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The sun shines on the sea, sparkling, and the wind and waves on the sea are not big, but there are no ships on the sea, and there are not even fishing boats. Only the roar of the aircraft engine echoes on the sea.

The aircraft flew at an altitude of two thousand meters from the sea. This is a fleet of aircraft, composed of six C47 transport aircraft and eight P51 fighters. In order to maintain the formation, the slow C47 transport aircraft had to desperately increase the power of the engine to keep up with the P51 fighter jets, and at the same time to reach the destination as soon as possible. After all, this is the Gulf of Aden, and it is still a not very calm sea area, and the sky also has murderous intentions, because there is a field airport of the Luftwaffe field in Djibouti to the west, where a Luftwaffe troops stationed there. They often cruised over the Gulf of Aden and hunted any allied camp aircraft and ships. Not only that, the Gulf of Aden is still an active sea area for German and Italian submarines, and it is still a battlefield.

This group of aircraft is code-named "f9". It belongs to the US Air Force Strategic Special Service Squadron and specializes in transporting "special goods". Now, the "cargo" it transports is actually not some kind of war material, but a major figure in the American political circle, Harry Truman, the vice president of the US government. In addition to the vice president, there are also some escorts, including politicians and business people. Their destination of this trip is Aden, the capital of Yemen, north of the Gulf of Aden.

In order to deliver the vice president safely to Aden, the "f9" troops specially prepared six C47 transport aircraft of the same model, and Vice President Truman sat in one of the transport aircraft. After leaving Mogadishu Airport, the transport aircraft changed several times. In this way, even the commander-in-chief of the Allied East African theater of War, Montgomery, who was seeing the vice president off at the airport, did not know which aircraft Truman was in. In addition, the pilots of the eight P51 fighters escorted were all veterans with rich flight skills and practical experience. Moreover, for safety reasons, the aircraft formation specially selected a secluded route to try to stay away from the German Air Force Base in Djibouti as much as possible while ensuring the range.

Sitting in the cabin of a C47 transport plane, US Vice President Harry Truman is now reading a document that was handed over by the general himself when he met with General Montgomery, the commander-in-chief of the East African Allied Forces in Mogadishu. The main content of the document is to evaluate the current situation in the East African battlefield. One of Truman's missions on this trip is to inspect the progress of the Allied East African frontlines, thinking that it will provide a practical reference for the next decision of the US government, whether to continue the offensive or defend on the spot? Should I make official official contact with the German government? Or should I ignore Hitler's April Fool's Day Speech? The US government's future strategic plan depends on the conclusion of Truman's trip to East Africa. Of course, there are also a group of senior Allied staff members who provide military counsel for the vice president. With their assistance, the vice president will definitely gain a lot of benefits.

Truman stayed in Mogadishu for a full six days. During these six days, he visited the front line many times accompanied by senior local Allied officers, and met General Eisenhower on the front line, and listened carefully to the general's analysis of the current situation on the battlefield in Africa.

According to General Eisenhower's view, the current African battlefield is still in a stalemate. Although the Allies had almost half a year of hard fighting, they basically occupied the entire territory of Somalia by the end of August 1944 and drove the main Italian army to Ethiopia, due to the complex terrain conditions in Ethiopia, it would take at least several months to prepare for the Allies to invade Ethiopia. It is expected that the attack will not be initiated earlier than January 1945. However, before that, most Allied officers were not optimistic about whether the German team, which had completed strategic assembly in southern Sudan, would give the Allied troops the preparation time for this battle.

In other words, if the German team launched a strategic counterattack from Sudan to Kenya and Somalia, the Allies might have to prepare for retreat again. Unless the Allies can successfully carry out the West African coastal landing operation, this landing operation is full of difficulties. German submarines and attack ships in the Atlantic Ocean will not allow any large-scale Allied fleets to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Moreover, another German aircraft carrier that just completed the sea trial is likely to be carrying out the Atlantic combat cruise mission. In short, there are already four German aircraft carriers on the Atlantic Ocean. If these German aircraft carriers are not eliminated first, any transatlantic landing operation of the Allies is a fantasy.

In the history of human wars, there has never been a transatlantic landing operation of hundreds of thousands of people. General Eisenhower basically held a pessimistic stance. He believed that the safest way was to increase troops. He transported troops and supplies from the Americas to South Africa through fast ships, and used South Africa as a strategic counterattack base to control the African continent first, then transferred the strategic counterattack base to North Africa, and then used North Africa as a springboard to carry out large-scale landing operations in the southern European region, either from Spain to the European continent, or from Italy and Greece to the European continent. In short, it is impossible to implement strategic breakthroughs from the direction of Iceland. The "Atlantic barrier" established by Germany is not a bragging, and only the southern European region is the weakness of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy.

In Truman's view, General Eisenhower's mood was too low. In the original words of the US President, "Some soldiers have lost the victory", "they just want to maintain the current strategic balance". This emotion is not an individual phenomenon. In the current British and American teams, this emotion is very common. Many soldiers seem to be tired of this war that cannot see the end of victory. They urgently hope to truce. The Nazi ruled Europe, so they will rule. As long as the United States no longer continues to invade American lives, the United States seems to be able to live in peace with Nazi Germany.

However, in the view of the US President, this idea of ​​living peacefully with the Nazis is undoubtedly "thinking". The so-called "faith" of the Nazis has determined that they are mortal enemies with the "free world". If Americans want to avoid becoming slaves to the Nazis, they must continue to fight and continue to fight against the Nazis for the entire "free world".

Therefore, Truman was very clear that President Roosevelt hoped that he would provide a report that could support the US government in continuing the frontline inspection of the German war. Moreover, the reason why he took the risk of letting the Vice President go to Central Asia to meet with the Chinese President on behalf of the President himself was also very direct. He once told Truman in his office that "the Chinese people can't sit still." As long as the United States has not made peace with Germany, "the Chinese will definitely join the war soon", but not to help Germany, but to "help us". As for the reason why China did this, President Roosevelt also saw it very clearly, "not for justice" or "peace", but for "national interests", which is completely consistent with the reasons for the United States' war against Germany, and is all to maximize its own interests.

So, the day after receiving the invitation letter from the Chinese ambassador to the United States to the White House, Mr. Harry Truman set out on this dangerous and exciting adventure in Africa without hesitation. The journey was not peaceful. On the Atlantic Ocean, the warship Mr. Truman was riding in was tracked by an unidentified submarine. In South Africa, the time bomb was found in the hotel where the President was originally going to stay. On the way from South Africa to the East African front, Vice President Truman was also "careful" by German and Italian air force bombers. Fortunately, he finally arrived in Somalia without any danger. There were many unknown fierce struggles in the middle. "East African spy shadow", which may be a good movie theme.

Originally, the commander-in-chief of the Allied East African Theater suggested that the vice president take a warship and take a direct flight to India when he left Mogadishu, then transfer from India to Iran, and then go to Central Asia to meet with the "Far East Madman". In the commander's opinion, this maritime route is relatively safe.

However, after careful consideration, Vice President Truman decided to accept the advice of his staff and take a plane to Yemen. Because the time is still relatively good, he wanted to go to Israel before going to Central Asia to meet with the President of Israel to discuss some matters about Israel's participation in the war. Truman did not want to take a long way, so he decided to take the air route by plane.

Now, the plane has flown to the northern waters of the Gulf of Aden. In another twenty minutes, you can see the coastline of Yemen.

However, just as Vice President Truman was carefully studying the analysis report on the battlefield situation in East Africa, an aide suddenly walked from the cockpit with panic expressions to him, bent down and muttered to the Vice President.

"Sir, German fighters were found in nearby airspace, so we had to fly separately."

Truman was surprised, but soon recovered from calmness, nodded, and gave an order.

"This place is not far from Aden. You can contact the Chinese air force stationed in the local area and ask them to send escort planes."

Soon, six transport aircraft began to fly separately, while the eight P51 Mustang fighters escorted quickly entered the battle.

Vice President Truman was still sitting in the cabin and flirting with documents, while several staff members walked to the cockpit and asked the pilot to turn on the phone, hoping to hear the American pilot beat the Luftwaffe.

But to everyone's surprise, they heard not the American pilot's cheers of victory, but the screams of horror.

"Oh my God is a jet plane"

“It’s me262 from Germany”

"I'm shot, I'm shot"

"Don't panic, don't panic, only two jets."

"They went to the No. 1 plane... They hit No. 1 plane crashed"

"They went to the second plane again and stopped them, we couldn't catch up with them. Their speed was too fast."

...

The shouts of the US pilots caused a commotion in the Vice President's landline. The reason is very simple, because the C47 transport plane they were on at this moment was the "No. 2". Obviously, the Luftwaffe was coming for them.

"Mr. Vice President, please put on your life jacket as soon as possible. We are preparing a parachute for you. If you cannot make a forced landing, you can only parachute."

The attendants brought Truman life jackets and parachute bags and put them on for the somewhat silly vice president.

Everyone prayed in the cabin, praying that the two Luftwaffe jets did not come for the vice president himself, but appeared in this airspace by chance. In that case, perhaps they would not chase each other, and maybe the No. 2 would be able to fly to a place not far from the coast.

After regaining his calmness, Truman walked to the porthole and looked into the sky, but could not see anything. The view in the transport plane was indeed bad. Only the pilots flying the fighter could see the two Luftwaffe me262 jet fighters quickly approaching the No. 2 transport plane.

"Work 2, reduce flight speed and reduce flight speed"

US pilots can only pray that the transport plane can avoid the attack of German fighters at low speeds, because the stall speed of jet fighters is much higher than that of transporters. It is very difficult to attack low-speed aircraft with high-speed aircraft unless the German aircraft is determined to shoot down aircraft No. 2.

At this moment, a US pilot who was desperately flying the plane to catch up suddenly saw four straight white smoke coming from the north at an altitude of 4,000 meters. His intuition told him that it was a high-speed aircraft and should be faster than me262.

Four white smoke came at lightning. When we got closer, the US pilots saw clearly that they were four beautiful fighters, but they were too fast and almost flashed by, and they could not see the details clearly. However, when it flashed by, an air battle between jets and jets began. Just half a minute later, the two Luftwaffe me262 jets chasing the No. 2 transport plane dragged the black smoke and blew and disintegrated on the sea. The pilots didn't even have the chance to jump.

"Two to zero is so beautiful... it's Chinese. They arrived. They came so fast that they must be cruising nearby."

The captain of the fighter unit was the first to recognize the models of the four jets, which was the "lightning" of the Chinese Air Force.

At the same time, the public channel of Vice President Truman's landline cockpit radio station also came from the voice of a Chinese pilot with a heavy accent.

"We are the Chinese Air Force Fighter Squadron in Aden, I am the 'Knight 1'. Welcome to Yemen. We have been waiting here for a long time. After discovering you, we came over. Fortunately, the German plane flew slowly. Now, please follow us behind us. We will be responsible for guiding you. If the speed of the transport plane cannot keep up, please turn to the northern route, where the airspace is safe."

At this moment, Truman stood by the cockpit door and listened to the voice of the Chinese Air Force pilot with his staff. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. With the escort of the Chinese jets, the next flight would become very safe.

"It would be great if our jets were here."

Someone among the staff sighed, which caused a sigh. Indeed, the Lockheed Aircraft Company of the United States has successfully developed a jet fighter for the United States, numbered "p80". It has begun mass production, but has not yet equipped the Allied African troops, but has given priority to equip the local US military. After all, the sky of cities along the Pacific coast requires the protection of such jet fighters. The internal combustion engines of Japanese Air Force fighters are all introduced from China, and are similar to the best propeller fighters in the United States in terms of performance. The United States' national air defense urgently needs faster and higher-flying fighters, and the only one that meets this requirement is the p80 jet.
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