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Sunderland at War, Part I: the Bay of Biscay

06-06-1944, welcome in Hell!

Based at Vannes in Brittany, the I./ZG 1 was engaged in the battle of Normandy with it's Ju88C-6's. Trained for long range patrol over the ocean and without escort, the unit was decimated within 4 days.
The Battle of Normandy was the end of an era for the Luftwaffe maritime units and the final act of the Battle of the Atlantic.

For a better immersion, I have build a mission template by creating all 5 beaches and paratroops areas. The action takes place near Caen (British and Canadian area). On the 3rd picture, you can see Sword and Juno in the background.

The night fighter camo is historical as for production purposes, it has been decided to produce all C6's in night fighter coulours whatever the unit they would have to be delivered from about end of 1943 / early 1944. From this time, maritime units recieved heavy fighters in NachtJagd coulours.

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I finally managed to setup this mission more or less as I wanted it to be originally. Spawn setup was a nightmare on this one, it took me ages.
In order to make this one challenging, player has to stay at 1000 ft during all the drop procedure or he will get a failure message.
Altitude measured by altimeter is from sea level, of course, but it seems that spawns work with altitude from ground... CFS3 is really tricky for mission builders, it took me several evenings before I found a compromise in the tuning.


788th BS, Harrington, july 8th-9th 1944. D-Day + 1 month, allied armies are still stuck in Normandy 'bocage' and near Caen, the battle is particulary tough. Once enemy lines will be broken, primary objective will be to capture a harbor in Brittany as a major logistic platform will be the key of the success for future operations. Brest is particulary attractive for High Command because it has the biggest facilities. In the view of the future offensive in Brittany, it is extremely important to coordinate action of the numerous Maquis units that are very active in the area, this is the mission that has been affected to commandos called Jedburgh teams. They are usually composed by 3 men: 1 US, 1 English and 1 French.

Tonight, you will drop team GILES and containers supply in Brittany (Drope Zone Fred 3, Brest area). The DZ is oriented east-west. Reduce speed to 130 miles per hour or below for the drop. If enemy forces are spotted near the DZ, abort mission. Taxi to the runway behind the lighted 'follow me' car.

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II./KG 30, Le Culot, june 17th 1940. Invasion of France is a success and our troops are advancing quickly to the western coast harbors. They must be captured before a possible armistice with France as they will open the door of the Atlantic for the Kriegsmarine, they are high priority targets in the view of future operations against England.

A lot of activity is reported at Saint-Nazaire, British Army is evacuating their remaining troops (operation Ariel). You are ordered to to strike ships in the Loire estuary.


Saint-Nazaire is one of the French city that suffered the most from bombings during WWII. It started in june 1940 and never stopped until may 1945, the city was in ruins.

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sounds like a big project of precise historical ----action ...many tks once your relasing for the masses


joshua /lb
 
Wekusta 2, Nantes-Chateau Bougon, march 20th 1944. (Wekusta = Wettererkundungstaffel = Wheather Recon Unit).

Perform a routine wheather recon mission up to the Irish coast. These missions are vital for U-Boots and Luftwaffe operations in the Atlantic. You have to measure atmospheric pressure at sea level and above coulds at some locations. Report also wheather conditions changes all along your route. Take car as we have lost several aircrafts on the Irish coast in bad wheather condition.

You've been assigned Ju88D-1 D7+HK (WNr. 430334). Crew: Oblt. Alfred Schmid (pilot - Staffelkapitan of Wekusta 2), Wd.Insp. Karl Rösch (meteorologist), Obfw. Fritz Schaper (radio), Fw. Helmut Grupen (gunner).


Note: as you can see in the two pictures, wheather is not the same during all the flight. Thanks to ETO wheather specialists who have build such wheather files that bring a lot of immersion.

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Lanveoc-Poulmic near Brest was a seaplane base. After the invasion, the German kept it active and particulary busy with Arado 196, He115, Breguet Bizerte or Do24 among others.

I've build this base for an air sea rescue mission. It is a 'simple' facility file, not an airbase. Moreover, as I don't know anything about mos files, gound is made of grey 3D flat boxes build in gmax.
Well, could be better but with my skills in building facilities, I'm quite happy of the result.
The choice of buildings and vehicules in ETO is amazing, it took me adges to look at ACC stuff!! :icon_lol:

The picture is the base in the 70's. It is still a French Navy base but it is now a school and helicpters base, there are no more seaplanes.


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...That's really cool, LZ. I suspect it looked almost the same back in the day...:applause:
 
Seenotstaffel I, Lanveoc-Poulmic, september 23rd 1940. We have just recieved a distress call from a Wekusta 2 He111, they have stopped an engine due to mechanical failure and they may not be able to come back to Brest. Take off immediately and provide assistance as necessary.


Well, if you think that air sea rescue missions are boring then, you are wrong :bump:

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...I remember flying a mission in CFS1 where the object was to rescue a Spitfire pilot flying a battle damaged a/c... Yeah, rescue missions tend to have a bit of a story line... great for the old ''immersion factor'':applause:
 
In 1940, torpedoes attacks were only performed by He115 seaplanes and Luftwaffe decided to experiment the faster He111 in this role, they were expecting better results. KGr 126 was in charge of developing the He111 in this new role. After intinial training, 3 aircrafts were sent to Brest-Guipavas on november 08th 1940 for the first operational use. Less than 24 hours later, the first mission was ordered and 2 Heinkels took off.

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I can not post any new pictures, I have an error message that says: "Clipboard03.jpg: Exceeds your quota by 361.9 KB. <a href="misc.php?do=attachments" target="_blank">Click here to view your attachments</a>"

Don't know what it is.

I have tried a new thread but it is the same.
 
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