Chapter 226 Eisenhower's Retreat Order
At this time, Eisenhower, Lieutenant General Smith, General Alexander, Commander of Spaz Air, Hewitt; General Eck, General Anderson, and General Jimmy Doolid; General Curtis Lewand; Commander of the 3rd Bomber; Commander of British Airways; Commander of Mallory; they were shocked, stunned, speechless, and messy in the wind.
At the same time, it was still heartache and discomfort, and many senior British and American airline officers were in pain in their hearts.
The reason is very simple. I originally thought that this time, the Thousand Aircraft Operation was also dispatched many advanced P-51 fighters; and Typhoon and other fighters went to take charge, cover the bombing army, and carry out felt bombing.
Although their bombing operation was very smooth at the beginning, and they also had a good record.
Faced with such a successful bombing, many high-level British and American aviation officers cheered; clapped and praised each other, and even started champagne to celebrate on the spot.
In just less than ten minutes, all the achievements flashed away from their eyes.
Instead, their aircraft group was destroyed by the large number of anti-aircraft gun groups and self-propelled artillery groups in just 5 minutes.
But tragedy still follows, because more than 300 bombers and fighter jets were destroyed by the German new missiles, and those missiles in their eyes were Pomack missile groups, which were accurately shot down one by one.
"How could this happen! Our thousand-machine bombing not only did not cause severe damage to the German army, but also was ambushed by them!"
British Air General Charles Porter muttered in disbelief as soon as he received a report of their heavy losses.
"It must be a traitor! There must be a traitor here! Otherwise, the German army would not have mobilized so many anti-aircraft guns and self-propelled artillery groups at one time to carry out air defense! And they also deployed those unknown new anti-aircraft rockets early in the morning!"
As soon as he finished speaking, in the silent command center, Arthur Harris of the British Bomber Command immediately started to roar and curse.
"Yes! I also think there are traitors in our team. We must find out these German traitors as soon as possible! Otherwise, for all our large-scale operations in the future, it will definitely be a timed bomb! Commander Eisenhower!"
Hearing Arthur Harris's swearing, General Alexander immediately turned around and said seriously to Eisenhower beside him.
"Well! I will handle this matter well! Now for us, I am just more concerned about it, whether we should immediately evacuate all the air forces that are still fighting bloody battles over Berlin!"
Eisenhower said with a worried look on his face.
"Yes! We must evacuate immediately! Otherwise, we will lose more planes and pilots! And even if we can destroy the bombing of Berlin now, we will have to pay a heavy price! And the German army has not dispatched a fighter yet!"
"If our air force forces, if they wait for their fighter fleet to be dispatched, then our heavily injured aviation troops will be in danger!"
"We can't afford to lose more casualties, and it takes a long time to train an excellent and qualified pilot! Unlike training an army, they only need a few months!"
Before General Alexander could reply, Hewitt hurriedly said.
"I also agree with General Hewitt's words, and I feel that we will stop the other aircraft group immediately and continue to travel to Berlin! The journey we are sending now is too far away! If a large number of German fighter jets intercepted in the middle of the journey, we will lose a lot!"
As soon as Hewitt finished speaking, Lieutenant General Smith suddenly stood up and quickly agreed.
"But our backfly fleet still has more than 2,000 aircraft waiting for orders and preparing to go to Berlin! We now have such a large fleet of aircraft, and I feel that we should not be afraid of those Germans like this! I feel that we should not retreat immediately! And we should also increase the air strike crew to stimulate the morale of our Allied forces!"
But as soon as he finished speaking, Commander Sparz Air Refute disagreed.
Although this person was also very sad about the loss rate of his Eighth Air Force, he also knew that if he evacuated immediately, it would not only bring back the morale of their air force.
Moreover, it is not easy for them to gather such a large-scale aircraft to carry out a large-scale bombing operation in Berlin, the capital of the German army.
"I think so too. Otherwise, I will fly the plane myself to lead the team to continue bombing the German capital Berlin! Because once our morale is defeated, it will probably have a big blow to our next war!"
General Jimmy Doolid also suddenly stated.
"No! I object! We have more opportunities to compete with the German army, especially air combat! Because the air supremacy of the entire Europe is the overall goal of our Allied forces, it will not change! But this time we bomb Berlin, the capital of the German army, we just deter Germany and let them know that we are also capable of bombing their capital and even the entire Germany at any time!"
"Let their morale and people scatter, and thus make them afraid of us and surrender to us!"
"But now our planes are suffering so serious losses. If we engage in a war of attrition with the German army's premeditated defense, it will probably have a great blow to our strategic air supremacy!"
"Because our overall focus should still be on destroying their heavy industrial plants, refineries, and aircraft factories, and their bearing factories, and all submarine factories, as well as shipbuilding factories."
"In short, all industrial factories in Germany, whether they are light industry or heavy industry, will become strategic bombing targets that we have long-term destruction!"
But in the end, Eisenhower was very decisive and determined to say.
Because at this moment, he received another telegram from a telegrapher to report to him on the battle situation on the front line. The air force that they bombed in Berlin lost more than 100 more aircraft, and their intelligence network also discovered that a large number of fighter aircraft were emerging from all directions in the German army, rushing to Berlin to carry out support operations.
But this is not a fatal news. The most serious thing is that the German airfield has been discovered in Berlin. It is preparing to take off hundreds of long-awaited fighter jets to fight those British and American airlines that have been caught off guard by anti-aircraft guns, self-propelled artillery groups, and Pomack missile groups.
"Retreat! Evade me immediately! Quickly! If we don't evacuate, our losses will be even greater! At the same time, we also ordered all the aircraft groups waiting in Tunisia to rescue the air force that was fighting hard over Berlin!"
Eisenhower, who had just said a lot of words in one breath, had not waited for others to object, or something, to say, and he again decisively ordered loudly.
After hearing this, the messenger beside him hurried out to convey the order.
Chapter completed!