I can't remember if I had already been shot down, or had just logged on, but I believe it was the latter. Anyway, my squaddies (the 91st Bomber Group) were returning from one of their bomber missions. Now it's a pretty regular occurrence to have much more resistance on the egress rather than the flight in, guys don't notice the huge dar until after it bombs their base. We're used to cons giving chase as we try and make it home. The really annoying ones are the cons that follow the group back deep into friendly territory with the intent of hitting the group on landing. We generally try to stay at altitude and in formation until we're sure there are no more cons chasing. I can't say why that was different this time, either the 17s were low on fuel or this guy was NOE, but as the group is dispersed to make their individual landings, a 262 come blazing into our formations. Being split up, low and slow, we were easy pickins for the 262. All escorts were already landed or in no position to help the bombers. He picked off a couple bombers until a squaddie landed a couple hits in one or two of his engines.
By this point, I had already upped a 262 north of the field to try and come in and at the very least, scare him off. I was informed by the squad that after receiving the engine damage, the 262 had left the area. Figuring he was desperately running back home to land his kills, I chased him home. I was in it for vengeance. Even though he hadn't shot down me, I wanted redemption for him picking off my squaddies. He wasn't in any radar circles and he eventually went NOE. I had to make a choice between 2-3 bases as to which one I thought he might retreat to. So I flew my 262 at about 6,000ft to the base I best guessed he would return too. As I approached I saw a low P-51, probably up to intercept me. He would have been an easy target as he was heavy, low and slow, but he wasn't what I wanted. I checked the field and see a tiny black pixel moving on the runway, there's my guy. I tip the nose down, I kept my throttle open, I know I can't waste a second getting to him. I gain icon range as he is screeching to a halt, I can't imagine how excited I must have sounded on squad vox as I'm rocketing into the field. I lob the shells, I don't plan on needing this ammo for anyone else so I keep the trigger down. I see his plane stop moving about a quarter of a second before that burst of 30mm and his plane explodes on the runway. I'm sure I let out a scream of excitement as I pulled back on the stick. Of course nothing happened, I had compressed my plane and had no hope of pulling out of this one. My 262 smashed in the runway just about where I dispatched the other 262.
It was the best use of my perks I can remember, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
