[Airhog]

2/17/1944 Fire in the hole

We meet some heavy resistance inside france. Our planes are constantly under attack from 4-8 planes nearly all the way to the target. We are forced to fly through three flak zones, so we have an increased risk of losing a plane. Midway to our target, Rajun Cajuns gets raked pretty good from cannon fire. They lose their tail gunner and a waist gunner. Rustbucket is dinged up, but continues to stay in formation. After fighting our way though the enemy we drop our bombs. They demolish the site, and end any chance of ball bearing being produced for some time at this site. Everything is fine until we run into our final flak zone. A flak shell rips through the wing of Rustbucket, and it leaves a big hole. It must have hit the controls, because they start to fall out of formation. They continue to dive, and I give the order to bail out. However, they are pulling alot of g's and we only see a few parachutes deploy. Sadly we continue home, and later learn that only 5 men survived, but were taken prisoner