Sang Wilson Actually, the last variant of the Thunderbolt, the P-47N, was designed as an escort fighter for the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers flying raids on the Japanese home islands. As for the B-24, they also served in the Pacific Theatre, most notably in the Soloman Islands and New Guinea campaigns. In the Pacific, the B-24 (and its twin, the U.S. Navy PB4Y Privateer) was eventually designated as the standard heavy bomber to simplify logistics and to take advantage of their longer range, replacing the shorter-range B-17 which had served early in the war along the perimeter of the Pacific from the Philippines, Australia, Espiritu Santo, Guadalcanal, Hawaii, and during the Battle of Midway from Midway Island. The B-24's designation as the standard heavy bomber was replaced by the B-29 Superfortress when bases for their use against Japan were captured. While Australian pilots flew Liberators in other theatres of war, the aircraft was introduced into service in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in 1944, after the American commander of the Far East Air Forces (FEAF) General George C. Kenney suggested that seven heavy bomber squadrons be raised to supplement the efforts of the 380th Bombardment Group of the USAAF. The USAAF helped in the procurement of the aircraft for the RAAF and training of the Australian aircrew members. Seven flying squadrons, an operational training unit and two independent flights were equipped with the aircraft by the end of World War II in August 1945. Liberators remained in service until 1948. The RAAF Liberators saw service in the South West Pacific theatre of World War II. Flying mainly from bases in the Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia the aircraft conducted bombing raids against Japanese positions, ships and strategic targets in New Guinea, Borneo and the Netherlands East Indies. In addition, the small number of Liberators operated by No. 200 Flight played an important role in supporting covert operations conducted by the Allied Intelligence Bureau; and other Liberators were converted to VIP transports. A total of 287 B-24D, B-24J, B-24L and B-24M aircraft were supplied to the RAAF, of which 33 were lost in action with more than 200 Australians killed. Following the Japanese surrender the RAAF's Liberators participated in flying former prisoners of war and other personnel back to Australia.
Hope you release these mods to the public soon. I'll be fun playing with them then watching only. Also, I hope you received that message I've left for your mod 1.1. Hope to hear back soon.
Hello. I'm Tudor and work in the association of art and film "NovaPolaris" in Romania. Currently we gather material for a movie - artistic or documentary, still do not know the final form - about the crash of a B24 bomber during a raid on the city Brasov - Romania (station, hunting aircraft factory) from 16.04.1944. So far we have managed to gather a few testimonials from people who witnessed the event (from the plane were not survivors), photographs of the era, military acts of the time, etc. I needed a few minutes of high resolution video image with the flight of a B24 bomber excadrile. hunting an airplane attack on one of the planes, when a plane load of bombs on a leave forested areas, plane crash after failed landing attempt. If you can help us, I'll give more details on the exact material. Thanks. Tudor
These mods make the campaign in the game more historically accurate. :) In the actual unmodified game, B-17Gs are used, which never happened in real life. B-17's were only used early in the Pacific war.
