It wasn't just the British who made mistakes in this operation, the Americans also made problems. For example, when airdropping supplies, because there were too many departments that needed supplies, the various supplies that needed to be airdropped were also varied, so, um,

It's not too surprising to occasionally get it wrong. For example, right now, the soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division guarding the bridge got their new supplies - Coca-Cola + Spam + chocolate.

If these things were given to the boys of the 82nd Airborne Division in France, they would definitely be very happy, because after several years of war, the living standards of Europeans have been extremely low. In France, as long as a piece of chocolate, or

A can of Spam, which all Americans hate, is enough to make them have some romantic stories with a beautiful French girl.

However, now, although the Germans opposite are as poor as the French girls, they will not line up to surrender to the Americans just because the Americans have spam or chocolate. They will only rush towards them screaming.

, kill the Yankees, and then feast on the stolen Spam. Now, what the boys of the 82nd Division need most are mines, barbed wire, and anti-tank guns.

"Damn it! Send a message to those fools quickly and tell them to send us something useful before dark!" Battalion Commander Lumas' face turned green.

With their strong industrial capabilities, the Allies were quite luxurious when it came to supplies. Any supplies were backed up in the UK. However, transportation capacity was a bottleneck. They had to airdrop so many supplies in one day.

Troops, there are so many supplies, which almost fills up the transport aircraft department’s transport capacity. Therefore, once such a mistake is made, reissues must be made immediately, which will easily disrupt the mission rhythm of the transport aircraft unit.

Fortunately, when studying the combat plan, at Ron's suggestion, the Allies made preparations for such a situation. In addition to transport aircraft, the Allies also had a large number of bombers. Although these bombers could not be used to airdrop paratroopers, and

,Due to the limitation of the magazine, the page cannot carry some large items.

Products, such as jeeps, can be used to airdrop general weapons and ammunition, which is not a problem. Even things like the M1 57mm anti-tank gun can be dismantled and repackaged, and then the British blue

The Custer bomber has an oversized magazine for airdrops.

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Sergeant Dulles is a scout of the German Waffen SS. At noon today, he was ordered to take his squad to reconnoiter the situation of the American paratroopers who had occupied the Nijmegen highway bridge to prepare for the counterattack in the evening.

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This task is a bit difficult. Due to troop strength issues, the area controlled by the US military at both ends of the bridge is not too large. This originally gave the scouts a lot of freedom. However, this area is all plains, and the only commanding height is a high altitude

The hills less than 100 meters are also under the control of the US military, which makes it difficult for the German scouts to find a position where they can clearly see the depth configuration of the US military positions.

Dulles carefully approached the bridge from a sunflower field. This sunflower field was very large and there were many sunflowers in it, which could provide them with good cover. The edge of this sunflower field was only a little more than one kilometer away from the bridge.

, it is closer to the position that the US military is building. Although it is still impossible to see the full picture of the US military position from here, it can at least be seen more clearly.

The U.S. military was obviously aware of the danger in this large field of sunflowers, so Dulles discovered that the U.S. military deployed many machine guns here. However, Dulles also discovered something that made him feel very strange: there were actually a lot of machine guns on the U.S. military's position.

There was no barbed wire fence. In addition, no matter how carefully Dulles observed, he did not find any American anti-tank guns.

"Perhaps the US military does not have anti-tank guns? They only plan to rely on bazookas to deal with tanks?" Dulles thought. The American bazooka is obviously better than the German "Iron Fist" in terms of range, but its power is

But it is very problematic. The 112 mm armor penetration depth theoretically has a chance to penetrate the 110 mm thick armor plate of the Tiger tank from the front. But in fact,

Due to uncertain factors such as the hit angle and detonation distance, it is almost impossible for this kind of rocket to penetrate a Tiger or Panther tank from the front. Of course, the US anti-tank gun cannot penetrate the front of a Tiger or Panther tank.

, but at least they can fire at the tank from a longer distance, rather than getting within 30 yards like the bazooka.

"It seems that the Americans are not ready." Dulles thought, while gesturing to his comrades behind him, and cautiously crawling back. He felt that he had seen everything he could see.

It's time to go back.

At this moment, the sound of aircraft engines came from the sky, and it was clear that this was a large fleet of aircraft.

"Are there new enemy reinforcements?" Dulles stopped retreating and crawled back to his observation position. That position was behind some long thatch and was very hidden.

What appeared in the sky this time was not the transport group Dulles had imagined, but a group of Lancaster heavy bombers. These four-engine bombers began to lower their altitude to about 500 meters, which made Dulles

Si could clearly see the opening magazines of these bombers.

"What are they going to do?" Dulles thought.

A series of things with parachutes fell towards the ground. One of the long things floated towards Dulles and landed a little behind Dulles.

"Damn it! This thing will attract the Americans." Dulles immediately lay on the ground and crawled backwards. At the same time, he also grabbed the stg-44 assault rifle in his hand. He did not dare to retreat too fast, it was easy to do so.

He would be discovered by the Americans, and just 400 meters away from him were two M-2 large-caliber machine guns.

At this time, Dulles saw that ten American soldiers were running towards this direction. It seemed that the Americans knew that this sunflower field might be dangerous, so the ten American soldiers spread out in skirmish formation.

, the M1 semi-automatic rifle was also held in the hand instead of on the back. In addition, through the telescope, Dulles also saw that the machine gunners of the two M-2 machine guns were also ready to shoot.

Dulles knew that the more dangerous it was, the more calm he had to be. The enemy was still more than a hundred meters away from him, and they were not walking fast. The American soldiers were divided into two groups, covering each other and jumping forward. Dulles estimated that,

By the time they reached their position, they should have been able to retreat deep into the sunflower field. By that time, the enemy's most dangerous M-2 machine gun would be useless.

If he didn't consider the mission, Dulles even wanted to ambush the Americans in this sunflower field. Here, everyone's field of vision is very limited, and the distance they can see is also very small. Although there are only 5 people on his side,

But relying on stg-44

With the powerful firepower of assault rifles and the advantage of ambush, Dulles was confident of annihilating these Americans. What? American mortars and m2 machine guns? There is really no need to consider this, because the sunflower will block their sight, and they will fire blindly.

Kill one of your own people.

Dulles has now retreated to the side of the fallen object. Now the dense sunflowers have completely blocked him, and his several comrades behind have already been checking the object.

"What is this?" Dulles asked in a low voice.

"Judging from the size and weight, it should be the barrel of an anti-tank gun." A soldier replied in a low voice. Without Dulles' permission, he did not use his dagger to cut open the outer canvas packaging to see what was going on.

"Open a small opening and take a look, and move quickly." It is normal for items to tear open the canvas packaging a little during the landing process.

The soldier took out his dagger, made a cut on the canvas, and smeared some mud on the cut area, and also sprinkled a little into the package.

"It's the barrel of a 57mm anti-tank gun." Dulles took a look and nodded. Now he was sure that the enemy would definitely have an anti-tank gun.

"Okay, let's go, the Americans are coming. Clean up the traces and don't be discovered by them. We will come back to take a look later," Dulles said.

Several soldiers carefully erased their footprints and disappeared into the sunflower jungle.

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More than ten minutes later, Dulles once again led the scouts to the front of the US military position, but this time, he changed his position slightly. Because he was not sure whether the Americans had discovered what they had left behind.

trace.

This time, Dulles saw obvious changes in the U.S. military's position. The outermost layer of concertina wire had been pulled up, and more concertina wires were being constructed. Convoluted barbed wire was easy to erect, especially suitable for the current need to quickly

The situation of erecting barbed wire fence.

In addition, Dulles also saw that some Americans were busy laying landmines at the front. Those that a person could only carry one at a time, like a big round cake, were anti-tank mines, while those that could be lifted by one person

A large bag contains the anti-infantry mines that infantrymen hate the most.

Dulles knew that the American anti-infantry mines were the most insidious. Its charge was very small, just enough to blow off the soles of your feet. Unless you fell and hit your head directly on the mine, otherwise the mine would

It will never kill you. But on the battlefield, injured and disabled comrades are much more trouble than dead comrades. When your teammates die in battle, you can shout: "Brothers, avenge the ***!"

"Maybe it can also boost morale. But if everyone is shouting: "Medic, help me!" That's completely different. What's more, in order to send these wounded people down, you have to use at least two bodies.

Healthy and combat-ready soldiers leave the battlefield at critical moments. The wounded will put greater pressure on logistics after returning, and they will never be able to return to the battlefield.

Dulles quietly took out his small notebook and sat down on a position with a mark: Minefield.

At this time, the sound of the plane's engine was heard in the sky again.

"It's going to be dark soon. Are they going to send anything else at this time?" Dulles thought as he raised his head and looked at the sky. He soon discovered that it was not a transport plane that appeared this time.

Or a heavy bomber like the Lancaster, but a group of PA-38 attack aircraft.

The leading PA-38 attack plane dived towards the sunflower field and dropped a bomb.

"Have they discovered us? How is this possible? It is impossible to discover us on a plane. And if the guys on land discover us, they will definitely attack us directly with M2 machine guns or mortars."

The bomb landed on the ground and immediately pulled out a wall of flame nearly a hundred meters long.

"Napalm!" Dulles understood immediately. The Americans were worried about the nearby cornfield, so they simply asked planes to drop incendiary bombs. Once it was burned down, there was no need to worry about the Germans.

Although the incendiary bomb was not aimed at Dulles, Dulles knew that if he didn't run quickly, he would be burned to death. So he no longer cared about the enemy's M2 machine gun and mortar. He rushed to the ground
Chapter completed!