I had just finished flying three straight 47 missions as the knights finally reclaimed their northern bases. It had been a pretty successful group of sorties. The one time I was shot down I managed to pull the 1 enemy fighter away from another 47 in the area allowing a CAP. I was feeling pretty good.
Rocket, Bullzi and myself had been coordinating the strikes. Rocket was cover, Bullzi bombed and I flew drunk. After taking those bases, we decided to level 5 and 6 since they were rook bases and the rooks were coming up in force from them. Bullzi and Rocket grabbed buffs, while I got escort duty.
I came up at f2 and decided to fly toward Rocket who had come up f1. I was in autoclimb at 14k when the call came:
"4 low cons se of F3"
I knew what was going on. It was Cobra and his band of misfits heading for our dar. I set a course for immediate intercept. I spotted a con that had a high 51 swooping down on it. Remembering Cobra's last post on the subject I continued on past the decoy and kept the WEP on towards the 3 cons in the distance.
It was going to be close. I was cruising at 350 knots after dropping 3k to get a tad bit below the incoming 26's. It was simply too close to call. I aproached the 26 bringing up the rear and shot straight up once below the 26. As I closed to 700 yards.. the bomb that dealt the final blow was released. This bomber was going to pay! I somewhat blew the shot landing a few pings but not doing any damage.. I rolled inverted and leveled on the tail section and fired until it disintegrated.
At this time, I found myself in a position that I wanted to avoid.. but knew I couldn't. After swooping up into the trailing 26, I entered gun range for the two lead 26 tailgunners. I started to take a few pings. I had one focus at this time... to get back into that weak spot. I dove until the gunning stopped and started to swoop up again. This time the trailing 26 banked hard to the left. It took him out of gunning range of the other 26 and made him an easy target.
The last 26 was 3000 yards away. He began a slow dive to egress the area and was keeping his distance pretty well until I began to dive too. I was just starting to gain on him when a spitfire came in from above and dove at the surviving 26. He came in at the 26 from his high 6 with pretty good closure. He was no match for the 26's gunner. The 26 began to smoke as every control surface came off of the Spit. Now I was really pissed.
I noticed the spit was slowing and figured the spit had hit something critical. A brief kill message told me the pilot was Cobra. Yeah.. you were going to pay all right. As I closed, Cobra was trying to fight a partially dislocated wing. I unloaded from low and behind and kept firing until there was an explosion.
So, SALUTE!!! to the guys that flew the mission. The whole thing was a blast for me from the time I heard the "4 low cons" call. I only wish I could have got there in time
I respect the way you came in with a plan... not playing the game... rather fighting the war. You stuck with your aircraft even when a bail would have prevented me from getting a kill. Once again.. Nice job guys.
AKDejaVu
BTW.. I have a video of the whole thing
