Jug Story.. (Frenchy&Other Jug lovers...)

[AKSeaWulfe]

 

Today I logged in and found Nim attacking 19. He had
already bombed most of it and asked me for CAP. Boring
part short, I get there, strafe an ack.. bullets do no
damage to ack and I die. The goon we had coming also
dies. I re-up, fly towards 19. FH regens on 19. Nim
ups in a goon for 19 about 10(?) minutes after I take
off. I get to 19 and am at 8K in a P47D-25 with the
light 8gun loadout. I see a dot, he's a quick climber
so I feared it was an N1K2. As I get closer, I get to
a little below his alt and see it's a zero! I think to
myself "well, toejam.. this is gonna be a short
ride...". I make a pass at him HO(don't fire) and he
dives under then pulls up into a dive to loop behind
me. I maintain my heading then someone knocks on the
door and I have to answer it. After about 3 minutes, I
come back and I'm 3.4K away from the Zero. I make a
slow turn and reverse into him. He does the same thing
as last time and I converse with Nim as I extend away
again(now I'm at 6K). Nim says drag anywhere but SW,
so I drag the Zero back towards 19 where I spy two
lower dots. I dive down on the lowest dot which is a
P51, I let a burst fly and he goes into the drink.
Kill #1. By now the Zeke is out of icon range because
he decided to climb, but I know it's only a matter of
time before he comes back. I see the higher pony at my
12Oc about 3K above me 3.4K away. I'm following
him(sort of) towards A8 hoping he doesn't see me. By
now the Zeke dove on me and was sitting 2.2K behind me
but not closing. Then the damned Pony sees me and
turns towards me(by now I'm halfway between A19 and
A8). I get low on the water and begin lazy turns while
the pony sits behind me, but doesn't gain and I slowly
extend to 800yds. He sits behind me getting a few
pings here and there as he sprays, then the damndest
thing happens. I see him smoking and firing off
rockets. Well atleast he'll run out of oil soon, I
think. Then I hear "KABOOM" and look behind me to see
a big splash of water. He had bombed himself at
200ft. (manuever) kill #2. Now I've got this Zeke
behind me and I see a C47 near the Zeke behind me. I
had seen a dot earlier, but in my attempts to dodge
the Pony I lost sight of it. So now I'm thinking..
Zeke's 1.6K behind me.. I've got 75% of gas left in my
main tank and about 15% left in my aux tank. What the
hell I'm having fun so far. I extend to roughly 3.xK
away from the Zeke, then reverse back into his
direction. He jinx the head on(this time I'm blazing
away to deter him from being dumb), and he does the
same maneuver as before. There's the goon at my 12Oc
on the deck 2K away. Only problem is, I'm coming in at
his 1Oc, so it's gonna be a helluva deflection shot.
Nope! This fella makes it easy for me and turns into
me exposing the entire top of the goon. I spray away
and watch him disentegrate then crash into the water.
Kill #3. I call out to AsEr who is near A8 that I've
got a Zeke trailing me and I get on the deck heading
towards A8. The Zeke, however, breaks away and turns
back towards friends. Well since AsEr came to my
assistance and I still had gas and ammo I wasn't about
to leave him. I haul the jug around into an immelman
and head towards the two dots. As we get closer it
becomes 3 dots, but the Zeke is the only one within
icon range. The Zeke fakes a HO with AsEr and does the
same thing to me, except this time he loses sight of
me (I went into a loop higher than him) and he rolls
inverted after completing a loop right in front of me.
He begins to turn, but it's too late, I let my 8 .50s
rip his rice paper airplane apart and *BOOM*. Kill #4.
Now there's a P51 and C47 in the area, the P51 makes a
pass on AsEr but misses. Then he comes at my Head On
and begins blazing away. I give a quick jinx to the
left then the right and throw the jug into a loop. I
come down directly behind the P51 faster than him and
only 400yds off his 6. He pulls tighter, but it's
already too late. I throw down 2 notches of flaps,
yank the stick back till I can't see him and let my
bullets fly. Kill #5 and AsEr kills the goon a second
later.

The fight lasted for a good 15-30 minutes and I was
surprised how well the Jug was doing considering I was
all alone. Then Nim tells me he's got A19 even though
a 190 was launching.

I land at A8, 50% gas in the main tank, 240rnds in the
first ammo bank and 268 in the second ammo bank.
-SW

I sent this out to my squad and just copied it here. I just thought it was a really cool sortie. One thing that should be mentioned was fighters (bishop) kept taking off from A19 and flying North ignoring that little radar bar that indicated Nim was in the area. He got to the field while other plane's were leaving, landed and got himself an easy capture.
-SW
(Nim=AKNimitz)

[SFRT - Frenchy]

hehehe excellent  

Npow everybody will fly a P47 hihihi.

[Lephturn]

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh, we don't want folks to figure out how good a fighter the Jug really is.    My only comment is that when you se a Zeke while flying a Jug... it's just a nice light snack.    There is no plane I'd rather see... save maybe for a C.202, than a Zeke.  I can engage them with impunity, and disengage anytime I want.  That's my kind of fight.  

Hey Frenchy... we'll really be in our glory if we get cloud layers.  Jugs hunting above the cloud bank... woo!

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[Kronos]

Nice sortie wulfe  

cant wait for the cloudbank myself guys.. that way  i can jug hunt in my jug  




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Kronos
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