The Battle of Leyte Gulf

That's turned out very nice Andy. Well done!

As the first wave of 345th and 312th bombers strafed and bombed Clark Field, they were attacked by six or seven Japanese Zero fighters dropping parachute phosphorous bombs while orbiting at 1,500 feet over the formation. No American bombers were struck. As the 501st Squadron departed the target area and just a few miles north of Subic Bay, a lone Ki-43 Oscar fighter made a tentative pass at the squadron. Alert B-25 gunners fired a few bursts, which deterred that pilot from further attacks.
 
I'm setting these up for both bomber and fighter use, with versions used to attack either high or low altitude air formations. You have to wonder if these were meant more for breaking up or diverting our formations than for actually knocking any of them out of the sky.
 
It's not something for Leyte, but I was just rereading my copy of "Warpath Across the Pacific" (345th Bomb Group) and saw that Aerial Smoke Screens were created by A-20s to screen an airborne assault by paratroopers at Nadzab in New Guinea on 5 Sep 1943.

M10 Smoke Dispenser
 
Still working on missions
Ta-1 Convoy returning to Manila from Ormoc Bay
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TA-2 Convoy unloading supplies and troops at Ormoc Bay, with CD escorts laying smoke to protect transports
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The demise of the Noto Maru.
TA-2 Noto Maru Demise.png
 
I realized that the complexity was causing a measurable FPS hit, and if you dropped multiples in close proximity it overloaded the effects engine so that the animations started cutting out. I've cut the complexity in half without degrading the look all that much.


The bomb markings are loosely based on an Imperial Navy reference I found.

CFS3 2025-09-18 17-19-29 Before.jpg
 
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