Welcome back,Guest Login
Timezone: Europe/Berlin Remember?
Score Board
No. 41 Squadron ‡
AIR 130
GND 55
Sorties 118
SQUADRON
STATUS
READINESS
AVAILABLE
30 MINUTES NOTICE
STANDING-BY
ON PATROL
LANDING AND REFUELLING
RELEASED

OPERATIONS RECORD BOOK

Combat Report


Intelligence Form 'F'
Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (A)29.08.20
Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (B)No. 41 Squadron RAF
Type and mark of our A/C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (C)Spitfire IX
Time attack was delivered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(D)04.00
Place of attack or target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(E)Venlo
Our casualties A/C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (F)Nil
Our casualties personell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (G)Nil
Enemy casualties in air combat. . . . . . . . . . . . . (H)Nil
Enemy casualties ground and sea targets. . . . . . (J)Nil

General Report

F/O 'Zach' Z. Lamothe Flying as callsign, 'red 2' with F/O 'Zach' Z. Lamothe as 'red 3' and F/Lt 'Riksen' Richards leading as 'red 1' conducting a sweep over allied forces approaching Venlo. We were quick to spot a flight of 3 109's that F/O 'Zach' Z. Lamothe and I intercepted with F/Lt 'Riksen' Richards remaining as top cover. We attempted to intercept from their low six but we were spotted and a fight ensued. I turned for one but quickly found a 109 on my six. I broke off before the hun could get a bead on me. As I turned, I witnessed F/O 'Zach' Z. Lamothe give a good stream of fire into a 109 putting him into a flat spin; F/Lt 'Riksen' Richards came in to finish jerry off with a short squirt. In the 3 seconds that it took for all this to happen, the third 109 engaged me which a remedied with a quick break but the hun still managed to get a burst off, damaging my rudder severely. The 109 scissored with me twice but was destroyed by F/Lt 'Riksen' Richards. Having extensive damage to my craft, I had to RTB. F/Lt 'Riksen' Richards and F/O 'Zach' Z. Lamothe both remained higher, diligently escorting my damaged bird back to our home field. We all RTBed successfully.

F/O 'Mac' Steele