Like everyone else I have plenty of good, and very few bad, memories. One sticks out in my mind. We had a desert setup in AvA (and probably this was back when it was still called Combat Theater). One evening a new squad of people came in from the MA and upped a P-40E mission to attack our base. I was wandering around in my 202, quite low, when this swarm of P-40 locusts appeared. I don't believe they had flown the P-40 much, if at all. The resulting melee was reminiscent of the old Popeye cartoons, where someone is running around in a thunderstorm with lightning bolts crashing all around him. I may have actually shot down one or two of them, but I got credit for seven, the most I've ever acquired on a mission.
I don't believe I ever saw any of those guys again.
- oldman