Dear Lord & Lady Farr,
Once again I find myself writing to our kind sponsors to tell of another mission completed in your donated aircraft, Farr's Revenge
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Not the most pleasant of news however, as another crewman, our Bombardier, has had it for the rest of this bash I am afraid. It all happened directly over the target on this one as we only saw 1 single Hun fighter all the way there and back and our new tail gunner, Edgeland, blew the blighter out of the sky with his first shot!!
However the hun put up the mightiest barrage of ack-ack fire we've hithertofore experienced. What a fireworks show. Well we were hit twice on the way in to the IP, lots of cables snapped and control surfaces perforated, but the worst was two damned hits on the nose, caving the whole shebang in and making an awful mess of the poor bomb aimer just as he was about to thumb the drop toggle, dashed awful luck I am afraid as the bombs went right out of ruddy bounds and done no damage at all.
Anyway, we'll be on for the next show and by gosh we'll give old Hun a bloody nose for his trouble!
Your obedient servant,
Flt. Lt Drew Paterson