Airlift (Ju52)

[sandmarken]

Timeframe: December 1942-Jannuary 1943 

Unit: Kampfgruppe z.b.V.1, KG55

Aircraft: Ju52, Heinkel 111

Missions:  10

Author: Sandmarken 

Requirements: Battle of Stalingrad, Ju52 

 

In December of 1942 the 6th Army is trapped inside a pocket around the city of Stalingrad. The only way to keep them alive is by supplying them from the air. Follow a Ju52 pilot from the Kampfgruppe z.b.V.1 as the Luftwaffe desperately tries to get supplies to the trapped 6th Army.

 

Notes:  HUD shoud be on for messages about the missions to appear. 

 

Thanks to everyone that helped me with testing and historical research for this campaign! 

 

Install: Put download in the campaign folder

 

File: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ms5oZKGWHbm5KKUmGztLINfMVOdIhnHS/view?usp=sharing

 

Update 08.01.2024 Smal corrections done. Overwrite old files and progress should be saved. 

 

Please let me know if there are any bugs and I will fix them! 

 

Update 20.10.2024

 

Thanks to @JG4_Deciman the campaign is now also available in the German language!

 

Update 1.5 now with the corrections to error about wind directions. 

 

[Crashbangwallop]

Thanks.

Downloaded. Will have a go this evening 🙂

[sandmarken]

10 minutes ago, Crashbangwallop said:

Thanks.

Downloaded. Will have a go this evening 🙂

Good luck!

 

While it may be more niche than a fighter campaign, it was very fun to make, especially the last mission. 😄

[jokash]

I completed the campaign and enjoyed it all but the last mission, which felt very anticlimactic.

Few reasons why,

- 1. Cant setup plane - I've flown in on white He111 and I'm going out on a green one (also the plane was supposed to be locked with bombs to simulate load).

- 2.You start with engines off and need to taxi - where story wise you were supposed to do a quick pickup of the wounded and head back.

 -3.The U2 attack looks silly, I don't know why the massed U2 attack on airfield,just makes no sense (maybe better would be somekind of machine gun fire from the ground if that is possible)

4.The trip back is uneventful- no enemy planes,no flak (maybe cause i went a little too south before going back west),the weather is clear morning.It just felt like a ferry trip

It's really a shame cause the mission before that is very atmospheric and He111 is a beast compared to Ju52, which you fly in other missions.Maybe the last mission was supposed to be the last German flight over Stalingrad which occurred on 3 of February and involved a He111 dropping supplies but not landing,and heading back.That way the campaign would end with big flyout back and forth (and seeing the isolated pocket fights in Stalingrad itself).

Everything else up until last mission was beautiful...

I'm gonna miss "Aunt Ju"

[sandmarken]

29 minutes ago, jokash said:

I completed the campaign and enjoyed it all but the last mission, which felt very anticlimactic.

Few reasons why,

- 1. Cant setup plane - I've flown in on white He111 and I'm going out on a green one (also the plane was supposed to be locked with bombs to simulate load).

- 2.You start with engines off and need to taxi - where story wise you were supposed to do a quick pickup of the wounded and head back.

 -3.The U2 attack looks silly, I don't know why the massed U2 attack on airfield,just makes no sense (maybe better would be somekind of machine gun fire from the ground if that is possible)

4.The trip back is uneventful- no enemy planes,no flak (maybe cause i went a little too south before going back west),the weather is clear morning.It just felt like a ferry trip

It's really a shame cause the mission before that is very atmospheric and He111 is a beast compared to Ju52, which you fly in other missions.Maybe the last mission was supposed to be the last German flight over Stalingrad which occurred on 3 of February and involved a He111 dropping supplies but not landing,and heading back.That way the campaign would end with big flyout back and forth (and seeing the isolated pocket fights in Stalingrad itself).

Everything else up until last mission was beautiful...

I'm gonna miss "Aunt Ju"

Thx for the report, happy you liked most missions. Sorry you did not enjoy the last mission. 

The skins should have been green both ways, of course. The U2s attack the airfield as it was reported they where often used to attacked inside the pocket, and you can see IL2s attack just after takeoff. After takeoff, you get attacked by a Yak-1. I figured that if you survived that attack, it would be enough action for the campaign. There was no report I could find that the real last He-111 was attacked during the escape (except by a tank while taking off). You start with the engine off as the source used indicated that there were several hours between the landing and the takeoff.

[jokash]

1 hour ago, sandmarken said:

The skins should have been green both ways, of course.

I selected the white myself since i can setup the plane in the second to last mission...in the last mission you cant setup the plane with anything...no skin,no fuel - nothing.I didn't see any IL-2's,but i didn't taxi to runway either...i just started the engines and took off from where i was parked.

[sandmarken]

24 minutes ago, jokash said:

I selected the white myself since i can setup the plane in the second to last mission...in the last mission you cant setup the plane with anything...no skin,no fuel - nothing.I didn't see any IL-2's,but i didn't taxi to runway either...i just started the engines and took off from where i was parked.

Thats weird i never locked any mods in the last mission. The last he111 was picture as green in the painting that inspired the mission!

I cant remember exactly when the il2s attack, i think they shoud do it very close to the take off. Just after as to simulate a narrow escape. 

[JMax]

I am just past the half-way mark in AIRLIFT. Excellent immersion in this....  Then I realized it was built by 'Sandmarken' and wasnt surprised,since WarInTheChannel was so good. Thanks for making these series!

[sandmarken]

7 hours ago, JMax said:

I am just past the half-way mark in AIRLIFT. Excellent immersion in this....  Then I realized it was built by 'Sandmarken' and wasnt surprised,since WarInTheChannel was so good. Thanks for making these series!

Thanks happy you liked it. 🙂