Pori

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Author: Uwo

Last revision: 5 Feb at 17:57 UTC

File size: 1.81 GB

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Description:

Finland vs. Germany 1945. A fictional battle on a real airfield. You can find the mission under the bonus missions.
The map was created using Google Maps, and I used an airfield overlay from Pori to recreate everything. I took some liberties with it, however, since the overlay is from the 1950s and the airfield has existed since 1941. I placed a Finnish skirmish mission on it and adapted it. A few new vehicle skins were added for the Finnish vehicles, and some new camouflage nets and tent textures were also included. My goal was to create a nice Finnish airfield, and I think I succeeded. You are welcome to use the map further or modify it however you like. As always, everything is based on GoH and freely available for you.

Thanks to:

KapulA for adding the camouflage nets to the Panzer 4H.

TjDagger for his tutorial video on how to get the mission co-op ready.

Here is the story of the real airfield.

Feldluftpark 3/XI Pori

Feldluftpark Pori (FLP Pori) was formed on 17 July 1941 at Pori airbase. Unit was enlarged and re-named after 28.11.1941 when the major elements of Feldluftpark 3/XI arrived from Stettin. It was a field depot for larger aircraft overhauls and spare part service in Finland commanded during the whole war by Oberstleutnant / Oberst (1.6.43) Heinrich Piecq. On 15 July 1942 unit was re-named as Feld-Luftzeuggruppe Finnland but on 27 January 1944 it became Feldluftpark 3/XI again. Also Flak-Instandsetzungswerkstatt 3/XI located at Pori as well was subordinated to FLP Pori.
Feldluftpark 3/XI was moved to Rovaniemi in July 1944 and to Northern Norway in November 1944 but was disbanded in January 1945. FLP Pori (as it was usually called) was subordinated to Luftgau Finnland and since autumn 1944 to Kommandierender General der Deutschen Luftwaffe in Finnland.

After January 1944 Germans had a smaller airfield detachment called Koflug 28/III at Pori. It left Finland on 14 September 1944.