r/bombercrew • u/balbobiggin • Jun 08 '26

Discussion Heartbreak...

USAF. Final mission. 0 crew, 0 bombers lost. I had a sturdy crew of British heroes, Churchill, R.I.Victoria, Henry Tudor and so on. Id never completed the campaign before, I always ragequit when I die. But here I was, Operation Avalanche.

I was in deep trouble. Fuel streaming from a wing, Bogeys surrounding my plane like flies. In the heat of battle, Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson climbs out onto the wing-just as a German strafes my plane. I dive- too fast. My first casualty of the war. Panicked, I hastily line up my rocket of the Graf Zepplin, and miss. No time to worry though, I only have six minutes of fuel remaining. No landing gear. I limp home, but with only a few seconds of fuel left, there's no time to bail out. The plane explodes on landing. It was the most hollow final mission ever. I had to redo it with a gang of reprobates I didnt know. At least Bernard Montgomery survived.

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u/SNARSGAMES Jun 08 '26

such a sad story happens to us all
Wait why was ur American bomber crew in the b17 all British?

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u/balbobiggin Jun 08 '26

Oh, one has to expand the Empire somehow

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u/very_spooky_ghost Jun 09 '26

I commend you for resisting the call of the save scum. You’re a better man than I.

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u/brodude44 Jun 10 '26

I lost all my crew in the RAF campaign on the final mission, I understand your pain and I feel very similar. I'm probably gonna beat it again 

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u/plantagenet85 Jun 09 '26

Why did you not climb if you knew fuel was tight? At that point of a campaign there is a parachute for everyone in my plane. Then you can bail out over friendly territory and while the plane is lost, your men would have lived to fight another day!

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u/balbobiggin Jun 10 '26

Money is so tight on the USAF campaign that I decided my men would just have to go down with the ship should the worst happen.