This campaign is a mostly historical commentary of the World War 2 exploits of the USS Essex. The US and Japanese task force compositions, ship names, dates, and most locations are as accurate as possible. In this campaign, the USN is on the offensive. Out of all the actions in which she participated, I chose a good, representative sampling of the major engagements of this great ship from her first action until near the end of the war in the Pacific. Random choice will have you flying either a fighter, dive bomber or a torpedo bomber or maybe as a wingman.

This is a quasi historical, 16 mission campaign, encompassing the World War II battles in which the Saratoga participated – from 1941-1945. I say “quasi historical” because there was so little information about the details of her engagements. Exact locations and composition of strike groups were extremely hard to find. I tried to keep the amount of downloads required low, but most were unavoidable with all the changes in aircraft and ships over time.

Proposed in 1944, the Macchi C.207 was equipped with a 1,750 hp DB 603 engined. The main change was an increase in armament. It was armed with four 20mm cannon mounted in the wings. Work began on the prototype, but it was never completed. After the War, Castoldi proposed a version equipped with a Packard Merlin engine. Italian authorities preferred to invest in a similar version of the Fiat G.55 and the Fiat G.59 was born.

The proposed Type 26 Global Combat Ship for use as an AI ship in CFS2, features landable deck and full weapons/damage profile. Also included are a sample mission to try her out and the .fsc source files for you to tweak in FSDS if you wish.

The C.205N1 first flew on 1 November 1942, with armament consisting of a 20 mm cannon firing through the propeller hub, and four cowling-mounted 12.7 mm (.5 in) Breda-SAFAT machine guns for which it carried 300-400 and 1,400 rounds of ammunition respectively. The maiden flight of the second prototype, the C.205N2, took place on 19 May 1943. It was equipped with one engine-mounted 20 mm cannon, two wing-mounted 20 mm cannon, and two fuselage-mounted 12.7 mm (.5 in) machine guns.

A Type 45 destroyer for use as an AI ship in CFS2, features landable deck and full weapons/damage profile. Also included are a sample mission to try her out and the .fsc source files for you to tweak in FSDS if you wish.

Barkhorn Realism Patch - hard to find. Quote from Combatsim.com "the AI wingman are little more than shadows in CFS2. Barkhorn's Realism Patch makes changes to all thirty USN missions."

Just copy to your CFS2 Aircraft folder. Files adds more details to your Ed Cooks Hart derivative biplanes.

With this beauty we close the Furies Series.

CFS2 adaptation of Ed Cook's Hawker Fury. Four Yugoslav planes, two Spanish (Republican and Nationalist) and one Danish Nimrodderne