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Me when my pilots land a torpedo hit on a CV!

Air War over Japan ...
if you can survive to 1945.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTQvgzgfXPA

What I think my military ability is when playing WITPAE



What my military ability really is

Allied logistics, air support and SIGINT in "1941".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc4_6fg8PXw

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Allied logistics, air support and SIGINT in "1941".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc4_6fg8PXw

My greatgrandfather, by that time Mig-3 pilot in 5 IAP KBF back in 1941 had once ran out of fuel in winter as his tank was holed. He landed wheels down on iced lake Ladoga near a yacht club, where prewar some motorboats of soviet DOSAAF were based. Together with a few elderly seamen who were guarding the club, he located a barrel of petrol there, patched the shoot hole in the tank with a wooden chop held by canvas, and refueled using a kitchen pot as no pump was available. Then took off and came back to his base, after being thought to gone missing in the fight before...

A few weeks later he landed in the middle of Leningrad city on a street as his engine was shot up. He "mobilized" police troopers and a truck on pistol point, and used the truck to tow his plane through the city to the airfield on the outskirts..

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

Allied pilot ground school

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usQem53fDH8

Lovely!!!!

ORIGINAL: PetrOs

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Allied logistics, air support and SIGINT in "1941".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc4_6fg8PXw

My greatgrandfather, by that time Mig-3 pilot in 5 IAP KBF back in 1941 had once ran out of fuel in winter as his tank was holed. He landed wheels down on iced lake Ladoga near a yacht club, where prewar some motorboats of soviet DOSAAF were based. Together with a few elderly seamen who were guarding the club, he located a barrel of petrol there, patched the shoot hole in the tank with a wooden chop held by canvas, and refueled using a kitchen pot as no pump was available. Then took off and came back to his base, after being thought to gone missing in the fight before...

A few weeks later he landed in the middle of Leningrad city on a street as his engine was shot up. He "mobilized" police troopers and a truck on pistol point, and used the truck to tow his plane through the city to the airfield on the outskirts..

Did he survive?

ORIGINAL: adarbrauner

Did he survive?

He was badly injured the day he landed on the street, mid April 42. That plane was the first out of 5 he lost on that day. Before landing there he shot down 1 He-111. Second one got motor trouble after take off->swamp near airfield. Third one - shot one Me-109, took hits, landed wheels up on own field. Fourth was landed normally but with bad damage. Last take off of the day was an old I-16 type 5, which was declared unfit for combat but was still used for training. He shot yet another Me109 with it, but was riddled with 7.92 mm by the wingman. He was hit by at least 13 bullets mainly on arms and legs, the plane exploded under him, and the blast opened his parachute. Unconscious from blood loss he had luck to have landed just a few meters from the bomb shelter of a hospital, spotted, pulled in and saved. Declared not fit to fly, he returned to his regiment as political officer and trainer (as he was an ace with 14 kills so highly experienced). He started flying "illegally" on non-combat missions in winter 44/45 like testing planes after repair on from factory, and while testing a new Yak-9 with 37mm gun against a "normal" 20mm Yak-9, he spotted and surprised an FW190, taking just 1 37mm shell to down it, compared to around 50 20mm shells spent by the 20mm Yak to down the wingman of that FW. That caused a big scandal with regiment and division commanders reprimanded for letting "not flight fit" pilots to fly. He did not fly later anything more then Po-2, but went on serving as a political officer until 1949, finishing as a Colonel. He got a Hero of Soviet Union postwar.

Any picture left?

When it's June 1943 and PDU is on...

*MASSIVE INTERNAL EXPLOSION*

To say the least.

ORIGINAL: btd64

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle(Mogami)

I forgot how to load an image

Post count is to low to post pics. I think....GP

Hi, Is this better?

ORIGINAL: mogami

ORIGINAL: btd64

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle(Mogami)

I forgot how to load an image

Post count is to low to post pics. I think....GP

Hi, Is this better?

Yes, that works now. I knew it should be higher....GP

ORIGINAL: adarbrauner

Any picture left?

Unluckily most got lost when back in 2003 my granny's archive got flooded. When noone at home, water heating pipe ruptured and flooded the appartment, hot water coming from the pipe under pressure filled the drawer where she stored all documents and photos.... It took an hour until the emergency services reacted, after being alarmed by neighbours below, and 2-3 more hours while those searched for my granny (she was shopping, no cellphones back then). By then, it was a sticky mess of paper cooked in 60 deg C water, not a single document or photo survived, except one which was not standing in file, but was just laid on top and situated above water level... Just 2 weeks later I was going to visit my granny with a laptop and scanner, already had my tickets for the plane booked....

He had lots of awards, but the only one which was found in podvignaroda database is the one relevant to the short spell which he spent outside of the air regiment. While recovering from injury he served as a political officer in a naval airfield construction unit, and got a red star order for great performance there. There are many more in the archive, but no documents yet.Only 10-15% of the soviet documents are however available, maybe more would surface later..
https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/podvig- ... e51298378/

Boromir knows

Scen. 02 game as Allies

Grand Campaign as the Allies

The Air War in 1942

Grand Campaign as the Allies

The Air War in 1943

When Allied CV's get the Corsair...