Don’t you think it’s incredible that there were no British fighter planes to defend Alexandria during this one-hour air raid?
In fact, this is not surprising, because when the port air attack began, the air attacks on the three airports in Alexandria were also carried out simultaneously.
Among them, the newly stationed Loge Air Airport with two squadrons of Spitfires has become the focus of air strikes. This airport is 7 kilometers away from Alexandria. The airport is mainly equipped with two squadrons of Spitfires, two squadrons of Hurricanes form a fighter group, and
A bomber group equipped with Blenheim bombers.
Nearly a hundred fighter planes are concentrated at Loge Air Airport, naturally because of its very favorable conditions. When Loge Air Airport was first built during World War I, it was just a dirt runway.
After the war, as the role of aircraft became more and more important, high-quality runways were needed. The Loge Air Airport was expanded and two runways were opened. At the same time, a modern large-scale hangar and other supporting facilities were built.
After entering the 1930s, two new concrete runways were added and the hangar was further expanded.
This makes it the most advanced airport in Alexandria.
Naturally, due to the outbreak of the war, facing the threat from Romania, the United Kingdom dispatched two squadrons of the latest Spitfire fighter jets to station at this airport. Together with the originally advanced Hurricanes, it became the area with the highest quality air force outside of the British mainland.
But early this morning, everything changed.
It was not long before dawn, and the pilots had just woken up. They were eating breakfast and chatting. Suddenly, a piercing air defense siren suddenly sounded, and all the ground crew and pilots immediately ran out. When the siren sounded, something must have happened.
It's just that everyone is curious, and people keep asking, "What's going on?"
The person who was asked could only shake his head blankly, indicating that he did not know.
However, their answers will soon be revealed. Several aircraft they have never seen before appear in front of everyone. Although they do not recognize this aircraft, they will not forget the logo on its wings.
"That's a Romanian plane."
"How did these planes get to Alexandria?"
"Have the Romanian troops already landed?"
No one knows each of these questions, and the incoming fighter planes will not give the answer.
Several HF201 fighter jets lowered their noses, and their equipped 20mm caliber cannons and 12.7mm caliber machine guns fired a burst of fire at the Hurricane fighter jets parked beside the runway, knocking many Hurricane fighter jets to pieces.
These are fighter jets prepared in advance to deal with emergencies, and they still carry enough ammunition and fuel, so the strafing this time will cause great harm to them. The HF201 fighter jets that strafed it felt unsafe, so when they flew over it, they carried themselves
The 60KG bomb was thrown down. Such bombs against small and medium-sized targets cannot be resisted by the fragile machinery of aircraft, so successive explosions became inevitable. These hurricanes parked beside the runway were completely destroyed.
Facing such a critical situation, the airport became even more panicked. Many people were afraid of the firepower of enemy planes and did not dare to step forward and start the plane.
Someone shouted anxiously about this, "Where are our anti-aircraft guns? Why didn't they fire to drive away the enemy?"
Just as he was talking, the air defense positions guarding the airport opened fire. 40mm and 20mm anti-aircraft guns were sweeping towards the enemy fighter jets that were torturing the airport. These firing positions immediately attracted the attention of the enemy planes.
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Several brave pilots immediately prepared to board the plane to counterattack the enemy. But they were destined to have no chance, because after the fighter planes had no air defense battlefield to attract them, another fighter plane appeared in their eyes.
Someone who was well-informed recognized it immediately and said, "This is a Romanian dive bomber. It's hard to run away."
Because these dive bombers have begun to enter the dive stage, their sharp roar is even more frightening.
Everyone in the room fled in all directions. When the screams reached the end, a 500-kilogram bomb was thrown onto the building. The violent explosion directly destroyed the building.
Lieutenant Colonel Eric, the person in charge of the airport who saw all this from a distance, blushed and his eyes were full of anger. He took out his pistol and pulled the trigger at the dive bomber that was causing all these atrocities in the distance.
"Ah, ah, ah! You criminals, all of you, die!"
Lieutenant Colonel Eric, who had emptied the magazine, was venting his emotions. He was still in the building before, but he came out early due to something that happened before. After the air defense siren sounded, he had to deploy for air defense again.
But Lieutenant Colonel Eric's disaster was not over yet. Nearly ten more planes were seen arriving at the Loge Air Airport. This made the air defense position, which was already under great pressure, even more difficult.
"boom!"
An HF201 fighter jet attacked from behind and destroyed a 40mm anti-aircraft gun position.
"boom!"
Another air defense position was destroyed.
There were so many incoming enemy planes that the airport's air defense positions were unable to take care of them, which naturally gave the opponent the opportunity to destroy itself.
At this time, I have to praise the HF201 fighter jet. Its good low-altitude performance makes it even more powerful in raids. In many cases, it can easily deal with threats from air defense positions. (Don’t be affected by movies and TV series. It is not easy for air defense positions to shoot down aircraft.
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The air defense positions that were harassed by these HF201 fighter jets did not have time to bomb the airport with bombers.
The dive bombers, which had lost their harassment, immediately pounced on the oil depot, hangar, repair shop, etc., all of which became the target of the bombing. This caused heavy losses to the airport, and nearly a hundred aircraft stationed there were destroyed in this attack.
So in the end, only 5 aircraft were counted, two of which were damaged.
When Loge El Airport was attacked, the other two airports did not fare well either. How could the Romanian air strikes forget them? They were also destroyed by the same two air strikes.
However, unlike the attack on Logel Airport, Antanla Airport and Colmada Airport had an early warning of the attack and had already taken off several Gladiator fighter jets.
This was just a biplane developed in 1935 (I don’t know what the British were thinking, they were developing biplanes by 1935). It was no match for the Romanian Zero, and it was shot down effortlessly.
In this way, the three airports in Alexandria were completely destroyed, and Romania deployed nearly a hundred fighters (46 HF201 fighters and 36 RU18T dive bombers) to deal with these three airports.
The main reason was also to block support from Cairo and Said and prepare for the second air raid.
