Mission 11: Now the fun starts.
 

Vaunted aircrew members, you are now veterans.

Your mission assignments will expand to 22 potential targets now. You may find yourself flying a group of rookie bombers on a short mission to France (like the ones you first flew), or you may find yourself heading deep into German territory with other veteran aircrews.

In addition to the airfields, rail yards, industry, ship yards, and aircraft plants that you've been attacking, the 8th Air Force has added a new mission: going after the U-boat pens along the coasts. These targets often have concentrated flak defenses, so your flights in the bomb zones are somewhat more risky.

Distances will also increase. Your longest mission to date has been 4 zones. While those shorter missions are still possible, you may be assigned to missions up to twice that far. A new feature will be added to the mission plans for the remaining 15 missions, which will let you know the distance to your target as you take off. The good news is that your flight routes will be over the Channel or the North Sea for as long as possible to minimize interception by German fighters.

Recall that fighter cover extends only to Zone 4. However, on longer missions you will be part of larger bomber formations, so it is possible that some fighters will actually be driven off by other B-17s flying in formation with you. It's good to stay in formation on these long flights.

Good luck and godspeed.

After my most recent near death experience only to be saved by the 1 in a million lucky rabbits foot.(And Kevin's flawless dice roll) I think I may do a Cpl Klinger impersonation and shoot for a section 8.:D

Great! I've already crashed and/or burned three times during the candy-ass missions! Can't wait to get to Zone 8!

Bowser fires, misses
Bowser fires, misses
Bowser fires, misses
Bowser fires, misses
Bowser fires, misses
Bowser fires, misses
Bowser sustains light case of VD from English tart picked up night before
Bowser fires, misses
Bowser fires, misses
Bowser sustains moderate wound to urethra
Bowser fires, misses
Bowser cannot possibly fight the inevitable, so he jumps out of bomb bay. Crew of (insert plane here) goes on to bomb Hitler's shietzenhausen and single handedly turn the tide of the war.

We will need the locations of the rest areas. Our crew has three women, so we will all need the breaks.

The Dude is ready!

Bring it.

:eek:

I'll second that. :eek:

:toast:
moonshi..er..first aid medicine anyone?????

I know these missions are longer but there are no reports of the planes. I think all were lost

Give him a little time. He got shot all to heck last mission.

But we can rebuild him.

Make him faster.

Make him stronger.

We have the technology.

and 47 cents.

Well, okay, maybe the fun didn't start now. But this weekend at the latest.

So are we like on furlough for the rest of the week? Great!! I feel like heading to town and getting in a bar fightROFL

Sorry can't make the mission this weekend, well matter of a fact I can't make the missions for the next 2 weekends. Don't you 'powers that be' remember getting my leave papers and signing them months ago? I have them signed right here in front of me. Well anyway, my weddin is this weekend and I refuse to miss it. So, I think my pilot would probaly like to have a replacement navigator for that time I am away. I sure would hate to get bombed by my own pilot while on my honeymoon because he wouldn't know where the hell he was going. And since I am a navigator I wish to use my powers as a officer to personally hand pick my replacement for the next 2 weeks. Mile High Mania seems like a logical choice as a next in line canidate, but I don't want any Donk fan tainting my seat. So I guess I would like to nominate Bowser as my replacement. Good day sirs and have a nice day!

Umm, you do realize that you don't need to be there to participate in the mission, right?