"Well sir, there we were behind the lines when we spotted a pair of Fokker's trailing their coat tails along the front just behind their lines so we thought we'd drop in on them and have a look." Said Flight Sergeant Robert Pynne - Bobby to his friends - an American volunteer fighting for the old country.
"Too late we realised there was another pair heading towards us but then the Lieutenant & mister Jarris came up on our right so we carried on."
"I see." said Uncle.
[Top to bottom F/Sgt Bobby Pynne (cdl), 2Lt Alistair (Ali) Gaither (cdl tail); 2Lt Hugh Jarris (flash in Bristol scout) & Lt William (Bill) Foldes (all PC10).
Ltns, Otto Hengl in plain & Willi Kieckhäfer in Green) Hans-Eberhardt Gossner (in Red), Maximillian Häbler (in striped)]
"The lieutenant got the first shots in sir but I think his gun must've jammed and mister Jarris took some hits it looked like."
"That's lef- tenant, sergeant.." reminded Uncle
"Yessir - then we opened up - I managed to score some hits on a plain Fokker in front of us and mister Gaither had a go at him too."
"Then we were all in sir - lead was flying everywhere, I think that's when the loo- I mean the lieutenant was hit - he got pretty shot up but I shot at the bas', I mean the Fokker that did it - it was green one.
"Mister Gaither had shot up the plain Fokker leaving him trailing smoke but as he cleared him he collided with another Fokker with a stripe coming through from the back, they both took quite a knock."
"I emptied my pan into a dirty red Fokker as he ran through the scrap."
"I ended up behind the plain Fokker but I had to reload - he was chewing up mister Jarris' scout pretty bad when mister Gaither rolled round and set him on fire"
"I could only watch as the Fokker finished off the scout... There was nothing I could do."
"My poor scout" sighed Uncle "Don't blame yourself Pynne.. Hopefully it got Jarris down in one piece. "
"I didn't see what happened but I believe Lieutenant Foldes got caught as he tried to get away - he was pretty badly shot up and I'm sure he was wounded, I saw some wreckage just in front of our lines"
"Once my gun was loaded I got in a good close range burst on the plain Fokker again and he began to slow but his chum in the red one came along to spoil the party, then something hit me pretty hard ..."
"Mister Gaither caught the plain Fokker as he was trying to dodge me and took him outta the game"
positional shot
"That red Fokker gave me a hard time of it as I pulled a reverse - I felt a bit light headed and couldn't fire back "
"Mister Gaither chased him off though just as the other doped Fokker with the stripe came for me"
"I'm not sure what happened next, I don't know if mister Gaither had run out of ammo, or, if it was deliberate but he turned straight into that Fokker and they both went down."
"By then the red Fokker had reversed and was after me again but I managed to haul .... myself back over our lines without him catching up."
"That's enough now sir" said the M.O. "He need to rest, the ambulance will be here in a moment"
"Quite so, doctor, quite so." said Uncle "Rest now Pynne, get fit and get back to us when you can"
Bobby relaxed back into the pillow and closed his eyes.
Butcher's Tally
Eagles
Ltn Otto Hengl: (plain) SD-FT 1 kill
Rolled 10 -1SD = 9 All well when you land well !
Ltn Willi Kieckhäfer: (Green): RTB 1 kill
Ltn Hans-Eberhardt Gossner: (Red): RTB 0 kills
Maximillian Häbler: (striped): EXP(col) - FT 0 kills
Rolled 4 -3EXP = 1 KIA
Bulldogs
2Lt Alistair (Ali) Gaither: (cdl tail): COL-ET 2 kills
Rolled 6 -2COL = 4 - Injured - Skip 1D6 Scenarios. Rolled 1 = Skip 1
E&E: Rolled 9 -1COL -1WIC -1BEL = 6 6 - In hiding! - Skip 1D2 Scenarios. Rolled 3 = Skip 1. Totals Skip 1 !
2Lt Hugh Jarris: (flash in Bristol scout): SD-ET 0 kills
Rolled 3 -1SD =2 KIA
Lt William (Bill) Foldes: (all PC10): SD-NML / WIA / 0 kills
Rolled 8 -1SD -1NML -1WIA = 5 - Injured - Skip 1D3 Scenarios. Rolled 3 = Skip 2
E&E: Rolled 7 -1WIA -1WIC +1NML = 6 In hiding! - Skip 1D2 Scenarios. Rolled 1 = Skip 1. Total Skips 2
F/Sgt Bobby Pynne: (cdl): RTB / WIA 0 kills
Rolled 4 +1RTB -1WIA = 4 Injured - Skip 1D6 Scenarios. Rolled 3 = Skip 3
(somehow I moved a kill token from Gaither to Pynne, both belong to the former)
Victory Points
3 points for each enemy aircraft shot down.
1 point for each enemy aircraft forced to retire
10pts to the Eagles
6pts to the Bulldogs
Eagle Victory
Well that could've gone better ! Who wrote those D8 charts..?!
Great dust up even if it didn't go my way - Guess I need to find a new pilot now.
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