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TACTICAL
AIR POWER
IN THE
ETO
Prepared by
ASSISTANT CHIEF OF THE AIR STAFF
INTELLIGENCE
HISTORICAL DIVISION
Battle For Europe
Combat Flight Simulator
3
Microsoft
Joystick Commands
ACTION JOYSTICK COMMAND
Bank (ailerons)............... Move stick left or right
Pitch (elevator)........ Move stick forward or backward
Yaw (rudder)........ Twist stick (if feature available)
View direction......................... Move hat switch
Pan/Snap To view (toggle).................. SCROLL LOCK
Fire guns and cannon................ (Trigger) Button 1
Fire cannon................................... Button 2
Release ordnance.............................. Button
3
Cycle ordnance................................ Button
4
Flaps down.................................... Button
5
Flaps up...................................... Button
6
Next target................................... Button
7
Padlock on/off................................ Button
8
HAT SWITCH
DO NOT LOAN
THROTTLE
UNCLASSIFIED
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Table of Contents
The Tactical Air War........................ 3
What’s New to This Theater?................. 7
Preparing for Combat........................ 9
Installing Combat Flight Simulator 3 ... 10
Starting Combat Flight Simulator 3 ..... 12
Calibrating your joystick .............. 13
Setting game options ................... 14
Learning to fly and fight .............. 15
The Main Screen: Four Game Modes........... 17
Quick Combat ........................... 17
Missions ............................... 24
Campaign ............................... 25
Multiplayer ............................ 27
On the Fly................................. 29
Tips and Tricks ........................ 30
Additional Resources....................... 33
Handbooks .............................. 33
Online Help ............................ 35
Combat Flight Simulator Web site ....... 36
Technical Support Options .............. 37
Table of Contents
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The Tactical Air War
So you thought you were going to be a
“knight of the air,” jousting high in the clean
blue sky, far above the mud and squalor of the
war on the ground.
Instead you nd yourself in a ghter-bomber,
scraping over hostile territory at 200 feet with
Air Force Historical Research Agency Photo
the terrain rising to meet you. You’re ying
down the muzzles of antiaircraft guns to attack
the enemy. If cannon re doesn’t get you, the
blast and debris from your own low-level bombing
and strang can bring you down. In this kind of
war, there’s more danger and less glory.
WELCOME TO THE TACTICAL AIR WAR, PAL!
You’re going to use planes like the P-47
“Thunderbolt,” the Fw 190, and the Hawker
Tempest V to stop the enemy’s advance by
destroying his entire arsenal. If you destroy
enough targets, you can change the shape of
the front line and even nd yourself in the
cockpit of a super-secret plane that has not
yet entered service.
The enemy means to dominate the European
Theater of Operations (ETO), and we can’t let
that happen. There’s a lot to do in this war-let’s get to it!
The Tactical Air War
LET’S GET TO IT!
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THE MISSION OF THE TACTICAL AIR FORCE
* * *
MISSIONS
FIRST PRIORITY
SECOND PRIORITY
THIRD PRIORITY
..........
-from War Department Field Manual FM 100-20:
THE MISSION OF THE TACTICAL AIR
FORCE CONSISTS OF THREE PHASES OF
OPERATIONS IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER
OF PRIORITY:
TO GAIN THE NECESSARY DEGREE OF
....
AIR SUPERIORITY. THIS WILL BE
ACCOMPLISHED BY ATTACKS AGAINST
AIRCRAFT IN THE AIR AND ON THE
GROUND, AND AGAINST THOSE ENEMY
INSTALLATIONS THAT HE REQUIRES
FOR THE APPLICATION OF AIR POWER.
TO PREVENT THE MOVEMENT OF HOS
...
TILE TROOPS AND SUPPLIES INTO THE
THEATER OF OPERATIONS OR WITHIN
THE THEATER.
TO PARTICIPATE IN THE COMBINED
....
EFFORT OF THE AIR AND GROUND
FORCES, IN THE BATTLE AREA, TO
GAIN OBJECTIVES ON THE IMMEDIATE
FRONT OF THE GROUND FORCES.
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Command and Employment of Air Power
(21 July 1943)
THREE CRITICAL FACTORS FOR
FIGHTER-BOMBER PILOTS
...strafing passes... bring out three criti-
cal factors in a fighter-bomber pilot’s war....
One, any misjudgment, target fixation, or too-late
attempts at aiming corrections will send the airplane into the target, ground, or nearby trees or
other obstructions. Two, if the target is a load
of ammunition or other explosives, it can--and very
likely will--explode right in the pilot’s face,
sending up a fireball, truck parts, slabs of highway, still-to-explode ammo, and other debris right
into the path of the airplane. Three, if a pilot is
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seriously hit by flak in [a] low-altitude attack,
his chances of ever reaching enough altitude to
allow a bailout are slim indeed....
-From Bill Colgan,
World War II Fighter-Bomber Pilot
The Tactical Air War
Read more about the
war in Understanding
the Tactical Air
War, a handbook in
PDF format found on
the Combat Flight
Simulator 3 compact
disc.
Air Force Historical
Research Agency Photo
B-26 MARAUDERS OVER FRANCE.
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What’s New to This Theater?
Previous versions of Microsoft® Combat
Flight Simulator focused mainly on the deadly
aerial ballet of dogghting. This time around,
it’s you versus the entire ground army: their
guns, hardware, and planes. The tactical air
war is messy, personal, and very dangerous.
Air Force Historical Research Agency Photo
To ght this war, you can choose from 18
aircraft (with variants, you get a total of
34 planes). The Aircraft section on page 19 of
this manual has more information about planes,
as does the
on the compact disc. To view this handbook,
click the Options tab, click Handbooks, and then
click Machines of War. Whether you’re a rookie
or a veteran, you’ll nd an appropriate plane
for any mission you undertake.
You also get to take on new roles, like
gunner and bombardier. Some of the bigger ships,
like medium bombers, have gun positions and
people need to man those guns--people like you.
Use the F8 key to hop to the different gunner
positions on a plane. Or, use the F7 key to
jump into the bombardier’s seat. Whatever you
do, don’t drop bombs on your own troops!
Ready? Good! Let’s get you in the air!
Machines of War
handbook included
What’s New to This Theater?
LET ’EM HAVE IT
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Preparing for Combat
Getting into the war is easy--follow the
steps below to ready your gear and ying skills
for battle.
1. Install Combat Flight Simulator 3.
2. Start Combat Flight Simulator 3.
3. Calibrate your joystick.
Air Force Historical Research Agency Photo
4. Select or adjust hardware and software
settings.
5. Learn how to y and ght with the handbooks,
movies, and missions provided with CFS3.
These steps are discussed on the pages that
follow. Read on.
Air Force Historical
Research Agency Photo
Preparing for Combat
WE’RE IN TO WIN
PILOT BRIEFING IN FRANCE,
1944.
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