Brief - On a bad weather day, when all planes should have been on the ground, the Germans in He-111's try an attack on the port of Dover.
Hurricanes from Tangmere respond
Weather: Filthy, Dirty.... proper messy
Fresh from the success of the previous mission, a full compliment of twelve Hurricanes took off from Tangmere into an awful weather. Breaking through the cloud was glorious, though a touch of the difficult side to navigate.
With a luxury of a full squadron of aircraft, we split above and below the clouds. Redundant was disoriented in the decent and hit the sea, whilst Joe "stuck to his man like glue" and followed him in.
Enemy aircraft were soon spotted above the cloud and a total of eleven aircraft were shot down.
The success of the previous mission wasn't continued with seven out of the twelve Hurricanes lost, another bailed and one disco.
Special mention to Nepe for four aircraft shot down in this mission. Nice going :)
http://www.keets.org/eafstats/out_missdata.cfm?mission_id=308
Two missions in one night - damn. I always miss the god ones. Looks like a good session.
ReplyDeleteThey were both great missions. The second one was really atmospheric with some of the worst weather I've seen in IL2. :)
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