"We don't know what it is!" Eisenhower changed the picture on the projector and said, "What we know is that this thing is going to cause us a lot of trouble." In fact, we fought it back in the day when we were in Africa:

On 10 May 1942, a group of B17 bombers was on a mission to bomb the Tozeur power station when it reported being hit by an unknown aircraft, and B17 bomber number 38173 crashed.

On June 21, 1942, a B17 survived when it was hit by an unidentified aircraft while carrying out the bombing of the Egwart Highway.

Then the attack density gradually increases......

On June 30, there were five similar incidents in July, and as many as 20 in August, and the number of bombers that were shot down has reached five, and all of them were shot down at an altitude of 10,000 meters......"

"Why haven't we had any information about it before?" De Gaulle interjected.

"We don't want to cause some kind of panic!" Eisenhower replied: "And we seem to have found some kind of solution......"

"I'm sorry, General!" De Gaulle interrupted Eisenhower again: "I protest against this, strongly protest, that Algeria is French territory, and that you are blocking intelligence against us on the grounds of 'causing panic' when you bomb French territory? I reiterate: 'Fighting France' is the only legitimate government of France, and we have the right to know everything about France! ”

"Sorry, General de Gaulle!" Eisenhower cautioned: "This is not the ...... of this meeting"

"I don't think so, General Eisenhower!" De Gaulle said: "Everything that has to do with France should be part of the conference!" ”

"Fuck it!" General Patton stood up suddenly: "Shut your mouth, or I'll beat it up!" ”

"Watch your words, General Patton!" De Gaulle stood up without showing weakness: "You are on French soil, you have no right to say such things!" ”

Then the American officers stood up one by one, and the British officers also stood up one by one to help de Gaulle speak, and soon the whole conference room was in an uproar.

Eisenhower finally couldn't take it anymore, he slammed the table hard, and said, "If you want to keep arguing like this, get out of here!" ”

The conference room fell silent.

"General de Gaulle!" Eisenhower said, "I want you to understand that we're here to solve problems, not to ask new questions, and if you have to, I don't think you're the right fit to be here!" ”

Eisenhower thought that de Gaulle would leave the room because of this, which was exactly what Eisenhower wanted.

But De Gaulle once again disappointed Eisenhower, and De Gaulle sat still in his chair as if nothing had happened.

In this respect, de Gaulle was indeed a good politician, because he knew what to say and what to do in his own favor.

After a moment of silence, Eisenhower continued: "Originally, we thought that these accidents were accidents, but this was not the case, our reconnaissance planes accidentally discovered that they were using launch tracks to launch this kind of aircraft, which we called 'self-detonating aircraft', which made things simple, because all we had to do was to keep the escort planes on the ground and destroy them as soon as we found something like a launcher." ”

Eisenhower changed a few more photos and said: "We successfully destroyed several 'self-detonating planes' before their launch, which are somewhat similar to V1 aircraft missiles, and need to be refueled for a while before launch. All we need to do is have the fighters patrol the area where the bombers are going to pass! ”

"So, what's the problem?" General Patton asked.

"Here's the problem!" Eisenhower switched the projection to the first photograph that was handed out to the officers, saying, "They have the launchers underground, and you can't see anything here, and certainly the pilots can't see it." But when our bombers pass through the airspace nearby, there will be a silo here, and then a 'self-detonating plane' will be launched, and after ten seconds the silo will close again, and then what you see...... Just a little smoke! ”

The officers in the conference room were talking, and they all knew that in this case, the German army could hit the American army, but the American army could not beat the German army...... No one will like this.

"How many of these silos do they have?" Patton is a professional soldier, and every issue is on the point.

"We don't know!" Eisenhower replied, "But after a trial we found ...... The entire Western Front is under the control of this 'self-detonating aircraft'! In other words, if we were to bomb Germany, there would be a price, and probably a terrible price! ”

The officers nodded their heads, knowing what this "heavy price" meant...... Perhaps, a simultaneous breakthrough of a large number of bombers from a point could make the "self-detonating aircraft" of the Germans unable to cope because of their numbers.

However, when crossing the defensive line, one group will be knocked down, and when returning home, another group will be knocked down, and the loss is double.

What's more, bombers bombed targets for a long time and frequently, for example, preparations for the bombing of France took several months.

If each bombing had to pay the price of being shot down in two batches, it would not be long before Germany did not suffer much damage and the Allied bombers were already blown up.

"So...... We can only attack from the ground! General Patton gloated at Montgomery, who had not spoken, and said, "Because it turns out that it is not feasible to attack from the air!" ”

Montgomery, of course, knew that General Patton was a related phrase, and that the "air offensive" was ostensibly referring to bomber restraints, but in reality it was referring to the heavy casualties of Operation "Market Garden."

"General Patton!" Montgomery replied: "You need to know one thing, before this we were completely unaware of the underground facilities of the 'self-detonating aircraft', and you did not even know until now that a miscalculation was inevitable in such a situation!" ”

"Oh, really?" Patton replied unceremoniously: "But, honorable Marshal Montgomery, I have heard that the armored forces of the Germans are already waiting for us in Holland, and they have set traps before the airborne troops are airborne......"

"But even so, we still have the chance to win!"

"Oh yes, probably!" Barton chases Montgomery hard.

Then, not surprisingly, the previous scene appeared in the conference room, and the British and American officers got up and argued with each other, all of them red-faced, and they almost didn't make a move.