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New skins for the OH B-24D Liberator

OH B-24D Liberator skin "Cornhusker"

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A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Skins - American

Description: Captain Kurt alternative skin for the CFS2 Overhauled B24d_Liberator.
"Cornhusker" B-24D-45-CO Liberator
s/n 42-40322
415th Bomb Squadron, 98th Bomb Group, 9th Air Force
Shot down over the Ionian Sea by Bf109G's from JG 27/IV while returning from the August 1,1943 low-level mission to Ploesti,Romania. All 10 crew members were KIA.

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OH B-24D Liberator skin "Fightin' Sam"

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A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Skins - American

Description: Captain Kurt alternative skin for the CFS2 Overhauled B24d_Liberator.
"Fightin' Sam" B-24D-CO-65
serial number 42-51457
8th Air Force, 389TH Bomb Group, 566TH Bomb Squadron
Hethel, Norfolk, England, 1943-44
Fightin Sam was a particularly long lived B-24. Early in its career, The 8th Air Force loaned it and its crew to the 9th Air Force and it was flown by Capt. Tom Conroy in the big Ploesti raid. It then returned to Hethel, England and contnued to bomb Germany. It was later inherited by the 801st BG (Provisional) from the 389th BG of Station 179 on the night of 29/30 May, 1944 and was painted black for night carpetbagger missions

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OH B-24D Liberator skin "Joisey Bounce"

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A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Skins - American

Description: Captain Kurt alternative skin for the CFS2 Overhauled B24d_Liberator.
"Joisey Bounce" later renamed "Utah Man"
B-24D-25-CO Liberator
s/n 41-24226
330th BS, 93rd BG, 8th AF
Veteran of the low-level Ploesti mission. Returned to England and continued in the bomber offensive against Germany. Lost on the November 13,1943 mission to Bremen, Germany in a mid-air collision, killing 8 and 2 became POW's.

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OH B-24D Liberator skin "The Witch"

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A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Skins - American

Description: Captain Kurt alternative skin for the CFS2 Overhauled B24d_Liberator.
The Witch B-24D-CO
serial number 41-11840
9th AF, 98th BG 343rd BS
Pilot Julian Darlington
Lost on the Tidal Wave mission Aug 1st 1943. The plane crashed near the Bulgarian-Yugoslavian border. The Darlington crew was one one of eight crews on loan to the 98th Bomb Group from the 389th Bomb Group. Six of the crew were taken prisoner and the other four managed to evade capture and spent almost a year with Yugoslavian partisans.

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OH B-24D Liberator skin "Twin Nifty's"

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A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Skins - American

Description: Captain Kurt alternative skin for the CFS2 Overhauled B24d_Liberator.
B-24D-53-CO "Twin Nifty's"
Serial Number 42-40348
90th Bombardment Group, 400th Bombardment Squadron, 5th Air Force
One of two dozen B-24s that took off at 23:44 on August 16th, 1943 from 5-Mile Wards Drome near Port Moresby on a mission to bomb Boram Airfield near Wewak individually at night at 6,500' altitude with 6/10 cloud cover with cumulus. Over the target, the formation met intense anti-aircraft fire and searchlights. B-24D "Yanks From Hell II" 41-23716 was hit by anti-aircraft fire and is believed to have collided with "Twin Nifty's" and damaging it. This B-24 continued to fly for another 20 minutes or so, before crashing in a swamp near the Sepik River, approximately 100 kilometers south-west of Wewak. All crew KIA.

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I was reding the descriptions and I for one would like to see more storied about guys who sadly, were KIA or taken prisoner. I think the stories would honor their service and memories.
 
Just a little hint: If you place the 'decal_insignia_d0' & 'decal_insignia_t0' BMPs in the individual aircraft's texture folder it works great & you have the advantage of having the proper insignia on each plane. If you did the same for all of the stockers, you could even remove the 'decal' .BMPs from the main texture folder but this is just being anal IMHO.
 
http://www.alumni.utah.edu/continuum/winter95/UTAHMAN.html
"Fifty-two years had passed since fate placed Stewart, a gangly 25-year-old Army Air Corps pilot, at the controls of the lead plane, dubbed "Utah Man," in the famous low-level bombing raid on Romania's Ploesti oil refineries in World War II. (Continuum published a gripping account of the incident in the Summer 1993 issue.) After the American commander's aircraft was shot down, Stewart took the lead, piloting "Utah Man" into the face of the Germans' bristling defenses.

"Utah Man" bored through the vicious antiaircraft fire and dropped the first bombs of the raid. Then Stewart nursed his four-engine B-24, bullet-riddled and perilously low on fuel, back across Yugoslavia and over the Mediterranean to its home base in Libya, landing safely after 1,200 miles and 14 hours in the air."

Lt. Walter Stewart was the wingman for "Hell's Wench", a B-24 piloted by Lt. Col. Addison Baker and co-pilot Maj. John Jerstad. On the run into the target:

"Although Hell's Wench was in flames and had been seriously damaged by German anti-aircraft guns, Baker maintained formation and bombed his target. Subsequently, Baker broke formation to avoid a mid-air collision with bombers from the lead group, now arriving in the target area from the opposite direction. He attempted to gain altitude so that his crew could escape by parachute, but despite his efforts, Hell's Wench crashed and exploded, killing Baker and the other nine airmen aboard."

Lt. Stewart then assumed lead for the remainder of the 93rd BG with him on approach to other targets and egress. Baker and Jerstad were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Stewart was awarded the DSC.

If you ever have the opportunity to watch "The Saga of Utah Man", which was a PBS documentary, DO IT. If you can purchase a copy of the DVD, DO IT. You won't be disappointed.
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OW, Really? I didn't know that. After all these years I'm still learning things about this game. Thanks for the heads up.
 
Me too! I just downloaded all of 'em. Great work.

I'm really glad to have the stock B-24D updated as it is most frame rate friendly for those large formations of AI aircraft.
 
Thanks

Thanks everyone for this nice addition. After loading the AC I was looking for some new skins for flying BOE missions.

Cheers, Discus
 
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