JAPAN - a land of mountains and volcanos
More than 20 peaks in Nippon are higher than 10.000ft, we visit some in two historic scenarios:
- Hokkaido - the island gets an incredible amount of snow, which stays way into spring.
March 1945:
Japan and the USSR are not at war with each other but J.Stalin starts preparations for a northern invasion in summer. For this, you fly a lend-lease C-45 on a “maskirovka” recce-mission low over the mountains. Its a short hop from the russian Sakhalin peninsula - use the morning fog over the straits to your advantage. The airplane is painted as a JAF Kawasaki Ki-56 (BTW: a perfect snow-camo pattern, isn’t it?) and has cameras and listening devices on board.
(IRL the Sowjets did not land on Hokkaido but the adjacent Kuriles islands).
JAPAN_Hokkaido.PLN (5.2 KB)
- Nihon Arupusu - the Japanese Alps
August 1945:
Its the day after the Tenno’s capitulation: US-signal intelligence proofs that american POW-pilots are dispersed in remote alpine huts and hotels (visible in the sim). The men are undernourished, cut off from the outside world and need immediate help.
You fly a C-47 out of Iwo to the mountains behind Tokyo. Fly low along the peaks to find the premises and then drop parcels with food and newsletters. Show the prisoners that they are not forgotten and will be free soon. Use mighty Mt. Fuji as a final Nav-beacon for the flight home.
JAPAN_Alps.PLN (6.3 KB)