War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 547 Luxurious Equipment for Crew Members

Beside the pungent smelling fire, Wei Ran, who had already been shivering from the cold, greeted Felix's wife while warming the fire. The wounded ran away without leaving him a whole piece of clothing.

He even had no doubt that even in the cabin full of dead bodies, the other party might have done something wrong. If he rashly opened the cabin door and got in, what was waiting for him would at least be a smoking grenade.

However, Wei Ran had already chosen his target when Felix left for the second time.

Waiting patiently for his body to warm up, Wei Ran took off his leather shoes and filled them with sand, and then, far away from the campfire, he took out an oil drum filled with kerosene from a metal book and poured some into his shoes.

Putting away the oil drum, he held the toe of his leather shoes back to the bonfire as if holding two oil lamps, ignited the sand in one of the shoes, and then quickly ran towards the nose of the transport plane .

Although the transport plane poked its nose into the waistline of the sand dune and smashed the glass of the cockpit during the forced landing, it also indirectly created an extra entrance and exit.The pilot and co-pilot who have been buried in the cockpit are the main targets of Wei Ran's search for survival supplies.

Stepping on the soft yellow sand all the way up the nose, Wei Ran first sent the steaming leather shoe into the cockpit that was almost filled with yellow sand, and then took another leather shoe that smelled of kerosene to drill hard. went in.

Now, the two pilots in the cockpit, who had already been so cold, had been buried to their chests by the yellow sand. Among them, the face, neck and chest of the co-pilot was covered with fine glass stubble, and a man from the aircraft instrument panel Broken metal parts.

On the contrary, the situation of the driver who caught the driver seemed to be better. There was no wound on his upper body, but his neck showed an angle that a living person could not do.

Without hesitation at all, Wei Ran moved the leather shoes used as lighting farther away, and immediately dug up the sand around the main driver.

In his busy schedule, the driver was eventually gouged out intact and pushed out through the shattered glass window.

Looking at the too tragic co-pilot, Wei Ran hesitated for a moment, lit another leather shoe that smelled of kerosene, and continued to work.

"Plop!" After pushing the No.2 driver's body out, Wei Ran heaved a sigh of relief. Holding the toe of his leather shoes, he looked for useful materials that might exist in the cockpit by the remaining flames. .

The harvest is not nothing. On the bulkhead behind the main driver, two fresh coconuts are hung in a net bag where it was originally buried by yellow sand. There is even a canned German meat in the bottom of the net bag.

Throwing the net bag out along the window, Wei Ran subconsciously looked behind the co-pilot, but there was no coconut hanging here, instead, it was a dusty one fixed on the bulkhead with a belt. Long box.

"There's this thing on the Junker 52?"

Wei Ran had already untied the belt used to fix the metal box while speaking, and then opened the spring buckle on the box.

When he saw the contents of the box, Wei Ran couldn't help sighing, "The Air Force is indeed Goring's own son!"

The reason why he sighed so much was because the box contained a double-barreled shotgun that had been disassembled in half.

It is not accurate to say that it is a double-barreled shotgun. Perhaps it should be called the M30 Air Force shotgun. It is more accurate to call it the M[-] Air Force shotgun. Even regardless of its name, this military weapon with completely unnecessary engravings is not a double-barreled weapon. barrel shotgun.Because, in fact, it has three barrels!
In addition to the two smoothbore barrels that specialize in shooting 12-gauge shotguns and slugs of the same caliber, there is a rifled barrel that can fire large hunting bullets right below the two barrels!

In addition, this elongated metal box is also equipped with 20 12-caliber slugs, 25 shotgun shells of the same caliber, and 20 rounds of 9.3mm large hunting ammunition. A cowhide sash that doubles as an ammo sling and a gun cleaning kit.

This can be called a luxurious configuration, not to mention the entire World War II, even after the end of World War II, it is the only one for Scorpion Baba. After all, it has become the consensus of all countries in the post-World War II era to equip pilots with survival weapons.

But with such a luxurious configuration, but such a useless and cumbersome pilot survival weapon, I am afraid that only Goering, a fool with a mind full of senility, could think of it.

According to this old man who loves art, loves hunting, and prefers Air Force sons, his precious pilots need a elegant and multi-functional self-defense weapon that can help them in the emergency landing of their planes. After the plane made an emergency landing, they hunted wild animals for food and self-defense.

But in fact, the problem that an MP40 submachine gun can solve, the air force commander who was born as a World War I pilot insisted on replacing it with such a metal box that is one size larger than the MG34 machine gun.

And the pilots equipped with it, especially the fighter pilots, can't parachute with such a big box to survive. It had already hit the ground.

What's more, in North Africa, where this kind of pilot weapon is given priority, in fact... In fact, it is not like Goering thought, the ground is full of lions, elephants and giraffes with a mouth full of oil, or big bosses who eat people with bare buttocks Hei, those creatures are all on the savannah in South Africa, and some in North Africa are just sand that can't be seen at a glance.

But even so, from the fact that this transport plane is equipped with weapons that only fighter pilots are qualified to equip, it is known that the pilots flying this route, even if they are not confidantes, are definitely elites with priority supply.

With a "snap", Wei Ran closed the lid of the metal box and threw it out along the window, then stooped and touched the navigator's position.

Here, he found something that was really usable, a MK3 liquid suspension compass from the British army, a burned flight map and a kerosene lighter apparently used to burn the map.

It is not uncommon for the North African Legion of the German army to use the British army's compass. In this era, whether it is the German army, the US military or even the Soviet Union, the performance of the individual compass used by them is obviously not as good as the British army's liquid suspension type compass. , and even for this reason, the German army in North Africa launched a military operation specifically for the purpose of capturing the British army's compass.

In addition, the soldiers of the German-Italian coalition who had never fought in Africa before also snatched the uniforms of the British.There is no other reason-the tropical training uniforms made of linen are more comfortable to wear than the woolen clothes they equip, and they are less likely to suffer from heat stroke.

Think that's all?Of course more than that!

Rommel also snatched the British guy's goggles and used them until the day he left Africa, and even the goggles almost became his signature.Also robbed were the Brit's water tanker, the Willys Jeep lent to the Brit by Shame, and even the Brit himself, who had been robbed a lot in the early stages.

Of course, as the saying goes, the British can't always pay, at least they got a large number of Italian prisoners who almost overwhelmed them.

Finally, after walking around, I saw that there was nothing worth taking away in the cockpit, and at the same time, the flames in the shoes were about to burn out.Wei Ran returned the same way and left the cockpit.

Scanning the still burning luggage, Wei Ran stepped on the nose of the plane and climbed up to the top of the dune. After careful observation, he slipped down from the top of the dune until he was sure that there was no other movement around.

Regardless of other things, he first pulled off a khaki air force uniform from the pilot with a broken neck, and put it on together with the green one-piece flight suit.

What is quite interesting is that the boots worn by the two pilots turned out to be tropical boots with canvas boots, not the short boots worn by pilots. It is from this small detail that he is almost sure that the two Maybe the pilots were the first batch to come to North Africa to fight.

He chose a pair of relatively suitable size canvas boots and put them on. After some consideration, Wei Ran took off a leather flight cap and flight glasses from a pilot's head and put them on.

After trying to jump to make sure it didn't affect the activity, Wei Ran looked at the flashing fluorescent lights on the left and right cuffs of the one-piece suit.

Fixed on the left cuff is a compass with a broken dial.This thing is far less accurate than the heavy British compass I found at the navigator's position, but it is light in weight and convenient to use. Unfortunately, the impact during the forced landing has already made it useless, and another pilot There is no compass on the sleeve for replacement.

Feeling sorry for himself, Wei Ran took it off and threw it aside. Wei Ran frowned as he looked at the fluorescent light flickering on his sleeve on the right.

This is a flyback chronograph of the Hanhart brand. The 12 numbers on the dial and the two chronograph bezels, a total of five hands of different sizes all flash beautiful and dangerous fluorescent lights.

Wei Ran knew that the beautiful fluorescence on the dial came from the dangerous radioactive element radium.In later generations, there are many collections of this kind of old-fashioned watches, but few actually wear them. Even if there are, they will be labeled as "short-lived ghosts who make their wives happy" by discerning people.

Gently turning the patterned chronograph bezel, amidst the crisp sound of the ratchet wheel turning, Wei Ran became more and more puzzled. This kind of flyback chronograph is not something that pilots can wear by themselves. Generally speaking, it is used for flying missions. Pick it up on the spot, and hand it in immediately after the mission is over.

But obviously, the crew members of the transport plane don't seem to need to use this kind of advanced cargo that fighter pilots only use.

So is it because the members of this crew are spoiled, or is it that the poor students have too much stationery?Wei Ran checked the two corpses again, and when he saw that there was no pistol that should have been issued, he already had a rough guess in his heart.

Compared with guessing itself, he also knows better that this slightly dangerous watch can bring no less help than the heavy compass in his trousers pocket.

From then until the completion of the return mission, precise control of the time means regular rest, accurate calculation of the footsteps and even physical strength changes of Felix and others, which can help him save a lot of energy invisibly.

With this in mind, Wei Ran gritted his teeth, and finally did not take off the radiation watch on his right wrist. The danger was a bit dangerous, but as long as he was careful not to let the dial close to his skin, he would not be able to take off the watch in a short time. The internal impact should not be too great.

In addition, he took a square box flashlight from the waist of another pilot's corpse and hung it on the left cuff. Then Wei Ran opened the long aluminum alloy box again, and borrowed the faint light provided by the bonfire not far away. , combined the barrel and the gun body together, and then stuffed the corresponding bullets into the three chambers according to the attached instructions, and fixed the rest of the bullets on the gun belt, hanging diagonally on the shoulder.

"It's time to find a chance to talk to Felix"

Wei Ran picked up the shotgun, murmured to himself, and followed the drag marks left by Felix and the others one step at a time.

(End of this chapter)