Over Cape Breton Island, the battle between the Royal Air Force and the German Navy and Air Force grew ever more intense, even more eye-catching than the war raging on the ground. Hundreds of aircraft from both sides engaged in savage combat over this island of barely ten thousand square kilometers, with planes being shot down almost every moment.
At Morien Harbor, the German Marine Corps had already crushed the British 14th Infantry Division troops deployed on the beaches and began their assault into the city. The harbor district was their primary target. General Ernst von Busch had ordered that Morien Harbor's port facilities had to be taken—and taken as intact as possible. This concerned whether the German Army's heavy equipment could be brought ashore in the shortest possible time.
More than a dozen Amphibious Tanks advanced along the road, their hulls covered with soldiers hitching a ride.
"Beautiful! They shot down another British plane!" The officers and men of the German Marine Corps erupted in cheers as they watched the German Air Force and Navy display their might, continuously bringing down Royal Air Force aircraft.
"How could the British possibly be a match for us? We'll shoot them all down like turkeys."
"Enough nonsense. The Air Force and the Navy's Carrier-based Aircraft Unit are buying us time. We have to take Morien Harbor as quickly as possible," an officer said.
Although the Royal Air Force's losses far exceeded those of the German Air Force and Navy's Carrier-based Aircraft Unit, the Germans had suffered losses as well. Moreover, this was North America, the British home ground. The Americans might join in too. Germany, being so far from its homeland, was greatly constrained in strength. Yet even so, to secure favorable combat conditions for the German Marine Corps, they continued fighting