I could easily get carried away with all the good memories and bore the crowd to tears, so I'm limiting myself to the first one that came to mind when I saw the thread.
The first DGS Scenario. GL of the 474th FG flying P38s. As it was a scenario my group was made up of a mix of squaddies and folks from other squads. All were there for the same reason it seemed, a love of 38s and history.
We were climbing out on our way to rendezvous with the bombers. The terrain was winter and we were above broken clouds. There was time to kill on the way. Someone started talking about a relative who had been in WW2. This lead to others remembering relatives or people they'd met that had seen action during the war. Outside the flights of 4 kept climbing and before I knew it, I could feel the 'cold' seeping into the cockpit. It seemed like I could touch the cockpit glass and my cartoon pilot felt just a little bit real, or at least as real as my imagination, a life long love for WW2 aviation history and a computer game could make him.
I remember thinking how lucky I felt to 'be there' that day with these folks who shared the same interest. I went back to the film later to see what it looked like. Probably my favorite screenshot of all time. Not filled with action, but a bunch of cartoon 38 drivers on the way to do cartoon combat over cartoon Germany.
