4% loss rate is fair and reasonable.

The Martin Middlebrook and Martin Bowman books on the Battle of Berlin.
are good starting points. There are two other books on the same subject, but I can't remember the authors at the moment. I read all four in a row. It's interesting the different prespectives you get. The squadron combat ...

News flash people. It wasn't uncommon for the NJG to attack in pairs. One would attract the attention of the gunners and the other would hit the bomber. Now maybe the game is excessive in that regard, but it is not historically inaccurate.

I liked the one that had proportional aircraft. Anybody have that one?

I approached Matrix a couple of years ago about a "new and proved" ED/BTR. The response was "if and when" they do it it will be under the CMO umbrella.

Found this on FB.

Airfield.

The biting wind long forgotten,
Why should we remember?
Control tower - it's job long since done,
A monument to another time,
Why should we remember?
Runway - weed strewn and unwanted,
Why should we care?
Its life blood long since gone,
The life which was mostly death ...

Been down this road before. I am not messing with the a/c stats.

Its your project, but if you could (and this would be a massive amount of work I suppose) do both the RAF/AASF/NZAF/PAF/CRAF(? Canadian/Poles/NZ/AU). and all the USAAF day by day now that would be really tremendous and awesome.

If I pulled that off, I would probably get the Nobel prize for ...

Thanks Mark and Zovs for your kind words. It was a mixture of joy and pain in the a$$ at times doing it.

Shall we do it all over again in 2029? The museum now has an interesting book on the day to day doings of the AASF, so that would make the 1939 first half of 1940 a little more interesting. And ...

Dear Reader,

FOR YOU, DA VAR ISS OVER!

8-5-45
401 Sqn RCAF (B.116 Wunsdorf – Spitfire XIV)
Still no flying to-day and Squadron activity consisted mainly of celebrating the surrender of Germany was made official to-day by an announcement by Prime Minister Churchill and a stirring speech by the King ...

7-5-45
401 Sqn RCAF (B.116 Wunsdorf – Spitfire XIV)
No flying carried out to-day by 401 Squadron. Everybody is waiting to hear the official announcement by Churchill that Germany has surrendered. It's understood this Announcement will one over the radio to-morrow.

USAAF
ETO: Ninth Air Force P ...

6-5-45
401 Sqn RCAF (B.116 Wunsdorf – Spitfire XIV)
No flying carried out to-day, but something new has been added. Yes, some of the boys who have been wishing they were pushing Spit XIV’s through the air have got their wish. Our old faithful Spit IX's have been replaced by Spit XIV's from No. 185 ...

5-5-45
401 Sqn RCAF (B.116 Wunsdorf – Spitfire LFIXB)
Patrols are continued to-day and we carried out 2 four man patrols before 08.00 hrs. Both were uneventful.

2nd TAF
Despite the ending of operations which were supposed to include a complete ban on further flights by Luftwaffe aircraft ...

401 Sqn RCAF (B.116 Wunsdorf – Spitfire LFIXB)
To-day the weather was not too good for flying and got slowly but steadily worse. We managed to work in only one uneventful Armed Recco. In the GRISHORN/FLENSBURG Area.

However the first official indication that the War is nearly over was received ...

3-5-45
402 Sqn RCAF (B.116 Wunsdorf – Spitfire FRXIV)
Three Armed Recces were carried out in the Bad Sageburg/Kiel/Rendsberg/Klinshorn/Hamburg area. In the second show the Squadron located 8 F1.156's on the ground and thoroughly strafed them. S/L Gordon contacted another not far away flying near ...

2-5-45
169 Sqn (B.116 Great Massingham – Mosquito NFXIX)
Cloudy at first, clearing in the afternoon. Twelve aircraft operated by making low level attacks on two aerodromes, JAGEL and WESTERLAND on SYLT, with drop tanks filled with Napalm Gel. F/O. R. CATERALL DFC, and F/Sgt. D.J. BEADLE his ...

1-5-45
401 Sqn RCAF (B.116 Wunsdorf – Spitfire LFIXB)
Low cloud prevented any type of flying other than patrols and this Squadron carried out such patrols.

The first patrol who took off at 14.55 and landed at 16.55 was led by W/C Northcott ( Wing Commander, Ops). This patrol found an FW. 190 in ...

30-4-45
3 Sqn (B.152 Fassberg – Tempest V)
F/0 J.LR. TORPY Led a weather recce to the BRIDGEHEAD AREA at 08.00hrs and found same MET which was attacked, The C. O. led a BRIDGEHEAD PATROL at 09.00hrs with some success. G.C.C, reported Hums and for a change the Squadron found them with the following ...

29-4-45
616 Sqn (B.109 Quackenbrück – Meteor III)
Patrols were carried out in pairs during the day.

S/Ldr. L.W. Watts DFC and F/Sgt. Cartmel B. reported missing. Information received through G.C.C. that Spitfire pilots heard S/Ldr. L.M. Watts DFC. calling F/Sgt. Cartmel to come closer as he was ...

28-4-45
412 Sqn RCAF (B.116 Wunsdorf – Spitfire LFIXB)
Fog and low cloud prevented an early start of flying today and this squadron. which was "Joe” for Patrols did not get airborne until 10.15 hours, but by dark, they had carried out 10 Patrols in the area from ZARRENTIN to AHRENSBURG. All ...