Mission 9: Oy Vey! Torah! Torah! Torah! - Page 4

**Rain Man** · 03-07-2004, 12:23 AM

Here we go, heading down the runway on lucky number 9. Best of luck, flyboys and flygirls.

go bo · 03-13-2004, 01:51 AM

another belly landing....

except for poor old kcmizzou...

oh boo hoo! doggone double shit! oops, thit!

here's to our fallen comrades

kcwolfman, kcmizzou... i wonder, is there something lethal about having kc at the beginning of your name???

**Rain Man** · 03-13-2004, 11:31 AM

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B-17 #16 – Fire Below

Pilot BIG_DADDY (8)
Copilot Skip Towne (8)
Bombardier RedNeckRaider (8)
Navigator CHIEF4EVER (8)
Engineer Jcroft (8)
Radio Op. Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan (8)
Tail Gunner Over-Head (8)
Ball Turret Gunner bishop_74 (8)
Right Waist Gunner CanadaKC (8)
Left Waist Gunner bowser

Target: Rouen
Mid-formation horizontally, low vertically (high vulnerability)

Zone 1 Out: Britain

No enemy

Zone 2 Out: English Channel

1 Fw190 attacks

misplaced_chiefs_fan fires, misses
jcroft fires, misses
bowser fires, misses

Fw misses, breaks off attack

Zone 3 Out: Western Channel

No enemy

Zone 4 Out: France (Entering Target Zone)

1 Fw190, 1 Me110 attack – 1 Me110 is driven off by fighters

jcroft fires, misses
redneckraider fires, misses

Fw scores 2 hits
-superficial damage to port wing
-superficial damage to radio room

Fw circles, attacks again

jcroft fires, misses
bowser fires, misses
over-head fires, misses

Fw scores 2 hits
-superficial damage to bomb bay
-superficial damage to port wing
Fw circles, attacks again

jcroft fires, misses
bowser fires, hits Fw190

Fw misses, breaks off attack

Entering Bomb Zone
Good Weather
Heavy Flak – 7 close hits hammer the Fire Below!
-tail – over-head’s oxygen system is hit and explodes into flame. Trapped in the back, Over-head yells for help and CanadaKC comes running with the fire extinguisher. He empties the extinguisher but can only contain the fire. He can’t extinguish it.
-starboard wing flap is slightly damaged.
-starboard wing – inboard fuel tank is hit, but self-seals without a fire, explosion, or leakage.
-nose – chief4ever takes a light wound to the mid chest
-nose – a particularly close burst gives chief4ever a light wound to the left chest, and redneckraider loses his right arm at the shoulder with a serious wound.
-port wing aileron is out
-port wing – the inboard fuel tank is hit. A flame leaps out and the leaking fuel feeds it. The fire starts growing.

Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan runs back from the radio room with a second fire extinguisher and is spraying down the tail area. It looks like he’s getting it under control, but Big_Daddy sees with despair that the fire on the left wing is growing rapidly. The plane is at risk of explosion, so he hits the bailout alarm.

Chaos ensues as the crew tries to bail out. Big_Daddy dives the plane to attempt to keep the flames down, while Skip Towne leaves his post and goes down to the nose to help the injured redneckraider and chief4ever get out. Engineer jcroft grabs the final fire extinguisher to help over-head get out through the flames in the tail. Left waist gunner bowser also runs to the nose to help the injured fliers, while bishop_74 cranks himself up from the ball turret and gets his own parachute on.

The third fire extinguisher pushes the flames down enough for tail gunner over-head to hotfoot out of his area. While he’s getting out, radio operator Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan becomes the first to bail out of the plane. He lands safely, but with a German squad’s rifles pointed at him the last 200 feet of the descent. There’s no chance of escape for him. Thirty yards away and thirty seconds behind him, right waist gunner Canada_KC lands, with the same predicament.

Copilot Skip_Towne wishes the twice-injured navigator Chief4ever well and pushes him out the egress hatch, and then works with bowser to try to rig a way to keep redneckraider’s parachute onto him. Missing his right arm, redneckraider can’t keep the chute on, and is barely conscious as well.

Big_Daddy, alone up in the pilot’s seat, has leveled the plane at 9,000 feet and sees that fire growing quickly. “Out NOW!” he yells over the intercom. In what would later become his mantra, he adds, “She’s gonna blow!” He hits the autopilot and sprints toward his own egress hatch as the sky quickly blooms with parachutes.

Everyone gets out well except engineer jcroft, whose parachute opens prematurely. He gets blown into the starboard wing and is knocked unconscious, but at least his parachute is open, and he floats toward the ground. Less than a minute later, the crew watches Fire Below’s left wing explode, and the remainder of the plane tumbles to its demise.

Redneckraider was pushed out the hatch in an act of desperation. His chute opens, but the force of the opening makes his right shoulder slide through the strap. He hangs on with his left hand for a moment, but it’s hopeless. Weak from blood loss, he loses his grip and falls 9,000 feet to his death.

Tail gunner Over-head has his own problems, beating out a small fire on his pants leg as he parachutes down. He gets the fire put out with minor burns, but lands out in a large open field with no place to hide. Within 20 minutes he is captured and on his way to the stalag.

Navigator CHIEF4EVER (8) floats earthward until his parachute gets caught in a tree. Injured, he is unable to climb the parachute ropes and he’s too high to cut them, so he merely dangles. Unbeknownst to him, though, some French underground resistance fighters have watched the descents, and they have randomly selected his parachute to follow. Racing against the Germans, two young Frenchman locate chief4ever in a small copse of trees, and manage to lasso him and pull him over to the tree trunk. Chief4ever weakly cuts the lines and makes it halfway down the trunk before falling with a thud. He is scooped up by the Frenchmen, carted off to a safe house, and gets medical attention. Three days later, a British minisub rises out of the Channel and the Resistance rows Chief4Ever out to it. They trade addresses and promise to keep in touch after the war, and chief4ever vows to liberate France.

Engineer jcroft hits the ground unconscious in a small forest clearing and lies there for most of a day before he regains consciousness. He wanders lost for a few hours afterwards and finds a small farmhouse. The family there takes him in but then promptly turns him in to the Nazis, and he is taken prisoner.

Copilot Skip Towne (8) and Ball Turret Gunner bishop_74 (8) float to earth near each other and hook up on the ground. With a German halftrack in hot pursuit, the savvy veterans sprint into the woods and force the Germans to dismount. It takes almost an hour for the Germans to surround them and pin them down in a small creek bed. Rather than shoot it out with their survival pistols, the pair surrenders and takes a beating before being marched back out to the halftrack.

Pilot BIG_DADDY (8) and the rookie Left Waist Gunner bowser see each other hit ground and find each other in a dense plot of forest. They crouch down, assess their situation, and decide that they should try to head west for Spain instead of going back north. The reckon that the German presence will be higher if they head closer to England, and lower if they head toward Spain. Ditching their parachutes, they begin walking to the southwest, relying on stealth, their emergency rations, and stolen produce from gardens. For six days they evade detection, and the rise of the mountains appears before them. Alas, partway through the sixth day a local gendarme spots them walking alongside a country road and calls in their position. Soon a platoon of Germans is on their heels and the chase is on, with no chance for the two hungry airmen on foot. Only 20 miles from Spain and safety, they are captured and shipped to Germany.

No bombing run.

Aftereffects

With only one crewman making it back, Fire Below is no more.

Eligible for next mission

Pilot XXX
Copilot XXX
Bombardier CHIEF4EVER (8), promoted
Navigator XXX
Engineer XXX
Radio Op. XXX
Tail Gunner XXX
Ball Turret Gunner XXX
Right Waist Gunner XXX
Left Waist Gunner XXX

One is the loneliest number…

**Rain Man** · 03-13-2004, 11:55 AM

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B-17 #18 – Fooooo Fighters

Pilot NaptownChief (8)
Copilot Tommykat (8)
Bombardier PastorMikH (8)
Navigator Mr. Christopher (8)
Engineer B2chiefsfan (8)
Radio Op. Adam (8)
Tail Gunner Amnorix (8)
Ball Turret Gunner KC Kings (8)
Right Waist Gunner el borracho (8)
Left Waist Gunner NewChief (8)

Target: Meaulte
Mid-formation horizontally, high vertically (moderate vulnerability)

Zone 1 Out: Britain

No enemy

Zone 2 Out: English Channel

No enemy

Zone 3 Out: France (Entering Target Zone)

2 Me110s attack

Newchief fires, misses
Kc kings fires, misses
Amnorix fires, misses

Me misses, breaks off attack

Me scores 2 hits
-tail – port elevator is knocked out
-superficial damage to tail

Me circles, attacks again

Pastormikh fires, misses
Mr. Christopher fires, misses

Me misses, breaks off attack

Entering Bomb Zone
Good Weather
Medium Flak - misses
Pastormikh is Mr. Efficiency – 30% score

Zone 3 Out: France (Leaving Target Zone)

3 Me109s attack – 1 is driven off by fighters

Amnorix fires, hits Me109
Mr. Christopher fires, misses
B2chiefsfan fires, kills Me109

Hit Me misses, breaks off attack

Zone 2: English Channel

1 Fw190 attacks

Amnorix fires, misses
B2chiefsfan fires, hits Fw190

Hit Fw misses, breaks off attack

Zone 1: England

Good weather
Good landing

Aftereffects

None

Eligible for next mission

Pilot NaptownChief (8)
Copilot Tommykat (8)
Bombardier PastorMikH (8)
Navigator Mr. Christopher (8)
Engineer B2chiefsfan (8)
Radio Op. Adam (8)
Tail Gunner Amnorix (8)
Ball Turret Gunner KC Kings (8)
Right Waist Gunner el borracho (8)
Left Waist Gunner NewChief (8)

Shhhh. Don’t tell them, but they’ve got a no-hitter going.

Slayer Diablo · 03-13-2004, 12:32 PM

We still have a no-hitter?!?!?!? That's gotta be bad mojo...the pilot's gonna end up bringing a biscut on board for the mission, split it with TK, and the plane goes into a downward spiral when one of them chokes on it during light flak.

PastorMikH · 03-13-2004, 12:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slayer Diablo

We still have a no-hitter?!?!?!? That's gotta be bad mojo...the pilot's gonna end up bringing a biscut on board for the mission, split it with TK, and the plane goes into a downward spiral when one of them chokes on it during light flak.

You're just jealous because you have died more times than our whole crew put together.

**Rain Man** · 03-13-2004, 12:56 PM

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B-17 #19 – War Dog

Pilot Baby Lee (8)
Copilot Brock Landers (8)
Bombardier Boozer (8)
Navigator Sure-Oz (8)
Engineer Gunther_Fan (8)
Radio Op. Lightning Rod (8)
Tail Gunner chi3fs (7)
Ball Turret Gunner Chief Faithful (8)
Right Waist Gunner Braincase (2)
Left Waist Gunner morphius

Target: Antwerp
Mid-formation horizontally, low vertically (high vulnerability)

Zone 1 Out: Britain

No enemy

Zone 2 Out: English Channel

No enemy

Zone 3 Out: Belgium

1 Fw190, 1 Me110 attack

Boozer fires, damages Fw190
Gunther_fan fires, misses
Chief Faithful fires, kills Me110

Damaged Fw misses, breaks off attack

Zone 4 Out: Belgium (Entering Target Zone)

3 Me109s are driven off by fighters

3 Fw190s attack

Boozer fires, misses
Sure-oz fires, misses
Gunther_fan fires, misses
Chi3fs fires, misses
Morphius fires, kills Fw190

Fw misses, breaks off attack

Fw scores 1 hit
-superficial damage to pilot compartment

Fw circles, attacks again
Lightning rod fires, misses
Chi3fs fires, misses

Fw misses, breaks off attack

Entering Bomb Zone
Good Weather
Medium Flak - misses
Boozer makes a nice textbook run – 30% score

Zone 4 Out: Belgium (Leaving Target Zone)

1 Me109, 1 Me110 attack

Sure-oz fires, misses
Gunther_fan fires, hits Me109
Chi3fs fires, misses
Braincase fires, misses

Me110 misses, breaks off attack

Me scores 3 hits
-tail – control cables are damaged, making the plane slightly more difficult for baby lee to control.
-bomb bay – no effect
-superficial damage to waist

Me circles, attacks again

Lightning rod fires, misses

Me scores 2 hits
-superficial damage to radio room
-superficial damage to waist

Me circles, attacks again

Chief Faithful fires, misses
Braincase fires, misses

Me scores 1 hit
-superficial damage to bomb bay

Me breaks off attack

1 Me109 attacks

Sure-oz fires, misses
Gunther_fan fires, misses

Me scores 1 hit
-port wing – the inboard fuel tank begins dumping fuel, but fortunately there is no fire accompanying it. Brock Landers does a quick assessment and determines that the fuel leak won’t be a problem in terms of reaching England as long as the rest of the flight proceeds normally.

Zone 3 Out: France Belgium Western Channel North Sea (Leaving Target Zone)

5 Fw190s attack – 2 are driven off by fighters

Boozer fires, misses
Sure-oz fires, hits Fw190
Gunther_fan fires, misses
Chi3fs fires, damages Fw190
Braincase fires, misses
Morphius fires, misses

All 3 Fws miss, break off attack.

Zone 2: English Channel

No enemy

Zone 1: England

Good weather
Slightly bumpy landing due to the control cable problem, but not bad at all, and with the fuel tank still looking good.

Aftereffects

None

Eligible for next mission

Pilot Baby Lee (8)
Copilot Brock Landers (8)
Bombardier Boozer (8)
Navigator Sure-Oz (8)
Engineer Gunther_Fan (8)
Radio Op. Lightning Rod (8)
Tail Gunner chi3fs (7)
Ball Turret Gunner Chief Faithful (8)
Right Waist Gunner Braincase (2)
Left Waist Gunner morphius

Now off to the pub for ‘ye.

**Rain Man** · 03-13-2004, 01:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slayer Diablo

We still have a no-hitter?!?!?!?

Kind of amazing, isn't it?

**Rain Man** · 03-13-2004, 01:54 PM

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B-17 #20 – Sky Chief

Pilot DenverChief (8)
Copilot Sky (8)
Bombardier Lzen (8)
Navigator AustinChief (8)
Engineer Michael Michigan (7)
Radio Op. DJay23 (8)
Tail Gunner UMKC 1L (8)
Ball Turret Gunner mlyonsd (8)
Right Waist Gunner PennyWise (8)
Left Waist Gunner MrBlond (1)

Target: Rotterdam
Mid-formation horizontally, high vertically

Zone 1 Out: Britain

No enemy

Zone 2 Out: English Channel

No enemy

Zone 3 Out: Channel North Sea

No enemy

Zone 4 Out: France Belgium Netherlands (Entering Target Zone)

1 Fw190 attacks

djay23 fires, misses

Fw scores 1 hit
-superficial damage to radio room

Fw circles, attacks again

Michael Michigan fires, misses
Austinchief fires, kills Fw190

2 Me110s attack

Michael Michigan fires, misses
Mlyonsd fires, kills Me110
Mr. Blond fires, misses

Me misses, breaks off attack

Entering Bomb Zone
Good Weather
Medium Flak – 1 hit
-In an instant, Sky Chief’s world turns upside down – literally. An 88-mm flak shell nails a direct hit on the starboard wing and explodes. The starboard wing fuel tanks go up in a huge fireball and the wing disappears. Skychief begins rolling out of control and starts an augur into the earth that will never be stopped.

Pilot DenverChief (8), Copilot Sky (8), and Navigator AustinChief (8) are killed in the massive initial explosion.

Bombardier Lzen (8) and Left Waist Gunner MrBlond (1) are knocked unconscious in the initial blast and ride the plane until it breaks apart at 12,000 feet. They then hurtle to the ground amidst the debris.

Engineer Michael Michigan (7) and Tail Gunner UMKC 1L (8) are knocked unconscious in the initial blast and are thrown from the plane through their canopies. They hurtle to the ground as well.

Radio Op. DJay23 (8) is thrown out of the plane on fire. He is able to deploy his chute, but it’s also burning. After a long two minutes of being on fire, he finally meets his end when the burning parachute fails.

Ball Turret Gunner mlyonsd (8) survives the initial blast, but can’t get out of his ball turret. He rides the plane down until it breaks apart, at which point he is disoriented and doesn’t have a parachute.

Right Waist Gunner PennyWise (8) was thrown out of the plane immediately upon the explosion, as his position disintegrated. Stunned and flash-burned, he alertly counts to ten before deploying his chute, and comes to a soft landing on an urban street in the middle of Rotterdam. Dutch citizens mill about to prevent the Germans from reaching the scene, and the Dutch underground grabs him and runs. In the basement of a Rotterdam townhouse, his minor burns are treated by a comely blonde Dutch girl. Over the coming days, he heals quickly, and the girl eventually sneaks him out and lets him plug a hole in a dike with his finger, creating a memory that will last a lifetime. After a week of hiding and planning, the Dutch underground gets him on a ship to Denmark, and from there to Norway, where he crosses by car into the Swedish frontier and hooks up with a supportive cargo ship to England.

No bombing run

Aftereffects

Alas, Sky Chief has become a statistic in this horrible, horrible war.

Eligible for next mission

Pilot XXX
Copilot XXX
Bombardier XXX
Navigator XXX
Engineer XXX
Radio Op. XXX
Tail Gunner XXX
Ball Turret Gunner PennyWise (8), promoted
Right Waist Gunner XXX
Left Waist Gunner XXX

Lost a lot of veterans on that flight.

**Rain Man** · 03-13-2004, 02:22 PM

Egad. This was a rough mission. Two planes down.

**Skip Towne** · 03-13-2004, 02:58 PM

Yeah, getting X'ed out is painful.

go bo · 03-13-2004, 03:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Egad. This was a rough mission. Two planes down.

how many of the original planes are left at this point?

go bo · 03-13-2004, 03:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rain Man

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B-17 #20 – Sky Chief

Pilot DenverChief (8)
Copilot Sky (8)
Bombardier Lzen (8)
Navigator AustinChief (8)
Engineer Michael Michigan (7)
Radio Op. DJay23 (8)
Tail Gunner UMKC 1L (8)
Ball Turret Gunner mlyonsd (8)
Right Waist Gunner PennyWise (8)
Left Waist Gunner MrBlond (1)

Target: Rotterdam
Mid-formation horizontally, high vertically

Zone 1 Out: Britain

No enemy

Zone 2 Out: English Channel

No enemy

Zone 3 Out: Channel North Sea

No enemy

Zone 4 Out: France Belgium Netherlands (Entering Target Zone)

1 Fw190 attacks

djay23 fires, misses

Fw scores 1 hit
-superficial damage to radio room

Fw circles, attacks again

Michael Michigan fires, misses
Austinchief fires, kills Fw190

2 Me110s attack

Michael Michigan fires, misses
Mlyonsd fires, kills Me110
Mr. Blond fires, misses

Me misses, breaks off attack

Entering Bomb Zone
Good Weather
Medium Flak – 1 hit
-In an instant, Sky Chief’s world turns upside down – literally. An 88-mm flak shell nails a direct hit on the starboard wing and explodes. The starboard wing fuel tanks go up in a huge fireball and the wing disappears. Skychief begins rolling out of control and starts an augur into the earth that will never be stopped.

Pilot DenverChief (8), Copilot Sky (8), and Navigator AustinChief (8) are killed in the massive initial explosion.

Bombardier Lzen (8) and Left Waist Gunner MrBlond (1) are knocked unconscious in the initial blast and ride the plane until it breaks apart at 12,000 feet. They then hurtle to the ground amidst the debris.

Engineer Michael Michigan (7) and Tail Gunner UMKC 1L (8) are knocked unconscious in the initial blast and are thrown from the plane through their canopies. They hurtle to the ground as well.

Radio Op. DJay23 (8) is thrown out of the plane on fire. He is able to deploy his chute, but it’s also burning. After a long two minutes of being on fire, he finally meets his end when the burning parachute fails.

Ball Turret Gunner mlyonsd (8) survives the initial blast, but can’t get out of his ball turret. He rides the plane down until it breaks apart, at which point he is disoriented and doesn’t have a parachute.

Right Waist Gunner PennyWise (8) was thrown out of the plane immediately upon the explosion, as his position disintegrated. Stunned and flash-burned, he alertly counts to ten before deploying his chute, and comes to a soft landing on an urban street in the middle of Rotterdam. Dutch citizens mill about to prevent the Germans from reaching the scene, and the Dutch underground grabs him and runs. In the basement of a Rotterdam townhouse, his minor burns are treated by a comely blonde Dutch girl. Over the coming days, he heals quickly, and the girl eventually sneaks him out and lets him plug a hole in a dike with his finger, creating a memory that will last a lifetime. After a week of hiding and planning, the Dutch underground gets him on a ship to Denmark, and from there to Norway, where he crosses by car into the Swedish frontier and hooks up with a supportive cargo ship to England.

No bombing run

Aftereffects

Alas, Sky Chief has become a statistic in this horrible, horrible war.

Eligible for next mission

Pilot XXX
Copilot XXX
Bombardier XXX
Navigator XXX
Engineer XXX
Radio Op. XXX
Tail Gunner XXX
Ball Turret Gunner PennyWise (8), promoted
Right Waist Gunner XXX
Left Waist Gunner XXX

Lost a lot of veterans on that flight.

hey, penny man!

to the rest of you on sky chief: damn, that was harsh...

i hope all of you come back reincarnated or repatriated or re-whatever...

this is a rough business...

and r.i.p. kcwolfman, scaga, fat elvis, kcfanintitanhell, mile high mania, bigchieffan, kcmizzzou, big daddy, skip towne, redneckraider, jcroft, misplaced chiefs fan, over-head, gunner bishop 74, canadakc, bowser, denver chief, sky, lzen, austinchief, michael michigan, djay23, umkc il, mlyonsd and mrblond

**Rain Man** · 03-13-2004, 03:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by go bo

how many of the original planes are left at this point?

11, though at least a couple of those have replaced the actual aircraft. That translates into a 6.25 percent loss rate on a given mission (for the entire aircraft, that is; it's higher for an individual crew member.)

Somehow the Fooooo Fighters (Plane 18) still have their entire original crew intact.

**Bowser** · 03-13-2004, 03:45 PM

Two deaths and a captured on my resume. And I don't think I've even fired my guns yet.

go bo · 03-13-2004, 03:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bowser

Two deaths and a captured on my resume. And I don't think I've even fired my guns yet.

that's ok, there's still plenty of time to die (again) for your country...

03-07-2004, 12:23 AM
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03-13-2004, 11:31 AM	#47
Rain Man Seize life. Be an ermine. Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: My house Casino cash: $-662449 VARSITY	rel="Lightbox"?attachmentid=21534" border="0" alt="" class="tcattdimgresizer" onload="NcodeImageResizer.createOn(this);" /> B-17 #16 – Fire Below Pilot BIG_DADDY (8) Copilot Skip Towne (8) Bombardier RedNeckRaider (8) Navigator CHIEF4EVER (8) Engineer Jcroft (8) Radio Op. Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan (8) Tail Gunner Over-Head (8) Ball Turret Gunner bishop_74 (8) Right Waist Gunner CanadaKC (8) Left Waist Gunner bowser Target: Rouen Mid-formation horizontally, low vertically (high vulnerability) Zone 1 Out: Britain No enemy Zone 2 Out: English Channel 1 Fw190 attacks misplaced_chiefs_fan fires, misses jcroft fires, misses bowser fires, misses Fw misses, breaks off attack Zone 3 Out: Western Channel No enemy Zone 4 Out: France (Entering Target Zone) 1 Fw190, 1 Me110 attack – 1 Me110 is driven off by fighters jcroft fires, misses redneckraider fires, misses Fw scores 2 hits -superficial damage to port wing -superficial damage to radio room Fw circles, attacks again jcroft fires, misses bowser fires, misses over-head fires, misses Fw scores 2 hits -superficial damage to bomb bay -superficial damage to port wing Fw circles, attacks again jcroft fires, misses bowser fires, hits Fw190 Fw misses, breaks off attack Entering Bomb Zone Good Weather Heavy Flak – 7 close hits hammer the Fire Below! -tail – over-head’s oxygen system is hit and explodes into flame. Trapped in the back, Over-head yells for help and CanadaKC comes running with the fire extinguisher. He empties the extinguisher but can only contain the fire. He can’t extinguish it. -starboard wing flap is slightly damaged. -starboard wing – inboard fuel tank is hit, but self-seals without a fire, explosion, or leakage. -nose – chief4ever takes a light wound to the mid chest -nose – a particularly close burst gives chief4ever a light wound to the left chest, and redneckraider loses his right arm at the shoulder with a serious wound. -port wing aileron is out -port wing – the inboard fuel tank is hit. A flame leaps out and the leaking fuel feeds it. The fire starts growing. Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan runs back from the radio room with a second fire extinguisher and is spraying down the tail area. It looks like he’s getting it under control, but Big_Daddy sees with despair that the fire on the left wing is growing rapidly. The plane is at risk of explosion, so he hits the bailout alarm. Chaos ensues as the crew tries to bail out. Big_Daddy dives the plane to attempt to keep the flames down, while Skip Towne leaves his post and goes down to the nose to help the injured redneckraider and chief4ever get out. Engineer jcroft grabs the final fire extinguisher to help over-head get out through the flames in the tail. Left waist gunner bowser also runs to the nose to help the injured fliers, while bishop_74 cranks himself up from the ball turret and gets his own parachute on. The third fire extinguisher pushes the flames down enough for tail gunner over-head to hotfoot out of his area. While he’s getting out, radio operator Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan becomes the first to bail out of the plane. He lands safely, but with a German squad’s rifles pointed at him the last 200 feet of the descent. There’s no chance of escape for him. Thirty yards away and thirty seconds behind him, right waist gunner Canada_KC lands, with the same predicament. Copilot Skip_Towne wishes the twice-injured navigator Chief4ever well and pushes him out the egress hatch, and then works with bowser to try to rig a way to keep redneckraider’s parachute onto him. Missing his right arm, redneckraider can’t keep the chute on, and is barely conscious as well. Big_Daddy, alone up in the pilot’s seat, has leveled the plane at 9,000 feet and sees that fire growing quickly. “Out NOW!” he yells over the intercom. In what would later become his mantra, he adds, “She’s gonna blow!” He hits the autopilot and sprints toward his own egress hatch as the sky quickly blooms with parachutes. Everyone gets out well except engineer jcroft, whose parachute opens prematurely. He gets blown into the starboard wing and is knocked unconscious, but at least his parachute is open, and he floats toward the ground. Less than a minute later, the crew watches Fire Below’s left wing explode, and the remainder of the plane tumbles to its demise. Redneckraider was pushed out the hatch in an act of desperation. His chute opens, but the force of the opening makes his right shoulder slide through the strap. He hangs on with his left hand for a moment, but it’s hopeless. Weak from blood loss, he loses his grip and falls 9,000 feet to his death. Tail gunner Over-head has his own problems, beating out a small fire on his pants leg as he parachutes down. He gets the fire put out with minor burns, but lands out in a large open field with no place to hide. Within 20 minutes he is captured and on his way to the stalag. Navigator CHIEF4EVER (8) floats earthward until his parachute gets caught in a tree. Injured, he is unable to climb the parachute ropes and he’s too high to cut them, so he merely dangles. Unbeknownst to him, though, some French underground resistance fighters have watched the descents, and they have randomly selected his parachute to follow. Racing against the Germans, two young Frenchman locate chief4ever in a small copse of trees, and manage to lasso him and pull him over to the tree trunk. Chief4ever weakly cuts the lines and makes it halfway down the trunk before falling with a thud. He is scooped up by the Frenchmen, carted off to a safe house, and gets medical attention. Three days later, a British minisub rises out of the Channel and the Resistance rows Chief4Ever out to it. They trade addresses and promise to keep in touch after the war, and chief4ever vows to liberate France. Engineer jcroft hits the ground unconscious in a small forest clearing and lies there for most of a day before he regains consciousness. He wanders lost for a few hours afterwards and finds a small farmhouse. The family there takes him in but then promptly turns him in to the Nazis, and he is taken prisoner. Copilot Skip Towne (8) and Ball Turret Gunner bishop_74 (8) float to earth near each other and hook up on the ground. With a German halftrack in hot pursuit, the savvy veterans sprint into the woods and force the Germans to dismount. It takes almost an hour for the Germans to surround them and pin them down in a small creek bed. Rather than shoot it out with their survival pistols, the pair surrenders and takes a beating before being marched back out to the halftrack. Pilot BIG_DADDY (8) and the rookie Left Waist Gunner bowser see each other hit ground and find each other in a dense plot of forest. They crouch down, assess their situation, and decide that they should try to head west for Spain instead of going back north. The reckon that the German presence will be higher if they head closer to England, and lower if they head toward Spain. Ditching their parachutes, they begin walking to the southwest, relying on stealth, their emergency rations, and stolen produce from gardens. For six days they evade detection, and the rise of the mountains appears before them. Alas, partway through the sixth day a local gendarme spots them walking alongside a country road and calls in their position. Soon a platoon of Germans is on their heels and the chase is on, with no chance for the two hungry airmen on foot. Only 20 miles from Spain and safety, they are captured and shipped to Germany. No bombing run. Aftereffects With only one crewman making it back, Fire Below is no more. Eligible for next mission Pilot XXX Copilot XXX Bombardier CHIEF4EVER (8), promoted Navigator XXX Engineer XXX Radio Op. XXX Tail Gunner XXX Ball Turret Gunner XXX Right Waist Gunner XXX Left Waist Gunner XXX One is the loneliest number… __________________ Active fan of the greatest team in NFL history.
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03-13-2004, 11:55 AM	#48
Rain Man Seize life. Be an ermine. Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: My house Casino cash: $-662449 VARSITY	rel="Lightbox"?attachmentid=21536" border="0" alt="" class="tcattdimgresizer" onload="NcodeImageResizer.createOn(this);" /> B-17 #18 – Fooooo Fighters Pilot NaptownChief (8) Copilot Tommykat (8) Bombardier PastorMikH (8) Navigator Mr. Christopher (8) Engineer B2chiefsfan (8) Radio Op. Adam (8) Tail Gunner Amnorix (8) Ball Turret Gunner KC Kings (8) Right Waist Gunner el borracho (8) Left Waist Gunner NewChief (8) Target: Meaulte Mid-formation horizontally, high vertically (moderate vulnerability) Zone 1 Out: Britain No enemy Zone 2 Out: English Channel No enemy Zone 3 Out: France (Entering Target Zone) 2 Me110s attack Newchief fires, misses Kc kings fires, misses Amnorix fires, misses Me misses, breaks off attack Me scores 2 hits -tail – port elevator is knocked out -superficial damage to tail Me circles, attacks again Pastormikh fires, misses Mr. Christopher fires, misses Me misses, breaks off attack Entering Bomb Zone Good Weather Medium Flak - misses Pastormikh is Mr. Efficiency – 30% score Zone 3 Out: France (Leaving Target Zone) 3 Me109s attack – 1 is driven off by fighters Amnorix fires, hits Me109 Mr. Christopher fires, misses B2chiefsfan fires, kills Me109 Hit Me misses, breaks off attack Zone 2: English Channel 1 Fw190 attacks Amnorix fires, misses B2chiefsfan fires, hits Fw190 Hit Fw misses, breaks off attack Zone 1: England Good weather Good landing Aftereffects None Eligible for next mission Pilot NaptownChief (8) Copilot Tommykat (8) Bombardier PastorMikH (8) Navigator Mr. Christopher (8) Engineer B2chiefsfan (8) Radio Op. Adam (8) Tail Gunner Amnorix (8) Ball Turret Gunner KC Kings (8) Right Waist Gunner el borracho (8) Left Waist Gunner NewChief (8) Shhhh. Don’t tell them, but they’ve got a no-hitter going. __________________ Active fan of the greatest team in NFL history.
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03-13-2004, 12:32 PM	#49
Slayer Diablo Cross with me Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Kansas City, MO Casino cash: $9994900	We still have a no-hitter?!?!?!? That's gotta be bad mojo...the pilot's gonna end up bringing a biscut on board for the mission, split it with TK, and the plane goes into a downward spiral when one of them chokes on it during light flak.
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03-13-2004, 12:56 PM	#51
Rain Man Seize life. Be an ermine. Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: My house Casino cash: $-662449 VARSITY	rel="Lightbox"?attachmentid=21537" border="0" alt="" class="tcattdimgresizer" onload="NcodeImageResizer.createOn(this);" /> B-17 #19 – War Dog Pilot Baby Lee (8) Copilot Brock Landers (8) Bombardier Boozer (8) Navigator Sure-Oz (8) Engineer Gunther_Fan (8) Radio Op. Lightning Rod (8) Tail Gunner chi3fs (7) Ball Turret Gunner Chief Faithful (8) Right Waist Gunner Braincase (2) Left Waist Gunner morphius Target: Antwerp Mid-formation horizontally, low vertically (high vulnerability) Zone 1 Out: Britain No enemy Zone 2 Out: English Channel No enemy Zone 3 Out: Belgium 1 Fw190, 1 Me110 attack Boozer fires, damages Fw190 Gunther_fan fires, misses Chief Faithful fires, kills Me110 Damaged Fw misses, breaks off attack Zone 4 Out: Belgium (Entering Target Zone) 3 Me109s are driven off by fighters 3 Fw190s attack Boozer fires, misses Sure-oz fires, misses Gunther_fan fires, misses Chi3fs fires, misses Morphius fires, kills Fw190 Fw misses, breaks off attack Fw scores 1 hit -superficial damage to pilot compartment Fw circles, attacks again Lightning rod fires, misses Chi3fs fires, misses Fw misses, breaks off attack Entering Bomb Zone Good Weather Medium Flak - misses Boozer makes a nice textbook run – 30% score Zone 4 Out: Belgium (Leaving Target Zone) 1 Me109, 1 Me110 attack Sure-oz fires, misses Gunther_fan fires, hits Me109 Chi3fs fires, misses Braincase fires, misses Me110 misses, breaks off attack Me scores 3 hits -tail – control cables are damaged, making the plane slightly more difficult for baby lee to control. -bomb bay – no effect -superficial damage to waist Me circles, attacks again Lightning rod fires, misses Me scores 2 hits -superficial damage to radio room -superficial damage to waist Me circles, attacks again Chief Faithful fires, misses Braincase fires, misses Me scores 1 hit -superficial damage to bomb bay Me breaks off attack 1 Me109 attacks Sure-oz fires, misses Gunther_fan fires, misses Me scores 1 hit -port wing – the inboard fuel tank begins dumping fuel, but fortunately there is no fire accompanying it. Brock Landers does a quick assessment and determines that the fuel leak won’t be a problem in terms of reaching England as long as the rest of the flight proceeds normally. Zone 3 Out: France Belgium Western Channel North Sea (Leaving Target Zone) 5 Fw190s attack – 2 are driven off by fighters Boozer fires, misses Sure-oz fires, hits Fw190 Gunther_fan fires, misses Chi3fs fires, damages Fw190 Braincase fires, misses Morphius fires, misses All 3 Fws miss, break off attack. Zone 2: English Channel No enemy Zone 1: England Good weather Slightly bumpy landing due to the control cable problem, but not bad at all, and with the fuel tank still looking good. Aftereffects None Eligible for next mission Pilot Baby Lee (8) Copilot Brock Landers (8) Bombardier Boozer (8) Navigator Sure-Oz (8) Engineer Gunther_Fan (8) Radio Op. Lightning Rod (8) Tail Gunner chi3fs (7) Ball Turret Gunner Chief Faithful (8) Right Waist Gunner Braincase (2) Left Waist Gunner morphius Now off to the pub for ‘ye. __________________ Active fan of the greatest team in NFL history.
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03-13-2004, 01:54 PM	#53
Rain Man Seize life. Be an ermine. Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: My house Casino cash: $-662449 VARSITY	rel="Lightbox"?attachmentid=21538" border="0" alt="" class="tcattdimgresizer" onload="NcodeImageResizer.createOn(this);" /> B-17 #20 – Sky Chief Pilot DenverChief (8) Copilot Sky (8) Bombardier Lzen (8) Navigator AustinChief (8) Engineer Michael Michigan (7) Radio Op. DJay23 (8) Tail Gunner UMKC 1L (8) Ball Turret Gunner mlyonsd (8) Right Waist Gunner PennyWise (8) Left Waist Gunner MrBlond (1) Target: Rotterdam Mid-formation horizontally, high vertically Zone 1 Out: Britain No enemy Zone 2 Out: English Channel No enemy Zone 3 Out: Channel North Sea No enemy Zone 4 Out: France Belgium Netherlands (Entering Target Zone) 1 Fw190 attacks djay23 fires, misses Fw scores 1 hit -superficial damage to radio room Fw circles, attacks again Michael Michigan fires, misses Austinchief fires, kills Fw190 2 Me110s attack Michael Michigan fires, misses Mlyonsd fires, kills Me110 Mr. Blond fires, misses Me misses, breaks off attack Entering Bomb Zone Good Weather Medium Flak – 1 hit -In an instant, Sky Chief’s world turns upside down – literally. An 88-mm flak shell nails a direct hit on the starboard wing and explodes. The starboard wing fuel tanks go up in a huge fireball and the wing disappears. Skychief begins rolling out of control and starts an augur into the earth that will never be stopped. Pilot DenverChief (8), Copilot Sky (8), and Navigator AustinChief (8) are killed in the massive initial explosion. Bombardier Lzen (8) and Left Waist Gunner MrBlond (1) are knocked unconscious in the initial blast and ride the plane until it breaks apart at 12,000 feet. They then hurtle to the ground amidst the debris. Engineer Michael Michigan (7) and Tail Gunner UMKC 1L (8) are knocked unconscious in the initial blast and are thrown from the plane through their canopies. They hurtle to the ground as well. Radio Op. DJay23 (8) is thrown out of the plane on fire. He is able to deploy his chute, but it’s also burning. After a long two minutes of being on fire, he finally meets his end when the burning parachute fails. Ball Turret Gunner mlyonsd (8) survives the initial blast, but can’t get out of his ball turret. He rides the plane down until it breaks apart, at which point he is disoriented and doesn’t have a parachute. Right Waist Gunner PennyWise (8) was thrown out of the plane immediately upon the explosion, as his position disintegrated. Stunned and flash-burned, he alertly counts to ten before deploying his chute, and comes to a soft landing on an urban street in the middle of Rotterdam. Dutch citizens mill about to prevent the Germans from reaching the scene, and the Dutch underground grabs him and runs. In the basement of a Rotterdam townhouse, his minor burns are treated by a comely blonde Dutch girl. Over the coming days, he heals quickly, and the girl eventually sneaks him out and lets him plug a hole in a dike with his finger, creating a memory that will last a lifetime. After a week of hiding and planning, the Dutch underground gets him on a ship to Denmark, and from there to Norway, where he crosses by car into the Swedish frontier and hooks up with a supportive cargo ship to England. No bombing run Aftereffects Alas, Sky Chief has become a statistic in this horrible, horrible war. Eligible for next mission Pilot XXX Copilot XXX Bombardier XXX Navigator XXX Engineer XXX Radio Op. XXX Tail Gunner XXX Ball Turret Gunner PennyWise (8), promoted Right Waist Gunner XXX Left Waist Gunner XXX Lost a lot of veterans on that flight. __________________ Active fan of the greatest team in NFL history.
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03-13-2004, 02:22 PM	#54
Rain Man Seize life. Be an ermine. Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: My house Casino cash: $-662449 VARSITY	Egad. This was a rough mission. Two planes down. __________________ Active fan of the greatest team in NFL history.
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03-13-2004, 02:58 PM	#55
Skip Towne Supporter Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: T-Town Casino cash: $10004900	Yeah, getting X'ed out is painful.
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03-13-2004, 03:45 PM	#59
Bowser sorta mod-ish Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: KC North Casino cash: $-188384	Two deaths and a captured on my resume. And I don't think I've even fired my guns yet.
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