NEVER BEFORE!

frau kaleun · 09-15-11, 03:27 PM

Last career I played, we took out 19 - maybe 20? I think it was 20 - Swordfish in one patrol (heck, all within a couple days IIRC). All taken down by the one guy on the crew who was a qualified flak gunner, until we pushed our luck too far and he ended up dead.

I'm gonna go with 20 because they always came in threes and I'm pretty sure it was the third plane of the last group that killed him, which would've made it #21 had we gotten him as well. My mistake, I thought we'd shot down all of them and ordered the gun crew to stand down. Bloody Tommy must've come out of the sun and strafed the deck and bridge before we realized he was still up there. My gunner was the only casualty.

There was a task force with a carrier in the area, which we finally found, but as usual with a task force they were moving too fast for us to ever get in a good attack position. Sent three eels at the carrier anyway from a couple kms out at a really unfortunate angle and naturally all missed.

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09-15-11, 03:27 PM	#5
frau kaleun Rear Admiral Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skyri--oh who are we kidding, I'm probably at Lowe's. Again. Posts: 12,706 Downloads: 168 Uploads: 0	Last career I played, we took out 19 - maybe 20? I think it was 20 - Swordfish in one patrol (heck, all within a couple days IIRC). All taken down by the one guy on the crew who was a qualified flak gunner, until we pushed our luck too far and he ended up dead. I'm gonna go with 20 because they always came in threes and I'm pretty sure it was the third plane of the last group that killed him, which would've made it #21 had we gotten him as well. My mistake, I thought we'd shot down all of them and ordered the gun crew to stand down. Bloody Tommy must've come out of the sun and strafed the deck and bridge before we realized he was still up there. My gunner was the only casualty. There was a task force with a carrier in the area, which we finally found, but as usual with a task force they were moving too fast for us to ever get in a good attack position. Sent three eels at the carrier anyway from a couple kms out at a really unfortunate angle and naturally all missed.