After entering 1946, the American F-80 jet fighter was first finalized and entered service and quickly appeared in the skies of Western Europe. Although the time was too short, American pilots were not as good at controlling jet fighters as their German counterparts, but their performance was still better than that of their German counterparts.
Piston fighters are much stronger. As for jet fighters, the combat radius is too
Although it is small and not enough to escort the strategic bombers all the way, as long as they can protect the strategic bombers from crossing the English Channel, it is still of great significance, because as long as they reach the sky over the European continent, even if the bombers are shot down by the Germans, they can still achieve some results.
Better than falling pointlessly into the sea...
Because they did not know how powerful the Me262 was at the beginning, the German jet fighter pilots relied on the excellent performance of the Me262 to fly over the English Channel to intercept. However, after encountering the US F-80 jet fighter that could threaten them, the loss rate immediately increased significantly.
After being shot down in the strait, even if the pilot successfully parachuted, he would still have a narrow escape.
Those who fly jet fighters are all elites. For the Luftwaffe, which has an increasingly shortage of pilots, this loss is too great. After the production of F-80 and the speed of equipping troops gradually increased, the Luftwaffe wisely gave up
The strategy of "defending the enemy outside the country's borders" was adopted, but in this way the Allied strategic bombing became even more arrogant...
After the Allies seized air supremacy over the sea, the Soviet army suffered serious setbacks on all three fronts. In order to prevent the Soviet government from being unable to compromise with Germany and sue for peace, Roosevelt resolutely decided to open a second battlefield on the Western European continent in advance. The landing site was
Unexpectedly, northern France was chosen, where according to common sense there should be heavy troops stationed.
However, at this time, the main force of the German army was launching a large-scale offensive in the Soviet Union. A large number of air defense forces and air forces were deployed in the three Low Countries and the mainland to deal with the increasingly intensified strategic bombing by the Allies. Hundreds of thousands of people went south to support the Arab Federation, and the guerrilla war in the Balkans also continued.
Hundreds of thousands of German troops were contained, and the extremely vast occupied area was extremely
The earth has dispersed Germany's limited military strength, and the German government is now unable to continue to expand its military (further military expansion will not guarantee the production of arms), so for the time being it can only withdraw troops from France, which is not at war, leaving France's defense as empty as ever, and
It was also concentrated in the Calais area where the Germans believed that the Allied forces were most likely to land.
As a result, under the cover of eight American and British battleships, two to three hundred auxiliary ships, and thousands of aircraft, the Allied forces successfully landed in Normandy. The French Communist guerrillas, who had been fighting Germany since the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, immediately responded.
.Many units of the Vichy French army defected in an organized manner, causing the situation in France to completely deteriorate...
At this critical juncture, Mustache had no choice but to urgently mobilize the African Corps to return north, and at the same time draw troops from the troops stationed in the mainland to attack from the north and south. Although these troops are not the strongest elite of the German army, it is true that the German Army is the best in the world.
Because the German army is still at its peak. Even if this
The combat effectiveness of these second-line troops was also very strong. They actually defeated many elite troops carefully selected by the US and British governments. However, due to insufficient strength, they were unable to quickly drive the Allied forces into the sea. As the Allies
The army continued to transport troops from the sea, and the situation gradually worsened.
Fortunately, after learning about the Allied landing, Mustache immediately ordered the main force of the German invaders to abandon the offensive on the southern front and immediately withdraw to Ukraine to strengthen defense. Although this brought all the previous results of the German Army Group South to naught, it also made Germany
Squeezing out 800,000 elite soldiers to return to the mainland, this huge force quickly changed the balance of strength on the French battlefield.
At the same time, the German High Seas Fleet and countless submarines, under the full protection of more than 10,000 German land-based aircraft, took the initiative to attack the Allied escort fleet that ensured the retreat of the landing force. However, the American and British governments did not expect that Mustache would be so crazy.
After relaxing local air defense to devote as much air power as possible to this war, and after Mustache carried out a major purge of Air Force officers, no one dared to oppose the Air Force's naval operations anymore, making the Luftwaffe
The anti-ship attack capability has been greatly improved...
As a result, the four older Allied battleships were sunk, and only the four extremely sturdy Montana-class battleships dragged their dilapidated bodies back to the British naval base with difficulty, while the Allied auxiliary ships
The losses were even greater
More than 100 ships, and 3,754 aircraft were shot down or destroyed by the Germans. The total number of people killed and missing was no less than 60,000. The Germans also paid for this with the sinking of two Bismarck-class battleships and two Hindenburg-class giant battleships.
was hit hard
, 17 other surface ships and 29 submarines were sunk, 5,018 aircraft were shot down or destroyed, and more than 20,000 people were killed or missing. It can be said that both sides suffered losses. And if you include the Soviet-German battlefield, which gave up millions of square kilometers of land in one go,
It also gave the Soviet army a chance to recuperate and resume its counterattack, and the huge indirect losses caused by the sharp decline in local air defense capabilities, which greatly increased the effectiveness of the Allied strategic bombing, are even more difficult to estimate using data...
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However, Mustache's desperate move successfully forced the powerful Allied fleet to abandon the landing troops and retreat to the UK, creating conditions for the German ground forces to annihilate the more than 700,000 Allied troops entrenched in northern France. Soon after, the number of troops increased to more than 1.2 million, and
The German army on the Western Front, which was still receiving reinforcements, launched a full-scale offensive. Although the resistance of the Allied forces was tenacious beyond the expectations of the German army, it ultimately failed to escape the fate of total annihilation...
In the battle that lasted for more than a month, more than 300,000 US troops were killed and missing, and more than 200,000 were captured. Even the 1st Marine Division, which is recognized as the strongest, did not escape the overwhelming strength of the German army.
The fate of destruction; the number of British soldiers killed and missing was close to 200,000, and the number of prisoners was even higher. And such an astonishing number of casualties does not include the results of the German army before the start of the general offensive, otherwise it would be even more terrifying.
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This tragic defeat made the American and British media and people mourn, but the subsequent evolution of the situation fully demonstrated that it was Roosevelt's adventure that broke the deadlock on the European battlefield. First of all, the losses of the German army were equally heavy. In the land battle alone,
The casualties amounted to more than 600,000, and if the losses of allies and servants were included, the number exceeded 800,000; while this
The temporary significant weakening of Turkish air defense gave the Allies better fighter planes for strategic bombing. As a result, Germany's industrial production dropped by more than 5% in 1946 compared with the previous year. This was fatal in the heat of the war, and more than 70
The casualties of tens of thousands of civilians made Germany, which already had an insufficient population, miserable... (To be continued...)