In case anyone is still following, I haven't given up my goal of getting one of my B-17G skins to complete a tour of 25-missions in the MA without being shot down. I call this effort my MA Bombing Campaign, and I am still keeping records of each mission I fly for toward this effort. I've been at this off-and-on since October 2021, and I have now reached the 200 mission, 600 sortie milestone.
Local newspapers across the country have apparently picked up my story and I occasionally run across headlines and news accounts of the campaign. Here's a recent one from the
Moline Daily Dispatch, Moline, Illinois:
Click image to read front pageHere are a couple aircraft trading cards I made, showing the only two bombers (from a group of 23 skins) remaining in the race. With a 25% overall loss rate, its likely both bombers will be shot down before completing their tours. I did have one bomber reach 21 missions before being lost.
"Satan's Lady", 13 missions completed:
"Little Miss Mischief", 16 missions completed:
I'm still following this procedure, however I'm down to just two cards in my bomber card deck: