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[boogabooga]

I saw a post gathering information for a new forgotten countries, it reminded me of something.

We've long had a "blue" side clone of the US Army Air Force. I'm not sure if this is known by the international mod community, but the United Staes Air Force emerged as a seperate service branch in 1947 and was completely reorganized from its WWII predecessor.  It hadn't given this much concern in the past, but with the "Il-2 1956" concept gaining some seriousness, I think this might deserve a look. This Wikipedia article has the units that served in Korea:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAF_Units_and_Aircraft_of_the_Korean_War


For that matter, several Commonwealth countries had postwar roundel changes corresponding to greater autonomy from the RAF (Canadian mapel leaf, Australian kangaroo, South African gazelle, etc.). I think to some extent in previous implementations of natioanlity mods, there has been some confusion between these postwar airforces and WWII era Article XV squadrons. I don't know all of the details about this, I just say this for discussion sake. 
 


 

[Pursuivant]

I think this would be a good idea. It makes a lot of sense to have the USAF as a separate "country" for Blue, both for postwar installations of IL2 and because it nicely separates the post-war US markings from WW2 era markings. Likewise, if hasn't already been done, there should be blue side versions of the USN and USMC.

Having blue-side post-war versions of the various Commonwealth air forces also makes sense for the same reason: RCAF with maple leaf roundel, RAAF with kangaroo, RNZAF with kiwi, SAAF with springbok.

[That guy who likes wheat]

I think this would be a good idea. It makes a lot of sense to have the USAF as a separate "country" for Blue, both for postwar installations of IL2 and because it nicely separates the post-war US markings from WW2 era markings. Likewise, if hasn't already been done, there should be blue side versions of the USN and USMC.

Having blue-side post-war versions of the various Commonwealth air forces also makes sense for the same reason: RCAF with maple leaf roundel, RAAF with kangaroo, RNZAF with kiwi, SAAF with springbok.

Romania switched roundels too. That would make RoAF liveries easier.

[NobleNerd]

To be honest, I kind of wish we had red and blue versions of all nations and their various military branches... being the sucker for alternate histories that I am.