a tiger skull pattern on the e50, and the car number was still car No. 233, because his unit assignment had not changed.
, still a member of the 2nd Company of the 503** Heavy Tank Battalion.
It has not been long since I received the new tank, and I have just become familiar with the operation. What is surprising is that this tank actually has a new type of equipment - a high and low gun stabilizer, which greatly improves the hit rate. Fafnir is also the first
This is the first time I got to know what strategic bombing is! When I first arrived, the bombing had just come to an end, and now it started again during training. Fafnir looked at stations, transportation hubs, highways, factories, and even possible German garrison stations from afar.
The * team's place was bombarded day and night, especially at night, when it was ablaze. In the sky, German fighter jets and the escorting British and American fighter planes and bombers were strangled together. In terms of numbers, the British and the United States clearly had an advantage.
The bombers and fighter jets formed three-dimensional defense formations, using their powerful self-defense firepower to drive the German fighter jets to the outside. The German fighter jets took advantage of their speed and forced their way into the "box" composed of bombers and fighter jets again and again.
, braving the powerful firepower of bombers to launch attacks, from time to time planes fell from the sky with flames.
On June 28, the air raids reached their climax. Fafnir and his camp were bombed extremely intensely. British bombers dropped a 5-ton bomb known as the "Grand Slam", completely blowing up the area.
It turned into floating soil - fortunately, the tanks drove out of the camp in advance and used cover to cover themselves, so there was no loss. However, the soldiers suffered heavy losses, and many of them were shocked to death.
By the early morning of June 29, countless ships were spread out in the English Channel, and the sky was almost completely covered by British and American aircraft - Operation "Overlord" in Normandy began! Later that day, Fife
After Neil and the others received the order, they immediately completed the inspection and maintenance of the vehicle, and immediately boarded the vehicle to prepare for reinforcements in the Normandy area. Some infantry units had arrived in Normandy in advance last night. This was the luck of the Germans, and some troops happened to go up to change defenses.
Fafnir got to know one of the reinforcements a few days ago. This man's mental fluctuations were obviously different from other soldiers in this new unit - he turned out to be a veteran of the Eastern Front, named Martin, but his surname was Fafnir.
Neil didn't hear it.
Martin was a machine gunner. When this landing battle began, he and other soldiers hid in an air raid shelter and endured the indiscriminate bombings from bombers in the sky and the naval gunfire from British and American ships on the sea, until observers at the front saw countless landing craft approaching quickly.
They came out to fight on the shore. The Germans used the remaining artillery to shoot at the landing craft on the sea. Each artillery almost only had time to fire a few rounds before being destroyed by British and American aircraft or naval guns, but they still achieved results. Several ships
The landing craft were hit by artillery shells, and some sank directly. The soldiers on the boat jumped out desperately, but because they were too heavy, many people sank directly to the bottom of the sea. Several landing craft may have been detonated with ammunition or fuel.
, exploded into a huge fireball, and the human bodies and weapons on the ship flew everywhere like a goddess scattering flowers, but more landing craft landed on the beach unscathed.
Martin and other German soldiers immediately opened fire. Under his precise control, Martin's MG machine gun landed directly on a landing craft with its fenders lowered - 1,200 bullets per minute "cleaned" the boat in an instant.
The impact point of the bullets was so accurate that almost none of them landed on the hull of the ship. They were all swept into the group of American soldiers on the ship, creating a horrific massacre!
The massacre was not over. Before this machine gun fire point was noticed by the attack aircraft, Martin controlled the machine gun to sweep away three landing craft. Almost a hundred American soldiers died under his gun within 2 minutes. Martin shot three landing craft
The American soldiers on the ship immediately evacuated the firepower point with the deputy shooter. Then they saw many American soldiers gathered under the breakwater and cliffs on the shore, so they struggled to crawl over the more than 200 meters of beach from the other side.
They had to avoid fire from both sides. After half an hour of hard work, they finally climbed onto a rock at right angles to the breakwater and cliff. Martin and the deputy shooter hid under the rock, aimed at the group of American soldiers in front of them and started shooting.
The whip of flames swept through the crowd over and over again. Before finally being sent to hell by an A1 attack plane, Martin turned the breakwater and cliff into a hell on earth - all this only took 5 minutes. It may finally be
Between 300 and 350 American soldiers died under Martin's machine guns...
Martin's desperate battle did not resist the American landings for long. Later that day, the British and American Allied forces completed breakthroughs at all landing sites, consolidating the beachhead and the German defenses in Normandy.
There is nothing left - although it caused huge damage to the Allied forces, at least 25,000 people died or were about to die on the first day, more than 150 tanks sank directly into the water, and more than 50 tanks were destroyed.
Destroyed on the beachhead, more than a hundred landing craft were damaged, and more than 70 aircraft were shot down while supporting the beachhead. However, now there are no organized German troops in front of the Allied forces, and the nearest army also fell within a day.
Beyond the distance, thanks to the complete destruction of the Normandy area by thousands of bombers, it seems that the end of German fascism is coming - how strange!