Chapter 429 The U.S. military's F9F Panther and Nemesis jets are developed in advance
The failure of the Battle of Sicily was a great blow and a shame for Montgomery.
So as soon as he retreated to Tunisia, he immediately faced the remaining troops of his British 8th Army Group and began to train more rigorously.
He ordered his troops to train in various climates, whether it was wind and rain, strong storms, ice and snow, or even hot weather, or nights with no sun and moon, to carry out hard and full-strength practical training.
His purpose was to achieve the combat effectiveness of these remnants of his troops, even the entire German troops who defeated them.
In addition, he will seriously and simulate the special battle situations that may appear on the real battlefield, such as how to deal with German attacks and how to counterattacks when a large number of new weapons and equipment suddenly appear like Sicily, or if he loses air supremacy, he should deal with German attacks and how to counterattacks.
Moreover, these practical simulation trainings were carried out and completed continuously within 25 hours.
Of course, sometimes even conduct such cruel practical training at high frequency for several days and nights. Even the new recruits who have just added to the 8th Army Group have to undergo such arduous training together.
While the soldiers were conducting these trainings, Montgomery was standing near them, observing the combat weaknesses of the British troops, finding out all of these weaknesses, and then using the strengths of the British troops to replace these weaknesses, and even finding ways to overcome these fatal combat weaknesses.
Because for Montgomery, both the German army and Hitler are regarded as cunning foxes by him and should not be taken lightly.
So even if he replaces all the officers and soldiers who cannot withstand overwork training and difficult combat environment training in harsh practical training, he will train a group of troops that can truly defeat the German SS.
Because at this moment, Montgomery had already included the German SS and even the German troops that were more powerful in fighting as the targets to be defeated.
He wanted to avenge his previous shame for his defeat in the battle in Sicily.
Of course, except for him training his troops so harshly after the war, Patton was not inferior to him at all.
Because Patton also dispatched the three navy, army, air force, armored troops, and artillery units to conduct more cruel practical training.
Because for Patton, he also wanted to make his troops stronger as soon as possible and surpass the German troops, and then in the next battle, he would defeat the German troops so that he could avenge the dead American soldiers and rebuild his glory for the lost reputation.
Of course, both him and Patton are good. When they are conducting practical training that challenges human limits, they also built a large number of comfortable barracks for the soldiers, and provided them with a lot of delicious and nutritious food and nutritional agents.
At the same time, various sanitation conditions, medical systems, bonus systems, military supplies and other logistics supplies have achieved the effect of both kindness and power.
Because the final purpose of Montgomery and Patton is to fully unite their troops through these cruel practical training and the winning military treatment of the people, and to maximize the combat effectiveness of their troops, defeat the German army, and become an invincible elite army.
At the same time, they also hope that their troops can maintain a strong fighting will, be neither anxious nor impatient, and optimistic in any unfavorable or victorious battle.
In addition, Montgomery also received the consent of Churchill, and a large number of defense work was established in the British mainland; and a large number of counterattack reserves were launched to prevent the German army from launching sudden attacks on the British mainland, or landing operations.
Because during this battle of Sicily, all high-level officers from allies such as Britain and the United States had seen the German aircraft carrier fleet, submarine troops, as well as the aviation troops, as well as the German long-range offensives had become the hottest.
That's why Churchill agreed so painfully to Montgomery's local defense strategy and to train their British troops in the death.
Of course, even President Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Marshall agreed with Patton's cruel practical training for the navy, army and air force.
In addition, the United States has also begun to build fortifications fortifications for local defense strategies because it is worried that the Japanese army will join forces with the German army, which have aircraft carrier fleets and ultra-long-range submarine underwater aircraft carrier submarine forces, to carry out local landing operations.
In addition, this time, whether it was the British Intelligence Department, the US military, or the Soviet military, they all sent all elite intelligence officers like crazy to enter all ways to enter Germany or the German troops occupied by the German army to investigate the information on the new weapons and equipment of the German army sinking a large number of US aircraft carriers within one hour.
Of course, they are willing to search for other new weapons and equipment information of the German army at all costs.
At this time, General Henry H. Hap Arnold, commander of the U.S. Army Air Force, General Henry H. Hap Arnold, General Ulf and W. G. Kerner, as well as famous pilot Charles Lindenberg, and General Arnold were accompanying President Hopkins, Roosevelt, and Admiral Marshall to patrol the production plants of the B-29 bomber fleet.
These factories are Bell's new factory in Marietta, Georgia; North American Aircraft Company's new factory in Kansas, Missouri; GM's Fisher Brothers' new factory in Cleveland, Ohio; and Boeing's Wichita, Kansas and other factories.
Behind President Roosevelt and other senior American figures, there were also entourages of Boeing, Consored, Douglas, and Lockheed.
In addition to these people, there are also personnel from Chrysler, Hudson, Goodyear, Briggs, Merry, Cessna and other companies who have also sent senior executives to come, because these companies are all aircraft parts companies designated by the US government as the main fuselage components of the B-29.
Finally, senior managers from companies such as Bendicx, General Electric, Sperry and Westinhouse, who competed for the contract for remote control turret systems, also came to the scene and followed President Roosevelt and others to conduct inspection work.
Because after the defeat of the Battle of Sicily, General Arnold and General Ulf, after obtaining the consent of President Roosevelt, immediately established a special process team for the B-29 bomber group and the P-51 Mustang fighter group.
The function of this group is to allow aircraft manufacturers designated by major governments in the United States to rush to work overtime to rush to build the latest model of very cutting-edge electronic equipment and equipped with the B-29 bomber group of the An/apn-4 Roland remote navigation system of the FiGo Company.
At the same time, when the production process was rushing to be produced, technical masters, engineers, technical directors, and scientists of the US military, including major production lines, experimental workshops, assembly lines, R&D departments, as well as engineers, technical directors, and scientists constantly proposed various difficult and complicated problems to b-29 drawings and objects, as well as solving problems and loopholes in various components of b-29, and dealing with the problem of cutting the mess with quick knives.
As for general problems and calculations, as well as experiments, they are handed over to engineers in the design room, process room, and central laboratory to deal with, or to find out the missing problems and shortcomings.
Of course, the pilots who flew these new bomber groups and fighter groups were constantly recruiting and strengthening the US air force and conducting cruel training, making these pilots more familiar with the combat performance of these aircraft.
At the same time, the fj-1 "Goddess of Nemesis" that was originally supposed to start development in December 1944, test flights in September 1946, and officially delivered to the US North American Aircraft Company in November 1947, was also officially developed and produced in advance on July 23, 1943.
At the same time, President Roosevelt hopes to carry out carrier-based test flights on the aircraft carrier within three months.
In addition to this FJ-1 "Goddess of Nemesis" jet, it has been included in the emergency development and production process by President Roosevelt; in addition, the f9f "Leopard" carrier-based fighter developed by Grumman Aircraft Company, which should not be put into service in 1948, was also highly valued by President Roosevelt and conducted a large amount of capital investment in advance.
This jet aircraft was ordered by President Roosevelt to major R&D institutions to be successfully developed before January 30, 1944 at all costs.
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