Bears Campaign Mission 20

[_AH_Bear]

~S~ Welcome to Bears Campaign.

Campaign #20
There are no claims to factual events in this campaign it has been made for your enjoyment. We will fly a Darkwolf smells like cheese variety of aircraft throughout this campaign, something different in each endeavor.

Winter has begun, our main airbase is still St.Omer, Lille was hit hard last mission and we will occupy it soon,  a tank group has been sent to Lille to clear out remaining vehicles and stationary aircraft deserted by the Nazis. Intel reports enemy tanks encroaching on the area from the east.

Taking off from the Merville airbase in AN17, Typhoons and P-38s load out for ground attack and help out the friendly tanks, be sure of your target !


F4Us and F6Fs take off from the USS Boxer and head towards Ghent in AU20. Intel reports freight trains and passanger trains have been sent from Bruges, on the southern spur towards Ghent and Bussels.


P-51s out of St.Omer investigate the airbase in AQ16.

Be prepared for anything.

Waiting on DWs excellent map techniques ....



Aircraft List:

4- P-51D 20NT, 1944                              Scouting                                        Pilots: Gatlingun, Olds,
4- P-51D 20NT, 1944                              Scouting                                        Pilots: Hollywood,
4- P-38L Late, 1944                                Ground attack                                Pilots: Lippy, Col.Hogan, Turbo, Twenty.
4- Typhoon Mk.IB late, 1943                  Ground attack                                Pilots: SKAT, Darkwangman, Gator, Fraggman.
4- F4U-1C, 1945    (C)                            Train attack                                    Pilots: Archie, Z50,
4- F6F-5, 1944       (C)                            Train attack                                    Pilots: Jack,



~S~
Semper Fi Marine.

[_AH_Archie]

C me please

[_AH_Bear]

 :lol

[_AH__SKATtrash]

I'll take a typhoon. See if I can survive the ground

[_AH_Lippy]

P-38 for me please

[_AH_gatlingun]

~S~

P-51 for me

[_AH_Col._Hogan]

38 Please

~S

[_AH_Hollywood]

Another P-51 for me as well...

[_AH_DarkWolf]

I think I'll go with a Typhoon this time out. Maybe I can learn how to point-whore by watching the master.

Mold me in thine own image, SKAT! With less rainbow paraphernalia though...

DW

[_AH_Turbo]

~S~ P38 Thanks             :happy-112:

[_AH_Twenty]

P38 please

[_AH_Gator]

Typhoon for me! what happerend to the plane that take picture of the base... they all got shot down

[_AH_fraggmann]

Typhoon for me please   :happy-112:

[_AH_Jack]

F6F, I guess.

[_AH_DarkWolf]

Are we sure we want Archie in a C-47? Thats alot of plane for such a little guy. Maybe something like a Tiger Moth.

DW

[_AH_z5o]

I'll take a F4U please

[_AH_Olds]

I'll take a 51 with Hollywood or Gatlin.

[_AH_DarkWolf]

What kind of enemy tanks were in the Typhoon and P-38 target area, Bear? They looked like some manifestation of Pz.IV. I was surprised we could'nt affect them with 20mm, I wanna do some testing.

DW

[_AH_Bear]

5x German Medium Tank Panzer III Ausf. J

[_AH_DarkWolf]

Wow, they were only Pz.IIIs? Well that makes it even stranger.

DW

[_AH_DarkWolf]

Ok I did some testing in the Typhoon with cannon vs the Panzer III Ausf. J. I tried the standard rear and side armor shots but the results were very disappointing. You can kill them but I could only get 1 or 2 with a full Typhoon ammo load. It required as many as 6 passes to get one tank. So I thought maybe coming in steeper and hitting the upper deck armor might work (theoretically that should be the thinnest) and that appears to be the ticket. First try I popped 4 of them before hitting the ground on my last pass (the steep approach is bloody dangerous), the next time I got 7 of them before running out of ammo. We're talking coming in like 50-70 degrees which I find is not very intuitive for strafing but its definitely effective.

DW