Absolutly GUTTED!!!!!
I couldnt join last nights mission due to tech problems.
Really gutted about this because i love to get comfortable with a few beers,relax and enjoy the dogfights before the mission(which i joined,but when it come to mission time thats when probs started).
Anyway P/O dutch posted this about the mission he tried to depict,and by all accounts it was a very tough mission.
35+ pilots of Tangemere took part in this mission,8 Pilots from No1 took part(less me
) and only 1 pilot,Flt Sgt Kluge made it back to base safe and sound managing to take down a 109.
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Based on.....
Sqn Ldr Gifford set off at the head of 6 Hurricanes of 3 squadron to patrol the Wavre-Louvain area.
8 a/c were seen flying low by red section; identified as Hs126 observation a/c, & attacked. 2 were claimed destroyed by Sgt Roy Wilkinson & Sgt Dennis Allen.
An He111 of KG54 was then sighted & engaged by F/L Walter Churchill & Allen, who together with P/O Frank Carey of blue section, claimed that the bomber fell to their attack.
Carey then joined F/O Dickie Ball in pursuit of a Do17, but the latter was heard to call for help having been bounced by 5 109s [of 1/JG21]. Ball was seriously wounded in the thigh, crash-landed & was taken prisoner, but succumbed to his wounds on 4th June.
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P/O Dutch DSO*, DFC
Green 2
145 Sqn.
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