Welcome to the 'Fading Sun' campaign page, where you will find downloadable files for this campaign, created by 'RockHPI'. To download any of the files, just click on the link or pictures below.  4/January/2003

In December of 1943, Lt. General Shunruku Hata, commanding officer of the China Expeditionary Army, ordered an immediate aerial offensive against American installations to be followed by a massive land offensive in the spring of 1944. Operation Ichi-Go...was expected to realize several purposes. Chennault's airfields would be neutralized by the novel approach of capturing them with ground forces, a reliable land transport route would be established from northern China to Indochina, potential bases from which B-29[s] could strike the Japanese mainland could be destroyed and, finally, Ciang Kai Shek's Nationalist government could well be overthrown. By December, 1944, the railroad from Hanoi to Hankow was operating again...The very low priority accorded the China-Burma theatre ...restricted the Allied response to the Japanese offensive to a more or less ineffective air interdiction of supply lines. It was not until Gen. Albert Wedemeyer replaced Gen. Stilwell that the principal Allied focus shifted from Burma to China. The first task facing Wedemeyer was to halt the Japanese advance and, if possible, seize the initiative with a determined counter-offensive. Wedemeyer was given permission to make some use of the B-29s before they departed for the Pacific. The 14th Air Force mustered some 700 serviceable aircraft together with an adequate level of munitions, replacements and gasoline. They were at least on par with their adversary. For the first time in their operational history, the Flying Tigers could not use chronic shortages of manpower and equipment as the excuse for their troubles. They had the tools to get the job done. (extracts from 'Operation Alpha' by Malcolm Power in SSG's Run 5 Magazine) This is the setting for the 'Fading Sun' campaign. The campaign covers air combat in Southeastern China from December of 1944 to the end of March of 1945 (the P-47 campaign starts in January). On the American side, the P-47 and P-51 missions are mostly fighter-bomber duties, with some sweep and escort and an occasional interdiction. The P-40 missions are mainly sweeps and escorts. The Japanese missions are mostly intercepts with some sweeps and escorts.

FADING SUN (EAW) CAMPAIGN FILES

This is the campaign download for No.1 zip, created by RockHPI. (Size 700+K)	This is the campaign download for No.2 zip, created by RockHPI. (Size 700+K)

This is the campaign download for No.3 zip, created by RockHPI. (Size 800+K)	This is the campaign download for No.4 zip, created by RockHPI. (Size 800+K)