Just in time for Friday Night Flicks it’s the long awaited sequel of
"Dial P47-M For Mayhem!" if you need to get up to speed, go ahead and click the tile link for the story set up and
Part I: “Dad Crashes a Bishop BBQ!”For tonight’s installment we present
Part II: “Tanks For the Memories!” The sequel showcases some noisy air to ground action, the return of a vengeful familiar foe, and all ending with an old school OK Corral style standoff between two veteran T34-Drivers!
Dial P47-M For Mayhem! | Part II: Tanks For the Memories! | An Aces High III Trilogy | 1080p WidescreenThe short trailer for part one already has over 1,300 views in just a few short days. The trilogy bar has been set! lol
Dial P47-M For Mayhem! | Part II: Tanks For the Memories! | An Aces High III Trilogy | Trailer Shorts 9x16 Version 1080pI hope you all enjoy and don’t forget if you haven’t watched
Part I: “Dad Crashes A Bishop BBQ!” check it out!
Setting the scene…As part one ends, our skies are now clear after the ground pounders
And my P47-M repelled the first wave of heavy action. This now meant I could shift my focus onto what was coming across the river. I quickly ducked back to that direction looking for whatever ground vehicles were approaching the base. Their spawn was just beyond the river behind the southernmost bridge. The first one I spotted was Panzer who had just come over the bridge and I gave LitBlue the lowdown on what was in front of him. He was still a few clicks away and I was able to keep tabs on the panzer, even as he ducked under some trees. With no Bishop air cons in sight, I set forth to unleash my eight meat grinders right up on his mug!
With my short 2-4 second bursts that’s about 350 .50 caliber bullets to you and me! Give or take. Those suckers leave my muzzle at about 12,000 pounds of kinetic force and by the time they get down to that tank, they’ve already lost about 40% of that force. But still, you would think with their mix mixture of rounds of incendiary and armor piercing madness, that it would be plenty left to make anything a block of Swiss cheese. Even at 600 yards, you would think the links on those tracks would break apart with all that force and all that molten metal at terminal speed.
I made a few passes over him with the 50 caliber smoking all the way. I’m never very good at tracking tanks with any gun. I don’t know how some of you do it so well. I only know because I’ve driven a bunch of lopsided tanks in my day! It turned out after a little digging, this wasn’t something that the Allied pilots were able to accomplish with only machine gun fire as much as you may think. Or at least as much as what I had thought. To penetrate the armor of a tank like a Panzer you would definitely needed some cannon action. It any rate I’m sure it was done at some point in history, but I cannot do it anyway, with or without a cannon lol. At the very least, I was illuminating the Panzer with white-hot lead for the ground team to pounce upon.
The stillness in the skies was soon
awakened by a second stirring of the pot. As I was coming up and around for yet another pass with my chainsaws on top of the Panzer, a darting flash of red caught my eye. It was Bishop P51-D closing on the base moving fast! I didn’t know it at first, but the closer I got up on it, a friendly familiar foe appeared upon the scene. Close on his six I could see the big, white circled “B” on the tail shining like a beacon telling me it was BW1stpar. He was heavy and hell bent on completing an objective of ground destruction for which I absolutely know all too well how that goes. Sometimes great sometimes and a blaze of glory.
I don’t know what his original intention was. He was heavy and dropping on the base and I never did catch up to him all the way. Thankfully, I got up on him and disrupted his flow. Maybe one more pass and I probably would’ve got there, but he was dead set on unloading his ordinance onto the grass. I was still gaining on him to get a few shots off, but as he dropped his last rockets and made an escape BTBLueE put an end to his heroic run before I could cut it off.
With the skies once again, free of Boshops, I was able to go back to my spotter roll and menace some ground vehicles. Just as I got back to that area by the their spawn across the river, I spotted the first one coming over the very same bridge the Panzer from earlier and this time it was T-34 moving fast head on at LitlBlue. What happened next as we go into the end of this film is one of the coolest things I’ve seen from the air in quite a while. These two tankers were within probably 500 yards or less of each other and because of a small berm where the road was, they could not clearly see each other. Or was super neat!
Kenai78 had the high ground as I suppose you could call it and LitlBue was below him beyond the road. This went on for a good little while with the two of them firing back-and-forth at each other. How they never saw each other is shocking to me. I’ve never seen tanks so close together face-to-face like that and no via almost lol. I did my best to track the T l-34 as well but as you already know, that’s not my thing. I made a good effort after a few passes and then once again the red icons started to flow. I had to leave the shootout at the OK Corral to get back up over the base.
The air contacts were coming back yet another round for wave number four! I spotted a fast and heavy F4U followed by another set of big ole Lancasters! We were about to be in a pickle!
…To Be Continued in the Part III Finale: “The Taxman Always Rings Twice!”[/i]
Coming Soon to a BBS near you!
