2 variants of the same coop mission, one using A20 as bombers, the others with B25 instead.
 
You are ordered to attack the Karulha Finnish Air Force base. Will you do it ???
 
Comes complete, with skins.
 
Thanks to the skinners !!!

Online-COOP for up to 29 players.
Pacific coop mission built around Slimbo99's River A6m2-n base. Stunning visuals to justify a unique scenario as USN hunts for a secret IJN float plane base which has been plaguing shipping and patrols.
 
Flyable planes include:
(8) A6M2-n, (2) Ki-43-1a, (2) Ki-43-1c, (4) SBD-3 & (4) gunner seats, (9) F4F-3 Wildcats.......IJA/IJN planes will not fly as AI, all USN will.
 
Scenario:
Secret A6M2-n base has been tearing up shipping and attacking patrols for a month. Efforts to find it so sea forces can pound it into oblivion have been for naught all till this morning.
 
At the far end of a dawn patrol a PBN escorted by wildcats spots brush burning activities on a small island, unfortunately out of radio range for the fleet. Contacting a parallel group of SBD's and Wildcats to the south, the two groups converge to investigate.
 
IJN base is alerted by distant spotters of the incoming flights, unfortunately, smudge pot bouy's are lit, and their planes are being prepped for the mornings missions, some fully loaded for long flights, others empty yet scramble to intercept.
 
On a nearby Island a IJA Ki-43 refit station is alerted to assist, unfortunately it is not an air base. Planes offloaded by ship and refit there yet 4 ready to fly try to scramble to assist using the roads of the fishing village to launch from.
 
Communication and teamwork a must on both sides as the advantage tilts back and forth between teams. The PBN must reach radio range to repot its findings as the IJN scramble to down it, and simply wound USN planes to keep their tale from returning to the carrier as well.
 
Version 1.0, in pack 1.1 otw, (3) versions will be included.
1.1a as stands.
1.1b with loadouts set to be flown as only a full coop finalizing the scenario.
1.1c with loadouts set yet IJN/IJA planes out of hangars so they may launch as AI.

A Tidal Wave Strikes Ploesti v1
 
The Ploesti Raid took place on Sunday, August 1, 1943. 7 refineries in and near the city were producing 35% of
 
Germany's oil and av-gas, its defenses had been bolstered accordingly.
 
Winston Churchill is credited with observing that "in war, nothing ever goes according to plan except occasionally,
 
and then by accident."
 
B-24 Bombers entered into a maelstrom of ground fire, Although damage to the target was heavy, the cost was high. Of
 
177 planes and 1,726 men who took off on the mission, 54 planes and 532 men failed to return. The operation resulted
 
in the awarding of 5 Medals of Honor, 3 of them posthumously - the most ever awarded for a single action.
 
MISSION DATE: Sunday, August 1, 1943
GAME REQUIREMENT: IL2-FB-PF 3.04m
GAME TYPE: CO-OP up to 12 players
MISSION TYPE: Air Intercept
FLYABLE PLANES: Bf-109G2, Bf-110G2, IA-80c
FLIGHT TO TARGET TIME: 5-15 minutes
MISSION INFORMATION: This mission by JR "Big Daddy" Jacobs

"D-Day Targets of Opportunity"
Three historical missions of D-Day,
1) P-38 CAP of the beaches,
2) P-47's stopping 22nd SS Panzer and Panzer Lehr Divisions trains South of Caen
3) A-20 attacking the Rail marshalling yards at Le Havre
 
1944 June 6 D-DAY - on a foggy overcast day the Allies land at Normandy. Field Marshal Rommel was of the firm belief that the only way to defeat an invasion was to counterattack the beaches as early as possible with armour.
 
Two hours before the seaborne landings began, Field Marshal von Rundstedt ordered the two reserve panzer divisions available for counterattack in Normandy, the 12th SS Panzer and Panzer Lehr, to move immediately toward Caen. He did so on the basis of an intuitive judgment that the airborne landings were on such a large scale that they could not be a mere deception maneuver and would have to be reinforced from the sea. The only place such landings could come in lower Normandy were on the Calvados and Cotentin coasts. He wanted armor there to meet the attack.
 
von Rundstedt's reasoning was sound, his action decisive, his orders clear.
 
But the panzer divisions were not under his command. They were in OKW reserve. To save precious time, von Rundstedt first ordered them to move out, then requested OKW approval. OKW did not approve. At 0730 Jodi informed von Rundstedt that the two divisions could not be committed until Hitler gave the order, and Hitler was still sleeping. von Rundstedt had to countermand the move-out order. Hitler slept until noon
 
Hitler's mistrust of his generals and the generals' mistrust of Hitler greatly assisted the Allies. So were Hitler's sleeping habits, as well as his Wolkenkuckucksheim ideas.
 
The two panzer divisions spent the morning waiting. There was a heavy overcast; they could have moved out free from serious interference from Allied aircraft. It was 1600 when Hitler at last gave his approval. By then the clouds had broken up and Allied fighters and bombers ranged the skies over Normandy, smashing anything that moved.
 
 
MISSION DATE: Sunday, TUESDAY, 6 JUNE 1944
GAME REQUIREMENT: IL2-FB-PF 3.04m
GAME TYPE: CO-OP up to 12 players
MISSION TYPE: Air Intercept
FLYABLE PLANES: P38L, P-47D-27,A-20, Fw-190A8
FLIGHT TO TARGET TIME: 10 minutes
MISSION INFORMATION: This mission by JR "Big Daddy" Jacobs

Marauders at Midway v1
 
June 4th, 1942 0710 hrs
Flying from Midway, four B-26s of the 69th Bombardment Squadron are sent to attack the Japanese fleet. Each plane carries one fish, hanging from its belly.
 
Heading through the tracers, they spy the Akagi.
 
"The whole world was on fire, the only place that wasn't was across the deck of that carrier". At a height of only 15 feet, Muri flew down the deck of the Akagi. He feels too close to the enemy to be shot at. But Muri goggles at Akagi's battle flag, snapping from her mast. He has seen the blazing Rising Sun flag in newsreels, but never in real life. Now it?s the biggest thing he's ever seen.
 
Muri pulls out surrounded by Zeros. The Japanese tear up the B-26, Cpl. Mello staggers into the cockpit, and says "The plane's on fire and everybody's hit back there." Co-pilot Moore rushes back with a fire extinguisher to douse the blaze. Then he gives sulfa powder, and mans a gun.
 
MISSION DATE: June 4th, 1942 0710 hrs
GAME REQUIREMENT: IL2-FB-PF 3.04m
GAME TYPE: CO-OP up to 12 players
MISSION TYPE: Air Intercept
FLYABLE PLANES: A-20 (B-26), A6M2-21, SBD-3
FLIGHT TO TARGET TIME: 10 minutes
MISSION INFORMATION: This mission by JR "Dig Daddy" Jacobs

AtlanticMartlet
 
Mission for FB-AEP-PF merged.
 
Unzip un a temporary folder and copy-paste the content of the "AtlanticMartlet" (content is 2 folders : Missions and PaintSchemes) directly in your FB-AEP-PF merged install upon the
old datas.
 
Content :
 
-1 mission (in 3 different meteo levels to increase difficulty) for a Grumann Martlet fighter,
-all the necessary skins (2).
 
Mission in the middle of the Atlantic to protect a convoy.
 
In the hardest version (bad weather), look out and pay attention !
 
It shakes !!!
 
All for a good ambient...
 
Once this little pack installed, to play :
 
-launch the game in single player mode,
-choose Royal Havy (RN),
-search for the"Martlet"
-choose one of the three versions of the mission "Shoot down the enemy intruder !!!"
 
and voilà !!!
 
Take off and landing in the hardest version (bad weather) are... well... very "sport" !!!
 
Have a good flight !!!
 
 
 
 
Gaston/May 24 2005

In early July 1942, Britain's desert forces checked Rommel's advance and held him at El Alamein, just 150 miles from Cairo. Rommel's forces are getting only 6,000 tons a month, one-fifth of what they need. RAF planes and Royal Navy submarines from Malta are sending three-quarters of all convoys to the bottom
 
Rommel had set 26 August 1942 as the date to begin his final thrust to Cairo, but that day came and went with no German movement: Rommel's mechanized forces were held up for lack of fuel.
 
Two Tankers were on their way across the Mediterranean, but both were sunk.
 
Rommel was desperate and in the early morning of August 30 he appealed for fuel and was promised that another tanker, the San Andrea, would set out from Italy at once, under heavy escort. He decided to launce the attack that night knowing that he would need the 5,000 tons of fuel on the San Andreas to maintain his offensive.
 
Later that same morning, a British reconnaissance aircraft spotted a destroyer-escorted vessel steaming just off-shore along the inside tip of the heel of Italy. Overhead was a heavy Axis air umbrella that included a Ju-88 and seven Macchi fighters.
 
On battered Malta RAF Squadron Leader R.P.M. "Pat" Gibbs studied the reconnaissance pilot's report. Seeing that the ship's seaward side was protected by the destroyer, he decided that the best angle of attack would be from the Italian mainland itself. At 11:45 a.m. Gibbs led a force of nine Beauforts and nine Beaufighters down the runway and into the air.
 
Flying some two miles over the mainland, they banked and roared back toward the sea. The Beaufighters led the formation, fending off the Macchis, clearing a path for the torpedo planes. Gibbs, in the lead Beaufort, streaked low toward his target until he could read its name, San Andrea. Finally as the tanker loomed large before him, he dropped his torpedo from 500 yards and lifted over the ship, missing it's mast by inches. The San Andrea lurched in the water and exploded in a thundering ball of smoke and flame.
 
Deprived of his promised fuel supply, Rommel had to call off his offensive; on September 2 he ordered his mechanized columns to retreat.
 
MISSION DATE: SUNDAY, 30 August 1942
GAME REQUIREMENT: IL2-FB-PF 3.04m
GAME TYPE: CO-OP up to 12 players
MISSION TYPE: Air Intercept
FLYABLE PLANES: Beaufighter, Fiat CR-42
FLIGHT TO TARGET TIME: 8 minutes
MISSION INFORMATION: This mission by JR "Big Daddy" Jacobs

background for the Marine campaign .works in V3.04 combined and standalone.from only picture of original cadre of VMF-124 Guadalcanal, Feb 1943,F4U is in photo not F4F.Gunrunner81@hotmail.com