() The huge bomber group has gone away, leaving only a piece of rubble. Berlin is raging with fire. The fire brigade is busy putting out the fire everywhere, and the medical team is also busy searching for and rescuing the injured.

"Captain!" Fireman Kahn shouted to Captain Kopke, "The water pipe is broken! The water cannot spray far! What should I do!"

"There is a fire hydrant at the corner of the street, and there is a firefighting tool box next to it. Look wherever you go to see if there are water pipes."

"Okay." Kahn ran towards the corner of the street and found a fire hydrant there, but there were no fire hoses around.

Kahn looked around and saw that a wall had fallen to the ground near the fire hydrant, and something seemed to be pressed underneath. So he dug out the thing with all his strength. It was a fire sign embedded in the wall.

The iron box has an iron lock on it.

Kahn picked up a brick and hit it hard on the iron lock. With a snap, the brick broke into two pieces, but the iron lock did not move at all.

Made in Germany, it can't be smashed! Kahn broke three bricks in one breath, but still couldn't break them open. Looking around, he didn't see the key wrapped in oil paper, so he had to simply pick up the box and ran towards the fire scene.

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Panting, Kahn carried the box to the fire point and threw it on the ground. Then he took a fire ax from the fire truck and split the iron lock with a sharp blow. There was indeed a roll of water pipe in the box, but he didn't know it.

Why isn't it wrapped in oil paper?

Several teammates also rushed over, replaced the water pipes in a few clicks, and then continued to put out the fire.

However, everyone knows that such a big fire is actually very difficult to control with firefighting. Basically, it can only be extinguished naturally.

…

After the bombing ended, that night, the losses had been tallied. The U.S. Army Air Forces lost a total of 25 fighter jets and 74 bombers, of which only 8 were shot down by German air power, and the rest were all shot down by anti-aircraft artillery.

There were 86 air battles between the Allies and the German Air Force, and the fighter force shot down a total of 170 fighter aircraft of various types. Among them, 4 jets, 92 bf-109 series, 43 fw-190 series, 16 bf-110 series, and ju-88

There were 15 aircraft in the series. The bomber force shot down 32 enemy aircraft, including 23 of the BF-109 series and 9 of the FW-190 series.

After reading the statistical table in his hand, General Doolittle said:

"Ron, tell me, what do you see in this table?"

Dolittle put the documents on the table, lit a cigar - said to be a high-end product from Fatty Qiu - leaned back into the soft back of the big sofa, and looked at Ron with a smile.

It looks a bit like Ron was taking the exam.

"Twelve of the fighter jets we lost in air combat were lost when fighting enemy jets. Excluding this part, the combat exchange ratio between us and enemy propeller aircraft has reached about 1:12. Even considering the vast majority

The air battle was carried out under conditions that were obviously favorable to us, and this exchange ratio is still surprising. According to common sense, we cannot achieve such a high exchange ratio. This can only show that most of what we defeated today was

A very good rookie."

Ron glanced at Dolittle and saw that he was listening. He continued:

"Our purpose in launching this campaign is to force the Germans to engage in air combat with us under conditions that are unfavorable to them, thus consuming the Germans' elite pilots. Based on the intelligence we have, we have not yet exhausted the Germans to this extent.

If our intelligence is reliable, I think the Germans are hiding their top pilots in preparation to give us a ruthless blow at the right time."

"Then what do you think they are planning to do?"

"I feel that if I were those Fritz, facing today's situation, I can only hope for the jets. I will work hard to accumulate jets, and when I have enough jets, I will hide them.

Use it for elite pilots to play a big game. Just like Marshal Dowding."

"Then why did they send so many rookies to die?"

"I think maybe, maybe it's a political consideration. The Luftwaffe has to take into account its domestic reaction."

"So what are you going to do next?"

"It takes time to accumulate aircraft, and pilots need to be trained to adapt to new aircraft. On the one hand, we can interrupt or at least delay their process of acquiring new aircraft through bombing. On the other hand, I think we may be able to use a strategic game.

Hunting activities to disrupt enemy aircraft training.”

"Strategic safari? This is a new term." General Doolittle straightened up from the sofa.

"General, this is what I think. If I can get more fighter jets, I can have a lot of P-51 fighter jets set off every day to hunt near airports in Europe and attack enemy planes that are taking off or landing.

And, General, look," Ron handed a photo to Doolittle, "This is a photo taken by our reconnaissance plane. The runway of this airport has obviously been lengthened. Look here," Ron pointed at the photo.

One place on the Internet said, "We have photographed several German jets here. This shows that this kind of aircraft requires a very long runway. Now, these are the only airports in Europe that are suitable for the takeoff and landing of this kind of aircraft..."

"What would we do if the Germans moved their training airfields further away, like to Eastern Europe?"

Ron thought for a while and replied: "If such a situation arises, we must consider cooperating with the Russians and conduct a shuttle safari."

…

Berlin, Chancellery.

The Prime Minister's Office is now the most important target in today's air strikes. It was hit by more than ten tallboys. However, due to the strong anti-aircraft firepower, the bombing aircraft can only drop bombs at a higher altitude. This is serious.

This affected the accuracy of the bombing. Except for one tallboy, the rest of the tallboys failed to hit the target. And the tallboy that hit only hit the garage of the Prime Minister's Office and failed to kill any big shots.

However, the bomb still made Hitler extremely angry. He immediately summoned Göring. When Göring came to Hitler's office, Hitler was discussing matters with a group of officials.

"My Führer, I'm glad to see you." Coming to the office of the Chancellery, Göring raised the Marshal's Staff and saluted Hitler.

Hitler raised his hand and reluctantly returned the salute. Then he lowered his face and said to the other people in the office: "You all should go out for a while." Those people saluted Hitler one after another and then left. But Hitler

The aide-de-camp and Goebbels were still standing in the office.

"You guys get out too!" Hitler looked impatient.

Goebbels seemed to want to say something, but in the end he remained silent and silently exited together with Hitler's attendants, closing the door.
Chapter completed!