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- The air combat hero Wang Weiyi mentioned was Hans Joachim Marceiu!
This newly emerged and brightest air combat hero of the German Air Force may never have thought that he would have anything to do with the famous Marshal Ernst Brahm.
What he didn¡¯t expect even more was that Marshal Ernst Brahm actually saved his life.
Sometimes, it¡¯s better to keep secrets forever. Marshal Ernst Brahm would not let him know what had happened.
His only request for Marceliu is to continue to break the records set by Marceliu himself:
Continuously shoot down enemy planes one after another!
Hans Joachim Marceiu, this is a legendary figure
In the spring of 1941, warrant officer pilot Marcelo transferred to Africa with the 1st Group of the 27th Combat Aviation Regiment.
Marcelo first took a ride on an Italian army truck for half a day, but felt that it was extremely slow. Later, he ran to the airport next to the road and asked if the plane from Benghazi to Derna would land here, but no one knew. Finally, he found a general in charge of logistics supplies on the road where the logistics supply vehicles were passing. He tried his best to explain to the general that he was the commander of a four-unit unit and that he must reach the front line tomorrow no matter what, and begged to send a car to take him away. Perhaps the general saw Marcelo being so aggressive and recalled his youth. He was moved by the young officer's ardent request, so he sent his "Admiral Opel" high-speed car to see him off. Return to the front line. This incident surprised the officers of the Logistics Command and looked at each other.
When leaving, the general said to him: "Then, you can thank me with your record of shooting down fifty enemy planes. How about it, young man?"
¡°As you command, Your Excellency,¡± Marceiu replied seriously.
The car ran all night. The next day, Marcelo proudly arrived at Gazala Airport in a high-speed car with a general's flag. Squadron leader Gerhard Homuth was very surprised when he saw him. It turned out that the squadron stayed overnight at Benghazi Airport and just flew here two hours ago. Marseille "walked" for 800 kilometers at a speed similar to that of the Me109 aircraft. It was really not slow!
There are many more ¡°Marceiu-style¡± stories like this. When passing by Derna, the "Admiral Opel" car had to be refueled here, and Marchiu took advantage of this opportunity to collect his salary. Just as the accountant was about to record the incident in his military manual, Marceiu got angry:
"You can't write anything on that page, it must be blank!" It turns out that the page is for recording combat achievements, and it has already been written on it that he won the Iron Cross First Class.
The accountant asked: "Are you still planning to record great achievements above first level?"
"Of course!" replied Marceiu. So the accountant left plenty of space on the blank page. He sneered and said, "Isn't this big enough? I even remember receiving the Knight's Cross with Saber Leaves!"
21-year-old John Marceuil calls himself "the oldest warrant officer in the Air Force." He should have been promoted to second lieutenant long ago, but because of his poor evaluation, he is still a warrant officer until now. During training, he had a proud attitude, often quarreled with others, and violated flight rules. The commander had a bad impression of him. Therefore, a strange comment was written on Marceliu's identification form: "As a pilot, he has poor conduct." This comment has remained in Marceliu's archives to this day. Therefore, no matter how brave Marceliu was on the battlefield, no matter what record he achieved in the air battle over the English-French Channel, even if he changed to a new boss later, he would never be trusted.
He is determined to use his actual actions in Africa to prove that he is an excellent fighter pilot. Over the new battlefield Tobruk, the 3rd Squadron of the 27th Combat Aviation Regiment recorded his first victory. It seems like this is a good start. However, Marceiu was not satisfied with this. He always wanted to try his luck in rushing and killing. Therefore, he often rushed into the middle of the British Air Force fleet and flew back to the airport with the planes covered with bruises.
Marceiu was incredibly lucky. Once he accidentally lowered his head, and a machine gun bullet from the Hurricane plane just penetrated his flight cap, but he was not injured at all.
After the air battle at Tobruk, he made an emergency landing in no man's land, but still managed to find the German position. Another time, his engine was punctured, oil mist sprayed on the front windshield, and he couldn't see anything. Even under such circumstances, he flew back to the base. But after all, he couldn't continue like this for a long time, so Captain Norman, the captain of the group, called him to reprimand him.
"The reason why you are still alive now is that you are smart, but it is better to say that you have good luck. We can't go on like this! Don't rely too much on fate and airplanes."
Captain Norman secretly felt thatThis young pilot contains an immeasurable fighting spirit and strength. It¡¯s just that there is still a lack of exercise. Norman was clearly aware of his responsibilities as an educator and his courage could not be taken away from him. But courage must be combined with prudence and self-denial. Norman encouraged him and said:
"You will definitely become an excellent pilot. But it will take time and experience. In short, if you continue to do what you have done in the past, your time will be wasted."
Marcelo admitted his mistake and determined to correct it. But he just refused to change his attack method. He had long hated the tactics he learned in aviation school, which were to only attack enemy aircraft from behind and above. He was thinking about how to master his beloved aircraft so well that he could accurately shoot enemy aircraft from any position, not only in straight flight, but also in maneuvers such as circling, climbing and rolling.
Only a very few people can master this skill, and most people have great shooting errors in that position. And Marceiu had a special inspiration for time and space. After rigorous training on himself, he developed a superhuman keen sense. Whenever the 3rd Squadron formation returned home, he always asked to be allowed to fly alone. After receiving permission, Marceiu flew his beloved aircraft around his comrades, practicing over and over again how to shoot in various conditions and from various angles.
It took Marceliu a long time to master this tactic, the entire summer of 1941. On September 24, he made his first extraordinary feat, shooting down five enemy planes in one fell swoop. In the morning, a Martin-Maryland aircraft was shot down. In the afternoon, after half an hour of fierce fighting between the top of Halfa Mountain and Sidi Barani, four more Hurricane fighters were shot down in succession.
By this time, Marceiu had been promoted to second lieutenant. He led his four crews to repeatedly break into enemy aircraft formations, attack from different angles, and finally broke through the enemy aircraft's circular defense formation. Marceiu caught the last enemy aircraft and killed it over Sidi Barani. This was his achievement in shooting down the twenty-third enemy plane.
"Do you understand roughly?" That night, Marceuil revealed his secret to his comrade-in-arms, Second Lieutenant Hans Arnault Sch¨¹tlerschmidt.
Soon, it rained heavily and the fighter base was flooded. Later, the British army launched a powerful autumn offensive. Rommel's army was forced to retreat to the attack position.
However, Marceiu is still flying and fighting. On February 24, 1942, he received the Knight's Cross for shooting down forty-eight enemy aircraft. He was promoted to lieutenant in April of the same year and to captain of the 3rd Squadron in early June. At the same time, Captain Holmut took over as commander of the 1st Group. Major Norman was promoted to the commander of the 217th Combat Aviation Regiment on the African Front because he effectively supported Rommel's large-scale offensive without any casualties.
By this time, John Marcelo began to become a "star" shining over the African continent. Among the "Desert Foxes" of Germany and Italy, Marceiu's "Yellow 14" aircraft enjoys the same legendary reputation as Rommel's command armored vehicle.
In the air battle at Gazala on June 3, 1942, Marceiu shot down six Curtiss and Tomahawk aircraft of the South African Fifth Squadron in just eleven minutes. These South African aircraft attempted to eliminate the Ju87 aircraft formation of the 3rd Dive Bombing Aviation Regiment at the front of the desert fortress of Bir Hakeim. Although the German bombs hit their targets, Bir Hakeim, the southern pillar of the British Gazala Front, still stood. French soldiers used broad minefields as barriers and held on to cleverly deployed positions, trenches and more than 1,200 important strongholds equipped with anti-tank guns and anti-aircraft guns.
In Rommel¡¯s view, it would be impossible to advance without first capturing Bir Hakeim, and the entire combat plan would therefore go bankrupt. To this end, he instructed Lieutenant General Hoffmann von Waldau, the "Commander of the African Air Force", to increase the intensity of continuous dive bombing.
The enemy also knows that the situation is serious. British Air Force Major General Cunningham successively mobilized the fighters, fighter-bombers and bomber squadrons of the British "Western Desert Air Force" to deal with the German forces in the air and on the ground.
Lieutenant Colonel Siegel's 3rd Dive Bombing Aviation Regiment suffered huge losses. Fourteen Ju87 aircraft were lost in one week due to the attack on Bir Hakeim. To make matters worse, although the Air Force dispatched aircraft to carry out bombing, the ground troops could not keep up with the strong attack, thus making the Air Force's painstaking efforts in vain.
The commanders of Rommel's troops urged him to strengthen the offensive, but Rommel refused to invest more troops in this desert fortress. General von Waldau, who was disappointed with Rommel, reported to Kesselring that due to poor coordination between land and air, dive bombing was not only almost meaningless, but also resulted in unnecessary sacrifices.
Kesselring immediately flew to Rommel¡¯s station and talked with RommelSaid: "This can't go on like this!" A few days later, Rommel transferred the 135th Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment commanded by Colonel Foltz to the front of Bir Hakeim. This regiment has been blocking the British armored forces in recent days. fierce attack. Still, it was to no avail. Therefore, he withdrew several main troops from the northern front and put them into this "nasty desert cave", and it worked.
On June 9, two weeks after the German and Italian coalition launched their offensive, dive bombers once again attacked Bir Hakeim, destroying an important artillery position two kilometers north of the fortress. In the evening of that day, von Waldau reported to Rommel: "As of today, the number of aircraft deployed to support ground troops in Bir Hakeim has reached 1,030." The next day, June 10, He ordered all planes to move out three times. Kesselring also transferred several Ju88 groups from the First Flying Training Regiment from Greece and Crete to support the African front.
The sky above the battlefield was thick with fog and dust. The pilots were unable to identify friend or foe, and the first attack wave was interrupted. At noon and afternoon, dive bombers were dispatched again, divided into twelve attack waves, and two hundred aircraft were dispatched. Among them, there are 124 Ju87 aircraft and 76 Ju88 aircraft.
The German bombs were dropped accurately. One hundred and forty tons of bombs fell on the positions of the brave French soldiers. Engineers and infantry used the smoke screen after the bomb explosion to rush into the enemy position.
On June 10, one hundred and sixty-eight Messerschmitt aircraft attacked British fighters. This was the first time it fought a Spitfire on the African battlefield. During the battle, Lieutenant Marceiu shot down four Spitfires. This was the seventy-eighth to eighty-one enemy aircraft shot down by Marceiu.
??????? Bill Hakeim¡¯s energy is exhausted. On the night of the 10th, General Koenig led a part of the garrison to break through and retreat to the British front. In the early morning of June 11, the white flag was raised in the desert fortress.
Rommel finally got rid of his worries. (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!) - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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