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Intro
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CAMPAIGN DIARY:
August 25th, 1940. West Malling.

Ok lads, have we perhaps reached the climax of this epic struggle? Looking at the numbers, we are losing an awful lot of pilots and aircraft, but so is Jerry. And there are signs of him tiring.

Also their Intel seems to be off. They can't manage to identify Fighter Command airfields and distinguish them from Bomber and Coastal Commands. Good for us.

Ah, yes. another thing. The RDF. It is not flawless. It struggles to gauge heights of incoming formations above 25,000 feet and can't measure their numerical strength. It can also take several minutes to assess the line of advance for aircraft on a zigzag course. Moreover, the radar looks out to sea and is unable to track aircraft overland. That is the job of the Royal Observer Corps. They are, as you know, tens of thousands of volunteers that track the German formations over land, using binoculars, connected to Sector airfields by landline and communicating intelligence in real time.

And this should... WHAT?

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MISSION
Scramble, scramble! Enemy bombers have sneaked up upon us, and are inbound. Get airborne as fast as possible!!!

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You'll be flying as second element of B section
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Success
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HISTORIC NOTES
Regarding the actions on August 24th: The main German activity consisted of six large raids which crossed the Kentish coast and in two cases flew up the Estuary towards London. A large number of enemy aircraft attacked targets in the Portsmouth area. Both Hornchurch and North Weald sector stations were badly hit.

Preliminary reports stated that RAF aircraft destroyed 40 enemy aircraft at the cost of 20 to ourselves but only six RAF pilots were lost. The actual losses for the Luftwaffe was 29.

Also: the first Luftwaffe bombing London WAS an accident by the Germans. Until this point, civilian deaths had been collateral damage during the bombing of strategic industrial targets and from bombs scattered off-target to make a hasty getaway.

But by the end of August, however, over 1,000 civilians had been killed by bombings and Churchill had already begun to think about an "absolutely devastating exterminating attack by very heavy bombers from this country upon the Nazi homeland".
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Failure
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HISTORIC NOTES
Regarding the actions on August 24th: The main German activity consisted of six large raids which crossed the Kentish coast and in two cases flew up the Estuary towards London. A large number of enemy aircraft attacked targets in the Portsmouth area. Both Hornchurch and North Weald sector stations were badly hit.

Preliminary reports stated that RAF aircraft destroyed 40 enemy aircraft at the cost of 20 to ourselves but only six RAF pilots were lost. The actual losses for the Luftwaffe was 29.

Also: the first Luftwaffe bombing London WAS an accident by the Germans. Until this point, civilian deaths had been collateral damage during the bombing of strategic industrial targets and from bombs scattered off-target to make a hasty getaway.

But by the end of August, however, over 1,000 civilians had been killed by bombings and Churchill had already begun to think about an "absolutely devastating exterminating attack by very heavy bombers from this country upon the Nazi homeland".
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FighterBoysDebrief11.jpg
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