[CzechTexan]

Sadly, my knowledge of the Korean War is limited. I do have a basic knowledge of events and have only read one good book titled KOREA which covered the first six months of the war. This is the time frame that I'd like to cover and in my opinion it covers the most important events of the war. Battles range from the far south at Pusan, to the Inchon landings and Seoul, to the far north of North Korea and frozen north of the Chosin Reservoir, and the retreat back to the Seoul area.

I have these great new MODS planes, the F4U-5 Corsair and F9F-2 Panther, and I'd like to make campaigns for them.

The Pusan and Chosin battles are the ones that interest me most.

I need help with mission scenarios and ideas.
Like, would the planes be carrier or land-based, or both?
What locations at sea or what airfields would be used?
What squadrons? I'd like to do a Marine Corsair unit but what about the Panther, navy or marine??
Places to attack or defend and the battle history info...details details details.

I figure most missions would be ground attack but could probably throw in some enemy planes. I will not include the new MiG-15 or F-86, even though i do have these. My concern is more for the above mentioned types.

If there is something you'd like to share with what I'd like to do mentioned above then please reply.

[Boris The Spider]

I would love to see a Korean campaign by you sir. I'm a great fan of your work(s).

Here is some info I have found:

http://home.att.net/~historyworld/VF-781.html

http://www.history.army.mil/documents/237adh.htm

http://afhra.maxwell.af.mil/korean_war/ ... y1951.html

http://www.sandcastlevi.com/sea/carriers/cvchap3b.htm

http://www.strategic-air-command.com/hi ... ory-06.htm

http://afhra.maxwell.af.mil/korean_war/ ... r1950.html

http://www.ascho.wpafb.af.mil/korea/Chap1.htm

http://www.acepilots.com/usmc/hist15.html

I hope these are of some use to you.

[CzechTexan]

Thanks Boris. I especially like the chronology pages and the Marine Aviation site. Good background info to know.

OK, I had forgotten about VMF-311, the only Marine jet squadron in Korea until March 1952. Read some about them last year. Their commander was a fighter pilot at Wake Island when Japanese captured it and was POW in China, if i remember right.

I'll do a VMF-311 campaign but need more info on carriers, airfields, missions, etc. A chronology of missions would be extremely helpful. The unit arrived in December 1950 and based at Pohang but I don't think there is an airfield there on the new Korea map, bummer.


During the retreat to the Pusan perimeter, what aircraft were available and where based?

The first Marine aviation strikes with F4U were August 3, 1950. This will probably be another campaign.
http://www.history.navy.mil/nan/backiss ... /korea.pdf

[illegalBeagle]

I think it's probably a safe generalization of the north to say the early war up to Pusan perimeter was mechanized and from Chosin and the Chinese invasion it was largely guerrilla style warfare albeit on a massive scale.

[CzechTexan]

I did some reading online yesterday and learned more about the roles of the Allied air forces. Yes, it seems early in the war that the North Koreans were more mechanized with more tanks and trucks than later on. This is good for mission building. As these vehicles were destroyed off, the NKA and Chinese were more infantry-oriented as I understand it. Heavy infantry attacks began to happen at night for fear of Allied air forces. This can be harder for mission building but there were still targets to bomb like troop concentrations, HQs, supply dumps, trucks, trains, etc. Allied infantry attacks would happen in daylight so mission building scenarios could show air-to-ground attacks softening up targets.

A-26s were used heavily for night attacks on truck convoys so it'd be nice to see someone make missions for that scenario.