Chapter 76 - Vice Admiral Hewitt Appears
After thinking for a while, Chen Yanlong finally decided to let Keselin be responsible for the air force operations in the Battle of Sicily; as for Wolfgang von Richthofen, he asked him to be responsible for the training of the reserve air force and the training of naval carrier-based aircraft.
After deciding on these things, he prepared to go to the Air Force Training School to see the training status of the pilots.
However, before he left, he suddenly remembered that in the financial statements just now, there seemed to be payments from some small countries such as Serbia, as well as the wealth of the high-level officials in the great purge he carried out, including the amazing wealth of the escaped corrupt official, were also recorded.
So Chen Yanlong hurriedly looked through the financial statements just now. After a while, he saw the information he wanted to read, and also saw that the income was as high as more than 100 million US dollars.
Seeing that he had earned more than 100 million US dollars, Chen Yanlong felt very happy; and he immediately left the Berlin Prime Minister's Office more readily and prepared to go to the pilot's training base.
At this time, Sperer gathered all the important personnel of the steering committee and enterprises, as well as the weapons staff, and the fighter staff to conduct a joint meeting between the military and the arms production department.
After some fierce discussion, they unanimously decided that their goal in the next few months was: a monthly output of 6,000 fighters, including the Ta152 fighter, Me262 jet fighter, Ar234 "lightning" jet bomber, and 1,000 night fighters.
Although their goal is a bit exaggerated, it also represents Sperer's preparation to do his best to implement Chen Yanlong's new fighter and bomber production indicators.
For Sperer, there is no shortage of people who manufacture aircraft now, but the raw materials for manufacturing aircraft are relatively scarce.
In this regard, he could only comprehensively plunder resources from other occupying countries and regions to mass production.
Fortunately, compared with piston aviation engines, turbojet engines have unparalleled huge advantages in cost and manufacturing man-hours.
The jumo004 engine used by the Me262 jet fighter is only 10,000 marks per unit price; it is tens of thousands of marks cheaper than the single BMW801 air-cooled engine used by the fw190 fighter and the jumo213 liquid-cooled engine replaced by the new model of the fw190D fighter.
In addition to the price advantage, the total working hours of the jumo004 engine engine, including manufacturing, assembly and transportation, also save 1,000 hours compared to other engines.
But it’s a pity that there are advantages and disadvantages. The lifespan of a turbojet engine is not long, only about 10 to 25 hours. Even if it is made using the design drawings given by Chen Yanlong, it can only be used for 26 hours at most.
But even so, Sperl made up his mind to do his best to produce these Me262 jet fighters for Chen Yanlong.
Because for him, who has a low background and status, if he wants to keep climbing up, he definitely needs to pay attention and promote Chen Yanlong, the leader of the country. Otherwise, even if he works for the rest of his life, he will not have much hope of getting promoted and making a fortune.
Who told Speer now has begun to fall in love with power, it is like falling in love with drugs, making him intoxicated.
After the meeting decided to mass-produce the fighter jets and bombers that Chen Yanlong required, Spel decisively distributed all the large aircraft production plants originally distributed in Germany, and all the small and medium-sized enterprises, deployed them in different occupying countries and servant countries for production, and plundered resources from various countries to increase production.
Moreover, many of these companies are small family-style factories, which are done to avoid being killed by large-scale air raids by the British and American Allies.
It also allows the local German air force stationed in the nearby areas; and the fleets of aircraft spontaneously organized by these aircraft production plants to provide logistical support and counterattack.
While Spers accelerated the production of aircraft, it was in the distant Algiers.
This place, which has been occupied by the British and American Allied forces for six months, is now crowded with a large number of US troops, British troops, Canadian troops, and New Zealand troops...
These soldiers walked freely in and out of the Algiers, some of them were picking up girls; some were patrolling, some were training, and some were shopping secretly...
However, in this street, where houses are mostly built on the hills, there is another very lively thing that is underway.
At this time, Lieutenant General Henry Kent Hewitt was listening to the national anthem while maintaining a salute posture.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom..."
At the same time, in the national anthem (the Stars and Stripes never fall), the Royal Navy's "Maidstone" warship was also firing salutes one after another.
Whenever a cannon was fired, the smoke from the warship continued to fill; the roar also resounded through the earth and rumbled in the surrounding hills.
At this time, Eisenhower was also standing beside Lieutenant General Hewitt and saluted the military salute seriously.
This salute celebration was a brief celebration expression from the British to the Americans, to express their victory in the Battle of Tunisia; to severely damage the German army and to completely drive the German African army out of Africa.
When the 48th salute was finished, Lieutenant General Hewitt hurriedly left.
And he sat in his command car (cars that could freely enter and exit everywhere), through winding streets and alleys, and rushed to the port of Algiers.
There are many ships here, such as cruisers, minesweepers, and landing crafts...
In addition to these, there are a large number of patrol aircraft in the entire port area; and destroyers are patrolling...
Chapter completed!