IL-2 Korea Career Service Record

[Tdawg8645]

Just wanted to add my thanks for making this wonderful mod. As a mainly SP guy this excellent mod makes the career mode a lot more playable.

Having to manage dozens of pilots with no leaderboard or easily accessible pilot stats wasn't fun. This should really be part of the base game hopefully the devs take note and add it in.

 

[Patricks]

Just tested something in Korea (Service record 2.0), as having Mods ON kills all Multiplayer access. The Award Points system works perfectly with MODS Disabled, as that my biggest use that is great!

[hjbb1975]

Hi! First of all, thank you for this tool. It has become the way I follow my IL-2 Korea career. The pilot record, the ribbon rack, the mission debriefings with every target listed, the award progress, and the warning about missing sorties are all beautifully done, and they show real care for the game and for the history behind it, and are impressive and have helped me understand my own career file. Great work.

**The problem**
In my 9th FBS / 49th FBG career (F-84E), the tail number in the debriefings and in "Pilots on this mission" is shown undecoded, for example:

- FS-""*_7
- FS-"$"_;
- FS-"%!_=

This affects both original sorties written by the game and later ones, so it is not related to any particular mission. As well as F-86 says BN instead of FU.

 

 

Edited October 2 by hjbb1975
correction

[Arrow_1974]

@hjbb1975 

Quote

**The problem**
In my 9th FBS / 49th FBG career (F-84E), the tail number in the debriefings and in "Pilots on this mission" is shown undecoded, for example:

- FS-""*_7
- FS-"$"_;
- FS-"%!_=

This affects both original sorties written by the game and later ones, so it is not related to any particular mission. As well as F-86 says BN instead of FU.

- that will be fixed with the next version release. Thanks for the bug report

Further more I want to address an issue that came up with the newest release of IL-2 Korea v. 1.004:

Napalm on airfield structures currently books the same destroyed part again every 2 seconds for the whole ~3 minutes the fire burns. One of my sorties destroyed 13 objects and was credited with 867. That inflates 'killStats', 'score' and 'PCP' (PCP=Player Combat Points. I use this metric for promotions). A napalm hit on a single AA gun counts correctly, so it seems to affect only airfield and building groups.

I am currently working on that issue by circumventing/correcting this kill inflation in the mod. Will be released with the next version as well.

[Arrow_1974]

IL-2 Korea Service Record 2.2.0 — napalm, lost sorties, tail codes

Gentlemen,

This release deals with two game bugs that have been quietly bending career
records since the 29 September update, and it is the first version that
writes corrections into your career file. Read the first two sections before
you install.

NAPALM COUNTS THE SAME TARGET OVER AND OVER

Napalm burning on an airfield's buildings, tents, ammunition stores and parked
aircraft books the same destroyed object again every two seconds for as long
as the fire burns - about three minutes. One part, one fire: 90 kills. Several
fires on one part: 270, 450, 900. A napalm drop on a lone AA gun counts once,
correctly; it is the airfield block groups that go wrong.

In my own career one sortie destroyed 13 objects and was credited with 867.
Those kills go straight into your kill totals, your score and your PCP, and
from there into every award that counts ground targets. The hotfix 1.004b
does not change it - I tested it this evening. It is reported to the
developers.

What 2.2.0 does about it:

- The Service Record shows the real kill counts everywhere: combat results,
  the mission report, best sorties, airframes, squadron totals. It rebuilds
  them from the game's own record of every destroyed object, which is not
  affected.
- When it opens a career, it writes the corrected kill totals and PCP back
  into the career file, so the awards and promotions read honest numbers
  from your next mission on. It touches nothing unless something is
  inflated, and it takes a backup first, every time.
- The awards mod no longer pays a ground-kill award or a promotion in the
  debrief of a sortie with napalm-sized numbers (60 buildings or 60 ground
  targets). No honest sortie in six careers came near that; the inflated
  ones start at 83. If you qualify for real, it arrives on your next flight.

Your score (not PCP) is left as the game has it.

THE MISSIONS THE GAME FORGOT

Between the 29 September update and the hotfix 1.004b of 2 October, the game
saved no sortie details at all. The missions were there, the awards and
totals moved, but the debriefings stayed empty. Install 1.004b and it stops -
and the patch script I handed out to some of you who contacted me is no longer needed; please do not run it
again.

The missions you already lost come back. The game kept the full debrief of
every mission, and 2.2.0 rebuilds the missing sortie rows from it the first
time it opens the career. I checked the method against 701 sorties that were
saved normally: every field matched on every one.

Hector @hjbb1975 worked out the same thing independently and recovered 96
sorties of his own. Thank you, Hector.

ALSO

- Tail codes: the F-86 shows FU-174 instead of BN-174, and F-84E codes decode
  at all. Also a fix Hector provided.
 

IF YOU WANT TO UNDO IT

Every write is backed up first to
%LOCALAPPDATA%\IL2KoreaTracker\backups, next to a record of every original
value. Nothing is lost.

DOWNLOAD

    https://github.com/1-Arrow-1/IL2-Korea_Service_Record/releases/tag/v2.2.0 --> outdated, newer version available

Installer  IL2_Korea_Service_Record_Setup_v2.2.0.exe
           SHA-256  8b8fdba92d090e58cba8e399af9be1554eb6ad4e88d4d2a664b4e294092561b1

Zip        IL-2.Korea.Service.Record.v2.2.0.zip
           SHA-256  b8b32c6664b7801f2afa6d33ce927c60823832a3afb8db0541b49cbb3ade2337

Everything is Authenticode signed. SmartScreen works on reputation rather
than signatures, so a new release can still raise a warning until enough
people have run it.

The project lives at https://github.com/1-Arrow-1/IL2-Korea_Service_Record — the
source, the issue tracker, and every release. If it has been useful to you,
don't forget to give me a star.

As ever: if something does not match what you see in your own career, say so
and I will go and look.

Edited October 3 by Arrow_1974
Newer version available

[Arrow_1974]

IL-2 Korea Service Record 2.2.1 — hotfix

Gentlemen,

A quick fix for 2.2.0. Please update if you are on it.

- Undo works as described. Copying a backup from
  %LOCALAPPDATA%\IL2KoreaTracker\backups over your career file now sticks: the
  tracker notices and leaves the career as you restored it. In 2.2.0 it
  corrected the file again the next time it opened it.
- No more backup pile-up. A backup is made only when the tracker actually
  writes, never just from opening a career or while the game has the file busy.
- Safer writes. The record of your original values is saved before the career
  file is changed, so an interrupted write can no longer lose it.

The napalm bug is still in the game as of hotfix 1.004b, so the correction
stays.

DOWNLOAD

    https://github.com/1-Arrow-1/IL2-Korea_Service_Record/releases/tag/v2.2.1 --> Version outdated. Newer version available

Installer  IL2_Korea_Service_Record_Setup_v2.2.1.exe
           SHA-256  53526c1d46c31aca1190c53f141d27a7b520458e8ca7839d9f642600ae953bef

Zip        IL-2.Korea.Service.Record.v2.2.1.zip
           SHA-256  83273d6b1428ca21fe57309c912568d29b9495a35da1c0156e37b2bd62f968fa

Everything is Authenticode signed.

Edited October 5 by Arrow_1974
Newer version available

[VISHNU]

Wow! Very comprehensive program! Thanks for this @Arrow_1974

[Arrow_1974]

Guys and gals,

No new update right now — but let’s see what you’ve got! 😎

Show me your best shadowbox from your career so far.

Here’s mine from a still ongoing P-51 career — now it’s your turn!
 

[BeneQ]

It's not much, but it's only 1st of May 1951 🙂 Also P-51 carrer

[Arrow_1974]

IL-2 Korea Service Record 2.2.2 — your own pilot photograph

Gentlemen,

This release adds something rather more personal than another table of
figures: your own photograph can now follow your pilot through the career
screens. It also brings the Second World War service described in the game's
biographies into the Service Record, gives all three nations their own rebuilt
display cases, and fixes one remaining problem in the napalm correction.

YOUR OWN PILOT PHOTOGRAPH

The Career Helper has a new Custom pilot photo page. Give it an ordinary JPG
or PNG and it will:

- remove the background locally on your own computer;
- place you on the same photographic background as the game's portraits;
- let you drag and zoom the portrait and clean up its edge;
- adjust exposure, contrast and saturation;
- add an optional sepia treatment at any strength; and
- make the BC7 DDS texture the game expects and attach it only to the pilot in
  the selected career.

No Photoshop and no DDS exporter are required. The background-removal model
and texture converter are included, and the photograph is never uploaded
anywhere. But do NOT expect miracles. Use a photo that has a distinguishable background.

The game normally uses fixed sheets of small portraits on some pages. The mod
now makes those pages read the pilot's DDS directly, so the custom picture
appears in the formation sheet and event pages as well as the large, medium
and small portrait views.

Applying or restoring a picture takes a career backup first. Restore original
photo puts back the exact portrait path the career had before. Close IL-2
Korea before either operation, as you would before any Career Helper change.

and in-game:

THE WAR BEFORE KOREA (again an input from Hector @hjbb1975 - thanks)

Many of the selectable American and Soviet biographies describe combat in the
Second World War, but the Korean career begins with none of that service on
the uniform. The Service Record can now derive the campaign decorations that
the biography itself supports.

For American pilots these include the American Defense Service Medal, the
Asiatic-Pacific and European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medals with the
campaign stars supported by named operations, and the World War II Victory
Medal. Soviet pilots may receive the medals for the Defense of Leningrad or
Stalingrad and Victory over Germany or Japan where their biographies say so.

Unfortunately I didn't find any suitable picture of the Korean "Fatherland Liberation Fighters Medal (1948)".

Therefore only US and USSR are getting WW2 campaign awards.

They appear in the ribbon rack, on full dress and in the display case, including
careers already in progress. They are shown as prior service, without inventing
Korean War award dates or inserting tracker-only rows into the career file or
the game's own awards screen.

NEW DISPLAY CASES

The USAF, Soviet and North Korean records now each use their own frame and
glass. The wider American and Soviet cases make room for the prior-service
medals without shrinking them into a pile; the North Korean case uses its own
smaller proportions instead of borrowing the American furniture.

The brass plate now carries the squadron beneath the pilot's rank and name.
Crowded ribbon and medal groups have been rebalanced, and Save picture writes
a full-resolution JPEG. On a typical case that reduces the saved picture from
about 7.1 MB to 0.9 MB without changing its dimensions.

NAPALM CORRECTION

The automatic correction no longer pins an affected pilot's PCP to one
lifetime value. It keeps an incremental checkpoint and applies only the new
napalm excess, so a manual PCP adjustment remains in place. It still handles
the game's later writeback of the uncorrected value, and Undo preserves any
manual offset made after the first correction.

The correction also fails closed if a future game update changes the shape of
the kill-category data, and sortie recovery now logs an unexpected formation
mismatch instead of silently dropping rows.

ALSO

- Aircraft-report and evading event records introduced by the September game
  update are now identified (Event types 35 & 36). They are deliberately kept out of Other
  Incidences because they describe aircraft state and temporary evasion, not
  separate events in a pilot's service history.
- Custom photographs work in all known career portrait views without editing
  the game's fixed small-photo atlases.

DOWNLOAD

    https://github.com/1-Arrow-1/IL2-Korea_Service_Record/releases/tag/v2.2.2 --> hotfix 2.2.3 available

Installer  IL2_Korea_Service_Record_Setup_v2.2.2.exe
           SHA-256  e3d207ca27c4fbbadee8bedc64b97cb50717733b5be42c5b3f99edfa9ceac4bf

Zip        IL-2.Korea.Service.Record.v2.2.2.zip
           SHA-256  ef89a98bda3977bc895584eaa006dbfeb7bec8c7655ffecb4ac2fab05cc3c701

Everything is Authenticode signed. SmartScreen works on reputation rather
than signatures, so a new release can still raise a warning until enough
people have run it.

The project lives at https://github.com/1-Arrow-1/IL2-Korea_Service_Record — the
source, the issue tracker, and every release. If it has been useful to you,
don't forget to give me a star.

As ever: if something does not match what you see in your own career, say so
and I will go and look.

Edited October 6 by Arrow_1974
Newer version (hotfix) available

[Arrow_1974]

IL-2 Korea Service Record 2.2.3 — hotfix for custom portraits

Gentlemen,

If you are on 2.2.2 and gave your pilot a custom portrait with the Career
Helper, please update now.

THE PROBLEM

The game only accepts a portrait name of up to 15 characters. 2.2.2 wrote a
longer one, and from then on the game crashed to the desktop every time the
career moved on to a new day.

THE FIX

- 2.2.3 gives custom portraits a short name the game can handle.
- If your career is already affected, open it once in the Service Record
  after updating. It moves your portrait to the short name and repairs the
  career automatically, with a backup first. Your portrait stays.
- After that, the next day works again. Nothing else in your career changes.

ALSO

- New: the pilot biography. The story the game writes for your pilot is now
  laid out as a book on a desk, and you can leaf through it page by page.

DOWNLOAD

    https://github.com/1-Arrow-1/IL2-Korea_Service_Record/releases/tag/v2.2.3

Installer  IL2_Korea_Service_Record_Setup_v2.2.3.exe
           SHA-256  80ba54231cc6ccccae7259c025ae60058a32ffc9aa1e3e2f25032822e35879f6

Zip        IL-2.Korea.Service.Record.v2.2.3.zip
           SHA-256  d924379b05bdd6895302b31a96729a0aff022784723521c0132cfe54be17fc5c

Everything is Authenticode signed.

[hjbb1975]

Starting a P-51 Career 

[hjbb1975]

With AI help, this will be almost all the in-game medals. I believe one is missing.  As far as I know, it's almost impossible to get more than one medal above the Silver Star.

Edited October 7 by hjbb1975
addition

[Arrow_1974]

@hjbb1975 That looks complete to me.

Quote

 As far as I know, it's almost impossible to get more than one medal above the Silver Star

It is possible, actually. Two things stood in the way, and both are solved now.

1. The noAwards bug (fixed in 1.004)

The Silver Star and the DSC carry noAwards=1 in Awards.cfg, meaning "only if nothing has been awarded yet in this debrief". Before 1.004 the game's own code for that flag was faulty, so the condition didn't work as intended and the Silver Star and DSC hardly ever came through. Update 1.004 rewrote that part of the career engine. Comparing the old and new careerProcessor.dll shows it plainly, and since then the condition behaves exactly as described.

2. The order of the stock file (still there in 1.004)

The game works through Awards.cfg from top to bottom after every mission, and the stock file runs from the lowest award to the highest: Air Medal, Bronze Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, Legion of Merit, then Silver Star, DSC and Medal of Honor.

The Air Medal and the DFC are cumulative: they count your career totals (kills, sorties, hours). While you are still climbing those two ladders, almost every sortie with a kill earns the next Air Medal or DFC cluster first, and that uses up the one slot. The Silver Star and the DSC still don't get their turn.

On top of that:

• the DFC requires the 6th Air Medal (the Silver Oak Leaf Cluster);
• the Silver Star asks for "2 or more kills" and comes before the DSC in the file, so even a 4-kill sortie gives you a Silver Star instead of a DSC until the Silver Star ladder is full.

So even with the fix, in stock you have to work through all the Air Medals and DFCs before the higher awards show up.

What my restructured Awards.cfg changes

• Highest first: the decorations run in order of precedence: Medal of Honor, DSC, DSM, Silver Star, Legion of Merit, DFC, Soldier's Medal, Bronze Star, Air Medal, Commendation Ribbon. A sortie earns the single highest decoration it qualifies for. The lower ones wait for a later mission instead of blocking the higher one.
• The higher the kill count, the higher the award, all in a single sortie: Silver Star from 2 air kills, DSC from 4, Medal of Honor from 6 (or 5 if you are wounded). Once you hold the full ladder of a decoration, the next one down takes its place. So a pilot who already has the Medal of Honor with its cluster still gets a DSC for his next 6-kill sortie.
• No ladders to work through first: you don't need all the Air Medals or DFCs before the higher awards. The DFC only requires the 4th Air Medal instead of the 6th.
• In the F-86 interceptor squadrons the Silver Star and DSC aren't automatic, because kills come more easily there: Silver Star 60% at 2 kills, 80% at 3 or more; DSC 60% at 4 kills, 80% at 5 or more. A failed DSC roll can still bring a Silver Star, like a recommendation that was downgraded. The Medal of Honor is never left to chance.

The Purple Heart, the badges, the campaign and service medals and the unit citations aren't affected. They never compete for the slot.

 

Edited October 7 by Arrow_1974

[Arrow_1974]

IL-2 Korea Service Record 2.2.4 — personnel files, your own biography, a squadron forecast

Gentlemen,

2.2.4 is out. It brings a few things you asked for, some I wanted myself,
and one fix that matters if you are on game update 1.004.

FIX FOR GAME UPDATE 1.004

- The mod replaces two of the game's career screens so custom portraits show
  in the game. Its copies were older than 1.004 and hid the update's own
  changes, such as the pending-awards marker. Both are now rebuilt from the
  1.004 originals, with only the portrait change made.
- If a future game update changes those screens again, the career page now
  says so instead of hiding the update quietly.

NEW: THE PERSONNEL FILE (USAF)

- One printable document per pilot: cover sheet with photo, record of
  service, his commissions, his award certificates, the biography, the
  flight record (two months to a page) and the shadowbox.
- Every promotion now comes with a commission from the President, filled in
  by hand and signed by the officials in office on that date. To have the correct font displayed,
  go to Correct font for promotion certificates. Unzip and copy the file to Windows\Fonts.                                                                                                                                              If you do not download/install that font, a fallback font will be used instead. It is close but not 100% matching.
- One certificate per decoration as he wears it. The earlier awards of each
  ladder are listed in the record of service with their citations.
- Print it, or choose "Save as PDF" for a file to keep or post.
- Soviet, Chinese and North Korean files will follow.

NEW IN THE CAREER HELPER: YOUR OWN BIOGRAPHY

- The game shows your biography only when you create the career. The new
  Biography tab lets you rewrite it at any time. The Service Record shows
  your version, with your name, birth date and starting rank filled in.
- Choose which World War II medals your pilot earned before Korea
  (USAF and Soviet pilots). They appear on his uniforms and in the shadowbox.
- Share out your booster points again - skill, discipline and courage - at
  most 3 per attribute plus one for every promotion. The game is not touched
  by the text or the medals; the boosters are written to the career, with a
  backup first.

NEW IN THE SERVICE RECORD

- Squadron statistics: click the + beside RANK and every pilot shows what
  he still needs for his next promotion.
- Materiel forecast: what a flying day costs the squadron in fuel, ordnance
  and equipment, what the next week, fortnight and month should cost at
  your pace, and how long your stocks last. From now on the tracker
  measures the real consumption from your stocks and uses that once it has
  three flying days.
- Medals have a proper shadow again, in the record and in the shadowbox,
  and the oak leaf clusters and stars stand off the ribbon.
- The flight record shortens long ranks (Lt. Colonel, Brig. General) so the
  GRADE box is never cut off.
- A certificate opened from the record now closes its tab when you go back,
  like the flight record and the war diary.

AWARDS MOD

- Silver Star and DSC no longer stop at a fixed number of kills. A sortie
  earns the highest decoration it qualifies for: Silver Star from 2 air
  kills, DSC from 4, Medal of Honor from 6. Once you hold the full ladder of
  one, the next one down takes its place - a pilot who already has the
  Medal of Honor with its cluster now gets a DSC for his next 6-kill sortie
  instead of nothing.
- In the F-86 squadrons the Silver Star and DSC still have to be approved:
  60% at the lower kill count, 80% above it. A failed DSC can still bring a
  Silver Star.
- These rules apply to the USAF. Navy and Marine Corps decorations work the
  old way for now.

DOWNLOAD

    https://github.com/1-Arrow-1/IL2-Korea_Service_Record/releases/tag/v2.2.4 --> outdated, newer version available

Installer  IL2_Korea_Service_Record_Setup_v2.2.4.exe
           SHA-256  5c842f609b724ffef869dd52c1ca37e83f1e891b0899d3659ca7379bd897518f

Zip        IL-2.Korea.Service.Record.v2.2.4.zip
           SHA-256  e74b07c758a9156f29bca45a580ff3912121ea1ce2d35692515fe5a394f433cd

Everything is Authenticode signed.

Edited October 9 by Arrow_1974
Newer version available

[Arrow_1974]

IL-2 Korea Service Record 2.3.0 — personnel files for every air force, Chinese merits, updates from inside the Helper

Gentlemen,

2.3.0 is out. The personnel file now exists for every air force you can
fly, the Chinese pilots finally have decorations worth earning, and from
this version on the Career Helper can update the whole package itself.

UPDATES FROM INSIDE THE CAREER HELPER

- A new tab, "Update IL-2 Korea Service Record", shows your version and
  checks for a newer release when you ask it to - never by itself.
- One click downloads the new release, checks it and installs it: the
  tracker, the Helper and the awards mod in the game folder, keeping your
  folders and your promotion choice. Close the game first.
- Nothing is installed unless the download matches GitHub's checksum and
  carries the same signature as the program you are running.
- This version still has to be installed by hand. From here on, the
  Helper does it.

NEW: PERSONNEL FILES FOR THE PRC, THE USSR AND NORTH KOREA

Each file is written in its own air force's language, as it would have
been kept. Point at any line and it is translated into yours.

- Chinese pilots: a cadre record, the merit booklet with one entry for
  every merit, the Air Force certificate for First and Special Class
  merit (after Hua Longyi's of 1951) and a page for the Combat Hero.
- Soviet pilots: the personal file, record of service, the commander's
  attestation, the order extracts for each promotion, the order booklet,
  the Hero of the Soviet Union certificate and the nomination sheets.
- North Korean pilots: the cadre record, an order booklet for each order,
  the Presidium's certificate for a Hero, and the biography in Korean.
- Navy and Marine Corps pilots get the U.S. file with their own
  commission, the Navy's Aviator's Flight Log Book and the Navy's own
  certificates - ready for the day the game gives us naval squadrons.

AWARDS MOD

- Chinese pilots earn merit for air victories in one sortie: Third Class
  from 2, Second Class from 3, First Class from 4, Special Class from 6.
  On top of a merit, the Combat Hero Medal in three classes.
- Navy and Marine Corps decorations now work like the Air Force ones: a
  sortie earns the highest decoration it qualifies for.
- The Navy's flag ranks are Rear Admiral (LH) and Rear Admiral (UH).

NEW IN THE SERVICE RECORD

- Every career card on the start page carries a briefing: your next
  promotion, aircraft ready, promotions and awards due, the store that
  runs out first, the next aircraft back from repair.
- The Army of Occupation Medal can be chosen as a World War II medal -
  contributed by Héctor @hjbb1975, with thanks. Navy and Marine pilots can now
  choose their World War II medals too.
- The nameplate in the shadowbox always fits its frame: the rank is
  abbreviated, the first name shortened if need be, the unit set smaller.
- The Russian nomination sheets are typed at a readable size, and their
  figures read correctly ("41 боевой вылет").

FIXES

- Career Helper, custom pilot photo: "Restore original photo" could fail
  after an earlier photo. Fixed, and the tab now shows the portrait the
  career uses.

DOWNLOAD

    https://github.com/1-Arrow-1/IL2-Korea_Service_Record/releases/tag/v2.3.0 --> outdated, newer version available

Installer  IL2_Korea_Service_Record_Setup_v2.3.0.exe
           SHA-256  f5051e070b728f0a94f3ce6f9dbfade6d5e57aced1a2d863971edefe87c3045c

Zip        IL-2.Korea.Service.Record.v2.3.0.zip
           SHA-256  60df8d6fc8a17e01159fdc8bdd4c267feb3909d80834d85c2c4ed75c1ea3a25d

Everything is Authenticode signed.
 

Edited October 10 by Arrow_1974
Newer version available

[Arrow_1974]

IL-2 Korea Service Record 2.4.0 — combat mission reports

Gentlemen,

2.4.0 turns every mission debriefing into a proper Combat Mission Report.
The new report brings the route, crew, combat log and weapon results together
in one navigable manila folder, using the information recorded by the game's
flight logs.

IMPORTANT: ONE MANUAL UPDATE

If you are running 2.3.0, download and run the 2.4.0 installer manually. The
updater in 2.3.0 compares the exact signing certificate, but Microsoft
Artifact Signing renews that short-lived certificate every day. It can
therefore report that the installer was signed by a different certificate
even though both signatures are valid and belong to the same publisher.

The updater in 2.4.0 checks the durable Artifact Signing profile identity
instead. It still requires GitHub's matching SHA-256 digest and a valid
Windows Authenticode signature. Future certificate renewals will no longer
interrupt normal in-app updates.

NEW: COMBAT MISSION REPORTS

Open "Combat mission report" under Mission Debriefings for any flown mission.

- The first spread records the pilot, unit, date, mission, aircraft, tail
  number, flight time and outcome, followed by the combat results, mission
  route, briefing, flight roster and chronological combat log.
- The second spread is the gunnery and weapons analysis: weapons loaded,
  expended and returned, recorded impacts, hit rate, attack passes, targets
  struck and a short summary of the sortie.
- Move through the career with the previous and next mission buttons, or
  print the report.
- The report uses the language selected for the Service Record.
- Long pilot names keep the surname visible by abbreviating the rank first
  and the first name only when necessary.

GUNS, ROCKETS AND BOMBS

- Gun figures count the player's fired rounds and recorded projectile
  impacts. A hit rate is shown when the flight log contains complete
  ammunition figures.
- Rockets record direct impacts separately.
- A bomb counts as a hit when its blast destroys at least one target. The
  number in parentheses shows how many targets that bomb destroyed.
- Napalm cannot claim the same target repeatedly: the report uses the same
  correction as the Player Career Points calculation.
- Cluster weapons are recognized as complete canisters. Their bomblets are
  consolidated into the parent weapon, so one canister counts as no more
  than one hit while all targets destroyed by it remain visible.
- When corrected flight time is enabled, the report uses that corrected
  time too.

MISSION MAP

- Use the mouse wheel to zoom the mission route.
- Hold and drag the map to move around it.
- Route markers and the recorded track make the sortie easier to follow
  without leaving the report.

RECORD ROOM VISUAL REFRESH

- The former mission-details view and combat section are now one report, so
  the same mission information is no longer shown twice.
- The Service Record columns, operations map, aircraft and squadron
  statistics now share one warm paper stock with subtle grain.
- Flight Record, War Diary and Personnel File use the same paper treatment.
  Printed Personnel Files remain clean white for readable paper copies.

FIXES

- The manila folder and its type now scale properly on large displays.
- The final attack-pass line is no longer clipped.
- Scrollbars match the paper instead of standing out from it.

DOWNLOAD

    https://github.com/1-Arrow-1/IL2-Korea_Service_Record/releases/tag/v2.4.0 --> outdated, newer version available

Installer  IL2_Korea_Service_Record_Setup_v2.4.0.exe
           SHA-256  5658ae1391c02fe84801a3495d315e56a2fe7a6fb6a5f0b2953b3ae5ea812bd6

Zip        IL-2.Korea.Service.Record.v2.4.0.zip
           SHA-256  a0873dcc3313d3d0b9da421622d63438cc247cec378757cb3c9bdf511299c792

Everything is Authenticode signed.
 

Edited October 12 by Arrow_1974
Newer version available

[Swoose]

Absolutely amazing! 😄  I've always been interested in what my percentage of hits has been with gunnery, rockets, and bombs and now I'll know. Thanks @Arrow_1974!

[Patricks]

15 hours ago, Arrow_1974 said:

IL-2 Korea Service Record 2.4.0 — combat mission reports

 

You update faster than I can try each new version! 🙃

[Arrow_1974]

IL-2 Korea Service Record 2.5.0 — newspapers and aircraft histories

Gentlemen,

2.5.0 adds two new records to the career archive and continues the work on
Combat Mission Reports. The War Diary can now open the newspaper published on
that date, and the new Airframe Record follows every aircraft in the squadron
through sorties, pilots, damage and repair.

NEW: NEWSPAPERS IN THE WAR DIARY

- When the game has a newspaper issue for a War Diary date, a Newspaper
  button appears beside that entry.
- The issue opens as a period newspaper with the game's own headline, article
  text and photographs.
- Previous and next controls move through the available issues attached to
  the diary.
- Western careers receive the western paper; Soviet, Chinese and North Korean
  careers receive the eastern paper.
- The newspaper follows the Service Record language. Because the game does
  not contain Spanish newspaper text, the Spanish interface clearly marks
  the English article used as a fallback.

NEW: AIRFRAME RECORD

Open "Airframe Record" from the top of the Service Record.

- The Squadron Aircraft Register lists every aircraft, its type, current
  condition and number of sorties.
- Select an aircraft to open its Individual Aircraft Record: date received,
  usual pilot, present status, victories and targets, repair history and a
  complete sortie log.
- The ledger uses the supplied period binder artwork and supports previous
  and next controls that move exactly one printed row at a time, keeping every
  entry aligned with the form.
- Long records remain accessible without allowing text to drift across the
  printed grid, and the complete ledger has a clean landscape print layout.
- The former duplicate Airframes table was removed from the Aircraft panel;
  strength, repair, delivery and logistics information remains there.

COMBAT MISSION REPORT IMPROVEMENTS

- Mission Details once again records who did what across the complete flight,
  including the named pilot responsible for every recorded destruction. The
  player's damage events remain in the same chronological log.
- Long combat logs continue onto dedicated Mission Combat Log spreads instead
  of being cut off. The first Details sheet keeps the entries that fit; later
  sheets use up to 35 rows per page.
- Long Gunnery Analysis mission lists now continue onto additional report
  pages instead of hiding earlier missions behind a short note.
- Gunnery data notices newly written flight logs while Service Record remains
  open, so a completed sortie no longer requires an application restart
  before its analysis appears.
- Flight logs are matched to the recorded aircraft and mission more strictly.
  This prevents unrelated sorties, such as an F-86 log, from appearing in a
  P-51 career merely because their dates and times were similar.

ARTWORK AND INTERFACE

- Eastern aircraft now use the eastern briefing-room scene on the career
  selection page.
- Chinese, Soviet and North Korean Flight Records and Airframe Records use
  the eastern flightline; U.S. careers retain the American scene.
- Career Helper and Close the Service Record now have distinct, period-fitting
  colors in the Service Record header.
- The Career Helper Update page now includes a GitHub Star button and optional
  PayPal and Venmo donation links. The Service Record remains free; stars help
  other pilots discover it, while donations help cover the project's actual
  expenses. Development time is not included in those expenses.

DOWNLOAD

    https://github.com/1-Arrow-1/IL2-Korea_Service_Record/releases/tag/v2.5.0 --> outdated, newer version available

or use the update function in the career helper's "Update IL-2 Korea Service Record" tab. 

Installer  IL2_Korea_Service_Record_Setup_v2.5.0.exe
           SHA-256  8b26d6945cacac5bb827597ad39bd38b043aeb77eee00d6052dc0317abf3ab84

Zip        IL-2.Korea.Service.Record.v2.5.0.zip
           SHA-256  351f4d2bac567e0317bb81b0c3da4217f92b57fa0d7d3e4c643891b875877901

The installer, Service Record and Career Helper are Authenticode signed.
 

Edited October 13 by Arrow_1974
Newer version available

[Arrow_1974]

IL-2 Korea Service Record 2.6.0 — Pilot's Notes, squadron portrait and the 13 October game update

Gentlemen,

2.6.0 brings Service Record back in line with the game after the update of
13 October, and adds two new documents to the career archive: Pilot's Notes
for the aircraft you fly and a formal portrait of the whole squadron.

PLEASE UPDATE: GAME UPDATE OF 13 OCTOBER

The game update of 13 October changed the way IL-2 Korea stores its data
files. Earlier versions of Service Record could no longer read them, so
names, medal and rank artwork, portraits, the map, newspapers and briefings
could appear blank or as raw text keys.

- 2.6.0 reads the game files as they are now, and still reads them as they
  were for anyone who has not taken the update yet.
- Should a future game update change the files again, Service Record now
  falls back to the copies it read earlier instead of showing nothing.
- The first start after a game update takes a few seconds longer while
  Service Record reads the game's file lists once; later starts are as fast
  as before.

NEW: PILOT'S NOTES

Open "Pilot's Notes" from the top of the Service Record.

- The game's own handbook for the aircraft you fly: the type of your latest
  sortie, or your squadron's before the first one. All eight flyable types
  are covered: F-51D, F-80C, F-84E, F-86A, Il-10, La-11, MiG-15bis and
  Yak-9P.
- The cover is a blueprint drawn from the game's own three-view drawings,
  with centre lines, dimension lines and a title block issued to your pilot.
  American types read as a USAF Technical Order; Soviet types as an
  "Instruction to the Pilot" in the lighter blueprint style with slanted
  drafting script.
- Characteristics: the full data sheet and the performance curves (speed,
  climb, G-load, turn time, engine power) drawn on graph paper.
- Flight Manual: start-up, take-off, flight, landing, restrictions and the
  engine-mode table, with the warnings in red.
- Cockpit Layout: every cockpit panel as a numbered drawing. Point at a
  number to read about that instrument; click it to keep the description
  while you look around, click again to release it.
- Historical Data: the type's development and service history.
- American aircraft give imperial units with metric in brackets, Soviet
  aircraft metric with imperial in brackets.
- Everything follows the Service Record language, using the game's own
  translations.
- Prints as a proper handbook: blueprint cover, white pages with margins,
  each cockpit drawing on the page with its heading and all its numbered
  descriptions.

NEW: SQUADRON PORTRAIT

Open "Squadron Portrait" from the top of the Service Record.

- Every pilot of the squadron on one formal group photograph, fifteen to a
  page, with rank insignia and name on each nameplate; the fallen are
  marked.
- The heading carries the squadron badge and the national emblem: the Air
  Force seal, the Navy and Marine Corps arms, the Soviet and North Korean
  coats of arms, and the PLA Air Force star for Chinese squadrons.
- Click a pilot to open their record. The portrait prints in landscape.

AWARDS MOD

- The Distinguished Flying Cross now follows the highest Air Medal (one
  silver oak leaf cluster), as the game's own awards file does since the
  October updates. Decorations already awarded are kept.

OTHER CHANGES

- Reserve pilots on the roster now carry a stamp instead of plain text.

DOWNLOAD

    https://github.com/1-Arrow-1/IL2-Korea_Service_Record/releases/tag/v2.6.0 --> outdate, newer version available

Installer  IL2_Korea_Service_Record_Setup_v2.6.0.exe
           SHA-256  6935bcf7e6a754736605cf1b6895918ba61b622981d1017f7078c597c54f6c2a

Zip        IL-2.Korea.Service.Record.v2.6.0.zip
           SHA-256  442a70fca2d663269025e97b753dd076f94e4488bdfa7e20b8044b0dbc034582

The installer, Service Record and Career Helper are Authenticode signed.
Existing installations can update from the Update page in Career Helper.
 

Edited October 15 by Arrow_1974
Newer version available

[Viking1]

Wow.. awesome. Glad you include a paypal donation option its well deserved!

[Arrow_1974]

@Viking1

Quote

Glad you include a paypal donation option its well deserved!

Feel free to use that option 😉😬😎

[Arrow_1974]

IL-2 Korea Service Record 2.6.1 — In Memoriam, unit histories and the 1.005 follow-ups

Gentlemen,

2.6.1 gives the squadron's fallen a place of their own, opens the history
of every unit, and catches up with a few things the game update of
13 October changed.

NEW: IN MEMORIAM

Open "Squadron Portrait" and press "Memorial" in its toolbar. The button
appears once your squadron has lost someone.

- The killed in action rest in a cemetery of their own country, each with
  a headstone cut as it would have been at the time:
  - United States: the white government headstone, with name, rank and
    service, unit, KOREA, dates of birth and death, and the decorations
    the pilot held (DFC, AM, PH and so on).
  - Soviet Union: an obelisk with a red star and the pilot's portrait in
    an enamel oval, his rank, surname, first name and patronymic, and the
    years, in Russian.
  - China: a Volunteers' martyr's stone with red characters read from the
    right: unit and post, the name with "tomb of the martyr", and the day
    he fell.
  - North Korea: Hangul under the star: regiment, rank, name and dates.
- Flowers lie at some of the graves, as visitors leave them.
- The missing in action have no grave. Their names are engraved on a
  memorial wall instead, among the names of all the others the wall
  records, under its dedication in the country's own language (point at
  it for the translation), with a wreath before it and words on its
  ribbons.
- Point at a stone or a name to see the pilot's photograph, rank, dates
  and highest decoration in your language. Click it to open his record.
- The game records a birth date only for the player. For the AI pilots
  the memorial gives a plausible one for their rank, which never changes.

SQUADRON PORTRAIT

- The portrait now shows the squadron as it stands, active pilots and
  reserve; the fallen have their place on the memorial.
- American squadrons stand before the flag of 1951, with its 48 stars.
- The photographs look like one series taken for the portrait: the same
  tone and grain, the cloth's folds running over them, and each name on
  a small paper label pinned beneath.

NEW: UNIT HISTORY

- Click the squadron emblem in Squadron Statistics, or the new "Unit
  history" link under it, to read the game's own history of the unit,
  from its formation to Korea, on the paper of the service record.
- Every squadron the game has a history for: American, Soviet, Chinese
  and North Korean, in your language.

AFTER THE GAME UPDATE OF 13 OCTOBER

- The two new AI pontoon ferries, the American M2 and the Soviet N2P, have
  no name in the game. Service Record now names them in all six
  languages instead of listing a sunk one as scenery.
- A ship you sink is now counted once. The game added a ship subtotal to
  its kill statistics, which earlier versions counted a second time in
  your ground targets.
- Combat reports and debriefings no longer show map labels such as
  "FARICON" or "AAA" after a destroyed ground target. A victim's name is
  shown only for aircraft, where it is the pilot.

AWARDS MOD

- Bronze Star Medal with "V" device: no longer awarded. The V was for
  valour in ground combat, which the game does not model, so it came down
  to chance and turned up far too often. Medals already awarded are kept,
  and their holders still receive their oak leaf clusters.
- Senior Pilot Wings now need 70 completed sorties (was 60), or 200 flying
  hours as before. Wings already awarded are kept.
- The award progress list no longer offers a decoration the game will not
  give: an award that a higher one has replaced no longer counts as held.

OTHER CHANGES

- The version number is shown next to the title on the start page.
- Career Helper windows carry the Service Record icon.
- Service Record and Career Helper are now built differently. The
  installation folder looks different, and the update tidies up the old
  files.

DOWNLOAD

    https://github.com/1-Arrow-1/IL2-Korea_Service_Record/releases/tag/v2.6.1 --> outdated, newer version available

Installer  IL2_Korea_Service_Record_Setup_v2.6.1.exe
           SHA-256  93b8affa09ed928c56ac9d36c672a9f04c34a8908ce940d9f5c0af14915df048

Zip        IL-2.Korea.Service.Record.v2.6.1.zip
           SHA-256  c85513d9658a52b39b021b052a343b61be6c24b5af4ce6008be58aa23feaffe7

The installer, Service Record and Career Helper are Authenticode signed.
Existing installations can update from the Update page in Career Helper.

Edited October 17 by Arrow_1974
Newer version available

[Patricks]

3 hours ago, Arrow_1974 said:

IL-2 Korea Service Record 2.6.1 — In Memoriam, unit histories and the 1.005 follow-ups

Gentlemen,

2.6.1 gives the squadron's fallen a place of their own, opens the history
of every unit, and catches up with a few things the game update of
13 October changed.

NEW: IN MEMORIAM

Open "Squadron Portrait" and press "Memorial" in its toolbar. The button
appears once your squadron has lost someone.

- The killed in action rest in a cemetery of their own country, each with
  a headstone cut as it would have been at the time:
  - United States: the white government headstone, with name, rank and
    service, unit, KOREA, dates of birth and death, and the decorations
    the pilot held (DFC, AM, PH and so on).
  - Soviet Union: an obelisk with a red star and the pilot's portrait in
    an enamel oval, his rank, surname, first name and patronymic, and the
    years, in Russian.
  - China: a Volunteers' martyr's stone with red characters read from the
    right: unit and post, the name with "tomb of the martyr", and the day
    he fell.
  - North Korea: Hangul under the star: regiment, rank, name and dates.
- Flowers lie at some of the graves, as visitors leave them.
- The missing in action have no grave. Their names are engraved on a
  memorial wall instead, among the names of all the others the wall
  records, under its dedication in the country's own language (point at
  it for the translation), with a wreath before it and words on its
  ribbons.
- Point at a stone or a name to see the pilot's photograph, rank, dates
  and highest decoration in your language. Click it to open his record.
- The game records a birth date only for the player. For the AI pilots
  the memorial gives a plausible one for their rank, which never changes.

SQUADRON PORTRAIT

- The portrait now shows the squadron as it stands, active pilots and
  reserve; the fallen have their place on the memorial.
- American squadrons stand before the flag of 1951, with its 48 stars.
- The photographs look like one series taken for the portrait: the same
  tone and grain, the cloth's folds running over them, and each name on
  a small paper label pinned beneath.

NEW: UNIT HISTORY

- Click the squadron emblem in Squadron Statistics, or the new "Unit
  history" link under it, to read the game's own history of the unit,
  from its formation to Korea, on the paper of the service record.
- Every squadron the game has a history for: American, Soviet, Chinese
  and North Korean, in your language.

AFTER THE GAME UPDATE OF 13 OCTOBER

- The two new AI pontoon ferries, the American M2 and the Soviet N2P, have
  no name in the game. Service Record now names them in all six
  languages instead of listing a sunk one as scenery.
- A ship you sink is now counted once. The game added a ship subtotal to
  its kill statistics, which earlier versions counted a second time in
  your ground targets.
- Combat reports and debriefings no longer show map labels such as
  "FARICON" or "AAA" after a destroyed ground target. A victim's name is
  shown only for aircraft, where it is the pilot.

AWARDS MOD

- Bronze Star Medal with "V" device: no longer awarded. The V was for
  valour in ground combat, which the game does not model, so it came down
  to chance and turned up far too often. Medals already awarded are kept,
  and their holders still receive their oak leaf clusters.
- Senior Pilot Wings now need 70 completed sorties (was 60), or 200 flying
  hours as before. Wings already awarded are kept.
- The award progress list no longer offers a decoration the game will not
  give: an award that a higher one has replaced no longer counts as held.

OTHER CHANGES

- The version number is shown next to the title on the start page.
- Career Helper windows carry the Service Record icon.
- Service Record and Career Helper are now built differently. The
  installation folder looks different, and the update tidies up the old
  files.

DOWNLOAD

    https://github.com/1-Arrow-1/IL2-Korea_Service_Record/releases/tag/v2.6.1

Installer  IL2_Korea_Service_Record_Setup_v2.6.1.exe
           SHA-256  93b8affa09ed928c56ac9d36c672a9f04c34a8908ce940d9f5c0af14915df048

Zip        IL-2.Korea.Service.Record.v2.6.1.zip
           SHA-256  c85513d9658a52b39b021b052a343b61be6c24b5af4ce6008be58aa23feaffe7

The installer, Service Record and Career Helper are Authenticode signed.
Existing installations can update from the Update page in Career Helper.

 

Good to see the 1.005 "encrypted file" update didn't kill your app as it did some MP servers!