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It is August 1942, and the 8th Airforce of the USA is ready to take the fight to the Germans. Despite British advice the Americans have decided to use daylight precision bombing to bring the Nazi war industry to its knees, thinking that close formations of its heavy bombers will be able to defend themselves against any Luftwaffe attack. Also new American fighters like the P38 Lightning and P47 Thunderbolt will equip the fighter squadrons to escort the bombers – you will be one of these fighter pilots.
You start your flying with the 4th Fighter Group (FG) but are then sent to join the 56th FG which has just arrived from the USA and needs some pilots with operational experience to help get them ready for operations with the new P47 Thunderbolt. Under the inspirational leadership of its CO Hubert Zemke, the 56th help devise many of the fighter tactics used by 8th Fighter Command, and by the end of the war, ‘ Zemkes Wolfpack’ as it was dubbed had shot down more enemy aircraft than any other FG in the ‘Mighty Eighth’ and was the only unit in the 8th to use the P47 for the duration of the war.
The campaign starts in Aug 1942 as the 4th FG flies its first escort missions using British Spitfires, and finishes in Mar 1944 with the 56th FG after ‘Big Week’ and the attacks on Berlin.
Special thanks to 9th_Simplex for his superb P47 skins – made especially for this campaign. Thanks also to Canon for allowing the use of his fantastic skins for most of the German aircraft used and a few allied skins as well, and to Team Normandie for their Normandy map template.
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