Check Your 6: WWII Air Combat

Under Southern Skies    The Darwin Campaign  Feb 1943 to Nov 1943  The book provides five campaigns and 35 scenarios covering the air campaign over Darwin, Australia and neighboring Japanese-held islands in 1943.

Guadalcanal: Floatplane Hell  This book provides three mini-campaigns and 10 scenarios under one cover. The first campaign follows the initial Japanese efforts to reinforce Guadalcanal in early October 1942 including the IJN Nisshin’s runs down the slot and combat between US B-17s and Japanese Floatplanes. The second campaign, recreates the fighting over the slot between 9-14 October, including the floatplane defense of Japanese destroyers and US Navy and Cactus Air Force attacks on shipping. The final campaign focuses on desperate US attacks including a torpedo-bombing PBY from 15-19 October 1942. The book also features some of this campaign’s legendary pilots including Kiyomi Katsuki, David Everitt, Elisha T. Stover, Jack Cram, Harold Bauer, and Leonard “Duke” Davis.

Road to Rabaul  The book provides four campaigns and 24 scenarios under one cover. The first campaign (5 scenarios) follows the beginning of the Japanese air campaign against Darwin, Australia from February to June 1942. The second campaign, recreates the desperate defense of Port Moresby, New Guinea from March to August 1942 with 5 scenarios. The third campaign (7 scenarios) focuses on the 5th Air Force assault on Japanese bases along the north coast of New Guinea in 1943. The last 7 scenarios concentrate on the US Navy and Marine Corps attacks against Rabual. The book also features some of WWII’s legendary aces including Thomas McGuire, Greg Boyington, George Welsh, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Shogo Takeuchi, Peter Turnbull and Les Jackson.

Days of Glory    The book provides three campaigns and 25 scenarios under one cover. The first campaign of 9 scenarios follows the beginning of the German air campaign over Belgium and France from 10-23 May 1940. The second campaign, recreates the intense combat above Dunkirk from 27 May to 1 June 1940 with 9 scenarios. The final 7 scenarios focus on the German drive to Paris from 3 June during “Operation Paula”, the attack on French airfields defending the City of Light, and the last forlorn attacks by French squadrons up to 25 June 1940. The book also features some of WWII’s legendary aces including Helmut Wick, A.G. “Sailor” Malan, Robert Williame, Werner Mölders, Ian “Hack” Russell and Rene Pornier-Layrargues.

Breaking the Luftwaffe    The book provides three campaigns and 26 scenarios under one cover. The first 9 scenarios follow the beginning of the US 8th Air Force’s escorted strategic bombing campaign over western Germany between October 1943 and January 1944; the next 9 scenarios recreate the intense combat during the “Big Week” air offensive in early 1944; the final 8 scenarios bring together the desperate fighting during Mission 250, the first daylight mission to Berlin. The book also features some of WWII’s top aces including Robert S. Johnson, Gabby Gabreski, “Bud” Anderson, Heinz “Pritzl” Bär, Anton Hackl, and Heinz Knoke. The scenarios can be played individually, linked to form three mini-campaigns, or combined as one grand campaign.

Aces Over Hungary  The book provides two campaigns in one cover: the first 11 scenarios show the evolution of the US 15th Air Force’s strategic bombing campaign over Hungary during 1944; the next 12 scenarios recreate the intense combat between Hungarian and Soviet air forces as the Red Army overran Hungary in late 1944/1945. As well as covering events typical of the campaign (ground attack, reconnaissance, dogfights) the book also includes WWII’s top ace Erich Hartmann, Stuka-ace Hans-Ulrich Rudel’s Schlachtgeschwader 2, a rare “balloon-busting” action, and unique prototype aircraft.

Falcon of the Duce  This book contains 16 historical scenarios for recreating the aerial campaigns of Italian Ace Franco Lucchini from 1940 to 1943. The scenarios can be played individually or linked to form a single campaign.

Guadalcanal The Cactus Air Force  This book contains 9 historical scenarios for recreating the aerial campaigns of the US and Japanese forces in Operation Ka on Guadalcanal between August and September 1942. The scenarios can be played individually or linked to form a single campaign using the unique CHECK YOUR 6! Paragraph Campaign System.

Over the Channel Battle of Britain  This book contains 18 historical scenarios for recreating the aerial campaign over England and France from October 1939 to January 1941 that can be played individually or linked to form a single campaign.

Pining for the Fjords  The book provides three campaigns and 25 scenarios covering Operation Weserübung Nord, the German invasion of Norway in the spring of 1940. The first 11 scenarios begin with each side’s attempts to interdict enemy fleet units just prior to the invasion and continues until Bomber Command leaves Norway at the end of April to prepare for the Battle of France. The next 6 scenarios cover the month of May and include a Stuka attack against HMS Ark Royal, the deployment of 46 Squadron (Hurricanes) and the second deployment of 263 Squadron (Gladiators). The book ends with 8 scenarios depicting the last aerial combats before the Allied withdrawal from Norway, British attempts to get revenge upon KMS Scharnhorst for the sinking of HMS Glorious, and one showing that an Allied air presence over Norway would continue until liberation. Scenarios can be played as one-offs, linked as a mini-campaign, or joined as the whole campaign.