Mod for Tuskegee Airmen

[XQ_Lothar29]

For days now, the idea of the Tuskegee Airmen has been on my mind.

Why haven't they created black pilots to recreate those pilots who fought against the Luftwaffe, but first fought against the bureaucracy and racism that still existed in the US at the time?

Is there any chance that one of our guys with magic in their hands could create a mod featuring the Tuskegee Airmen?

 

It would truly be one of the best mods.

 

PS: If it can't be done, then it doesn't matter, all the mods are incredible anyway.

[Skycat1969]

The maps we have aren't correct for the 332nd Fighter Group's historic missions. We'd need to fake their bases in Italy and the target areas in Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland, Austria, etc. Also, most of the group's missions were escorting B-17s and B-24s.

 

Maybe the U.S. pilot face can be unpacked and repainted. I don't know where the texture is in the files though.

 

The easiest mod would be to just assign blank 'Red Tail' skins to an existing P-51 squadron in the Rhineland career and remove or alter the fuselage codes on the aircraft. The U.S. fighter pilot model has an ambiguously dark complexion, and he looks plausibly African-American when he has his goggles on. However, the pilot roster photos would be white, mostly blond men. But ... you'd have flyable missions.

 

Scripted missions on a faked map (maybe Kuban) would be the best solution I think, because it could narrate a story.

 

[AEthelraedUnraed]

On 8/7/2025 at 11:58 PM, XQ_Lothar29 said:

Why haven't they created black pilots to recreate those pilots who fought against the Luftwaffe, but first fought against the bureaucracy and racism that still existed in the US at the time?

Why haven't they created Romanian or Italian pilots even though their planes are in game? Why haven't they created Turkic, Mongolian and Siberian pilots that were flying with the VVS at the time? Why haven't they created Indian or Caribbean pilots flying with the RAF? In contrast to the Tuskegee airmen, all of the following pilots flew on one of the maps we have in game right now, doing missions that we can fly right now:

(f.l.t.r. Amet-Khan Sultan, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, flew the Yak-7B over Stalingrad,

Jellicoe Scoon, flew Spits and later Tiffies over France and the Low Countries,

Mohinder Singh Pujji DFC, flew Hurris and Spits over France)

 

Answer: 1CGS doesn't have the time and resources to spend on such things.

 

The Tuskegee airmen certainly have an interesting story, but this story doesn't take place on one of the current maps (Italy) and doesn't feature a mission type that can be done right now (escorting heavy bombers). As such, I believe they belong at the bottom of the list of new pilot models to be created.

 

On 8/7/2025 at 11:58 PM, XQ_Lothar29 said:

Is there any chance that one of our guys with magic in their hands could create a mod featuring the Tuskegee Airmen?

I already did so, a while back. It should still work.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/pi4n9813mrwpgye/il2_black_pilots.zip/file

Note that because of limitations with the game, this changes the skins for *all* RAF pilots as well as *all* USAF fighter pilots except the P-47.

Edited August 9 by AEthelraedUnraed

[FilMit]

I understand your feelings, but there are restrictions? A certain template?
As for the black pilots, I fully support, in my temporary interval, a map and aircraft.

But, exaggerating, let's ask the developers to make all the Luftwaffe pilots blond like Erich Hartman, and not otherwise !!! You see, what am I talking about?

 

By the way, Amet-Khan Sultan, the Crimean Tatar, but looks quite Russian.