1943, from 18:42 to 20:20 on July 9.

The British 1st Airborne Division landed 2,000 people in the First Brigade. Under the leadership of Brigadier General Hicks, he took 144 gliders towing the transport plane and took off from Susa Airport in Tunisia. However, due to plane failure, only 137 were successfully launched. According to the combat plan, the transport plane should be decoupled from the glider at about 2,700 meters from the coastline of Sicily and at an altitude of 3,000 meters. However, due to the bad weather and to avoid premature detection by German radars.

The transport plane flew at a low altitude and failed to rise to its due height when approaching Sicily, so it was decoupled from the glider. As a result, 69 gliders fell into the sea and 605 submersible soldiers were killed. The glider that the brigade commander Hicks also landed in the sea. Hicks climbed onto the wings before the glider sank, and was rescued by a special landing craft and sent to the shore. 24 hours later, Hicks arrived at the scheduled airborne area, the Pendergrand Bridge, to command the battle.

Among the remaining gliders, 22 landed within 1,600 meters from the target, 49 landed within 10-16 kilometers from the target, and only 2 landed near the Pendelgron Bridge. Two gliders landed in the designated area, under the command of Lieutenant Withers, seized the bridge from the Italian defenders and quickly organized defense. By the early morning of the 10th, nearly 100 aircraft submarines arrived one after another, including Deputy Brigade Commander Lieutenant Colonel Walsh. Lieutenant Colonel Walsh fought to form the aircraft submarines and fought desperately with Italian coastal forces and German tank troops. However, due to the huge power gap, there were great casualties and exhaustion. The bridge was occupied by the German army again at 16:00 on the 10th. 30 minutes later, the landing troops of the British Infantry 5th Division arrived and cooperated with Lieutenant Colonel Walsh to recapture the bridge.

Bridge Command of the First Brigade of the British 1st Airborne Division.

"Lieutenant, have you found Sergeant Moffett?" Brigadier General Hicks, who had just arrived at the army, asked at the beginning.

Lieutenant Withers shook his head in a heavy tone: "Someone witnessed the transport plane she was riding crashing into the sea."

"Have the body been found?" Deputy Brigade Commander Lieutenant Colonel Walsh understood that the missing British sergeant secretary Anna Moffett was carrying a secret mission to penetrate deep behind enemy lines.

"No, together with the wreckage of the plane." Lieutenant Withers meant that the wreckage of the plane and the body had not been found yet.

"Continue to look for it. Sergeant Moffett is very important to this battle." In fact, Brigade Commander Brigadier General Hicks was not very clear about what was important. Because when he arrived, he was only informed by his superiors that this was a top-secret mission.

"Yes!" Lieutenant Withers did not ask much for the military's duty to obey orders.

"This battle was very hard." After only the confidant left in the bridge command, Lieutenant Colonel Walsh, deputy brigade commander, gave the latest battle report: "The multiple beach landings initiated by the vanguard of the Allied Forces were defeated by the Italian Coast Division."

"When did the Italians on Sicily become an elite force?" Brigadier General Hicks also frowned: "This is completely inconsistent with previous information."

"I heard that the entire coastal division was recruited as a temporary actor to participate in the shooting of "The Great Battle." Deputy Brigade Commander Lieutenant Colonel Walsh shook his head: "Maybe it was because of the filming of the movie that trained them."

"If the information is accurate, then these Italians are really as people say, born to love acting and be good at disguising and deceiving." Looking at the expression of Brigade Commander General Hicks, he seemed to have some understanding: "Since Mussolini, they are all 'naturally performed'."

"These Italians have also invested a lot of money to perform with their lives." Deputy Brigade Commander Lieutenant Colonel Walsh's words were at the critical point.

"Mussolini, the "performer master" who led Italy to destruction by acting skills, led the fascist party to Rome in 1922. He encountered no resistance and was also granted the title of the king. From then on, he turned the whole of Italy into his own theater and began to perform a one-man show. He began to dictate everything and appointed people he trusted to take charge of civil affairs, engineering, diplomacy and other aspects. He determined newspapers, books, radio, movies and even encyclopedias. He determined newspapers, books, radio, movies and even encyclopedias.

He had no opposition to deal with the content of the book. He was also the only ambassador, general and various bureaucrats. However, he was in multiple positions and was also distorted by himself. He was too optimistic about the world situation in diplomacy; in propaganda, those fanatical words, over time, even he himself believed it. In order to reflect his hard work and talent, he also personally participated in various specific things, such as engineering construction, military training and weapon design.

He firmly controlled the propaganda machine and released those fanatical things. In order to create his image of diligent government affairs, he kept the lights of the Prime Minister's Office brightly all night. However, according to his guards, the head of state did not always work in the office. The head of state would enjoy various lifestyles and even chat with the guards to pass the time. When he was a performer to the public, he also lived completely in an illusory kingdom.

Which city he wants to visit, which city will make careful preparations in advance. He built and asked him to unveil many public works. After receiving him, most of the projects were abandoned. Soldiers from all over the country would be transported to the place he was about to visit, making him feel that he could inspect millions of soldiers anywhere. Even the police in black clothes were bought from the countryside a day in advance to make up for the amount. It has to be said that during Mussolini's rule, the construction of public works in Italy also developed to a certain extent, but due to the whitewashing and exaggerated publicity, and the large number of profiteers interfering with it, overall, these achievements are in fame and reality.

The international and even moral price paid is extremely disproportionate. This skillful deception technique even deceived Hitler. It was not unreasonable for Hitler to regard Mussolini as his idol in his early years. Mussolini was indeed the ancestor in terms of propaganda and bewitching people's hearts. When Hitler visited Italy in 1938, Mussolini ordered that "all things from the nineteenth century" be hidden, and any infrastructure should be painted with brand new paint, and the inspected troops transferred the best equipment and brand new uniforms from all over the country. Such deception made the alliance think that Italy was a highly industrialized modern country.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, all this is a mirage. Mussolini once fantasized that all kinds of cheap weapons he designed can assemble troops on a large scale and win by numbers. The so-called sonar and radar of the opponent are just deceptive tricks rendered by the media. Little do they know that whenever he reviews, many of the weapons and equipment of the Italian army were carefully created by artists for inspection only.

.And Italy's backward industrial system was completely unable to support these "military parade-only" products to play their role in the battlefield. On the battlefield, Italian soldiers could also briefly win by relying on high morale and tactical tricks in the early stage. They had good military discipline and high morale. But soon, a series of problems such as insufficient logistics, backward equipment level, and low tactical literacy of commanding generals were exposed. The situation reversed slightly and they were soon defeated.

People were willing to accompany Mussolini to perform this performance, and at first they could believe Mussolini. But after the front line retreated, the Italians began to discover that their brave children had become the funeral objects of the performer. People could cheer for a performance, but could not tolerate deception at the cost of their lives and the next generation. In 1943, with the verbal support of the king, the domestic opposition party arrested Mussolini as a condition for the armistice. What Mussolini never dreamed of was that there was no support at this time.

The play ended. He deceived the people and brought Italy into war, but at the same time, the scam he had carefully created also deceived him. Mussolini was later rescued by the Nazi glider and fled to northern Italy to establish a puppet regime. After two years of surviving, the Allied forces were unstoppable. When Mussolini tried to change into soldiers' clothes and fled to the border at the end of his journey in 1945, he was discovered by the local guerrillas and immediately executed by gunfire. This ended his life as a performer.
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