Transports

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by shelby

shall we have transports for Great Britain and Japan for il2?

While it would be interesting to have British- or Japanese-built transports in the game, I would argue that the UK and Japan already have their most important transport type: the DC-3 or license-built versions of it.

Seriously.

While the British had a number of transports converted from bombers, they didn't have a successful native heavy transport plane until late in the war (the Avro York). In the meantime the U.S. supplied over 2000 C-47 to the UK and Commonwealth. Additionally, the UK and Commonwealth nations impressed or militarized existing fleets of civilian DC-3s.

In Japan, the license-built version of the DC-3, the Nakajima/Showa L2D, was built in far greater numbers than any other Japanese transport plane.

It's hard to understate the importance of the DC-3/C-47 on aviation history. It was the dominant transport plane of the late 1930s and early 40s; just about every nation on earth used it. In many ways, it was the first modern transport aircraft and some are still in commercial operation today!