NEW TOUR - MAY START

I started again with COTTON CLUB which did well but crashed over Normandy returning with a destroyed rudder from Bordeaux. They'd had quite a fight of it fending off BANDITS every step back from the target - but the pilot failed his ATC DR and 7 crew bailed. 3 are about to turn up in the UK having been smuggled back!

BANDIT BAIT a new B-17 and crew took over after 10 days. A mission to Abbeville went off OK - but in the 2nd to Emden aerial rockets caused them to break formation and they fell prey to an FW190 coming in from 7 o'clock high - see previous post.

4 of the men survived their bath in the North Sea but one became a POW.

These 3 survivors form the nucleus for the crew of FLYING FISH - all 7ML new guys.