Member Name/callsign: E69_Haukka
Actual Mission Name: Y2021 - Week 23 / AIR SUPPLY
Date single mission actually flown: June 10, 2021
Mission Score: 1160 points
Misc. Info if desired: Mission flown in BAT BLUE EDGE 4.1.3
Results/description of mission: MISSION COMPLETE
DEBRIEF:
Take off without incident. Meeting with the Ju-52s as scheduled at rejoin point, Novodigino. The first couple of FW190 stay close to the Junkers. As I am leading the second pair, I decide to make a forward patrol. I reach the area where Steiger and his people are fiercely resisting. I fly over the easternmost Russian positions, and identify four Katiusha rocket launchers lined up on the outskirts of a forest, but there are no signs of enemies in the air. When the Ju-52s are reaching their target, I fly over the position, at an altitude of approximately 1500 meters. I look back to see if my partner is still there, and at that moment I discover, in the distance, coming from the east and at my same altitude, a small group of unidentified aircraft. The first thing that caught my attention was that they started flying disorderly, "they must be human", I thought ... but I immediately discarded the idea, it was not possible under the circumstances. I instructed my wingman to attack enemy fighters if he could see them first, to which I replied yes, he did, and he dove around a sharp curve heading for the incoming contacts. We ran into the Russians and the fighting began, crusaders, mixed and individual. At first it was quite confusing.
Somehow a Yak that I hadn't seen got into my six and started shooting. I did a break to one side and then the other, and finally got the Yak to pass me. Oblique scissors, half barrels, various dangerous crosses. In a scissors The Yak crossed in front of my cannons, I opened fire, and the enemy plane exploded in a bloody fireball.
Some of my comrades said they were in trouble, I ran in search of the aggressor and found him. Further chases resulting in another Yak downed. The latter moved like a snake, I spent a lot of bullets on that plane. Meanwhile, the transports had done their job and retired. There were no more enemies left, I suppose the first pair of FW190 had taken care of shooting down the remaining Soviet planes.
Before leaving the area, I identified a rocket launcher position blocking the path of our troops. Several vehicles had been destroyed by German artillery beyond the river. I made two successive attacks, destroying a Katiusha rocket launcher on each pass. There was no one left alive there. I told my wingman to get out of there before more Russians came. We move away first to the west and then south. We all go back to base. End of my report.
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