We upped from F200 with 8 pilots headed NOE down the river to close field 263. We lost two or three pilots to stick and other malfunctions who upped late for the task at hand.
We arrived at 263 with Muzz in the lead, who took out the southeast ack, and soon after the Northwest ack succumbed to our firepower. Many targets were destroyed before we had to rtb for ammo, we directed the late comers to search for the last parked 109, but reports came in of enemy aircraft capping the field, some attempted to get in but were soon caught by enemy 109s. We were chased back to 200 by various elements of the LW. At one point we upped with 2 pilots to sneak back to 263, whilst the rest landed and decided to flay south for the tank field in 7.1 area. The two on the way to 263 were almost there when the last target was found and it was closed by another squad. Those heading south ran into JG51 and were decimated. Deak and I attempted to bomb targets at F16, but ack, enemy cap forced us to evade back to 200 with considerable LW following deak, must have been his aftershave, We upped again and headed south for reported soft targets, and since most of the LW had booked north, we attempted to attack one field but soon found that every ack emplacement in the place was trying to ruin our day. We attacked the tanks in the 7/1 grid, destroying one, damaging a few, but no credit given.
It was then we were advised that those tanks were hit in an earlier frame and did not count as VP points. We rtb'd and stood down.
Good job to the Frame CO, the plan would have worked better if the LW had stayed in the south as planned, guess they did not get the memo
Swede- SL 416 VVS, 127 Wing.
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