I've recently installed IL2-46 under Vista 64, patched to 4.10.1m and have since installed UP3 and DBW. But both before and after the mods, when kicking off an RAAF New Guinea campaign with 453 Sqdn flying Beaufighters, on loading it up and selecting aircraft customisation, I see my unit is now listed as a US bomber squadron, nation US, and my plane has mid-war USAAF national markings. No other options are available. I remember having this same problem from a previous IL2 PF install, many moons ago. I got around it then by installing an RAAF Beau skin and disabling markings. But that shouldn't be necessary. With '46 and the mods I hoped this would have been long fixed but it's still happening.

Can't find a solution here, but have checked the campaign's status.dat file which shows further evidence of the problem:

20805 0
NewGuinea
20730-0.mis oUsAttackAF 154428.81 221375.19 4 2 0
BEAU21
USA_BG_003_BS_008z
8 0
0 0
0
Doe,John,Belfast,1910
1 USA_BG_003_BS_008z000 BEAU21 Doe,John
1 USA_BG_003_BS_008z001 BEAU21 Millar,Arthur
1 USA_BG_003_BS_008z002 BEAU21 Anderson,Malcolm
1 USA_BG_003_BS_008z003 BEAU21 Austin,Roger
1 USA_BG_003_BS_008z010 BEAU21 Rayment,Frederick
1 USA_BG_003_BS_008z011 BEAU21 Simms,Gregory
1 30SquadronRAAF100 P_40E None,None
1 30SquadronRAAF101 P_40E None,None
1 30SquadronRAAF102 P_40E None,None
1 30SquadronRAAF110 P_40E None,None
1 30SquadronRAAF111 P_40E None,None
1 30SquadronRAAF112 P_40E None,None

I'm guessing I could fix this by hand-editing the file which transposes or otherwise screws up the squadron data from 453 RAAF to this USAAF Bomb group, if I could find the source (wherever the status.dat file is getting that bogus squadron data from) and knew what to do, when I found it, but can't (find it), and don't (know what to do if I could).

Any pointers or suggestions would be gratefully received! TIA!

If I remember right my squadron kept flying into the hills in that campaign. Was that fixed?

The fix I am having you try will most likely not fix a campaign that is already generated. You will need to generate a new campaign to see any changes.

The problem is that the 453 squadron is not listed in the [OOB] list in the NewGuinea.DB file. The NewGuinea1.DB file has the same problem. Make a copy of the NewGuinea.DB and NewGuinea1.DB files before altering them just in case something goes wrong.

After making the copy of them open the original files and alter the [OOB] section to include the three missing RAAF squadrons.

Original [OOB] list.

There are several more squadrons listed but they do not need to be altered. We were lucky that the RAAF squadrons were listed first making them easy to find.

Altered [OOB] list.
(Notice the = sign at the beginning and end of the squadron list for the RAAF. It seems to be the way that DGen designates the end of a particular countries squadron list. New countries start a new line.)


The squadronsRA1.dat shows that the 453 squadron should be available but the [OOB] file in NewGuinea.DB and NewGuinea1.DB files does not have it on the list.

squadronsRA1.dat file

• 21SquadronearlyRAAF
• 21SquadronBRAAF
• 453SquadronearlyRAAF
  
• 30SquadronRAAF
• 75SquadronRAAF
• 76SquadronRAAF
• 77SquadronRAAF

The four squadrons that are blue in color are the ones that are shown listed in the [OOB] section. I made the changes to the [OOB] list that I mentioned earlier and when I generated the second campaign the squadron insiginias changed.

Career - 1 before altering the [OOB] list. (Notice that I have the same squadron as the one in your initial post.)
20805 0
NewGuinea
20730-0.mis oUsAttackAF 154428.81 221375.19 4 2 0
BEAU21
USA_BG_003_BS_008z
8 0
0 0
0
Doe,John,Gladstone,1908
1 USA_BG_003_BS_008z000 BEAU21 Doe,John
1 USA_BG_003_BS_008z001 BEAU21 Gowars,Augustus
1 USA_BG_003_BS_008z002 BEAU21 Garwood,Graham
1 USA_BG_003_BS_008z003 BEAU21 Lucy,Horatio
1 USA_BG_003_BS_008z010 BEAU21 Lamb,Gregory
1 USA_BG_003_BS_008z011 BEAU21 Holland,Anthony
1 USA_FG_018_FS_073z100 P_39D2 None,None
1 USA_FG_018_FS_073z101 P_39D2 None,None
1 USA_FG_018_FS_073z102 P_39D2 None,None
1 USA_FG_018_FS_073z110 P_39D2 None,None
1 USA_FG_018_FS_073z111 P_39D2 None,None
1 USA_FG_018_FS_073z112 P_39D2 None,None
1 USA_FG_018_FS_070z100 P_400 None,None
1 USA_FG_018_FS_070z101 P_400 None,None
1 USA_FG_018_FS_070z102 P_400 None,None
1 USA_FG_018_FS_070z110 P_400 None,None
1 USA_FG_018_FS_070z111 P_400 None,None
1 USA_FG_018_FS_070z112 P_400 None,None
2 IJA_F_S_25z100 KI_43_IC None,None
2 IJA_F_S_25z101 KI_43_IC None,None
2 IJA_F_S_25z102 KI_43_IC None,None
2 IJA_F_S_25z103 KI_43_IC None,None
2 IJA_F_S_25z110 KI_43_IC None,None
2 IJA_F_S_25z111 KI_43_IC None,None





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Career - 2 after altering the [OOB] list.

20805 0
NewGuinea
20730-0.mis oUsAttackAF 136615.97 216491.02 4 0 0
BEAU21
453SquadronearlyRAAF
8 0
0 0
0
Doe,John,Gladstone,1908
1 453SquadronearlyRAAF000 BEAU21 Doe,John
1 453SquadronearlyRAAF001 BEAU21 Robins,Herbert
1 453SquadronearlyRAAF002 BEAU21 Windram,Jeff
1 453SquadronearlyRAAF003 BEAU21 Curtis,Derek
1 USA_FG_343_FS_054z100 P_40E None,None
1 USA_FG_343_FS_054z101 P_40E None,None
1 USA_FG_343_FS_054z102 P_40E None,None
1 USA_FG_343_FS_054z110 P_40E None,None
1 USA_FG_343_FS_054z111 P_40E None,None
1 USA_FG_343_FS_054z112 P_40E None,None
1 USA_FG_475_FS_431z100 P_40E None,None
1 USA_FG_475_FS_431z101 P_40E None,None
1 USA_FG_475_FS_431z102 P_40E None,None
1 USA_FG_475_FS_431z110 P_40E None,None
1 USA_FG_475_FS_431z111 P_40E None,None
1 USA_FG_475_FS_431z112 P_40E None,None
2 IJN_AG_14z100 A6M3 None,None
2 IJN_AG_14z101 A6M3 None,None
2 IJN_AG_14z102 A6M3 None,None
2 IJN_AG_14z103 A6M3 None,None
2 IJN_AG_14z110 A6M3 None,None
2 IJN_AG_14z111 A6M3 None,None





Wheels

Brilliant - thanks for taking the time to set all that out, Wheelsup!! Most grateful!

Pilgrim, maybe thru pilot rank choice I ended up leading the flight of Beaus so I managed to avoid decorating the Owen Stanley range with my planes. The P-40 escorts seemed to have no trouble.