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Defiant Days

Cool, I am really good at crashing the Defiant :gameoff:
Got plenty of experience, with Her..From the missions I built..
BRAVO..
:salute: :salute: :salute:
 
So what appened to this mission pack:[h=2]Sunderland at War, Part I: the Bay of Biscay ? :kilroy:[/h]
 
if i may ask , serious question , not being dumb or plain out mental , and i can read .


when one states historical is this from a historical event of past or a historcial twist on a event ,


tks
 
...Imagine being assigned to such a hopelessly outclassed aircraft
-Did you guys notice in the second photo from the Air Remembrance Society how on those Defiant night fighters, the fuselage roundels differed quite profoundly?
 
John..were there ever any other 264 sqdn skins made for the Defiant? I can't recall![/QUOTE]

No Clive, but I can do the whole squadron if you want, think we talked about this a while back?
 
popsaka said:
...Imagine being assigned to such a hopelessly outclassed aircraft
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Don't you mean mis-assigned? It was built to do to bombers what is shown in LZ's pics and gave good service in that role. The mistake was to use it in daylight.

Moved to nightfighting operations it shot down more enemy aircraft during the Blitz of '40-'41 than any other. Once the AI-equipped, heavily armed Beaufighters learned their trade it became redundant.
 
This Looks like FUN!!
I just Love wrecking aircraft, can't wait..:gameoff:

Thanks very much LZ for these..
:salute: :salute: :salute:
 
but I can do the whole squadron if you want, think we talked about this a while back?
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We did indeed! It would be very nice to have the whole sqdn, if you have the time and inclination of course John! :)
 
Trying to fly this A/C in battle is very painful and frustrating;you have to get ahead and under the plane you want to shoot down, otherwise your flying in the opposit direction and the incounter last just a fraction of time.:bump:

Any hints from the master wreker?
 
Trying to fly this A/C in battle is very painful and frustrating;you have to get ahead and under the plane you want to shoot down, otherwise your flying in the opposit direction and the incounter last just a fraction of time
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That's just about what the real tactics were, flying either underneath or alongside the target.

When used as intended these were the results:

The following week was spent in further practice but from 23rd May, 264 Squadron flew each day to Manston for operations along the French coast to support the withdrawal of the British Army. Opposition increased day by day with one German plane being shot down on May the 24th, 5 on the 27th, 6 on the 28th, 37 on the 29th and 9 on the 31st. The score of 37 enemy aircraft destroyed in one day by an RAF squadron, for no loss (that is, except for one casualty, Sergeant Evan Jones and one or two planes lost) was an achievement, which remained unequalled throughout the war. [after the war it was found out that only 14 of the 37 claimed were confirmed by German records]

The aircraft destroyed during these last few days of May were almost all over or around Dunkirk during the evacuation period. The Squadron's score for this first month of being operational was 67 enemy aircraft destroyed with a further unrecorded number damaged, for the loss of 8 or 9 crews and 14 aircraft. This extraordinary successful month led to the award of the Distinguished Service Order to the Commanding Officer (Sqd./Ldr Hunter) as well as a Distinguished Flying medal for other members of the Squadron.

source: http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/264_squadron.html

Also while the Defiant was maligned for it's performance during BoB, there were a number of fighter squadrons which suffered greater losses and casualties.


I'll give my brushes a clean, see what I can come up with for you!
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Thanks John! :)
 
Battle of Britain, july 19th 1940, 141 squadron.

This time, you will have to dogfight against 109's! You have a very short window to shot down an Emil, try to be very quick and accurate! If you miss him, he won't miss you...

This was the first and last time that 141 engaged bandits with Defiants and a few hours later, decision was taken to withdrawn the squadron due to heavy losses.

141 came back to southern England in september with it's Defiants to operate at night.

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