I keep reading about mission 6, I cant get past 5, Protecting
the Spitfire Factories. No matter what I shoot down both factories
ae destroyed and MISSION FAILED. How do I SKIP this mission OR solve IT

three sets of bombers on normal setting.

two sets of stukas, one set of he111's

fly straight into the first set of bombers, try to shoot one down from straight on.....slow down and turn come in behind them and shoot them down......then click on your map and you can see the red dots which will show you the direction the other bombers are coming from. go to them and repeat the above steps. the he 111's take a lot of shots but you can do it. you can lose one factory and still be ok though so once they have dropped their bombs instead of chasing them go after the ones that are coming to drop a new load of bombs.

if you save both factories you get a british bomber for the rest of your missions.