It's 5:30am on the morning of July 27th, the weather is misty and promises to be hot. Convoy Able is moving from Poole harbour to Southampton docks for loading.
Unfortunately for the pilots stationed of Tangmere, Westhampnett and Ford, the convoy has been spotted by a recon Condor out of Le Harve. It looks like its going to be a busy day......
Patrolling with WB over The Solent
Very atmospheric at 5.30 in the morning. The sun had been up for around 30 minutes and you could feel the cold misty morning as we climbed into the air.
Looking down on Convoy Able. Swanage just in the background
It was quite difficult to spot the ships from 12000ft and keep an eye out for enemy aircraft. Our sightseeing was interrupted as Splash spotted contacts that had slipped through and were approaching the convoy.
Convoy Able under attack.
Within minutes two of the ships were on fire and the sky was full of Stukas. No idea if there was any fighters in the mix as it was too frantic. Overall I think we gave a good account of ourselves and the attack was repelled and we headed back to Tangmere.
Great fun repelling the different attacks on the convoy which comprised of a flight of JU88's the second time covered by 109's.
One highlight for me was seeing a JU88 dive straight in as I was taking off from Sandown. It looked exactly like that famous picture from WW2 and I wished I'd had the sense to take a screenshot.
Smash and grab raid on Tangmere
109's ruin WB day. :)
We managed to defend the convoy for nearly two hours until it was way up the Solent towards Southampton. Splash managed to bag the Condor reporting the position of the convoy. This sim is getting better and better.
I love the damage model on CoD.
ReplyDeleteProbably a little more than WB does ;)