The decisive battle against the Third Reich - Chapter 938

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While Qinchuan, Rommel and others were celebrating while listening to music and enjoying top French wine in the fortification area, the Allies held an emergency meeting in Paris.

Attending the meeting were several major Allied officials.

Among them are de Gaulle and General Giraud…the reason is that de Gaulle has been “fighting” for the importance of France in the Allies.

This didn’t just start now. The major meetings of the “Operation Overlord” during the Normandy landings did not include de Gaulle, which caused him to protest again and again… This is actually quite normal. The “Fighting France” led by de Gaulle “It was just an army under the command of the British army, and the United States did not recognize the “Fighting France”. Whether it was political or military confidentiality, De Gaulle had no reason and no need to participate in high-level meetings.

To put it simply, the French army only needs to complete the orders issued by Montgomery, and it will not play a major role in strategic command.

But De Gaulle is very smart. This is not a question of whether it will play any role strategically, but a question of whether it can find a sense of presence among major powers.

In fact, Eisenhower still did not want de Gaulle to participate in this meeting because he believed that de Gaulle’s participation in such a meeting would only cause chaos.

But Montgomery said: “General, this is France after all. We are fighting the enemy on French soil. If French generals are not allowed to participate, then the voices in southern France claiming to fight for real freedom for France will become even louder.

Eisenhower thought so. On the other hand, he was tired of de Gaulle’s constant protests in his ears like a fly, so he could only nod and agree to let de Gaulle attend the meeting.

Since de Gaulle is participating in this meeting, General Giraud, who is supported by the United States, is naturally indispensable. Otherwise, it will mean that the United States recognizes de Gaulle’s dominance.

“Gentlemen!” Eisenhower habitually tapped the table with his pen while looking at the documents, and said solemnly: “We are in big trouble. Look at this…”

As he spoke, Eisenhower raised his head to his assistant. The assistant understood and distributed the documents he had prepared long ago to everyone attending the meeting.

“This was captured by our reconnaissance plane!” Eisenhower said, “What did you see?”

After a moment of silence, Barton said: “I didn’t see anything, except a little smoke!”

“Yes, there is nothing except a little smoke!” Eisenhower said: “But that’s exactly the problem, because a few minutes ago, a ‘self-destructing aircraft’ was definitely launched here. Sorry, Some of us may not know what a ‘self-destructing aircraft’ is!”

Eisenhower stood up, opened the telescopic indicator stick and stood a little sideways so that the projector could fully hit the curtain behind him.

A photo appeared in front of the officers. It was a flying ME163, because there was a long trail behind it.

“This is a photo taken by our reconnaissance plane!” Eisenhower said: “It is a ‘self-destructing aircraft’. A few seconds later, it hit a B17 at a speed of more than 800 kilometers per hour, and then exploded. , blew the B17 into pieces!”

“What altitude is B17?” Bradley asked.

“10,029 meters!” Eisenhower replied.

There was an uproar among the officers in the conference room. Before this, they had always thought that the Allied bombers were “foolproof” at this altitude.

“Is that an airplane?” Patton then asked, “Or is it a missile like the V1?”

“We don’t know!” Eisenhower replied: “We know nothing about it, whether it is manned or not, or how it works. We only know that it will automatically change direction to track our bombers!”

“Automatically tracking bombers?” Although Patton was in the Army, he still knew what this meant.

“Yes!” Eisenhower nodded and replied: “We don’t know how they did it, but this thing… I mean the ‘self-destructing aircraft’. If it fails to hit the target the first time, it will be in the air. Turn a corner, then fly towards the target a second or third time until you hit the target or run out of fuel!”

The generals in the conference room couldn’t help but burst into an uproar. Only Generals de Gaulle and Giraud remained calm… These issues had nothing to do with them. What they needed to care more about was how to improve their reputation and fully seize control of France.

“General!” A staff officer guessed: “We know that the Germans have a rocket that can automatically track tanks. Could this be related to this equipment?”

“It may be related to some extent!” Eisenhower said: “But the ‘controllable rocket’ is controlled by a wire connection, but this ‘self-destructing aircraft’ is not!”

“That is remote control by radio like V1!” General Bradley said.

At this time, the Allies had discovered the way the Germans used radio to control V1, so when the V1 missile was launched into Britain, every British household turned on their electric shavers.

It is said that this was discovered by accident… When a British pilot was chasing a V1 missile, he strangely discovered that the V1 missile, which was originally flying smoothly, staggered like a drunkard. own track.

He reported the incident, and British scientists believed that there must be some electrical appliance that interfered with the flight of the V1 missile.

After much investigation, it was found that it was a razor… When the razor rotates, it will generate weak electromagnetic waves. The wavelength of these electromagnetic waves happens to be similar to the wavelength of the radio waves of the guided V1 missile, which affects its remote control command.

Eisenhower shook his head and said, “We tried, but we couldn’t interfere with it by interfering with electromagnetic waves. That’s why we are not sure whether it has a human driver…”

Eisenhower said, “Look at this photo. It has an arched cockpit on its head, and it is made of transparent glass. If it is unmanned, why does it have this cockpit?”

This analysis is reasonable, and with the fanaticism of the German SS, it is entirely possible to take such a suicidal attack.

If Qin Chuan heard this, I’m afraid I don’t know what to think… The ME163 was originally designed and manufactured for manned operation, but it was later changed to unmanned operation.

The reason why there is still a cockpit and transparent glass is entirely because there is no time to make further improvements.

However, the Allies misunderstood that the ME163 was manned because of this… If it was manned, it would mean that it could not be interfered with.

This can be regarded as an unexpected surprise.