Bf 109 K 4 JG5 Eismeer Campaign Convoy cover, 11

INSTRUCTIONS A convoy of vital supplies is going up the coast from SE. You will provide top cover for the last part of their trip. After T, O with your Schwarm fly SE along the coast and reach the incoming convoy. Provide top cover above 2. 000mt. In case of attack the rest of the Staffel will scramble to help. A campaign by Baco30. Welcome to the Arctic Ocean This campaign is inspired by the operations of Jagdgeschwader 5 Eismeer which fought above the Arctic Circle for most of the WWII, narrated by German ace Walter Schuck in his book Luftwaffe Eagle. As opposed to the rest of the Eastern Front, at those high latitudes the front line remaind almost stationary until the surrender of Finland in 1944 and JG5 s main tasks were to escort the supply convoys directed to Kirkenes, to attack Soviet convoys directed to the strategic port of Murmansk, support to the 20th Mountain Division and the Finnish Army against the 14th Soviet Army. Beside the air combat