High Resolution P-47 C/D Razorback for European Air War by Microprose.

"Ace-In-A-Day" Series
This skin represents "11", a P-47D (sud-type & serial number unknown), flown by Capt. Herschel 'Herky' Green, Commander of the 317th FS, 325th FG, 15th.AF based at Celone, Italy, circa February 1944.  This was the personal mount of Capt. Green from January to September of 1944. Capt. Green was not only the ranking P47 ace in-theatre but also was the AAF's top scoring pilot of the MTO with a total of 18 victories. His Ace-In-A-Day mission came on January 30, 1944 in a borrowed P-47 named "The Star of Altoona". On this early morning mission Capt. Green with 61 other P-47s of the 325thFG. crossed the Adriatic Sea at wave top height with the objective of catching the Luftwaffe in the Villaroba area on the ground. Climbing to 18,000' once over the north Italian coastline the pilots of the 325th, now driving, engaged 20+ Me109s, 12+ Macchi 202s, several Focke-Wulf 190s, a couple of Ju88s that were climbing to meet them and a dozen Ju52s transports that were trying to escape the attackers. During the 35 minute confrontation Capt. Green was credited with 4 Ju52s, 1 Macchi 202 and a Ju88. At the end of this airbattle the 325th FG left behind 38 enemy aircrft destroyed and 6 probables with a loss of only 2 P-47s. For his day's work Capt. Herschel Green was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross......   

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Skinner's Notes:
The referrence for this skin was from the Osprey Aircraft of The Aces edition #30 "P47 Thunderbolt Aces of The Ninth and Fifteenth Air Forces".....
The Ace-In-A-Day mission information was taken from William N.Hess's book "America's Aces In A Day"......

During this skinning project I was unable to find complete documented information about "The Star of Altoona" in which Capt. Green scored his 6 victories. So, I decided to complete this project with a presentation of a skin of his personal mount at a time following his achievement.....

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This model is based on the HR P47D but has been given a major overhaul by John 'Chompy' Masters which include the following : -
- armour plate and 3d radio behind pilot.
- open canopy with gear down.
- Reshaped rear fuselage, 3d rudder and elevators
- 3d Turbo waste scoop
- Flaps with gear down.
- Wings shape has been smoothed out.
- Nose re-modelled
- No bar and wide view deflection cockpit.
- Rear view mirror (internal and external)
- High res Wingview.
- Damaged torn off wings
- Smaller prop to suit earlier versions up to D-22-RE and D-23-RA
- Reshaped transparent shadow file

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Chompy's Notes:
To get all these extras in I've stripped back and completely rebuilt the A, B, C, E and G 3dz's and written a new RS for them.  Instead of all having 255 elements they now have around 60-70, so there is plenty of room for adding new elements.  It may even speed up framerates?!

What's not fixed?
- The cockpit show through problems.  It IS fixable, but only by putting the cockpit elements back onto the F.3dz, which would require a huge 3DZ and RS rebuild, new PCX's and remapping the entire fuselage and prop.  Call me lazy - maybe one day, but not now!  The P47C has been a work in progress for over two years, so right now I just want it out the door.
- Also the open canopy mod has RS problems for similar reasons.
- With a wing shot off you will still have flap elements attached.  This is because I can't use two action codes for 'draw this when gear is up AND when wing is attached'.
- Probably some RS problems I haven't seen!

Installation
Extract all the 3dz and tpc files to your EAW folder.  If using OAW extract all files to your OAW folder making sure winzip's "use folder names" option is CHECKED.  Start OAW and the skin will be available for selection in the "A-02 HR 353FG 351FS" folder.  If you don't like the no-bar cockpit just delete the Pp47cV.3dz and Pp47cW.3dz files to go back to the defaults.

Credits and thanks go to :-
Skylark for being a great 'rivet counter' and second pair of eyes.
Gurney for his brilliant 3dz Studio.  95% of the element work was done with his program!
Alessandro for the old 3dz Studio - don't worry, it still gets used!
also for Converter 1.8 which was essential.
Can't find who made the original mex.pcx, but thank you.
3dz and skin by myself.

Enjoy,
John "Chompy" Masters
22nd August 2005
jdmasters@ozemail.com.au
http://www.sandbaggereaw.com/chompy.html
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This zip files contains al the 'readme', *.jpg, *.3dz, *.tpc and *pcx files
The *.pcx files have been provided for others to create their own skins.....

Copy and paste the *.3dz and *.tpc into your EAW main directory....and enjoy

Cheers mates