1.1349 Maria of Navalon
July 10, 1943.
Capo Passero, southeast of Sicily.
Anna Moffett, a British sergeant secretary who was shot down by his own anti-aircraft artillery, climbed out of the wreckage of the C47 military transport plane.
Both the captain and the co-pilot were killed. The paratroopers in the cabin had already landed by plane. Those who could not landed by plane were also magnificently killed. Only the female secretary, Anna Moffett, survived the entire transport crew.
This is also the ending she had already expected when she came.
Because before restarting the freeze-framed original plot line, on the ETT commuter day bus of the Broken City 0326 Star Cube Base, the female housekeeper Ai has already set a "income method" for everyone. Therefore, riding on the C47 military transport plane is equivalent to the "opening scene" of the female secretary Anna Moffett. Of course, it is okay to call it the first "cutscene". According to the players in the city, this is called "plot transition" or "plot transition".
Confirm that she was safe and sound, the female secretary Anna Moffett took out a small note from her close-fitting pocket, and used the pinyin of the base 0326 that only she could understand, and recited the pre-prepared cheat sheet in her mind several times: "The Italian garrison on Sicily has only 4 field divisions and 6 static coastal defense divisions, with poor equipment and low morale. When the North African battle was defeated, the German army that was originally to be sent there is now a division, with the number 15th
Armored Grenadier Division, but the division was equipped with only one armored battalion. The Hermann Gorene armored division, rebuilt in a similar manner, went to Sicily at the end of June 1943. Mussolini did not allow the two divisions to be organized into one army, and were commanded by a German general. The two divisions were directly controlled by General Guzoni, the commander of the 6th Italian Army, and were divided into five combat groups as mobile reserves to deploy defenses along the island's 150-mile-long diameter.
The Allied landing forces were very powerful. They carried out landing assaults at the same time with 8 divisions, and their scale was even larger than the Normandy landing 11 months later. On the first day of the landing and the next two days, about 150,000 Allied soldiers boarded the beach of Sicily, and the final strength reached 478,000, including 250,000 British officers and soldiers and 228,000 American soldiers. According to the established plan, the British army landed along a 40-mile long coast in the south, and the US army also grabbed beaches along a 40-mile long coast in the south. The British left wing and the US right wing were 20 miles apart..."
"Call 'Irene', call 'Irene'." At this moment, a strange call rang out on the WS38 portable radio behind it.
Eirene is a Greek reprint of Irene. Irene is also a household name in Greek mythology and is particularly respected by the ancient Athenians. It is said that after defeating the Spartans in the naval battle, the Athenians began to build temples for Irene to celebrate post-war peace. In the original plot, "Irene" is also the exclusive code name for the Greek female guerrilla Irene.
"This is 'Onomiya', please reply when you receive it." The female secretary Anna Moffett immediately answered with the "joint code" written in advance by the script.
Eunomia is the sister of Irene, the goddess of peace, one of the three goddesses in the sequel. Here it is used to refer to the "guerrilla sister" of the Greek female guerrilla Irene.
"Received, Onomia. Here is 'Maria of Navalon', please tell me your specific location."
Maria means "Mother of the Ocean" in Greek. It is a common name for Greek women. Navarone is a small Greek island name on the Mediterranean Sea. Therefore, "Maria of Navarone" should not be a code name. It is the real code name of this female guerrilla.
"Okay, 'Maria of Navalon', I'm on Cape Parcelo Island." Secretary Anna Moffett immediately told her about the approximate location: "You can find me when you see the smoke coming out of the crashed transport plane."
"Okay, we're not far from Cape Pacero, you'll see an S.55 seaplane soon."
Savoia-Marchetti S.55 is a very special catamaran seaplane. The aircraft began to be developed in 1922, and the prototype was successfully completed in August 1924. In 1926, the S.55 was put into mass production, with passengers and cargo on both sides of the fuselage, and the crew sat in the thickened part of the center of the wing. The S.55 is equipped with two Isotta Fraschini Asso 500 (Asso)
500) Water-cooled V-12 engines, each with a power of 500 horsepower. The maximum flight speed is 205 kilometers per hour and the maximum range is 4,500 kilometers. The armed S.55 is equipped with 4 7.7mm Lewis machine guns, which can carry 1,000 kilograms of bombs. The S.55 has been produced until the mid-1930s. The Royal Italian Air Force and Airline received a total of 243 S.55s. Brazil purchased 8, the Royal Romanian Air Force purchased 7, and the Soviet Union also purchased 5. The S.55 has been modified, such as a closed cabin that can accommodate 8 to 10 passengers, an insulated engine hood, and the cockpit and cabin are heated.
Soon, a strangely shaped Savoy-Macheti S.55 catamaran seaplane landed on the sea not far from the crash point.
Before getting off the seaplane, the pilot deliberately adjusted the angle of the front window of the plane cockpit so that the female secretary Anna Moffett, who was hidden nearby, could better capture the whole picture with a telescope: "Call for 'Onomiya', please reply after receiving it."
"This is 'Onomiya', I saw you 'Maria of Navarone'." The prepared female secretary Anna Moffett immediately recognized the female pilot who came to greet him as a famous plot character, from "The Guns of Navarone".
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Speaking of which, in 1943, the elite Nazi German troops were about to launch a blitzkrieg against Cross on the Turkish coast. In Cross, there were 2,000 British troops trapped in Cross and eager to withdraw. However, on the only channel of Cross, on an island called Navalon in Greece in the Aegean Sea, the Germans installed two new giant cannons controlled by super strong firepower, seriously threatening British ships.
Pass safely. So removing these two cannons became a task that the British army must complete. The terrain of Navalon Island is very dangerous. There are strong fortresses on the top of the cliff. The fort is installed in a cave in the abdomen, and there are cliffs that are easy to defend and difficult to attack. So the British army sent a special operation team to secretly land on the island to blow up the Navalon cannon. The person who was responding to them was Maria Papadimos, the female guerrilla captain on the island of Navalon Island, Greece.
Pappadimos and her guerrillas, among them were the female teacher Anna, who was sitting in the co-pilot position of the S.55 catamaran seaplane.
Most of the Greek guerrillas during World War II were affiliated with the Greek resistance organization, namely "state resistance". These included armed or non-armed groups that opposed the occupation of Greece from 1941 to 1944 during World War II. The modern Greek countries were independent of 1822 and fought the War of Independence against the Ottoman Turkish Empire for nearly 10 years. After 80 years, they fought two Balkan wars. In addition to the later World War I, the Greek-Turkish War and World War II, Greece was also called "rich morals". The combat effectiveness of the guerrillas was no less than that of the regular army. Especially for some small-scale secret infiltration and other special operations, the guerrillas were called surprise soldiers.
"Should I tell the female guerrilla captain that the beautiful female teacher companion next to me had actually been in secret long ago." The female secretary Anna Moffett walked out of the hidden place in a complicated mood.
Chapter completed!