Wohoooo what a slaughter!!
The 56th and guests got assigned Tonis. We separated in 3 flights. I was tasked to lead Red flight, a formation of 3 Ki67s (Nomde, Ammo and me).
We took our assigned cap position, south of the 2 other KIs groups. Other reported massive flight of F6, I could see them too, I counted at least 15. I ordered my group to stay with me, and wait to the fight to unfold. No time for that, S-SE a tight formation of 8-10 ship slighlty higher showed up.
From now on I knew we would all die there
I flew straight to the incoming 10 ship formation and asked nomde/Ammo to follow me to our death. I flew straight to them, followed by Ammo/Nomde a couple of thousand yards behind me. Maybe we could make them drop their load if heavy.
It was a prety sight to see all those F6s simultaneously bank toward me.
I did a hard turn toward them to maximize their deflection shot ... and I mean their.
None hit me and I was now "runing" (assuming a Ki67 can run from a Hellcat), toward Ammo/Nomde. I quickly counted 7 Hellcats in my 6, ranging from 500y to 1.1k. Bullets and tracers where all over my airframe, luckly I received only 3 pings till they finally broke away to get Nomde/Ammo.
One was still after me 800y, I was still doing those medium bank high speed waves. Ammo was right behind him, but he must have saw him because he broke away.
No way I was turning back, Ammo was on a parralel course, runing in my right wing 2k away. Looking over my shoulder I saw nomde in a turnfight with 7 Hellcats. geez ... horrible felling, like when u run for ur life from a pack of wolf and the guy just behind you falls and they all jump on him.
Runing away we spoted the Big furball, I guess where Mindnight's group was. Ammo went right in, I stayed high, looking at the numbers, it was suicide.
I could do only a full 360, 3 high Hellcat shaped on the horizon. I started to run, 2 made a pass on me but missed and broke away. I kept runing at about 10K, away from icon range, i thought I was safe, but checking my 6 an Hellcat was camping in my 1.3.
After 3 min it was clear that the Hellcat was gaining. We were above the land, 1 sector away from the big furball. The Hellcat was very dangerous now, 700y my 6 and probably about to open up. I tried to lost him in some high G, high speed manoeuvers but he was still there ... 400y ... EECK ... He must not be a newbie then ... that's my luck.
Only choice was to turnfight, I went for the hard stuff, no more mister nice guy. 3 ACM later I was on his six and could score 3 pings on his right wing tip from 350y and 1 on his middle of the wing. (Hehehe, maybe he was a newbie actually)
He was on the defensive for 2 manoeuvers and I spoted a second Hellcat diving in (geez, we were not so far actually
). I had to brake off from the targeted Hellcat six to avoid his wingman pass. That was trouble as the Hellcat was doing great in the turnfight, didn't left much room for error.
I was 1 vs 2, very soon 1 vs 3 and finally 1 Vs 4 ... that was too much, all i could do was avoid attack after attack. tatata ...vrooommmm ... every 10 secs. I knew I was a question of time before one of those guys would line me up. time to try to kill one of those guys. I lead turn hellcat, did a high yoyo and ended up in his 6 at 300y on a hard left turn. I observed numerous hits all along his fuselage. I thought he was down for the count but he was still flying, I didn't had time for a second burst, I eard 4 pings and my plane spiraled down. I didn't even visually check if it was an actual damage, I bailed right away.
While hanging on my chute, I saw the Hellcat coming back toward East. One of them was smoking black hehehe maybe he will have to ditch.
We were badly outnumbered, it scared the hell out of us. We tried to do our best, and I think we put a valiant and courageous fight. Reading the Allied ARR, I was surprised that so many got shot down, I thought that they massacred us. It was a nice ego boost to have been able to give so much trouble to those 4 Hellcats, i didn't shot down any, but at least 2 must have been scared to death
Good job 56th, we went down with a good fight ... we can't win them all
