World War Three 1946 - Book One - The Red Tide - Stalin Strikes First by Harry Kellogg

Author:Harry Kellogg [Kellogg, Harry]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2014-08-30T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19:

Other Fronts

Italian Communist Party

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The debate starts among the strategists on just how to proceed now that the atomic bomb is off the table.

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U.S.A.A.F. 8th Air Force Headquarters

London, The U.K.

August 1st 1946

Huge maps of all of Europe and the western U.S.S.R. cover the walls and huge tabletops. The W.A.C.'s are pushing the markers with their hooked end sticks in much the way a Roulette croupier takes your hard-earned cash; a scene familiar to all who have watched a movie on Second World War British air operations.

Two officers are engaged in a heated debate.

“Let’s take this into my office shall we? Alright now settle down, and tell me what this is all about.”

“It’s just that we don’t know who we can trust, and bringing the Brits on this will only broaden the possible leaks. You know full well how screwed up the Leningrad raid was with all those wild stories about guided missiles and such going around. Absolutely ridiculous! Now you want us to let them fly along and include them on the Toulouse raid? It just doesn’t make any sense sir, not at this late date.”

“Listen to me, and listen good. We have to be nice with them or they will get their nose out of joint. It’s only four days until the attack, what can they do to mess it up? They are only asking to include some recon flights with movie-camera operators to catch the whole raid from start to finish. You never know, they might just gain some useful knowledge. I’ve heard they will be taking shots of everything, from soup to nuts. Besides they already know all about our plans, anyway.”

“It’s just a pain in the ass to have to inform them of all the details.”

“If we expect them to hang in there and stay without fighting the second Battle of Britain, we have learn to work together again and to trust one another. Say, have you seen those photos of the Russian rocket sites popping up all over the place? Amazing how fast they have been able to produce all those supposed ground-to-air missiles; quite fishy, if you ask me. Our intelligence says their industrial capacity is not up to the task, yet, here they are.”

“You don’t actually believe that nonsense about them having guided missiles do you General? How could they possibly …”

“The Germans had a missile called the 'Wasserfall', that was said to be almost operational. Albert Speer was most adamant on their ability to stop our bombers cold, if he had been allowed to produce them, but Hitler wanted more offensive-minded weapons, and pretty much stopped the program. The Red Army overran their staging area, near the end of the war. We’ve been assured by our wizards that they can jam anything the Soviets can shoot at us. Besides, how could they have them near Toulouse, in time for our raid?” [29]

“How many Brits are we expected to have along with us, sir?”

“They want a full flight of recon aircraft to document our, er, progress.

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