The Rise of the Third Reich

The Atlantic Ocean is like a whole piece of blue amber, stretching as far as the eye can see, with only soft, cotton-like clouds floating past the window. But Second Lieutenant Jean-Henri Bernard had no time to appreciate such beautiful scenery.

Because he is now participating in a war that he cannot identify with at all. As a man from the Toulouse region in southern France, he participated in the "French-German Brotherly War" from 1939 to 1940 - this is the official name given by the European Community to the Franco-German war in the early days of World War II. The name given by - the French. There is a big gap between him and those blond supermen in terms of appearance and way of thinking. As a dark-haired, short Frenchman who did not look very white, he would not agree with the "Pan-Aryanism" of the Frankish Legion in the north.

In his view, France is France and Germany is Germany. It is impossible for the two to be unified. Neither Napoleon nor Hitler could achieve it. Moreover, Germany is still the enemy of France. In 1940, it knocked glorious France to the ground, once again snatched away Alsace and Lorraine, and also forcibly pulled France into the European Community. This is equivalent to depriving France of part of its sovereignty!

To put it bluntly, France is now a German colony!

However, there are a group of fools who do not know that "France has been destroyed" and are willing to follow the Germans to fight and believe that they are "blond and blue-eyed Aryan supermen".

Thinking of this, Lieutenant Bernard glanced with some sympathy at the navigator beside him, Sergeant Pierre Muller - a blond idiot from Upper Normandy who was deceived by "Pan-Aryanism" and thought he was German. A descendant of a branch of the Franks, he also joined the disgusting Frank Legion and was willing to fight for the German world empire. He was simply a heinous traitor!

"Second Lieutenant! Radar found target!"

Just when Lieutenant Bernard, a French patriot who was forced to fight for Germany, despised Sergeant Muller, a French traitor who was willing to fight for Germany, the French traitor Muller suddenly shouted loudly.

"The radar found enemy aircraft, distance 150, number more than 50, altitude 3000, bearing 280, direction due east..."

Following Sergeant Muller's report, the air in the cabin of the Bv138D long-range water reconnaissance aircraft suddenly became tense.

"Can you identify it?" Lieutenant Bernard asked, while turning the steering wheel of the aircraft and steering the big and stupid Bv138D seaplane to avoid it. This large aircraft is powered by three 880-horsepower Yumo diesel engines. It is very slow, with a maximum speed of only 264 kilometers per hour. If it collides with the American fleet, it will be dead!

However, the Bv138D seaplane also has a life-saving skill, which is a FuG1000 S-band high-power airborne radar installed on the nose and covered with a fairing.

This airborne radar is a high-performance airborne radar jointly developed by the German Lorenz Company and the British. It is also the world's first early warning radar using S-band, and it is currently the world's largest airborne radar. Its detection range for aircraft targets below can reach 140 kilometers, and its detection range for large ships on the sea can reach 360 kilometers.

If it weren't for the fact that the Bv138D long-range seaplane does not have any command and control capabilities - the new generation Bv138E large waterborne early warning aircraft has such capabilities, but has not yet been put into use - this large aircraft would be a real early warning aircraft, and Now it can only be regarded as an air radar warning aircraft.

However, with its powerful airborne radar, the Bv138D long-range seaplane can still detect enemy aircraft 100 kilometers away and then calmly evade them.

"It's an enemy plane!" Muller shouted again.

Very good! Second Lieutenant Bernard thought to himself: Now the Germans are finally in trouble!

However, he did not dare to put such thoughts that were against the unity of the European Community on his face. If the people above him knew that he was a "French patriot", he would immediately lose his position as a seaplane pilot with a well-paid salary.

"Quick, quick, send the telegram!" Bernard pretended to be impatient and shouted at the telegraph operator sitting behind him. At the same time, I prayed to Almighty God in my heart: Someone else damn the German guy received this important telegram!

"Sir, Hawkeye 10 reported that more than 50 American aircraft were spotted over the B2 sea area, flying towards us!"

While Lieutenant Bernard was praying to God over and over again, Major Hersman Jr. had received a telegram from the Bv138D seaplane he was driving.

finally come!

In the command center on the "Zeppelin", everyone breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. It was not pleasant to wait for the enemy to attack!

"How long will it take for them to fly over our heads?" Major General Erich Bey asked.

"It's 200 kilometers away," Hersman Jr. said. "If they still know our position now, they can arrive within 40 minutes... I think the Americans probably know our position, because we just took back the first place 30 minutes ago." Attack waves of aircraft that will reveal our approximate location."

The position of Task Force 21 was discovered by an American B-24 reconnaissance aircraft about four and a half hours ago. But then four Fokker 636 fighter jets used a cannon to smash the American B-24 into pieces!

The 21st Task Force did not make an emergency maneuver after shooting down the American reconnaissance plane. It just set up an air defense formation and still wandered slowly on the sea.

One hour and 30 minutes ago, 129 Fw190s and Fokker 636s that completed the bombing mission returned (9 Fw190s and 2 Fokker 636s did not return). If there were American long-range reconnaissance aircraft operating nearby at that time, a large fleet of more than 100 aircraft would definitely be discovered.

Erich Bey nodded and immediately ordered: "Cancel the second attack wave, and all Fokker 636s will take off immediately!"

With an order, the five German aircraft carriers on the sea began to accelerate at the same time, and the Fokker 636 fighter jets that had been ready for launch were carried onto the deck, and then immediately ejected into the sky, and began to hover over the 21st Task Force.

At the same time, the radar of an F-13 long-range reconnaissance aircraft hiding above the clouds at an altitude of 6,000 meters also detected the sudden acceleration of the German fleet on the sea.

"Captain, the enemy fleet is accelerating!"

Captain Davis, the commander of this F-13, was also an experienced veteran. As soon as he heard the report from the navigator/radar operator Sergeant Smith, he immediately understood what was going on.

"Quickly send a signal to the headquarters and tell them that the Germans are launching carrier-based aircraft!"

While the telegraph operator, Corporal Lawrence, was busy operating the radio, the radar operator Smith shouted again: "Captain, there is a large group of aircraft appearing in the west, 80 meters away, it should be our aircraft!"

"Great, the Germans are going to be in trouble now!" Captain Davis, who suddenly became excited, ordered again: "Send a radio signal to guide our aircraft."

"Sir, the enemy plane is coming!"

Little Hersmann's shout once again alarmed the officers on the bridge of the "Zeppelin". Everyone raised their telescopes and looked in the direction of little Hersmann's finger. I saw more than a hundred and nearly two hundred twin-engine aircraft appearing under the white clouds in the distance, rushing toward me at extremely high speeds.

"They fly so fast!"

"What kind of plane is this? Why have I never seen it before?"

"The twin-engine one, is it P61?"

"It does not seem……"

As a new type of aircraft that no one had ever seen appeared in the sky, the staff in the command center were talking a lot. Lieutenant General Erich Bey turned his attention to aviation staff officer Hersman Jr.

Little Hersman also shook his head, his originally relaxed expression had become very serious: "It's a new aircraft... very fast, about 600 kilometers per hour, it should be a heavy fighter-bomber! The engine looks very big, it The bomb load must be quite large!”

What is rapidly approaching the 21st Task Force of the European Combined Fleet are more than 200 American F7F "Tiger Cat" fighter jets. They are flying from the airport at the Norfolk Naval Base in the United States.

"Haha." Facing the American twin-engine fighter-bombers that he had never seen before, Lieutenant General Erich Bay not only did not panic at all, but sneered a few times.

He knows very well that a powerful country like the United States will not be without a few trump cards. And this kind of dual-engine bombardment is obviously the trump card of the Americans. It may be able to carry 2,000 pounds of bombs, and it may be able to damage its three large aircraft carriers.

But isn’t this exactly the purpose of Task Force 21’s attack on Bermuda? If the Zeppelin, Prussia and Bohemia were not damaged, how could it be possible to fish out the American main fleet?

"Sir, the fight is about to begin!" Little Hersman's voice rang in Lieutenant General Bei's ears again.

Erich Bey immediately raised his telescope and observed, only to see hundreds of fighter planes strangled together under the clouds, big ones, small ones, double-shot, single-shot, strings of bullets and cannonballs, in the sea and sky. Draw their own lines.

Although the Americans' new twin-engine aircraft fly very fast, the Fokker 636 flies faster than them! And the climbing speed is far faster than them. Therefore, they seized the high altitude before the double-fire exchange. More than a hundred fighter planes roared and dived, firing countless 20mm cannon ammunition. The more than 200 F7Fs that formed the formation were immediately dispersed. Some of them were shot down, while others dropped their bombs to fight with the Fokker 636. However, more than a hundred new American fighter jets broke through the Fokker 636's blockage and quickly rushed towards the four fleet air defense formations on the water with aircraft carriers as the core.

The battle between sea and air is about to begin.