Return flight after an engagement with 30 zeros [img]
#1

whoa that zero got close


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#2

Nice pics, were you alone against this zeros ?
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#3

Were those rookie Zeroes Smile Otherwise, you shoudn't be allive Big Grin
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102nd-YU-Patak Wrote:Were those rookie Zeroes Smile Otherwise, you shoudn't be allive Big Grin

Lets just say the arent all aces. :wink: But check the historical record! Boom and zoom baby

LeBigTed Wrote:Nice pics, were you alone against this zeros ?

Not exactly... You can try it for yourself...Heres the coop mission I made based on this historical record (also released in our mission pack)

http://www.filefront.com/17364045/Mitchell.zip

Description Bureau of Aeronautics 18 June 1943:\n\n*****\n\nRecord of:\n\nMAJOR JOHN W. MITCHELL, USAAF\nand\nCAPTAIN THOMAS G. LANPHIER, USAAF\nP-38 Pilots - Guadalcanal\n\n\nOne day about thirty Zero's came over the field. Fifteen Grummans, a few P-40's and six P-38's were up. The P-40's saw the Zeros come in and went after them; the Grummans didn't see the fight for about five minutes. \n\nThe Zeros, up around 20,000 feet, had pulled us off to the side; and while we were fighting them, the Jap bombers sneaked in at about 500 feet and dropped their bombs, doing little materiel damage but killing a few men. \n\nThe Grummans went after the bombers and left us six P-38's to fight the thirty Zeros, and we shot down seven. We lost two men.\n\n*****\n\nThe P-38's never tried to tangle with the Japs at any altitude. We'd follow them from 30,000 feet to sea level, but never tried to fight them; couldn't possibly do it at any altitude, regardless of whether we used our flaps or not. (Those new flaps, incidentally, are a great help in turning). We can outrun the Zeros straight and level at any altitude, from sea level up.\n\n\n
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#5

Ouch, good think you get to fight another day, and for the P-38, lets just say its a write off Big Grin

Planemad
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#6

lol thats a write off for sure... I didnt know you could lose engines in il2
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#7

LaughingMan101X Wrote:... I didnt know you could lose engines in il2

Well you now know you can lose engines in Il-2 :wink:

Planemad
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LeBigTed Wrote:Nice pics, were you alone against this zeros ?

Try all alone against 50 Zeros, for real :

viewtopic.php?f=134&t=30380&p=341172#p341172

:Smile)
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#9

Nice pics Smile

P-38 is lovely to fly, even if engines are on fire.
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Nadia Wrote:
LeBigTed Wrote:Nice pics, were you alone against this zeros ?

Try all alone against 50 Zeros, for real :

viewtopic.php?f=134&t=30380&p=341172#p341172

:Smile)

Holy balls!
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