Settle down chaps, light up your cigarettes, I'm on the Albanian Rough Shag this week. Good for the sinuses.
As you know the Hun Circus over at Vagraines are still making a concerted push on our Artillery observation planes.
High command want us (and by "us" I mean you) to attack their airfield.
We have two flights of the new Bristol Fighters attached to us for this mission.
Shoot them up gentlemen.
Your new Squadron Leader will delegate the operations.
Be brave gentlemen.
Operations Briefing
Squadron Leader James Quigglesworth.
What ho chaps.
What we have always done on this sort of thing, go over in dribs and drabs. It's a tactic that has served us disastrously in the past, so I see no reason to change anything now.
Algy will lead A flight with Ginger in formation behind. Maximum ceiling gentlemen but from the look of that cloud it will be 6000.
Bertie and Smithy will go this afternoon, same routine, doesn't do to surprise the Hun.
The Brisfit boys will be sending two flights to try out these new kites. Old Tudor Davies will be leading them, probably with Donnie Estelle as his second. A nice bus but not a patch on our Camels.
June 1917, The Brisfits appear
Algy with four Sopwith Camels
Ginger with four Sopwith Camels
Tudor with four F2 Bristol Fighters.
Donnie with four F2 Bristol Fighters.
The Stereotype Hun Briefing.
Jawoll mine Herren,
Pass the sausages and beer steins. Let us get up there and shoot down the enemy
Get high and drop down on them!
The Pumpernickel Staffel
Six Fokker Triplanes
Two Eight Albatros
Two balloons and six AA batteries supporting.
In the Air...
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| Quiggles gets his Bristols out. |
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| Over the lines the Hun ambush |
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| It's one of those swirling dogfights |
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| But by and large the Germans get into position better. |
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| Ginger goes down... |
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| Five Bristols three camels make it home. Four planes down including Ginger. |
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| And three Hun kites down too. A narrow win. I need to brush up on my Bristols... |
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