ORIGINAL: Lowpe
ORIGINAL: John 3rd
Over the skies of Takao two Squadrons of P-38 Fighters sweep in at over 35,000 Ft of altitude. They are met by nearly 100 Japanese Fighters set at lower altitudes. The first few attacks are sad to watch as the P-38s dive and destroy about 6-8 Japanese planes but then it turns into a dogfight at low altitude. This is what the Japanese Fighter is designed for. It is not what the American pilots want or need for battle.
Two Squadrons are quite roughly handled and the Japanese only lose the early Fighters with very falling once the dive bonus was done.
NICE!
I would double check those settings...because 100 planes on CAP meeting two squadrons of Lightnings should really have destroyed both squadrons. Pilots, planes, radar, settings, something screwy happened there because those Lightnings should have all died.
BTW, that is about the single best day against B29s I have ever seen in mid 1944.[:)] [&o]
I take it the tankers go thru![&o]
What are the settings? Lets have a look! [:)]
