European Air War - The Gen

I have now added the information from appendix 77 of the US Stratiegic Bombing Survey (Pacific) which gives the assigned units for the Caroline and Mariana Islands for June 1944.

Let us give thanks for this great bounty

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Hello pobs,

We've got a bit of time here, this addon won't be comming out for a while. Anything I can do to help with the IJN carriers please let me know. I do have some tricks with RS problems.

Roger re. "long leg" FM and agree that's the way to go.

Excellent news pobs!

The campaign setup for the USN squads is currently looking like this: Fighters: VF-10 "Grim Reapers" USS Enterprise 12/2/44 to 3/12/44 Hellcat VF-31 "Flying Meataxes" USS Cabot 12/2/44 to 3/12/44 Hellcat VC-3 USS Kalinin Bay 15/6/44 to 1/11/44 Wildcat VF-2 "Rippers" USS...

Excellent news Kurt. I think you're right about staying with lo-res for the moment. Amongst the squads I thought we might start to pencil in are: VF-15 "Fiughting Aces" on the fleet carrier Essex The highest scorers Saipan through to Leyte Gulf (Hellcats) VF-31 "Flying Meataxes" on the light carrier...

Vertcon3 on the way pobs. I won't put the 3d carriers in just yet, because I don't know what the position is on the "long leg" FM adjustment for all the aircraft involved in the addon. Anyone able to comment on that? Also, any idea when you might be able to move on to the Japanese Fleet and light ca...

Thanks Jurt - this is going to be the difficult one. Seem to very scarce resources, though if we could read Japanese, there seem to be plenty of Japanese-language websites dealing with this.

Hello Kurt, Yes got all that stuff which was very useful and enabled me to put in more bases and towns. I did reply but I seem to have very bad luck with your email address - either I get bounced right away or I've no guaratee that the message has actually arrived. As you can see from the latest new...

Sorted out the apparent multinational problem, that was a glitch in the temporary frontline. I now seem to have virtually all of the bases visible, and am visiting them one by one doing a first cleanup. Proper layout in tardata.dat will come later. First object is to get a world in the planes can ta...

Virtually all of the locations seem to have gone in okay, and it's the tidying up and fine adjustment at the moment, the bases which refuse to activate, the ones on the wrong side of the temporary frontline, the ones which seem to think they have dual nationality, and the ones which didn't quite mak...

I'm currently working on the world files. First rough versions of targets.dat, airfield.dat and griddata.dat are done, now polishing carrier airfield and seaplane base placeholders. Something to look at and experiment with soon.

We can get a pilot career from the CVEs in fact - I See that USS Kalinin Bay CVE 68 with composite squadron VC-3 was escort for the landing forces at Saipan/Tinian, Guam, Palau/Peleiu and part of Taffy III in the thick of the Samar action at Leyte Gulf. Just got to put a few more Escort carrier posi...

This was the organisation of the Taffys: Task Unit 77.4.1 (Taffy I) RADM Thomas L. Sprague COMCARDIV 22 RADM Thomas L. Sprague USS SANGAMON (CVE 26) (Flagship) CAPT M.E. Browder Air Group 37 LCDR S.E. Hindman VF-37 16 F6F-3 & 5 F6F-5 LCDR S.E. Hindmman VT-37 9 TBM-1C LCDR P.G. Farley USS SUWANEE...

Thinking about the escort carriers in the action off Samar with the Japanese Central force during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. We won't be able to make a career for those squads, which still used the late mark Gruman FAFs, but I intend to make one carrier in each of three "Taffys" an active base so tha...