Operation "Sunset"

[o0Stream140o]

The 78th & 325th Fighter Groups executed a joint mission codenamed "SUNSET" in the CT Thursday night. The mission task was to destroy the capital ship of the Japanese Fleet. The 325th (Checkertail Clan) was assigned the task of attacking the fleet using P-47D-30's in a dive-bombing role. The 78th (Duxford Eagles) was tasked to provide ingress and egress scouting and fighter escort for the 325th. The Eagles flew the P-51D.

Planning for the mission began last Sunday. Recon flights were flown all this week. The Op Order was briefed on Wednesday and included a detailed Task Organization, Intelligence Analysis, Operations Plan with recon photos and a Communications Plan.

The fighter groups took off from A19 at 2212EST and flew directly to the fleet, arriving over the target at 2230EST. With the Eagles overhead, the Checkertails executed the dive-bombing hitting and sinking the Japanese capital ship at 2233EST in Sector 1010.

On egress, the 325th lost one P-47 to an ME262 and one P-47 to AAA from the fleet. One other P-47 suffered damage from the fleet's AAA.

The 78th shot down one ME262 and sustained no losses or damage.

Other than the two P-47s, both groups returned to A19.

TOTAL BDA ROLLUP:
American; 2 X P-47D-30's lost. 1 X P-47D-30 damaged.
Japanese; 1 X Battleship sunk. 1 X ME262 lost.

Report submitted by
2Lt Lowtec
325th FG
Asst G-1 for Public Relations

If any of you guys filmed it... axis or allied.. could you send it to me
Col Stream

[Grits]

Originally posted by o0Stream140o
The 78th & 325th Fighter Groups executed a joint mission codenamed "SUNSET" in the CT Thursday night. The mission task was to destroy the capital ship of the Japanese Fleet. The 325th (Checkertail Clan) was assigned the task of attacking the fleet using P-47D-30's in a dive-bombing role. The 78th (Duxford Eagles) was tasked to provide ingress and egress scouting and fighter escort for the 325th. The Eagles flew the P-51D.

And it looked great, tons of dots! There were a bunch of Hogs with you too, CAG-44 must have been riding shotgun?

On egress, the 325th lost one P-47 to an ME262 [/b]

That would be me. What do I win?

TOTAL BDA ROLLUP:
American; 2 X P-47D-30's lost. 1 X P-47D-30 damaged.
Japanese; 1 X Battleship sunk. 1 X ME262 lost.
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It never stood a chance.

If any of you guys filmed it... axis or allied.. could you send it to me
Col Stream [/B]

You've got mail.

[Squire]

Myself and three other squad mates were flying IJN prop (figured we would get action that way, wasnt much before that), not a scheduled squad night just happened by. We couldnt figure out where all the allies went...then we saw the bar dar and then the dot dar. Holy s*** that was a big strike hehe. We climbed like mad in Ki-61 and N1K2s to get alt, 22k, but that wasnt quite enough, ended up in a big furball near our fleet, and somehow made it out alive. We ended up engaging again with some F4U-4s that were in the area, and we got overwhelmed. It was fun.

I must say I like the Ki-61, 3x F4U-4s and a P-47 for one death. I think we downed @10 and lost 4, all in IJN prop rides in 2 missions.

Would have been a fun one to fly with you guys stream but 880 has tuesdays as squad night in the CT, the rest of the week is SEA stuff. .

[o0Stream140o]

Rgr that Warloc,
  For right now we have to do the thursday squad night, hopefully we will be back on the tuesday squad night...  If any of your pilots are on thursday, they are more than welcome to fly with us...