"Marshal of the Reich, something a little troublesome has happened."
On September 15, 1944, when Reich Field Marshal Hersmann had just entered the Wehrmacht General Staff building, he was stopped by Guderian, the First Quartermaster General of the First Quartermaster, who happened to come out of the communications center.
"It's a bit of a troublesome thing" Hersman blinked, "Heinz, what the hell is going on" "There are many large craters in the farmland of County Mayo in the Republic of Ireland, which should be bomb craters."
"What crater" Hersman was stunned, "Is it confirmed?"
"Just confirmed," said Guderian, shaking his head, "I personally spoke to the Chief of Staff of the Irish Defence Forces on the phone.
The General Staff of the Irish Defence Forces has sent personnel to inspect and confirm that it is a crater, which appears to have been caused by an aerial bomb. ” "Aerial bomb" Hersman also felt a little troublesome now, "Are there any casualties?"
"There have been no reports of this at the moment."
Guderian said.
Hersman's brow furrowed: "Do you know who did it?"
"It's still being investigated," replied Guderian, "and Albert Kesselring also knows that he has sent a staff officer of the Air Force to Ireland, and I am sure it will soon be found out." ” "If you find out, you must punish severely" "Severe punishment must be meted out" The two Germanic military gods, who had not figured out the direction, walked to Hersmann's office as they spoke, and they did not expect that the bombs that had fallen on Irish farmland and destroyed many potatoes were from the United States, and that they had been involved in a training accident caused by German planes stationed at the Cork base in the south of the island of Ireland or the Brest base in France.
Because it is wartime, the training intensity of the air force is very high, and all kinds of accidents naturally increase.
It is not unheard of for bomber units to drop instructor bombs outside designated practice areas during training.
But this time I actually threw live ammunition, which is really a bit excessive, and it must be dealt with seriously.
After deciding to severely punish the German pilots who littered bombs, Hersmann and Guderian discussed the issue of ground operations in the Americas in their offices.
Although Germany now has missiles and atomic bombs, ground war cannot be saved.
After all, Germany does not yet have a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can be mounted on a missile.
In order to defeat the United States with traditional ground warfare, including island seizure operations, there are about two offensive routes: one is to go through the Caribbean Sea; The second is to go to Newfoundland and eastern Canada.
Both routes are certainly not easy to follow, and the Caribbean islands and Newfoundland are heavily defended by the US military, with not only a large number of ground troops, but also a large number of naval and air forces.
The main purpose of the missile attack on the east coast of the United States, which is now being prepared by the Luftwaffe and the Combined European Fleet, is actually to disperse the US naval and air forces concentrated in the Caribbean Sea and Newfoundland in order to create conditions for landing operations.
"Ludwig," Guderian said, with his own insight into where to attack, "I don't think Trinidad is a particularly suitable place to land, and Newfoundland is the best target." ” "Newfoundland," Hersman said, shaking his head, "but both the Navy and the Air Force have recommended landing on Trinidad." ” Hersmann was not a particularly methodical chief of the General Staff, but he had a "sense of knowledge" and knew that Guderian and Kesselring were relatively reliable military strategists, while the German Commander-in-Chief Raeder did not believe it.
And this time, Kesselring, who had been the commander of the Atlantic Front for a long time, had the same opinion as Raeder, and both advocated fighting Trinidad.
"I know," said Guderian, "that they thought the loss of Trinidad would be much lower than the loss of Newfoundland."
An assault on Trinidad could result in 5.1 million casualties, while a landing on Newfoundland would likely result in 300,000 400,000 casualties. ” "What do you think?"
"Just like them."
Guderian said that "the General Staff was involved in the assessment of losses in the wargame deductions.
But at the time of the war games and evaluation, we had not yet won the Battle of Bermuda. ” Hersman nodded, noncommittal.
"At that time, the biggest problem with the attack on Newfoundland was not casualties, but possible failure," Guderian said.
And now, as long as we can put 812 missile battleship cruisers and a certain number of missile carriers on Newfoundland, as well as enough aircraft carriers, victory is guaranteed.
As long as it can be won, even if it costs 30.4 million lives, it is more cost-effective than attacking Trinidad.
Because once the island of Newfoundland is captured, the United States is actually defeated.
The occupation of Trinidad will not be enough to force the United States to submit, we will also have to occupy a series of Caribbean islands, such as the Windward Islands, the Leeward Islands, and Puerto Rico, each of which will have to go through a bloody battle.
In the end, the number of lives lost will definitely exceed 400,000."
Hersman nodded again and again, Guderian's idea is good, going to the Caribbean Sea is an island fight.
Newfoundland is an island, and Newfoundland is very close to the elite area of the northeastern United States, only 1,200 kilometers from Boston.
If the 264 is deployed on the island of Newfoundland, then it will be possible to rely on fighter escort to drop atomic bombs in major American cities.
"That's a good idea," Hersman thought about, "and I'll ask Albert when he comes."
He paused, "I'm not worried about ground operations, as long as our land forces can go up, the Americans are not opponents at all."
Well, at sea, the US surface fleet is not afraid, there are missiles that can take them up.
But it's hard to say in the air, we only have carrier-based aircraft available, and the Americans have a large number of shore-based aircraft. ” "We have Greenland."
Guderian said.
"It's only a thousand, a hundred kilometers from Newfoundland, and DO217 and JU288 can fly over and fight with a few modifications."
Greenland belongs to Denmark, which is now a member of the European Community, and is naturally part of Europe.
In 1940, the British occupied Greenland for a time, but the garrison was small, and after the British mainland surrendered, the British troops there withdrew to Canada.
The Germans moved into Greenland in the summer of 1943 and built a small airfield in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.
However, Greenland's proximity to the North Pole, its cold climate, frequent winds, and polar night make it not suitable for deploying a large number of combat aircraft, but if it is really necessary, these difficulties are not insurmountable.
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Hersmann and Guderian discussed for a long time, until it was close to noon, when they were interrupted by Marshal Kesselring, who pushed the door in.
"Ludwig, Heinz, something happened."
As soon as Kesselring entered, before he could sit down, he said to Hersman and Guderian, "It's not our people who dropped bombs in Ireland." ” "Not our people," Hersman asked, "the Englishmen French" Now the RAF also has a small number of bombers, while the French Air Force is not small, second only to Germany and the Roman Empire in Europe.
"No, it's neither."
"Men from the Air Command checked all morning, and none of the bomber and fighter-bomber squadrons had flown to County Mayo in the west of Ireland the previous evening," Kesselring said. ” "Then they're American planes," Hersman asked, wide-eyed.
Kesselring nodded, "I think that's the biggest possibility." ” "Then why are they bombing Mayoshire" Guderian was a little strange, "what potatoes are there in Mayoshire" Kesselring shook his head, "The target is probably not the farmland of Mayo County, they may have wanted to bomb Cork, but they didn't find the target at night, so they just dropped the bomb and went home, which is a common situation in night bombing." ” Navigation for night bombing has always been a problem, and it is common to drop bombs in the field when they can't find a target.
"Damn it," Hersman couldn't help but curse, Ireland's potato fields were worthless, but the bombing could still have a detrimental effect politically.
At the very least, it would show that the United States was capable of threatening Europe under German rule "Radar stations and interceptors must be deployed in the west of Ireland, and they must be fast," Hersman thought for a moment, "let's transfer a few S-class cruisers to the west coast of Ireland as mobile radar stations, and then some HE219s to Ireland." ” "It can't be 100 percent safe," Kesselring reminded Hersman, "and it's hard for night bombers to intercept."
And" Seeing that Kesselring was a little stumbling, Hersmann asked, "And what?"
"And the Americans also possess bacteriological bombs," Kesselring said, with a solemn face, "and they used anthrax bombs and plague bombs in large quantities on Oahu, causing huge casualties to the Japanese." ” Hersman took a breath and his face turned ugly, the bombing of the island of Ireland by the Americans was obviously a "warning" that the United States did not have any ability to counter the atomic bomb.
"Ludwig, the plane that bombed Ireland should have taken off from Newfoundland."
Guderian reminded Hersman that "if we take Newfoundland, the American B29s will only be able to take off from Nova Scotia, so that the distance from them to the island of Ireland is close to 4000 kilometers."
And once we take control of Newfoundland, it will be very difficult for the B29 to fly from Nova Scotia or the eastern part of the United States and Canada to Europe. ” "What is going to occupy Newfoundland," Kesselring looked at Guderian with some surprise.
Hersmann nodded, and then took over the topic and said, "Heinz has an idea, Albert, that we should seriously study the question of the occupation of Newfoundland.
Even if the losses are bigger, we have to fight there" As he spoke, Hersman had already stood up: "I'm going to the Prime Minister's Office, and the bombing of the potato fields in Ireland is not a trivial matter, and it is estimated that I will have to make a big move."
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