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An astonishing ETO resource & info website

kelticheart

kelticheart

Charter Member
Attention all! :encouragement:

I just by accident discovered the following website, while searching info for our good Achim and his scenery projects:

http://www.forgottenairfields.com/

I strongly suggest anyone involved/interested in European sceneries to take a peek at it. It's simply amazing! :jump:

Cheers!
KH :ernaehrung004:
 
Yes, I agree. It's a good airfield builder's resource. I've been using it for about a year now and there will be several new airfields in Italy based on information I got here when I finish the 82nd Fighter Group campaign project.
 
Great news!

Captain Kurt said:
Yes, I agree. It's a good airfield builder's resource. I've been using it for about a year now and there will be several new airfields in Italy based on information I got here when I finish the 82nd Fighter Group campaign project.
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Hi, Captain Kurt! :wavey:

Are you building Italian sceneries, too? Boy, oh boy, this is great news indeed! :jump:

If I may offer a suggestion: use some of Canion's ETO brick buildings, they are great for the Northern part of Italy. While Wolfi's Med houses look good for Liguria, the strip of land running from Ventimiglia, the borderline with France, to La Spezia, for the rest of the Po Valley and in the Alps they do not look too appropriate. Just like the majority of the stock buildings or Pen32Win's AF Japanese concrete buildings.

In my gsl mods, I basically used some stock hangars with your ETO textures, Canion's ETO brick buildings and radio antennas and only the most simple Med houses from Wolfi's lib, the single houses not the complexes.

The visual result is great.

Can you anticipate some location names or do you prefer surprising us? :wink-new:

Cheers!
KH :ernaehrung004:
 
Hi Kelti

As you know if an airbase that figures into a campaign I am creating is missing, I build the airfield for inclusion. The 82nd Fighter Group, the campaign I am working on now, had 3 Italian bases, San Pancrazio, Lecce, and Foggia-Vincenzo.

The other bases I have built so far are St. Eval in England, Telergma and Berteaux in Algeria, Souk-el-Arba and Grombalia in Tunisia. Incidentally I have the same heartburn over the landclasses in North Africa that you do for Italy. For the most part, they look absolutely nothing like the satellite pictures of the arid terrain.

I wonder what happened to Sander's new world scenery project? I was hoping that would address some of these problems.

I may need to develop other bases as I go along, but so far Achim's bases cover the rest. That's it.
 
Captain Kurt said:
Hi Kelti

As you know if an airbase that figures into a campaign I am creating is missing, I build the airfield for inclusion. The 82nd Fighter Group, the campaign I am working on now, had 3 Italian bases, San Pancrazio, Lecce, and Foggia-Vincenzo.

The other bases I have built so far are St. Eval in England, Telergma and Berteaux in Algeria, Souk-el-Arba and Grombalia in Tunisia. Incidentally I have the same heartburn over the landclasses in North Africa that you do for Italy. For the most part, they look absolutely nothing like the satellite pictures of the arid terrain.

I wonder what happened to Sander's new world scenery project? I was hoping that would address some of these problems.

I may need to develop other bases as I go along, but so far Achim's bases cover the rest. That's it.
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Hi there!

Do you mean you build the airbase as a mission layout or are those sceneries that can be installed permanently?

I just found this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuni5G9LPZ4

It's not a film, but a slideshow of all pictures shot in my hometown after the May 13th, 1944 bombardment. The attack was a combined mission over Fidenza and Parma, carried out by 72 B-24 Liberators of the 376th and 98th B.G.'s escorted by P-51s. I have never been able to find info as to which squadron the escorting Mustangs belonged to.

The 376th B.G. attacked Parma railroad station and about 30 B-24s of the 98th B.G. attacked Fidenza marshalling yard and train station complex. A book published locally about my hometown history states both 376th and 98th flew from Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi, near Foggia, but the town of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi is in Campania, in the province of Avellino.

I just wrote to "Forgotten Airports" webmaster, asking whether they have info about this airbase, even if it's not listed in their directory.

I would like also to know how 376th and 98th B.G.'s painted their Libs. Do you happen to know it?

Cheers!
KH :ernaehrung004:
 
Hi Kelti,

They are permanent blended texture airbases with destroyable GSL infrastructures (which in Africa consisted mainly of tents :jump:) Because the GSL can be modified, I can go back into the layout and add or delete buildings. When I get the chance I will review the Italian bases based on your recommended Canion buildings to see how they can be improved and re-save the GSL
 
You can get a history and photos of the 37th Bomb Group "Liberandos" here
http://376hbgva.com/index.html

and a history and photos of the 98th Bomb Group "Pyaramiders" here
http://thepyramidiers.com/98th-bombardment-group-1942-1946-b-24s/
376bg-b24-1.jpg
 

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Beepee.....:jawdrop:

where did you purchase you crystal bowl? I was just about to ask you if you could do a 376th B.G and/or 98th B.G repaint for Allen's B-24J...but you just anticipated my request!


THANK YOU, GREAT LOOKING REPAINT!

:applause: :applause:
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Cheers!

KH :ernaehrung004:
 
It was a pleasure Kelti

kelticheart said:
Beepee.....:jawdrop:

where did you purchase you crystal bowl? I was just about to ask you if you could do a 376th B.G and/or 98th B.G repaint for Allen's B-24J...but you just anticipated my request!


THANK YOU, GREAT LOOKING REPAINT!

:applause: :applause:
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Cheers!

KH :ernaehrung004:
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B-24H Liberator 128278 39, 512th BS, 376th BG.jpg

Looking at this thread, I tought you will be pleased to get this skin for you italian campain.
Notice that the real 512th BS insignia had 3 red 'leafs" around it
Cheers
Beepee
 
Thanks I will most definitely be using this skin in the 82nd FG campaign. May I include it in the campaign autoload or would you prefer it be a separate download?
 
Yes you can...

Captain Kurt said:
Thanks I will most definitely be using this skin in the 82nd FG campaign. May I include it in the campaign autoload or would you prefer it be a separate download?
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Captain Kurt : Of course, you can include it in your campaign autoload, this skin was made for that
Cheers
Beepee
 
San Pancrazio air strip

Captain Kurt said:
You can get a history and photos of the 37th Bomb Group "Liberandos" here
http://376hbgva.com/index.html

and a history and photos of the 98th Bomb Group "Pyaramiders" here
http://thepyramidiers.com/98th-bombardment-group-1942-1946-b-24s/
376bg-b24-1.jpg
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Kelti, Captain Kurt and others SOH members involved in Italian campaign
The 376th BG was based at San Pancrazio airfield (also known as Sanpan airfield), an airfield northeast of San Pancrazio, in Brindisi province
Still, the airfield is one of the better preserved wartime airfields in Apulia, with the runway, taxiways and dispersals clearly visible.
You should see at this adress : http://www.forgottenairfields.com/italy/apulia/brindisi/san-pancrazio-s584.html
san-pancrazio-2005.jpg

Cheers
Beepee
 
beepee said:
Kelti, Captain Kurt and others SOH members involved in Italian campaign
The 376th BG was based at San Pancrazio airfield (also known as Sanpan airfield), an airfield northeast of San Pancrazio, in Brindisi province
Still, the airfield is one of the better preserved wartime airfields in Apulia, with the runway, taxiways and dispersals clearly visible.
You should see at this adress : http://www.forgottenairfields.com/italy/apulia/brindisi/san-pancrazio-s584.html
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Cheers
Beepee
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Hi Beepee,

I checked the same coordinates in Google sat maps last Friday. Apparently the warehouses/hangars/whatever (visible in the above picture posted at Forgotten Airports) placed on the runway were removed and the runway is again free in its original length.

Cheers!
KH :ernaehrung004:
 
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