[caldrail]

With my recent posts about the potential British action against Russia in 1945-46 (Operation Unthinkable), this is a fictional representation of the reformed JG1 operating alongside RAF and USAF aircraft in the battle for Poland. Since German aircraft were disabled permanently after the surrender and many jigs, tooling, plans, and factories lost, it was easier to supply the fledging Luftwaffe with veteran US aeroplanes like the P38 - The "Two Forked Devil"



http://www.mediafire.com/?xj2mijnhjzz

Just place the BMP file in whichever P38 folder you want.

Texture by Caldrail
Template by IMME

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BONUS!
Some extra aeroplanes for you....

1 - RAF Avro Arrow
2 - USAF Martin F335 Mauler
3 - US Navy Martin F335FV-13 Mako
4 - Northrop 229 Nightmare

http://www.mediafire.com/?mtqi2jynz2n






There is one major bug - the mapping on the P38-L models assumed an overall metal finsih so there are some ugly panels on the wing undersides. Nothing I can do about that I'm afraid. Works just fine on the J versions.

Have fun!
Caldrail

[jak24610]

Thank you! No more default Germany symbols! You da BOMB! 8)

[jzoopster49]

If your purpose is an Operation Unthinkable campaign, I'd delete the swastika. No way the wallies would allow a Nazi regime to join with them. You might consider a black-white red or black-red-gold fin flash. Didn't the original Il2 1946's 1946 scenario have a Do335 with a black-red-gold fuselage stripe to indicate the non-Nazi Germans? I've got so many skins and mods I have no clue anymore where that one came from!

[caldrail]

Strictly speaking you're right - the swastika would be banned - but since this is an unmarked skin and my copy of IL2 is set up to show swastikas for German aeroplanes, it does. As for the red and white bands, a possible addition to Forgotten Nations?

[Guest]

Is anyone making this campaign? And I think that allies would continue production of Me262..built with right materials (no flaming engines)..

[caldrail]

Possibly not. The situation Germany was very confused. Retreating German forces had destroyed valuable plans, tools, and jigs without which manufacture was impossible. With Hitler trapped in Berlin, Goering had announced himself the new leader of Germany (at least until Hitlers death and the swearing in of Admiral Karl Doenitz as his official successor - a hard line nazi who wanted Germany to fight on, although he surrendered shortly after. Worst of all, tThe SS had been given control of jet operations before the war ended.

With poor quality manufacture from dispersed facilities in forest camps and salt mines, combined with the loss of manufacturing assets, it's hard to see how German jets would have been produced. In any case, the allies already had jets coming into service and wouldn't have seen the need to produce German designs which to their eyes were unproven and risky.

However, the allies would have taken on board ideas they found in German aircraft and that would have affected (as indeed it did in real life) future designs.