Wrong.

Last version of original IL2 was 1.2, which came out in the fall of 2002.

1.04 was out in spring of 2002. In 2003 we had Forgotten Battles.

I have all the old patches, readme notes an everything else if anyone ever needs them. I even have them all on the same cd discs I saved them on after downloading them via dial-up, which sometimes took a dozen hours!

All these files have dates of when they went on the cd or hard drives they are saved on.