Operation Strangle

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Please watch in "High Quality"! "Operation Strangle" is a movie I made inspired by the real "Operation Strangle" during WWII in Italy. Its aim was to prevent essential supplies from reaching German forces in central Italy and compel a German withdrawal. From Wikipedia.com: "Operation Strangle was a series of air operations during the Italian Campaign of World War II by the United States Fifteenth and Twelfth Air Forces to interdict German supply routes in Italy north of Rome from March 24, 1943 until the fall of Rome in spring 1944. Its aim was to prevent essential supplies from reaching German forces in central Italy and compel a German withdrawal. The strategic goal of the air assault was to eliminate or greatly reduce the need for a ground assault on the region. Although the initial goal of forcing the enemy to withdraw was not achieved, the air interdiction of Operation Strangle played a major role in the success of the subsequent ground assault Operation Diadem. Two principal interdiction lines were maintained across the narrow boot of Italy. This meant that no through trains were able to run from the Po Valley to the front line, and that south of Florence substantially all supplies had to be moved by truck. The operation employed medium bombers and fighter bombers over a 150 square mile area from Rome to Pisa and from Pescara to Rimini." Disclaimer 1) I don´t want any discussing regarding "why did´t you shot him down bla bla", "P-47 vs. BF-109" etc. It´s a movie made from a game, and I want to show *SPOILER ALERT* losses on both sides. It´s true the Bf-109 had advantages over the P-47 at this low altitude so no need to discuss this. You also see two BF-109´s was almost shot down in the video, but managed to get away. It may seems there is only two BF-109 G6 engaging the Thunderbolts, but if you watch carefully in one scene, you will see more in the background. I forgot to add the scene where you see more incoming 109´s, so there was more than two 109´s in the battle. P-47D-27 late 1944 and enemy was BF-109 G6. Most of the flying is AI, but most of the guncamshots are by me. Have been playing Lock On too much so my deflection shooting is somewhat lacking at the moment...:) Highres download link: (1280X1024) http://files.filefront.com/Operation+Strangle+HD+1284avi/;11898578;/fileinfo.html Disclaimer 2) I admit I should have done some more research before doing this movie as all the skins for the video is wrong compared to real life. Also the last image in credits is an early D22 version (thanx Fogelmann.) My mistake for not having the later model. I just wanted to have a nice backgroundpicture for the credits while honoring the P-47´s! :)

Category: Film
Uploaded: September 24th, 2008 @ 11:22 pm
Author: RobertDamli

Length: 07:06
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Tags: 1944 50 airbattle bf-109 bombing cal convoy destroy dogfight ground groundpounding guncam il-2 il2 italy jug operation p-47 p47 strangle sturmovik tanks targets thunderbolt trucks wwii

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