Chapter 1223： Flight Instructor Roy

At that time, Germany was preparing to cross the strait, and the fighter planes were coming every day. The Royal Air Force could not wait for a long time. After receiving military assistance from the United States, it immediately ordered 650 P-39 fighters, which were renamed P-39 after modification 400 (or "flying snake in the air" MkI).

However, when the British sent pilots to test the aircraft in the United States, they immediately changed their minds.

The British quickly discovered that the P-39 was almost useless except for its powerful firepower. So the British quickly cancelled most of the "flying snake" orders they had ordered, so that a large number of flying snake fighters were vacated.

The Bell Company was quite depressed. No one wanted this batch of planes. They ate dirt on the company's outdoor apron and became surplus materials.

This time, we took advantage of this opportunity to throw these surplus materials to the Soviet Union.

Can the Soviet Union not? Every choice of them.

Roosevelt’s words made many people nodded. They not only helped the Soviet Union but also emptied the surplus materials, and they were still leased to the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union would have to repay the debt in the future. This is absolutely multi-tasking.

"Then this matter is so decided." Roosevelt said: "Now the most important thing is to transport materials to the Soviet Union. In our current situation, we can only take the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean routes to the former Soviet Union."

The current situation in the United States is not good. As the situation in the Pacific deteriorates, it is difficult for the American fleet to sway in the Pacific and directly send it to the Soviet Far East.

The United States can only travel to the western part of the Soviet Union through the Arctic Ocean. Fortunately, summer is approaching, and the Arctic Ocean route is safer.

Compared with history, the United States provided support to the Soviet Union earlier, and this was entirely due to the bad changes in the situation.

When the United Kingdom, the only free radical site in Europe, fell, the United States could no longer get involved in Europe. Germany's strong military strength made the United States very jealous. Once Germany conquered the Soviet Union, the United States would not be able to stand alone in the New World.

The United States must help the Soviet Union!

Northwestern corner of the Soviet Union, ice-free port, Murmansk.

This is a strange place. Geographically speaking, it has been more than 300 kilometers deep into the Arctic Circle. It is an authentic Arctic port city.

Therefore, there are common phenomena in the Arctic, namely polar night and polar day. There are one and a half months of long night in a year and two months of long day.

Generally speaking, in the Arctic region, it should be covered with snow and ice, but because of the influence of the North Atlantic warm current, although the temperature is very low, the seaport never freezes throughout the year, even in the coldest months. At 3 degrees Celsius, it is navigable throughout the year.

Therefore, the excellent geographical conditions here have become a natural harbor in the north. The nearby North Morsk (later called Vaniga) is the headquarters of the Soviet Northern Fleet Headquarters.

Up to now, the Soviet Union's Northern Fleet was just an ordinary small fleet. Its scale was small. Due to its geographic location, the Northern Fleet participated in very few wars in this world war.

Although it doesn't freeze all the year round, after all, it is too far to the north and has little value. Especially when Petersburg is taken down and the Finnish army advances eastward, it will become an isolated island at any time and will not have much value.

Except for the sporadic battles with Finland, there are not many battles breaking out here.

It's always quiet here, only the fishing boats going back and forth, no one noticed some ships without any flags passing through Iceland to arrive here.

At this time, at the Naval Air Force Base in Vaniga, the regimental commander Boris Feokdistovich Safonov, with some of the best pilots carefully selected by himself, was waiting here eagerly.

A large number of planes were transported by ships, and now, there are already a small number of P-39 fighters, piloted by American pilots, directly flying here.

On the one hand, it is to allow Soviet pilots to obtain these fighters as soon as possible. On the other hand, these American pilots will serve as instructors after they arrive, helping Soviet pilots to become familiar with the aircraft and become capable of combat as soon as possible.

Safonov was very excited. He used to be an Air Force pilot, transferred to the Navy a few years ago, and is now the commander of the Navy’s 78th Fighter Aviation Regiment.

Their aircraft was originally the most backward Iraqi-16 fighter. With this backward aircraft, he once defeated the German BF109.

Although after investigation, these BF109s were driven by hired pilots, not German pilots, he was the pride of the Soviet naval aviation, and the ones that could shoot down BF109 were the best.

However, the backwardness of the aircraft is an indisputable fact, and now, his aviation unit will receive these fighters in the first batch. For them, that is of course the most exciting ~ www.novelhall.com~ except for them. In addition, there are several experts from the Air Force Academy of Sciences, including chief engineers Rabkin, Usatov, Ivanov, and Niki Sishin, as well as test pilot Grofastov.

After learning the news that the first batch of American planes were about to arrive, they came here, hoping to conduct test flights of these fighters as soon as possible, compile flight outlines, determine flight quality, and create a foundation for equipping troops in large quantities as soon as possible.

After all, in the past, it was the Soviets that produced their own airplanes, and this was the first time this kind of foreign products.

They raised their heads and looked at the sky. At this time, three silver fighter planes were approaching them over the sea in the northwest.

On the first long flight, the pilot Roy looked at the soon-to-reach base in the distance, feeling excited.

Just a few years ago, although Roy was a veteran flying bird, he did not serve in the army, he was an aviation club flight instructor.

Up to now, he still remembers that the most impressive pilot he had brought was Rick, the German pilot who had a unique mastery of flying.

Later, Rick left and returned to Germany. In response to Hitler's call at the time, it is said that he entered the German Navy and became a naval aviation.

Now, with the continuous development of the war, the United States has also been involved. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Roy joined the American army. This time, as a flight instructor, he flew a P-39 fighter jet to the Soviet Union.

The United States and Germany have also entered a hostile state. Roy thought of the young pilot. I wonder if the next time we meet, will it be on the battlefield?

"Attention, we are about to arrive at the Vaniga base ahead, ready to enter the landing route." Roy, as the leader of the team, shouted to the wingman behind. ()

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