It was her third victory of the day, though she only got credit for a one-third kill, for Galina and I also got part credit for it. Lilya was an amazing pilot.
“Good shooting, Lilya!”
We formed up to shepherd Tamara home.
“Grandmama?”
“Yes? Oh, child… I’m sorry. I was off in another world.”
Another time.
I pray that our children will not have to see what we have seen, and I fear that Shoura and her friends have already seen too much.
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To recreate the mission
Go to the Quick Mission Builder and set-it-up.
Your Flight:
- Two Spit Mk V-b, skill level Average
- Wing element #1: Yak-1b skill level Ace, use Lilya Litvyak “White 23” skin
- Wing element #2: Yak-1b skill level Veteran
Germans:
- First flight: Two Bf-109G-2, skill level Average
- Second flight: Two Bf-109G-6 (no tank, no wing guns, 20mm center cannon) skill level Ace
Environment:
- Map: Smolensk
- Time: Noon
- Altitude: 3000
- Weather: Good
System Specs
- AMD Athlon 3000+ processor
- MachSpeed N2PAP-Lite motherboard with onboard Aureal AC97 sound
- PNY Technologies Verto NVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti 4600 video card with 128MB DDR
- 1GB Kingston PC2700 DDR DRAM
- Creative 12x CD-ROM
- Maxtor 40GB main drive
- DirectX Version 9.0a
- Windows 2000 with SP4
- Thrustmaster Fox2 Pro USB joystick
