B-17 G Hires updated # 2 version for European Air War.

This skin represents "Ruth Anne", a B-17 G-100-BO, S-N 43-38881, from the 457th BG, 750th BS, based at Glatton, 1944.  This aircraft was piloted by Lt. John E. Godwin on a mission to Dresden on 14th February 1945.  It took some flak damage over the target and made a forced landing on the continent, with all crew returning safely.  Due to the long range of the mission, eight other 457 BS aircraft also landed on the continent to refuel.

Pilot               Lt John E. Godwin   
Copilot             Lt Kenneth W. Morrow   
Bombardier          Lt Robert F. Kellow   
Toggleer            Sgt Frank J. Clark   
Aircraft Engineer   Sgt George Kakeh   
Radio Operator      Sgt Andrew McCormick   
Left Waist Gunner   Sgt James Conklin   
Right Waist Gunner  Sgt Raymond P. Kimmell   
Ball Turret Gunner  Sgt Vincent Ligueri   
Tail Gunner         Sgt Paul Bernstel 
  

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Instalation.
Extract all the .tpc and .3dz files to your EAW folder, or if using a skin/file manager, refer to it's instructions.  This zip has been optimized for OAW use - simply ensure winzip's "use folder path" is checked, then extract the files to your OAW folder, and the skin will be put in an "A-06 HR G 457th BG NMF" folder.

Extras included but not needed for instalation -
I've included both the batchfiles for PCX to TPC, and TPC to PCX for any prospective skinners out there, and a screenie.  To use the Batchfiles, just place the files you want to convert, the Batchfiles, and the Picpac / gpmtpc2pcx.exe's all in the same folder, and double click the batchfile.  If you don't have Picpac.exe or gpmtpc2pcx.exe, they are available at my Ad-ons page at Sandbaggers.

Credits -
Thanks to Col. Gibbon for the original HR-B-17 3dz, and for some of it's textures.
+mia for the use of some textures, and the BUMP I needed to finish this.
Paulo Morais and Binni for the original work on the chin turret.
Mosi for another timely BUMP,
Illu for the radio wire idea,
Charles, Andy + Pobs for the transparent shadow idea.
Sandbagger (in advance!) for hosting the skin.
Migge and Ghostboy for the MEX file which is mostly their work.
Mr. Johnson for discovering how to fix the engine shutdown problems.
3dz mods and skin done by myself.

References-
"B-17 Flying Fortress" by Martin Bowman
457 BG Website - http://www.457thbombgroup.org/

If you have any problems, questions, comments or hatemail don't hesitate to contact me, either at the SimHQ EAW message board, or by Email.
Enjoy!

John "Chompy" Masters,
19 August 2004.
jdmasters@ozemail.com.au
http://www.sandbaggeruk.com/chompy.html
