Joseph in a somewhat old leather jacket with the Czechoslovak Air Force logo. Major Flandersek stood on the aft deck of a Liberty ship, a camel cigarette in his mouth, and craned his neck to watch a somewhat boring air battle. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

This is not an air battle at all! Flandersek exhaled a cloud of smoke and had some contempt for the German pilots in his heart. They only know to rely on superior equipment, and if the enemy's planes are better than theirs or the pilots are better than them, they will simply evade engagement. Either fly high, make a high-speed dive (a common trick for the FW-190), or quickly pull up and lure the enemy under the muzzle of a friendly aircraft in an ambush (Fokker Zero's trick). In short, not a single German pilot dared to fight the enemy in an upright manner.

At least Major Flandersek, a Czechoslovak patriot who was an ace pilot of the Royal Air Force, had never met a decent German pilot...... Although he was shot down 6 times by his opponents in air battles in the English Channel.

And the "tank tactic", which the Germans had been using frequently since the summer of 1942, seemed to Flandersek to be even more despicable and shameless to a new level. But this tactic of unscrupulousness and cowardice was too much in line with the nature of the Germans.

They are such a people, they will only use intrigue and deception to achieve their ends, and this is how Major Flandersek's homeland, Czechoslovakia, was destroyed by the Germans.

But now that the United States and the Soviet Union are on the side of Czechoslovakia, the defeat and demise of Germany is inevitable, and any of their machinations will not succeed, including the despicable and shameless "gas tank tactics".

Thinking of this, Flandersek turned his head and glanced at a Spitfire MK5F fighter mounted on a catapult on the rear deck of the freewheel. This was Flandersek's landline and the killer weapon used by the Anglo-American allies against the German "tank tactics".

This Spitfire MK5F fighter is a special model produced in the United States, based on the Spitfire 5 that appeared in 41, installed a 12-cylinder Merlin 60 engine produced in the United States, removed all armor, removed the 20mm cannon and 2 machine guns, and retained only 2 12.7mm Browning machine guns, and the body itself was also as light as possible, using as thin materials as possible, and even the on-board radio was omitted.

This modification, which removes armor, reduces firepower and reduces the strength of the fuselage, is, of course, to reduce weight in order to allow the aircraft to fly higher. At the same time, the aerodynamic shape of the aircraft has been modified to allow it to achieve maximum lift.

In tests conducted in the United States, this Spitfire MK5F fighter can fly to an altitude of more than 14000 meters, and can also maintain a high speed of about 650 km / h at an extremely high altitude of about 13000 meters!

However, this kind of high-altitude and high-speed aircraft that is reduced by weight loss must also be a "little short leg", with a maximum range of only a pitiful 600 kilometers. If it is placed on the British mainland, it is an airport defender, and it will not be able to deal with the anti-ship JU288 at all.

Therefore, the Spitfire MK5F must be able to go on board, but its too thin body and too fast landing speed (the weight is too light, and it is the tip of the liquid-cooled engine, of course the landing is fast) makes this type of Spitfire unable to board the aircraft carrier.

Fortunately, the American tyrants have their own local methods, and this kind of plane is loaded with a free wheel and catapulted into the sky with a catapult, just like a seaplane.

The problem of take-off is easy to deal with, but what about landing?

This is not difficult for American tyrants. If there happens to be an Allied airfield nearby, then the Spitfire MK5F that catapulted off will go to the airfield to land. If there is no airfield nearby, then after the air battle, the pilot parachutes, and the plane ...... Just throw it away!

So this is a one-time aircraft, and during this escort operation, the NR21 fleet carried a total of 60 Spitfire MK5E.

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"Colonel, the British's P51 and P38 flew away."

After more than an hour at an altitude of 12,500 meters, just when I was feeling a little bored, the voice of Major Werner Trebers, commander of the 1st Escort Fighter Regiment of the Naval Air Corps, came from the headphones of Colonel Johannes Steinhofer.

"Gone? That's great. Colonel Steinhoff looked down and saw dozens of P51 and P38 planes forming a dozen four-plane formations, fleeing with their tails between their legs.

"Werner," Colonel Steinhofer ordered, "you take 2 squadrons to chase!" ”

"Yes, Mr. Colonel."

Colonel Steinhoff then instructed Perris, the navigator and telegraph operator behind him, "Contact the Zeppelin, that the P51 and P38 of the British have retreated, and that they should send the FW-190T to intercept the northern coast of Scotland." ”

The FW-190T sent by the aircraft carrier was already halfway there, and the Zeppelin, after receiving a telegram from Colonel Steinhofer, could immediately notify the commander of the first strike wave in front by telegram to move the FW-190T to wait near several airfields off the northern coast of Scotland.

After arranging the tasks of pursuit and volley, Colonel Steinhoff again began to assign attack tasks. The target of the attack was not a convoy of transports on the water, but battleships and heavy cruisers.

Steinhofer's JU288 carried 1.5-ton Fritz-X remote-controlled gliding bombs, which were wasteful against freewheels, and the Fritz-X was so penetrating that it was likely to fall underneath the ship.

Of course, the transport ship also has to be hit. The P.108, which was now lounging at low altitude dozens of kilometers away to avoid radar, and the Fokker 100 carrier-based bombers, which were approaching, were carrying high-explosive bombs, and their targets were large groups of transport ships on the water.

There are now 12 old battleships on the surface, 5 Queen Elizabeth class, 2 Wyoming class, 2 New York class, 2 Mexican class and 1 Florida class, and 60 JU288s in the sky. Therefore, Steinhoff sent 5 JU288s to each old battleship, and each JU288 had 2 Fritz-X bombs on it, that is, no old British and American battleship could get 10 Fritz-X bombs...... This number can basically be "sunk".

Just as Steinhofer and his men were happily piloting the plane to gradually reduce altitude, while carefully maintaining a "safe distance", they slowly approached the British and American battleships that were speeding up on the water. On dozens of freighters on the water, small planes suddenly ejected.

"Canopy ......"

With a muffled sound, Major Flandersek felt as if he were a pebble, shot into the sky by a slingshot.

He now sits in the humble cabin of a disposable Spitfire that has been ejected into the sky, wearing a thick leather jacket, a parachute, and an oxygen mask. The plane's engines were already running at full speed, and a pair of four-bladed propellers spun fast, bringing huge lift to the plane. Pulled by this upward momentum, the plane climbed at a breakneck speed.

Major Flandersek gently pushed the joystick and aimed the head of the plane at a ju288 that was circling and descending in the air. The two planes approached rapidly, and from Flandersek's eyes, he saw only that the plane was getting bigger and closer.

Suddenly, the JU288 seemed to find itself the prey and began to gain altitude.

"Hmph, can you still run away?" Flandersek smiled coldly, his fingers already on the firing button of the machine gun.

If Flandersek had looked down at the altimeter in the cabin at this time, he would have seen that the plane's altitude had risen very quickly.

8000m, 8500m, 9000m, 9500m...... When the altimeter jumped to 12,500 meters, the JU288, which was being chased by Flandersek, was obviously panicked, and the bomb bay door under the belly suddenly opened, and 2 Fritz-X gliding bombs were casually thrown out.

But now that I remember it, it's too late to lose weight! Flandersek found that the "prey" had come into range and did not hesitate to press the machine-gun firing button. Two strings of tracer bullets are pumped forward like fire whips towards JU288! Several bullet holes suddenly appeared in the fuselage of the aircraft in front. However, the plane did not fall, but like a horse that had been whipped by a whip, it suddenly accelerated and galloped, and it seemed that it was useful to drop the bomb to reduce its weight. However, this level of acceleration was still not enough to fall down the pursuing Spitfire.

"Want to run?" Flandersek gritted his teeth and pressed the machine-gun fire button, and the bullets fired in a series of bullets at the JU288 in front of him, and several fist-sized bullet holes were punched. Then the German plane suddenly plunged down and began to dive at an angle of 60 degrees.

"Hell!" Flandersek cursed, because his own plane was not very capable of diving, because the plane had lost so much weight that it had become less solid, and if it dived too fast, it would fall apart in the sky.

Flandersek was still unwilling to give up, and still took the risk of driving the plane to dive and chase after him for a while, but he didn't dare to rush too fast, and finally could only watch the plane get farther and farther away from him.

However, since the other side threw away the bomb and fled for his life, the tactic of "one-time fire" was obviously successful.

From now on, the surface fleet will no longer be defenseless when it encounters the JU288. In this way, a large number of Lend-Lease materials from the United States have been continuously transported to Britain in a steady stream of energy.

Flandersek, who was in a good mood, drove the plane around in the air, found the direction of the Faroe Islands, and flew there - there was an airfield on the Faroe Islands that had been quietly built after the autumnal equinox, and the Germans did not know about it, nor had it bombed, so it was still usable. Flandersek prepares to fly his plane to land there, then refuel and fly to the north of Scotland.

But just as he found the airport and was about to land, a string of tracer bullets suddenly flew past his cabin cover! (To be continued.) )