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402nd After patrolling over Nettesheim area up to 14K ft, and nothing to be seen... headed NE, dropped bombs on train station at Zülpich. Unfortunately, Red 2 got damaged and had to bale (he did make it over friendly territory) White flight found some enemy a/c, chased them down North, and shot them down. (262's) On the way home Red 4 noticed engine issues, and had to switch #2 off. All remaining 6 a/c landed at home base. No pilots lost, some ground kills, some a/c kills. Good show!

It's even installed and ready for use on our server, not currently running though ... there appears to be no need for it within our group. We got TS, which works fine for our purposes. If you have a need for more realistic radio, crackling and stuff, then it could add to the immersion.

Oh my... Mossie Multicrew?

Can I have number 6? (Reasoning: when the boche kills my tank, and the turret flies off, and it lands upside down ... then y'all look and see Painless bought the farm!)

Added to CheckSkins now

485th hooked up with 402nd due to low numbers overall (lost Jabo) due to technical issues right after take off, he did emergency land successfully. Red, Blue and White flights attacked targets with success, lots of guns killed, some vehicles. It felt rather coordinated No real close calls, only one, where Chris nearly merged with a wild Tempest (already called the RAF about that) Everyone got home! Happy! Thanks 485th, good show! (No enemy a/c encountered at all)

They never got 'round to that!

Wow... that's special, so like it never ever happened to me, and I'm sure none of the members of our squad have done this! Yep, basically, that's our approach!

Hi Marc, Welcome here!

Hurraay! I did it! Blenheim, 100 Fuel, took off from Watchfield, climbed up to like 25k feet! Contrails for the win! Dropped bombs somewhere over France ... After three hours, I landed back at Watchfield. Nearly wrecked it, as at initial approach I glanced to below the left hand engine ... oopsie ... gear was still up! Go around, no sweat... landed! So happy! I am a hero... now where's my Swordfish?

Finally made it through a long flight that I had been wanting to do for so long! Take off from airfield near Cherbourg, in a 110, fly North over the Isle of Wight, and onwards north. Then East to fly over London, the Thames estuary. Then South East towards France... Next South, Le Havre, then West, and land at the same base I took off from. This all on our open BoB Server! Cools. Very Cools. Dropped two bombs over London. From contrails altitude. They must have hit the ground. Surely. Maybe the Thames? We'll never know! Think a Spitfire over the Isle of Sheppy set out to intercept me.Haha, no catching me heading East at that altitude in this beast! One thing to remark while on the last leg heading West: Engines suddenly running rough! Some fiddling with those really complex fuel tank selectors in the 110 fixed that. I think... Kind of a challenge, you know you do not have that much time to fix it, and flipping them switches may or may not give an instant result... so it's flip switch - wait - wait - no change? Undo flip. Next flip ... lol Worked out fine, landed nicely. It took me some 120minutes ! Next challenge: Similar thing, but in a Blenheim! At least I know how the Fuel selectors work in that beast ... lol

I will probably surely be in ... !

Same here!

There was no mission last night ...

It's only money ...

To each his own. Far fetched? Silly? Stupid? It's not something I would ever do - but I do admire their creativity ... and determination.

You forgot this line: "It's tin hats that we wear"

402nd Debrief (disclaimer: my memory fails me - it's already bad at recording all these flashy events in proper order, but now, typing this after a day's work ... yeah... please forgive me. Just trying to do this so Fen does not have to spend the time ... Oh wait, this probably needs so many corrections... Oh well ... ) Started out with 8 aircraft, but lost Tbone (Red 4) right after spawning in due to technical issue. Set out east towards target. Our P47 escorts were soon with us. The plan was to have white flight attack targer first, 4x two pairs of 1000lbs bombs. On ingress, we met with some 190's, white flight took care of them, whilst keeping their bombs. Good job. Red flight kept flying towards target. Our escort P47 disappeared as soon as the enemy a/c showed up, never seen them back, they probably chased some back home (?) Over target, Red flight stayed over the clouds, waited for White to come in. White flight attacked the target and did good damage. Red flight then attacked. After all bombs were used, some repeated strafing attacks were performed on triple A guns and other items. (The 410th BG must have woken the AAA up when leaving the area I suppose ... because they were surely there!) White 4 got damaged, and returned home early, accompanied by White 3. (Or was it vv?) Return flight was messy, as we somehow all got split up. White 1 and 2 chasing bandits reported by White 3/4. Finding bandits here and there. Red 3 having a go at them 5x 110's up north ... Red 1 and 2 came across two 88's. Unfortunately, Red 2 was killed due to a collision, and probably wasn't able to bale out. No parachute was seen. Hectic radio traffic for a while. White 4 had to bale out of damaged a/c, inside our lines. I think. Landing was still fairly close together, time wise. Good job all... we killed it, and them! (Note to self; Need to improve, seem to keep losing the same wing man over and over again! Any volunteers?)

No worries sir... Stats are nice to have... The only one I think is relevant here is the one that shows 'Number of missions'

Good show 402ND - well - apart from our pilot mr. Baker. Good team work. Thanks! (Edit: Sorry, sounds like I am blaming mr. Baker - I am not - I worded it wrong there! Just so sad to see we lost him ... )

That was a very good one to listen to... Thanks!

New version is in ChkMods - anybody in need of an update will have to first delete the old version in their install, and then run ChkSkins.

As long as the name of the file does not get changed, it will be fine. (Meaning: the name it has when I download it, and put it in the proper folder, should be equal to the name of the file you use to put it in your folder.) ChkSkins only compares file names, not dates or sizes or contents!

Axis!