Out of the Blue
“Frank was happy to leave the mess. The Dodger was recounting his two near misses and one probable. Everyone else was quiet, but the Dodger hadn’t noticed.
It had not been a good mission. True, they had lost only Tony whereas the other squadron had lost two, but the Fortress fleet had been badly mauled, losing a third of their strength. At the debrief the wing commander had been more than usually crisp and critical, describing the bombing as wilfully and shamefully inaccurate. Many Fortresse...s, meeting heavy flak around the airfield, had veered away or climbed above it and dropped their bombs anywhere. At one point the only planes near the airfield were the covering Spitfire squadrons, with nothing to cover. Then, because of their avoidance of the target, the bombers had failed to form defensive and defendable formations on the way back. Spreading out over northern France and Belgium, they made easy meat for the Luftwaffe. Our own encounter before reaching the bombers, the wing commander said, was because the diversionary Typhoon attacks had not worked as intended.MoreLess
It had not been a good mission. True, they had lost only Tony whereas the other squadron had lost two, but the Fortress fleet had been badly mauled, losing a third of their strength. At the debrief the wing commander had been more than usually crisp and critical, describing the bombing as wilfully and shamefully inaccurate. Many Fortresse...s, meeting heavy flak around the airfield, had veered away or climbed above it and dropped their bombs anywhere. At one point the only planes near the airfield were the covering Spitfire squadrons, with nothing to cover. Then, because of their avoidance of the target, the bombers had failed to form defensive and defendable formations on the way back. Spreading out over northern France and Belgium, they made easy meat for the Luftwaffe. Our own encounter before reaching the bombers, the wing commander said, was because the diversionary Typhoon attacks had not worked as intended.MoreLess
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