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19/02/45

Maj. Ken Shear

Mission: Attack Enemy Artillery position.

Result: Artillery position wiped out.

The squadron spotted and engaged a pair of s/e e/a just as we crossed the lines; however on setting up to bounce this formation a second group of 3x E/A were spotted closing on White Flight. White Flight ordered to continue pressing the attack on the first formation and Red flight instructed to reverse heading and attack the new formation. Red Leader was jumped by a 6th unseen a/c and took damage to his empennage but a/c was still controllable and fightable. Red Leader ordered all bombs jettissoned and a general melee ensued. All s/e e/a were eventually destroyed, with note being made of the heroic actions of White 1, Lt Barry Cuda; he destroyed 2 e/a before tragically colliding with a 3rd.

Red 3 & 4 pursued a bandit to the SE and downed it, but on attempting to rejoin were engaged by a single twin-engined type identified as an ME-410. This was swiftly dispatched, however not before damaging Red 3s port motor and forcing him to abort the mission with Red 4 covering.

Reds 1 & 2 and White 2 pressed on to target and strafed successfully. White 2 was hit by machine gun fire whilst attacking and was leaking coolant form the port radiator; despite this he pressed home the attack on 3 more occasions. With target destoyed and two of the 3 aircraft damaged the remainder of the formation set out for home.

Red 4's adventures continued when he engaged a group of e/a alone over the airfields NW of Volkel, damaging an Ar 234 before suffering heavy damage at the hands of their escort. He however force landed safely on a single engine at Volkel - though his one good engine expired as he crossed the threshold!

 

2 friendly aircraft force landed damaged Volkel, 2 friendly aircraft force landed damaged Venlo, 1 friendly aircraft landed undamaged Venlo ; 1 friendly aircraft destroyed.

 

Personal tally:

Air:

1x Bf 109G

 

Ground:

1x Heavy Flak

5x Artillery

1x Truck

 

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19/02/45

2nd Lt. Ian Bond

Damaged by gun bursts landed at Venlo Airfield.

Air:

1x FW109 Heavily Damaged went down after White leader collided with the bandit.

Ground:

3 Heavy Flak Howitzers. 

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22/02/45

Maj. Ken Shear

Mission: Attack Dusseldorf Rail Yards.

Result: Heavy damage.

The successfully squadron dive bombed the target, three large buildings destroyed/heavily damaged and several rail cars destroyed. Red 1 engaged AAA guns immediate SW of target destroying both.

Proceeded South down the Rhine looking for targets of opportunity. Much heavy flak South of Cologne. Red 1 slightly damaged.

South of Bonn the squadron spotted and engaged a 5+ Me 109s heading west below and ahead. Squadron bounced the e/a and  shot down 7 in total. Good cross cover and call outs. 

1 friendly aircraft force landed damaged near Euskichen.

 

Personal tally:

Air:

3x Bf 109G

 

Ground:

2x Light Flak

 

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23/02/45

Maj. Ken Shear

Mission: Intercept

Result: 

The squadron proceeded to patrol area. As we approached White 1 called out a bogey approaching and called White 2 to break. Bogey attacked and was I/D'd as an Me 109. White 2 managed to reverse positions and swiftly dispatched the bandit.

Squadron continued patrol and a few minures later Red 2 spotted a gaggle of ~10 Me 109s North of the target. Squadron bounced the e/a and enagaged. 8 e/a destroyed. Good cross cover and call outs. 

1 friendly aircraft destroyed, 1 friendly aircraft force landed damaged near Euskichen.

 

Personal tally:

Air:

3.5x Bf 109G (1 shared with Red 2)

 

Ground:

-

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24/02/45

2nd Lt.  Edgar Denhose

Air:

1x Bf 109G14

1x Shared 109 with Delta

Ground:

2x Machine Guns

2x AA Guns

Bailed out over friendly territory, as my 38 stopped being a lean mean fighting machine, due to either AA or maybe 262's?

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24/02/45

Maj. Ken Shear

Mission: Artillery Strike

Result: 

The squadron proceeded to target area. As we approached the frontline but still someways from it, Red 1 sighted a bandit crossing his nose, slightly below, going North to South. ID'd as a 109. Squadron engaged with Red trying to draw bandits attention whilst White flight took him down. After much swirling Red 3 managed to damage the e/a when White 1 managed to saddle up and dispatched the bandit with a well aimed burst to the cockpit.

Squadron regrouped and continued to target area where as the target was sighted, though partially obscured by cloud. As Red 1 commenced a diving turn to Port to try and setup an attack run unencumbered by the cloud cover, Red 2 spotted a pair of bogeys to the East. Red flight set up their attack run as White flight attempted to move to intercept and ID the bogeys, which turned out to be 109s. The e/a avoided the intercept and bore in on Red flight.

Red flight made a succuessful attack run, destroying many field guns and AAA. However, Red 1 was attacked by e/a coming off target, he was wounded and set on fire, managing to just cross the river and over friendly lines before bailing out. White 2 was damaged by flak but both the e/a were dispatched by Red 3 and White 1 respectively.

The remainder of the squadron flew North to a secondary Fortification target where 2 further aircraft were observed covering the taget area. These turned out to be Me 262, White 1 flaming one in a fantastic high angle deflection shot, and the other being heavily damaged by White 2 and last seen leaving the area at high speed venting fluids.

Unfortunately Red 3 was hit by intense light flak during his attack run, and he too was only able to nurse his bird back to friendly lines before he was obliged to bail out. Red 4 was lost trying to neutralise the AAA guns, his aircaft seen to explode almost on top of a light flak gun site he had been attacking.

White 2, having suffered damage force landed at a friendly airfield, and White 1 and Red 2 retuned to base, Red 2 also having recieved some light damage to his aircraft.

 

3 friendly aircraft destroyed (2 pilots recovered safely by parachute, 1 KIA), 1 friendly aircraft force landed damaged near Cologne, 1 further friendly aircrafy landed at base damaged.

 

Personal tally:

Air:

-

 

Ground:

1 x Howitzer

1x Truck

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