Please join us for This Day in WWII: Black Thursday (Oct. 14)

[oneway]

I think Scuzzy could set a TDI forum in the events section?

Perhaps?

Oneway

[Brooke]

Thanks, guys!

And thank you very much for playing in it.  Hope to see you in the next one, too.

[Brooke]

I think Scuzzy could set a TDI forum in the events section?

Perhaps?

Oneway

I'm not sure we need a whole forum.  I'll make a topic in the special-events forum, though.

[kilo2]

Very Fun.

Fun listening and watching the airstart rookies attempt to control their aircraft.

Fun staying with the bomber group on approach to targets.

Fun as the bandits intercepted the group.

Fun as I got a kill and save a buff.

Fun as 2 190's and a 109 attacked me and I dragged them low and away from group then escaped.

Fun as I climbed back to alt to escort the buffs home.

Fun as I found SWkiljoy all alone egressing and escorted him all the way home and he landed all 3 of his buffs.



Thanks for the fun!

Whats this? Tooting your own horn tisk tisk tisk...

[Yeager]

Remember, 60 B17s lost. 550 bomber crewman listed as KIA/MIA/POW

[96Delta]

Hi Tmetal.  I was one of the guys who shot you down.  Had I
known it was your first outing I woulda given you a pass...hmmm,
but then again prolly not  

We picked you 'cause you were separated from the main body and low
enough to dive into.  Besides, we couldn't get above anyone else
before our fuel ran out so a couple of us just joined in on you;
just like what happened in real life to bombers who got separated
from the Group.  

You might find this document interesting as well:
http://david.tenifer.com/aceshigh/pdf/MoM/MoM-B-17ControlGuideWide.pdf

Being separated must have horrified the aircrew of the doomed
bomber..and their friends who watched them drift away, powerless
to help.  I can't imagine.

Here's a video of my attack.  I thought you might find seeing the
engagement from the German point of view interesting.  Sorry for
the view shifting around.  I really must install the TrackIR that's
been sitting in my closet for a year some day.



I hope the event helped you and everyone else who participated
remember these brave airmen and what they did.  A greater generation
there will never be.  



David
"96Delta"

[Jonah]

Whats this? Tooting your own horn tisk tisk tisk...

  conspiracy

[gldnbb]

Was a fun first b17 strike mission to intercept,  albiet more from the standpoint as a major challenge.

Instead of historically meeting buffs at their black thursday operating altitudes between 25 and 30k,  instead found bombers at 32,000  or  33,000  with   very high  p47s  covering them.  Our LW first wave attackers were too low and bounced repeatedly by the escorting p47s.   Not enough E  or alt to bounce anyone from above,  kept most lw fighters away from the stream.   Felt more like  alternate reality black thursday for both sides.

Being said that,  pushed on with this challenge and landed the 190A5 and traded it in for a 109G6.   Barely able to climb back up to the buff altitude,  waiting for them to egress.  Found them egressing albiet a tad lower altitude  (28K?).   Did not have enough E  to climb higher for an above  pass on buffs due to their speed.    Decided was best to attack co-alt  from 11 and 1 positions.   Made about three passes,  as was close to impossible to attack at all  to set up any other type of attack without their b17 guns shredding me apart.     Saw some of my guns meet the bombers,  but no damage.     ON the third pass,  decided to get more close and personal but oil and radiator hit by a b17 gunner.  Drifted as far as could,  strafed a field while attempting to land but the nearby ack  exploded my fuel tank.  

Decided to log off after that, since the bombers wanted to play that way up with higher escorts,  gave extremely difficult time for the LW to make things far from equal  in-flight.  Which is why I say 'alternate reality'  Thursday.

Amazed at all the LW won (with 1 point).

Good intention in this set up, will try another next time.

[MonkGF]

A <S> to InCrypt, who stayed with the bombers LONG after he ran his guns dry, having fun drawing interceptors off just by being there and then climbing back up once they'd been chased away.

[oneway]

A little horn tooting from allied heavy group...

I think the B17's in run #2 sortie #1 did one heck of a job...everybody stayed together in a very tight and lethal box throughout the entire run to the deeper and riskier strat set...

I failed to look at the rules before being thrust into command of this unit..I ended up as group leader after we spawned out...and was completely unaware that pilots had unlimited lives...which explains the constant flow of interceptors out of the air spawns...

I kept thinking we would eventually attrit the enemy forces...

Unfortunately our escort unit did not know they had unlimited lives...and the 17's on the first sortie eventually were naked heading home...

Huge mistake on my part...nonetheless the 17's had a heck of a run and a few did make it home successfully...

Had we known that enemy fighters were unlimited we would have never made the run to the riskier strat...and we would have avoided those airspawns like the plague...

We had gas though...great group of guys...

 

Oneway

[BLBird]

Nice Shootin Delta,

Tmetal had to log so he decide to take one for the team and try to pull some fighters low and away from the main group. A better man than me.

BlBird

[96Delta]

Nice Shootin Delta,

Tmetal had to log so he decide to take one for the team and try to pull some fighters low and away from the main group. A better man than me.

BlBird

Ahh, that explains it.
He was right, the low hanging fruit was hard to pass up.   

[tmetal]

96Delta- no worries about it being my first time I had a blast and thanks for the video.  The reason behind my drop out of formation to draw away the fighters was that I had 2 fuel leaks and had just run out of fuel.  So I did what was good for the group and banked right and away to help the 17's still in the fight.  After my explosive exit I re-upped as a gunner in the formation for KilerMon and got 4 more assists on the way back to base. It was an epic night for me and I don't think it could have gotten better even if I could have landed my mission. Ready to do it again

[Volron]

There were some nice attack passes made by the German pilots and I lost 2 of my B-17's on the 1st bomb run.  I salute you. 

But....



...I made them pay dearly for it.


Oh how I wish I had filmed it...*sigh*

[Little Dragon]

WTG V!!  lol, i didnt stay for the second go around, had school the next morning or else id have been right there with ya   

  SWkiljoy