Dare Devil

Chapter 13

Chapter 13

AN: Whoops almost started to write in first person!

June 6th, 1944. A day planned meticulously for months by the allied generals to finally free France from the Nazi occupation. British, American and Canadian soldiers coming from air and sea. Some paratroopers and other coming in landing crafts with tanks and on foot. The Canadians had been given their own beach.

Matthew couldn't wait to get into the air. The pilots were currently waiting for the okay to take off. They were scheduled to be in the air in five minutes. Their main objective was to destroy the German tanks and artillery to cover the landing crafts. They were finally given the okay and lined up to get into the sky. They got into the air and into formation heading towards Normandy.

Canada could see the landing crafts just reaching the shore on Juno beach and men and tanks filing out. Some of the boats were having trouble getting around the German blockades. The landing area was fairly flat. The beach led up to a dike and a small town.

The formations picked up speed as they dived down to shoot the German gunners. Matthews’s plane was equipped with heavy cannons allowing him to attack and destroy heavier vehicles without losing any manoeuvrability. He was happy to be back in a spitfire.

The men looked like ants from his bird eye view. He could see bright flashes coming from in between buildings. Matthew knew that the Germans had tanks in the area, but not how many. Canada swooped down to one of the light tanks and fired his guns.

The tank exploded and Matthew rolled away from the flames. He quickly looked around for enemy planes, but found none. He turned his plane back around to the small town. He carefully watched his altitude as he made another pass firing a tank. Canada looked back over his shoulder to see the operators climbing out of the tank and the machine had smoke pouring out of it.

Matthew looked around. The allies were having the same luck. Still no enemy planes were in the air. He spotted another tank coming in from the fields just outside of the town. He turned his plane towards the target and once he got close enough he realized it was a stronger tank. Canada switched to his heavy guns and fired. It took three passes before the huge tank was finally destroyed.

By that time the Germans had finally sent some planes to challenge the invasion. He spotted some biplanes trailing behind the Monoplanes. The Nazis were getting low on resources and it showed.

Matthew kept his focus on the ground units moving towards their landing crafts. He spotted one getting to close to them for his comfort and swooped towards it. Another one of his allies had just finished their pass over damaging the tank. Canada finished it off.

Finally all the visible ground units were destroyed and the allied planes were starting to get back into formation to take on the remaining Luftwaffe pilots. Matthew picked one of the slow heavier looking planes and flew after it.

The Canadian easily caught up to the huge plane. He switched to his heavy cannon guns and fired when he was close enough. The Luftwaffe tail gunner started to fire back at him. Canada moved around never flying straight for longer than a second. His allies were doing the same and Matthew made sure to keep out of the way of their bullets and paths.

Canada kept firing at the plane’s engines, but the plane kept in the air. More and more allies joined chasing the plane and putting more bullet holes in the thing. The right wing was looking like it would come off at any second. He shot a few more rounds and rolled out of the way of the tail gunners bullets. His ally swooped down and attacked the gunner. No more bullets came from the gunner and Matthew assumed that they were dead.

The wing of the huge plane suddenly flew off and the plane started to fall. The pack of allies planes split letting loose wing go between them. The pack of planes split off into their squadrons and half headed back to the aircraft carriers to refuel and rearm while the others patrol the skies, but it was clear the Nazis had no planes left.

AN: Sorry it took me so long, but I was sick and I have exams and culminating project for all my classes due soon! My exams start on the 17th and end on 23rd. After then I'll have more time to write!