Chapter 1185 Landing in North America 1
The so-called "Patriot Plan" is to select a group of American patriots who are brave enough to carry out "suicide attack missions" from the bomber pilots of the US Army Air Force, and then train them to fly B-29 bombers to carry out one-way bombings on major European cities!
The bombs dropped by this one-way bombing are of course not ordinary bombs loaded with explosives, but anthrax spore bombs and ceramic bacterial bombs (used to drop plague fleas). According to the "Patriot Plan", the targets of the B-29 aircraft carrying out one-way bombing missions will be cities such as Berlin, Paris, Munich, Europa Fort, Frankfurt and Hamburg. After carrying out the mission of dropping bacterial bombs, because the B-29 bombers have no fuel to return, if the "Patriots" are not shot down, they will have to parachute in the airspace of Germany and France, and most likely fall into the hands of the Nazis and fascists... The end is definitely not good, so the US Army Air Force will equip all American warriors who carry out "Patriot Missions" with high-tech poisons to ensure that they can sacrifice without pain.
In addition, according to the provisions of the "Patriot Plan", as long as the Germans use atomic bombs, bacterial bombs and poison gas bombs to attack major cities in the United States, the B-29's one-way bombing will be launched immediately.
The United States of America will fight the Nazis across the Atlantic to the end with a determination to fight to the death!
So after receiving the news that the German long-range bombers were deployed in large numbers, several "Patriot Squadrons" deployed on Newfoundland Island were immediately ready to attack at any time.
However, the preparations of these "American Patriots" were redundant, because the missiles loaded on more than 300 Me264 long-range bombers were all conventional models.
"Woo-woo-woo..."
"Attention, all units, attention, urgent combat mission, all daytime fighter squadrons are fully fueled and dispatched to perform interception missions..."
At the same time as the combat alarm sounded, a Texas accent came from the loudspeaker. Captain George Herbert Walker Bush, who was writing a letter to his newlywed wife Barbara, immediately put away his pen and paper, then stood up and turned around to shout to the pilots in the room who were busy with something: "Guys, it's time to fight the Germans!"
"Okay!"
"Fight the Germans!"
"Kill them!"
The pilots were in high spirits and spoke in a relaxed tone, as if they didn't know what fear was. Their reaction was of course reasonable, because the broadcast made it clear that they were now going to perform an interception mission. For the F7F fighter-bomber pilots of the US Navy Air Force stationed at Clarenville Airport on Newfoundland, the interception mission was not too dangerous. Because the target of their interception was the German Me264, which flew high and fast, but had poor firepower and armor. At most, the F7F could not find them, or even if they did, they could not catch up. It was basically impossible for the Me264 to shoot them down with its self-defense firepower. The F7F, with a maximum take-off weight of 11.6 tons, was a very sturdy aircraft!
After sitting in a two-seat F7F-3N fighter-bomber/night fighter equipped with radar, Captain Bush heard an exciting piece of good news through the onboard radio.
"Guys, this time we have a big catch. The F-13 has spotted at least 200 Me264s, and they are flying in formation!"
"Great!"
"The Germans are going to be in trouble now!"
The pilots cheered in the headset, and Captain Bush also laughed. He said to the navigator/bombardier Sergeant Nick Halton behind him: "Nick, it seems that this trip will not be in vain."
For the various interceptors on Newfoundland Island, the Me264 is not dangerous but very difficult to catch - because there are AWACS to command them, and they fly fast - so the American interceptors often miss and fly in the sky for several hours without any results.
However, the fighters flying under the command of the AWACS to avoid the Americans are all single or double Me264s. The large fleet of 200 aircraft is so powerful that it is not easy to avoid the interceptors. After all, the Americans now also have early warning aircraft equipped with high-power S-band radars, which can definitely detect a large fleet of about 200 aircraft 150 kilometers away. There is no possibility of not finding it!
So after receiving the report, Lieutenant General Mad Harmon, commander of the Northeast Army Air Force in North America, who had moved his headquarters from Boston to Montreal, immediately issued an attack order to the Allied fighter wings on Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Prince Edward, St. Pierre and Miquelon (including the shore-based wings of the naval aviation force are now under the unified command of this headquarters).
On dozens of large and small airports, hundreds of P-47s and F7Fs and British (the main parts are provided by the United States and assembled in Canada) high-altitude twin-engine interceptor "Sky" fighters roared into the blue sky, forming brigade-level formations and roaring southward.
The noise of hundreds of fighter planes taking off naturally could not avoid the German Bv138E seaplane early warning aircraft. The report of "large-scale attack by American fighter planes" soon reached the Adolf Hitler aircraft carrier more than 600 nautical miles away from Newfoundland.
"Order Hawkeye 20 to take off!" Admiral Helmut Heyer dispatched a Bv138E carrying Hessmann Jr., the air operations officer of the 201st Carrier Group, as soon as he received the report. This large seaplane with three engines is not known for its speed. Its maximum speed is less than 300 kilometers per hour, and its cruising speed is only 260 nautical miles per hour. Therefore, Hessmann Jr. must set off in advance to reach the designated location before the fierce battle in the air begins.
"When can the carrier-based aircraft be dispatched?" Helmut Heyer asked.
"Admiral, the Fokker aircraft will depart first and can take off now. After forming a formation, it will arrive at the battlefield under the guidance of Hawkeye 20. The Me262T will be dispatched an hour later."
The person who answered him was Colonel Heinz Barr, the chief aviation staff of the 2nd Fleet and the aviation staff of the 20th Task Force.
The command mode of the carrier-based aircraft unit of the European Community Naval Aviation has been fine-tuned. According to the latest combat manual. The fleet's chief aviation staff and the fleet aviation operations officer are the soul of the carrier-based aircraft unit. The chief aviation staff led the plan and was responsible for remote command on the aircraft carrier, while the aviation operations officer took the early warning aircraft to the front line to command the operation.
Therefore, today's air combat opportunity was personally planned by Colonel Heinz Barr. The 7 aircraft carriers of the 201st, 202nd and 401st aircraft carrier groups (the Br.801 carrier-based bombers on the three French aircraft carriers in the 203rd aircraft carrier group will not participate in the battle) will dispatch 8 squadrons of Fokker 262T fighters.
Among them, the 8 squadrons of Fokker 636 were dispatched by four aircraft carriers, including Seeckt, Seydlitz, Kesselring and Wolfgang Richthofen (named after Air Marshal Richthofen who was recovering from brain cancer), with each aircraft carrier dispatching 2 squadrons, a total of 128 Fokker 636.
12 Me262T squadrons were dispatched by two Adolf Hitler-class aircraft carriers, each squadron had 12 Me262Ts, a total of 144.
All the Fokker 262Ts added together were 272 fighters, about half of the Allied fighters that took off from Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Prince Edward, St. Pierre and Miquelon.
Although the number was only half of the opponent, Hirschmann Jr., who was in charge of commanding all fighters (he was the deputy commander of air combat, but all fighters were under his command), was full of confidence.
Because he had 144 high-altitude invincible Me262T jet fighters, and more than 300 Me264 bombers acting as bait were also known for their high-altitude performance, which could easily lead the opponent to extremely high altitudes.
In addition, Hirschmann Jr. also had a very favorable condition, that is, at this time, the US Navy had become a shrinking fleet in the Atlantic. There were basically no training destroyers on the so-called "blockade line" between the Nova Scotia Peninsula and the Bermuda Islands. Therefore, the attacking American interceptor group could only rely on the F-13's airborne S-band radar to search for targets. The current airborne early warning radars are either installed on the nose or on the belly of the aircraft. No one carries an airborne early warning radar on the back of the aircraft. Therefore, these so-called "early warning aircraft" are very difficult to "look" up. According to reliable intelligence, the S-band AN/APS-20 radar on the F-13 is installed on the belly of the aircraft, so it can only look down, not up.
So as long as Little Hersman lets his Me262T fly high enough and climb over the top of the American F-13, it will be basically impossible to be discovered.
Near noon on April 8, 1945, Hessman Jr. issued an order to all 12 jet fighter squadrons under his command from the Hawkeye No. 10 seaplane early warning aircraft hovering at an altitude of 7,000 meters (the Bv138E, as an early warning aircraft, is naturally a high-altitude seaplane, and its radar is installed on the nose, so it has a certain upward detection capability): "The enemy is 100-150 kilometers ahead of you, at 10 o'clock, at an altitude of 7,000 meters, and is still climbing. I order you to approach them in high and low double formations from an altitude of 8,000-9,000 meters!"