ETO-1939 Hun Flying boats (567) CFS3 Missions & Campaigns (German)
hun_flyingboat_sorties.zip (5.21 Meg) (downloaded 645 times)
This mission set commerates the 70th anniversary of the downing of the first German Plane of WWII. Not a fighter or a bomber, but a simple single-engine Flying Boat. Designed in 1934, entering service in Sept 1938, and shot down on 26 Sept 1939 by a Blackburn Skua from the HMS ARK Royal, this Mail Carrier turned Flying Gun Boat was obsolete before the War began. In the early years of the War, between 1937 and 1939, German Flying Boats were on regular patrol attacking British submarines and merchant ships in the Channel and the Eastern North sea. Most notably, the Dornier DO-18, and its replacement the BV-138 Flying Boats, were regularly deployed to attack surface shipping between the Dutch Coast, and safe harbors along the South Eastern Coast of England. Too bad these German Sea Planes were very slow and not too well manned, so even the British Swordfish Float Plane and long-range Tempests were able to blast many of them from the skies in this engagement area. The Dornier DO-18s main advantage was their ability to carry several DepthCharges, and the latest German Torpedos, along with the usual compliment of small to medium bombs. Get your DO-18 into the air as soon as you can for deployment to stop British Subs and Merchant shipping. My apologies for the file size, but the screenies tell the tale.
by SPQR33 (2009-07-19 12:18:55)
Submitted by SPQR33
hun_flyingboat_sorties.zip (5.21 Meg) (downloaded 645 times)
This mission set commerates the 70th anniversary of the downing of the first German Plane of WWII. Not a fighter or a bomber, but a simple single-engine Flying Boat. Designed in 1934, entering service in Sept 1938, and shot down on 26 Sept 1939 by a Blackburn Skua from the HMS ARK Royal, this Mail Carrier turned Flying Gun Boat was obsolete before the War began. In the early years of the War, between 1937 and 1939, German Flying Boats were on regular patrol attacking British submarines and merchant ships in the Channel and the Eastern North sea. Most notably, the Dornier DO-18, and its replacement the BV-138 Flying Boats, were regularly deployed to attack surface shipping between the Dutch Coast, and safe harbors along the South Eastern Coast of England. Too bad these German Sea Planes were very slow and not too well manned, so even the British Swordfish Float Plane and long-range Tempests were able to blast many of them from the skies in this engagement area. The Dornier DO-18s main advantage was their ability to carry several DepthCharges, and the latest German Torpedos, along with the usual compliment of small to medium bombs. Get your DO-18 into the air as soon as you can for deployment to stop British Subs and Merchant shipping. My apologies for the file size, but the screenies tell the tale.
by SPQR33 (2009-07-19 12:18:55)
Submitted by SPQR33
