In fact, if it weren't for the almost all-out support of the U.S. government, it would not have been impossible for Britain to kill half of its population. The U.S. government's assistance is not just about food and medicine, but also about the incredible number of ships and the large number of anti-submarine ships that escort them, without which American aid would not have been able to reach the British government and people. But the explosion of ships in the North Atlantic also attracted more German submarines

In addition to the results of the German submarine forces, especially the teardrop-shaped submarines, which sank a large number of American ships during the Battle of Iceland, other German submarines in the Atlantic Ocean in January 1941 also sank 126 Allied merchant ships and 3 Allied ships, with a total displacement of up to 652754 tons, while the German submarines lost only 7 (excluding the losses in the Icelandic Campaign). In February, due to the end of the Icelandic campaign, a large number of German submarines were freed up, and even after the U.S. military strengthened its anti-submarine operations, the results of the month still soared to 217 merchant ships, 15 Allied ships, and a total displacement of 1298416 tons, while the German submarines lost a total of 13 in that month.

It is also worth mentioning that in mid-February 1942, the third batch of 16 teardrop-shaped submarines produced by Germany was completed, of which 4 were handed over to the submarine school to speed up the training of personnel, and the other 12 were all joined by the German Navy. At the time of the great increase in strength, it happened to be a good opportunity to meet the busy shipping routes, and it was natural that the performance had a blowout

In March 1942, German submarines achieved unprecedented brilliant results in the Atlantic, sinking a total of 275 Allied merchant ships and 37 Allied ships, with a total displacement of more than 1.5 million tons, while the German Navy only lost 11 submarines. The Italian Navy's submarine force, which entered the waters of the North Atlantic for the first time to carry out large-scale diplomatic operations, although it was still very inexperienced, also achieved certain results, sinking a total of more than 200,000 tons of Allied merchant ships and sinking a British light cruiser this month, while four submarines were sunk by Allied aircraft and anti-submarine ships

Such a terrifying rate of loss for merchant ships and naval vessels. Even the United States, which has deep pockets, was a little overwhelmed for a while. Although the total tonnage of the newly launched merchant ships in the United States in the past few months has exceeded 2 million tons, and the number of ships that have entered service one after another is as high as 70 (but none of them are capital ships) has offset the astonishing losses of the ships to a large extent, the large number of people who died as a result still put the US government under great pressure from public opinion. Since the United States entered the war, it has not even touched the side of the Axis powers. The total number of killed, captured and missing officers and soldiers has exceeded 80,000. And that's not counting civilian casualties. The Republican Party of the United States, as the opposition party, took the opportunity to jump out and attack the incompetence of the Roosevelt administration, which made Roosevelt's head like a fight

In such a predicament, Roosevelt was forced to temporarily suspend the recapture of Jihua in the Hawaiian Islands. The focus of the U.S. Navy was shifted back to the European theater again, and the escort of supplies to Britain was strengthened, so that Britain would not be able to hold out and surrender to Germany, and as early as the day after the bombing of the British dam, Roosevelt reached an agreement with Churchill, who insisted on working while sick, and decided to retaliate against the German dam.

However, the air supremacy of the Western European continent is still firmly in the hands of the Luftwaffe, and although the newly developed Lancaster heavy bomber developed by Britain and the B-17 heavy bomber that the United States has begun to equip in large quantities have the ability to carry similar special bombs, the maneuverability of the aircraft will inevitably be seriously affected after being hung, and as a result, dozens of heavy bombers and a larger number of escort fighters have all been wiped out by the Luftwaffe, although several German fighters have also been shot down in the counterattack. The crashed plane also caused some damage to the ground, but none of the targets in Jihua were touched

What is even more troublesome is that a certain British Air Force colonel, who hated Germany very much, felt that it was impossible to fly to the German mainland alive, and in order to avoid the failure of this operation, he changed the target of the attack without authorization, and blew up a large and defenseless dam in the German-occupied area of northern France, resulting in the death of tens of thousands of French people and the homelessness of hundreds of thousands of French people. This idiot! He didn't understand what he had done. ”

The blowing up of dams in German-occupied areas of northern France did cause some damage to Nazi Germany, but it was mostly the French who died, and most French people were outraged by the treatment they had done so by their former allies. Although war had been declared on the Allies, the Vichy French army, which had not been active in the general, became angry and warliked, especially after the mustache had fulfilled his promise to return a small province in the German-occupied territory to the Vichy French government. And de Gaulle of "Free France" is in an increasingly embarrassing situation, but he now has very limited troops at hand, and supplies are all dependent on Britain and the United States, so he can't do anything now except scold his pig teammates in his heart

Even if a few new ships were not built after the defeat, the Vichy French army still had forty or fifty submarines available, which was undoubtedly a big help to the German Navy's submarine force, which had long been discontinued and the production capacity of the teardrop-shaped submarines had not yet been fully formed.

In April 1942, the Axis submarine forces reached their first peak, sinking 301 Allied merchant ships and 53 Allied ships in one month, with a total displacement of nearly 2 million tons, eight of which became the result of the German army. The Axis submarine forces lost 17 submarines during the month, of which only five were Germans, but another expensive teardrop-shaped submarine sank, much to Dönitz's heartache.

Roosevelt and Churchill could only lash out at Nazi Germany's crimes against humanity with their mouths for a while, hoping to stimulate anti-war sentiment within the Axis powers, and at the same time use the moral high ground to attract more potential allies. And the gradual disclosure of the horror of British losses in the past few months has indeed had a great psychological impact on the people of Shijie, but it does not include Hu Weidong, because the idea of attacking the dam and even the design of the special bomb was originally what he told the Germans (to be continued......