27.09.2009, 19:02
If you're asking about my campaign of Richard Bong the answer is no. He did not shoot down Yamamoto's flight.
He and Tommy Lynch had a similar mission however where they scrambled put the peddle to the metal and just caught a plane full of generals taxiing off the air field. The score was a Major General, a Brigadier General and all their staff. Not quite as good a haul as Yamamoto but similar.
Again it was an intercepted message and the broken Japanese code.
That one is in the campaign along with many other interesting missions like...
A night interception flight to try and shoot down the real Washing Machine Charley complete with search lights.
Trying to save your best buddy and wingman.
Attacking Rabaul, Borneo oil fields and Leyte.
Being outnumbered 10 to one.
Finding, catching and shooting down a recon flight.
Engaging and trying to shoot down at least 6 Zekes, 22 Oscars, 3 Tonys, 3 Sallys, 1 Tojo, 1 Erving, 1 Val, 1 Betty, 2 Dinas and who knows what that is that Washing Machine Charlie is flying from New Guinea to the Philippines.
Trying to shoot down 40 without being killed your self.
Each mission is as realistic as I could make it based on a lot of research including Bong's own notes in his flight log.
And the final mission of dealing with a flame out in F80 Shooting Star. The only mission he failed.
He and Tommy Lynch had a similar mission however where they scrambled put the peddle to the metal and just caught a plane full of generals taxiing off the air field. The score was a Major General, a Brigadier General and all their staff. Not quite as good a haul as Yamamoto but similar.
Again it was an intercepted message and the broken Japanese code.
That one is in the campaign along with many other interesting missions like...
A night interception flight to try and shoot down the real Washing Machine Charley complete with search lights.
Trying to save your best buddy and wingman.
Attacking Rabaul, Borneo oil fields and Leyte.
Being outnumbered 10 to one.
Finding, catching and shooting down a recon flight.
Engaging and trying to shoot down at least 6 Zekes, 22 Oscars, 3 Tonys, 3 Sallys, 1 Tojo, 1 Erving, 1 Val, 1 Betty, 2 Dinas and who knows what that is that Washing Machine Charlie is flying from New Guinea to the Philippines.
Trying to shoot down 40 without being killed your self.
Each mission is as realistic as I could make it based on a lot of research including Bong's own notes in his flight log.
And the final mission of dealing with a flame out in F80 Shooting Star. The only mission he failed.