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    Panzer rollen in Afrika vor!

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    By 33LIMA, Panzer rollen in Afrika vor!
    Steel Fury joins the Deutsches Afrika Korps!       Graviteam's tanksim Steel Fury - Kharkov 1942, as its name indicates, started out limited to the Eastern front, about a year into 'The Great Patriotic War' between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. However, thanks to the efforts of modders you can now travel a bit further afield in time and space! This mission report is set in the sim's original time frame. But for a battlefield, we're bidding adieu to the Steppes and are off instead to t

    CA-WW1 - the Roland Walfisch

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    By 33LIMA, CA-WW1 - the Roland Walfisch
    Spotting for the Gunners in the LFG Roland C II!   In an air war notable for the sheer variety of planes of all shapes and sizes that made it to the front, the LFG Roland C II must be one of the most distinctive, if not also one of the most attractive. 'Truely, this aircraft is a whale!' was the reaction of one of the German procurement people who came to see what they'd be getting for their reichsmarks, giving the Walfisch its enduring nick-name. But it was also one of the most advanced aircr

    Steel Fury - King Tiger!

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    By 33LIMA, Steel Fury - King Tiger!
    Going to war with the ultimate predator - the Koenigstiger heavy tank!     For this mission reports, it's back to terra firma - speficically, to the snowy wastes of the Russian Front in World War Two. Our hosts are Graviteam, in the form of their excellent tank simulator Steel Fury - Kharkov 1942. The 'Kharkov 1942' bit of the title is now pretty well redundant, as modders have greatly extended the scope of the sim, not least into North Africa and with many later-war AFVs...including the t

    CA-WW1 - the French and the Yanks 2

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    By 33LIMA, CA-WW1 - the French and the Yanks 2
    The other nationalities in Wings Over Flanders Fields   Part 2 - the US Army Air Service The plane For this WOFF campaign mission with the US Army Air Service, I should perhaps have chosen the SPAD XIII, instead of 'yet another Nieuport'. But this Nieuport is different. For starters, the Nieu.28 has been one of my personal favourites, from the mid-1960s when I built Revell's little 1/72 kit in their new range of WW1 fighters, great models for their day, with classic Brian Knight box art.

    CA-WW1 - the French and the Yanks

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    By 33LIMA, CA-WW1 - the French and the Yanks
    The other nationalities in Wings Over Flanders Fields   Part 1 - the French air service    I can't do a biography-based mission report for the US and French sides as I only have memoirs by British and German pilots. But for the sake of completeness, I'm going to do a separate pair of  mission reports in Wings Over Flanders Fields, one flying for the Aéronautique Militaire, the other for the US Army Air Service. First up, it's the French service, flying the little Nieuport 11, aptly nicknam

    Desert Storm - Mission 09 - Highway of Death

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    By beachav8r, Desert Storm - Mission 09 - Highway of Death
    One of the major events that occurred late in the war was the near total destruction of Iraqi forces retreating from Kuwait. The carnage on the "Highway of Death" is cited as one of the primary reasons the war was soon brought to a close because the Coalition thought international support would waiver with continued decimation of the Iraqi Army. Senior military leaders agree that it was important to destroy Saddam's retreating military hardware. Later investigation would show only a quarter or l

    CA-WW1 - Wings of War

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    By 33LIMA, CA-WW1 - Wings of War
    Flying the famous Fokker D VII in another WOFF campaign mission inspired by a World War One classic!   The man and the book  I believe Rudolph Stark's 'Wings of War' was first published, in English at any rate, in 1933. It was translated by Claude W Sykes, described by Norman Franks as 'among the better aviation writers of the period' in his introduction to a recent reprint of Sykes's 'German War Birds', written under the pen-name 'Vigilant' and one of my favourite WW1 air war books from m

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