IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles screenshots (new clouds and sky)

February 1

February 1

February 4

February 5

February 5

February 6

February 9

February 9

Stuka Sonderstaffel on the move (Circa early January 1943 pre Operation Koltso)

February 9

"See what the Boys in the back room will have..."

Edited February 9 by Blitzen

February 12

Iron Wind screenshots

Edited February 12 by Stonehouse

February 12

February 12

5 hours ago, Stonehouse said:

Iron Wind screenshots

Excellent!

February 12

February 14

Are there going to be French aircraft and maybe a battle of France campaign introduced?

February 15

11 hours ago, 555thTFSusafphantom2 said:

Are there going to be French aircraft and maybe a battle of France campaign introduced?

It's just skins I've made in a coop online mission made by a friend of mine.

Nothing official.

February 15

Mission 2 of the Iron Wind campaign.

I have a passion for radials like the 190 and the LA-5 since the beginning.

@BlackSixThanks for giving us this campaign

Best greetings

DP

February 15

February 16

Dawn Scramble Pitomnik January 14, 1943

February 18

I'm not sure if post-edits are allowed here in this thread, so I uploaded both with and without clouds edited in. If there's only one picture then the moderators removed one of them.

Just bought the game weeks ago and I'm having a blast.

Happy to be here, y'all! 😀

February 18

Nice job, and welcome!

February 19

February 19

Mission 04 of the Iron Wind campaign.

I came back on fumes...only seconds after making this picture - my engine was out of fuel and I made a glide to the runway...that was close :o:

Edited February 19 by easterling77

February 20

Yes, mission 4 is a real challenge. I was shot down the first two times. Third time, I was content to just survive and fly another day.

February 20

"Fly another day" makes the point!

By climbing to altitude allready seeing the furball over me - thinking "oh that will get worse every moment, I stay here."

The whole time, I was checking my high six. There was never the goal to get a kill - just don't get shot up!

I got one 109 which dived after another guy and flatend out in a shalow turn.

This kill came out of coincidence and luck, and right after that, I dived to the deck and back to the base with the feeling of expendet my luck for that day.

Surviving the mission by barely making it back to base, felt more relieving then ramping up high kill counts - that would only got me killed.

So, even the mission wasn't a long one, it gave so much thrill and challenge.

Thanks again to the crafter of this experience.

Best greetings DP :salute:

February 23

"Fighting Lady" & "Punkie II"

February 23

Due to testing a new version of AI Gunnery I seem to have had a lot of chances recently to take screenshots of the MC202s and their attempts to shoot down Li2s

Edited February 23 by Stonehouse

February 25

peekaboo

February 26

January 15, 1943

Adolf Fegelein's final landing in Pitomnik. He was ordered to take the transport plane out of the pocket

Parking one last time

Spoiler

Leaving the pocket as a passenger

February 27

Dunkirk Spirit

February 28

Close Call.

To survive the horrors of the Stalingrad front only to die at the very end.

Luckily Fegelein's plane was at the front (He's a passenger not pilot). His time in JG3 is coming to an end......for now

February 28

2 hours ago, cripplehawk said:

Close Call.

To survive the horrors of the Stalingrad front only to die at the very end.

Luckily Fegelein's plane was at the front (He's a passenger not pilot). His time in JG3 is coming to an end......for now

Officially, the last plane to take off from Stalingrad was a He 111 that flew from a hastily made airfield, Stalingradskaya. Nine soldiers were lucky enough to escape with it. But I've seen a source claim that two days later, an Arado 242 took off from a field inside the pocket. This was when the Platzschutzstaffel had long abandoned Pitomnik. Some soldiers escaped by foot all the way to German lines, only to be killed when their train back west was attacked by Il-2s.

February 28

March 1

11 hours ago, Sandmarken said:

Officially, the last plane to take off from Stalingrad was a He 111 that flew from a hastily made airfield, Stalingradskaya. Nine soldiers were lucky enough to escape with it. But I've seen a source claim that two days later, an Arado 242 took off from a field inside the pocket. This was when the Platzschutzstaffel had long abandoned Pitomnik. Some soldiers escaped by foot all the way to German lines, only to be killed when their train back west was attacked by Il-2s.

Very correct I should have clarified. This was January 15, 1943

The last day Pitomnik was an active base. That night the Soviets laid waste to Pitomnik with artillery barrages and "Rolling" bomb runs. It was captured on January 17, 1943 (Or January 16, 1943 per historian Christer Bergstrom)

Pitomnik wreckage below

One of the last Ju 52s about to start up at Ptomnik

Stuka Sonderstaffel earlier that month

Spoiler

Edited March 1 by cripplehawk
clarification

March 1

5 hours ago, cripplehawk said:

Very correct I should have clarified. This was January 15, 1943

The last day Pitomnik was an active base. That night the Soviets laid waste to Pitomnik with artillery barrages and "Rolling" bomb runs. It was captured on January 17, 1943 (Or January 16, 1943 per historian Christer Bergstrom)

Pitomnik wreckage below

One of the last Ju 52s about to start up at Ptomnik

Stuka Sonderstaffel earlier that month

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Never ment as a correction, just wanted to share what i find an interesting fact. 😁 I think most people see the last plane out as a ju52 as depicted in that stalingrad movie.