Mission Brief C.P.
Ltn. Beckman:
Gentlemen, we start the New Year with the hope that this war will be over before the year is out. The same hope we have had since 1 January 1915.
Since Christmas we haven't had many good days to fly. O, today we will take advantage of the weather.
I will take Ltns Henkel, Muller, and Gutknecht with me on a training flight to see how they handle their kites. We will fly to point Alpha and I will observe how Ltn Gutknecht and Henkel work together and try to find Ltn Muller. I will be circling above you observing your actions.
Ltn Henkel take the Aviatik, Ltn Muller take the Fokker Dr.1 you flew in, Ltn Gutknecht you fly the Albatross DVA. I will take the other Fokker Dr.1
Good Luck Gentlemen and don't freeze.
Entente AAR
2Lt Erasmus "Elmo" Winklebleck:
As we approached the enemy aerodrome everything was quiet. No AA, no planes on the ground, no one running around. I cut hard left to see if we had anything behind us and Rodger, 2Lt Hamlett, did an Immelman. Lt. Getz continued on to the target.
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2Lt. Rodger Hamlett:
When we made our turns I had an Albatross DVA coming at me and "Elmo" had one of the new Fokker Driedeckers approaching him. I played chicken with the Albatross withholding my fire, I thought since we were playing Santa I would try to drive them off without shooting.
Then an Aviatik passed by me with guns a blazing, so I figured at that point all bets were off. (SPAD SVII--0,0)
Sgt. LaClaire dropped the packages and they landed on the east side of the compound against the building. Elmo crossed paths with the Dr.1 but neither fired.
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Elmo and I crossed paths with him taking a shot at the Aviatik (2,NR) distracting him for a moment.
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As Lt. Getz was coming around for a second pass I crossed paths with the Dr.1 exchanging "greetings".
Dr.1 (1P) SPAD (2GJR)
**Editors Note: Red Gun Jam permanent jam for this adventure. Fokker Dr.1 with wounded pilot leaving board.
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The Dr.1 made a hard right as bullets went past the nose of my plane (0).
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I cut left to find the Aviatik closed on me filling my plane with holes and hitting something an oil line and some control lines (4SMK, 2NL).
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With my controls damaged I got hit again (0,3+1) right before I immelled to get away.
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I figured it was time to beat a hasty retreat as my plane was shot full of holes, the controls were touchy, and Lt. Getz had already made his second drop and was heading out as well.
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2Lt Winklebleck:
As Rodger headed home I tried to get in position to get behind the Aviatik.
I could see Sgt. LaClaire (1+1) trading shots with the Alb. (1+1).
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Albatross(1+1) DH4 (1+1)
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