AAR SSO - North Africa Campaign Round 2
We took off from A-69 in two separate flights, one spit V's and the other P-40's and went separate way for patrol duty. About 25 minutes into the patrol we spotted bandits at around 20k, to the east of our two fields and gave pursuit. They turned to the south and attempted to drag us away from our fields, so we turned back to keep a cap over the fields; at which time we picked up two bogies on radar, inbound our vehicle base. I was the closest to them and closed in for identification, to find two JU-88's at around 10k; I called it in to the rest of the squad and immediately dove in for an attack.
I was able to make four passes on the lead bomber and caused heavy damage to it, but it stubbornly continued to fly as I ran out of ammo. The rest of the squad showed up and finished off both bombers, as I dove away to RTB for ammo and fuel. As I was on short final I watched four enemy fighters pass over at high altitude, headed toward the rest of the squad and I radioed to them about the in bounds, so they would not get bounced. A fur ball ensued while I was stuck on the refuel pad, yelling at the armorers to hurry up and by the time I got wheels up again, one enemy fighter was down and one of ours was down. At this time, the rest of the squad was bingo on ammo and getting low on fuel, so they disengaged and RTB'd for the rearm pad. Upon the RTB, Lt. Raptor damaged his prop, in his second hard landing in less than a week and Lt Xray discovered, that he was missing too many parts to enable another take off; both pilots then upped in GV's to defend the bases.
At this time, our better late than never pilot, Chemdawg, showed up and we saddled him up in a spit V, on my wing; we went in search of the last three enemy fighters in the area and found them at fairly high alt headed outbound. We gave chase for a little while and discovered the last con was below us and behind the others enough to allow us to cut him off. We engaged him and Chemdawg was firing on him, when I called for him to break, as the other two 109's had returned and dove in on us. They all disengaged when we broke off the straggler, apparently low on fuel and eager to RTB. The enemy did manage to destroy one bunker for 5 points and shot down one of our P-40's, but we managed to win the round with points from the aircraft kills; the tally was 2 enemy bombers down and 1 enemy fighter down, to our loss of one P-40. Great job guys, had a blast!!
"Lut"
CO ~Avengers~
