() Darcy’s goal is the Reichstag Building. This is a huge building that adopts a classical style but combines it with a modern flavor.

After the victory of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, construction began during the reign of William I. The building took more than 20 years from site selection, solicitation of design plans, to completion. The determination of the design plan alone took 10 years, and the Frankfurt-based building was finally selected in 1882.

Architect Paul Vallot's Neo-Baroque - High Renaissance style design plan. However, during construction, because the supporting walls of the conference venue were not strong enough to support its large vault, so

The Germans had to change the traditional rock vault in the original plan into a steel and glass vault to reduce weight. This approach gave the Reichstag a special flavor that blended ancient and modern times.

In fact, since the famous "Reichstag Fire", no plenary meeting of members has been held here. Hitler even kept some traces of the fire damage so that he could use it to educate German young people on "patriotism".

Now, this building has actually become a "patriotic" education base for fascist Germany.

"Prussia is the source of all evil!" These are the original words of British Prime Minister Churchill. Darcy also agrees with this very much. His father, Mr. Darcy Sr., once served on the battleship HMS Iron Duke of the Royal Navy and personally participated in

After the Great Battle of Ridland, old Mr. Darcy often talked about his experience with his son, and his hostility towards Prussia was always revealed during the conversation. This emotion also affected Darcy. Exploding this symbol of Prussia would have a great impact on Darcy.

There is no psychological burden at all.

The Capitol is easy to find. It is on the south bank of a bend in the Havel River. There is a large green space on its southwest side. Viewed from the air, it is quite conspicuous.

Just as Darcy was gradually lowering his altitude on the bombing route towards the Capitol Building, the American B-24s had already begun to drop bombs. The magazines of the first wave of bombers were full of high-explosive bombs. These bombs would be used

Raise the roof of the building. Then the second wave of bombers following behind will drop incendiary bombs, igniting everything that can be ignited.

This approach comes from the experience of the British, who relied on this method to almost blow up hamburgers. When they learned that the Americans also planned to use the city to practice their skills, the British did not hide their secrets.

Contribute this experience.

Many years later, Darcy told his grandson about the bombing:

"The scene of more than two thousand bombers dropping bombs together was extremely spectacular. Each bomber dropped a long series of bombs. Countless bombs, large and small, rolled down from the sky and were as dense as raindrops. Looking from the air,

You can see these bombs getting smaller and smaller until you can barely see them with the naked eye. After a while, you will see an orange flower suddenly blooming on the ground where you have flown past.

Se little flowers, and then, along your trajectory, a long string of flowers will bloom in an instant. It is really beautiful, but also terrifying."

Of course, the view "so beautiful" can only be shared by Americans and British people who dropped bombs. Those Germans who stayed on the ground did not have such a leisurely mood.

Jonas, who was an anti-aircraft gunner at the time, later recalled:

"Berlin has been bombed before, so on the first day when I saw those propaganda leaflets, I didn't pay much attention. Yes, we already knew what happened in Hamburg. But Hamburg is just Hamburg. We are Berlin, we are

The air defense capabilities of Hamburg are not comparable to those of Hamburg. Among other things, the 128 mm caliber anti-aircraft guns we control are much more than those of Hamburg.

We were already at the artillery position before the air raid siren sounded. Then the enemy appeared. I have never seen so many bombers. They filled the sky densely, just like locusts. There were too many enemy planes.

, we don’t even have to search for the target deliberately, we just need to keep firing.

Our tactic is to fire all the anti-aircraft guns as quickly as possible within 3-4 seconds to fire a square "barrage" with a range of 240 meters in order to cause maximum damage to the invading enemy aircraft. This move is quite effective.

It worked. I saw with my own eyes that a bomber crashed into the barrage we fired and was immediately torn into pieces.

But there were still too many enemy planes everywhere, dense bombs fell, and the city was filled with flames and thick smoke. In my ears, the sound of bombs exploding, houses collapsing, and flames burning

They became one. We fought back desperately. Suddenly, a big bomb fell down and hit a place only forty or fifty meters away from our anti-aircraft turret. I felt my eyes black and fainted... When I woke up

By that time, the air raid had ended, and the military doctor was talking to me, but I couldn't hear what he said. I wanted to stand up, but I couldn't use the strength at all. Later, after I recovered, I went outside the anti-aircraft turret and saw a diameter

There is a large crater that is more than 30 meters long and 20 meters deep. That is what the bomb left..."

Anti-aircraft shells exploded one after another at the front, rear, left and right of Darcy's Lancaster bomber. Just in front of him to the right, a Lancaster was hit. The 88mm anti-aircraft gun shell directly hit

A large section of the left wing of the plane was cut off. The plane quickly threw away the bomb and tried hard to maintain flight. However, the entire plane still tilted irreversibly to the right. Obviously,

The plane was hopeless and the crew had already begun parachuting.

But Darcy turned a blind eye to all this. He stared closely at his target: "Now, drop the bomb!"

The giant tallboy bomb weighing 5.4 tons was thrown out of the magazine. The plane immediately became a lot lighter, and everyone sitting inside felt like it was jumping up. Darcy stabilized the plane and started

Climbing rapidly, tail gunner James stared closely at the falling giant bomb.

The tallboy accurately hit its target. It penetrated through the side of the large vault of the Capitol and then exploded violently. Although the Capitol was strong, it was still fragile under the blow of the tallboy.

In the explosion of fireworks, the small half of it near the Havel River collapsed, and the huge dome tilted over, as if it would roll down as long as a gust of wind blew over.

"Well done! Captain, you hit it accurately! It's as beautiful as the Lingenfjord in Tromsey!"

…

This is a primary school located near the Berlin Zoo. Before the bombing started, primary school mathematics teacher Hannah was teaching four arithmetic operations to the fourth-grade children in the classroom. At this time, the air raid siren sounded, and Hannah immediately stopped explaining.

She gently placed the pointer on the podium and said to the children: "Now please leave the classroom in an orderly manner and go to the air-raid shelter next to the playground."

Perhaps it was because the school had conducted many retreat drills before; or maybe the calm smile on Teacher Hannah’s face reassured everyone, so the children did not panic and followed through one after another just like before.

He quickly walked out through the front and back doors of the classroom.

Seeing that all the students had left the classroom, Hannah also walked out of the classroom and closed the classroom door. Of course, this had no effect.

Hannah's class was on the second floor. When she came to the stairs, she saw that Principal Wolfgang was already standing there giving instructions. The stairs are the most dangerous place during emergency evacuation, and students who are eager to leave can easily come here.

A stampede incident is a bloody lesson.

Fortunately, the usual training worked. Everyone left the teaching building in an orderly manner, lined up, and jogged all the way to a corner of the playground - where the entrance to the air raid shelter was.

This is a small air-raid shelter that was dug not long ago, and the entrance is very narrow. The students lined up and began to enter the air-raid shelter one by one. Principal Wolfgang and Hannah, as well as German teacher Sabina, and art teacher Bree

Ta and other female teachers (as the war situation worsened, there were no more male teachers in the school) maintained order while raising their heads and looking around worriedly from time to time.

When the first bomber appeared in the teachers' sight, the children had already entered the air-raid shelter. So everyone hurriedly got in.

The door of the air-raid shelter was closed. The children were not particularly nervous inside. Because there were electric lights in the air-raid shelter and it was not completely dark. At first, some monkeys regarded this as a rare entertainment.

But after a while, the ground began to shake violently, and then the lights above them blinked and went out. The children screamed in horror. Fortunately, Britta turned on the flashlight in time, and the light of the flashlight made the children scream.

The frightened children fell silent.

The earth was still shaking, and dust and cement fragments were constantly falling from the cave ceiling. The air was full of the smell of dust. Hannah held the two youngest girls in her arms and prayed silently.

I don’t know how long has passed, maybe a year, maybe a century? Anyway, the time is terrifyingly long. Hannah couldn’t help but think of a criticized Jewish theory of physics. A Jew actually threatened to say that the length of time can be changed.

.This is so ridiculous. His theory was refuted in a book called... Oh, it was called "100 Scientists Against Einstein"... But now, Hannah felt that this Jewish

The idea seems to make some sense.

Hannah shook her head, as if to shake this deviant thought out of her head. Now, the shock was much smaller, and she saw that the bombing was coming to an end. Sure enough, after a while, the man who had been guarding the door of the air raid shelter

Principal Wolfgang brought the news that the alarm had been lifted.

Hannah took the children and left the air-raid shelter. The air outside the cave seemed to be turbider than inside the cave, and was full of the smell of gunpowder smoke. Hannah couldn't help but cough.

"Teacher," a child pulled her hand, "where is our teaching building?"

Hannah raised her head and looked in the direction of the teaching building. Through the smoke, she saw that the teaching building was gone and there was only a big hole there.

"Teacher, teacher," another child pulled her, "Look, there is a cute big cat there!" Hannah turned her head and saw a tiger lazily walking towards here.

"Get behind me!" Hannah opened her arms to block the children from behind. Principal Wolfgang also rushed over holding a half stool that he saw from nowhere.
Chapter completed!