Les, what you describe is certainly very possible. It's also much closer to the stories we've all read in memoirs by real pilots of the time.
The inability to keep up with the workload in a combat situation is a big part of why real pilots preferred to play it safe whenever they had the chance, protracted engagements were usually the exception and not the rule as the chance of making a mistake grew the longer the engagement would last.
It will be an absolute blast
