The Final Month - Mission 12 Curiosity may kill.
"Parlez vous francais, Junghans?" asked Rittmeister Schneider.
"Qui, mon capitaine!", I answered with a smile.
"So you volunteered for a special mission know, Herr Oberfähnrich."
3 weeks later I infiltrated a Belgian Club while a celebration of Royal Air Force officers.
My target person had a preference for G&T so I served this evening "Monkey 18"-G&T from my secret weapon chest. I nearly ruined the mission, because I misjudged the G&T capacities of those RAF officers.
But 18 bottles later the officers fixed the briefing time for the next day - "due to the bad weather" - on 10 am instead 8 am.
So I got my chance to sneak into the hangar of the nearby airfield, to make a little repaint on their newest scout and managed to take off with the first daylight, saluting to the surprised airfiled tech personal.
Now I'm in the air, heading for the front...
Unfortunately there is an Entente pilot that do not like G&T.
Damn, I don't know whot those additional instruments are for.
This plane should be going much faster.
The Sopwith Camel is coming closer, but like the Rittmeiser promised to me, one of our two-seaters arrives at the moment.
Hah! The Tommy is surprised by the reinforcements and turns around.
My chance to test those machine guns.
Lucky hit! The Camels goes down.
The way to the German side is still long.
I can't get more power out of the plane's engine...
Another two Entente planes!
One to the left and one to the right.
Damn what to do?
Ok let's try the straight way.
Bad idea, the scouts encircle my slow plane and the first bullets hit the fuselage.
Thank God, there is Lt. Winter's Rumpler!
He distracts one of the enemies, but this Sopwith Dreidecker is a real pain in the ***!
Winter and the Sopwith Snipe exchange bullets.
My try to get all the machine guns oprerational fails perfectly...
Now none of the guns is functional.
The Sopwith Dreidecker opens fire towards my plane again.
His next salvo misses because of Winter's rear gunner's hits that shake the tripe.
This gives me valuable seconds...
But this Engländer is insitent and the next hits cause a trail of smoke out of my plane's engine.
A curve to the left brings me out of his firing arc.
Thank God!
The other Entente scout, one of the new Sopwith Snipes, turns around with an Immelman maneuver and follows me.
Brave Winter covers my retreat and I'm on my way to the front again.
Smoking and neatly damaged I'm not shure if I'll make it to our airfield...
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