All allied pilots were acting as fighters in the first 30 minutes of the frame, to try to counteract the fact that we were outnumbered 1.5:1
My plan was working at the start, we didn't seem to lose too many at first contact so I ordered the strike to go ahead. Then the second wave of LW attacked, which I did not expect to happen so quickly. We were split between defence and attack at this point, which is exactly what I tried to avoid. I had planned on our light fighters sweeping ahead of our strike planes enabling them to get in unmolested, but we ended up with only two P40s performing this role as 101 and 880 were busy wiping their strike force out.
Six Allied fighters tried to bomb the target, three got shot down on approach, one got through and killed the barracks, then the last two ditched their eggs and faught it out near the target.
In the end we did better than I expected on air to air kills, but we didn’t do enough damage to the target.
I enjoyed COing the frame, even though I got damaged early on, although some of the guys I sent out on the strike mission were not too pleased.
Stats:
Pilots - 28:41
Kills - 21:18
Objects - 02:21
Deaths - 15:19
kd - 1.4:0.95