I know that there are probably a few in each country who fly goons at a regular schedule like it was a route from Dallas to Cincinnati but I think I should point out one in particular.
Lately I haven’t been online as much as I used to and last night I had about 30 minutes or so to kill. I jumped on line to find Mindanao and with luck we were not the southern country. I figured I’d up heavy toward A32, probably a one way trip, but would be about all the time I had. Loaded up an F4U-D, de-ack and GV load out with rox and 500’s. Off I went.
It appeared that a few had organized some bombers to 32 and had knocked it down pretty good. Unfortunately by the time I arrived on target at 10K there were still 3 or 4 hi cons picking at the bombers. Loaded heavy and lower than the bombers there was little I could do. I decided to drop to the city, make sure it was down, and do a pass for GV’s that might be poking around. To my surprise I didn’t see anything on the ground but the hi P38 decided he would drop in and say hello.
I dumped ordinance and headed for the water. I’ll drag it out and get his energy state equalized to mine. I had him glued to me at about 2K steady and hit “strat” on the map. The FH’s were up now. “Well, the fighters will be up now for sure”. As I see the DAR bar grow across the grid red. I knew it would be a one way trip but I’m not turning with the P38 and let the others frenzy on me. The 38 turns.
I pull up and gain altitude heading east about 10 miles north of A32. I hit the map and behold a loan green dot is heading straight for 32. The P38 that turned away I can still make out his dot climbing in the distance. Heading for the friendly and looking around in circles I saw nothing until I dipped my wing. Who do I see, cmorris.
“Damn, he’s low”, I’m thinking as the initial aircraft identification was B26. A few seconds later, nope, not a B26, he’s in a goon! I pull hard south and down a little to see if any that had up’d are low at the town. Quick observation no. In the distance the P38 icon appears at 5.9K. I look back left and cmorris is 3.7K. I need to intercept before his icon lights to the P38. I radio “cmorris, troops out?”. He says back “out and looks good”. The P38 turns and we engage.
As I seem to do more frequently now I miss-judge my turn and end up with the 38 firmly saddled on my 6. I nose over and do a rolling dive to the deck trying to get him to compress, he keeps control of it. Once on the deck I cut throttle and turn into a rolling scissors. He cut throttle to match, I’m wildly hitting my flaps but my airspeed is still too high. Then I hear them go out, 3 notches. Great, I turn into the last scissors and get inside his turn. Burst and off comes part of the wing. Just enough at low speed that he augers in the water.
System: Kill number 1 by Zippatuh VMF-323 ~Death Rattlers~ MAG-33
System: Field 32 has been captured by the Knights
Now this was long and mostly about my time but after I logged off I started thinking. That was not the first time I have found myself in the same situation with cmorris. I haven’t checked his stats and will only make the observation from the times I’ve been online, but there are some guys that will just amaze you flying that goon. Will I do it, first to confess no. What ever drives these players to jump in that coffin and help out the team deserves a .
Great capture cmorris and thanks for being a Knight!
