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OK TrackIR with hat clip 5 0b Cpu Intel 920 dual core 2.8G RAM Corsair 4G 800mhz ATI HD5770 1G 17" IBM 5x4 aspect flat screen monitor On board sound 550W PSU3 Windows XP 32 bit SP3 BH&h HITR 1.47 Settings as per OFF recommendations Sliders 4-2-2-4-1 No jaggies.Slight stutter occasionally in furball

Yes Barkhorn. I and my unit were strafed by a couple of Hien in the Markham Valley in New Guinea in 1943 and they were in fact reported in the daily sitrep as Me109s.They went over at about 300ft and were gone in a flash

Well I gave the other WW1 flight sim a whirl some months ago but uninstalled it after a few disappointments.Today after reading of the wonders the new patches had wrought I tried to give it another go.After a five hour install and downloads session the blasted thing refused to load but blandly advised me that an uninstall and reinstall may solve the problem.Another five hours!!! The bloody thing is now where it belongs and I remain a sadder but wiser old man.

Excellent.Great head-on attacks.

Boy!You blokes never rest do you?Download and install couldn't have been easier.Many thanks to the team.I'm just about to give it a whirl.Cheers

Happy Birthday Wid from the other end of the world and many more of them

Or perhaps a retired WW1 officer granted a WW2 commission in the Home Guard?

The only experience I have of crashing back to Briefing Screen on a few occasions was cured by clicking on "Reset CFS3 Files".I lost all my pilots and some settings but it cured the crash.I am running an Intel D915 which is barely adequate.

Of course all troops committed atrocities.War itself is an atrocity.But just take the case of taking prisoners.In jungle warfare--and that is the only type I know anything about--consider the case of a platoon that has taken four wounded Japanese prisoners,and the wounded were the only Japanese prisoners likely to be taken.How to get them back?The nearest back area is probably six or eight difficult hours trek back.With two teams of four men to a litter that means thirty two men away from the company for maybe 8 to 16 hours.That is the entire platoon!So they are "disposed" of.Neither side took any significant number of prisoners.And the poor devils that were given the job had to live with the fact for the rest of their lives.

What a find Lou!Thank you very much for alerting us to this gem.I look forward to hours of pleasure reading the books.Thanks again

Joined the Australian Army from school and served five years in WW2.Just a rifleman,made corporal three times and was still discharged as a private.Must have been doing something wrong.Most of my active service was in New Guinea but was attached to the US army for twelve months in the Philippines.On discharge, having no trade, I took a course in photography and that's what I worked at until I retired 25 years ago.Self employed most of the time.

My first flight was in an Avro Trainer in 1938.After the war a few of my mates were ex-Raaf pilots and I put in quite a few hours with them, as passenger of course but with some hours unofficial stick time.They were all total loonies.

Military History with Napoleonic era a special interest,WW1 a close second.Sailed most of my life but gave it up about three years ago. Since moving to a veterans retirement village I find shooting the breeze with other old and very old vets wastes a lot of my time.Collect army colour patches but the collection is still rather small.

True Bullethead, true.Many a time we were very grateful for arty support,but there were the odd occasions when we wished they would shove their bloody guns where the sun doesn't shine.But on the whole we were generally civil to the gunners.And despite all that the arty could do, in the end it was some some poor loony with a rifle and bayonet who had to plod in and occupy the position.

We all make our mistakes don't we Siggi?Queens Own, eh?I had a mate who served as a subaltern with them in WW2.And very proud of them he was too. He didn't consider my mob [Aust.Imperial Force] were real soldiers at all.

Good for you RAF Louvert.You must have racked up quite a few hours.You sound a very wise man.Strange isn't it, all that marching in training, whilst in action we walked [or ran].Much more relaxing.Cheers

Good God,the site is full of drop-shorts.Were there no infanteers in yout armies?Surely some of you must have marched at some time. Let's hear it for the footsloggers.

Thanks Fates.Great to be home again.And newly decorated too!

To anyone interested in WW1 Western Front infantry activity I can thoroughly recommend the novel The Middle Parts of Fortune by Frederick Manning. You won't be able to put it down.

Well i have finally graduated to DID.My best pilot is at 7 hours with 6 kills but his(my) gunnery accuracy is an appalling 7%.If in QC I get 12 or 14 percent hits I am well above my overall average.Does anyone have an idea what constitutes a reasonable gunnery accuracy percentage?

Being in my dotage I needed a name I could remember for longer than an hour and a half.At the time I owned a sailboat of which I was very fond.The class she belonged to was Hood 23 so that was it.

Oh dear.Sorry all

25% appears to be about right for for a good marksman.Both you and uncleal quote that figure.Most really good marksman seem to shoot by instinct rather than by science.I wonder how 25% would stack up in real life.No way of knowing but an interesting thought.Thanks for your tips Olham.I can see hours of practice looming. 25% appears to be about right for for a good marksman.Both you and uncleal quote that figure.Most really good marksman seem to shoot by instinct rather than by science.I wonder how 25% would stack up in real life.No way of knowing but an interesting thought.Thanks for your tips Olham.I can see hours of practice looming. 25% appears to be about right for for a good marksman.Both you and uncleal quote that figure.Most really good marksman seem to shoot by instinct rather than by science.I wonder how 25% would stack up in real life.No way of knowing but an interesting thought.Thanks for your tips Olham.I can see hours of practice looming.

Broadside uda Barn.Please accept my apologies for misspelling your name.Haste makes mistakes.

Thanks for the tips uncleal.I too suffer from aged eyes but I don't think I can blame my abyssmal shooting entirely on that.25% would be marvellous for me.I think I might make 12 to 15 my immediate aim. I don"t use a FFB stick. Broadside uda Ba. Hit percentage can be seen after each QC in the squadron debrief.Each pilot's dossier shows his aggregate hit score. Cheers all.