Chapter 101: The British and American Infantry Landing Succeeds
"Withdraw! Give me a retreat right away! It's an enemy trap! They hid powerful anti-aircraft fire! The Italians are so shameless! They already have such a powerful air defense, and they want to yin us! ”
Captain Lorngo, who had recovered from his grief, immediately commanded loudly with a hideous face. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"I want to withdraw too! Captain, but the enemy's shelling is too fast and too fierce! ”
Pilot Lesotho cried out in a tone of bitterness.
"Whoosh! Sou! Whoosh ......"
"Wow! Rushing! Whoop ......"
"Peng! Bang! ”
Just as he was saying this, more than a dozen armor-piercing incendiary blasting shells and tracer armor-piercing shells instantly attacked him and the group leader Lorngo.
Then, with a thunderous explosion, the B-17 bomber piloted by Captain Lorengo immediately exploded into a fiery red fireball in Lesotho, and fell to pieces on the island of Pantelleria.
Seeing such a shocking and shocking horror situation in front of him, the pilot Lesotho suddenly gasped in fright, his face was bloodless like a wooden chicken, and he trembled all over......
"Boom!"
While he was so distracted, the B-17 bomber he was flying and all the people in his plane; They all died with him, turned into a blazing fireball, and fell to the ground.
Scenarios like this are constantly playing out in the skies over the island of Pantelleria.
As a result, only 10 bombers of the four squadrons of the US army were left to escape, and of course some of them were shot down by the Italian Air Force.
And only 3 of the night fighter groups of the two brigades of the British army can escape.
When he saw the remnants of the Anglo-American Air Force, he finally escaped over the island of Pantelleria; Gotthard Heinrich asked all the commanders of the Cheetah self-propelled anti-aircraft guns to stop the attack and asked them about their ammunition and whether there were any casualties.
When the commanders of all the "Cheetah" self-propelled anti-aircraft guns replied in the affirmative that no one was injured or killed; Gotthard Heinrich put down his heart and smiled at all the commanders, commanders, and drivers of the "Cheetah" self-propelled anti-aircraft guns.
But when he learned from them that all the ammunition of the "Cheetah" self-propelled anti-aircraft guns was used, Gotthard? Heinrich's heart was instantly lost.
Because for such advanced anti-aircraft guns, he simply did not have suitable ammunition to replenish them.
In other words, he could only send these "Cheetah" self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and ships back to Berlin and hand them back to Chen Yanlong.
There is no way, in this parallel world now, except for Chen Yanlong's golden finger; There is really no one who can replenish these "Cheetah" self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, ammunition and spare parts.
"Alright! Find a place to hide, rest and recuperate, and when we have annihilated all these invading enemy troops, I will have you sent you back to Berlin to meet the Führer! Because only the Führer has ammunition and spare parts to replenish you! ”
For this reason, Gotthard Heinrich could only reluctantly stare at the majestic "Cheetah" self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, and say to their drivers and commanders.
"Thank you, Commander Heinrich!"
Everyone also reluctantly responded.
Because the feeling of sweeping through all the enemy troops just now is really wonderful and refreshing.
It was much cooler than when they were driving a Leopard tank and a Tiger tank destroying enemy tanks.
So they are very reluctant to leave the battlefield here and find a place to hide.
And at this time, the British and American navies were able to successfully land in order to allow their landing force.
As a result, their naval warships and tank rocket landing ships continued to bombard the island of Pantelleria with naval artillery and rocket bombardment.
Since the beginning of the war, they have fired more than a thousand rockets at various beachhead defensive positions, shore artillery positions, and anti-aircraft artillery positions built against the Italian army.
Although their fierce attacks destroyed a small part of the Italian defensive positions; However, there were still many concealed artillery positions, as well as relatively distant anti-aircraft artillery positions, which remained undamaged.
If it weren't for the fact that Britain and the United States sent a large number of B-17 bombers and night fighters to bomb; and strafing, I am afraid that there are still many anti-aircraft artillery positions on the island of Pantelleria now, which are still alive.
But even so, the U.S. military also had two ships and eight tank rocket landing craft to sink the Germans hiding in the shore artillery positions deployed by the Italian army.
But even so, the war has been fought until now; The Anglo-American Army already has 16 tank landing craft and 35 water tanks; and two battalions of troops, each with 40 Higgins, successfully landed on a crescent-shaped beach on the west coast of Pantelleria.
The Higgins boats each carried 30 heavily armed British and American soldiers, though they were not part of the U.S. First Division; but the soldiers of the 45th Division, as for the 1st Canadian Infantry Division; and the Canadian 1st Armored Brigade, which will not land until it follows the subsequent large-scale attack of the US 1st Division.
Because the current soldier landing operation, as well as the air raids, and the artillery bombardment of the ships, are just a prelude to the US military's tentative attack.
Although they could first send reconnaissance planes to conduct high-altitude photography to reconnoiter the situation on Pantelleria Island, they could not wait until Chen Yanlong and Chen Yanlong crossed over to Hitler; and decided to fight the Anglo-American allies in Sicily and Pantelleria; Chen Yanlong constantly dispatched large groups of planes to intercept the aerial reconnaissance of all the British and American air force reconnaissance planes.
For this reason, the British and US reconnaissance planes were also destroyed, and no less than 20 reconnaissance planes were damaged.
It was because of this that the Anglo-American Allies were so depressed and annoyed that they first dispatched a group of forward troops to try to land and probe the real situation on the island of Pantelleria.
When the landing was successful, the American soldiers who rushed out of the inclined door of the landing craft immediately took their weapons and equipment:
For example, there are M1 Garand semi-automatic rifles, 30-caliber machine guns, and Browning automatic rifles, anti-tank rocket artillery; 60-mm mortars, as well as flamethrowers, etc., immediately pointed at the defensive positions of the Italian troops that they had seen; They open fire and try to cover every corner of the beach with their netting of fire.
The Italian and German forces deployed on the beach also used 88mm and 75mm guns, as well as mortars, and MG42 general-purpose machine guns in their positions to counterattack.