by ramirez412001 » Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:39 pm
The work has continued for the last ten days or so, and thus far I've done the airbase layouts, frontlines, mission texts, and have written the campaign file. Much still remains, but here is a listing of the twenty-five missions that will be in the campaign...
Operation Frantic I - Destination: Piryatin
Operation Frantic I - Strike on Galati
Operation Frantic I - Return to Foggia
Operation Frantic II - It's a long way to Kiev
Operation Frantic II - Poltava defense
Operation Frantic II - To Foggia via Drohobycz
Operation Frantic II - Budapest fighter sweep
Operation Frantic II - The Arad raiders
Operation Frantic II - England at last!
Operation Frantic III - Ziliesta strike
Operation Frantic III - A fighter pilot's paradise
Operation Frantic III - Sweep over Bucharest
Operation Frantic III - Hungary for a fight
Operation Frantic IV - Romanian rescue
Operation Frantic IV - It's time to clear out!
Operation Frantic V - The 8th Air Force returns
Operation Frantic V - Escort to Trzebinia
Operation Frantic V - Get the hell out of dodge
Operation Frantic V - Supper at Leiston
Operation Frantic VI - Piryatin via Chemnitz
Operation Frantic VI - A long, boring ride
Operation Frantic VI - Mayhem on the Seine
Operation Frantic VII - Supplies for the underground
Operation Frantic VII - Do svidaniya, comrades!
Operation Frantic VII - The final mission
The campaign file...
"Operation Frantic"
Operation Frantic was truly one of the great "what-ifs" of World War II. Had it taken place beginning in the Fall of 1943 as originally intended, Germany would have truly felt the "squeeze" of Allied bomber attacks from both the East and the West, striking valuable military targets. However, by the Summer of 1944, the Soviets were about to begin an offensive that would propel them to the Eastern border of the Reich, and the Western Allies were about to come ashore at Normandy. As such, the value of the targets that 'Frantic' was able to hit were largely of marginal military value. In addition, this undertaking widened many existing rifts between the Americans and the Soviets, and in many ways the lack of cooperation during 'Frantic' foreshadowed the Cold War.
I'll keep plugging away on it, and see if I can in fact get it done by the end of August.
