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Lt. Stanley Winfield Vejtasa

TheBookie

TheBookie

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Better know as"Swede Vejtasa".

He was a Dauntless pilot on Yorktown during the Salamaua Raids and got a hit on a Transport.Later at Coral Sea he was jumped by 7 Zeroes,while flying a Dauntless,Destroying 4 of them and damaging a 4th.

October 26,1942 in the Battle of Santa Cruz,while flying a Wildcat of VF-10 ( USS Enterprise ) he shot down 2 Vals that were attacking USS Hornet.Later that day he shot down 5 Kate torpedo planes attacking USS Enterprise and damaging another as his ammo ran out.

That's 10 planes in 2 days.He later got .25 credit for a Mavis.

He was sent back home to train other pilots and never flew in combat again.

Any interest in making missions of his exploits?They could be challenging.

TheBookie
 
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TheBookie,

Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa is an awesome story and would be a great set of missions. I found out about his exploits from the Dogfights Episode "Long Odds."

But you can find a shortened version here:
 
It would probably be 4 or 5 missions.Since I'm on vacation I won't be working on it just yet,I just wanted to get some others thoughts on it.
While I'm working on it I'll be doing the Yorktown Early Raids thru Midway also.


TheBookie
 
His is an amazing story. Ever try shooting down a Zero in a Dauntless? I've tried to emulate him; it is hard as hell to get one, and he got 4 in reality. :dizzy::pop4:
 
Captain Kurt said:
His is an amazing story. Ever try shooting down a Zero in a Dauntless? I've tried to emulate him; it is hard as hell to get one, and he got 4 in reality. :dizzy::pop4:
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He relied more on solid tactics than just trying to match the agility of the Zeroes, as any Wildcat jock would have been tempted to do in the merge. He said that knew that all he had to do was keep the numbers in front of his plane as much as possible.

He basically took the fight out of his gunner's hands and in doing so forced the Zero pilots out of their 'tail-hunting' agility strengths and into losing head to head confrontations, which was a major weakness for the lightly armored Zero. And if they got sloppy and slow in their turns he was a good enough marksman to lead and drop them. He forced them to play his game...

The Dauntless was a lot more robust for taking head shots. One of the reasons for its distinction in having the highest score of all allied planes in tonnage sunk during the ENTIRE war. It could dive vertically out of the sun, take frontal hits from anything between 30 cal to 20mm, deliver its payload and still stand a good chance of getting a crew home as long as it didn't collide with the heavier AAA ordnance.

I have personally attempted to replicate his success with the Dauntless using his tactics against multiple bogies and I can attest that even with the lame flight modeling for the stock Dauntless verses the UFO-like agility of the stock Zero, I still hold an undefeated record.

I just focus on the simple rule of keeping the fight in front of me at all times. If I sense that one is baiting me into pursuit to allow the others to get a tail shot I disengage everything and re-engage to put them all in my windshield again. I then focus first on the one with the stones to take me head-on and secondly on any wide turning target with a long deflection shot. Hit the throttle to zoom out, put everything else behind in pursuit, then quick turn to repeat the process again.
 
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