The second wave of large-scale air combat took place around 9:15, when the British West Maureen Wing arrived in Dieppe and engaged some 50 German fighters. During the half-hour fierce battle, 5 Spitfires, 1 Fw 190 and 1 Bf 109G crashed, and 3 More Spitfires were injured, and 1 Bf 109 of JG 26 11th Squadron was severely damaged and forced to land.
Squadron 610, which served as high-altitude cover in the British West Molin Wing, flew at an altitude of less than 2,000 meters, and The squadron leader, Major James Johnson, saw the black smoke billowing from the beach, countless fighter planes dancing wildly, and the commanders' urgent calls came from the radio: "Rush out!" dodge! Notice 190 above 6 o'clock... Circumvention of all. In front of him flashed a climbing Fw190, Johnson quickly shot a long-range long shot, and unexpectedly saw the other fuselage smoke, the wheel fell off, and fell into the sea.
He joined forces with two wingmen to take 1 Bf 109, but the Black Cross still poured in from the interior and surrounded them, and Johnson claimed to be in the most difficult battle of his military career with 1 Fw 190, and finally threw each other away by circling, and he later commented: "Our Spitfire lagged behind the Fw 190, and this time I was undoubtedly very lucky to be able to retreat."
Under the heavy ground fire of the German army, the landing forces suffered heavy casualties, and the Allied combat command judged that it could not achieve the operational purpose based on various unfavorable news from the beachhead, and ordered a retreat. The air situation is also not optimistic, as of 10:30, the ROYAL Air Force has lost 27 Spitfires, 1 Hurricane, 2 Potutun, 6 Mustangs, and 13 Spitfires and 1 Mustang, and the information intercepted by the British radio shows that the German fighters on the beach have surged from 20 to 30 at 8:30 to about 100, JG 2 and JG 26 have fallen out, and the Battle of Dieppe reached a white-hot stage around 11:30.
Before the bombers arrived, many Fw 190s had to strafe ground targets as best they could, in addition to fighting in the air. Two squadrons of fighter-bombers concentrated on surface targets, in addition to a number of armed reconnaissance missions.
At 11:00, five Do 217 medium bombers of the German 2nd Bomber Wing (KG 2) arrived from the Netherlands, and they followed the deployment to attack the slow and easy-to-attack Allied ships, and several stranded Fw 190s of the I./JG 26 Group were temporarily transferred to escort them, flying at an altitude of about 2000 meters.
German bombers followed orders and launched round after round of bombing from an altitude of 2,000 meters to 1 in units of 3 to 15 aircraft. In the afternoon, the Germans dispatched a total of about 145 medium bombers, losing 25 and losing 16.
Just as the Do 217 was bombarding the beachhead and the sea, the Luftwaffe backyard caught fire. As the closest airport to Dieppe, Druka was attacked by the 97th Bomber Group of the U.S. Army's Eighth Air Force. At 11:30, under the protection of four Spitfire zone fighter squadrons, 24 B-17 heavy bombers dropped about 25 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs from an altitude of 7,000 meters, announcing to the Luftwaffe the arrival of a new enemy.
By this time the German fighters had poured out, only the anti-aircraft guns were still in color, and 3 B-17s were hit by heavy anti-aircraft shells when they flew back through the Cressy Forest, but there were no casualties. Crew members saw several Fw 190s along the way with no intention of intercepting, and eventually returned to both British bases between 11:25 and 12:00.
As for the bombing effect, bombing crews and Spitfire pilots observed that "a large number of bombs hit the airfield management area and the southern runway directly". British radio surveillance reported that the airfield had been paralyzed for several hours and had at least lost the ability to take off and land, although only a few Fw 190s of the I/JG 26 Group were slightly damaged on the ground, indicating that the aircraft damage caused by the bombing was not serious.
On the other hand, the Germans placed satellite airfields in Cambrai-Epinova, Liergesgu and Amiens to play an emergency role, and fighter jets from these places continued to attack the front line, and the transfer and liaison flights remained smooth. The First Allied attempt to block enemy airfields with heavy bombers ended in failure. The scale of the 24 B-17s was far from large enough to suppress the 12 German airfields around Dieppe, and the faltering U.S. Eighth Air Force would have to take at least several times the number of troops to achieve its wishes.
At noon, the retreat of the Dieppe beachhead was in full swing, the British fighters came to cover, and the Allied post-war reports believed that they occupied the air supremacy of the beachhead and the sea surface, and supported a copper wall-like air umbrella for the retreat, but the "Spitfire" was actually quite passive, limited by the range, they only had about ten minutes of combat time left after flying to Dieppe, even if they could make up for the lack of combat radius by increasing the number and sorties, the flight altitude also made the Spitfire quite vulnerable to the imposing Fw 190.
The Luftwaffe, on the other hand, initially targeted enemy fighters, because the British bombers were so small that they were difficult to spot in the scuffles of the narrow beachhead. The ground guides, as usual, dispatched and guided the fighters with such composure and orderliness that they were impressed by the British radio monitors who were listening to their calls.
When German bombers arrived at the beachhead on a large scale in the afternoon, the overall situation was already decided. The Luftwaffe believed that more than 100 fighters on the front line were enough to secure the victory without reinforcements. Their reserve is only 18 repaired aircraft in the repair plant in Wevelheim, Belgium.
At 13:30, the retreat came to a complete halt, and many Canadian soldiers remained in Dieppe, waiting for them to be either killed or captured. Boston and Hurricane bombed large artillery bunkers for the last time, and these powerful shore guns contributed to the German landings, and some aircraft began to drop smoke bombs. Covering the retreating ships was self-defeating, a large number of smoke bombs hindered the self-defense of the ship's anti-aircraft guns, german bombers and fighter bombers benefited more, and the Royal Navy lost a total of 1 destroyer and 33 landing ships in the Dieppe Raid. As the ground battle ended, the focus of the air battle shifted to the sea.
At about 14:00, 2 Fw 190s of JG 2 10th Squadron swooped down and bombed the destroyer Berkeley with lightning speed, hitting the stern of the ship directly with a 500 kg bomb, almost no one on board saw the attacker, piloting the Spitfire IX, a senior air officer of the 11th Brigade of the Royal Air Force who was patrolling nearby: Colonel Broadhuce was the only Allied air crew who witnessed this scene, he tried to block, but the whip was too long to reach, and could only angrily turn all the shells backwards to an Fw 190 poured down.
The Berkeley immediately began to capsize after this heavy blow, and after the evacuation of the ship's personnel, the destroyer "Albreton" was ordered to fire torpedoes and sink it. It was the only capital ship lost by the British Navy that day, and in addition to 15 crew members and some Canadian soldiers on board, it was also declared missing by Air Force observer Lieutenant Colonel Stanleyskina.
In the Battle of Dieppe, 44 German Fw 190 fighter-bombers carried out a total of 9 bombing missions. JG 2 No. 10 Squadron maximized the anti-ship experience accumulated in the past six months, which should be called sinking 1 destroyer and 2 large landing craft, injuring another destroyer, 1 transport ship, 1 landing craft and 2 frigates, and shooting down 1 "Spitfire", and only 1 aircraft of its own was damaged by the shipboard anti-aircraft gun, and it was forced to land nearby. Coupled with a series of successful bombing missions, a month later The Squadron Leader, Lieutenant Fritz Schlerttel, wore the Knight's Cross.
JG 26 10th Squadron was dwarfed, reported the hitting of several warships, transport ships, motorboats and landing craft, and also lost 1 aircraft and its pilot, Corporal Heinrich Vonberg was wounded by the "Spitfire" after completing the bombing, he landed safely at The Ruka airport, inspected the Fw 190-A3/U and found that it seemed to be in no serious trouble, took off again, and was destroyed halfway through the aircraft.