You want credit for sinking a boat? Fine, I have no problem with that. Blowing up a few buildings? Not necessary to have it flash to the whole arena. That is my point.
Myabe we could have something like this in text buffer then:
JANUARY REPORTS
2 January 1943 - Capt. Clyde G. Gillespie of 322nd
Squadron was appointed Squadron Commander of 401st
Squadron and reported for duty.
3 January 1943 - Target for today was St. Nazaire,
France. Aiming point was torpedo shed near sub pens,
bomb load was 5 x 1000 G. P. bombs. Take off was at
0912 hours and ETR was St. Eval at 1410 hours. Groups
303, 305 91st and 206 were to furnish maximum number
of planes. 91st Group sent 14 A/C over target of
which 5 were from 322nd Squadron. #481, Capt.
Fishburne and Capt. Campbell; #482, Lt. Don C. Bader
(?); #483, Lt. Ralph Felton; #453, Lt. John T. Hardin;
#497, Lt. W. Genheimer.
E/A fighters hit us at target in large numbers. Heavy
flack, at 21,000 feet was intense and accurate, many
hits being scored. Bombing was good, pictures from
Lt. Hardin’s ship showing many hits on the target by
322nd. Coming off target Lt. Bader’s A/C was hit by
flack, one engine and wing catching fire. He was
forced to lose speed and fell behind. He called the
group leader over command set but Maj. Putnam did not
hear. Capt. Campbell leading B Flight heard him and
made a 360 degree circle to pick him up. As Campbell
arrived on Bader’s wing, Bader was being attacked by 5
E/A. Two were shot down and rest fled. E/A followed
our A/C 80 miles to sea, shooting down our A/C piloted
by Lt. Anderson of 401st Squadron. First Division (M)
got 38 E/A of which 24 were bagged by 91st and of these
the 322nd got 17 as follows:
#453, Lt. John T. Hardin; Sgt. Louis M. (?) Greenlee,
T.G., destroyed FW 190.
S/Sgt. Robert L. Rupp R. W., destroyed 2 FW 190s.
T/Sgt. Henry J. Wallach, B.T.G. destroyed FW 190. 2nd
Lt. John W. Beauchamp, Bomb., destroyed FW 190.
#497, Lt. Wm. Genheimer; S/Sgt. Arthur L. Berkowitz,
L.W.G., destroyed FW 190. Sgt. Rowland E. Hale,
T.T.G., damaged FW 190.
#481, Capt. Robert Campbell; Lt. Leonard V. Santoro,
Comb., destroyed FW 190. S/Sgt. N. R. Pidgeon, R.W.G.,
destroyed FW 190.S/Sgt. Leonard A. Panaro, T.T.G.,
destroyed FW 190. S/Sgt. J. A. Arbison (?), T.G.,
destroyed FW 190.
#482, Lt. Don C. Bader; Lt. J. W. Hensley, Nav.,
destroyed FW 190. S/Sgt. T. J. Hansbury, T.G.
destroyed 2 FW 190’s. S/SSgt. J. E. Hall, T.T.G.,
destroyed 2 FW 190’s.
S/Sgt. W. C. Budzisz, B.T.G., destroyed 1 FW 190.
#483, Lt. Ralph Felton; 2nd Lt. Wm. H. Hylton, Nav.,
destroyed FW 190. T/Sgt. Elio Traverso, T.T.G.,
possible FW 190.
Lt. Bader and Lt. Hensley were slightly wounded.
13 January 1943 - Target was the locomotive and
carriage works at Lille, France. Bombs were 10 x 500,
91st Group sent 13 A/C of which 2 were from 322nd
Squadron. Take off was 1233 hours. #453, Lt. Wm.
Beasley, #483, Lt. Ralph Felton, went over target.
Bombing was excellent. E/A were few and one FW 190
was claimed by the group. All safely returned.
23 January 1943 - Lorient, France was target. Take
off was 1055 hours with bomb load of 10 x 500. Group
sent 13 A/C of which one was of 322nd, Lt. Wm. Beasely
in #453. Bombing was good. All ships returned
safely. Flack was heavy, intense and accurate. Only
one E/A was claimed by our group.
27 January 1943 - First raid on Germany by Americans.
First Wing dispatched 25 A/C with bomb load of 5 x
1000 G. P. Group sent 17, of which 4 were 322nd.
Capt. Campbell, #481; Lt. Felton, #511; Lt. Hardin,
#453; Lt. Wm. Beasely, #362. Takeoff was 0830 led by
Col. S.T. Wray. “____” (?) had 10/10 cloud so naval
yards at Wilhelmshaven, “___” (?) was bombed with
moderate success. Flack was intense over the whole
peninsula but not accurate. The 91st had encounters
with some 25 E/A which were ME-109’s and claimed 20
destroyed. 322nd got six (6).
A/C #511, Lt. Felton (3). S/Sgt. Robert M Paul 1
destroyed -ME-109.
S/Sgt. Draden (?) C. Griffin destroyed - ME-109.
S/Sgt. Andrew H. Burnett destroyed - ME-109.
A/C #453 Lt. John T. Harding (2). S/Sgt. Arthur R.
Cressman destroyed - ME-109.
All ships returned safely.
