JG 416 AAR

[Buzzbe]

We flew between A11 and A17, north and south for 80% of the night with no contact. Near the end of the frame we met and equal number of Tempest's co-alt, they ate our G10's for lunch over A14. All dead, no kill's.

Buzzbe Bf109G-10
Hening Bf109G-10
Holder Bf109G-10
BD5Pilot Bf109G-10
Abunabi Bf109G-10 < He did protest the ride >

Firewall was not available.

L8r.

[ 10-13-2001: Message edited by: Buzzbe ]

[Sancho]

56th FG flattened, layed out, and generally rendered completely flat LW field 39.  No enemies were seen over the target area.  Bombers returned safely.  We later found 1 or 2 Arados and 2 Me262s, which avoided confronting our P-47s.  One Arado was downed by Drex.  One was damaged by Sancho.  No losses.

[Fatty]

Bastards took out of 27 or something like that, with 3 109g10s, 2 c47s, and 4 ju88s.  Fields 56, 57, and 55 were taken without enemy contact.

[Wotan]

jv44 upped a22 and capped p61.

wotan 190d9
bradys5 190d9
Sour 190d9
leitwolf 190d9
urchin 190d9

i had urchin and sour patrol from the 11 12 line to a22 while the rest patrolled p61 to the coast.

Sour  spotted 4 b17s near the 11,12 line headed east toward p61. I told him and urchin to regroup and attack only if the buffs were spread out while the rest headed west to ho them.

I was in the lead at 22k full throttle and wep. I lined up on the b17 in the lead and ripped him from nose to tail. Going at almost 500 tas I blew through the formation then a miracle 50 cal round ran me down and from my 6 found my radiator forcing me to ditch.

We sent 3 190s headon to break up the formation and had 2 in reserve at the buffs 6 to attack once thier formation was broken up. In 190a8s we would have slaughtered them   d9 2x20mm takes alot of time in firing solution to bring umm dwn.

Wotan  ditched
Brady rtb
Urchin rtb
Sour crashed while rtbn with radiator hit and eng out
Leitwolf lost a wing to a b17

we claim 3 17s killed (we all got hits on atleast 1 b17 dunno know who got the "kills")

lost 2 kia
1 ditch

[Ghosth]

332nd Mongrels rolled arado's from 25. Rolled at 1 min intervals & flew in staggered formation. Targets were P39 & 42.

Ran into high flight of tempests over england. Lost one Arado (Sunking) but he managed to drop his load first on port. Port had several targets hit. 42 had 2 hangers killed, 3 fuel & 1 ord bunker killed. Possibly the other FH also.

AK's in 262's helped chase the tempests down allowing us to punch through to target.

<S> all was a fun frame on this end.

[Nash]

That was SBM over England. Eight pilots in our flight. Ouch... 262's and Arados. There's just no way yer gonna be able to stop the Arados from doing anything they want - and except for one kill, we couldn't. Same goes for the 262's. We killed one, maybe two of those, but we lost 2 of our pilots in this attack. All ya can really do is jink when they swoop down, and we did this for what seemed like forever until the 262's had to rtb due to (I think) fuel issues.

When that attack was done, I counted 2 hangers and 2-3 other smaller targets dead at 42, the port was reportedly hit pretty bad, but our radar factory was untouched.

Our 6 remaining pilots refueled and headed to the north coast of France where we ran into a squad of about 6 190s (or were they 109's?). Killed em all, no deaths.

6 Rtb'd safe.

This was certainly one of the most intense frames we've flown in - a total blast.

[ 10-14-2001: Message edited by: Nash ]