Meine liebe Brigitte,
Ich schreibe dich nach ... a wonderful day of flying. Our fleet advanced into the sector only to find no enemy to fight. I thought it a anti-climatic way to start a war. Then, the alarm came to scramble and our squadron took off from the carrier. Approaching was a squadron of British Blackburn Skuas. The British pilots were brave, venturing close enough to identify the ships in our fleet, but their aircraft capabilities did not match their bravery. They were no contest for our new Me 155 fighters and we swept them from the skies without taking a single loss. Not a single British plane survived to fly home, though our destroyers did fish over a dozen of their aircrew out of the ocean. The British are brave, but so are we and I feel proud of how good our new planes are.
I will be home soon, ... meine liebe.
Hauptgefreiter Ernst Frankel
Trägergruppe 2
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British Forces
Blackburn Skua
German Forces
Peter Strasser
- Me 155
- Fi 167
Adm. Graf Spee
Adm. Scheer
Adm. Hipper
Karsruhe
Z-19 Hermann Kunne
Z-20 Karl Galster
Z-21 Wilhem Heidkamp
Atlantis (x3)
Losses
Blackburn Skua
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