A Pack of Dogs (the Polish pilots nickname for fighter patrols) is a 34-mission campaign that places you in Russian Yak aircraft supporting the liberation of the Polish homeland at the end of WW2.
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https://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads3&file=details&id=3233History and Background by LarsAs a political expedient Soviet leader Josef Stalin allowed the formation of an air unit that would fly support for the Polish Land Army which advanced towards Berlin in the last year of WW2. The initial unit became the 1st Pulk Lotnictwa Mysliwskiego ‘Warszawa’ (1 PLM City of Warsaw) in July 1943. This was manned by Poles resident in the USSR, either from those forced to move during the 1939 battles or Russians of Polish ancestry. Russian officers controlled all aspects of the unit, much to the frustration of the Polish contingent. They were allowed no connection to the Poles flying in the RAF and thus they were not officially recognised internationally.
Several of the pilots in the 1 PLM were experienced fliers from 1939. They were initially equipped with the Yak1b and were allowed to show the Polish checkerboard badge as well as the usual VVS red stars. Operations began in August 1944. The Yaks were delivered fresh from the factory but the quality was not good so many were constantly being maintained to keep up flying numbers. From December 1944 the unit received up to 25 Yak 9Ds to supplement their Yak 1bs. From January 1945 the Ds flew two thirds of combat flights to the end of the war. Their duties were escort, recce and local defence. They made no claims for air kills but lost five pilots to flak. A few Yak7B and Yak 7V types were used but only for training. The Yak 9Ds did not have the Polish checkerboard, just VVS red stars.
They often escorted the 3 Pulk Locnictwa Szturmowego (3rd PLSz), formerly 611 ShAP, equipped with Il2m3s and nominally a Polish ground attack regiment. It began operations in August 1944 and usually was based at the same airfields as the fighters. Namely, Zadybie Stare, Sanniki, Bydgoszcz, Markish Friedland, Berneuchen, Leuenberg, and Mothlow. They flew 1500 sorties and claimed many ground targets including 15 trains, 2 ships, dozens of gun positions, thousands of enemy troops and one aircraft. A Pe2 unit was also formed but was not ready for combat until two weeks after the war ended.
In September 1944 the 3rd Dywizja Lotnictwa Mysliwskiego (3 DLM) was formed, comprising the 9, 10 and 11 PLM. These were previously the 248, 246 and 832 IAP and consisted of mainly Russian pilots with a few Poles included for appearances sake. They were equipped with mostly Yak9Ms, some Yak9Ts, and later a few Yak 3s flown by the leaders. They were allowed to add the Polish checkerboard on the fuselage but the main markings were the VVS red stars along with a one or two digit number.
They were involved in the operations around Warsaw, the Vistula bridgeheads, Pomerania, Kolberg and Berlin. In the last weeks of the war, notably around Berlin, the 3DLM claimed 16 air kills and four aircraft destroyed on the ground. They lost 12 Yak9s and one Yak3 with six pilots killed.
InstallationThis campaign was written and tested using the SAS BAT Mod Pack, available here at the SAS website:
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php?board=264.0It may work on other modded systems but the campaign uses Command and Control objects and Triggers, so many mission features would be lost or unworkable without these features. In many cases, enemy aircraft and targets will not appear without these features.
To install:
• Extract the PackOfDogs.zip file and the PaintSchemes zip file to a temporary directory and unzip them.
• Copy the decompressed Missions and PaintSchemes folders to your IL-2 1946 root folder.
• In the New Pilot Career page, choose Poland in the Air Force selection drop-down.
• Choose Pack Of Dogs in the Career drop-down.
• We recommend turning off No Instant Success for this campaign.
• The campaign is designed to be compatible with any rank selection.
CreditsMany thanks to the BAT team for developing, maintaining, and improving the BAT Modpack. A very special thanks to the late Ivan Uzin for creating the Poland maps. As in all of our campaigns, we make liberal use of Kurfurst’s mission templates, available at the Mission 4 Today site.
We all know how valuable skins are to campaign building and enjoyment.
Known skin credits:
• Yak-1B Dark Knight
• Yak-9D Dark Knight
• Fi-156 VP Media
This campaign also uses skins from the BAT install and we do not know the author(s). If you spot a skin here that did not receive proper credit please let us know and we will rectify the oversight.
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