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The F models were at Guadalcanal with the 13th AF as early as November 1942 if I am not mistaken. They certainly were already there by the time the F4U-1 arrived in February 1943. I also believe the F model was used when they left Fighter Two on Guadalcanal for the mission to take out Yamamoto at Bouganville.
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Is anyone at AAA working on this? We really need the early variants of the P-38 for The Slot and NGNB.
Early P38 ( some of them ) will be released in the UI1.2 that shouldn't take long from now on. Just a matter of some days more
The following Lightnings will be released in UI 1.2...
P-38E-LO
P-38F-LO
P-38G-LO
P-38H-LO
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MustangNF Wrote:The following Lightnings will be released in UI 1.2...
P-38E-LO
P-38F-LO
P-38G-LO
P-38H-LO
I'll have a wet dream tonight!!!!
walter
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Was that really necessary?
Oh man now you're going to make me go back and revise all my missions in America's Ace of Aces campaign. Oh well it shouldn't be that hard.
No fair looking too closely at my tracks that I'm adding. They will not have the correct models because they were not available and I am not revising those no matter how much fun it was making them.
Does that list include Yamamoto's death? I wonder if the loadouts on the P-38G-LO will include one 310gal and one 165gal drop tanks for the mission...
Sorry no 310 gal ferry tanks at this time.
If you're asking about my campaign of Richard Bong the answer is no. He did not shoot down Yamamoto's flight.
He and Tommy Lynch had a similar mission however where they scrambled put the peddle to the metal and just caught a plane full of generals taxiing off the air field. The score was a Major General, a Brigadier General and all their staff. Not quite as good a haul as Yamamoto but similar.
Again it was an intercepted message and the broken Japanese code.
That one is in the campaign along with many other interesting missions like...
A night interception flight to try and shoot down the real Washing Machine Charley complete with search lights.
Trying to save your best buddy and wingman.
Attacking Rabaul, Borneo oil fields and Leyte.
Being outnumbered 10 to one.
Finding, catching and shooting down a recon flight.
Engaging and trying to shoot down at least 6 Zekes, 22 Oscars, 3 Tonys, 3 Sallys, 1 Tojo, 1 Erving, 1 Val, 1 Betty, 2 Dinas and who knows what that is that Washing Machine Charlie is flying from New Guinea to the Philippines.
Trying to shoot down 40 without being killed your self.
Each mission is as realistic as I could make it based on a lot of research including Bong's own notes in his flight log.
And the final mission of dealing with a flame out in F80 Shooting Star. The only mission he failed.
