[Dixiecapt]

Tour two and three still WIP.

FILE FRONT DOWNLOAD: HELLHAWKS FIRST TOUR: http://files.filefront.com/VMF+213+Hellh...einfo.html

MISSION4TODAY DOWNLOAD: HELLHAWKS FIRST TOUR:
http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?n...ails&id=24

Read all of the Short Readme's,
Do not select Instant Sucess in your Difficulty (Light Off),
And Select the Campaign ComAirSols under United States Marines!

Enjoy!

Tours 2 and 3 are WIP!

I will have an M4T link soon for download, but until then if Filefront won't work for you, then send me a link for another Free Uploading Service and I will submit Tour 1 to download on such also.

Dixiecapt, 09/07/08
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The Campaign runs a few months after the Invasion of the Russell Islands, and spans the Invasions of the Central Solomons in the New Georgia Group, Including Rendova, New Georgia, and Vella Lavella.

I will be doing the most historic campaign I have ever done as I have come across After Action Reports from VMF-123's XO, and Detailed Reports, and Journel Entries from VMF-213's Doctor, along with help from Dan McAnarney Whom runs a VMF-213 Memeorial Website:
http://members.cox.net/~vmf-213/

Also a great deal of the Campaign will be based on VMF-213 Lt. Winna's Diary, which you can read here: http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/wdiary6.html

Hell Hawk's loading screen


Do not worry about Spoilers, This Mission list has been picked from records, and does not show the historical encounters of those days.

Please Note: Obviously aircraft will be added to Missions that historicly only had a few for the Coop Versions Playability


3/21/43 - SCAT - PBY @ Tulagi
Transport Marine Scouts behind enemy lines, to meet Coastwatcher (Kennedy) at Segi Plantation, New Georgia.

4/3/43 - VMF-213 - F4U-1 to Henderson
1200 - VMF-213 flight Transfer to Henderson (airstart)

4/7/43 - VMF-213 - F4U-1 @ Henderson
1500

[Dixiecapt]

After finding the perfect template skin, and talking with the author of such, I began to put together a historical F4U-1 Skin Pack for VMF-213 Including Historical Nose Art and Numbering.

Here is a sneak peak of Defabe's Hog

[elephant]

This sounds great!
I'm a big fan of such historical projects.
I could give you some aces pilot skins for the Campaign as well, if you could provide me with some decent pics of their faces ...
(If you are interested of cource) :roll:

[Dixiecapt]

PM me your E-mail, I will get with Dan McAnarney who run's the Memorial website, and see what I can get to send to you.

Most of the shots I have are profiles and such, so they wouldn't do. However in the mean time this is all I have, I dunno if it's much help. Color shots are going to be hard to come by.

From: http://dwp.bigplanet.com/johnl123/vmf121...&UID=10003


VMF - 213 Pilots: Second Tour

This picture has been identified as being taken on May 3, 1943, five days before the end of the VMF-213

[elephant]

PM sent.
Black/white shots are not really a problem, although color pics are allways wellcome.
I'm afraid that the faces in the above pic are too small to be usable... :?
Look how a b/w pic can turn to a convincing pilot skin:

[badaboom]

I look forword to your work Dixiecapt,Cheers!!

[FA_Cheech]

Good for you Dixie! This should be a great campaign.

Just wanted to let you know we hope to issue Version 2 of The Slot in just a few days. T will be reducing the number of taxi/spawn points by 50%, in order to improve fps in the area around Henderson, and improve AI performance when taxiing at Munda but there should be no impact on what you are doing.

[Dixiecapt]

A Single Mission has been placed in the Single Mission Download Thread for your enjoyment.

[Th!rdeye]

Oh man!

I thought the Single mission was great. Didn't even see you were making a nice historical campaign!

I cannot wait for this!

[Dixiecapt]

Greetings,

Currently I am working on the Templates for this Campaign, I am making one template on the 12/43 Slot Map, and two templates on the 7/43 Slot Map. It's a little slow going, but I have checklists of what needs to be done on each template, so its getting done.

I will entertain working with someone on the templates as I have a good deal of things going on right now. If your interested simply PM.

On to the Fun Part,

This is the intro for the campaign as it will been seen in the Campaign Selection screen in IL-2.

The Hell Hawks

This campaign was designed to strictly follow several historical mission of Marine Fighter Squadron VMF-213, "The Hell Hawks". In order to further the Historical accuracy of this Campaign the briefings are split into two segments. The first is called "The Chalkboard" which will contain your mission parameters. This segment is based of the Diary of Lieutenant Charles C. Winnia, USMC, A pilot for VMF-213. The second segment will be an exact copy of the official War Diary of VMF-213, as it applies to the date and mission you are about to fly. The following is the Official War Diary of VMF-213 leading up to the first mission in this Campaign.


WAR DIARY

Marine Fighting Squadron Two Thirteen

Attached to: Marine Aircraft Group 21, Fourth Marine Air Base Defense Wing.

Location: BUTTON.

OPERATIONS: Squadron 213 was organized in MAG-21, NAS, Ewa, Oahu, T.H. On July 1, 1942. The nucleus of the squadron at this time consisted of Capt. H.T. Merrill, C.O., Capt. W.C. Humberd, Executive Officer and Capt. M.R. Read.
During the months of July and August general organization took place, the squadron acquiring all possible material.
On September 1st, Major Endweiss joined the squadron relieving Capt. Merrill as C.O.

- October 6, 1942:

Major Wade H. Britt Jr., joined the squadron, relieving Major Endweiss as C.O., the latter being transferred elsewhere.

- October 8, 1942:

Eleven Officers and one NAP joined the squadron.

- November 10, 1942:

Two officers joined the squadron.

- December 1, 1942:

Lt. Ross crashed near Schofield killing himself and completely demolishing the plane.

- December 9, 1942:

Six Second Lieutenants joined the squadron

- December 18, 1942:

Major Gregory Weissenberger joined the squadron as Executive Officer. Five pilots were transferred to Palmyra Island.

- January 5, 1943:

2nd Lts. O.C. DeFabio, W.J. Thomas, W.S. Johnson, R.O. Shaw and Staff Sgt. G.V. Hodde joined the squadron.

- January 31, 1943:

Ten flying officers joined the squadron: Capt. Honfurd K. Payton, Capt. Byron V. Leary, 2nd. Lts. Theron H. Brown III, Leland L Eckart, Walter L. Hilton, Robert M. Jones, Wilton C. Peck, Donald H. Tate, Wilton N. Vedder, Robert W. Votaw and one ground officer 2nd. Lt. Stirling M. Harrison.
Daily training in combat flying, tactics, gunnery, navigation and familiarization was conducted during this period.
The strength of the squadron at this time was 213 enlisted men and 32 officers.

- February 12, 1943:

Captain Payton in command of 30 enlisted men sailed from Pearl Harbor aboard the U.S.S. Wright.

- Febuary 11, 1943:

Flying was secured and the following nine days were spent preparing to board ship.

- Febuary 20, 1943:

Twenty flying officers and two MAPs, under the command of Major Britt, boarded the carrier NASSAU and departed from Pearl Harbor, destination unknown.

- Febuary 24, 1943:

The remaining complement of the squadron sailed from Pearl Harbor aboard the USS President Tyler.

- March 3, 1943:

The squadron catapulted all the planes, F4Fs, from the carrier and flew them to Espiritu Santo, One plane was lost when being catapulted, the pilot, Stf.Sgt. Hodde, was uninjured.

- March 11, 1943:

The squadron received 11 F4U's.

- March 12, 1943:

First day of F4U familiarization flying - gunnery and other operational flying conducted until March 25, when the squadron left Espirito Santo for New Caledonia where they catapulted 39 F4Us from the aircraft carrier Copahee on March 31 and April 1, and flew them to Tontouta. Lt. Tate's motor failed when he was catapulted and his plane plunged into the sea. He luckily was rescued without permanent injury. This was the first time F4Us had been catapulted from a carrier.
Six pilots under the command of Major Britt flew six F4Us from Tontouta to Espiritu Santo. The other officers returned aboard a DC-3.
G.J. WEISSENBERGER
Major, USMC.
Commanding VMF-213

- April 1, 1943:

Catapulted 19 more planes. One lost off catapult with minor injury to pilot, Lieutenant TATE.

- April 2, 1943:

left for buttons in DC-3s and 6 F4Us. Upon arrival we were told to leave at 0330 next day for Cactus.

** This Campaign is Dedicated to the memory of Lieutenant Charles C. Winnia, USMC**

[Dixiecapt]

Greetings,

I am currently working on two of the Slot Maps, making Three templates for my campain. I wanted to share info on these templates and let folks know that I will be glad to make them available to the community when I have them finish so as to jump start some of the mission builders for the Slot.

I am populating the 12/43 Slot Map, which includes the final battles for Guadacanal, and the afterward pre-New Georgia/Russel Island Invasion period.

I am also populating the 7/43 Slot Map, which includes the invasion of New Georgia, and the taking over of Munda Airfield.

I am also populating the 7/43 Slot map with Munda in Allied control for the fights against vella lavella.

These maps as stated will cover the action in the middle portion of the slot map, from the final days of the battle Guadacanal to the pre-invasion days of Bougainville.

The maps include Historicaly populated friendly and enemy airfields, Target sites, Sea Plane and torpeado boat wharfs, Coconut plantations, Enemy Infantry Camps in the Jungle, and Friendly coastwatcher bases.

I will make both of these historically populated templates available to AAA, I have them collectivly about 20% done, so it might take a little while, but they are all planed out from the text, photos, and interviews Ive collected.

[Monguse]

This is gonna be just awesome!

[VFS-214_Hawk]

I missed this one, I'll be waiting !!!

[skarden]

excelent!! cant wait for this,i just played through the Attack on Munda Single mission and loved it 8)

looking forward to the full release

[Dixiecapt]

The First Template is Finished, I will put this up for Download to help the Mission Building PTO folks.

This Template is of the 12-42 Slot Map,

It has been populated to represent a time period in the Solomons from December 1942 to early May 1943. I use it in the Hellhawks campaign for March - May.

It includes the following Populated areas

- Tulagi SPB (This area was populated by the Pacific Team, but traffic has been added.)
- Henderson Airfield
- Fighter One Airfield
- Segi Plantation (Coastwatcher Station)
- Vila Airfield
- Munda Airfield
- Vanga Vanga (Major Supply Base and Anchorage)
- Rekata SPB
- Disapontment Cove (Supply Base and Anchorage)