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You are confusing Pages of History with other events.
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But ma vehicles
This looks cool!
Any plans to add this as a loading screen as well?
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AFAIK no.
Any chance we can get an augmented vehicle roster for the Battle of Midway event?
Every year up to now, the following vehicles which participated in combat had been missing:
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VMF-221 of the US Marine Corps operated a mix of F4F-3 Wildcats and F2A-3 Buffalos off Midway Island and were scrambled against the first Japanese raid on the island on June 4th 1942, resulting in the loss of 13 out of 20 F2A-3s and 4 out of 6 F4F-3s. This particular dogfight cemented the ‘dysmal’ reputation of the Buffalo in US minds, the aircraft frequently being called ‘the worst fighter of WWII’ as a result despite its stellar performance in Finnish hands. VMF-221 did receive a Presidential Unit Citation for their actions at Midway. For the F2A-3, it would be the only action which makes it viable for an appearance in the entire Pages of History series.
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VMSB-241 of the US Marine Corps operated the SB2U-3 Vindicator off Midway Island, and participated in the attack on the IJN Mikuma on June 5th 1942. For that attack, Captain Richard E. Fleming (posthumously) received the Medal of Honor. For the SB2U-3 Vindicator it would be one of only two actions that might get it into the Pages of History series; they were also present at Pearl Harbor during the attack (their contribution being limited to 'being blown to smithereens while on the ground at Ewa Field).
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The 22nd and 38th Bomb Group of the USAAF dispatched a total of five B-26 Marauders to Midway Island, four of which flew a torpedo mission against the Japanese fleet on June 4th 1942, resulting in 2 aircraft being lost and the other two being written off.
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The 31st, 72th and 431th Bomb Group of the USAAF dispatched a total of 17 B-17E Flying Fortresses to Midway, which participated in a number of attacks on the Japanese forces, dropping the first bombs on June 3rd (on Tanaka’s transport group) before participating in the first strike on the main carrier group on June 4th.
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VT-8 of the US Navy debuted the TBF-1 Avenger at Midway, with 6 aircraft operating out of Midway Island after the group missed its rendez-vous with the USS Hornet. They drew the type’s first blood on June 4th, which proved a costly affair with five out of six Avengers being lost during their strike against the carrier group, and the sixth being damaged beyond repair and returning with two injured crew and a dead gunner.
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No less than four squadrons of PBY-5 and PBY-5A Catalinas were based at Midway, for a total of 31 aircraft. A PBY scored the only successful hit of an air-launched torpedo at Midway, when the Akebono Maru was hit and damaged during the night of June 3rd-4th.
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I love it
Thats a shame, I love moments like this for laoding screens. It what makes the ww1 loading screen my favourite
AI slop lol
Atleast it looks nice.
But stuff like this is taking all of our RAM.
It was the same for the operation Vulcan mission a couple of months back. The only allied vehicles you could use to complete it were some US tanks. There were no UK tanks, and no US or UK planes.
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/Hcrvfg3ZMHjH
Operation Vulcan was also the banner you could earn from that whole pages of history, with that banner showing American P-40 planes, and British Churchill III and Crusader III.
It is also famously the battle where the Tiger 131 were disabled by a Churchill tank.
Generally, probably a lot of the individual pages of history mission, might need a look through so that they are up to date with the relevant vehicles that are currently available in the game.
Lol a big part of my family lives there, my great grandma had her house on the place Jeanne d’Arc where Wittman almost died
If only I knew the entire list of vehicles for every task in advance, I could go and have a quick check if some vehicles are missing. The problem is that they only show on the in-game tasks, not in the devblogs.
I have screen grabs of most of them;
I’ve been thinking about some way of publishing them, that isn’t a ton of data entry…
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Victory day, Russian Premium Tank, Meanwhile D-Day a Cover. Its fair not going to lie.
I couldn’t help noticing another vehicle oversight in one of the Pages of History challenges.
The upcoming Battle of the Philippine Sea mini-event lists the F6F-5, F6F-5N, F4U-1D, SBD-3 and TBF-1C as the US aircraft engaged in the battle.
However, Air Group 1 (USS Yorktown CV-10) and Air Group 2 (USS Hornet CV-12) of Task Group 58, Air Group 8 (USS Bunker Hill CV-17) and Air Group 14 (USS Wasp CV-18) of Task Group 58.2, and Air Group 15 (USS Essex CV-9) of Task Group 58.4 all had the SB2C-1C aboard.
Also, following classes of US naval ships were represented at the battle (but are missing from the list):
- The South Dakota-class of battleships, represented by USS South Dakota (BB-57), USS Indiana (BB-58) and USS Alabama (BB-60)
- The Atlanta-class of light cruisers, represented by USS San Diego (CL-53), USS San Juan (CL-54), USS Oakland (CL-95) and USS Reno (CL-96)
- The Bagley-class of destroyers, represented by USS Bagley (DD-386), USS Helm (DD-388), USS Mugford (DD-389) and USS Patterson (DD-392)
- The Farragut-class of destroyers, represented by USS Dewey (DD-349), USS Hull (DD-350) and USS MacDonough (DD-351)
This alongside the Gridley, Mahan, Gleaves and Benham-classes of destroyers, Wichita-class of heavy cruisers, and North Carolina-class of battleships which are currently not represented in-game.
(Updated: USS Gridley and USS North Carolina coming to the game in update 2.57)
Meahwhile, on the Japanese side, the following ships are missing from the list:
- IJN Yukikaze (was on escort duties for the 2nd Supply Force during the battle; was engaged against the USS Cavalla but unable to stop her from sinking the Shōkaku)
- IJN Myōkō and IJN Haguro (were part of A Force, escorting the carrier IJN Taihō)
- IJN Akizuki and IJN Hatsuzuki (part of A Force, with Akizuki rescuing survivors of the carrier IJN Taihō and providing AA protection for the carrier Zuikaku)
- IJN Nagato (part of B Force, strafed during the battle by TBF Avengers)
- IJN Mogami (part of B Force, although by then converted into an aircraft cruiser)
- IJN Yamato, IJN Musashi, IJN Suzuya and IJN Tone (part of C Force/Van Force, but ultimately not involved in the actual battle)
The following classes were also present:
- The Kagero-class of Destroyers, represented by IJN Nowaki and IJN Hamakaze (part of B Force)
- The Mutsuki-class of Destroyers, represented by IJN Uzuki (escorting the Second Supply Force, and rescuing survivors of the Genyo Maru on June 20th)
- The Hatsuharu-class of Destroyers, represented by IJN Hatsushimo (escorting the First Supply Force)
- The Momi-class of Destroyers, represented by IJN Tsuga (escorting the First Supply Force)
Additionally, the air group of the Japanese Carrier Division 3 (IJN Chitose, IJN Chiyoda and IJN Zuihō) carried B5N2 torpedo bombers alongside their A6M fighters and B6N torpedo bombers.
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Portland is there twice