Actually quite fun, I tagged along as escort in P47N and though I was separated for a short time forcing some knight fighters back down, I caught up to the group at the Radar production facilities and stayed with them almost all the way back, before suffering some damage and having to leave before I lost my engine.
The close order formation made it very hard for the fighters to effectively engage and the 3 escorts left were able to knock down some of the more tenacious attackers. I do believe a 262 went down to the combined efforts of an escort and the bomber formation.
From what I observed, many of the pilots (knight) didn't really know what to do at that height (24K+-) and it may have just been me, but no one appeared to check six their comrades, because I literally was able to fly right up to 5 separate planes (30 -22K) and rake them before there was any action taken to avoid me, since at the time I was catching back up to the bomber formation in a shallow high speed dive from 30 K.
I knocked down three confirmed and damage several more, because if they peeled off or dropped, I didn't chase, because there was just too many enemy planes around to get into a dogfight and my intent was to protect the bomber flight as much as possible.
AATalen did a very good job as flight lead and kept the ball rolling, keeping the formation together and coordinating the gunnery within the group, and the escort leads did a very good job of providing protection and keeping the fighters together.
I don't normally, get involved with missions, but in the future AATalen missions will be looked forward too.
