(Apologies but this is a pics only with few words).
OTTED Mission 17: Gas, Gas, Gas May 15 1917
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The target in a field just behind no-mans land.
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The brave Eagle pilots en route
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Captain Boniface Liberace on patrol!
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A hidden flak gun aims a trifle low.....
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Boniface swoops in for an easy kill, whilst the flak gun is knocked out....good shooting Eagles.
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Verdamnt, this truck had prisoners in!
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No2 has the gas, as Boniface gets a pasting from the rear gunner.
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The trucks slit up in all directions. Pilots and rear gunners try to keep tabs on which is which.
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3rd truck is a troops truck, probably guards for the POW and ammo.
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Boniface swoops in again but is thwarted.
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All 5 trucks have been identified, the Eagles pick out their targets carefully.
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The rear gunner lines up and bang click click click, stands up to reload and cops a packet from Boniface in the Pup.
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Boniface fires again.....
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One of the trucks is destroyed.
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Boniface keeps tight on his prey...
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and pays the price as fire leaps out of his engine.....
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The Eagles work together like a well oiled machine, Boniface turns this way and that to keep the flames away from the cockpit.
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It is Boniface's turn to feel the sting of a bullet!
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Guns jammed Boniface turns the wrong way.....
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and into more bullets!
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Again he is hit!
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and again
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and again
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Guns unjammed Boniface is not going to give up.....but his Pup does and ploughs a furrow in the earth
The Butchers Bill
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Ltn Toffeleiter(P)RTB/0 kills & Ltn Zweibelsuppe(O) RTB/WIA/1 kill
Rolled: 9 +3RTB -1WIA = 11 All well when you land well !
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Fwbl Jurgen Maas(P) RTB/0 kills & Ltn Jacob Strum(O) RTB/0 Kills
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Capt Liberace: FLM-FT/WIA/ 0 Kills
Rolled: 3 -2FLm -1 WIA = 0 KIA
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The ones that got away.
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