() As a bright orange fireball exploded on the side of the M4 tank, the slowly rotating barrel immediately stopped. Then Cabell, who had been following the tank and was now lying on the ground, looked at

Then, the escape door under the M4 tank opened, and a tank crewman with his face covered in blood got out of there and crawled towards the back of the tank. There were still flames on his trouser legs - obviously, the M4 tank once again showed

The lighter's nature was once again activated. Another person came out from behind him, but he did not crawl over immediately. He lay on the ground, turned around with great effort, and desperately pulled a wounded person out.

At this time, the hatch on the turret was also opened. Obviously, due to the fire, the people inside had no time to escape through the escape doors one after another, so they had to take the risk from the upper hatch.

The Germans also noticed this, so the mg-42 bullets crackled near the tank's turret, blocking the exit.

"Ziegler! Grenade!" Kabell shouted towards Ziegler beside him. At the same time, he threw a grenade fiercely.

The grenade exploded between the bunker and the tank. The smoke from the explosion temporarily obscured the sight of the German machine gunner. Ziegler also threw the grenade. Taking advantage of the gap between the grenade explosion, a tank crew member jumped out of the hatch.

He came out, turned over, and jumped behind the tank. Then he fell to the ground and rolled twice, extinguishing the flames on his body.

"Is there anyone else inside?" Cabell asked.

"There is no one left alive. Billy was killed by that thing on the spot. Moreover, there was a lot of fire in the tank, and the source of the fire was very close to the ammunition." The tanker said, "We have to move back a little. There is a lot of ammunition in the tank."

He might be killed."

Kabell immediately changed his face. The explosion rate of the M4 tank is not high. Compared with the Soviet T-34 and IS-2 tanks, the M4 tank pays more attention to the protection of ammunition. At the same time, the ammunition used by the Americans

It is also safer than the Soviet ammunition. Therefore, even if it is to be exploded, the M4 tank will give everyone a much longer time to escape than the Soviet tank. Of course, the Soviet ammunition is not useless, for example,

In terms of grenade power, the grenade of the Soviet T-3485 tank is even more powerful than the grenade of the German 88mm tank gun with a larger caliber. Of course, more powerful and more unstable explosives are used

One consequence of this is that after a tank is hit, once a fire breaks out near the ammunition, the probability of being killed is very high. Moreover, there is often not much time left for the members to escape.

"Back up! Quick! Back up!" Cabell gave instructions to his soldiers while throwing two more grenades towards the bunker. The soldiers also used their M1 semi-automatic rifles and Browning automatic rifles.

Shoot towards the bunker and retreat back.

At this time, another German firepower point suddenly appeared from the other side. It was a bunker. It opened fire together with the bunker just now, forming a crossfire and suppressing the Americans who were just about to retreat.

Don't start.

At this time, the flames on the M4 tank were getting bigger and bigger. From the hatch, not only the thick smoke could be seen, but also the rising flames. At this time, Cabell was also far away from the tank.

It's only about ten meters. If a tank explodes, it's definitely not safe at this distance.

Fortunately, the tank did not explode as expected, and even when the flames gradually died down, the tank still did not explode. But now, there is still nothing that can be done about the two bunkers in Cabell. Just now

During that time, two more soldiers had been injured.

To make matters worse, a German mortar hidden somewhere began to fire at them. This made it impossible for them to be safe even if they lay down in the crater.

Fortunately, at this time, the savior appeared, and two PA-47 attack aircraft appeared in the sky. Now that Caen Airport has been put into use, even the short-legged PA-47 can get a considerable amount of time in the air.

The German mortar became the first target of attack. A PA-47 dived over and hit a long point with its 20mm cannon. The mortar immediately became mute.

However, the two German bunkers were well hidden and it was difficult for pilots to find their targets from the air.

"Carter! Fire the command grenade!" Cabell shouted.

Carter lay down in a crater and loaded a rifle grenade with a green ring on the barrel. Then he carefully poked half of his head out and looked at the location of the bunker. Then he first fired a round towards the bunker.

Rifle grenade.

The rifle grenade landed near the firing hole of the bunker, but did not explode. Instead, it burned violently and emitted a puff of orange smoke.

"Starscream One, look over there! 2 o'clock direction!" Wingman Duy reminded,

"I saw it. Let's climb a little higher and prepare for a dive attack." The lead pilot Grant replied. He pulled up the PA-47 and climbed to an altitude of 1,500 meters. Then he began to dive, heading towards the dive at a large angle of 80 degrees.

Rush straight towards the bunker.

As soon as the rifle grenade landed next to the bunker and started to emit orange smoke, the Germans in the bunker knew that the situation was not good. The German machine gunner initially tried to shoot the thing farther away with bullets, but

That thing happened to be in the blind spot of the shooting and could not be hit at all. At this time, the Germans found that the sound of the plane seemed to start to decrease. They knew that this was not a good sign. This was the enemy plane turning into a dive, and the bomb was about to

It's about to fall.

A German ran out of the bunker and ran towards the remaining trench on the right. He suddenly stopped, stretched his hands to the sky, as if he wanted to grab something, and then fell to the ground.

Ziegler, who was squatting in a large crater, retracted his m1903 sniper rifle, with a faint smoke still coming from the muzzle. He took out a small notebook and wrote down another note in it: No. 41

.

At this time, Grant's PA-47 had already dived down, and a 500-pound hammer - the nickname of Army aviation attack aircraft pilots for 500-pound bombs - was thrown out at an altitude of 800 meters. Grant was level.

The plane, then heard an explosion from below, and the wingman shouted: "Starscream One, a beautiful home run!"

The bomb directly hit the bunker, completely blowing it into pieces. The broken cement blocks even flew several hundred meters and almost hit Kabell on the head.

Perhaps they were frightened by the bomb. Several Germans in the bunker over there ran out of the bunker at the risk of being targeted by Americans before Carter could fire the smoke grenade.

Run towards the back.

"Starscream 2, have you seen those German guys? Are you interested?"

"Shit, it's just a few infantry soldiers, I'm not interested!"

The pilots of the Army Air Force are picky and look down on a few infantrymen. But the guys in the Army Ground Force may be so picky. The M1 semi-automatic rifle, the M1903 sniper rifle, and the Browning automatic rifle opened fire at the same time, quickly killing those few

The German was beaten to death on the ground.

"Send a green flare into the sky to express your gratitude." Kabell said, "Then we continue to attack!"

…

Compared with the achievement of only advancing about one mile on the first day in history, in this time and space, with the support of attack aircraft and using ground-air cooperation, the US military continued to pull out the remaining strong support points of the German army. It took a day

In time, we advanced a full 5 miles and successfully completed the planned goal.

…

Night falls over the fields of France. After a long day, large-scale battles have temporarily ceased. However, the fields have not completely returned to the tranquility of the past. From time to time, you can still hear the low sound of the engines of night-flying bombers.

Sometimes, there will be a sharp whooshing sound coming into your ears. It has nothing to do with the -34 tank, nor does it have anything to do with the American T34 heavy tank equipped with a 120mm anti-aircraft gun.

No. It is just a self-propelled rocket launcher modified from the M4 Sherman tank and uses 114mm rockets.

In order to prevent the Germans from launching a counterattack at night, the U.S. military retreated a little and leveled the front. At eight o'clock in the evening, Lieutenant General Leslie James McNair, commander of the U.S. Army Ground Forces, quietly came to the front line, intending to learn from the soldiers

Let’s take a look at the battle situation during the day, especially the German army’s camouflage of the fortifications.

At this time, a large group of B-24 Liberator bombers also happened to set off to launch air strikes. Their target was a possible German assembly point. Although such a bombing might not really be able to hit many Germans, it could at least disrupt the situation.

The German's rhythm prevented the Germans from launching a too powerful counterattack at night.

The bombers arrived near the target. Since the German fighters and even night fighters had been defeated by the Allies, the American P-61 Black Widow and the British Mosquito night fighters were now the masters of the night sky.

Therefore, these bombers boldly turned on the searchlights used when landing and sent a signal to the ground: "My fleet is preparing to launch a bombing. To avoid accidental strikes, please indicate your position."

A series of signal flares rose from the ground.

Then, another signal was sent from those B-24 Liberator heavy bombers: "Please indicate the target for us." So, an M7 Priest fired a flare into the distance.

"Damn it! I just counted the wrong squares!" As soon as the flare was fired, a junior officer shouted, "I missed one line, and the flare will fall...it will fall on General Leslie's head!"
Chapter completed!