Experience fierce aerial combat in the skies above the picturesque Northern Caucasian region of the Soviet Union. Your regiment is deployed to Slavyanskaya airfield, near the town of same name. You are assigned to the 57th GIAP, which was part of the 216th Mixed Aviation Division of the 4th Air Army, an elite Guards unit. Meeting Spitfires in the skies of the Kuban region came as quite a surprise to the Luftwaffe! Your regiment will be flying the famous British-built Spitfire Mk.Vb which was loaned to the Red Air Force via the Lend Lease program.
The campaign features missions inspired by the Soviet 37th and 56th Armies attack on the German 44th Army Corps west of the city of Krymskaya. Your character is a young Russian pilot from Siberia serving on the North Caucasus Front in late May 1943. This campaign requires IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad.Īchtung Spitfire! is a 20-mission single-player Scripted Campaign featuring a fictional storyline that is inspired by historical events. Time frame: November 29th - December 25th, 1942Īvailable aircraft: IL-2 AM-38 (model 1942) At the final stage of the campaign you will take part in the hardest battles on the Myshkova River, which determined the outcome of the entire German counter-offensive and sealed the fate of the German army trapped near Stalingrad. You are expected to search and destroy German transport planes in the air, to strike at airfields and troops inside the cauldron, and to conduct reconnaissance along the Stalingrad front. During this time-frame, Soviet command had to simultaneously solve several problems: disrupt enemy airborne re-supply operations, contain 284,000 German and Romanian troops who have been encircled, and repel a very dangerous counter-strike by the German 4th Panzer Army from the area of Kotelnikovo (Operation "Winter Storm"). This new historical campaign is dedicated to the Soviet ground attack aviation regiments during one of the most intense episodes of the Battle of Stalingrad in December 1942. This campaign requires IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Bodenplatte. The custom radio messages are in English language only. Note: Turn off the in-game radio to suppress the default radio messages to clearly hear the custom radio messages in this campaign. This campaign features realistic 9th Air Force operations, as well as custom radio calls. You’ll fly close air support, armed recon, supply interdiction and air to air missions and all events are taken from, or inspired by the actual events from the 365th Fighter Group history. Air operations from the Battle of Aachen, through the Battle of the Bulge, and the German air attack on New Year’s Day 1945 and beyond are represented. Flying the P-47D, or "Jug" as it was affectionately known to its pilots, the player will join the 365th FG / 388th FS and take part in supporting General Hodges’ First Army. The 365th was instrumental in supporting American ground forces that opposed the German Ardennes Offensive which would become known as the “Battle of the Bulge” in late 1944-45. History books called them the "Hell Hawks", the USAAF called them as the 365th Fighter Group, the Germans called them a terror. This campaign is inspired by the exploits of the 365th Fighter Group (388th Fighter Squadron) over Europe in the Autumn/Winter of 1944-45. This campaign requires IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Kuban. In spring 1943, the tide of the air war is slowly turning against the Luftwaffe, are you up to the challenge? Can you halt the Soviet advance? Your opponents are mountainous terrain, strong anti-aircraft fire and numerous Soviet, American and British-made fighters. Your objective is to attack artillery batteries, vehicle convoys, armored columns, airfields and battle formations of the advancing enemy. Staffel of the German ground attack unit II./Sch.G 1 and you will fly a modified attack variant of the newest Fw 190 A-5 fighter plane. You've just been appointed flight commander in 5. One of the largest and fiercest air battles on the Eastern front is ready to explode.
Both sides prepare for upcoming operations and are rapidly increasing the number or aircraft they can put into action over the Kuban. The German 17th Army holds the Kuban bridgehead firmly, repelling all Soviet troops attacks.
Spring 1943, the final stage of the Battle for the Caucasus.
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