saving survivor problem!

capt. smegg · 02-23-09, 09:59 AM

I started a career in 1941 and I destroyed an aircraft and I could see a survivor in the water but could not rescue him!

Starforce2 · 02-23-09, 11:00 AM

you can't capture enemy personell.

Quasimodo · 02-23-09, 05:45 PM

I tried the same while playing the single "Rescue" mission. No problems with your own guys but the Japanese airmen/sailors can't be picked up.

And no...I wasn't heartless and machine gunned them either. If I had a life raft I'd toss them one but as it was I left them to 'sink or swim'.

To be unpolitically correct here I think it was Bull Halsey who said "The Japanese are almost as much fun to drown as they are to burn" or some such statement like that.

Torplexed · 02-23-09, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Quasimodo

To be unpolitically correct here I think it was Bull Halsey who said "The Japanese are almost as much fun to drown as they are to burn" or some such statement like that.

Possibly. I think his famous quote was this one: "When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell." Luckily for him PC was decades away.

In reality many Japanese airman often tried to drown themselves or attacked their rescuers when picked up. So when I see them I just point in the direction of Japan and say: "start swimming."

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02-23-09, 05:45 PM	#3
Quasimodo Watch Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 15 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	I tried the same while playing the single "Rescue" mission. No problems with your own guys but the Japanese airmen/sailors can't be picked up. And no...I wasn't heartless and machine gunned them either. If I had a life raft I'd toss them one but as it was I left them to 'sink or swim'. To be unpolitically correct here I think it was Bull Halsey who said "The Japanese are almost as much fun to drown as they are to burn" or some such statement like that.