02/JAN/00 |
 
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In our first mission I was careless and banged the prop of my P-51 on the
ground. So I couldn't help my big buddy as the Luftwaffe started tearing into him. Here,
Archy nails the second engine on Mad Dog.
But Mad Dog refused to go down. |
 
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Archy broke off of Mad Dog, thinking that he couldn't make it with only
two engines on one side. Zool and Blitz got on his tail and filled the sky around
him with bullets. |
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Here's an overshoot. |
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Here's another mission where Mad Dog ended up with only two engines. |
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WidowMaker couldn't get his bombs to release. When they finally did,
he was too low and it ripped his aircraft apart. There are some pieces of his
aircraft burning on the ground. |
27/AUG/99 |
 


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A series of pictures showing Rattlesnake pausing and disappearing.
The smoke and flames make interesting patterns. In the last couple, Archy is trying to
knock him out without ramming him.
The merge happened quicker than I expected, and I got caught behind the bomber I was
supposed to protect. I mixed it up with my enemies and just tried to shoot in their
ears and mess up their aim. You can see from the burning engine, I wasn't too
successful. |
 
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I think this is the same mission as above. Bomber made it to his
target and took it out (burning in the background of the first two shots.) But he
suffered severe damage. |
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In this shot, the angle of the flames coming off of the engines shows that
Bomber is losing altitude. |
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And this one shows the smoke trail of a successful landing. |
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And Bomber rolling down the hill at a German farm. I tried to talk
him into shooting at the farm animals. |
 

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Werner wanted to get credit for the kill. |
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I didn't do so well in this mission. I managed to get my Dora off
the ground, only to get suckered into an enemy flak zone. Tumbled me one time, I
recovered, and then a minute later got blown all over the landscape. This shot is of
Blitz taking out the target I was supposed to help protect. |
 

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In this mission, I got impatient on my takeoff and flipped my P-51.
Almost got it off. Werner and Blitz went ahead and flew the mission. In the last
shot, a PT boat off the right side of the picture had just nailed him and knocked his
engine right out. |