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Final BDA: Please note, no criticism or judgement meant here; this is just for your own information and evaluation going forward. After review of the combat film from all surviving aircraft and crew reports: 1. Fenrir - 3 of his 4 bombs landed short but the last landed within 2ft of the wall and was just close enough to drop it... skin of the teeth job though.... 2. Kronenberg - released a little high and possibly with a slight loft as he managed to spread the bombs and hit the two outbuildings on the north side of the compound. 3. BluBear - all 4 bombs just short, bad luck! 4. Zukker - too early release and in a dive, bombs well short. 5. Sheriff - forgot to open his bomb bay but manages to crack the wall with his wing bombs only (a). Then cheekily swings back round to re-attack from the SE, narrowly avoids getting a face-full of 2nd Wave's bombs detonating as he runs in but nonetheless delivers his remaining bombs with remarkable accuracy and breaches the wall again (b). Ten-out-of-ten for dedication and derring-do Ross, but there's a fine line between bravery and, well.... 😉 6. Bremspropellor - release too high and too late; bombs went long and landed in residential area West of prison. One of your bombs detonated instantaneously, causing the engine loss. 7. Wingflyr - a text book drop, absolutely spot on centre of target; couldn't have done it better if he had a CCIP pipper! Well done. 8. Dixon - fractionally late release, luckily the 1st and 2nd bomb on target, the others landing slightly beyond. 9. 464 Sqn Yellow 2 - release was too early and line-up was to the right. 10. 464 Sqn Yellow 3 - lineup was good but release too late; bombs detonated outside the prison wall to the south. You guys were travelling at 320-350ft per second; ergo, 1/10th of a second means the difference of ~35ft (10m). Add in the massive differences any variation that the height of release can bring, with pitch attitude at release compounding the problem, plus trying to keep some semblance of formation, well, you all did an amazing job.

Hello Guys, I have been working on the North Africa Campaign and would like to present my scenario to see what you think of it as a working idea. Picture 1 - This shows the overall map and probable starting positions. Pictures 2 and 3 give a bit more detail. My idea for the Campaign is that Allied forces must reach the port town of Gabes, located on the South coast. The axis forces must stop this advance and push the Allies back over the sea. I have two ideas on how to start the campaign. 1. The Allies have landed at either the north or the south landing point (if this scenario was to be used I am favoring the South landing site as it should provide contact / engagement quicker.) 2. The Allies have the option of staging a landing raid at either the north or the south (the location would be unknown to the Axis forces, although I would produce an "Alarm - enemy sited..." message). The landing spawn will only get enabled if a percentage of the landing craft arrive at the coast, lets say 50% for now. The landing craft would start out from the target approximately the same amount of time as it will take the Axis aircraft to reach the area once notified. All towns once captured will trigger a supply convoy. Airfields on the main land can be captured by enemy ground units. I have not worked on aircraft attacking and disabling yet. I have also not added the bridges yet. What do you think of the scenario(s)?

Cat's out of the bag then. Now I can reveal the true intel I received. Top-secret killer SS robo-rabbits were stationed in that field and I wiped out the bloody lot of them. My wing bombs despatched any surface critters and the 500lb-ers appear to have tunneled right into the burrows eliminating their production line. I'll accept a DFC&bar minimum. Nothing for the nav naturally, he didn't even turn up.

Last minute intel suggested a pack of deadly SS attack dogs were stationed in that outbuilding, trained to pounce on any fleeing prisoner. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. 😁

Provisional BDA analysis:

A picture whilst I was preparing for the mission, during the briefing, some notes still incomplete ... yet getting there!