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410 BG. 2 pilots, 2nd lt Major Major and 2nd lt David Crosby flew straight to the target area, as we didnt have a flight plan,and searched for targets. We flew low level and located several groups of enemy forces. We then proceeded to drop bombs on them scoring 7 hits each. Not wishing to get shot at more than we needed to, we headed home and made safe landings at our home field.

Plenty of air to air excitement for the 485th this time and no pilots lost. Good show ! We were tasked with an air patrol to the North of Koln and so took extra ammo and 2x500lb just in case. As it happened we all dumped the bombs early on as we came across six FW190A before reaching the front lines. A head on assault from those fiendish Fokkers was avoided and we shared in the delights of shooting them all down. Mr Rox used his aircraft to heavily damage one of them as shown. He survived a crash landing I am pleased to say. Both Artage and Tonar were also forced to land at forward airbases mercifully unharmed. Artage had thrashed his engines to failure, I can only put this down to mounting frustrations caused by not being recognised and accounted for during the 485 briefing due to an admin error ? We were rather dispersed after this initial encounter and Capt Rea suddenly found himself being assaulted by a Whoop of FW190Ds. All hands to the rescue resulting in the Fokkers being sent earthward. Shortly after this encounter had terminated we received a call from Mr Tonar who was trying to emergency land at Venlo stating that there were Bf110s in the area threatening to spoil his day. A quick regroup and 30km descending sprint to his location found one (soon to be team killed) 110 and frightened the rest away. With fuel to spare we decided to pick off a few AAA units before returning home for a well earned rub down with the Radio Times. Funflak landed at a forward airbase, not through any necessity but to visit a “special friend” 💕 Excellent wing man work from Reggie in difficult circumstances and a fine performance (as always), from Capt Rea. Tonar, Artage and Rox should be back at home base by lunchtime today , just in time for matinee card school ......

402nd Debrief: 3rd December 1944 Attack on trains and rail facilities in Krefeld armed with 6x500lb bombs With little AAA resistance encountered over the target area, the squadron dutifully attacked and naturalised the primary objective. Shortly thereafter, red leader and red two spotted an FW-190A8 with lights on to the NE, presumably in the pattern for Krefeld airfield. Both pilots landed hits on a head on attack, which was met with return fire. With the enemy aircraft now trailing grey smoke, red leader swiftly lined up behind and shot it down in flames. No other enemy aircraft were encountered. Forming up over target area, we headed due south to look for targets of opportunity in nearby Mönchengladbach. Further train and rail facilities with assorted ground targets and AAA were encountered and also swiftly dispatched. With further ground targets spotted to the West and South West, the squadron split into fighting pairs and racked up an impressive tally of AAA and artillery near the front-line. Apart from a slightly hairy moment for red two, nearly losing consciousness due to oxygen starvation (and red three for a heart-stopping near collision as a result!) - all pilots and aircraft returned home safe. Well done chaps, great team work and a decent haul of ground targets destroyed. A particular shout out to red four with 13x AAA/Artillery destroyed - well done that man!

Here: Dev blog #89 / IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles In case if the oxygen system is damaged it is highly recommended to avoid high-g maneuvers and descend to 3km and lower. Here it is fellows, As in my situation. Oxygen failure at high altitude.

Crash's point looks good - I'll give you a call a bit later on.

I would re use both of your SSDs as additional storage and dedicate one just to downloads. That way you have the install .exe for your bits and bobs, eg teamspeak, mods etc

Wow... missed that one... Good on you to mention it happening, good on us to suggest a remedy, and good that it worked out! TeamWork!

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No need to deactivate mate - just take your boot drive from your old machine and add it to your new rig - Did this recently for Mick and Windows sorted the whole thing out itself. Likewise GBS and DCS, if you're using the same drives in your new rig then once you've got the machine up and running with the boot drive, then add the second drive. You might have to remap the shortcuts but Mick's machine just worked. If you're desperate for the extra grief, create new bootable media here - https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10 and then boot the machine from the usb stick, delete the partitions from your destination drive (let Windows create it's own) and let the software get on with it. At this point you will probably have registry problems with some games etc so you may end up having to install software again. Needless to say you need to ensure that you have backed up anything that you need in case of problems.