THE GAUNLET - THE RUN FOR HOME

"Gunners be on your toes, we're on our
own now" you hear yourself say over 
your aircraft's intercom.

Bombing raids over Germany always 
produced a large number of downed 
aircraft and stragglers. The stragglers
due to one circumstance or another 
were aircraft that had to drop out of
the main body of the bomber formation.

Flying alone or in small groups 
exposed the stragglers to intense 
attack by fighters because their 
smaller defensive fire made them more
successful targets.

              Mission Orders

As the leader of a small formation of
B-17s that have dropped behind the 
main bomber stream after a raid on 
Hamburg it is up to you to guide the
group home and save as many of your
wingmen as you can.

The Luftwaffe is up and they are ready.
They know the way you came in and the
way you will probably take to get home.
The most direct route is straight for
home. It will be up to you to set the
course to take to get home. You will have
to find that chink in the "armor" of the
Luftwaffe fighter defenses to make it
back home safely. It's all up to you.
Good luck!
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Gauntlet.MIS/TXT created by K. Heitmann