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My fourth, as well as my fifth armed recce.

During the former, I survived a scary AAA hit, and finally managed to silence the battery at Falais. Our patrol route should be a bit quieter now. But I landed on my nose.

During the latter, on our way from Falais to Lisieux, we were ambushed by two 109s. Nobody saw them coming; I noticed the first one only when he was lining up his shot. I did manage to evade and eventually got behind him; during the pursuit, his wingman gave my tail section a very ugly treatment. Left elevator, gone. Vertical stabilizer, gone. No. 4 got the leader I was after, while No. 3 saved my life.

I lost my wingman; the rest of us returned to base safely. I crash-landed. Here's the first ejection in my log book.

Spanish A.F. Hornet 15-26 (c15-39)

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Fifth mission. Lovely weather: these Yanks are obviously expressing astonishment and admiration for my beautiful landing. We also cleared the AAA battery in Lisieux: five guns destroyed.

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Sixth mission. Weather cleared up during the evening: we hit the battery at Cabourg, and managed to destroy four guns. One of them gave me some troubles. I almost landed... I found out that my right wheel had been busted together with my right aileron, as well as my right flap. The moment I lowered them, that was scary. Tried a flaps-up approach, made a smooth go-around, but upon touchdown I lost control quite easily. I disappointed the two Yanks.

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Mission: inspect.

Seventh mission, no contacts: I imagine everyone was staying inside with a warm cup of tea.

This has been the most stressful landing I've ever attempted. I admit I had to cheat and use the outside view for a moment during the final approach because the entire landscape was nearly black. And these Yanks haven't thought of illuminating the airstrip, for now.

But God, was it satisfying...

Texac, why are your Harrier's lights illuminating the rain, while mine aren't?

Awesome screenshots, these you've posted!

Started working on a new mission for the 476 vFG in the PG map tonight. A few pictures...

Al Dhafra AB

Fujairah Green Zone

Fire Base Alamo

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August 15, 1945. The war in the Pacific ended.

K4@ Normandy

Huey Doing a troop escort with 3 Chinooks