"Tangmere Pilots" recruiting

[No1 Cheese]

This weeks sees each Sqdn break into 2 flights each with different comms.
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DATE:- 12th May 1940 ZERO:- 15:00 hours

No. 3 Squadron, 63 (Fighter) Wing, No. 14 Group.

Lille-Marq Airfield

OPERATIONAL INFORMATION:-

Wing has just ordered the squadron to fly two separate Flight strength patrols: one to Leuven, east of Brussels (BB15), and the other to Dinant (BC9/BC.

Patrol the assigned area until ammunition or fuel requires the Flight to turn for home.

Hawker Hurricane 12lb boost
Skin: TP_1940_Hurricane (markings off)
Arming: Default & 100% fuel

ROUTE : At discretion of Flight Commanders

HEIGHT:- At discretion of Flight Commanders. Group advises Angels 10 or above.

INTEL: Some reports that German armour has reached as far west and south as Breda in its advance through Holland.

Our fighter squadrons remain in constant action with the enemy.

Bimelech wins the Preakness Stakes.

METEOROLOGICAL REPORT:- Fine; Patchy cloud.

SIGNALS:-
No. 1 Squadron call sign - F I L M S T A R
No. 43 Squadron call sign - I M P I
No. 145 Squadron call sign - R A B B I T
No. 601 Squadron call sign - A N G E L
Ground Control call sign – T O P H A T

MISSION NOTES:-

The mission will be flown by squadron, but at flight strength. That is, each mission will contain two flights, each on a separate comms. channel.

There will be no waypoints in this mission. Which flight proceeds to which patrol area is purely at the discretion of the Squadron Leaders.

There will be three versions of this mission:

6-7 players
8-9 players
10-12 players

Remember to SELECT FUEL.

MISSION SUCCESS:-

50% of the Squadron's aircraft land at HOME BASE (Lille) with airworthy aircraft (i.e. no bent props).
P/O Hatter


No1Cheese

[No1 Cheese]

"The tale of two flights"
No1 Squadron consisted of 8 pilots tonight(1 of 4 Squadrons of similar strenght all flying the same mission)in 3 flights,red,blue and green.
Red Flight Led by Tangmeres Wing Co MothyP took 3 A/C,Griffin and Jacko went to Leuven, east of Brussels (BB15)
While Blue and Green fly(consisting of 5 very able pilots me included to Dinant (BC9/BC.

Whilst Blue and Green Flt where looking pretty forming up in the "good old Hendon"fashion Red flight (who where quite some distance away)where bounced by Me109s who were escorting Ju87s to there tgt.
Unable to help in any way possible we heard as 1 by 1 the pilots of red flt fell to the overwhelming numbers of 109s

Blue and Green Flt continued of there given fly path and eventually made it back to there base,unhindered by enemy opposition(which is more than can be said for Red Llt!!!!)

No1 Cheese
Blue2
Tangmere Pilots

P/O Jacko (No1 Press Officer)report follows......................

[No1 Cheese]

Tonights breif,Mission made by No1 MothyP(TP WgCo)
As it says this mission No37 in this great campaign and its getting better and better.



* * * ALL PILOTS WILL FAMILIARIZE THEMSELVES WITH THE FOLLOWING OPERATIONAL INFORMATION * * * *

Mission 1 of 1

OPERATIONAL BRIEFING – Battle of France 37
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DATE:- 13th May 1940 ZERO:- 06:40 hours

No. 1 Squadron, 67 (Fighter) Wing, .

Berry Au Bac (Cambrai on our map)

OPERATIONAL INFORMATION:-




Settle down chaps
The Bull's back from Belgium safe but he reports things on the ground are grim, he saw some colonial French troops heading for the front and right before his eyes a damaged one-eleven landed next to them in a field, the blighters hopped over the fence dragged the crew out and lopped of their heads!! Then carried onto the front without saying a word.

Anyway Panther have asked us to Patrol Vouziers(Hirson on our map) Angels 15 , They feel it would be a good show to put up a squadron strength,so get to it

Hawker Hurricane 12lb boost
Skin: TP_1940_Hurricane (markings off)
Arming: Default & 100% fuel

METEOROLOGICAL REPORT:- Fine; Patchy cloud.

SIGNALS:-
No. 1 Squadron call sign - F I L M S T A R
No. 43 Squadron call sign - I M P I
No. 145 Squadron call sign - R A B B I T
No. 601 Squadron call sign - A N G E L
Ground Control call sign – T O P H A T


Good Luck


Mission Point: 50% of Hurris land at home base able to be refuelled and take off again.

No1Cheese

[No1 Cheese]

Last nights mission No1 was joined by No43 squadron to fly our separate patrol routes.
No43 made contact with the enemy 1st and sent out an immediate contact report!!!!
The remainder on No1”booted it” twds the contact area.
We could see in the distance.11 o clock slightly low at least 9 He111s.
No1 Charlie(Blue Ldr) took us in for a perfect beam attack,all getting hits(unfortunately the got hits on me too).
What do I do,go home with 90% ammo left or try to have another go?
YEP I tried,I went in on the last bomber on 2 beam attacks,I pushed my luck to much and on the 3rd we collided and I had to hit the silk!!!
Here are some screenshots from the mission.
No1 Charlie going in to attack

Charlie again getting hits on another E/A

Controled chaos!!

No1Kluge(blue3) going in for attack



All in all another great mission and great fun.
Mission No37 is over,its getting better and better.
I wonderwhere this is all leading too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_3nnjl5YTM

No1 Cheese
Blue2
Tangmere Pilots

S!

[No1 Cheese]

No1 Press Officer,P/O Jacko’s Weekly report

[meplay]

Hey im liking the Video

[whatnot]

Whoa, one of the best IL2-vids I've seen, thanks!

This doesn't make the wait for March release one bit easier!

[No1 Cheese]

Tonights Breifing Mission made by F/lt Bunny
He normally throws a spanner in the works so this wont be and easy one.

• * ALL PILOTS WILL FAMILIARIZE THEMSELVES WITH THE FOLLOWING OPERATIONAL INFORMATION * * * *

BoF38

13th May 1940 ZERO:- 06:50 hours – Reims-Champagne (Arras on our map)

OPERATIONAL INFORMATION:-73 Squadron:

Squadron Scramble!!!
Large formations of enemy a/c seen heading towards Reims (Laon on our map). Last reported at Angels 20, last known heading approx 120.

Dont just stand there, get a ruddy move on!

Aircraft: Hawker Hurricane 12lb boost
Skin: TP_1940_Hurricane (markings off)
Arming: Default & 100% fuel

METHOD:- Take off from Reims-Champagne and head towards Reims. Try to climb to Angels 20 as soon as possible. Bombers are priority! Be mindful of enemy fighters escorting the bomber formations.

INTELLIGENCE:- Low cloud and worsening enemy ground fire is hampering our reconnaisance flights, so information is sparse. We expect the enemy to continue to target communication centres.

METEOROLOGICAL REPORT:-
6/10ths cloud at 1500ft extending to 3,000ft.
Wind 090 at 04 knots.
Visibility Poor to fair.

SIGNALS:-
No. 1 Squadron call sign - F I L M S T A R
No. 43 Squadron call sign - I M P I
No. 145 Squadron call sign - R A B B I T
No. 601 Squadron call sign - A N G E L
Ground Control call sign – T O P H A T

MISSION POINT AWARD:- 1 Mission Point will be awarded if 50% of Hurricanes that took off, land back at home base and would be able to take off again.

This mission is to be in Squadron strength.

Good luck
Bunster
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F/Lt Bunny DSO** DFC***
145 Squadron B Flight Leader, Blue Section
Executive Officer 145 Squadron.


No1Cheese

[No1 Cheese]

Last nights mission(No38 of our current campaign) was made by F/Lt Bunny DSO** DFC***
145 Squadron B Flight Leader, Blue Section
Executive Officer 145 Squadron.

Now as stated before, he normally throws the odd spanner in the works but this week the GIT did well.
As from now Baron Von Bunster is not being spoken too by the rest of the tangmere pilots(and rightly so).
I can only talk for No1 squadron(but I think the other 3 lesser squadrons  followed in the same path) climbed to angels 20.
Then our C/O No1 MothyP gave the order for B Flt and Green Flt to climb to angels 25.
Now at that height in an early mk Hurribus is one thing,we was pretty well strung out as we tried to form on Blue Flt Ldr Charlie,but it all come together when it mattered most.
We encountered 8 110s as they attacked A flt,I called”BREAK BREAK” to the C/O and he managed to miss the attention of the ferocious guns of the the 110 that was diving on him.
After that it was was all for himself as we dived and turned to try to get the upper hand on the enemy fighters,bearing in mind that we was after the bloody bombers that we had not seen.As we made it back to base,in dribs and drabs we had accounted ourselves well.
P/O Griffin managed to land in one piece and was saying to “See Boss I can do it” when 3 He 111s appeared over our base as we was on finals!!!!
Griff took off once again(having a full load of ammo)into the fray again,climbing and making contact with Madmick to have a go at the hun again.
Know what followedwill go down in No1(virtual)Folk law.
Griff took off(after landing successfully(PHEW) to get another crack at the bombers over head,Mick(who just happens to be a bit of a dab hand at shooting the b**tards from the sky was with him!!!!
As they both went into attack Griff shouted” theres a smoker and thers another 1”
And then couldn’t make it back to base because of engine trouble!!!
Mick on the other hand landed back at base with a few shared kills(1 of my 110s) and was heard to say”cheers for the back up griff,but you weren’t really needed!!)

Bloody Great mission with more than a few surprises,how they do it week in week out really does amaze me,and im a noobe only being with them 2 yrs!!!!!

All the Best

Cheese


As Usual what follows is the of No1s own Press officer
P/O Jacko

[No1 Cheese]

Good eveng gentleman
Just the update for this Sundays mission.This should be ok because like me P/O Duth supports THFC !!!! unlike Bunny who watches Munich or something like that!!!
Things are hotting up around here!
We are getting reports of the enemy at all fronts and everyone is starting to feel the strain.
Constant air patrols,early morning readiness and the last minute flights are taking there toll,how the poor bloody erks manage one only knows.

Cheese

* * * ALL PILOTS WILL FAMILIARIZE THEMSELVES WITH THE FOLLOWING OPERATIONAL INFORMATION * * * *

Mission 1 of 1

OPERATIONAL BRIEFING – Battle of France 39
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DATE:- 12th May 1940 ZERO:- 15:45 hours

3 Squadron - Cambrai airfield.

OPERATIONAL INFORMATION:-

Just had a communiqué from Panther – sketchy gen, but things aren’t looking too good. Jerry is pushing into Belgium at a rate of knots, & it looks as though The Dutch may not last too much longer.

All we can do is keep knocking down as many Hun as we can. Orders are for a squadron strength patrol along the route marked on the briefing map. We’ll be up quite a long time, so watch your fuel situation - we’ll patrol at angels 10.

Take off in half an hour – any questions?......no……good.

Hawker Hurricane 12lb boost
Skin: TP_1940_Hurricane (markings off)
Arming: Default & 100% fuel

ROUTE :- CAMBRAI > HIRSON > DINANT > CHARLEROI > VALENCIENNES > CAMBRAI.

HEIGHT:- 10,000 feet

INTEL: Reports from this morning indicate that the Luftwaffe is making a concerted effort to knock out our airfields with it’s medium bombers.

METEOROLOGICAL REPORT:- Bright, some cloud.

SIGNALS:-
No. 1 Squadron call sign - F I L M S T A R
No. 43 Squadron call sign - I M P I
No. 145 Squadron call sign - R A B B I T
No. 601 Squadron call sign - A N G E L
Ground Control call sign – T O P H A T


MISSION SUCCESS:-

No more pilots are killed or captured than shown below:

5 player – 1 pilot
6 player – 1 pilot
7 player – 2 pilots
8 player – 2 pilots
9 player – 3 pilots
10 player – 3 pilots
11 player – 4 pilots
12 player – 4 pilots

This mission will be flown in squadron strength:

Hurricanes will take off from 2 parallel runways.
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P/O Dutch DSO*, DFC
Green 2
145 Sqn.