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Rosters as of the morning of the 15th October 1944: [Mission to be hosted on Sunday 23rd August 2020]

Well done everybody on a good showing despite a few frustrations with the start and then the issues of the pea-soup overcast. The fact that we gave the Kraut a bloody nose with minimal losses reinforces the fact that your trials were not in vain. Firstly, you'll all be relieved to hear that Maj. Payne-Less bailed out of his '38 behind friendly lines; he's a bit banged up but he's pissed off and determined to fly the next mission. I wouldn't want to be the squadron MO right now.... Secondly a double whammy of jet-jobs, one each to the 402nd and 485th.... though it seems that my initial outburst of "first 370th FG Me 262 kill to Perf" was erronoeous; that honour went to Lt. Bloobair (MIA) back on the October 2nd, with Lt. Smedley and the late Maj. Fen also scoring against 262s on the same date. So Lt. Per Fesser, your wallet is safe. Lt. John Artiesbi, however.... it is the first 262 kill for the 485th! Congratulations on getting the first blow-job for your squadron! Gonna be an expensive night for you methinks... Congratulations to Lts. Reginald and Apeehill for scoring on their first ops for their squadron. Also of note is Lt. Pook's selfless attempt to relieve Lt. Friar of some unnecessary weight: http://dangerdogz.com/forums/topic/13737-p38-mission/?tab=comments#comment-140222 Whilst Group HQ appreciate Lt. Pook's efforts in improving the agility of his squad-mate's airplane, we would point him to the crew chiefs who would be happy to recommend some more traditional and eminently less flammable engineering methods to accomplish the same. Well done all for some good team work. And finally we have TWO Bronze Star recipients! Congratulations to Capt. David Prang of the 485th and to Lt. Fenton Rea of the 402nd. Good work gentlemen.

Trees can kill

Dave, I hadn't realised till I spoke to Mick this morning that you'd crashed and were killed - PWCG didn't even log it so I assumed you'd force/crash landed in friendly territory. With BluBears similar indestructibilty in evidence from last weeks mission this points to a PWCG logging error. I will raise a thread regards it over at the Sturmovik forums. As for now we'll say you also had one in a million escape from the jaws of death and were discovered unconscious in the wreckage of your P-38 by a force of advancing US troops.

So to summarise, the 485th and 402nd are neck-and-neck on confirmed air kills, but with more than double the number of 402nd ground targets destroyed of all types and having accomplished all this having flown one less sortie than the 402nd, looks like the 485th are currently the top of the 370th FG rankings right now. Well done Maj. Payne-Less and all you 485th jocks!

Apologies for poor show tonight , was a bit tired with working on house all day and it showed

Okay, gimme some good reviews when it's all up there... then I'll go for PH-UCKME