INTERCEPT AN ESCORTED B-17 FORCE

Mission number of Me 163 tour: 4

Combat records of JG 400 shows for early
October 1944 the following:
Leutnant Schubert and Unteroffizier Bott
of JG 400 were credited with one B-17
destroyed each. However, at the following
landing, two pilots were killed in acci-
dents: the veteran Leutnant Schubert from
1./JG 400, and Unteroffizier Eisenmann from
2./JG 400.
Probably, their aircraft exploded because
the highly explosive T-Stoff and C-Stoff
fuels got together on the landing.
Several pilots were lost this way,
sometimes even before take-off.

YOUR MISSION

You are the leader of a flight of three
Me 163s. Take your squadron up from Er-
furt Luftwaffe airfield to intercept the
B-17 formations heading to the oil
refineries further east of you. Though
your main object is to down the bombers,
you will have to deal with the P-47
escorts as well.
