Next Setup?

[republic]

Any word on the next setup?

I've been reading The Wild Blue, love to see something that we could do some 1944ish strategic bombing/intercept missions.

[stodd]

Whatever it is I hope the map has bases close together for furballs like the current one does.

[B4Buster]

I just want a 38J in the setup

[Odee]

I just want a 38J in the setup

PTO-1 map   Papua New Guinea  43-44 Japs kept up a pretty steady attack on Port Moresby and other bases there.

38's and 40's and a mixed bag of navy stuff too I think.

Check out Chapter 20 of The Fork-Tailed Devil by Martin Caidin for details.

[Oldman731]

Check out Chapter 20 of The Fork-Tailed Devil by Martin Caidin for details.

Alas, poor Odee, he has lost his credibility....

- oldman

[fudgums]

Ardennes08

Larry- Operation Bodenplatte Mission?

[B4Buster]

PTO-1 map   Papua New Guinea  43-44 Japs kept up a pretty steady attack on Port Moresby and other bases there.

38's and 40's and a mixed bag of navy stuff too I think.

Check out Chapter 20 of The Fork-Tailed Devil by Martin Caidin for details.

Thanks, allready read that book though 
I loved it, really took alot out of it,  want to read "Thunderbolt!" now, after i'm finished with the 633 Squadron series (a non-fiction series)

[Odee]

B4Buster ...633 Squadron series (a non-fiction series)

  633 series?  Who publishes that one and the author, bitte.

Alas, poor Odee, he has lost his credibility....

- oldman

I'll bite... Why have I lost credibility?  not that I had any to begin with?

[Anaxogoras]

I logged on last night and quickly switched to the main arena.  No desire to play with F4Fs and A6M2s after we just had the midway FSO.

[Oldman731]

 I'll bite... Why have I lost credibility?  not that I had any to begin with?

Citing anything written by Martin Caiden as having something to do with historical fact.  Next to "Flying Forts," "Fork-tailed Devil" is probably his very least reliable book.  It's got ghost stories (the 38 landing in Africa with the dead pilot), Hollywood fantasy (the Italian pilot flying the 38), and magic-with-numbers (making the 8th AF 38 kill/loss ratio look good).  And lots more, it's been decades since I last read the book.  Probably if you search around in these forums, or google on-line, you'll find people more skilled than me who can go into more detail about Caiden's imaginative history.  When he had someone to keep him honest - Robert Johnson or Saburo Sakai or Fred Saito - his fish stories were kept in check (for the most part), but when unleashed Caiden should have just been forthright and said that his books were "based on actual events."

- oldman (hey, you asked!)

[MaSonZ]

I just want a 38J in the setup

same. actually gettin better at aiming it 

[toonces3]

I'd totally dig a New Guinea setup.

I understand that folks might get burned out on PTO though.  Me, I can't really get enough, I never was much of a European theater guy.

[Steel]

What about Tunisia?

[Odee]

prejudice

   1. An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts.
   2. A preconceived preference or idea.

*A common flaw we all share*

Citing anything written by Martin Caiden as having something to do with historical fact.  Next to "Flying Forts," "Fork-tailed Devil" is probably his very least reliable book...
- oldman (hey, you asked!)

Never saw anyone refuting his books before now.  I will agree that he does use his imagination to fill in some gaps, or enhance the tales for the readers.  But that doesn't make his research bogus.

Is it so far fetched to believe that Lt. William Sells shot down 6 Japanese planes in one flight, as was written about in his chptr 20 "One Hundred to One"?

Never mind.  No response needed.

[republic]

What about Tunisia?

I've always been intrigued by the Africa campaigns, that'd be fun.  The Pacific setups are fine if you fly allied, but boy does it get old flying around in that kite with guns Zeke.  The later war setups with the Ki's aren't too bad, as long as there are no CV's.  Otherwise it seems some goober decides to park it off the coast and "win teh war".