IL2: Forgotten Battles / Pacific Fighters by Ubisoft

The Battle of Britain - Hurricane Season campaign missions are pulled from actual daily events and reports from July 10th through August 31st. While the missions follow a fictional character (you), some of the names and people are real. The locations, aircraft and Squadrons, (British and German) are as accurate as possible.

This program will allow you to compare data from aircraft in the IL-2 series of flight simulators side-by-side. You are not currently able to do this with the in-game object viewer.

A historically based camapign flown as VVS ace Lilya Litvak.
 
Installation: Just run the installer it should find your IL-2 directory automatically.
 
Compatible with IL-2/FB/PF 4.04m
 
Features:
42 missions
10 historically informative tracks
 
Some features I included in this update:
- More air traffic
- Heaps more ground objects
- Landing objectives (you pass the mission if you land back at a friendly base)
- airbase activity, you'll notice once operation Uranus begins there's a lot going on including aircraft maintenance, loading operations, refuelling and re-arming.
- More surprises. ooo goodie surprises!... actually you might not like some of these ones
 
Overall the difficulty is not high as all you really have to do is get back to base, stop on the ground and not be dead.
 
Feedback appreciated. You can find me at www.kiwisim.net.nz
 
Enjoy. Neil.

These are American pilot speech files taken from the sim "Jane's WWII Fighters" by Electronic Arts (1998) and then reformatted and renamed to be audible in "IL-2 Forgotten Battles," "Ace Expansion Pack" or
"Pacific Fighters" by 1C:Maddox Games.
 
Most of the commands/phrases used in FB and PF have equivalent samples in Jane's WWII Fighters. With some creative adaptaptations I was able
to replace nearly all of the speech files used by the US 'flight leader' character and some of the files used by the bomber pilots.
 
Being that Jane's WWII Fighters was an European Theater of Operations themed simulation (it was set in the Ardennes 1944/45), these speech files may be thoroughly inaccurate for other theaters, namely the Pacific. I tried to avoid speech files that directly reference the Luftwaffe as the enemy.

This is a 22 sortie linear campaign for the Hawker Tempest. It runs from June 1944 until May 1945. Think you can survive your last tour of ops on this beast? Think flak trap and think again!

Richard Ira Bong
 
Just over the Wisconsin border from Illinois is the most stolen sign in America. It reads Bong Recreation Area. 99% of the people you ask will have no idea who or what the area is named after. It's a shame that the greatest fighter pilot America has ever produced is all but forgotten and his name has become a joke.
 
This is just my attempt to educate a small number of you as to the life and times of Richard Ira Bong, America's Ace of Aces. His record 40 kills in the Pacific Theater will never be surpassed. This unlikely farm boy from Poplar Wisconsin became a super star and then faded into the history books. He deserves more than 15 min of fame.
 
I have recreated all of Bong's successful missions. If you equal or surpass Bong's record with all the realism options turned on without do overs and without using the auto pilot you have accomplished a major feat and should be proud of your simulated flying skill.
 
The folder BongCampaign goes in the US folder that is in the Campaign folder that is in the mission folder.
The folder BongSingle goes in the US folder that is in the Single folder that is in the mission folder.
The P38J, P38L and P38L_Late folders go in the skins folder that is in the PaintSchemes folder.
 
This campaign is complex and requires a powerfull computer and video card. It was done with IL2FB+PF Combined Install version 4.02.
 
I have tried to recreate as accurately as possible the circumstances faced by Dick Bong in his 2 year onslaught of the Japanese armed forces. I have had to use different maps because many of the areas that Bong fought in are not represented in the game yet. Areas such as Northern New Guinea, Rabal, Borneo, the Philippine Islands of Negros, Mindoro and Leyte have not been modeled yet. I have found very similar areas on other maps that fit the bill however. By using the southern part of New Guinea I was able to recreate the Lae area farther to the north; by using the Singapore map I could recreate similar conditions to the Philippine islands etc. I think you will get the feel of the historical area and conditions.
 
Three books were instrumental in providing the historical facts for this endeavor...
 
Ace of Aces, The Dick Bong Story - Written by Carl Bong and Mike O'connor
Dear Mom So We Have A War by Carl Bong
Dick Bong Ace of Aces by Gen. George Kenney
 
Carl Bong is Dick Bong's brother and Gen. Kenney was Dick's commanding officer. I have copied major parts of the "descriptions" from these books. I am not a writer but I do know how to copy well. The first mission is from the Kokoda Campaign for Pacific Fighters by VBF_80 and the skins are all modifications of other people's painstaking work the most notable being "Marge" by Richard Mutt or RMutt. I couldn't have done this project without the jump start these artists provided.
 
I wish to apologize for the racial epithets used to describe the Japanese race. This was the language of the times and the quotes are verbatim. I'm sorry if they cause any discomfort. I do not mean to offend, just to be historically accurate with my quotes.
 
There are a few fun missions. One where you take off at night and try and get Washing Machine Charlie as Bong tried to do a few times... Another where you get into a dogfight in a SBD against a float plane... One where you have a mock dog fight with a P47 as Bong did while on leave... and the last one where you try and complete the only mission that Dick Bong could not.
 
Add all you want but please dont change the basic facts of the missions. The research is pretty good. If you do put the plane on autopilot, you will encounter all the bogies that Dick Bong shot down.
 
Oh yeah, by the way, did you know who Bong was before you read this?

An I-185-M82 skinned to look similar to the Italian Re-2002 "Ariete"

A MBR-2 skinned to look similar to the Italian Cant Z.501

From a R-10, here's a skin for the Breda Ba.65, Italian attack plane.

This is my version of no.226sqn prior to D-Day. The pack comtains 14 skins both camo and solid green. Some of the markings are off due to the differences between the J and C B25's. Hope you like them anyway
 
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This plane belonged to the 10(N) - Moskito - JG300. This gruppen was devoted to Mosquitos night interception. The plane was located at Juteborg in October-November 1944.
 
The zip file also includes twon nomark skin (with and without swastikas).

Following a number of requests, here is a BW 393 Maj.Eino Luukkanen at Römpötti, November 42. 56
 
BW-370 Lt. Aulis Lumme Spring 43.16+1
 
BW-375 Maj. Eino Luukkanen Nurmoila Sept 41.
 
BE-356 Lt.Lasse Pekuri Tiiksjärvi January 42. 18+1
 
Lentolaivue 24.
 
LOTS OF INFO AND SOME PICS INSIDE.
 
Thanks to Josef for sending me the label.

Ki-84
Unit: 102nd sentai
Serial: 85
Okinawa, 1944.
 
 
Ki-84-Ko Silver
Unit: unknown
Serial: unknown
 
Ki-84-I-ko
Unit: 1st chutai, 102nd sentai
Serial: 8
Kyushu, Japan, April 1945.
 
Ki-84
Unit: unknown
Serial: 36
No additional information
 
The Ki-84 proved faster than the P-51D Mustang and the P-47D Thunderbolt at all but the highest altitudes. At medium altitudes, the FRANK was so fast that it was essentially immune from interception. The climb rate was exceptionally good, 16,400 feet being attained in 5 minutes 54 seconds, which was superior to that of any opposing Allied fighters.

6M5 "ZERO"52
flown by Ensign Sadaaki Akamatsu of the 203rd Naval Flying Group at Yokosuka in 1944.
Mitsubishi A6M2/N "RUFE"
954 Flight Regiment.Pilot:Eitoku Matsunaga.
Bandan Sea/Ambon Island,Sept.. 1943.

BF 110 G2? LN+TR Oblt.Karl Schlosstein.Luftlotte 5.
Northern Finland 1943.(RLM 74,75,76)
BF 110 C1 LN+ZR(WNr0965).Vaasa, Finland. March 1943.JG 5.(RLM 65.70,71.02)
BF 110 F2 VE+VZ.Malmi Airport,Helsinki.(74,75,76 under White- i guess)
January 1943.

NAKAJIMA B5N2. Capt. Matsuzaki./Com.Fuchita./Radio op.Norinobu. Was the original crew of AI-301 on AKAGI 1941.
Same aeroplane later and badly sripped,Carrier Akagi,Indian Sea 1942.

FW.190A-5/U-12 Unit: 2.I./JG11 (W.Nr.410266) Piloted by Leutnant Erich Hondt. Husum, Schleswig-Holstein,Germany, Early 1944. The rudder shows 10 victory marks. I used jesters excellent template (Many Thanks Jester), theres two versions of this aircraft Weathered & Unweathered each version has a Marked, unmarked, & Marked without swastika, 6 skins in total,Bright finished...buglord

KI-43 HAYABUSAS .MORE INFO
IN ZIP. NINE DIFFERENT CAMOS.
All History based Not from my
Stetson.

I-100-I-KO. 244. Squadron.serial 177.
Pilot unknown.
 
Ki-100-Ia
Unit: 3rd chutai, 18th sentai
Serial: unknown,Pilot unknown.
Kashiwa. Spring, 1945
 
The new machine was really a terror: during its first combat above Okinawa, a group of Ki-100 could destroy 14 Hellcat without losses. They were engaged later against the B-29 above Japan until the last days of the war.

B-25 J White "17 " Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment "Sevastopol'skiy"

Iraqi Bf-110.
 
Germans gave some of their planes to support the revolt in Iraq during the spring of 1941. Among these aircrafts they donated also some Bf-110 D3, that we don't have in the game, so I used the G-2 version (wich is flyable btw) to make the generic skin of the aircrafts of the 4/ZG76 that were operative from the Al-Rashyd airbase.

Iraqi air force Gloster Gladiator
 
Based on the Pavlac's template, here's an unusual skin for one of my favorite birds: the Gloster Gladiator, in middle-east skin.
 
Full markings on.

R-10 as a Iraqi Breda Ba.65
 
I've used the R-10 to substitute the Breda Ba.65s used by Iraqi air force during the revolt of 1941.
 
The aircrafts are quite similar in shape, performance and armament (well, actually the Breda was slightly superior in performance and armament, and surely less ugly in shape).
 
The skin has full markings on.

FW.190A-5/U-12 Unit: 2.I./JG11 (Red Version) (W.Nr.410266) Piloted by Leutnant Erich Hondt. Husum, Schleswig-Holstein,Germany, Early 1944. The rudder shows 10 victory marks. This is version 2 of this skin the red stripe version. I used jesters excellent template (Many Thanks Jester), & also many thanks to Monguse who kindly sent me his version for me to work off. Theres two versions of this aircraft Weathered & Unweathered each version has a Marked, unmarked, & Marked without swastika, 6 skins in total,Bright finished...buglord

This is skin of Hurricane MkIb from British Navy in 1942.