Look, I'm talking about trouble.

"Boom--" With a loud bang, the right wing of the C47 military transport aircraft burst into flames. The high-speed rotating spiral machine roared and cut through the fuselage like a wild horse.

The airborne troops of the First Brigade, which were crowded with the cabin, were suddenly bloody and fuzzy.

"Ahhhhhh!" An airborne soldier cut in half howled and watched as his lower and upper half of his body were sucked out of the cabin one after another.

The flesh and blood rolled up by the disposable meat grinder even burst into the cockpit.

Anna Moffett, a British sergeant secretary, was splashed in blood.

"Command, we were bombarded violently and the plane was stalling!" The captain who struggled to control the plane shouted loudly: "Repeat, we were bombarded violently and the plane was stalling!"

"Bang--" The fragile wing was blown to pieces by the anti-aircraft guns. The C47 military transport aircraft completely lost control and spiraled down with thick smoke. As a result, it hit the plane below that could not dodge, causing greater chaos.

"careful!"

Anna Moffett, the British Sergeant Secretary who tied herself firmly to the seat, was dizzy and dizzy, and as the plane fell from the backward planting onion plunged into the sea.

By the way, the landing in Sicily took place in strong winds. I thought that although the huge waves caused by the strong winds seriously increased the difficulty, they also ensured the suddenness of the landing. As a result, when the British army landed on the two beaches in the east and south, they were stubbornly resisted by the German army. In order to break the deadlock, the Allies decisively joined the paratroopers to reinforce. The luck of the paratroopers participating in the airdrop was really bad. The 1st Airborne Brigade of the British First Airborne Division was 2,500 people, and they rode 137 gliders led by 137 C47 transport aircraft to head straight to the Pendegrand Bridge in eastern Sicily. Unfortunately, they encountered strong winds first, and 69 gliders fell directly into the sea, and 600 British paratroopers were buried in the belly of fish. The remaining transport aircraft also landed in a mess far away from the target, and even collided and exploded in the air.

What's even more terrible is that German paratroopers have just landed in this area. 1,800 German paratroopers from the 7th German Paratrooper Division came to block the British army on a transport plane. They set out early and landed on the ground first. Before the German paratroopers had assembled, they heard the sound of a new batch of transport planes above their heads. Because they could not be identified at night, the German army mistakenly thought it was reinforcements. However, in fact, the British landed on the ground. The chaotic British did not realize that their "comrades" around them were all Germans.

As a result, the wonders of World War II history appeared. In the chaos, the British and German paratroopers mistakenly thought that the friendly troops were in front of them, and they were confused and hidden together. This was also because as paratroopers, both sides were too similar from equipment to helmets, so it was difficult to identify at night. Therefore, in the whole process, both sides completed the assembly and concealment "close friendship". It was not until they squeezed together to try to communicate with their "close comrades" that they found that the other side was the enemy. So the British First Airborne Division, known as the "Red Devil", and the German Seventh Airborne Division, known as the "Green Devil", started the war in a dagger. They could see the British and German paratroopers fighting in a group, and they could shoot at each other with rifles and submachine guns at a distance, and they took out daggers to defeat each other when they were very close. The battle was not until dawn.

The same thing happened again in the battle on July 13. This time it was the British First Airborne Division. They once again took a glider to raid the Blimaso Bridge. As a result, because they were attacked by their own fleet's air defense fire, they had to change directions five times before finally flying over the target to prepare for the plane landing. However, at this time, their old opponent, the follow-up troops of the German Seventh Paratrooper Division, had just landed here. As soon as they landed, they saw British gliders flying towards the air. So the scene on July 9 recurred again. The two sides fought all the way until July 16, and the British reinforcements arrived.

The British army was bad luck, and the US army was not lucky. At 20:45 on July 9, 1943, the first echelon of the 82nd Airborne Division took off. Their mission was to parachute down in the area east of Gera, cut off the road, and block the enemy reinforcements, and the second echelon was responsible for supporting the first echelon. However, in strong winds, it became very difficult to accurately operate the aircraft, and the pilots lacked experience, so that the entire fleet did not know how to fly at night under complex weather. Not only did the aircraft deviate from the route, but they were also discovered by German and Italian troops because of the sky flying, and were bombarded by enemy anti-aircraft guns. They were panicked.

The pilots with feet flew over the coast repeatedly, and the transport aircraft group became a living target. Eight transport aircraft were shot down and 10 were injured. In desperation, the paratroopers could only parachute one after another to avoid being annihilated by the enemy in the air. But when they jumped in panic, they found that they didn't know where they were. Most of the companions who landed together were missing. The commander could only gather the paratroopers while confirming their location. The next morning, more than 200 paratroopers gathered together. At this time, most of the scattered paratroopers could only fight on their own and search for their own people with gunfire. It was obvious that their mission failed.

On July 11, seeing that the first echelon could not complete the scheduled mission, the Allied Command began to worry about the failure of the plan, so he hurriedly sent the second echelon. At 22:40, the paratroopers of the second echelon took off urgently to reinforce their comrades. However, when they were about to arrive, they were subjected to more fierce air defense fire. The unprepared cabin was immediately in a catastrophe. Some transport planes with extremely poor luck were instantly knocked into sieves, and the paratroopers were either killed or injured. What's even more tragic is that these air defense firepower actually came to the anti-aircraft cannons and anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft guns from their fleet and beachhead positions.

The indiscriminate attack of machine guns! The reason was that the headquarters did not notify the landing troops and fleets that their own transport aircraft would arrive! They had just been bombed by the German army before, and their tense nerves had not recovered yet, and when they heard the deafening sound of propeller engines in the sky, the Allied troops were panicked. After a gunner who was so nervous that he slipped accidentally broke the gun, it immediately triggered a chain reaction. All anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns rayed the sky with dense fire, and even the infantry used machine guns and rifles to shoot at the sky.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! For a moment, bullets were raining and debris flew everywhere. Many transport planes were riddled with holes, and paratroopers died under the attack of their own people's saturated firepower. They either stayed in the plane and waited for death, or parachuted immediately to escape. In order to survive, the paratroopers did not care that the transport plane group had emergency landings before they reached their destination.

Unfortunately, the Allied air defense firepower was too fierce. The airborne troops who forced the parachute to open the guns and bullets were completely turned into a living target. Under the dense air defense firepower of our side, many paratroopers were killed in the sky. The paratroopers who successfully landed were completely deviated from the war zone and lost their position because the paratroopers who landed were wrong. As a result, they were mistakenly regarded as German paratroopers by their own army. The most unlucky one was Brigadier General Charles Kierans, deputy commander of the 82nd Airborne Division. It is said that the engine that was being beaten in the air was shut down and hit the cliff. Until today, the United States has not found the remains of the general. Afterwards, General Eisenhower could only call it helplessly "friendly artillery bombardment."

In fact, in terms of overall strategic design, as the first time the airborne troops officially entered the battlefield, the Allies really didn't expect them to play a big role. Rather than asking them to achieve some results this time, it was a practical training similar to the shooting of "The Great Battle". The result was nothing unexpected.
Chapter completed!