PM012 AAR: Pilot Officer A. Jaye, reporting. Well, that did not go according to plan. We were in the midst of zone 7, outbound, the first time we were jumped by a 110. Tore us up good, including knocking out the mid-upper turret and #2 engine. I elected to carry on. We were suprised, and hammered, again by another 110 just outside the target zone. Oxygen fire in the mid-upper turret, which Nobsworth managed to extinguish. Plane became very sluggish from this point forward as we had also lost a number of control surfaces. Got lit up by search lights, but luckily the Wild Boar 109 pilot was not as good as his 110 counterparts. Go to drop our bombs only to find out the bomb bay doors were jammed. Egads. At least we managed to evade the 110 waiting for us on the other side. Surpised by another 110 over Luxembourg. Osgood shot him down, but not before he took another chunk out of our hide. Osgood reported heavy tail damage, plus #1 fuel tank was leaking. Over Flanders, got surprised by another 110. Osgood shot him down as well, but by that point there were more parts missing from the plane than present. Frankly, it was flying like a lead coated rock, so when got over base, I rang the bailout alarm. Miraculously, no one had been wounded, so we all got out okay and landed just fine. Not so PM012, which crashed into farmer McVicar's pasture a few miles west.
FYI: PM012 took 39 hits for 426 peckham Points. had the crew not bailed out, major end items that would have needed replacement or major repairs, included the following: