Watching the Messerschmitt burning in the air and falling into the sea, people on the shore burst into cheers. Many people were depressed for a long time yesterday, and now they are completely relieved.
Staring closely at the German pilot who fell into the sea, many British people rushed into the water, hoping to swim to the sea to fish him out, and then give him a good beating to relieve their hatred.
But the German pilot was not stupid. After jumping out of the plane, he desperately pulled the parachute to keep his landing point away from the British coast. He knew that if he was captured by the British naval rescue team, he would be scolded and slapped at most. If he was caught by the people on the shore, Either he will die or he will be disabled.
Of course, sometimes the rescue teams on both sides deliberately fail to salvage the other side's pilots and watch them drown, pretending to turn a blind eye.
It's better to drown than to be beaten to death.
But if both rescue teams are salvaging and competing for the pilot, it will be a rescue race.
What both sides lack most now is pilots. How the British military treats captured German pilots, Germany will treat captured British pilots.
Pilots are very valuable to the British and German air forces. It is far more difficult to train a pilot than to build an airplane, and both sides know that pilots will be unhappy if they watch their companions who may be saved drown in the sea. Seriously affects morale.
Therefore, every time a pilot from both sides falls into the water, Britain and Germany will start a competition to search and rescue the fallen pilot in the strait. In most cases, the German maritime search and rescue team takes the lead because they have He59 seaplanes. Looking at the sea from the air is much more efficient than the search and rescue boats used by the British Navy.
After the German pilot fell into the water, he immediately took off the small oxygen bottle from his chest and deflated into the interface of his life jacket. In seven or eight seconds, the life jacket inflated and he floated on the water, waiting for rescue.
The yellow life jackets of the German army are also very conspicuous from a distance. Compared with the gray life jackets of the Royal Air Force, which require the pilot to blow in air through his mouth to become buoyant, many times the pilot falls into the water and needs a lot of effort to release the parachute. Or if you don't want to be covered by the parachute and suffocate to death, you still have the strength to blow out the life jacket. Especially in winter, the freezing water makes it difficult for the pilot to breathe, let alone blow the air out of the life jacket with his mouth.
The Royal Motorcycle Lifeboat, which had been cruising on the beach for a long time, rushed over when the German pilot had just parachuted out. The He59 water rescue aircraft parked by the German army on the other side in the French waters and on standby immediately quickly glide hundreds of meters on the water and then took off towards the sky. Flying to the location where the German pilot crashed into the sea, it is easier to find the pilot who crashed into the sea at a thousand meters in the air.
From the Battle of Dunkirk to the present, the British Royal Navy still uses lifeboats to rescue people. This has resulted in seven out of ten British and German pilots who crashed into the sea being picked up first by the German He59 maritime rescue aircraft.
After shooting down Messerschmitt, the radar screen of Bentley Abbey did not detect any German air force taking off across the strait, so it immediately ordered the 107th Hurricane and the 19th and 23rd Spitfires to return to the base to save fuel and rest the pilots. If there was a German air force on the other side of the strait, The Air Force took off, and after the radar detected it immediately, the commander immediately sent another group of fighter jets to ambush and intercept.
Yesterday, Zhou Zhihan, General Hugh Dowding and the Air Force generals worked out several combat plans. Just now, the Hurricane, which has strong low-altitude dogfighting capabilities, was used to lure Messerschmitt into pursuit. Two Spitfires that were ambushing in the air in advance took advantage of it. One of them is to launch a sudden dive attack when the enemy is unprepared.
Two Spitfires, with the old leading the new, can help rookie pilots grow up quickly.
The result of the recent shootdown was shared by the No. 107 Hurricane and two Spitfire fighters, because the Hurricane fighter lured the enemy to take greater risks.
As the chief instructor of the Air Force, Zhou Zhihan's battle plan for the Royal Air Force is that every mission must be guided by the old and the new, so that the new pilots can grow up quickly.
In the Battle of Dunkirk, more than half of the Royal Air Force pilots were lost. During this critical period, unconventional means must be used to quickly train more young pilots.
British people who like to watch the fun stand on high places and watch the Royal Navy rushing into deep water to rescue people. However, it is very difficult for lifeboats to find people on the sea. Even if they can see the landing point of the pilot, when they arrive, the pilot is also trapped. The sea water drifts away from its place.
Although the sea area where the German pilot fell was closer to the British coastline, the He59 maritime rescue aircraft flying in from a distance took the lead and first discovered the German pilot who had fallen into the water in the air.
In order to rescue the German pilots and to catch the Royal Air Force pilots who fell into the water after parachuting, the German Navy dispatched seaplanes painted in white with the International Red Cross logo printed on them. They blatantly passed through the air battlefield where the troops were in close contact and stopped on the water. Salvage pilot.
When Zhou Zhihan saw the German rescue plane flying over from afar, he immediately swooped down from the clouds to intercept and drive away the He59 maritime rescue plane. Now, he was the only British fighter plane in the sky above the sea area of Dover.
General Dowding knew that a cruel war would soon come. Now he was seizing every opportunity to train troops for war. The resources that could be saved must be accepted. Since the United Kingdom has the "Jingwei" radar, then use the advantage of the radar to reduce the waste of fighter resources. Germany If the air force does not take off, British fighter jets will never go to accumulate energy for wartime use.
Compared with the width of other straits, British people cannot watch live air battles. The Strait of Dover is the narrowest, and it is also the place where German fighter jets are dispatched most frequently to challenge British aircraft and damage British morale. Many British people gather here to watch the two countries. Fighter air combat.
Zhou Zhihan's Blenheim bomber stayed in the air for a long time, hovering over land near the coast, and served as an air hub for commanding air battles in this area.
During the Battle of Dunkirk, the British Royal Navy search team was completely tortured by German sea rescue aircraft. Now it is in the air battle over the English Channel. Admiral Hugh Dowding yesterday ordered air power to intercept all German search and rescue aircraft coming to British waters. Team.
The reason was that the British believed that Germany used rescue aircraft to detect the position of the British fleet and reported it to the German bomber force for bombing. This approach violated the International Red Cross agreement.
In fact, Admiral Hugh Dowding was worried that these planes would not only rescue many German pilots, but also capture the fallen Royal Airmen as prisoners of war, which would greatly damage the morale of the Royal Airmen.
However, after all, the He59 is a maritime rescue aircraft. It does not have any onboard weapons, and it is still covered with humanitarian relief. Moreover, the fuselage is printed with the logo of the International Red Cross. If it is forcibly shot down, it may be condemned by the International Red Cross organization and cause trouble. , so the task given by General Hugh Dowding to the Air Force is to find the He59 rescue aircraft and try to expel them as much as possible to prevent them from fishing for people in British waters. If the other party has an attack, it can only be shot down.
The operating altitude of the He59 rescue aircraft is about one thousand meters.
Zhou Zhihan pushed forward: "Kristeva, sit still, let's swoop to chase away the German sea rescue aircraft."
"good!"
Kristeva flew on a military plane for the first time in her life. Everything she saw was so novel. Sitting next to this man, she felt safer than ever before, and her heart was extremely sweet.
"Woo..."
This is the first time Zhou Zhihan has used the method of not firing to drive away enemy aircraft. He piloted a Blenheim bomber to appear from a high altitude, entered at an angle of 90 degrees in front of the He59, and turned on the bomber's dive sound effect, hoping to intimidate and intercept with the power of the dive. He59, forcing it to return.
The He59 water rescue aircraft has always been arrogantly flying back and forth at low altitudes when the two sides were fighting hand-to-hand, snatching the pilots who had fallen into the water on both sides. The pilot was used to seeing British bombers swooping down, so he just pushed the stick lightly to lower the aircraft's altitude to the distance. Five hundred meters above the sea, and then with a mocking smile on his lips, he looked up at the Blenheim bomber whizzing past overhead. Attacks were not allowed under international law, and there were rescue tools with the Red Cross logo and no weapons.
Zhou Zhihan didn't expect that the first time he drove away a German rescue aircraft, he would be ignored by the opponent's pilot. He could only pull up during the dive, and then turned at a small angle of 45 degrees towards the nose of the He59 water rescue aircraft, which was about to form. The two aircraft turned in the opposite direction before the cross-track, flew forward side by side with the He59 rescue aircraft, and then moved ahead, allowing the rear gunner to talk to the other pilot with hand signals and order them to leave, otherwise you're welcome.
Zhou Zhihan was flat, the Blenheim bomber was flying straight ahead, he looked back at the He59, and the German pilot happened to be looking at him, raised his eyebrows, shook his head a few times, pouted and blew a provocative whistle. Zhou Zhihan couldn't hear the sound.
Zhou Zhihan almost couldn't help but laugh out loud. If it weren't for the war, the Germans, who had always been rigorous and meticulous, would actually be quite interesting.
After a while, the voice of the rear machine gunner came from behind: "Sir, the Germans said they were rescue planes. There was not even a pistol, a bullet or even a fart on the entire plane. They were protected by the Red Cross. They said We have no power to stop them from rescuing anyone in the water, including the British pilot."
"Tell the Germans that we suspect that they are using their search and rescue status to detect the location of our naval ships, and then provide them with bombers to bomb. Our navy has suffered such a blow before, so we order them to leave immediately .”
The rear gunner used hand gestures to communicate with the crew on the He59 rescue aircraft, and received a finger-wagging NO.
"Sir! The German didn't pay attention at all. He shook his finger and said NO." The rear machine gunner was also very annoyed. The German was only ten meters away. He could just shoot him down with a sudden attack, ensuring that no other He59 would dare to come in the future.
"Since he won't leave, let's force him to leave. Now that everyone is sitting tight, let's fly over and give these German guys a look. If they don't leave, we'll disembowel them!" Zhou Zhihan said, gently left Pressing the stick, Blenheim's wings were forced toward the belly of the He59.
Seeing the Blenheim bomber approaching, the experienced He59 pilot gently pushed the stick, and the rescue aircraft continued to descend to the sea. He wanted to see if these British guys dared to chase them down.
