With the hoarse shouts of the naval pilot of the 6 boats, the 6 boats were violently watched.
Da Bo knew very well that this was a signal of beach grabbing.
But the front tailgate did not fall for a long time, and when he roared, he turned around to see that the three drivers had fallen in a pool of blood.
The front bezel was opened.
Under the shock of the whizzing bullets and the shells that exploded from time to time, it became clear that almost all the boats on board the 6 were blocked by the fixed obstacles of the Germans, and a large number of officers and men were wading into the water to rush to the beachhead.
The heavy firepower on the beachhead allowed more officers and men to use the cement and steel frame obstacles in the sea as cover, and the cover shots were alternately advanced.
Fan Bo glanced at the distance of the beachhead, which was obviously beyond the range of the assault rifle.
Most of the officers and men were emboldening themselves, but after a while, the officers and men of the first attack echelon, which had suffered heavy casualties, began to be a little timid, and the waist-deep sea water was littered with the corpses of Chinese soldiers.
The water is still a little dark red The Allied commanders standing on the battleship Missouri were stunned by the powerful fire of the German troops on the beachhead, it was obvious that the squadron of a regiment was late, Qi Baiming's hand holding the telescope was trembling slightly, the defensive fire of the Germans was unprecedented to him, and he didn't even know how to attack such a beach.
Even to occupy it, if not to destroy the German shore defense, it would obviously be a fool's dream to capture such a beachhead just by virtue of the 6th Army.
Even the Chinese soldiers hiding behind the obstacles were shot from time to time, and it was clear that the German obstacles were arranged according to their beachhead fire, and the few remaining Sherman tanks became live targets and were turned into a bonfire.
See this scenario.
Fan Bo pulled off the coat of the military flag, he knew what he should do as a flag officer at this time.
Chong Ah Fan Bo held high the blue sky and white Japanese army flag and rushed out shouting, and countless subordinates swept past Fan Bo.
The sea water stirred up by the explosion washed him up, got up and rushed again, and Yu Bo was like a lucky one, passing through the rain of bullets.
Led by Fan Bo, the flag bearer, the Chinese soldiers rushed to the beachhead with shouts, and some people were shot and fell, but no one slowed down, and the degree meant life.
Fan Bo seemed to run out of luck when he had just stepped onto the beachhead, and a wave of air from the explosion of a mortar shell tossed him over.
Fan Bo, whose eyes were blurred, saw a figure pick up the military flag, but it didn't take two steps before it fell, and then someone picked it up, and the flag bearer was shot again and fell, and the cycle continued.
When Song Yuhang received the first report of the Fifth Light Division's bloody battle on the Utah beachhead, he sighed in his heart, and in his memory, the American troops who boarded the 6th boat on the Utah beachhead in history were snorted by a strong southeast tide, so that the beach-grabbing site was moved south to about Jiutianmi than expected at 6 o'clock, and this accident brought unexpected good luck to the Allied forces, because there was a regiment of German troops at 6 o'clock, and two artillery batteries could suppress the beach with firepower.
The Germans actually landed at 6 o'clock with only one company, and the defense was weak.
General Roosevelt Jr., commander of the 4th Division of the US Army, immediately made a decision and ordered this place to be used as the 6 o'clock of the climb, and also erected a huge sign to mark the 6 o'clock, and the underwater demolition team quickly cleared the passage.
At 6:30, the 6th Army ascended to 6, and at 8:30, the vanguard regiment of the first echelon broke through the German defense line and spread 6 inward.
At 9:30 a.m., the initial establishment of 6 regiments was established, and at 10 o'clock, the strength of 6 regiments had been increased, and the first division of the German defenders in this area was basically eliminated.
In addition, the airborne troops have already taken four access roads, which ensures the rapid advance of the 6th unit.
By sunset, all three regiments of the 4th Division had taken up 6 tons of supplies with a total of 6 strongman "alkaline vehicles", and had established a consolidated division with a front width of 4 kilometers and a depth of 1,000 kilometers, and the vanguard had reached the road from Carentin to St.
Meyer, and joined the Airborne Forces.
Throughout the day, only four people were killed in the 4th Division.
In anticipation of casualties, the losses were extremely smoothest and least among the five Allied forces on the beachhead.
But apparently the 5th Light Division was not as lucky as the Americans in history, and the German defensive front was much longer and more numerous than in history, and the Chinese Expeditionary Force crashed headlong into the German impregnable defensive barriers, and the American 1st Airborne Division, which was supposed to support Deng 6 from behind, has not been heard from.
In the airborne operation of Normandy 6 this time, the Allies were ashamed of the rest of the air, including the parachute landing of the Xuren and the airborne artillery of the auxiliary door.
Old light tanks, with more than tons of supplies.
Use of transport aircraft door o more than sorties, gliders.
It is now only known that four transport planes were shot down and wounded, and the casualties of the troops cannot be counted, but judging from the current situation, it is very likely that this large airborne landing will end in failure.
Song Yuhang knew that he couldn't help anything at the moment, the only thing he could do was not to increase the burden and pressure on the commanders on the front line, Qi Baiming had already ordered the 16th Regiment to go to reinforce the 15th Regiment, seize the beachhead, and ordered the 6th Light Division to prepare for boarding.
On the Utah beachhead, a naval artillery fire support fleet consisting of 3 battleships, cruisers, destroyers, and 2 shallow gunboats prepared for 40 minutes of fierce naval artillery fire on the 2o km 6 front.
When the Deng-6 boat approached the coast, the ship's artillery fire began to extend to fire support, and the direct fire preparation was then undertaken by the artillery Dengqin rocket artillery Deng-6 boat in the Deng-6 boat.
Continue to shoot at the beachhead of Deng-6, covering Deng-6 boats "II-6."
The whole process of fire preparation, intensive, intense, and long, basically suppressed the German shore defense, and ensured that the 16th Regiment would seize the beach and land 6.
The 16th Regiment's rush to the beach immediately attracted a burst of intense German artillery fire.
Subsequently, the Allied battle patrol formations shelled the German artillery positions, but it was not long before the German artillery fire resumed, and these large-caliber howitzers posed a great threat to the Chinese expeditionary officers and soldiers on the beachhead.
According to aerial reconnaissance.
The Germans had about a dozen large-caliber self-propelled guns behind their lines, operating below the zero line.
It is in the dead end of the naval guns, and after aerial reconnaissance and identification, these self-propelled howitzers are self-propelled guns of the German army, commonly known as "wild bees" When Song Yuhang learned that his troops on the Utah beachhead had been suppressed by the fire of the German self-propelled guns, he immediately made a request to Eisenhower for close-range tactical support, and he must destroy the German damn self-propelled guns as soon as possible, otherwise the Chinese expeditionary force troops on the beachhead would suffer unimaginable casualties.
Song Yuhang clearly remembered the origin of the name of the "Wild Bee" self-propelled howitzer, and there was a small episode.
I don't know why.
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Hitler was so disgusted by the name "wild bee" that the German High Command issued an order on February 10,000 of the same year, prohibiting the use of the term "wild bee" in the future.
The name was renamed "Loaded in the field," and the "type of artillery mounted on the vehicle deception self-propelled gun" due to this name is too wordy.
The German soldiers still privately called it a "wild bee" The combat weight of the "Wild Bee" self-propelled howitzer was arsenic.
The crew consists of 6 people, namely the commander, the driver, the gun commander and 3 loaders.
Its base chassis is a battle tank, but there have been many structural changes.
There are two most prominent ones, one is the position of the motive from the rear of the hull to the middle of the hull, which provides favorable conditions for expanding the space in battle.
The other is the lengthening of the hull, which is also needed to expand the battle, the overall structure of the "Wild Bee" self-propelled howitzer is not very reasonable, it can only be said that it is a transitional product for the needs of the war.
The self-propelled howitzer was mainly assigned to the armored artillery regiment of the German armored division, and was attached to one of the battalions together with the "Huangfeng" self-propelled howitzer.
In the three self-propelled artillery companies under a normal self-propelled artillery battalion, the 2nd and 2nd companies are equipped with "Wasp" self-propelled howitzers, and the 3rd company is equipped with 6 "Wild Bee" self-propelled howitzers, plus Bo ammunition delivery vehicles.
The "Wild Bee" self-propelled howitzer was mainly used on the Soviet-German battlefield before this, for fire support and anti-tank operations, and played a certain role.
However, there are also people in the German military who think that it is a waste to use medicine to fight tanks.
The "Wild Bee" self-propelled howitzer participation exhibition is the Battle of Kursk, in which a total of 10,000 "Wild Bee" self-propelled howitzers were invested.
Several times more than in history.
It was this damn "wild bee" self-propelled howitzer that brought huge casualties to the Chinese expeditionary force on Utah Beach now, and Eisenhower immediately complied with Soong's request, because Utah Beach was the first target of the Allied attack, and a setback in the attack would affect the morale of the follow-up troops.
The least expensive Utah beachhead in history has been bled out.
So what would Omaha Beach, where the corpses of the U.S. troops were piled up on the beach in history, and the Sherman tanks couldn't go up during the day, Song Yuhang was a little bit undaring.
Now the war situation in Europe seems to affect the pulse of the whole world at every step, and Song Yuhang knows that after the success of Deng 6.
I am afraid that I will have to return to China, because there is already a situation of separation in the country, and the civil war must be nipped in the bud, and there must be no accidents in the Far East, which has just entered the slightly stable Far East.
This is the territory that the Chinese people exchanged for their lives and blood, and it can be said that they took a huge risk to get back what belonged to them, and they must not allow any mistakes.
The secret telegram released by Chang Tian made Song Yuhang slightly relieved, the first thing the US affairs investigation team did after entering the Far East was to investigate the advantages of American-made armored tanks over Soviet-made tanks, and the results were compared with live ammunition and investigated on the battlefield.
The members of the US military investigation team can be described as extremely ashamed.
They can't even find a model in the many models of tanks in the United States that can compete head-on with the Russians' Stalin II heavy tanks, and it is a kind of extravagant hope that Erman is also not, Hong's opponent, and the Soviet army's armored forces have exceeded the imagination of the Americans, the Soviet Union seems to be hiding its strength, they don't want to face Germany for more attrition, if it weren't for China's troops to the Far East, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to force the Soviets to shake out their brother, obviously, shaking out is just the tip of the iceberg.
After the investigation of the US investigation team, the Chinese side has indeed cooperated effectively.
The U.S. military investigation team learned that the Chinese Expeditionary Force had used gunboats and incendiary bombs as the main means.
The 2nd Tank Army of the Soviet Army was annihilated in the case of a surprise attack, and the Soviet side did not send air forces, and air supremacy was always in the hands of the Chinese.
And the losses of the Chinese expeditionary force were many times greater than they claimed.
When such a report appeared on Truman's desk, Truman realized that the Red Empire was not as powerful as it seemed, and perhaps the Far East was just a special case within a special case, and Truman was full of timidity about this red behemoth kneeling in Europe.
Song Yuhang was thinking about the "gap" in domestic and foreign relations, and the various regiments and regiments of the 1st Army Division and the 1st Sword Division of the US Army were used as wellhead troops to seize the beach and climb the beach.
The corpses of the soldiers floated above the sea, and the beachhead was littered with abandoned objects.
The corpses of American soldiers rolled back and forth with the waves, and the following soldiers had to crawl forward in the sea on the corpses of their comrades, and the rain of bullets poured down by the Germans on the high ground soon turned them into corpses.
Omaha Beach is a world away from Utah Beach.
If Utah Beachhead is hell, Omaha Beach will definitely be the nineteenth layer of hell.
Historically, Omaha Beach has been the deadliest of the five Deng6 beachheads, and has always been known as the "Bloody Omaha."
Song Yuhang listened to the heart-rending shouts of the US military commander on the radio, and he suddenly remembered that the venue for commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 60th anniversary of the Normandy Day in later generations was located on Omaha Beach, and the shocking war scene of more than 20 minutes at the beginning of the classic war film Saving Private Wren shot by the famous Hollywood director Spielberg reflected the tragic battle on the Omaha beach.
Omaha Beach landed 6 U.S. troops two.
The regiment was almost entirely pinned down by the Germans in the water or by the wreckage of the transport.
As a last resort, Eisenhower ordered the Fifth Army to continue to send reserves, and compared with the Chinese Expeditionary Force that fought to the death on the Utah beachhead, Eisenhower was extremely ashamed of the performance of the US Sixth Army, but at the same time he was glad that he insisted that Song Yuhang personally command his expeditionary force to participate in the 6th Expeditionary Force.
Omaha is located east of Utah Beach, a kilometer stretch of beach between the mouth of the Vail River at the southern tip of the Cotangan Peninsula and Basin Ekspres.
The coast is a steep cliff slope more than thirty meters high, there are four deep valleys washed out by the sea, which become the natural outlet of the boat6, the difference between the high and low tides on the beach is about Gami, the beach is a hard sand with a high pebble embankment, behind it are dunes, meadows, woods, and the only road leading to the inner 6 is that there are three small villages along the way.
The cottages are made of thick stone and are surrounded by a field.
The ridges of the fields are covered with small trees.
This is the characteristic hedge terrain of Normandy, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
The Germans took full advantage of the favorable natural terrain to construct fortifications, placing three obstacles between the low-tide line and the line.
There was also a large number of mines, concrete forts built on pebble embankments, serpentine barbed wire and mines in front of the forts, and the four exits were sealed with mines and reinforced concrete barriers.
There are old fortified support points on the coast, equipped with machine guns and anti-tank guns, and there are bunkers built on the cliffs, which contain powerful artillery that can cover the entire area of fire.
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Beach, where there are also 6 coastal guns on the cliffs of Cape Hawke, pose a great threat to the activities of warships at sea.
The reason why the Allies chose to climb 6 here is because the location between the U.S.
Utah Beach and the British Army Beach between the mouth of the Weir River and Aromench is very important, and only this section of the 5,000-meter-long coast can barely be climbed6, and the rest of the sections are cliffs and cannot be climbed at all6.
In addition, the Allies believed that the defenders here were a regiment of the 6th Coastal Defense Division, which had neither early troops nor motor vehicles, and that most of the soldiers were reservists, and their combat effectiveness was very poor.
In fact, in mid-March, in order to strengthen the defenses of the Normandy district, Rommel transferred from Saint-Lo the elite field troops, the 1st Xuan Infantry Division, and one of the main regiments of the division was deployed in Omaha, while the Allied intelligence agencies did not find out the whereabouts of the 1st Division until after the 6th Division was released, and it was too late.
At Omaharden 6 were one regiment each of the U.S.
Army's 1st Division and 1st Feather Division.
O formation, commanded by Rear Admiral Hall, was responsible for the transport.
At three o'clock on the calendar day of February, we arrived at the transfer area, when the wind force on the sea was level 5, the waves were high and the mouth was high, and the old 6 boat capsized and sank due to the strong wind and waves, and the strong soldiers on board the boat were struggling on the sea.
Most of the soldiers on board the 6 boat, which did not capsize, were seasick, and the sea water hit the boat, the soldiers were cold and wet, and by the time they reached the beach, the soldiers were exhausted.
To make matters worse, the Allies did not bomb the area in their pre-6 firepower preparations for the 6 in order to achieve tactical suddenness.
At 5:50 a.m. on the day of February rising, the naval artillery fire support fleet consisting of two battleships and four cruisers carried out a 40-minute preparation of naval artillery fire.
At six o'clock, the Mingruidi bombers prepared direct aviation fire on the German defensive positions, and dropped bombs to reach the island, but the clouds were low and thick, and the pilots were afraid of accidentally injuring their own troops, so they deliberately delayed the bombing in seconds, and as a result, the sea relaxation bombs fell thousands of meters away, so most of the German fortifications and firing points were intact, and when the Allied fire preparations were just over, the German artillery began to fire Of the 10,000 Shui 6 tanks in the western sector, which were planned to provide timely fire support to the 6 men on board, sank in a few minutes after being launched due to strong wind and waves, the remaining hoes were driven to the beach by the driver's high skill to overcome the wind and waves, and the other 3 were due to the initiative of a tank 6 captain.
He saw that the first tank had just been launched and then sank in the wind and waves.
Immediately ordered to close the door of the boat and send the remaining 3 directly to the beach
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