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Title: Clash at Kursk Frame 3 Summary
Post by: Nefarious on June 16, 2012, 10:14:36 AM
The Allied Ace was Butcher, He was representing: Lt Ivan Kozhedub – The highest scoring Ace of any Allied country was Ivan Kozhedub. The first 8 of his 52 aerial victories were claimed in the battle of Kursk and subsequent counter-attack. Flying the La-5 he claimed 5 victories in July and 3 more in August. Kozhedub would be awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union twice during World War 2 and one immediately after the war ended. He would go on to fly the MiG-15 in 1948 and flew operational sorties over Korea.

While flying his La-5FN Butcher shot down a Ju88 flown by Noah17 of VF-17 Jolly Rogers and a Bf 109G-2 flown by Jaguar71 of ~Air Raiders~. Butcher ditched his La-5FN and did not land successfully.

The Axis Ace was Bearcat8 He was representing: Hauptmann Joachim Kirschner – Kirschner joined JG3 in 1941 and flew for a few short weeks over Malta before transferring East. There he would join the ranks of over two dozen other Luftwaffe Experten who would shoot down more than 150 aircraft in the East. On July 5th he would shoot down 9 Soviet aircraft to pass 150 kills, when he passed 170 kills he was awarded the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves on August 3rd. Kirschner would be go on to take command of III/JG 27 in Yugoslavia. He was killed by Communist partisans after bailing out of his aircraft on December 17th 1943.

Bearcat8 was not present.



Allied Ace Mission: 0
Axis Ace Mission: 0

Allied Pilots: 138
Axis Pilots: 135

Allied Aircraft Kills: 88
Axis Aircraft Kills: 97

Allied Vehicle Kills: 117
Axis Vehicle Kills: 186

Allied Objects Destroyed: 46
Axis Objects Destroyed: 36

(Objects do not include A18)

A more detailed breakdown of all three frames with final scores will be released soon.
Title: Re: Clash at Kursk Frame 3 Summary
Post by: Butcher on June 16, 2012, 10:22:40 AM
Ouch nobody told me I was the ace, I landed gears up trying to rearm - oops.
Title: Re: Clash at Kursk Frame 3 Summary
Post by: Zoney on June 16, 2012, 10:30:08 AM
VMF-222 had the pleasure of running into Top Gun, and after film review I actually had guns on Butcher for just a moment before DrBone took off pieces and I ran like a girl.  Great fight as always men!
Title: Re: Clash at Kursk Frame 3 Summary
Post by: Butcher on June 16, 2012, 10:35:25 AM
VMF-222 had the pleasure of running into Top Gun, and after film review I actually had guns on Butcher for just a moment before DrBone took off pieces and I ran like a girl.  Great fight as always men!

S!! It was a pleasure Zoney we certainly had a tough time playing with the bombers, Bone actually gave us orders to knock out the fighter's instead, but the Escort did their job - I got knocked down from 25k to 15k and couldn't recover to chase the buffs again.
Title: Re: Clash at Kursk Frame 3 Summary
Post by: cohofly on June 16, 2012, 11:08:15 AM
Ouch nobody told me I was the ace, I landed gears up trying to rearm - oops.

I didnt tell you personally Butcher that you were the Ace Pilot, but they were in the orders that I sent. I will be a little more vigilant next time. It was our first time as CiC, things could have gone a little better  :o Missing an entire squad of defenders certainly doesnt help :uhoh All in All a fairley positive experience for us A Big <S> to my guys Poppy, Mesen256 and Surfinn for all of the help with planning. Any feedback you Allied guys could give, would be greatly appreciated, be it good or bad. But please be gentle, still hurting from the Bu t Whooping we took.
Thanks to all who participated
<S>
Carver CO 35th "NightStalkers"
Title: Re: Clash at Kursk Frame 3 Summary
Post by: Butcher on June 16, 2012, 01:18:12 PM
I didnt tell you personally Butcher that you were the Ace Pilot, but they were in the orders that I sent. I will be a little more vigilant next time. It was our first time as CiC, things could have gone a little better  :o Missing an entire squad of defenders certainly doesnt help :uhoh All in All a fairley positive experience for us A Big <S> to my guys Poppy, Mesen256 and Surfinn for all of the help with planning. Any feedback you Allied guys could give, would be greatly appreciated, be it good or bad. But please be gentle, still hurting from the Bu t Whooping we took.
Thanks to all who participated
<S>
Carver CO 35th "NightStalkers"

Its all good Carver, I'm sorry I got the orders, but wasn't able to read them until friday afternoon and didn't see that part, my mistake on letting the allies down :(
Title: Re: Clash at Kursk Frame 3 Summary
Post by: cohofly on June 16, 2012, 01:27:16 PM
Nah it wasnt you Butcher, like I said I should have been more forward with making sure that you and yur guys knew that you were Ace. That is what is so interesting and fun about FSO, you can never plan for all things at all times. <S>  :salute :cheers:
Title: Re: Clash at Kursk Frame 3 Summary
Post by: viking73 on June 16, 2012, 06:41:59 PM
I wanna know who upped the armor on the Yaks. Everyone in Kommando Nowotny had their chance to put rounds in them. Took forever for them to go down.

Also want to relay a  :salute to Arabian Knights for some great flying.
Title: Re: Clash at Kursk Frame 3 Summary
Post by: DrBone1 on June 17, 2012, 08:52:43 AM
I wanna know who upped the armor on the Yaks. Everyone in Kommando Nowotny had their chance to put rounds in them. Took forever for them to go down.

Also want to relay a  :salute to Arabian Knights for some great flying.
If you were fighting AKs then that would be the AK Armor MOD for FSO.  :D
Title: Re: Clash at Kursk Frame 3 Summary
Post by: UncleKurt on June 17, 2012, 12:48:45 PM
 :rofl

Dem Yaks was kinda like Jersey skeeters, They don't leave with less than a pint...
Awesome AKs!  :aok
Title: Re: Clash at Kursk Frame 3 Summary
Post by: ELD66 on June 19, 2012, 09:06:13 PM
Thanks.
 :salute