NOVEMBER FSO FRAME 1 DEATH FROM ABOVE, HELL IN THE SKY, AND ABSOLUTE CARNAGE!
Aces High III Friday Night Squad Operations
November 6, 2026 Frame 1 After Action Report
217 KILL AWARDS! 160 GROUND TARGETS DESTROYED! AND THE BOMBER BOYS CAME TO RAISE HELL!
November's Friday Night Squad Operations exploded into action with all the subtlety of a drunken rhinoceros charging through an ammunition factory!
The fighters came looking for blood. The bombers came looking for targets. And the poor bastards caught in the middle probably spent most of the evening wondering why they hadn't taken up something safer, like juggling chainsaws!
Spitfires, Hurricanes, P-40s, Messerschmitts, and Ju 88 bombers filled the skies as the first frame of November's FSO descended into an absolutely magnificent display of aerial destruction.
By the time the smoke cleared, the combat logs recorded
217 kill awards, 200 assist awards, and 160 destroyed ground objects!And somewhere in the middle of this flying circus, the bomber crews were doing their damnedest to turn perfectly good enemy airfields into expensive piles of scrap metal!
WELCOME TO NOVEMBER FSO, WHERE THE AMMUNITION IS FREE, THE SURVIVAL RATE IS QUESTIONABLE, AND NOBODY GETS A REFUND!
DENILE 18 KILLS AND A SERIOUS ATTITUDE PROBLEM!Somebody apparently forgot to tell
DeNile of the 9GIAP VVS RKKA that this was supposed to be a coordinated military operation rather than a personal demolition derby.
EIGHTEEN KILL AWARDS!That's right. Eighteen!
DeNile climbed into the cockpit and proceeded to conduct what can only be described as an aggressive reduction in the enemy aircraft population.
German fighters, bombers, and anything unfortunate enough to wander into the gunsights had reason to be concerned.
DeNile even sent KOOL's Ju 88 into an explosive retirement during the fighting.
And when the frame ended, DeNile stood at the top of the individual kill leaderboard.
EIGHTEEN KILLS! SOMEBODY CHECK THAT MAN'S AMMUNITION BILL!
RIDER AND SNO JG11'S TWO-MAN AIRCRAFT DISPOSAL SERVICE!If the Allies thought they were going to have an easy evening,
Rider and SNO of JG11 Sonderstaffel had other ideas.
Rider finished with an extraordinary
16 kill awards, while SNO added another
11.
That's 27 between two pilots!
The Luftwaffe needed its fighters to keep Allied attackers away from German bombers and installations.
Rider and SNO apparently interpreted those orders as permission to start removing Allied aircraft from the atmosphere.
And they had plenty of company!
N7 collected 8 kills, SkrAling added 7, and the rest of JG11 helped push the squadron's total to a staggering
61 kill awards.
SIXTY-ONE!At that point, you don't need a squadron operations officer. You need a scrap-metal accountant!
THE BOMBER WAR JG54 GRάNHERZ BRINGS THE THUNDER!While the fighter pilots were busy trying to murder each other at several thousand feet, the
JG54 Grόnherz bomber crews were conducting a completely different kind of business.
Their mission?
Deliver high explosives to enemy installations and make absolutely certain the recipients remembered the occasion!
Flying the
Ju 88A-4, Larry, Errors, Ozone, SKfgALPO, N7, and jaeger1 headed into hostile airspace.
And they weren't alone.
The
327th Steel Talons, with Gooss and KOOL also flying Ju 88s, joined the attack.
The first major bombing results began appearing around 9:31 PM, when the German bombers struck
Field 20.
Larry started tearing apart installations, destroying gun positions and other field objects.
Ozone joined the destruction, while Errors hammered additional installations.
Within seconds, Field 20 was taking a beating.
The Allied fighters were desperately trying to intercept the attackers, but the bombs were already falling.
THE BOMBERS HAD ARRIVED, AND THE GROUND CREWS WERE ABOUT TO HAVE A VERY BAD NIGHT!
LARRY THE MAN WHO APPARENTLY HATED AIRFIELDS!If anybody deserves a special mention for the bombing campaign, it's
Larry of JG54 Grόnherz.
Larry was credited with
20 destroyed ground objects, the highest total in the frame!
TWENTY!
Early in the fighting, Larry helped tear up Field 20.
Later, the attack shifted toward Field 17, where Larry's destruction continued.
At approximately 10:36 PM, Larry unleashed another devastating attack, with numerous installations destroyed within seconds.
Gun positions, field facilities, and other objects were disappearing from the battlefield at an alarming rate.
Apparently, Larry had decided that enemy infrastructure was an unnecessary luxury.
And he was personally volunteering to correct the problem!
Of course, the Allied fighters weren't particularly impressed with his enthusiasm.
Larry's combat record also included crashes and a capture.
But by then, the damage had been done.
TWENTY GROUND OBJECTS DESTROYED! LARRY DIDN'T JUST BOMB THE AIRFIELD HE TRIED TO DELETE IT!
GOOSS AND KOOL THE 327TH STEEL TALONS DELIVER THE PAIN!The
327th Steel Talons weren't about to let JG54 have all the fun.
Gooss finished with
17 destroyed ground objects, while
KOOL added another
13.
Together, that's
30 destroyed installations and field objects credited to two bomber pilots!
Gooss struck Field 17 early in the action, destroying an ammunition-related object, and continued contributing to the ground campaign.
KOOL hammered gun positions and fuel-related installations.
But the most spectacular bombing activity came later.
At approximately 10:36 PM, the Steel Talons joined a concentrated assault on Field 17.
Gooss and KOOL unleashed a series of destructive strikes, adding numerous objects to the casualty list.
The damage records rolled in almost faster than anyone could count them.
And while the bombers were doing their work, Allied fighters were trying desperately to stop them.
KOOL suffered an explosive end in one engagement, while Gooss also faced the deadly attention of Allied interceptors.
But the Steel Talons kept coming.
THIRTY GROUND OBJECTS DESTROYED BY GOOSS AND KOOL!Somebody should have warned the enemy that these two weren't delivering mail!
ERRORS, SKFGALPO, N7, AND OZONE THE REST OF THE BOMBER WRECKING CREW!The destruction didn't stop with Larry and the Steel Talons.
Errors finished with
14 destroyed ground objects, including installations at Field 20 and Field 17.
SKfgALPO added another
14, participating in attacks against multiple field installations.
N7 contributed
11 ground-object destructions, while also collecting an impressive 8 kill awards in the frame.
And
Ozone destroyed
4 ground objects during the opening attacks.
Even
jaeger1 contributed
3 destroyed ground objects, despite the dangerous Allied fighter opposition.
The bombing records show an especially destructive concentration of attacks around 10:36 PM, when Field 17 was subjected to an enormous pounding.
Bombs fell, installations disappeared, and the logs filled with destruction events.
THE JU 88 CREWS WERE NOT THERE TO ADMIRE THE LANDSCAPE. THEY WERE THERE TO REARRANGE IT!
THE BOMBER SCOREBOARD WHO BROUGHT THE MOST DESTRUCTION?Larry 20 ground objects
Gooss 17 ground objects
Errors 14 ground objects
SKfgALPO 14 ground objects
KOOL 13 ground objects
N7 11 ground objects
Ozone 4 ground objects
jaeger1 3 ground objects
TOTAL 96 GROUND OBJECTS DESTROYED!That's 60 percent of all 160 recorded ground-object destructions in the frame.
And those are just the credited destruction events. The damage records also show attacks that didn't necessarily result in a destroyed object.
The bombers were doing exactly what they had been sent to do.
BLOW THINGS UP!
THE ALLIED INTERCEPTORS WELCOME TO THE JU 88 SLAUGHTERHOUSE!Of course, the Germans weren't the only ones enjoying themselves.
The Allied fighter pilots took one look at those approaching Ju 88 formations and decided that German aviation needed a serious attitude adjustment.
Vlkyrie1 of the 364th C-Hawks was particularly enthusiastic.
Flying a P-40E, Vlkyrie1 tore into the bomber formations, recording hits against jaeger1, Larry, and other German aircraft.
At 9:29 PM, jaeger1's Ju 88 became a confirmed kill.
Shortly afterward, Larry's Ju 88 joined the casualty list.
Vlkyrie1 eventually finished with
10 kill awards.
Not a bad night's work for somebody flying a P-40!
And the C-Hawks weren't alone.
HOtard of the 162nd FG Purple Hearts destroyed N7's Ju 88 during the opening engagements.
AKShrike of the Arabian Knights shot down Ozone.
AKpizzle collected a Ju 88 kill against jaeger1.
And
AKGreyga hammered Larry's bomber before earning another Ju 88 kill award.
The Allied pilots were attacking the bombers with everything they had.
But those Ju 88s weren't defenseless.
German defensive fire and the accompanying fighter battles made the interceptions extremely dangerous.
The bomber crews were getting hammered, but they were also fighting back.
