() While the Americans launched an attack on "Target A", the Russian fleet also appeared over "Target B". "Target B" is a larger airport with a wider main runway and more

There is a large apron and even a reinforced hangar that "Target A" does not have. Of course, it also has anti-aircraft firepower that far exceeds "Target A". There are at least eight four-unit 20

Millimeter anti-aircraft guns, towers, hangars and aprons each have 2-3 such small-caliber anti-aircraft guns. And according to intelligence, there are also some self-propelled versions of flak38 in the airport. In addition, outside the airport, there are

The two anti-aircraft artillery positions deployed 8 to 10 88 mm anti-aircraft guns and an unknown number of 20 mm guns respectively.

Because of this, in the attack plan for "Target B", special emphasis was placed on the suppression of air defense forces. In order to suppress the air defense forces, the number of P-81s sent to "Target B" was greater than that of the P-81s sent to "Target A".

That's twice as much.

The Soviets also chose to enter from the direction of the sun. They changed the formation into two columns farther away, and each plane tried to put its shadow on the plane in front of it as much as possible. After approaching the airport

, the planes began to fly to their respective routes according to their predetermined goals. At the same time, all the planes adjusted their engines to idle speed. As a result, the sound of the engines also became smaller. Although the fighters of the two squadrons, even if their engines were at idle speed,

During operation, the noise emitted is still quite large. However, because "Target B" itself is very busy. Several transport planes are preparing to land, so the sound emitted by the P-81 fleet is covered up.

As a result, the airport was basically unprepared for the incoming P-81s. However, the two 88mm anti-aircraft gun positions on the periphery of the airport were able to spot the attacking P-81 fighters first because of the different viewing angles from the airport.

. However, the commander on the air defense position had never seen a P-81 fighter jet, and he never imagined that an enemy fighter would fly here. As a result, the commander did not order an immediate attack, but first went to the airport to fight with

The tower contacted the tower and asked if they knew the identity of this group of planes. The tower, who was not sure why, could not immediately respond, so it was not until the P-81 began to dive towards the airport that the commander could confirm that it was an enemy plane. Of course, this

It's already too late.

Unlike the Americans who safely left eight fighter planes at a high altitude to prevent accidents, the Soviets did not leave any aircraft at a high altitude. All the fighter planes pounced down at once. This is because although the aircraft attacking "Target B"

There are more, but there are more targets to attack, and there are 88 anti-aircraft gun positions nearby. If you stay at a high place, you will only become their target in vain. Another reason is that if the number of attack aircraft invested at one time is small,

They would be attacked by concentrated fire from the anti-aircraft guns on the airport. With so many planes coming down at once, it would be difficult for the anti-aircraft artillery fire to be concentrated and effective.

In fact, those fixed-position anti-aircraft guns did not play much role, because they were the targets of priority attacks. First a few rockets, then six 20-gun cannons, and most of the anti-aircraft guns were still

It was destroyed before it had time to fire. The real threat was the flak38 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns. Their positions were not fixed, and it was almost impossible to identify them before the tarpaulin covering the anti-aircraft guns was removed. So these several

The anti-aircraft artillery escaped the first disaster. However, their number was too small, and their location was not suitable for exerting firepower. They could not form a fire network to support each other, and the 20mm artillery shells were not able to target p-

A sturdy fighter like the 81 has a one-hit kill effect, so when these flak38 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns opened fire, they were unable to shoot down any P-81. On the contrary, shortly after firing, they were attacked by several P-81s.

-81's concentrated fire attack. Then, well, there was no more.

With the airport's anti-aircraft firepower silenced, the Soviets began to attack any target they saw unscrupulously. There were at least 50 aircraft on the "Target B" tarmac. But now those aircraft, regardless of

Whether it is the jet me-262 fighter, the propeller fw-190 fighter or the bf-109 fighter, or the Junkers 52 transport aircraft, or the ju-88 bomber, they are all ruined. 8 Soviet P-81s

A total of 16 500-pound napalm bombs were dropped on the tarmac, burning the tarmac into a sea of ​​flames.

Several fire trucks rushed over and tried to put out the fire. But before they could connect the water pipes, they sprayed fire-fighting foam on the fire. Two P-81s came out of nowhere and fired a string of shells.

, smashed the fire truck into pieces, and also knocked down a large group of firefighters.

The pilot lounge next to the tarmac was directly hit by at least four 500-pound high-explosive bombs. It was completely destroyed. A worried man dropped another napalm bomb on it. This time, it was guaranteed that there would be no

There will be people who can survive based on their character. If someone can survive such an attack, then he must not be a human, but a great true bandit skua. Moreover, after he escapes, he will never have another chance to fight.

Once the plane took off, Hitler would pack it up without hesitation and send it to Dr. Mengele for research.

"Target B" has a reinforced hangar. However, according to reconnaissance, these so-called reinforcements can only withstand attacks from ordinary high-explosive bombs. The Allies speculate that the Germans will definitely use the most precious and delicate

The jets were placed there. Therefore, in the fleet of this sortie, there was an entire squadron, 24 P-81s carrying armor-piercing bombs usually used to attack warships. These aircraft flew from an altitude of 3,000 meters to

Swooping down towards the hangar at a nearly vertical angle.

The P-81 is equipped with dive flaps. This greatly improves its stability during dive bombing, so that when conducting dive bombing, its hit rate is only less than 10 percentage points lower than the Navy's Dauntless dive bomber.

.So much so that some guys at Lockheed even considered whether to add a bombardier to it. They believed that with the addition of a bombardier, the bomb hit rate of this thing would definitely not be worse than that of the Dreadnought.

However, the Army has never been very interested in dive bombers, and the Army feels that there is no need to add a bombardier and a new aircraft for a hit rate of less than 10%. And Lockheed also knows that with the P-81's

The poor take-off and landing performance will definitely not be favored by the navy. Therefore, this idea will naturally come to an end.

Although the accuracy of P-81 dive bombing is not as good as that of the Dreadnought, it is still quite guaranteed when used to attack targets that cannot maneuver like hangars. At an altitude of 800 meters, they dropped the bomb. 48

45 of the armor-piercing bombs accurately hit the target. Among the bombs that hit the hangar, 40 successfully penetrated the top protective layer and exploded in the hangar. It is estimated that in these hangars

Most of the time, airplanes can only be used for dismantling parts and remanufacturing.

Four more aircraft dropped bombs on the oil depot. However, the oil depot of "Target B" was obviously better protected than that of "Target A". The high-explosive bombs failed to penetrate the protection of the oil depot. These aircraft returned without success.

It has only been a few minutes since the launch of the attack. But the entire airport has been plunged into a firework hell. After completing the attack on key targets, the Soviets did not stop there. They began to use aircraft cannons to attack other targets on the airport.

Vehicles, and anything they could see that was still moving.

"That's enough, don't waste any more shells." Pokryshkin ordered, "Let's return. There are many targets that can be hit on the way back."

This is what Ron had originally discussed with Pokryshkin: before launching an attack on the main target, he must "enter the village quietly, without shooting", but on the way back after the attack is launched, he must follow the instructions

The principle of "mopping up operations" is raging back like a swarm of locusts.

After receiving Pokryshkin's order, the Soviet aircraft began to retreat from "Target B". They detached from low altitude, and after staying away from the range of the 88 anti-aircraft gun, they began to climb rapidly. The fleet climbed to

6000 meters altitude. And completed the meeting with the Americans at this altitude.

The huge fleet of aircraft was flying back at such a height, slowly and swaggeringly. It was like an armed parade. This was done for a purpose. They were waiting, waiting for the troops from several nearby German airports.

The fighter jets rushed over, and then gave the Germans a hard slap in the air battle. If this goal was achieved, it would cause a heavy blow to the morale of the German Air Force.

The Luftwaffe on the Eastern Front was different from that on the Western Front. Except in the "small areas", they rarely suffered too much losses in battles with the Soviets. Therefore, they still had a strong desire to fight. In addition,

After being attacked, the messages sent by "Target A" and "Target B" were both "bombed by enemy bombers". Therefore, many German officers immediately thought of this attack as the last Soviet long-range aviation attack on Berlin.

A sneak attack like a bombing. In addition, after the attack, the attack group flew back at a very fast speed, which made people believe that they were a group of long-range bombers. The Soviets did not have fighter jets that could escort long-range bombers.

Isn't such a large group of unescorted bombers just like a large group of flying medals? Therefore, various nearby airports quickly dispatched interceptor groups. In addition to the usual BF-109g and FW-190a, even ju-88

Such things ran over without mercy. Of course, if the target was really a group of bombers as they imagined, the thick-skinned and powerful JU-88 would be more suitable for this task than the BF-109G and FW-190A.
Chapter completed!