First, thanks for those who have shared what the fighters did for us in frame one. After looking at the acmcam footage of those who were flying close support from the 4th and 325th, and hearing about how the 328th (6 pilots) took on 20 enemy a/c, we are most grateful to all of you. I hope we get to see some acmcam footage of the encounters.
Second, SE-PUA's vision was that we remove all the 262 bases within the first two frames. That idea has pros and cons.
PRO: The enemy no longer has the jet available to hit our
ground targets with lightning speed.
CON: The enemy no longer has the jet available and now it puts them in a/c that can come after our bombers with 2 more steps of 190s/109s, or they will just use the 190s to continue striking our ground targets. They may simply move into their bombers.
Questions:1. How effective were the 262s in frame one?
2. Would it be better to allow them to use them 4 out of 5 frames to keep up to 13 pilots off our bomber groups, since they can only be utilized for ground strikes?
Third, while I haven't spoken with GUMS about this, I'd like to suggest to the new Frame CO that we repeat the ingress route behind the front line as we did in frame one. The benefits were obvious. We would up from L1 and land at L19, again. (See picture below)
If it is decided that we do want to remove all 262 airfields, perhaps the following route would be acceptable:
NOTE: The targets might need to be reversed to make the 262 fields primary with the L72 being a target of opportunity upon egress.
Thanks <S>