March 22nd AAR
Howdy Specs! <S>

 

It was a bit of a lite attendance night, so we upped in heavy P-51's from A81 and flew Southeast to our target, a Rook base A83. The Knights had been working it over pretty well before we got there, strat showed all fighter hangers were knocked out, as well as the VH and radar.   RTS radioed that he spotted an enemy carrier group, so we diverted to hit it. RTS went in first, I followed, and I believe we all scored hits, but a couple of us weren't able to pull out in time and augered. (myself included, but I got four gun implacements.

 

Engr radioed, he nailed the carrier with his rockets, and sent it to the bottom, Way To Go Engr!

 

Second flight, we went fighter of choice, and while we were busy working over the carrier, A83 was revived and the Rooks came out with a vengeance. It was shortly after that, a flight of 3 Rook 262's showed up, Kappa, Sunsfan, and I don't know who the third was, but these guys were working everyone over, but good.  And they didn't let up.  They worked all of the Knights all the way back to A82, the closest base to A83, and we're making long wide passes at sea level taking people and bomber groups out every pass.  I saw one group of bombers go down twice, he never even fired a shot at the 262's.

 

A Knight carrier group came close to A82, just to the East of it, so the 262's headed that way to continue their carnage. All night, I only heard one call that someone actually nailed one, sending it down in flames... not sure who the pilot of that one was.  

 

To finish the evening, a lone 109K4 was working low altitude near A82, so the remaining Spec's and a handful of other Knights engaged.  The pilot was A8Spade, and he managed to take both myself and SKu down, TWICE, and several others. To add insult to injury, after inflicting the maximum amount of damage, he leveled out and headed back to 83 without incident, landing 8 kills in the process.  SKu and I gave chase, but I guess since that K4 was out of ammo, it was just that much faster. <large SIGH>

 

To sum up, there we're allot of Rooks on that were absolutely on the ball tonight. The "Pig's on a Wing" guys were flying around us all night, and I didn't see a single "oink" out there, but I probably missed a few.  The Rooks just had it out for us tonight.

 

Thanks to all of the pilots that flew, hopefully next week will be better.  I saw a few Spec's land kills tonight, a big CONGRATS to them, they certainly earned each and every one.

 

On a personal note:  nights like this that end up this bad are frustrating, obviously. Unfortunately, until I get this last major car project out of the way, it's going to be awhile before I can start to fly more than once a week, which sucks. I apologize for being so damned rusty it hurts.  It's going to be another month at least before I get this done and anything starts to change for my schedule.  <end whine>

 

See you guys next week,

 

 ~ Milt