Mission 8: To heck and (hopefully) back.

[Rain Man]

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B-17 #9 – Kegger II – Judgment Day

Pilot keg in kc (7)
Copilot ChiefJustice (3)
Bombardier tk13
Navigator CHIEF4EVER (3)
Engineer Otter (7)
Radio Op. JazzzLovr (3)
Tail Gunner kcfanintitanhell (3)
Ball Turret Gunner bowser (3)
Right Waist Gunner KS Smitty (3)
Left Waist Gunner JohnnyV13


Target: Rouen
Mid-formation horizontally, high vertically (moderate vulnerability)

Zone 1 Out: Britain

No enemy

Zone 2 Out: English Channel

5 Fw190s attack – 2 are driven off by fighters

Otter fires, damages Fw190
Kc smitty fires, misses
Kcfanintitanhell fires, misses
Tk13 fires, misses
Chief4ever fires, misses

3 Fws miss, break off attack

Zone 3 Out: France Belgium Western Channel North Sea (Entering Target Zone)

1 Me109 attacks

Otter fires, misses
Jazzzlovr fires, misses

Me scores 3 hits
-tail – tail gun knocked out of commission
-ball turret – ball turret gun knocked out of commission
-starboard wing root damaged

(This can’t be good. The back of the plane is really vulnerable now.)

Me circles, attacks again

Kcfanintitanhell fires, misses
Jazzzlovr fires, misses

Me scores 2 hits
-tailplane – no effect
-port wing - #2 (inboard engine) takes a hit and dies. The engine is ruined.

Me circles, attacks again.

Otter fires, kills Me109

Kegger II immediately starts falling back in the formation with the loss of an engine. Thinking fast, keg decides to jettison the bombs so he can stay in formation. It would be suicidal to carry the bombs to the target while out of formation, and his only other choice is to turn around and fly back to base. Instead, the plane will dump its bombs in the Western Channel and stay with the rest of the formation.

Tk13 dumps the bombs over water.

Zone 4 Out: France Belgium Netherlands (Entering Target Zone)

1 Fw190, 2 Me109s attack

Otter fires, kills Me109
Tk13 fires, misses
Chief4ever fires, misses
Kc smitty fires, misses

Fw, Me miss, break off attack

5 Fw190s attack – 2 are driven off by fighters

Chief4ever fires, kills Fw190
Kc smitty fires, misses
JohnnyV13 fires, misses
Tk13 fires, misses
Jazzzlovr fires, misses

Fw scores 1 hit
-nose – chief4ever sustains light wound to the left chest

Fw scores 2 hits
-waist – shells pierce the waist, killing JohnnyV13 with hits to the stomach and neck, and inflicting a light wound to KS Smitty’s left chest.
-port wing – A ball of fire erupts from the inboard fuel tank, and keg reaches for the bailout alarm. Too late. The fuel tank explodes, which in turn causes the #2 engine to explode, spraying fuel and metal through the front half of the plane. Kegger II breaks in half and plummets to earth.

Left Waist Gunner JohnnyV13 was KIA before the hit.

Pilot keg in kc (7), Copilot ChiefJustice (3), Navigator CHIEF4EVER (3), Engineer Otter (7), and Radio Op. JazzzLovr (3) are all killed in the initial explosion.

Bombardier tk13 and Tail Gunner kcfanintitanhell (3) are knocked unconscious in the initial explosion and ride the shattered plane to the ground and a KIA.

Ball Turret Gunner bowser (3) is blown out of the ball turret and doesn’t have a parachute. He falls to the ground alongside the plane and does a self-burying landing.

Right Waist Gunner KS Smitty (3), although wounded, is thrown out of the plane and manages to get the parachute open. An Fw190 circles around and strafes the parachute, killing the helpless crew member with shots to the neck and right chest.

No bomb run

Aftereffects

None

Eligible for next mission

No survivors, alas. The keg and otter luck has run out, and we’re now on, what JohnnyV15? JohnnyV16?