Morning All,
I am planning to make a campaign for IL2 of the Soccer War between Honduras and El Salvador.
One problem is finding the required skins for the aircraft involved (as my skills do not go to making them myself)
Now the game does not have the exact aircraft so I will have to make a couple of “poetic changes”
Does anyone know a link that I can get these skins or be willing to have a bash?
Honduras
C-47 – using C-47
F4U-4 – using F4U-1D
F4U-5 – using F4U-1C
El Salvador
C-47 – using C-47
FG-1D – using F4U-1D
P-51D – using P-51D-20
Thanks for any help
By: Moggy C - 10th August 2005 at 23:52
One can but try 🙂
Please do.
If you get it running can we play online please?
Moggy
By: KZ321 - 10th August 2005 at 23:04
You could change Harvards into SBDs (has been known on Il2) Storches as Cessnas?
By: Spiteful21 - 10th August 2005 at 23:00
One can but try 🙂
By: Moggy C - 10th August 2005 at 08:01
Thanks for that information.
It does, indeed sound like a recreation could be fun, though I fear you may be struggling to find many of the subsidiary aircraft in IL2.
Moggy
By: Spiteful21 - 10th August 2005 at 03:09
The “Soccer War” was fought between Honduras and El Salvador in 1969 and marked the final conflict between Piston engines Warplanes (including Air to Air conflict).
It’s called the Soccer War because it is generally thought that a World Cup loss was the catalst to start the conflict but it was just the match after years of tension over the number of Salvadoreans illegally crossing the border into Honduras.
The Orbat for the 2 countries was:
El Salvador
Beech T-34A Mentor x 1 – FAS-64
North American SNJ-5 texan x 3 – FAS 72,76,78
Cessna U-17A x 5 – FAS 80-84
Cessna T-41A x 5 – FAS 90-93, 95
Cessna T-41C x 1 – FAS 94
Douglas R4D-1 x 2 – FAS 101-102
Douglas C-47 x 4 – FAS 104-107
Goodyear FG-1D Corsair x 6 – FAS 202-204, 215, 219, 220
Canadair DC-4M x 1 – FAS 300
Cavalier F-51D Mustang II x 5 – FAS 400-401, 403-405
North American P-51D Mustang x 7 – FAS 402, 406-411
Douglas A-26B Invader x 1 – FAS 600
Honduras
Cessna U-17B x 1 – FAH 111
Cessna 185B x 1 – FAH 112
Cessna 180 x 1 – FAH 113
North American BC-1A x 1 – FAH 200
North American SNJ-4 Texan – FAH 202, 205
North American T-6G Texan x 3 – FAH 208, 208, 211
North American T-28A Trojan x 5 – FAH 212-216
Douglas C-47A x 3 – FAH 301, 304, 305
Douglas C-47B x 1 – FAH 307
Douglas C-47D x 1 – FAH 306
Douglas C-53D x 1 – FAH 302
Vought F4U-5NL Corsair x 1 – FAH 600
Vought F4U-5N Corsair x 4 – FAH 601, 605, 606, 609
Vought F4U-5 Corsair x 3 – FAH 603, 604, 607
Vought F4U-4 Corsair x 6 – FAH 611-617
Douglas C-54B x 1 – FAH 795
Sikorsky H-19 x 2
It was basically a draw at the end of the day, but a Honduran Pilot Capitan Fernando Soto scored 3 kills in one day in a Vought F4U-5N Corsair (FAH 609). Losses were Cavalier F-51D Mustang II (FAS 404 Capt Humberto Varela), Goodyear FG-1D (FAS 204 Capt Cezena) and Goodyear FG-1D (FAS 203 Capt Cortez).
By: Moggy C - 9th August 2005 at 23:10
Can’t help, but I know nothing of the ‘Soccer War’
Please tell us more.
Moggy
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August 9, 2005 at 10:44 pm