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[farang65]

Project 1

Celebes, Morotai Island and Halmahera Island 1944/45
Morotai Island Bomber and Fighter Base

History
Occupied by the Japanese. Morotai was the final island invasion in Dutch New Guinea before the liberation of the Philippines.

Liberation
The island was assaulted by the US Army 31st Infantry Division on September 15, 1944, meeting only light opposition. General MacArthur and Rear Admiral Barbey landed on the day of the invasion to make an inspection. At the time, the island had only five hundred Japanese defenders.  Nearby Halmahera, which was heavily fortified was bypassed.

Morotai Surrender
The formal surrender of all Japanese in the eastern half of the Netherlands East Indies occurred on September 9, 1945. More than 10,000 Australian and Allied troops gathered as Commander-in-Chief of the Australian  Military Forces, General Blamey accepted Japanese Second Army Commander, General Lt. General Teshima surrender of approximately 126,000.

Wama Airfield (Guama, Morotai, Moratai)
Built by the US Army for fighter aircraft, disused today

Pitu Airfield (Pitoe, Morotai, Moratai)
Built by Americans as a bomber airfield








The largest Spitfire Base in the world

Halmahera Island

 Location
L at 1° 0' 0N Long 128° 0' 0E  Visible from Moratai, this heavily fortified island had 20,000 Japanese soldiers on it. Wisely bypassed by Allied forces, the Japanese were left to stare, cut off from supply and their HQ until the end of the war.

Galela (Galeia)   Located on the northern end of the island & lake
Djailolo (Jailolo)   Located in central western coast
Ternate Island   Island to the west of central Halmahera
Hatetabako   Located on the eastern arm of Halmahera
Lolobata   Located on the eastern arm of Halmahera
Kaoe (Kau)   Located on the north-east coast of Halmahera
Sofifi (Oba)   Located on the north-eastern coast of Halmahera
Miti Island   Island off the eastern coast of Halmahera






Heavily fortified with 20000 Japanese military personnel



The map

100 pixals scale

White  Cats Textures    (upon consulting him previously)

Historically correct due to a multitude of research.

Project 2

Java (full island) including Bali

A few sneak peaks around Java





The beginnings of Jakarta






Jakarta (Batavia, Djogkarta, Jacarta, Djakarta, Jogkarta) Java Indonesia  

 Location
Lat 6° 10' 28S Long 106° 49' 46E  Located on the northern coast of western Java. Modern capital of Indoesia.

Wartime History
Japanese "western landing force" landed here on March 1, 1942 and occupied the city for the duration of the war.

After August 1943, a German U-Boat satalite station was located here, with the main base at Penang, used to outfit submarines for patrols in the Indian Ocean.

Tjililitan Airfield (Batavia)
Located to the south of Batavia

Tjisaoek Airfield
Located to the south of Batavia

Bandoeng West Airfield (Andir)
Located in west Java near Bandoeng

Bandoeng Airfield (Boea Batoe)
Located in west Java near Bandoeng

 
Location
Island at the southern end of Indonesia, seporated by the Sunda Strait and Java Sea. Located off the eastern tip is Bali Island. To the south is the Indian Ocean and north Java Sea.

Wartime HIstory
On February 27-28, 1942 Battle of the Java Sea Dutch, British, Australians and American Navy ships involved in this Naval battle with the Japanese, resulting in the loss of almost all their fleet. Next, During February 28 - March 1, 1942 the Battle of Sunda Strait consisted of several warships that had survived the Dutch East Indies Campaign and Battle of the Java Sea that were trying to escape the Java area. On March 9, 1942 Java surrenders to the Japanese, completing their conquest of Netherlands East Indies.

West Java
Western side of the island.

Jakarta (Batavia, Djogkarta, Jacarta, Djakarta, Jogkarta)
Located on the northern coast of western Java. Modern capital of Indoesia.

Tjilatjap (Chilachap,Cilacap)
Lat 7° 43' 60S Long 109° 0' 0E  Located on the southern coast of Java.

U.S. freighter Sea Witch delivered 27 crated USAAF P-40E Warkhaws to Tjilatjap.

Gerrit Harlaar adds:
"The P-40s that arrived with the Seawitch were shipped by rail to Bandoeng, where the ML-KNIL worked desperately round the clock to assemble them. Three were test-flown on March 7th but did not see any action. At least some of these P-40s were captured by the Japanese after Java's surrender on March 8th."

USS Langley (CV-1, AV-3)
Bombed off Java, scuttled on February 27, 1942

Kalijati (Kalidjati)
Located in Subang, West Java with airfield of Kalijati. Located 10 miles from Soebang.

Kalidjati Airfield (Kalijati, Karichagi)
Dutch airfield used by the Japanese

Tasikmalaja Airfield
Location Lat/ 7° 20' 0" S Long 08° 16' 0" E

Central Java
Center of the island

Yogyakarta (Jogjakarta)
Lat 7° 47' 60S Long 110° 22' 0E Located 100 miles inland from Jakarta.  Also known as Djokjakarta, Jokjakarta, Djogjakarta, Djokja, Jogjakarta, Jogyakarta, Jokyakarta.

Indonesian Air Force Museum
Located behind the main Yogyakarta airport. All aircraft are under cover and beautifully maintained in static condition. Their collection includes the following planes related to WWII also include a A6M Zero, Ki-43 Oscar, PBY Catalina, Grumman flying boat, P-51, AT-6, Vultee Valiant, C-47, B-25, B-26.

Djogjakarta Airfield
Located on the southern coast of Java

Magoewo Airfield
Alternate name for Djogjakarta?

East Java
Eastern side of the island. To the north of is Madoera Island and east is Bali Island.

Malang
Located on the northern coast of eastern Java

Singosari (Singasari)
Lat 7° 53' 22S Long 112° 40' 7E Located near the northern coast of Java.

Djombang Airfield
Location Lat 7° 40' 0" S Long 112° 15' 0" E

Ngoro Airfield (Djombang South Airfield)
Located to the north of the main road to Ngoro and Wonosari village

Surabaja (Surabaya, Soerabaja)
Lat 7° 15' 0S Long 112° 45' 0E Located on the north coast of Java

Pasirian Airfield
Located on the southern coast of eastern Java near Mount Semeru

Madioen Airfield (Maospati)
Located on the southern coast of eastern Java near Mount Semeru

Bali  Indonesia
  

Location
Bali Island borders the Java Sea to the north and the Indian Ocean to the south. To the west is Java. To the east is Lombok Strait and Lombok.

Wartime History
Prewar Dutch colony. Japanese forces landed on Bali on February 18-19, 1942 and occupied Depasar and Bali for the duration of the war.

Denpasar (Den Passar)
Located on the southern coast of Bail.

Denpasar Airfield (Den Passar Field)
Prewar airfield used during the war

A-24 Dive Bomber Serial Number 41-15796
Shot down off Bali

PBY-5 Catalina Dutch Number 28-5MNE Y#73 Number 44
Pilot Robinson shot down February 25, 1942

Tulamben
Located on the northeastern coast of Bali

USAT Liberty
Sunk January 11, 1942 by Japanese submarine

Current work both projects

Detailing the coastlines
Repainting some texture areas
map-h work and river work.
Beginnings of populating

White Cat's Textures and BA _Shcattens rice paddy field textures



 

[SAS~Le0ne]

This is looking very good as always, we are lucky to get so many talented modders in this game

[SAS~Anto]

Nice work Morotai is an essential part of the Pacific campaign. In fact, very famous amongst the RAAF as it is where they got dumped by the USA and left to mop up what they couldn't be bothered doing. All the Spitfire pilots, now used to dogfighting from battles over Darwin and New Guinea, instead were assigned for months on end to ground pound Japanese positions.

After many months of strategically unimportant ground attacks, 8 senior pilots, included Australia's leading ace all tendered their resignation, in an event known as the 'Morotai Mutiny'. Whilst in general it didn't change much, it unfortunately cast the government and senior commands eye over the operations in Morotai and revealed a huge bootleg alcohol trade!!

Anyway, nice work as always Farang

[farang65]

Textures not definitive as yet.

Mass amounts of map_h work including rivers current work.

Gradually placing airfields as historically correct as possible.

I read something about the instigation but did not know it's official name as the Morotai Mutiny.

Was it Clive Cardwell and other Senior Officers who conceived the mutiny?

I recall reading about the 'useless' ground pounding missions.

It was though the largest spitfire base in the world at that time.

Will be a mission builders dream no matter what side your on.

[farang65]

Hi All,

The second pacific Project is up in the beginning post.

Part of Sumatra  a full Java island and a couple of other islands including Bali.

A beta version of these projects should be available around the new year. 

Definitely NOT two weeks haha. 

Cheers Kirby

[GerritJ9]

Big_yamato made an alpha map of West Java with south Sumatra about 4 years ago but I haven't heard from him for ages unfortunately- presumably he lost interest. I started on an East Java map to complement it but have made little progress unfortunately. Central Java saw almost no air activity with the exception of an air raid on Tjilatjap in March 1942 so this area isn't really worth mapping in my opinion.
If you are interested I can post these maps on my filefront page so you can download them and take a look. I can also help with photos/drawings of some of the airfields.
By the way, other important airfields were Semplak (near Buitenzorg), Pamungpeuk and Kemajoran, Batavia's main airfield.

[farang65]

Hi Gerrit,

I'm full steam ahead with these two projects.

I considered Java split or full but also considered the natural aspects of the islanbd as well as the history.

I've got a volcano with a lake in it which looks very cool. 

I've found one airfield in Central Java that was heavily camoflaged from the air and used by B-17's up until 1942

I have delved in to both areas quite a lot over the past few months.

However any help regarding past research would be vey appreciative.

I'm now quite good at pin pointing airfields and cities etc on a map.

Would be interested to see an ed map

I'll send you a PM. 

[Knochenlutscher]

Cool, finally would love to see this, we need KNIL playing grounds

[GerritJ9]

Even in 1940, Java was quite highly developed and including Central Java would require a lot of extra work to cover and detail an area which, historically, saw little aerial action. This was discussed in the topic "Interest in NEI maps?" at the AAA site at the time- unfortunately this topic has disappeared. Hence the split, also to include South Sumatra with West Java and given IL2's map size limit. But perhaps this limit no longer is relevant with the 1 GB exe?
My original East Java map project stretched from Semarang in the west to Kendari (Celebes) in the east. This would have included the airfields of Kendari and Makassar. Unfortunately I could never get it to load, so the idea of expanding it to include Balikpapan (important as its airfield Manggar was also used by the IJN during the Java campaign) was never even tried.

[Uufflakke]

This was discussed in the topic "Interest in NEI maps?" at the AAA site at the time- unfortunately this topic has disappeared.

Unfortunately only page 1 and page 8 of it has been archived by the Wayback Machine 

Page 1:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100205233139/http://allaircraftarcade.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2351

Page 8:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100205234017/http://allaircraftarcade.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2351&start=105

[GerritJ9]

Page 8 at least shows my original East Java map_T area plus big_yamato's West Java map_T. Anybody tried loading a map larger than the official IL2 map size of approx. 900x900 km (at 1:1 scale) with the 1GB exe? Unfortunately I erased the files for my original map project and I don't feel like making it again if it won't load because of its size.
Pity the other pages haven't been saved though.

[farang65]

Thanks Jerrit for the above links.

With this build I've covered Big Yamato's work and your older work up to the second island from East Java.

For all 

Maps progress;

September map_h work coastline/river detailing
(current work)

October refinement of textures historically correct airfield placement.

(I've placed a few historically correct airfields on both maps already to check work progress)

November Populating the two maps.
I populate by hand (as seen in Central America map) autopop looks too mass produced for me.

December Final populating and general detailing

Out around the New Year