how many have you fought and won? (best against the odds fight)

[Citabria]

my best was probably several tours ago when I stumbled into a typical 7 on 1 gang fight in my p38 and ended up with 7 kills somehow.

happens quite rarely but when it does you get a big grin and a chuckle outa it cuz you know you flew good and were so damn lucky

[Mathman]

I have never gotten out of a fight like that (gotten into many though  ) with the upper hand.  I have gotten into scraps with 4 or 5 once or twice and held my own long enough to either kill them or have the cavalry come charging in to save my ass.  

-math

[Urchin]

My best is definately a 7v1 with me defending a field.  I was the only person in the sector, the 7 of them flew as a large clump towards the base.  This was in the islands map, I was on the northwestern Airbase on the Leftmost home island.  The enemy came from the Southeast, I was North of the airfield at about 15k feet or so.  I came in from behind, bounced two of the rearmost planes in my first pass, then headed back up.  The other five kept going.  It was 3 spits and 2 F4U's- I honestly don't even think they knew I was there.  I bounced another F4U as he made his run into the field, and shot his tail off.  The other F4U and one of the Spits went after the VH and field ack, while the other 2 spits went after me.  I went up and rope a doped one, went past the other one and got the last f4u as he was coming around for another pass at the field ack.  The other spit got hit by ack and went down, and I managed to get the last spit in a heated fight right over the field.  I landed with 29 cannon rounds out of the 620 I started with (190A5).  I rearmed and upped again, and caught another F4U as he came in alone to mop up the field.  Then I called it a day and landed.. got something like 19 perkies for that sortie.  THAT was my best sortie ever, I really doubt if I'll ever be able to top it.

[SOB]

4 vs 1 with me in a N1K.  It was before the FM change tho', so all of the planes flew differently then they do now.


SOB

[Drex]

I once killed 3 C47s that had me pinned.

Drex

[Dead Man Flying]

Tough call.  I was flying a Spit one night into even odds, probably 10 on 10.  Eventually the numbers for my side seemed to melt away, and I was left alone against bunches of enemies.  As it was close to the enemy's base, I have absolutely no idea what sorts of odds I was up against... kill one, and he'd be back into the fray within a minute or two.

I managed 12 kills total, but my guess is at least half of those were while the odds were more even.  Later on, out of ammo, I managed to gain position kills on two or three planes.  It basically came down to dodging, dodging, and more dodging until someone finally landed the kill shot.

Best SA workout I've ever had.  I still get a smile thinking about that flight.  

-- Todd/DMF

[eskimo2]

One thing is for sure,
It's getting a lot harder to win against the odds because there are now a heck of a lot more good fliers out there.  

eskimo

[GRUNHERZ]

I killed 11 vulchers once over a field in a niki after upping from that field with the ack down although two were goons. BTW this was of course after the FM change.......
 

[Zigrat]

the best i usually ever do is 3 on 1

but i think if you start with the advantage it isn't counting, im talking the otehr night i was trying to rtb on the deck in my p38 cuz i was low on gas and a bunch of jugs decided they wanted to kill me but then they all got nailed. but then a zeke caught me cruising home on 1 engine (i was super low on gas) and he nailed me. that sucked.

[bloom25]

I don't remember mine, but I do know that I escaped once in a yak from 9 enemies chasing me.    I even managed to down a typhoon that overshot me after a quick scissor.  I was just lucky that the rest of them couldn't quite catch me.  (I was a 109, but he must have been an f4 or g2.)

[Tac]

I have 4 that I remember:

1) My C202 somehow shot down 1 b17, 1 tbm and 1 b26 and returned home. Now, if that is not an uneven fight, I dunno what it. LOL!

2)Another C202 fun, in middle island, 6 red fighters were twisting to get me and somehow almost 4 of them augered (deck fight).

3)N1k defending a base, took off, shot down 2 b17's 1 b26 and 2 red fighters before getting shot down.

4)My 38 was on the deck trying to get home on 25% fuel, 2 P-51's and an F4U bounced me, managed to snapshot kill a pony when it overshot me, the f4u stalled and augered during a tight turn fight, the last p51 lawndarted a while later.

 

[Karnak]

I took off in a C.202 and as I was climbing I found 3-4 B-17s in formation with an fighter escort of 2 F4Us and 1 P-51D.  I made it look as though I was going to attack the bomb formation from their low six (I'm not actually stupid enough to do that), but I was watching the escorts the whole time.

Sure enough, the escorts all came down to save the B-17s from my horrible C.202.  In the following dogfight I drove the P-51 off after putting a bunch of holes into him and I shot down both F4Us.

I then returned to base and landed.

If I'd been in any fighter other than the C.202 the P-51 would have been blown to bits.

Funny, I notice a disproportionate number of the posts involve people flying the C.202.

[ 07-07-2001: Message edited by: Karnak ]

[MANDOBLE]

Last week of previous tour. Me (190A8), 2 nikkis and a Spit jumped into an enemy formation of three fighters slightly lower than us. I managed to kill them all and nothing for the UFOs  
Canīt remember the enemy plane types, probably more UFOs.

[Hangtime]

2 v 1... but it was Udie and Berserker.

And it went on for ever.  

[Animal]

6 vs 1. Me in P-38.

They were not all at once, first it was two of them, a nik and a pony, and I killed them.

Then they come back, with two more friends. I killed all four.

And they were not bad either. Its one of those days where you fly really good, the force seems to be with you.

I had a mile wide smile in my face.