On the night of "Eagle Day" on August 13, Göring issued a battle report at the German High Command, announcing that 107 Royal Air Force fighter jets were destroyed, including 81 Spitfires, while the Imperial Air Force lost 21 aircraft.
That night, the Imperial Marshal, who was ecstatic and felt that victory was in sight, ordered that all pilots in the war zone drink champagne with their meals.
Göring did not actually know that the results of the "Eagle Sun" had been greatly exaggerated. Many pilots exaggerated their number of kills in order to increase their results.
At this time, the two sides were fighting in the British mainland, and there were no German professionals to investigate the exact performance of each pilot.
Today is "Eagle Day". Even if Green's senior generals knew that the Air Force's record was flawed, they would not tell the truth in order to boost morale, let alone displease the heads of state and marshals.
The previous "good weather" is gone forever. Starting from "Eagle Day", the English Channel has been a sunny day every day, but the shadow on the hearts of British people is getting thicker and thicker.
On August 15, the British began to encounter greater difficulties.
In southern England, the German Reaper Stukas, the He111 bombers and He123 dive bombers of the KG54 Wing, and the new Ju88 bombers of the KG53 Wing came and went in sequence, shuttled through the English Channel, and took turns bombing the Royal Air Force's airports, starting from Portsmouth. From the Thames River to the inland suburb of Biggin Hill in London, many hangars were on fire, and the airstrips were bombed with craters. As a result, many fighter planes were unable to take off even when they saw the Luftwaffe approaching. Hot bombs overturned and burned on the ground.
Visible from the air, air battles can be seen everywhere along the 330 kilometers of British coastline. The water and coast are littered with the wreckage of fallen fighter jets from both sides.
People standing on the ground can not only see the contrails left by the planes, but also the injured planes dragging black smoke away from the battlefield. There are often red flames when fighter planes suddenly explode during the battle, and the pilots have no time to parachute. Disintegrated in the air with the plane.
Although the fighters of both sides were fighting thousands of meters above the ground, various sounds still reached the ground, including the sound of fast-running motors accelerating to the limit, the screams of propellers and engines when aircraft dived or turned at high speed, machine guns, The sound of machine gun fire, the rumble of ground interception artillery, and the series of explosions after the plane was hit converged into a sound that was as shocking as it was heart-breaking.
War is cruel and bloody.
At this time, a strong murderous atmosphere exuded over Great Britain.
In the increasingly fierce battle that followed, the Royal Air Force could have had more fighter jets take off to fight, but because too many pilots were sacrificed and injured, many planes were unable to take off because they were unmanned.
The huge problem facing the UK now is not aircraft, but pilots.
The attrition of the war has rapidly reduced the number of experienced pilots in the Royal Air Force. The aircraft manufactured by the aircraft manufacturer are running around the clock and placed in the hangar without pilots.
Because the Luftwaffe was so outnumbered, the outnumbered British pilots took off to intercept 2 to 3 times more times than the German pilots. All the pilots were exhausted. Many of them had just landed and had no time to drink or eat, so they lay down next to the refueling plane. Sleeping soundly on the grass.
Frequent takeoffs exhausted Royal Air Force pilots, almost to the limit of human endurance.
On the ground, the airport labor team worked day and night to repair the bombed bases and airports. This was mostly in vain, because every time the airport labor team just repaired the airport runway, Luftwaffe bombers would fly in again. It would be plowed, but even so, the runway would still have to be repaired so that RAF fighter jets could take off and land smoothly if needed.
During this period, both Britain and Germany were bragging about their battle reports. Publishing battle reports was a kind of psychological warfare in the war.
Both warring parties often make their battle reports grand and their losses minor, in order to boost their own morale and shake the enemy's morale.
When uniting the battle results, each combat unit will often exaggerate their results to please their superiors. The senior leaders of both the UK and Germany are very clear about this, but for some reason I just don’t want to be able to explain it.
Julia Kristeva ran between the Allied airfields and newspaper offices every day, fighting inspiring battles for the British Air Force. The Times newspaper published the heroic feats of the British Air Force every day. The newspaper was sold out almost every day, which greatly inspired the British. People's fighting spirit, her popularity became a household name in the UK.
When the war began, in order to boost the confidence of the British people, many skilled instructors flew into the sky and launched one-on-one air battles with the Germans.
In the middle of the air war, due to the severe shortage of British pilots, and the severe damage to airports and air force schools by German bombers, aviation schools were moved to big cities such as London. Instructors who are more valuable than pilots are now The main task is to train more pilots in urban London.
Hitler and Goering had previously ordered that no fighter planes or bombers were allowed to fly over major British cities such as London.
In fact, the British top brass eagerly hoped that the German Air Force could bomb large cities such as London, reduce German attacks on airports and radar stations, and give the Royal Air Force a breathing space.
However, Hitler and Goering had clearly given instructions to the Air Force. They were never allowed to bomb London and major cities, and were not allowed to launch terrorist attacks. Their goal was to directly destroy the defense power of the Royal Air Force and the people of the United Kingdom. A mass murder occurred.
In extraordinary times, Zhou Zhihan's model of training pilots is also different.
The war between Great Britain and Germany was different from the Sino-Japanese air war. China's territory is vast and has great depth. The Chinese people can launch a protracted war against Japan and drag the evil little devil into the abyss. Moreover, China's airports can be relocated at any time. A sparsely populated place has great defensive flexibility to avoid Japanese air force bombing.
However, London's small land area allowed the German Air Force to concentrate its troops, while the British Air Force could only fight head-on. The pilots suffered heavy losses, so there was an urgent need for more pilots to fly aircraft to fight the Germans.
With Julia Kristeva's daily inspiring propaganda, many British enthusiastic, patriotic young people enlisted in the Air Force.
In order to boost morale, young British girls also joined the air force. As long as the country needs it, they can fly into the sky like men at any time.
At this time, the air battle between the two sides has become intense, and Britain has reached a point of life and death. Many pilots in their teens are already veterans.
At this time, training pilots can no longer take as long as before, so in extraordinary times, Zhou Zhihan was forced to use extraordinary training methods, that is, all pilots do not need to learn any theoretical knowledge, as long as they have enough courage and physical fitness, new pilots can On the first day they join the army, pilots are taken off the plane by instructors and learn the basic techniques of takeoff, landing, driving and shooting straight away.
As the air battle continued to deepen, the losses of Royal Air Force pilots increased, approaching the edge of being unbearable. Many young pilots with only a dozen hours of total flying time flew into the sky in fighter jets.
This scene is very similar to the young Chinese Air Force after the Battle of Songhu began on August 13, 1937.
