BETTIES! send them to hell. They burn better than toilet-paper! The nickname should be "One ping death".
Ok, we sneaked around the pacific for more than an hour and proceeded to the target TOROKINA.
If only one single F4U would have find us, we were dead meat. Fighter-cover was (as usual) not present.
Anyway, i combine Frame4 and 5 here, because the objectives and flight-paths were the same. Except Frame5, this was the only time
i survived the bomb-run (still wondering how i did <g>). After the 2nd reup i had one of the remarkable flights in my scenario career.

More than an hour sneaking around to avoid the enemy fighters , just to bleed over the target.
SOB5 is real rough-necked: We always got to the target, we always achieved hits and we always returned, despite the odds :-)))

Ok, now my 2nd reup in Frame 5:
I landed my Bettie together with GRAMPS, everyone else has been downed. LUGS screamed for a fighter to intercept a single (!)
B-25 on the way to RABAUL. Well, that was me <g>. I took off in a ZEKE and then due to a misunderstanding ROK ordered me to land.
It was 5 mins to endex and i decided to stay in air BUT NOT TO SHOOT a single bullet.
I hoped the guy in the buff would rip his wings or crash or anything else but GREIF shot him down later.
Later it was clear i had an authorized flight and could have killed this brave buff-driver. Pity, was fun tho.

Above Rabaul...                         The guy knew his job.               I could have....
 

to be continued...

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