B-17 #5 El Duderino's Mission Recap Thread

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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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RIP to the noble members of the Dude who gave their lives, Fat Elvis and Scaga. As El Duderino never fades, may our remembrance of these airmen never fade.