17jul07

17 July 2007

Corsair Island Hop -Milt CO

Good Evening Spec's,

We had an excellent turn out tonight, seven Specialists in all.

We had a little delay getting out due to bad weather in the Carolina's, but we all got up as the storm past. <S>

The first hop in light Corsairs, we looked good flying in formation towards base 41. We intercepted a flight of B17's that was gunned by some capable guys, they sent four of us packing pretty quickly. Luft got some good hits on them I believe, and RTS finished them off. <S>

Second hop, we got a little spread out. Fuze and I tied on with a Spitfire, only to have a second Spit fly up out of seemingly no where to gun us both from the sky. I didn't even see him until it was too late, I tried to ditch with a dead engine only to get shot up on the ground before I could exit the plane. In the meantime Seal, RTS, Joker, Luft and Swoose were mixing it up South of 41. RTS tried flying a hog back to a VH on fumes, and almost made it back.

Third hop found Fuze and I with Seal and Luft. A P-47 wandered into our flightpath, and Fuze got hit. Seal and I gave chase to the 47 in a steep dive, I G locked and augered, Seal got the 47. Seal stuck it out and got another kill, and was RTB when we showed back up; he did very well and landed his kills in his F4U. RTS & Luft also landed a kill or two I believe. WTG Fellas! <S>

All in all it was a tough night (for me anyway), but I hope you guys enjoyed it. I know I've only made 8-10 squad nights since I've been back, and so I felt a fighter sweep evening would be a nice change of pace. (In fact, I hope it never gets old <S>) I'm sorry if I missed anything, I was scribbling notes about the different flights as I flew along.

If you guys can take it, I'll try again next week, I'll see if I can come up with something else more fun than getting shot up in Corsairs. <S>

Thanks to all that participated, It's always a pleasure to fly with you all.

<Crisp Salute> and Blue Skies,

~MILT