The Red Storm Series Box Set: Books One - Three by James Rosone

Author:James Rosone [Rosone, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-20T22:00:00+00:00

After a series of “hurry up and wait” announcements, two days had passed. Then, all of a sudden, the offensive finally started.

JD’s tank slowly moved through a farm field towards a tree line, where his troop would form up with another tank battalion. They were going to act as a mobile reserve for the coming attack. Once the Germans and British units broke through the Russian lines, the Americans would rush a full battalion of tanks and mechanized infantry through the breach, followed quickly by the French division that had just arrived in country. The overall objective of the offensive was to break through the Russian lines and push them back to the Dnieper River.

As their tank came to a halt at the edge of a cornfield, they could hear the hum of aircraft flying low overhead towards the Russian lines. The Air Force was working the Russian lines over before the main attack started. JD and Smokey were sitting in the turret, getting their crew-served weapons loaded and ready. The order to move forward would probably come shortly after the main attack started, and they wanted to be ready.

Off in the distance, they saw several large explosions as the attacking aircraft delivered a series of bombs. Then, a tremendous amount of tracer fire leaped up from the ground, heading in the direction of the attacking aircraft. Judging by the clatter of the machine guns and the volume of tracer fire being thrown at the fighters, the Russians must have had some anti-aircraft vehicles equipped with 25mm or 30mm chain guns. It sounded like hundreds of sheets of fabric were being ripped apart, over and over.

As they watched the tracer fire, they saw nearly a dozen missiles streak from the frontlines for the aircraft as well. An A-10 took a direct hit from a missile, and one of its engines exploded in a spectacular fashion. The aircraft left a trail of black smoke as it turned towards friendly lines, somehow still able to stay aloft. A pair of F-16s didn’t appear to be so lucky; both aircraft were hit by one of the dozens of SAMs being fired at them and burst into enormous fireballs that rained debris and aviation fuel across the ground below.

“It looks like the Air Force is laying it on thick,” Smokey said with a whistle. “They’re hammering the Russians.” He secured the ammunition box next to his weapon, pulling the charging handle back as he made sure he had a belt properly fed into the machine gun.

“Yeah, they are, but they also look like they’re taking some losses. You see that A-10 limping away,” JD replied as he surveyed the sky. Additional air battles continued well above them. In the distance, helicopters brought their own fire and brimstone to the Russians.

The radio came alive with chatter as the ground battle started. The crew listened in for nearly an hour, wondering if they would receive the call to exploit a breakthrough, but it never came. Then,

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