"Alexandria, hier kommen wir" Topic

"It is 17 March 1942, except it isn't. This is the first year of a counterfactual Second World War, which broke out in 1941 after the accord previously signed by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and German Führer und Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler finally broke down. German troops have flooded into Western Europe and war has broken out in North Africa as well.
The delay in the beginning of war has not halted the forward march of technology. Far from it. The 'industry' of war continued to produce more potent planes, tanks and armament, the Germans especially developing potential 'super weapons' for the conflagration that seemed all to likely to erupt. Of course, none of it has yet been tested in combat: while troops have no doubt been trained in using the new weapons and 'kit', they have had no experience in action. Nor have their leaders nor command systems. Pilots are far from expert too – even those who served in the Spanish Civil War are already finding that their experience is ill-suited to the new generation of planes.

But now, with a British fleet amassed in Alexandria, exerting control over the Mediterranean, Oberkommando der Wehrmacht has developed an audacious plan to cripple it, in place, with an attack using the newly developed Fritz X guided bomb. A Staffel of six He-177 bombers, each armed with three of the potentially deadly Fritz X, took off from Comiso (Vincenzo Magliocco), Sicily at 0230 hours. Two of them developed engine over-heating early on, so returned to base. The remaining four bombers were joined, en route, by their fighter escort, two flights each of three Reggiane Re.2001 Falco II, launched from the carrier Aquila, operating riskily quite close to the North African coast…"

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