ACES HIGH 3 - WW2 3D Sim Strategy RPG

Modified the “QR” from the Revell Halifax to “OF” for 97 Squadron Lancasters.

617 and 619 Squadrons were formed from leading flights of 97 Squadron RAF.

97 Squadron also took part in the historic Augsburg raid in 1942. This was the first and last time the RAF tried using Lancasters at low level in daylight. Having said this, Jonnie Johnson witnessed a Lancaster pilot buzzing the Caen road below 2000 feet on D-Day, such was the air superiority and numbers of escorts.

OF-Z belonged to at least three Lancasters during WW2.

Avro Lancaster I R5497 - shot down on a mission to Neustadt on 1942-12-18

Avro Lancaster III ND739 - shot down. Mission to Normandy Beach 1944-6-6

Avro Lancaster III ME623 - Mission to Brussels from Brussels 1945-5-10

1. Sinking an aircraft carrier 2. Landing in enemy territory to hide. 3. Heavy Flak

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The “Ye Olde Pub” incident. Enemy out of ammo, vectoring in other enemy to my position, but it is reminiscent of the Franz Steigler and Charlie Brown encounter in WW2:

The view of Airfield 65 from the tower. 

The end of a successful B29 mission against city industrial targets. 

I was chuffed with downing 2 enemy fighters and delivering significant damage to the city industrial quarter and anti-aircraft factory. A third enemy followed me home, shooting down one B29, with a second wounded pilot bailing over Airfield 65 at 28,000 feet. 

Anti-aircraft fire took out the last defender. Another two or three fighters engaged me during the mission, but broke off their attacks possibly due to damage, fuel, ammo or score issues.

Boeng B-29s on a mission to Knight country’s industrial targets...

The B-29, when it is available, carries even more than Lancasters, with a mixture of remote control and human-held guns in unusual turret positions and a huge amount of lethal 20mm and .50in ammunition. The perfect long range strategic weapon in the game.

Once you’ve practiced the unusual turret positions and the wide turning circle of the B-29, it’s a formidable weapon delivering the biggest punch of all, bomb loads include 40 x 500lb or 4 x 4k cookies among others available.

The B29 is not plagued by the real life engineering and development problems faced in WW2, so it can flatten a factory or a town from 31,000 if need be,  although it is best kept high up away from kill-hungry fighter jockeys and where it can reach speeds of over 350-400mph, proving a tough challenge for defenders.