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Offline PFactorDave

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Re: Vulch = Boring
« Reply #135 on: July 19, 2009, 07:37:23 PM »
The notion was to encourage pilots to shoot up German planes, wherever they found them.  It worked very well.  Note also that statistically it was far more dangerous to strafe an unmanned plane on a German airfield than it was to fight a manned one in the sky.

This is spot on.   :aok

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Re: Vulch = Boring
« Reply #136 on: July 19, 2009, 08:11:43 PM »
Match sticks man. That way they burn.

I say we all have a vendetta against trees now. they must pay for what they have done to CAP1. He is just one of may victims (the entire population of our animated cartoon world). Just another reason we should get incendiaries.


The ONLY time I vulch is if it is a 262 or something that will totally own the rest of us, if they try to up 30 fighters or a large group of bombers.

Oh, and does that question imply you are fine with tactical vulching?  Just curious.

Oh, and for me, the line is once it's 500ft off the ground it's fair game. Or if it's a gv then once the driver has time to get his bearings and starts to, well...operate at a level of something other then "where the f**k am I?".

they seem impervious to matches dude!! i tried last night. i had to bail outta my 38j, as she couldn't maintain flight anymore. i opened my chute, and upon seeing bunches of trees below me, i holstered my 45, and pulled out a matchbook.
 as soon as i was on the ground, i kept trying to lite them off. nothing. they just waved at me in the breeze, and i thought i heard one of em laugh at me too.
 this pissed me off, so i went to the nearby base that was about to be captured, and shot some badguy troops that were threatening our maproom.  :D :noid
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Re: Vulch = Boring
« Reply #137 on: July 19, 2009, 08:13:00 PM »
The notion was to encourage pilots to shoot up German planes, wherever they found them.  It worked very well.  Note also that statistically it was far more dangerous to strafe an unmanned plane on a German airfield than it was to fight a manned one in the sky.

- oldman

considering that a lot of p51's took part in this too, i would say that they were far more vulnerable to ground fire than another aircraft...considering the placement of the radiator on the ponys........
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Re: Vulch = Boring
« Reply #138 on: July 19, 2009, 09:53:02 PM »

Each country had a slightly different set of rules for claiming an enemy aircraft "kill". The U.S. wasn't a furballer nation  :lol its target was to destroy the Luftwaffe. To do so it targeted German airfields with fighters. U.S. commands also credited aircraft destroyed on the ground as equal to aerial victories.

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Only the 8th AF did this.  No other US Air Force gave credit for ground kills. This includes th 9th AF that was the tactical air force in the ETO.  As Oldman said, it was to encourage pilots to kill em in the air and on the ground.  Many of the best US air to air guys went down to flak.  Visit any of the US cemeteries in France and it's the ground attack guys who you see buried there.  It was a far more dangerous job


All that being said, none of that applies to AH as we all have unlimited lives
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Re: Vulch = Boring
« Reply #139 on: July 20, 2009, 09:17:24 AM »
Trees are my wingmen. I enjoy fighting other planes amonst them. My only complaint is they have a lot of my golf balls and won't give them back.
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