387th Bombardment

[Chris21wen]

The 387th enters the game equipped with P-47N yet it a bombardment sqn in the game. I've looked on the internet and can find no reference to the squadron, only a bombardment group that was assinged to the ETO. Can anybody clarify.

[witpqs]

I can't, but I can tell you that if you are talking about the stock scenario there are lots of places where compromises had to be made (due to various game engine limitations), and plenty of outright errors and omissions. Some of the mods have addressed many of those. Further, the AE OB has been worked over by many of the mod designers working together, so when that's released it should be far more accurate.

Hope this helps.

[Chris21wen]

Scenario might help it's CHS Scenario 155.

[Iron Duke]

Hi
387th fighter squadron
Lineage: constituted on 27 apr 1943
activated on 15 may 1943
Assignments: 365th fighter group 15 may - 22 sept 1945
Operations : combat in ETO 22feb 1944 - 4 may 1945

taken from : Combat Squadrons of the Air Force World War 2
Office of the Air Force History
Edited by Maurer Maurer
page 475

Hope this helps

[timtom]

The sqds of 312th BG, one of which was 387th BS, trained on A-24's, A-36's, and P-40N's before deploying to SWPAC with the latter late '43. By early '44 the group had transitted to A-20's. The 387th sister sqd, the 386th, would transit to and operate the B-32 briefly before wars end.

[m10bob]

Several groups are in WITP that later earned legendary status in the ETO.. One that I recall is the 56th FG, ("Gabby" Gabreski's group), which likely had as many big aces as any group in the history of fighter history..It did start assigned either to the west coast ot the Pacific, I don't remember which.

[Yamato hugger]

Oh, frankly there is a lot about CHS that isnt historical. Like one thing that comes to mind is the 24th and 25th US divs. They are at full strength in Hawaii at start (when each should be missing a regiment) and they get the missing regiments that werent in Hawaii also. So right there the allies get 2 extra regiments.

[m10bob]

Oh, please don't get me wrong, the one I mentioned was in this theatre IRL before going to ETO.

[rjopel]

On 7 Dec the 24th Infantry Division consisted of the 19th, 21st and 299th Infantry Regiments.  Looks full strength to me.
(Does the 34th Inf Regt show up in CHS, I don't have it loaded on this system?)
 
On 7 Dec the 25th Infantry Division consisted of the 27th, 35th and 298th Infantry Regiments.  Looks full strength to me.
(Does the 161st Inf Regt show up in CHS?)

[Yamato hugger]

Yes they do.