That Missing RAF Eastchurch Airfield.

[The_Goalie_94]

You guys really gotta tell me when your doing that stuff so i can join in on the fun. I haven't flown with you guys for a while.

[Gilly]

In a similar vain, I was playing in a cta game when the opposition all quit and whilst waiting for the timer to run out we went for a fly about and managed to reach France and even land!! If you fly directly out from manston then you reach the French coast quite quickly and providing you don't get the return to battlefield can fly around. We couldnt find the 'hypermarche' sadly so came back without booze for the mess!

[Panzergranate]

It would have been nice if they'd included an historical raid such as bombing the invasion barges at Callais, though Blenhiems would have to substitute for Fairey Battles.

By the time of the BoB, all the Fairey Battles were transfered to Coastal Command for anti-shipping and raids on German coastal instalations. As such operations required a fighter escort, the chances are that Eastchurch was a home for CC Fairey Battles.

The Fleet Air Arm's contribution during the BoB is eclipsed by the RAF. In September 1940 two Royal Navy F4-F Martlets, From Portsmouth, scrambled and shot down a lone Ju-88 raider / recce bomber, making the first kill for a US built warplanes in WW2. Before anybody points out that the French were flying P-36 Hawks, no actual kills were recorded by the FAF and most were abandoned and captured by the Germans as they over ran the airfields in May 1940.

Land based Royal Navy Sea Gladiators and Martlets also acted as reserves and patrolled over the Channel.

[The_Goalie_94]

The first RAF kill of the war was done by a Lockheed Hudson, it shot down a dornier flying boat.

[Panzergranate]

OK first US fighter kill, according to the book.

Oddly enough the Belgians and the French both had US build fighters, some still in crates. The Germans found Brewster Buffaloes still in crates at the dockyard warehouse, which ended up as Luftwaffe trainers or sold to the Fins.

The french Curtis P-36 A-4 Hawks were sold to the Fins also and suplemented their existing P-36 A-3 Hawks.

[haitch40]

i cant find the airfeild help

[The_Goalie_94]

ANyone want to show me this this week. I think this would be a good target for that B-17 mission jack is hosting saturday.