This Week In the AvA July 13th - Operation Strangle

[soda72]

Operation Strangle



Time Frame - March 1944

    "Operation Strangle" was conceived by Allied commanders to reduce the flow of enemy supplies in Italy below requirements by attacking their supply system. It was determined that the enemy's abilities to supply, reinforce, and shift forces could be so weakened that the Gustav Line could neither withstand determined ground attacks nor withdraw in order.

    Beginning in March, Allied Medium and Fighter Bombers struck targets from the Gustav Line to the Swiss frontier. While the Medium bombers wrecked marshaling yards and repair facilities, the Fighters and Fighter Bombers of the XII Air Support Command cut rail lines and bridges. The Fighter Bombers in particular, proved surprisingly successful as bridge busters.

    Heavy Bombers borrowed from the air war over Germany hit distant rail centers in the northern Italian cities. This scrambled enemy troops and supplies from beyond the Alps, as trains stacked up north and south of Rome. No trains were able to run from the Po Valley, and substantially all supplies had to be moved by truck south of Florence.
 


Allied Planeset
B-25H
B-26B         
P-38J
P-47D-25
P-51B   
Spit IX
Typhoon     
Jeep
M3
M16
M8
M4(75)
M4(76)

Axis Planeset
Bf 109G-6
Bf 109G-14   
Bf 110G-2     
Fw 190A-5
Fw 190A-8
Fw 190F-8
Ju 88A-4
C.205
C-47(JU-52 sub)
Jeep
SDk-251
PanzerIV
Panther(?)
Ostwind

Field Order
    Knight - Axis
    Bishops - Allied
   

[jimson]

  Gotta clear my schedule for Tuesday night. Hopefully we can get some folks in there.

[Karnak]

Oh look, the 1942 Spitfire Mk IX being used in a 1944 setting again when the Spitfire LF.Mk IXe is in the game and is the appropriate aircraft....

I am so shocked....

[Oldman731]

Oh look, the 1942 Spitfire Mk IX being used in a 1944 setting again when the Spitfire LF.Mk IXe is in the game and is the appropriate aircraft....

I am so shocked....

Geez....yet another week that Karnak won't fly in AvA out of protest....

- oldman

[Puma44]

Do you miss him, Oldman?

[trap78]

Everything I've read about the 31st FG says they were flying Spit IX's in March of '44 and they weren't e variants or LF models. They converted to Pony B's the following month. It wasn't unusual for the MTO groups to be a generation behind their ETO counterparts when it came to aircraft (until very late in the war). If someone has reference sources that show otherwise please share.

[Slash27]

Oh look, the 1942 Spitfire Mk IX being used in a 1944 setting again when the Spitfire LF.Mk IXe is in the game and is the appropriate aircraft....

I am so shocked....

Seriously Karnak?

[Mister Fork]

I think also that the RCAF were flying Spit VIII as bomber escort during this operation. But that's a beast.

[trap78]

Yeah, I didn't go there in my original post but the 308th fighter squadron flew Spit 8's for almost a year from '43 to '44. I see the dilemma, if you put the 8 in it will be flown way out of proportion (number wise) compared to its' real combat service solely because it's an uber plane.

[Oldman731]

Excellent fights in there this evening, some new faces as well as the old ones.  Good times.

- oldman

[JVboob]

38J makes me smile? when is the room most populated?

[Oldman731]

38J makes me smile? when is the room most populated?

Between 9pm and 11pm, Eastern time, most nights.

- oldman