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B-17 #5 – El Duderino
Pilot ENDelt260 (8)
Copilot SNR (8)
Bombardier Garcia Bronco (8)
Navigator philfree (8)
Engineer Talisman (8)
Radio Op. AJKCFAN (8)
Tail Gunner Radar Chief (8)
Ball Turret Gunner hawaiianboy (8)
Right Waist Gunner Scaga (8)
Left Waist Gunner Fat Elvis (3)
Target: Meaulte
Mid-formation horizontally, high vertically (moderate vulnerability)
Zone 1 Out: Britain
No enemy
Zone 2 Out: English Channel
No enemy
Zone 3 Out: France (Entering Target Zone)
2 Fw190s attack – 1 is driven off by fighters
Garcia bronco fires, misses
Talisman fires, misses
Radar chief fires, misses
Fw scores 1 hit
-superficial damage to starboard wing
Fw circles, attacks again
Talisman fires, damages Fw190
Radar chief fires, kills the damaged Fw190
Entering Bomb Zone
Good Weather
Light Flak - misses
Garcia Bronco is money in the bank – 40% score
Zone 3 Out: France (Leaving Target Zone)
1 Fw190, 2 Me109s are driven off by fighters
2 Me110s are driven off by fighters
Zone 2: English Channel
4 Me109s attack – 2 are driven off by fighters
Garcia bronco fires, misses
Talisman fires, misses
Radar chief fires, misses
Scaga fires, misses
Me misses, breaks off attack
Me scores 2 hits
-tail – rudder is hit but still functional
-BOOM! A shell hits scaga’s oxygen system in the right waist gun position. The system explodes, and scaga takes a fatal load of shattered metal to the stomach. Fat Elvis, at the left waist gun position, takes a serious wound to the lower back. The area is on fire, and ajkcfan rushes back from the radio room with an extinguisher, and is able to douse the flames. However, there is a large hole the size of a life preserver blown through the right side of the fuselage. It can’t be fixed, though, so ajkcfan moves back to his gun.
Me circles, attacks again
Hawaiianboy fires, misses
Radarchief fires, misses
Me misses, breaks off attack
Zone 1: England
Good weather
Good landing
Aftereffects
Unfortunately, Fat Elvis succumbs to his injury the next day in the hospital. It was a bad mission for waist gunners.
Eligible for next mission
Pilot ENDelt260 (8)
Copilot SNR (8)
Bombardier Garcia Bronco (8)
Navigator philfree (8)
Engineer Talisman (8)
Radio Op. AJKCFAN (8)
Tail Gunner Radar Chief (8)
Ball Turret Gunner hawaiianboy (8)
Right Waist Gunner XXX
Left Waist Gunner XXX
A good bombing run, the one bad hit excluded.
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