posted 01-16- 08:36 PM               

This is from the site:

Thousands of Russian women and girls courageously fought for their Rodina (Motherland), serving with the Voyenno-Vozdushniye Sily (Air Forces, in Russian). In 1942, three air regiments were formed from female volunteers:

The 586th Women's Fighter Regiment (initially equipped with Yakovlyev YaK-1s and later YaK-7Bs)
The 587th Women's Day Bomber Regiment (flying Petlyakov Pe-2 2-engined bombers)
The 588th Women's Night Bomber Regiment, the famous "Night Witches" (flying Polikarpov Po-2 biplanes)
Many other women also served integrated with men with other aviation units. For example, in 1944, 1,749 girls served with Zabaikalsky Front, 3,000 women and girls served with the Far East 10th Air Army, 437 women served with the 4th Air Army of the Second Belorussian Front that comprised the crack 46th Guards Women Air Regiment that comprised 237 women-officers, 862 sergeants, 1,125 enlisted women and 2,117 auxiliaries. They also served flying and as gunners in the famous Il-2 and Il-2M3 Shturmovik tank busters, the "Flying Bathtub".

Women-pilots of female air regiments engaged in dogfights, cleared the way for the advancing infantry and supported them in ground support missions. The fighter pilots of the all-women 586th IAP (Russian abbreviation for Fighter Aviation Regiment, same as Fighter Air Regiment) flew a total of 4,419 sorties (per pilot) and participated in more than 125 separate air battles, in which they massed a total of 38 confirmed kills. That is, the sorties when the enemy was actually encountered.

Sexism in the V-VS was high initially, male pilots refusing to fly with women as "wingmen", or fly airplanes that had been repaired or serviced by women mechanics and ground crew. But the demonstrated, and often superior, courage and great skill of these female soldiers proved their better than average competence to fullfil their duty. The USSR highly praised the combat deeds of female pilots: thousands won orders and medals. 29 won titles of Hero of the Soviet Union. 23 of these went to the Night Witches.

posted 01-17- 05:15 AM               

I think I'll stay away from doing the "Night Witches" Squadron for now as they flew the biplane- I might do Lilya Litvyak's squadron- she flew Yak-1's which are about as close to the Yak-3 as we are going to get- (when will that one be released anyway?)

Beyond that- I'll play around with doing one for General G. N. Zajharov- the CO of the 303 Fighter Division- he flew Yak-3's.

posted 01-17- 12:11 PM               

This would be great to simulate the russian bombraids to the finnish coastal cities and the intercepts by finnish 109 G-2's and G-6's (and Brewsters, once we get them ). Not to mention that the germans occupied the southern coast, and there were many aerial battles between them and the russian near Leningrad.

I believe this map could be made pretty big (100km x 100km?), because there's lots of sea and the land is almost flat along the coast. Of course, only if this is possible concerning memory usage etc...

Do we have the knowledge to build a map from scratch yet?

Camo

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posted 01-17- 03:39 PM               

The Bottom line is... WE NEED MORE TEAM MEMBERS. I guess it comes down to the bitter reality that if enough people want it, somebody will step forward to help. If there isn't enough demand, the domain of vehicles won't be explored even close to its potential. Time will tell, I guess.

Werner

posted 01-18- 01:53 AM               

A word on terrain. It is a has been easier to make an airplane than make terrain. To date. I have probably an idea/work around that I might try for some WWI terrain. AS for an ETO, I have already tried this. And may do so again. Just so little time to do the things i need to do.

In the mean time,
Jeeves is correct. The Rhinland and Rhinland Winter maps would work and be historically accurate. The Soviets near the end of the war flew many sorties in to Germany.

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