Chapter 1206: Free France
The Lorraine Red Cross tricolor flag of Free France is still flying high above the small town of Saint-Pierre, the capital of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, fluttering in the strong North Atlantic sea breeze, demonstrating the unyielding spirit of freedom of France.
Unlike the malicious speculation of Vice Admiral Fraser of the United Kingdom (Canada), Charles de Gaulle and his Free French fighters never thought of surrendering to the Germans who ruled Europe. Because in their view, the French Fourth Republic (now without Vichy France, France led by Pétain is called the Fourth Republic), which is now thriving with Germany, has completely lost its dignity and soul, betrayed the French nation, and became a follower of German-led Pan-Aryanism.
And when Pan-Aryanism develops to the end, it must be that the Aryan national identity replaces the original French national identity, causing the French nation to be annihilated in the long river of history!
After losing the French national identity, the country of France will undoubtedly become a historical term, and will be completely integrated into the so-called United States of Europe. In this way, the French nation and country would be completely destroyed.
Such a miserable prospect is naturally intolerable to French patriots like Charles de Gaulle. Although Charles de Gaulle himself did not oppose the establishment of the European Community and the realization of Franco-German integration, what he and his comrades imagined was not a pan-Aryan Europe, but a European Community where all nations lived together freely, equally and fraternally, and French was the main official language...
In addition to opposing the Fourth Republic on the issue of French or German dominance, there was another important reason for the Free French fighters to stand firmly on the side of the free world - this reason was that the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Islands had been blocked by the Americans with tens of thousands of magnetic mines, anchor mines and sunken ships. All ports, including the smallest fishing ports, were unusable, and every beachhead for landing or ship docking was also deployed with various obstacles, mines and mines.
The entire Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Islands can only be maintained in contact with the outside world by air transport, and the communication between the islands can only be maintained by air. The supplies needed by the 65,000 freedom fighters, 42,000 family members and civilian staff of the Free French Movement, and 6,000 French residents on the island were also solved by airdrops. On average, the Americans dropped 200 tons of supplies to St. Pierre and Miquelon every day to ensure the survival of 113,000 French people.
Moreover, the Americans also controlled the reserve quantity of daily necessities on the islands through supply transportation. Now, if there is no airdrop for a week, the 113,000 French people on the islands will starve!
Before Germany cleared the mines around St. Pierre and Miquelon and salvaged the sunken ships that locked the port, it had no spare capacity to ensure the supply of 113,000 French people... 200 tons of transportation per day requires 60 to 70 Fokker 42 transport aircraft to transport. If these transportation volumes are used to support the landing troops, at least two heavy armored divisions can maintain a day of high-intensity combat.
In addition, the large military airport built by the United States near the town of Saint-Pierre was also destroyed two months ago in the name of expansion. However, the expansion has not been completed for two months, and the construction site is still bumpy. Even the engineering machinery left by the Americans on the island was completely destroyed by the "German spies".
In other words, even if the Germans took over Saint-Pierre and Miquelon with the supply of 113,000 French people, they would not be able to deploy Me264 and Me262T on the islands in the short term, which greatly reduced the value of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.
However, on the morning of April 25, 1945, General Charles de Gaulle, Chairman of the French National Liberation Committee, and Henri Giraud, Director of the Free French Armed Forces, issued an order to implement wartime martial law, announcing that Saint-Pierre and Miquelon would soon be attacked by the Nazi and fascist forces (Nazi refers to the German army, and fascist refers to the French army)!
After the order was issued, the two of them and other members of the French National Liberation Committee living in Saint-Pierre, all left Saint-Pierre with their families and entered the "Liberty Fortress" located on the northern highlands of Saint-Pierre Island. This fortress is a smaller version of Churchill's naval fortress, but it is not too small. It occupies almost one-third of the land area of Saint-Pierre Island, but it does not deploy security guns with a caliber of more than 240mm, nor armored turrets. The strongest firepower used by the "Liberty Fortress" is the American M1 240mm cannon.
Near Point Point on Newfoundland Island (the top of a peninsula with relatively flat terrain and a beach for landing, a key point for the Allied forces), which is about the same size as the "Churchill Naval Fortress", there is a coastal defense fortress called "Pershing Fortress". This fortress has as many as 4 twin-mounted 406mm armored turrets - 8 powerful 406mm cannons can not only block the nearby sea surface, but also cover the entire Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Islands!
When Charles de Gaulle and Giraud drove into the entrance of the "Liberty Fortress" in a Renault car produced in France before the war, Henri Giraud sighed softly: "Charles, I think this is our burial place?"
"Burial place?" Charles de Gaulle smiled bitterly, "Maybe? If they really took Newfoundland, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Islands would not be spared."
"Do you think the Germans will attack Newfoundland first?" Henry Giraud asked.
De Gaulle nodded, smiled and said: "Yes, if they really want to invade North America from eastern Canada, seizing Newfoundland is necessary and the only correct direction... As for St. Pierre and Miquelon It’s not like the Germans don’t know the situation on the islands, so there’s no use in seizing them.”
"What? The Germans know about the situation on the St. Pierre and Miquelon Islands?" Henri Giraud was stunned.
The Germans should not know that St. Pierre and Miquelon has always been under the strict control of the Free French Movement!
"Of course," de Gaulle sighed and turned to look at his assistant, "They have spies...many, many spies! It's impossible to prevent them! So St. Pierre and Miquelon are not their targets, and we still have victory. and opportunities for revival.”
"A chance of victory?" Henri Giraud was almost amused by de Gaulle's unfounded confidence. What chance does France have now? Even if the German attack on North America fails, their rule in Europe can probably be maintained, right?
"Yes!" De Gaulle nodded, "France still has a chance to win and revive. Maybe we can't defeat the ferocious Germans on the battlefield, but as long as we can arouse people's love for French culture, spirit and free thought, France will There must be a day when we break away from the United States of Europe and regain our greatness!”
At this time, the car had stopped at the end of the internal passage of the bunker. Dozens of veterans in their 30s and 40s who vaguely remembered the glory of France in the past stood in front of the two heavy open doors, facing de Gaulle who got out of the car. He performed military salutes with Jiro.
With the help of dim lighting, de Gaulle saw tears on the faces of every veteran.
De Gaulle did not walk into the door immediately, but stood in front of the veterans who had just cried, and said loudly to them: "Soldiers, don't shed tears, don't cry, because France just encountered difficulties, it has not perished, and it cannot be perished.
As long as the fire of freedom in our hearts and the hearts of tens of millions of French people is not extinguished, France will surely get rid of the European Community ruled by Germany in the future and become a great country again! So please wipe away your tears and remember the French spirit of liberty, equality and fraternity!
Long live free France! Long live the indomitable French! "
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Just when de Gaulle shouted the slogan "Long live the indomitable French", hundreds of French officers and soldiers were flying to Newfoundland in a Fokker 42 long-range transport aircraft assembled in a French factory and belonging to the French Air Force Transport Command. .
These Fokker 42 long-range transport aircraft were part of the 508 Fokker 42 aircraft used in Operation Columbus. Most of the planes were carrying weapons, ammunition and various supplies to be airdropped to Newfoundland, and some of the planes were equipped with fully armed German paratroopers!
Forced to serve in the French Air Force transport aircraft unit, Sergeant François Mitterrand served as a machine gunner and cabin crew member. On the French Air Force transport aircraft No. 903, there was a murderous German paratrooper platoon. The platoon leader of this paratrooper platoon is a Nazi murderer that Sergeant Mitterrand hates from the bottom of his heart - it can be seen from the knight's iron cross hanging around his neck! As an Air Force sergeant major, to be able to wear the Knight's Iron Cross and search for the devil must be a devil whose hands are stained with the blood of liberal and communist fighters! Probably also killed many Frenchmen...
Sergeant Mitterrand sat in the cabin and stared at the gloomy and scary German devil with cold eyes for a while. Until the other party noticed him and cast a cold look, he quickly lowered his head and pretended to look at his watch.
It is now North American Eastern Time, and it is past 11 o'clock in the morning on April 25, 1945. According to the orders from above, in ten minutes, these damn Germans will jump out of the good plane.
Mitterrand thought: American bullets will kill these invaders! There may be free French warriors on Newfoundland. They are real heroes and will definitely kill all these hateful Germans.