Wittmann raised his head and looked in the direction of the sound. He saw a group of attack planes lined up in a column, flying over from behind them along the causeway at an altitude of about 700-800 meters. When these attack planes

After approaching the target, the leading PA-47 attack aircraft first began to dive.

At this time, the anti-aircraft machine guns on the tanks also fired at the attack aircraft, but such firepower was not enough to effectively deter the US attack aircraft. Instead, the leading PA-47 dived while using 20

The millimeter gun fired violently. The machine gunner on the first tank only fired a few rounds before he was hit by the 20mm shell fired by the PA-47. The anti-aircraft machine gun was immediately muted. At this time, the PA-47 was already approaching.

At a close enough distance, the two 37mm cannons mounted on the inside of the PA-47 wings also began to spit out flames. One of the two 37mm shells hit the heat dissipation window of the tank engine, and the shells easily passed through the tank engine.

A thin layer of barbed wire, and then beat the engine to pieces, and another shot hit the top of the turret of the unlucky tank, and successfully penetrated its top armor. The tank stopped immediately, and then

A black eye appeared.

The PA-47 that had just completed the attack pulled up from the left direction, drew a large inclined circle in the air, then circled to the rear of the attack aircraft formation, and re-entered the assault route. And immediately after him

Behind, another PA-47 also completed the attack on another tank in the same manner, and then used this action to circle back to the rear of the attack aircraft formation, following closely behind the PA-47 attack aircraft in front.

"Speed ​​up!" Wittmann shouted. In this case, once his Tiger tank rushing at the front is destroyed, the tanks staying on the causeway will be blocked, and then they really have only

It's a dead end.

At this time, several turrets suddenly appeared from behind the embankment on the opposite side, and their muzzles were all aimed at Wittmann's Tiger tank...

Kevin Martin was watching his loader load a 76mm armor-piercing round into the gun barrel. Just now, the armor-piercing round fired by his tank accurately hit the leading Tiger tank. More than four hundred

Meter distance, and hitting the weak side, the Tiger was definitely doomed. But Kevin was sure that this credit was not just his own crew, there were at least 5 crews attacking this target just now.

"Hey, Sergeant, we killed another Tiger!" Loader Keen said after completing the action, while wiping the sweat from his face with his sleeves.

"Maybe only one fifth." Kevin said.

At this time, the German counterattack shells landed on the top of the nearby earth embankment, and the exploded earth scattered like rain in the open turret of Kevin's tank.

"Bah, bah, bah, bah." Keen kept spitting out the dirt in his mouth. Just as he was about to speak, a piece of exploded dirt flew directly into his mouth.

"Bah!" Keen spat out the last bit of mud: "Damn it... I have to say that the M-10 is good at everything, but right now..."

This is a US military m-10 tank destroyer. It is a tank destroyer with an open rotating turret developed on the basis of the m4 tank. Its 76 mm caliber gun is larger than the 75 mm gun of the genuine m4 tank.

Stronger armor-piercing ability. However, it is still difficult to penetrate the front of the Tiger tank with something, but at a distance of more than 400 meters, it is still very easy to penetrate the side of the Tiger.

The open turret brings a better field of vision to this tank destroyer, but of course it also brings a lot of trouble. For example, in street fighting, sometimes the enemy will throw grenades directly in. Of course, in today's

During the battle, Kevin didn't need to worry about this, but now in order to ensure the vision, it was impossible to hang up the canvas awning, so it was inevitable that it would eat some dirt.

Kevin stood up on the turret, so that his sight could just cross the earth embankment. He saw the leading Tiger tank lying there, burning blazingly. Now on this earth embankment, there were ten

A tank was trapped. The PA-47 attack aircraft and PA-38 attack aircraft in the sky were also making continuous dives. However, their targets were no longer the tanks trapped on the embankment, but those who were still trapped on the embankment.

The enemy tanks and infantry did not have time to enter the causeway.

"Target direction..." Kevin reported a data, and the turret immediately rotated at an angle, and then the M-10 tank destroyer climbed up the ramp and exposed the turret. At this time, its barrel was just right

Facing a Leopard tank, the M-10 tank destroyer made an emergency stop. It took almost only a few seconds to shoot out the armor-piercing shells that had been loaded. Then the tank quickly began to reverse and returned to the vehicle.

Under the protection of the earth embankment. Just when the turret was about to disappear under the earth embankment, Kevin saw a flame suddenly rising from the side of the Panther tank.

The German tanks on the embankment burned one after another under the attack of the US military. There was also a Tiger tank that tried to bypass the burning tank in front, but accidentally fell from the causeway.

It slipped and fell directly into the ditch. This intact Tiger tank later became a collection of the Aberdeen Museum.

At this time, those German tanks that had not yet entered the causeway were scurrying around in front of the U.S. military positions like headless flies, and were constantly set on fire by Army Aviation attack planes. Fortunately, these attack planes soon exhausted their last remaining tanks.

ammunition, so they turned their heads, climbed to a high place, and then flew away into the distance.

The departure of the attack plane made the Germans breathe a sigh of relief, but as soon as the attack plane left, the 155mm cannon from the US military came over again. Obviously, it was impossible to continue to break forward.

…

"Marshal, our offensive has been blocked by the enemy." Marshal Kruger's chief of staff said to Marshal Kruger.

Kruger stood up, walked to the sand table, bent down, put his hands on the edge of the sand table, and lowered his head to look at the sand table.

"Marshal, in order to avoid alerting the enemy, we did not conduct detailed reconnaissance in advance, so our judgment of the U.S. military's defense status was biased. We were at this location, well, right here at Highland 317, and we unexpectedly encountered the U.S. military's defense status.

The second line of defense. The Americans dug three anti-tank trenches here and arranged tank bunkers. Our air force was completely suppressed near the airport and could not provide air protection. Therefore, the tank troops were attacked by the enemy here.

Repeated attacks by attack planes caused heavy losses... In addition, enemy troops were found on both sides of our flanks. Marshal, I think... I think we should withdraw our troops."

Kruger nodded, and then replied in a voice so calm that even he was surprised: "You are right, we should indeed admit defeat and withdraw the troops." He stood up straight and put his hands behind his back.

He walked behind him and took a few steps slowly. The staff knew that the marshal always did this every time he had to make a major decision.

"Order to withdraw all troops as soon as possible! In addition, immediately dispatch troops to Mar del Plata and move the paratroopers there! Guard there, especially the bridges!" Kruger stopped, turned around and faced

the chief of staff said.

"Yes! Marshal!" The chief of staff raised his hand to salute the marshal. Marshal Kruger noticed that his chief of staff did not raise his hand to him as a Nazi salute, but instead gave him a military salute from the Second Reich.

…

"Ron, do you think these Germans are out of their minds?" Boyton, still wearing his flight jacket and holding two cups of ice cream in his hand, walked towards Ron. He walked to Ron's side, bent down,

Pass one of the glasses to Ron.

"Well, this is for you." Boyton said as he sat down next to Ron.

"Thank you." Ron took the ice cream, took a sip, and said with an envious tone, "Have you had enough fun today?"

"No way, it's not interesting at all." Boedon shook his head while eating a big mouthful of ice cream, "The Germans have no pilots available. Although there are many enemy planes encountered today, except for the first

And the second one, none of them are decent. Some guys, well, you don’t even need to hit them. Just fly over and intimidate him with your eyes, and he will fall down on his own. Bullying a rookie like this is really better than shooting at a target.

There is no sense of accomplishment. After all, the target drone will not be frightened into a spiral by your look. Hey, Ron..." Bodden moved closer to Ron, "If you ask me, we still have to do it.

It would be better to go to the Pacific and fight the Japanese, maybe I will be more energetic."

"Dreaming, you!" Ron stared at Bodden with a country bumpkin look. "Do you think it's still 42 years? The Japanese pilots are also dying. Not long ago, in June, the Navy guys were in Mariana

, shot down hundreds of Japanese planes in a wave of air battles with the Japanese, and suffered almost no losses. After being beaten like this by the navy, do you think the Japanese will be stronger than the Germans?"

"I'll go! I was beaten so badly by the navy!" Boeing sighed, "It seems that little Japan can't survive either. It's really boring, but at least the Japanese are still crazy, so it's always more fun.

To be honest, it's a pity that the Russians are our allies now... Oh, do you think the German Air Force will come out tomorrow?"

"I don't think they will come out again," Ron said. "The German Air Force is just like you said. Without the crazy energy of the Japanese, I don't think they will come out again. Not only the Air Force, I think the German Air Force

The Army, after getting hit in the face today, may not go out to die in broad daylight tomorrow. Today, we killed more than 60 tanks or armored vehicles, and at least 200 trucks and motorcycles of various types.

The Germans don’t have so many things to give us every day. But tomorrow you’d better go to the German airport and have a look.”

…

While Ron and Boeing were chatting about tomorrow's battle, at the Allied Command, General Bradley was also discussing tomorrow's actions with Field Marshal Montgomery.

"The Germans suffered a lot of losses in the attack today. They exhausted both wings for this attack. Now that their armored forces have suffered another defeat, we no longer need to worry about their counterattack," Montgomery said, "
Chapter completed!