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The Americans are in a predicament on the outskirts of Cherbourg. With the ammunition consumption of the Americans, as long as their logistics is cut off, they will soon fall into a situation of lack of ammunition-especially the US Second Armored Division, which is equipped with a large number of tanks and armored vehicles. .

The German defenders at Cherbourg seized the opportunity to launch a counterattack. With the blocking of the elite battle group on the periphery, most of the US Second Armored Division, most of the British Seventh Armored Division, and part of the Canadian Second Armored Army were compressed to 20 kilometers outside Cherbourg. However, due to the loss of the Normandy area, the strength of the Allied forces continued to increase, making the German army unable to annihilate the Allied forces in the encirclement.And no matter how fierce the aces of the Luftwaffe are, the ammunition they carry is limited each time they dispatch. Under the cover of the Allied Air Force regardless of casualties, and under the full attack of the Allied reinforcements, the surrounded Allied forces finally 7 On the 9th of July, the German battle group was torn apart and fled. The Germans did not resolutely pursue it. On July 7, the fronts of the two sides finally stabilized.

The crisis between Cherbourg and Calais was temporarily lifted, and the 5-day Calais-Cherbourg siege and annihilation war ended.The Allied forces suffered heavy losses during the battle, and the elite German armored soldiers who had experienced battles gave the Allied "rookie" armored soldiers a head-on blow. The reputation of the e50 "Lynx" surpassed the legendary Tiger and Leopard tanks. There are a total of 35 "Lynx" vehicles, of which only 7 were completely damaged in battle, especially 5 were destroyed by Allied Air Force attack aircraft, 1 was hit by heavy artillery, and only 1 was destroyed by Allied tanks; participated in the battle A total of 77 Panther tanks were dispatched before and after, and 23 were completely destroyed and could not be repaired; 9 King Tigers participated in the battle and all survived; there were 11 "Elephant" assault guns-the entire number of the Western Front , participated in the battle, and only one was destroyed by the Allied Air Force; there were also many No. 1 and No. 3 assault guns and self-propelled artillery participated in the battle, and as many as 4 were destroyed; finally, the largest number was 16 A total of 4 No. 121 tanks participated in the battle, and 4 were lost.The heavy artillery lost about 43 doors, and the German Air Force lost slightly. Under the leadership of the ace pilot, Germany shot down no more than 30 fighter jets, but the ju87 for ground attack proved to be outdated. The 103 fighters participating in the ground attack Only 87 ju51s remained after the war.In fact, for the Germans, although they successfully damaged the Allied forces, these losses are still difficult to make up for. In fact, the Germans have lost confidence in defending Calais and Cherbourg.

The Allied forces have just successfully opened up a second front against fascism, successfully landed in Europe, and perfectly implemented the largest-scale landing battle in history, and the next step is a blow to the head!In the entire Cherbourg-Calais attack battle "Cobra", the Allied ground forces fully demonstrated the meaning of the word "rookie"-the entire US Second Armored Division was almost wiped out, and more than 1300 tanks and armored vehicles before the war After the breakout, there were only less than 200 tanks left, of which more than 400 tanks were all lost. It is estimated that more than 170 tanks were destroyed, and the rest were captured by the Germans. They left the battlefield on foot; the remaining trucks, armored vehicles, and self-propelled artillery also suffered heavy losses, and almost all of the last 200 remaining vehicles were trucks.The division lost more than [-] officers and soldiers out of more than [-]. The most important thing is that they lost General George Patton, who was in charge of commanding the "Cobra" campaign. He was killed by German tanks in the command vehicle ...

The British Seventh Armored Division also suffered huge losses. The whole division lost half of its troops and two-thirds of its tanks and armored vehicles. Marshal Rommel avenged El Alamein. The ones who retreated were the ones who suffered the least loss, almost completely escaped from the encirclement, but lost half of their technical equipment...

The Allied forces lost more than 700 people throughout the campaign, 400 tanks and self-propelled artillery were destroyed or captured, and more than 280 artillery pieces suffered the same fate. The sky was once again ravaged by the German aces sitting at the top of the world. More than 6 fighter jets, attack planes, and bombers were shot down. You must know that the German air combat ace is now only [-] knights with oak leaves and double swords on the Normandy front on the western front.

Fafnir managed to use American and British "rookies" to increase his tank destruction number to 230, and on July 7, he received his Oak Leaf Cross of Two Swords.But on the same day, they also received an order to retreat. The German defenders in the entire northwest of France began to retreat, especially the German defenders in Cherbourg and Calais were the first to withdraw after blasting the port and destroying all facilities. Out of these two French cities.

The German army in southern France also began to retreat, and they withdrew to northern Italy.Allied forces entered Calais and Cherbourg in mid-July to begin repairs to the port facilities.By August, a large number of Allied forces stranded in Britain could finally use the ports of Calais and Cherbourg to quickly land on European soil.By September alone, the number of Allied troops in Europe exceeded 7 million.

At the same time, the Allied forces also quickly repaired and built many field airports, and a large number of bomber troops stationed there, and began to make full preparations to turn the German industrial base into a sea of ​​flames.The bombing continued day and night, and the German fighter force had reached the point of exhaustion, and the emergency combat takeoffs all the time exhausted the vitality of the Luftwaffe. One night in September, 9 Allied bombers flew over Hamburg.Fafnir's friend, Captain Richter von Haber, had become a pilot of the night fighter brigade at this time, driving a he1200 "Night Owl" into the air to fight against the Allied bombers.The fighting lasted all night, and the Hamburg below was in flames.When it was dawn, Captain Huber successfully raised his record to 219 and began to return to the airport in the Netherlands.Just as he was flying into the sky over Arnhem, the Netherlands, he was bitten by a new American p145 jet fighter. After a severe beating, the unlucky Huber was shot down.Just as he was dazed from the impact of the parachute landing, he saw a face emerging from a small house—the face of a thin angel!The owner of that face looked at the Luftwaffe captain curiously, and Huber also stared blankly at the angel.A voice came: "Audrey! Hide!" The face disappeared, and when Captain Hubbell tried hard to look again, the German rescue infantry arrived, and they carried the captain onto the barrel cart. Captain Hubbell Still staring blankly at the window where the face disappeared.

He vowed to find this angel, but on the second night of the battle, Captain Richter von Huber was shooting down his 147th victory, a b29d heavy bomber, just as he was trying to turn The moment he left, he219 "Night Owl" collided with the falling b29 out of control...

Fafnir lost another friend, Captain Hubbell - Knight's Cross went to heaven to pursue his angel, maybe he went to hell