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Language: eng
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Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Apocalypse Watch

"Then your studies of the Third Reich's collapse fail you, sit.

During the final years of that war, we Germanswho were the experts in

gliding equipment-developed the massive Gigant, the Messerschmitt ME

323, which evolved from the ME 321, both the largest transport gliders

in the air. They were initially created to aid the supply lines to the Russian front in full expectation for use in the invasion of England, their construction of wood and cloth eluding radar."

"They're still there?" asked the elderly Briton.

"As is much of your Royal Navy and the American destroyers-'in

mothballs," I believe is the phrase. I've had airmen check them out for me. With minor modifications they can be operable."

"How do you propose to get them airborne?" said the second German.

"Two aircraft carrier jets can easily lift them off from short fields, assisted by disposable booster rockets under their wings. The Luftwaffe proved it can be done. They did it."

There was a brief silence, broken by the older Briton.

"The young man's idea has merit," he said.

"During the invasion of Normandy, scores of such gliders, many carrying jeeps, small tanks, and personnel, were released behind your lines and wreaked havoc. Good show, chap, really very good

"I agree," said the German pilot pensively, his eyes squinting.

"I take back my sarcasm, young fellow."

"Further, if I may, sir," continued the delighted younger neo, "the carrier jets could drop off both gliders from an altitude of, say, three thousand meters above the reservoirs, then rapidly ascend to

forty thousand, sweeping across the Channel before the radar operators

could piece anything together."

"What about the gliders themselves?" asked a skeptical British neo.

"Unless the mission is specifically one of no return, they have to land somewhere-or crash somewhere."

"I'll answer that," replied the pilot.

"Opfn fields or pastures close by the water reserves should be the designated landing sites, and once on the ground, the gliders will be blown up while our flyers race away in pre-positioned vehicles."

"Jawohl." The second German held up his hand in the spill of the floodlight.

"This strategy could well change many things," he said with quiet authority.

"We'll confer with our aircraft engineers as to the modifications of these gliders. I must return to London and call Bonn. What is your name, young man?"

"Von L6wenstein, sir. Maximilian von L6wenstein the Third."

"You, your father, and your grandmother have erased the treachery on Page 293

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