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Douglas A-20G Boston, A28-52 DU-C of No 22 Sqn., RAAF This A-20G was delivered in June 1944 and served with the Squadron until it was badly damaged at Morotai on 22 November 1944. It was subsequently written off and reduced to spares. Note the larger diameter fuselage roundel proportions. This A-20G was possibly painted in the field with the original Olive Drab being painted over with RAAF Foliage Green whilst still retaining its Neutral Gray undersides. I have included a generic version with selectable Bort letters. Link: TBD

A-20G Havoc ser. no.43-9521 nicknamednamed "LITTLE CHIEF" of the 321st BS, 90th BG "Jolly Rogers", New Guinea. Nicknamed "Little Chief" with the nose art of a woman wearing a leather jacket with a 90th Bomb Group patch, her legs resting on boxes stenciled "Gin Cairns" and her head on a parachute with "521" below her arm. This A-20 was used as a "fat cat" for flight from New Guinea to Australia for fresh food and alcohol, essentially a beer run hack. Why Little Chief? The B 24 in the same bomber group, was Big Chief. I have included a generic version without the Little Chief nose art. Not historically correct since the Jolly Rogers were pretty much a B-24 squadron but who doesn't like a shiny, bare aluminum aircraft. Link: TBD

In case anyone isn't aware I'm posting this here in our forum. This has also been posted numerous places. See it here at the IL2 Sturmovik Great Battles forum: https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/85881-jg1-is-proud-to-present-the-next-acme-event-aces-over-crimea/ All JG1 members are highly encouraged to participate, if able and interested but participation is in no way mandatory. ACME Discord server: https://discord.gg/QcQ2AcwZhz

I was at a supermarket for shopping today and noticed smoke trails over San Francisco. It was the Blue Angels performing for our local fleet week. Of course, I was mesmerized and watched from the balcony which had an excellent view. The performance box was about 12 miles away. What really struck me was the intensity of the canopy glints (it might also have been reflections on the gloss paint scheme that the Blues have). It was like high intensity strobelights going off. None of the sims that we fly reflect this as far as I know. Cliffs of Dover did to some extent. I've flown in RL for many years but never really pay'd attention to this phenomena and can't remember anything this impressive. This was intense.

The second post (by @k98_zock_tv47) in the comments section in Youtube pretty much sums up my feelings. Paraphrased: "Anyway, nowadays the game becomes a dogfight simulator only. There are only few servers which are playable and to be honest - they are not that good either. Nor Finnish is realistic and certainly not the warm up server called Wings of Liberty. You want to play exclusivly only on Rheinmald / Normandy ? Go than for Combat Box. You want P38 Lightnings over Stalingrad and a ground target cluster with tank garages? Go than for Finnish. You want to never fly with your buddies together? Play on TAW, if you get a seat there. On which server, beside on TAW (all 2-3 months if you are lucky and the crew did not just split up) can you fly during night - at cloud overcast of 400m during a snow storm? Nowhere, right? Flying the old prop planes is more than just a sunny safari without clouds. Its more than dogfighting. Ground attackers and bombers did not got big love - not from the devs, not from the server creators. There are no events, not a dedicated very good server from the developers, in fact - they should care with such a MP server for the community." DCS suffers from this in WWII and Cold War also and the minimum amounts of WWII and Redfor Cold War planes is also stifling robust multiplayer. For IL2, the fact that the Devs haven't been posting regular news isn't such a big deal for me. I'm okay to wait until there is concrete news. There have been regular patches with new content. I have no idea how affected SP is on the whole but SP people are also complaining on the forums. The decline in players may also be due to the fact that both games are well past middle age at this point. EDIT: Enigma makes good points about the two Mission Editors. We have several people in JG1 who can make missions for DCS (in various levels of complexities according to skill levels / experience) but currently only one in IL2 due to it's super steep learning curve.

Nice!

Another one

Here's a first draft. I make no claims to being a graphic designer and have no sense for fonts so I am completely open to suggestions.

Here's a bunch of screenshots that I took from last night's recordings. I've reduced them in size for posting here. I'll be choosing a few to further work on in Photoshop. Any thoughts?

Another A-20G: https://forum.dcs.world/topic/334132-a-20g-skins-update/#comment-5296810

I saw this in our Discord in Schmenkel #cw-notams. A Google search seems to have the consensus that it's perfectly fine to do this. I'm going to give it a shot. Enigma's Server #server-announcementsSERVER — Today at 11:46 AM Disclaimer: We aren't liable if this breaks your shit. So do this at your own risk. Someone on our discord posted this fix and a few of us tried it out and it greatly increased performance in DCS. I am just posting this out for visibility so people can see if this works. We are just one server and if this fix helps you then word will get out to help the other players across the game in all the other servers. Deleting the files located here improved my FPS and stability in DCS. %AppData\Local\NVIDIA\DXCCache

A-20G skin (AI only). Link to post in DCS forum: https://forum.dcs.world/topic/334132-a-20g-skins/ USAF_Little Joe_New Guinea.zip

https://il2sturmovik.com/news/815/update-5106-lisunov-li-2-albatros-dii-nieuport-17-/?_gl=1*9qm0w7*_ga*MjgzMTAxNS4xNjkyOTkxNzg5*_ga_M3ND9NY3EC*MTY5NTI0NzM0Ni4zOC4xLjE2OTUyNDc0MDQuMC4wLjA.

Here's Snaggle's Dora v_!_JG1_FW-190D9_Snaggle.zip

Looks great!

I just installed OVGME after deleting my old JSGME. Do you guys who use OVGME have it pointed to the main game folder or the Saved Games folder? I see that you can set-up two separate OVGMEs with one pointed to main game and one to Saved Games. Is there an advantage to doing this?

Link: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3332565/

Another B-17. Posted here: https://forum.dcs.world/topic/329366-dcs-wwii-assets-pack-b-17g-livery-competition/page/5/#comment-5274975

RIP Robbie

@Klaiber ... sorry... Here's another B-17 This is yet another submission for the B-17G Livery Competition. It includes two skins, one a detailed 'Wee Willie' and one plain and without the distinguishing markings of 'Wee Willie" as specified in the competition. Speculars are used but I will change to roughmets if the developers decide to upgrade the B-17 to PBR. The detailed skin depicts Serial number 42-31333, a B-17G-15-BO, code: LG-W, nicknamed "Wee Willie". The plane completed 128 combat missions with the 322nd Bombardment Squadron of the 91st Bombardment Group. DCS: World War II Assets Pack is required. Many thanks to SOLIDKREATE for providing his research and advise and to Warlord64 for his JSON Mod and for assistance on the spinning props. Please Note: This skin will work with the default JSON file included in the game but to see the skin at it's best, use the improved Metallic look MOD by Warlord64 available here : https://forum.dcs.world/topic/319116-specular-reflectivity-from-brushed-to-mirror-effect/#comment-5150016 On 3 February over Wilhelmshaven "Willie" took some serious flak damage just above the ball turret. The repair is depicted on the skin. Wee Willie was part of a mission on 8 April 1945 The 322nd Bombardment Squadron was tasked to an attack against the locomotive repair facilities at the railroad marshaling yards in Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt Germany and was on it's 129th combat mission. Wee Willie was the oldest B-17G still in service with the 91st Bomb Group, and the next to last B-17 lost to enemy action by the group before cessation of hostilities. The War in Europe came to an end with the unconditional surrender of Germany just 30 days later, 7 May 1945. It's demise was captured on a series of dramatic and heartbreaking photographs. Never Forget... B-17 42-31333 / Wee Willie Crew Position Rank Name Status Note P 1LT Robert E. Fuller POW - CP 2LT Woodrow A. Lien KIA - NAV T/SGT Francis J. McCarthy KIA - ENG/TT S/SGT Wylie McNatt, Jr. KIA - RO S/SGT Ralph J. Leffelman KIA - BT S/SGT William H. Cassiday KIA - WG S/SGT James D. Houtchens KIA - TG SGT Le Moyne Miller KIA - TOG S/SGT Richard D. Proudfit KIA -

There's a new SIMAPP Pro manual released in case you weren't aware https://winwingsim.com/static/assets/files/en/SIMAPP Pro 1.9.11-User Manual EN V1.2.pdf

Man, that sucks! Still, nothing is forever and they are way old and built when metallurgy was not as advanced as it is today (someone will probably say the same thing 50 years hence) and there was no expectation that they would last more than a few years... or much less. of course, anything can be fixed if enough money is thrown at it but where would that come from? I'm so glad that I got a ride in one. I welded a crack in a turbo on one of the Collings Foundation Nine-O-Nine when the FAA grounded it at Hayward airport. Kinda extreme on the FAA's part since they never flew high enough to activate the turbos and the exhaust bypassed the turbo. It was challenging welding 60 year old, oil soaked and lead oxide covered stainless and upside down to boot, but I managed to blob enough filler to fill the crack and signed it off. (I knew it would probably crack around the weld or somewhere else but it wasn't a safety concern in my opinion. For that, I got a free ride. Way cool! Sadly, it crashed and was destroyed at Windsor Locks, Bradley Airport October 2, 2019 when #4 engine failed (I worked on #3 and the failure had nothing to do with the turbo. According to the NTSB report "The pilot shut down the other three engines and used a spray can of nitrogen to "blow out the moisture" in the engine that balked"

Here's the link https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3332350/

Whatever you think of her... She didn't care what you thought of her... This was the best rendition I could find. RIP Ms. O'Connor.