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Volume Five: The Battle of Britain Chapter 97: The Day of the Landing (3)

The existence of .bfk is not an individual case. They are formed to play a role in "Login Day". The team is basically a Wrathful SS system, with most of the members from Britain and its federal personnel.

The establishment process of bfk is extremely dramatic, and there are more difficulties encountered during this period, including the distrust of the headquarters in the organization.

Generals such as Loeb, Longdstedt, Blaucich repeatedly said: "A military unit composed of British people is unreliable. No one can be sure whether they will betray them at critical moments. After all, they can even betray their own motherland. What else can't be done?"

Despite all the concerns, the politically shaped military team was established. Now, they have been stationed in various French stations in batches and will play their due role as the leader of the landing forces.

If the landing goes well, the military team will not only do military contributions, they also need to do more military equipment. Whether it is a guide or communication in people's livelihood, etc., they have their own role.

Jersey seems to have become a "rich place" for Germany to find British collaborators. When German airborne troops invaded the island a month ago, British journalist Charles Gilbert was on the island. He was sent to Berlin and received by Joyce, who, under the persuasion of the latter, agreed to serve the German propaganda agency.

Jersey native and elementary school teacher Pearl Walden was also recruited into a German broadcasting agency. Another collaborator was Walter Pulti, who served as a subordinate engineering and technical officer on the British Navy's "Vandik" ship. On June 10, 1940, the warship he was on was sunk by the German army near Narvik, Norway, and he also became a prisoner of war. Now he has become a member of the BFK and is doing publicity work on the National Radio Station in the "Holiday Camp".

He knew Joyce as early as before the war, and then he was sent to the "holiday camp" near Berlin on May 10, 1943 and was summoned to the "National Radio Station". Another British journalist named Patrick Dylan was also imprisoned in Bremen in March 1943 for being sunk in the Indian Ocean. He was later called to serve Luxembourg Radio Station, specializing in the Nazi propaganda against Southern Ireland.

There were also many pilots of the Royal Air Force, such as Warrant Officer Raymond Davis Hughes. The plane he was on was shot down over Penemide. He was captured with the squadron leader Carpenter and Sergeant Alcock, and was then sent to Berlin. The relevant departments wanted to see if they were suitable for writing propaganda manuscripts. In Berlin, they met Walter Pultie with the pseudonym Wallace. In Berlin Hughes, he also met Norman Bailey Stiwater, a former Royal Navy officer. The latter was sentenced to five years in prison by the military court for delivering military intelligence to Germany as early as 1933. After his sentence was released, he went to Austria and came to Berlin in September 1939.

In Berlin, Hughes made suggestions to the Imperial Aviation Department on how to better defend against Allied air strikes, and he also wrote anti-Semitism propaganda materials and broadcasted them to troops in Italy.

Generally speaking, British or Commonwealth members captured by the armed forces are usually sent to the "holiday camp" in Berlin for 2 to 3 weeks of education and education. Only a few of them are considered suitable as members of the British Free Army, including John Amori, Thomas Heller Cooper, Eric Duling, John Galar, Edward Jordan and an American named Tedel.

BFK was mainly commanded by a group of six people including McClardy. From 1934 to 1938, McClardy was a member of the Buf and was later imprisoned in 1940. After the fall of France, he applied to join the SS. It is believed that BFK was formed based on his suggestions. He first prepared leaflets for propaganda for Germany, and later applied to join

SS medical organization Eric Wilson was once in charge of BFK. In addition, Private Nicholas Caulland, a Londoner who served in the New Zealand troops, also said that he had proposed to the Germans the idea of ​​forming BFK.

Of course, their requests were accepted generously, but whether they could be valued was another matter.

"We all know that the Germans have formulated a "Sea Lion Plan". It is not difficult to guess that the contents are large-scale amphibious landing operations and the competition and control of sea control and air supremacy. In any aspect, the land war theory of blitzkrieg is irrelevant to these two plans. How can it be used for comparison? This goes back to the content I have repeatedly emphasized: blitzkrieg theory, as a single strategy and tactic, cannot be used as evaluation criteria."

"The Germans' blitzkrieg have been determined to be invincible, but please don't forget that the core combat law idea of ​​their army is also blitzkrieg theory. In this way, the shortcomings of excessive land combat law are exposed. An army guided by a combat law theory with excessive land combat law will inevitably have a certain tendency in the research and development of troops and tactics for military equipment. Taking the situation of the German army in the past wars as an example, the German Air Force was designed to support ground troops' operations, both in terms of aircraft design and air tactical design.

The main task is the popular firepower reinforcement and suppression against the enemy on the modern battlefield. Such air force is often accompanied by ground mechanized forces in combat, and its own strategic tasks are greatly limited in their ability to cope with ground attack operations. Corresponding to the French placing tanks to the infantry units, the Germans assigned the air force and naval units to the army to strengthen the deep suppression and support capabilities during the implementation of blitzkrieg. Therefore, the Luftwaffe is more like a tactical support for the air force and is not able to perform strategic tasks. This is fully confirmed in the "Eagle" plan."

"The Eagle Plan is a large-scale strategic bombing. This is no longer necessary to add. As for the German Navy, the problem is even more prominent. The excessive emphasis on the development of submarine forces has made the development of the German Navy surface ship force useless."

"From the above analysis, we can draw the conclusion that under the guidance of the Blitzkrieg theory as the main battle law, there were two major "short-legged" arms: the navy and the air force. The serious "straight-spotting" caused the German team to lose the power and initiative of several major warfare modes in modern warfare: large-scale crossing and landing operations, competition for sea power, and large-scale strategic air raids. From this, it seems that the so-called "Sea Lion Plan" is undoubtedly a painting of cake to satisfy hunger."

The audience was almost silent, and they looked at the doctor on the podium intently.

"If there is still a gentleman who doesn't understand it, let's discuss the possibility of success of the "Sea Lion Plan". I remember that my colleagues came to the following conclusion: 'The German Navy can guarantee up to three German Army divisions to launch a cross-sea landing operation against the UK.' I re-evaluated this conclusion based on the depth of defense and the types of troops arranged in the depth of defense. The result is amazing: the German Navy can guarantee up to one and a half German Army divisions to carry out landing operations on the British coast, and the failure rate of landing operations is 100! The losses will include three German elite army divisions participating in the landing operations, most of the German Navy, and multiple air force units."

"The reason for judgment is obvious: when the theoretical concept of depth in land warfare is converted to the ocean, its actual depth is at least several times the depth of land defense. It is difficult to enter such depths or cross this deep defense belt than on land. Unlike other countries, the depth of Britain's land defense is not maintained by the vast land area, but by the English Channel and the British Empire Royal Navy. The English Channel and the Royal Navy Fleet are such a powerful anti-landing warfare combination."

"A natural force and an artificial force are combined into the insurmountable iron wall of the German army: Without a strong navy as a guarantee, the German army cannot guarantee its safety when crossing the sea. If the "Sea Lion Plan" is launched, it is impossible to achieve suddenness. If the British Royal Navy is fully dispatched to kill the German landing fleet on the sea, the result will be disastrous. From this point of view, it is simply a fantasy for the German army to implement the "Sea Lion Plan".

"Even if we assume that the German army finally had another half division or even two divisions who had passed the English Channel to the east coast of the British Isles, it would not be conducive to the German landing troops. Even if all the troops fought against the German army in France during the French Battle in 1940, there was no local army. 1 The landing area could not be too large, so the force that would be invested in landing will not exceed three battalions, and the opponent's strength was two or three times the landing troops. This shows that the German army did not even have the opportunity to gain a foothold in the landing field. Not to mention consolidating and expanding the landing field to welcome the arrival of the subsequent troops. Taking a step back 10,000 steps, even if the supply and transportation channels of the subsequent troops were barely occupied by the German Navy, it is not a task that the German Navy can do."

"No matter how you evaluate the "Sea Lion Plan" under guessing, the final result is that the German landing troops were wiped out under the joint attack of the Commonwealth troops, naval, army and air force, which was dominant." His bright eyes glanced below. The doctor felt very convincing about his judgment. He smiled: "It's a pity that the above are all based on guessing data. If the intelligence department can send more detailed information, the judgment will be more rigorous."
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