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Offline olds442

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Re: Hit the homeland! Join the 444th Bomb Group!
« Reply #30 on: February 27, 2011, 02:12:14 AM »
Congrats to cutlas on passing training and being assigned to the 676th Bomb Squadron.

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Re: Hit the homeland! Join the 444th Bomb Group!
« Reply #31 on: February 28, 2011, 07:42:38 PM »
S! all

We've rotated to Knights for the month of March to try it out.

Need to arrange some escorts if any are available!  :D

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Re: Hit the homeland! Join the 444th Bomb Group!
« Reply #32 on: June 18, 2011, 11:30:22 AM »
444th is back on the job and looking for new crews!

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Re: Hit the homeland! Join the 444th Bomb Group!
« Reply #33 on: June 20, 2011, 11:52:44 PM »
444th and company hit the strats tonight! Here is an AAR I typed up.

Just finished our first op in B-29s.

Mission Start: 21:25

Mission End: 23:30

Mission Summary

Six B-29s departed A229 heading south. A singleton formed up with the group south over the water where the first interceptor hit us. and We had constant contact from the bay to the target and back over the mountains to home where we set back down at A222. All seven Superforts hit strategic targets, but there is more work to do and the group will have to go back to finish the job soon. One of my flight suffered a fuel leak, I had some holes in my wings on "Sky Chief" and Redtail lost power to one of his flaps, but we all landed safely thanks to the good people at Boeing and our escort.

Claims

Lemay - 1 Spitfire
W1ldcat! - 1 Spitfire
Redtail - 2 Fw190 of some new high altitude type
Alfamega - 2 Fw190s of same advanced type


Sky Chief Warming up her Wright 3350's.



The Business end of ALFAMEGA fully loaded P-47N.



Getting intercepted en route, it's called Superfortress for a reason! 6 o'clock attack ends badly.



W1ldcat! rendezvous with the formation just in time for some action.



This new experimental 190 will not be available for examination thanks to Redtail  :devil



Rain of Iron in the forecast today!



Weatherman is right for once.



Everyone makes it home ok and "Sky Chief" gets a mission bomb and a Jap flag painted on by the crew chief.



Salute! to the friends and foes who made the mission fun!

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Re: Hit the homeland! Join the 444th Bomb Group!
« Reply #34 on: June 20, 2011, 11:59:48 PM »
 :salute sir, it was great fun.

Anyone interested in hi-alt, hi-speed superfort fun, definitely look this squad up!
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Re: Hit the homeland! Join the 444th Bomb Group!
« Reply #35 on: June 21, 2011, 01:05:30 AM »
major salute to LeMay for putting the raid together causing some hvy damage to bish strats with a special thanks to alfamega with our escort services killing 2 birds. Great mish

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Re: Hit the homeland! Join the 444th Bomb Group!
« Reply #36 on: September 26, 2011, 03:59:01 PM »
With several returning players the 444th is re-activating and beginning operation soon! New folks welcome!

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Re: Hit the homeland! Join the 444th Bomb Group!
« Reply #37 on: September 26, 2011, 06:34:15 PM »
 :salute

If any of your bomber pilots want to fly Friday Squad Operations, I have a dedicated bomber squad registered.  Much better than MA action.  FSO is held in Special Events Arena 1 on Friday nights starting at 11PM EST/10PM CST.

Each FSO is 3 Friday nights in a row.  There is a rotating Commander in Chief (CIC) selected by the Campaign Managers (CM's) for each of the Axis and Allied squads.  The CIC receives objectives (attack and defense assignments) and creates orders among the registered squads for that week on his side pertaing to aircraft assignments, defense, and strike packages (bombers, JABO's, fighter sweeps, and escorts).

It comes down to which CIC had the best plan to the squads making tactical choices in the air that determines the outcomes.  Sometimes you find yourself in the tower after 20 minutes to landing 2 hours later as a survivor and in-between.

95% of the time my squad is in bombers and the other times are in fighters.  FSO's range from 1938 to 1945 eras utilizing limited planesets designed by the CM's.  We fly them all from A-20's to Ju-87's and Ju-88's to Ki-67's plus 8th Air Force on occasion to blue water carrier ops.

Take-off, climb to altitude, form up, be escorted, receive target information, defend against enemy fighters, release bombs, egress out, and head for home.  The best fun you can have in Aces High as American, British, German, Japanese and Russian bomber pilots.

Just PM me if you guys are interested.  I have limited spots for pilots.  Extra bodies can fill in as gunners/observers.

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Re: Hit the homeland! Join the 444th Bomb Group!
« Reply #38 on: September 26, 2011, 10:13:52 PM »
Welcome to Heiggwin! great to have you on board!

I'll talk to the guys about FSO. Might be a fun thing to do.

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Re: Hit the homeland! Join the 444th Bomb Group!
« Reply #39 on: September 28, 2011, 06:14:35 AM »
Oct 7th, 14th, and 21st are the next FSO dates.
Chuck Norris can pick oranges from an apple tree and make the best lemonade in the world. Every morning when you wake up, swallow a live toad. Nothing worse can happen to you for the rest of the day. They say money can't buy happiness. I would like the opportunity to find out. Why be serious?