The three regiments under Li Qiwei of the door mold basically lost their hearts from the very beginning of the battle, just as the general love of the US military staff officer said, the task is the task, the plan is the plan, the execution is the execution, and the three, unrelated things mixed together is a disaster.
The 1st Spinning Regiment of the 1st Airborne Division, commanded by Colonel William Ekman, planned to capture Rafiel, Novel Opland, and Saint-Man-Ygris with 3 paratrooper battalions on the east bank of the Mettler River.
The first battalion was extremely scattered when it landed because the planes had deviated from the course, and the commander of the 6th battalion, Major Kelam, had only gathered a very small number of men.
On the way to Rafiel, they were blocked by the Germans, and the battalion commander and acting battalion commander were killed one after another, and they failed to complete the scheduled task of occupying Rafael.
The 2nd Battalion was at the scheduled location6, and the battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Van Divoort, had a broken ankle at 6 o'clock, and he had the soldiers push him in a cart to hold on to the command, and half of the men were gathered to complete the preparations for the attack on Novel Opland.
Just as the attack was about to start, the regimental commander received an urgent order, and since there was no news from the 3rd Battalion, in order to ensure the completion of the main task of the regiment to capture St.
Manyciglis, an important transportation hub, the 2nd Battalion changed its original mission and replaced the 3rd Battalion to seize this important objective.
Van forced Werth to leave Lieutenant Turner to lead the hook to spy on the enemy in Norvel Opland, and he led the rest of the men to immediately attack St.
Manigris to the south, Turner's squad later fought tenaciously for eight hours, repelling the German counterattack on the northern flank of St.
Manygris, but in the end failed to hold the key St.
Manygris, St.
Manyglis's loss made the 1st Airborne Division, the 1st Heart Airborne Division and the 1st Special Operations Group of the Chinese Expeditionary Force completely separated.
The 3rd Battalion of the Lek Regiment was at the predetermined location, and the battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Claus, gathered the young men, led by a local French guide.
With the help of night cover, Saint-Manyclis was captured in one fell swoop by means of a sneak attack, but it was impossible to report to the regiment in time due to the interruption of communication, and then organized a defense with the 2nd Battalion that rushed in, repelled many German counterattacks, and temporarily controlled this important transportation hub.
The 1st Carp Regiment was commanded by Colonel George Millis.
On the west bank of the Mettler River6, he seized Bvis and controlled the road leading to the Mettler River from the northwest.
Because the guide group was wiped out by the Germans, the airborne field was not marked, and most of the airborne troops landed in the swamp by mistake, and the first battalion gathered only four people to attack Rafiel.
The commander of the 2nd Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Timms, assembled his men and attacked Ndreville, but due to the small number of troops, the attack failed and was forced to go on the defensive.
The 3rd Battalion was so scattered that it was impossible to carry out an organized offensive at all.
Although the commander of the regiment was captured the next day after 6, and the remnants of the regiment led by the commander of the 2nd battalion, Tims, concentrated near Rafiel with all their might, and after several hours of fierce fighting, failed to complete the scheduled task, the regiment still captured several important heights, pinned down the German forces, and undermined the stability of the German defenses.
And the Niece Regiment, commanded by Colonel Linbenster, planned to occupy Banglape north of the Dover River, to control the crossing on the Dover River, with the 3rd Battalion as the reserve of the division.
Due to the fact that the transport plane was fired upon by German anti-aircraft fire when it was airborne, it had to drop paratroopers at a high altitude, resulting in the scattering of the airborne troops.
The troops were divided and surrounded by fast detachments of the German 21st Panzer Division, which arrived quickly.
Division Commander Li Qiwei had no choice but to laugh at himself and said: "I have never seen so many officers lead such a small number of soldiers to fight." ” At this point.
As the commander of the 1st Airborne Parachute Division, Li Qiwei did not even know who his left and right flanks were, whether there were friendly troops or enemies, and whether his own troops could get the cooperation of friendly forces, none of which Li Qiwei, the division commander, knew, would appear, and whenever he tried to question the officers under his subordinates, he would show a frightened and worried face.
The commander of the nephew regiment, Taylor, and a small number of his subordinates were surrendered near Rafiel, and were immediately transferred by the division commander Li Qi to the nearest ferry to participate in the battle.
Most of the 1st and 2nd battalions landed in a fortified German fortified area, suffering heavy casualties, the commander of the 1st battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Batchel, was killed, and the commander of the 2nd battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Charley, led the remnants of the two battalions to fight bloodily, but due to the plain area and the lack of anti-tank weapons, Lieutenant Colonel Charley finally led the remnants and the wounded to surrender.
The disaster is not over.
The German forces in Normandy were greatly adjusted before the implementation of the battle.
The German 2nd Parachute Corps was stationed on the front line in Normandy, which was historically formed in France in the last year and was reorganized from the former 1st Air Force headquarters where Mandel was responsible for training the air force field division.
At the beginning, the 3rd and 1st Parachute Divisions were formed and trained, which were subordinate to the 7th Army and commanded by Mandel.
The arrival of the Hitler Guards Panzer Division led to the 21st Panzer Division, which was supposed to be in Caen after moving its position to the coastal line, and it was also the airborne landing site scheduled by the Allies, and the French underground resistance did not have time to send the news out.
In history, the German troops that would have arrived after the success of the 6th Normandy have already entered Normandy, and the German combat units that should not have appeared in Normandy in history have also appeared, and Song Yuhang knows very well.
This is because the German army is relatively abundant, and a large number of new weapons have significantly improved the combat effectiveness of the German army compared with history.
The 2nd SS Panzer Division, which fought fierce battles with the Allies near Caen and Saint-Lô, was the Imperial Division, known as the Flower of the Empire.
Empire Humble Four.
The Waffen-SS was the most outstanding cross-card unit in World War II.
It was the guards who let go.
Become an SS unit on a divisional scale.
The division emblem is the Wolf's Hook in Norse ancient scripts, which is said to grant the bearer mystical powers to scare away wolves in the wilderness.
The Imperial Division consisted of three most basic regimental flag teams.
The German Flag Corps, or German Regiment, evolved from a purely Aryan Geni Black SS.
The Germanic regimental flag corps consisted of the SS in Hamburg.
The formation of the Yuan Tuan Flag Team was completed in Vienna.
Felix Steiner, the Captain of the Second Commando Group, was a key figure in building the Imperial Division into an ace powerhouse.
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Such a strong force was only equipped with more than one tank and many assault guns during the Normandy campaign in history, but now the Imperial Division that appeared in front of the Allies could be said to be armed to the teeth, not only with three battalions of Tiger III tanks and a large number of Leopards, but also with a certain degree of air support.
Song Yuhang stood silently in front of the map, the command headquarters was full of busy figures, Eisenhower stood in the corner with a haggard face and smoked alone, no one dared to disturb the supreme commander at this time, and Eisenhower had no way to reverse the current passive situation, the Deng 6 operation was still in full swing, and the first batch of beach-grabbing troops would attack in a few hours.
There was no turning back from the bow.
Eisenhower knew that once the Deng 6 operation failed, it would not only be a complete failure of his military command career, but also the Allies would lose the opportunity to regain the strategic initiative, and the European battlefield would be completely plunged into unprecedented passivity.
The paratroopers were obviously out of hope, and it seemed that everything was pinned on the 6 troops Hitler boasted that his Flygt-mile-long "Atlantic Barrier" defense system was impregnable.
However, the surprise attack of the Allies still caught the Germans a little off guard, although the Germans were much stronger than in history, which led to an increase in the number of German troops in the Normandy area, which made it difficult for the Allies to land and seize the beach, but all this was relatively speaking, and in general, the Allies still caught the Germans off guard.
Every year from February to April.
The English Channel is always windy, the waves are bad, and the ships are struggling.
Most of the German generals on the Western Front believed that the Allies would not attack in this harsh weather of Lang until April.
Around the sunset rainbow point.
The German General Headquarters stationed in Paris received a report that there were American and British airborne divisions6, which seemed to be a "large-scale operation", but Commander-in-Chief Rundstedt thought that this was a tactic by the Allies and did not care.
Then, the German naval forces on the Western Front reported to the General Command that, according to the coastal radar report, there were a large number of black spots on the fluorescent screens.
A large fleet was heading for the coast of Normandy.
And the chief of staff of the German Western Front replied: "What must be your technicians mistakenly in such weather, maybe a flock of seagulls" In the early hours of the morning, when the Germans realized that such a large-scale airborne landing would never be a feint, and asked Hitler to send two panzer divisions to deal with the Allied airborne divisions, Hitler forbade the use of his strategic reserves.
Hitler still insisted that this was a diversionary feint and that the Allies would definitely take up in the area of Calais.6 The Adolf Hitler Guards Panzer Division and the 21st Panzer Division in Normandy could annihilate the Allied paratroopers and cooperate with the Normandy defenders to drive the Allied forces into the sea.
In total, the German Panzer Forces of the Western Front had o panzer divisions and 3 heavy tank battalions.
Six of the Panzer Divisions were under Hitler's personal command, and the German High Command considered tanks unsuitable for use on the beach, so the 21st Panzer Division, which was deployed in the area near the beach, consisted only of the Knife Type 4 tank and the Phantom 444 self-propelled tank assault gun.
The defenders of the German army in the Normandy area were 6 and 3 regiments belonging to the 7th Army, which had a coastal defense division with weak combat effectiveness, 2 infantry divisions and armored divisions with slightly stronger combat effectiveness, and the Bamboo Regiment was 2 independent infantry regiments and a paratrooper regiment, with a total strength of about 10,000 people.
The fortifications were also relatively weak, only a few independent support points of reinforced concrete were constructed, most of the fortifications were field fortifications, and only a small number of anti-aircraft landing obstacles were set up in depth.
As early as March of the year, the German Panzer Forces deployed in France had only one fully manned Panzer Division, the First Panzer Division.
Hitler, judging in April that Normandy would be the Allied landing, demanded additional troops.
On the basis of this instruction, Rommel transferred the Dixuan Infantry Division, which had been stationed in Saint-Lo, to Normandy along with the Adolf Hitler Guards Panzer Division and the Reich Division, which had been refurbished in France.
Historically, it was this newly transferred elite infantry division that brought about the destruction of the American troops on the "Omaha" beachhead.
In the early morning of February Day, the Allied 6th Fleet reached the coast of France.
In the nautical transfer area, the soldiers went down the rope net from the transport boat to the 6 boats, and then the 6 boats formed a boat wave, cleaving the waves and crashing towards the beachhead of the 6 boats.
The exact time of the 6 climb varies depending on the tide of each beachhead, the earliest being 6:30 a.m. on Utah Beachhead and the latest being 8:00 a.m. on Juneau Beach.
Almost all the Allied officers and soldiers were in Mozhou.
Song Yuhang knew very well that the battle on the Utah beachhead was not very foxy, so he was slightly relieved, after all, the Fifth Light Division of the Second Mechanized Army was a strong force with rich combat experience in Deng-6, whether it was Saipan or Iwo Jima, and even Deng-6 Japan, there was a figure of the Second Mechanized Army.
They are the heroes of a hundred battles.
Preparations for the pre-6 firepower began at midnight on the day of February, when the first heavy bombers dropped bombs on German communications hubs, command centers, coastal artillery positions, and other targets.
The second group of medium-sized bombers dropped bombs on the German defensive positions on various beachheads at 5 o'clock on February 19, and the two aviation fire preparations made a total of 10,000 sorties, dropping 6 tons of bombs, or about 10,000 tons of bombs per kilometer on the front of Deng-6.
The third group consisted of fighter planes, mainly strafing at low altitudes, directly covering the six boats boarding and seizing the beach.
The Allied air support was almost impeccable, and according to Suo Yuhang's requirements, a part of the special incendiary bombs were also used on the Utah beachhead, Song Yuhang hoped to destroy the permanent garrison fortifications of the Germans, but in terms of the character of the Germans, as long as the conditions permitted, they would definitely not build simple fortifications like the Japanese, so "the bombing effect of the special incendiary bombs can only wait for the beach-grabbing troops to test."
Utah Beach is a long stretch of sandy beach on the eastern shore of the Cotangan Peninsula from south of Benneville to north of the mouth of the Carentan River.
The Germans set up several obstacles on the sand slope, and behind the sand slope was a dry sandy beach.
Then there were the sand dunes of Nazhi, which were small meters wide, on which the Germans had built concrete fortresses, and behind the beach were swamps ranging from 3 kilometers wide to 3 kilometers, accessible only by a few roads.
According to the previous plan, the US 1st Airborne Division had to capture four to six of these trenches.
And to destroy the Germans deployed a flying artillery battery in depth, 8 of which were hidden in the fortifications of the bunker, and shared artillery.
In the door artillery, the maximum caliber is the lead o-millimeter.
But where can the US Army's 1st Airborne Division, which has already taken care of itself, still take care of the assault on Utah Beach to destroy those huge artillery pieces with an O-millimeter caliber.
On February Day, when the sun was rising high above one end of the horizon, the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Regiments of the Fifth Light Division of the Second Mechanized Corps of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, as well as the 1st Combat Brigade of the Mountain Infantry, which reinforced them, had completed boarding, about a battalion of Allied Sherman.
Tanks will be responsible for the fire cover of the beach.
The sword of the Chinese Expeditionary Force has been pointed straight at the Utah beachhead As the deputy battalion of the 1st Battalion of the 15th Regiment, Major Ranpo also held the position of regimental flag officer; Fan Bo, who had applied to return to Europe to fight in Europe from the Nanjing regiment's troops stationed in Japan, was already annoyed that he had missed the opportunity to fight in the Far East, and many of his fellow officers had now reached the position of regimental lieutenant, while he was still a major in Japan, and several major operations in Tokyo had released the resentment in his heart.
Now Fan Bo has just appeared, it turns out that the biggest enemy of the soldier is not death, but peace, in a peaceful environment, he can't stand it for a minute, he really can't imagine what he will do once the war is really over Deng 6 boat is breaking the waves, Fan Bo's heart is also rising and falling with Deng 6 boat, the waves on the sea are obviously too big, he is now very worried about those Sherman amphibious tanks, because the underwater thrusters of the amphibious tank are very unreliable, once the big waves cross the wave board and drown out the motive, then it will be an unprecedented disaster.
The Utah beachhead was already shrouded in billowing smoke, Fan Bo tried to look at the beachhead with a telescope several times in a row, but was beaten back by the waves, and he was soaked and checked the still intact military flag, before he breathed a long sigh of relief, obviously the Allied bombs were thrown in the right place.
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The billowing smoke made all the officers and men of the 15th Regiment suddenly full of confidence, the Japanese devils were not opponents, how powerful could the German devils be, and after the German devils had finished fighting, they returned to their hometowns to buy some land, and the beautiful longing of their wives and children on the kang made the Chinese soldiers very eager.
BombardmentAs the German artillery began to bombard, Fan Bo realized that the previous bombardment was basically superficial.
The thunder is heavy and the rain is small With a loud explosion.
The nearby Fierce Quotation Signal 6 Boat was directly hit by a large-caliber grenade, and with the violent explosion, the Murder Quotation 6 Boat sank at the moment before the wave had time to exclaim, and only some debris floated on the sea.
Fan Bofei Zhuo knew that Chuanggangzi Deng 6 boat was carrying a whole platoon of famous officers and soldiers, and all of them were gone at once, with the continuous approach of Deng 6 boat, the German artillery fire was also extremely fierce, and the Allied Mustang fighters circled back and forth, strafing and firing rockets, trying to suppress the German shore fire resistance, but with little effect.
The battleships in the battle patrol reinforcement formation, which were advancing against the German large-caliber artillery, were also constantly hit by bullets and caught fire, and the management personnel on the ships were running to extinguish the fire.
Fan Bo really felt at this time, the Germans and the Japanese are not a country at the strategic level at all, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army and the combat effectiveness of the German army are not the same at all, here the Chinese Expeditionary Force's proud firepower advantage seems to have become a disadvantage, if you want to know what will happen next, please go to 6 old, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading: