RAF Road to Berlin

Background
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1944
Germany is is being bombed around the clock.
For the past year the allied strategic bombers have
been operating in two shifts - Americans during the day
and British in night time. By end of summer 1944
the allies have gained complete air superiority
over Germany and the once mighty Luftwaffe
has been weakened so that the RAF decides to
renew its daylight bombing operations. Lancasters,
Halifaxes and Mosquitos are now flying over
Germany day and night. Spitfires and the occasionally
loaned P-51 units are used in the escort role.

Luftwaffe pulls more and more staffels and
Gruppen off the front line on the Eastern Front
to reinforce the Defense of the Reich. German
factories are building more airplanes than ever before,
but the huge daily casualties have taken their toll.
Bomber pilots are being converted to fighters.
Fighter pilot training is being shortened to meet the
need for pilots. In 1944 the pilot programme
had shrunk to 8 months and 111 flying hours;
just 20 hours on the Fw 190 and Bf 109.
This was less than half what the German cadets
could receive in 1942. American opponents had
at least 525 hours flying time. Relative losses
in combat were correspondingly disproportionate.

By the autumn, the Luftwaffe was seeking
anyone who already had basic experience
in flying, so they could bypass the primary
stages of flight school.

Nevertheless, Luftwaffe keeps fighting and high
command keeps promising the miraculous Wünderwaffen,
which would turn the tide.


This SEC event recreates the violent times of
1944 and 1945 when British bombers started
daylight operations.

German pilots take note!
There is a chance that few of the experten,
who have proven themselves in the first two frames,
will be given the chance to fly the world's first
operational jet and rocket fighters -
the Me 262 and Me 162 - in the third frame.




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Note!
Everybody has two (2) lives to use.
You will loose a life if you do not successfully land at the base where you started from.

Discos do not count as lives. 

Frame 1
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Allies
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Bishops, 70% of participants

Planes available:
- Lancaster
- Mosquito
- Spitfire VIII, XIV, XVI


Orders:
-Bomb the AA factory and refinery in the city of Hamburg (11.16)
-Airstart available from:
 A60 (North and South) and
 A56 (South)
-Land to friendly base OR to sea at airstart location (only if no visible enemy)

Axis
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Knights, 30% of participants

Planes:
- 109G-14, K-4
- 190A-8, 190A-5


Orders:
-Intercept incoming allied raid, probable target Hamburg.
-Available fields:
 A18
 A19
 A20
 A22
 A32 (Airstart South available).


 




Frame 2
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