Ride Out the Storm by Max Hennessy

Author:Max Hennessy
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788636810
Publisher: Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Published: 2019-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

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The bombing Scharroo and Marie-Josephine had watched was the first German reaction to the clearing of the sky and the change of wind.

Field telephones shrilled on the aerodromes the Luftwaffe occupied. Messerschmitt 109s went up to provide top cover against the R.A.F.’s spoiling attacks while 110s and Junkers 87s and 88s were bombed up frantically in the afternoon sunshine and went roaring across the fields, their propeller washes flattening the grass, their crews still adjusting their harness as they lifted into the air.

But not Stoos.

He had reached a point of apoplexy by this time. ‘You said this afternoon,’ he was screaming at Oberfeldwebel Hamcke.

‘Herr Leutnant’ – Hamcke was nearly out of his mind with weariness – ‘it’s not possible!’

‘It must be possible! It must be done!’

‘Sir, if I had another dozen men I couldn’t do it before tomorrow now. Hauptmann Dodtzenrodt came back with his petrol tanks punctured and took the men off the job. He wants to be in the air, too, Herr Leutnant!’

Stoos saw the possibility of the decoration he’d set his heart on fading rapidly. The war couldn’t last much longer. The French were on their knees and the British were being cut to shreds. ‘I’ll see the captain,’ he snarled and, spinning on his heel, stalked off towards the tent that did duty as squadron office.

Hamcke stared after him. ‘That man’s mad,’ he said. ‘Stark staring mad! He seems to think they can’t win the war without him.’

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