With confidence in the victory of the "Story of Liberty Project", General George Patton boarded a high-speed transport plane C-69 and flew back to his headquarters in Port Spain. The day after Patton left, another giant of the U.S. Army, commander of the US Ground Forces in Canada and commander of the 15th Army Group of the coalition forces, also rushed to the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia.

Clark, who is only 47 years old this year, is the youngest general in history in the U.S. Army and was the youngest lieutenant general before. He is an elite among the U.S. Army elite. He is recognized as the future chief of staff and amphibious combat expert. His name is strange because he is not from the Marine Corps and has never fought an amphibious combat. In fact, he has never been on the battlefield since the end of World War I.

But the number one amphibious warfare expert of the US military is not Lieutenant General Richmond Turner, who specializes in landing operations in the Navy, nor is it the Marine Corps' strong general Holland Smith, nor George Patton, who fought in the Hawaiian Islands for almost a year with Turner Holland Smith. Instead, this man who made his mark in an amphibious landing exercise in 1939 was spotted by Marshall, and then rose to prominence. After the United States joined the war, he served as the deputy chief of staff, chief of staff and commander of the US garrison in Canada, and was always ready to command a multinational coalition to counterattack the European continent.

In the past two years, in addition to preparing for a counterattack against Europe, Admiral Clark has been developing various combat plans to defend Canada. As an amphibious warfare expert, Clark is very clear that it is not easy to defend the coastline of eastern Canada.

Because the coastline in eastern Canada is too long and there are many bays. In spring and summer, there are too many bays suitable for landing and mooring large fleets. What makes Clark the most headache is that most bays in eastern Canada are in areas with extremely inconvenient land transportation.

Although extremely inconvenient land transportation is conducive to the defenders' landings to prevent the enemy from landings, it also makes it difficult for the coalition ground forces guarding the east coast of Canada to launch a counterattack, and there is no way to deploy too many ground defense forces in those inconvenient bays. Because the garrison needs logistics supply support, if the logistics cannot keep up, the troops will not be able to fight at all. In many remote bays, supply materials cannot be transported by land at all and can only rely on sea transportation. The shipping route is now threatened by German submarines. Once the Germans start landing, they will definitely be blocked with surface ships and aircraft carriers, so the shipping supply route is simply unreliable.

Maritime supplies are unreliable, and land transportation cannot support the army's operations due to road conditions and distance restrictions. Therefore, Clark could not deploy his army to deploy the entire eastern coastline of Canada. In fact, in most parts of the eastern coastline of Canada, only a small number of Canadian militias and British Royal Navy light ships were guarding. If the Germans really landed in a certain bay, they would not be subject to strong resistance at all.

"... They can land in any bay north of Newfoundland, and they can definitely succeed easily because there is not much defensive force. Then the Germans can set up temporary airports and ports there, and deploy their jets and f190 or Folk 636 on the North American continent. Then launch air strikes on Newfoundland with the base. With the support of these shore-based aircraft, the Germans' large fleet can send landing troops to Newfoundland, Nova Scotia Peninsula, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island, St. Pierre and Miquelon Islands!"

In a conference room in the Pentagon, Clark, a recognized amphibious landing warfare expert, is explaining his views to the members of the Joint Conference. As an amphibious warfare expert, Clark knows that the bays distributed on the long coastline in eastern Canada are actually "islands" and cannot defend at all when the sea control is lost. The Germans can only seize one of them, and they can obtain air bases near Newfoundland and Nova Scotia Peninsula.

Then there is the war of attrition of shore-based aircraft on the other side of the shore-based aircraft! If we refer to the exchange ratio of the US and Germany's air attrition war over Trinidad and Tobago, the Allied air power in eastern Canada will soon be unable to hold on. At that time, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia Peninsula will be difficult to defend!

"If that happens," Marshall, who has promoted Clark, asked, "Can your people guard Newfoundland and Nova Scotia?"

"It's very difficult," Admiral Clark seemed very worried. "The problem with Newfoundland is not big, because the coastline is relatively dangerous, with many cliffs, and there are not many beaches suitable for landing craft to rush to the beach. Moreover, there are usually platforms and high grounds up to dozens of meters near these beaches and gravel beaches. They are all natural fortresses and cannot be conquered. Even if the Germans use tsunami bombs, they are not very effective.

But Nova Scotia Peninsula is a bit troublesome, with a lot of sand making up the beach, the terrain on the island is relatively flat, and there are Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton Island, which are also suitable for landing in nearby areas.

In addition, near Newfoundland Island, there is a small French territory called St. Pierre and Miquelon Islands on the Atlantic Ocean, about 20 kilometers southwest coastline, and a very narrow island of Seble. The terrain of these small islands is also relatively flat, with many suitable beaches for landing, and the area is not too small, enough to build large airports."

The current Minister of War Wallace also listened to the report in the conference room. As soon as General Clark finished speaking, he frowned and asked: "That is to say, as long as there is a place in Nova Scotia Peninsula, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island, St. Pierre and Miquelon Islands, and Seble Islands, we will have huge loopholes in our defense line in eastern Canada?"

"It's not a huge loophole," Clark stressed, "it's the collapse of the entire defense line... because those areas are less than 1,600 kilometers away from New York, including St. Pierre and Miquelon, the farthest island of New York, are more than 1,500 kilometers away, and the nearest south end of Nova Scotia is less than 800 kilometers."

This distance not only allows the me264 bomber to fly to New York and throw atomic bombs, but even German missiles may be launched from the base in Nova Scotia to bomb New York and Washington!

Moreover, the United States' counter-attack of German atomic bombs using b-29 to load bacterial bombs on Europe will be unable or difficult to implement due to the fall of Nova Scotia Peninsula, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island, St. Pierre Island and Miquelon Island.

After hearing Clark's words, the generals present looked at each other. The amphibious landing expert who had never fought amphibious landing wars was right. Now the Allied forces (US, Britain, France, etc.), especially the naval and air force, are not sufficient, and do not have enough power to deploy enough aircraft and warships on the east coast of Canada, the east coast of the United States, the Caribbean, the Bermuda Islands and other places.

Therefore, in terms of naval and air force, the Allied forces are currently adopting a key deployment method, first ensuring sufficient troops on the Caribbean battlefield, and secondly ensuring the security of the United States' East Coast and the Bermuda Islands.

And to ensure absolute security on the Caribbean battlefield and the United States' east coast (including the Bermuda Islands), the sea and air force on Canada's east coast has been declining over the past few months.

"It is said that the Germans' offensive targets are Trinidad and Tobago," Wallace asked the generals present, "Can they be sure?"

The generals looked at each other, and no one answered Wallace's question. Although all the signs now indicate that Germany's targets are Trinidad and Tobago, war is full of all kinds of false deceptions. Who can guarantee that the Germans are not bluffing on the Caribbean battlefield?

There was a silence in the conference room, which seemed a little embarrassed. After a while, General Henry Arnold from the Army Air Force said: "Mr. Minister, if we stop the bombing of Buenos Aires and the attack on Santiago, the eastern front of Canada will be able to add 1,500 fighter jets..."

"No," Wallace immediately rejected Arnold's proposal. "Our actions in Chile and Argentina are about to succeed, and that will be decisive."

The generals sighed in their hearts. In fact, the United States was in a dilemma in Chile and Argentina.

As early as before the election in November last year, the US government claimed to have invaded Santiago, the capital of Chile. It is strictly speaking, because the Santiago region is very large, not only in the urban area, but also in large rural areas. The US military reached the outskirts of downtown Santiago before the voting day on November 6, 2014, and surrounded downtown Santiago on three sides. The situation at that time seemed to be very good, and the US military seemed to be liberating Santiago soon.

However, after the election, the development of the situation disappointed Wallace and the new President Truman. Although they met Eisenhower's request for a further increase, the offensive against San Diego seemed long and bloody. The bloody battle started in mid-December 1944 and continued until almost March 1945. Eisenhower's troops only captured less than one-third of the downtown San Diego, but suffered more than 100,000 casualties.
Chapter completed!