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Scourge of the Atlantic

BeauBrummie

BeauBrummie

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I am producing a few KG 40 missions. This one features four Condors from 1/KG 40 screenies armed with Hs 293 guided missiles and three escorting Ju88C-6's from 13/KG 40. They have stalked a small convoy heading across the mouth of the Bay of Biscay bound for the UK. The convoy has it's own Lib escort. There are two missions one from the condors pilot's perspective and another from the Escort. I've kept it fairly simple, but it's not easy. The Condors require concentration and gentle handling and definitely no sharp turns. The Ju88C-6's find that a Lib has plenty to say for itself. I have also a Sea Eagles mission which I'm going to see if it'll transfer across to ETOE.

Beau

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,,luvely..i am also on the verge of completing 4 new cc missions all... Raf perspective...

these willbegood to warm yaself these chilly autum days..

btw..there is one account in thecinderella service book....about dorniers with guided missiles...escorted by ju88s......attacking shipping/convoys....that wouldbe coool


Operational Use.

KG 100 used the Hs.293 in operations in Southern England, the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean between March 1943 and April 1944.
The first successful use of the Hs.293 was by II/KG 100 on 27th August 1943 with the destruction of the British corvette H.M.S. Egret in the Bay of Biscay.
In September 1943 II/KG 100 was moved from Istres in France to Foggia to support III/KG 100 trying to repulse the allied landings at Salerno. III/KG 100 with the Fritz X had had some successes amongst the tightly packed warships with direct hits on cruisers H.M.S. Uganda and U.S.S. Savanna, and H.M.S. Warspite. However, with the arrival of allied fighters onto the mainland, III/KG 100 operations were curtailed and II/KG 100's anti-shipping sorties with their Hs.293 were flown at night. These operational conditions were not suited to visual tracking of low-level missiles and success was elusive, with aircraft evacuating Foggia on 17th September.
The success of the guided bomb programme led the Luftwaffe to add operations to KG 40, the Atlantic anti-shipping force, I/KG 40 with Heinkel He.177 A-5s and II/KG 40 and III/KG 40 with Dornier Do.217s, all armed with Henschel Hs.293 missiles, augmenting the KG 100 force in France.

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