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The following are flight simulator software applications that can be downloaded or played for free. Several items are outdated. Please notice 'free' is not the same as open source. Free games may have limited options or include advertisements.
Pages in category "World War II flight simulation video games" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Flight Lieutenant (aka Flight Captain and He's My Old Man) is a 1942 American drama war film starring Pat O'Brien as Sam Doyle, a disgraced commercial pilot who works to regain the respect of his son against the backdrop of World War II.
Computer Gaming World ' s reviewer, an Air National Guard F-16 flight instructor, in August 1994 rated the game four stars out of five.Praising the graphics, frame rate, and virtual cockpit, he stated that the flight modeling forced him to use the same tactics as real pilots during the war, with better game balance than Aces of the Pacific.
Battlehawks 1942 is a naval air combat combat flight simulation game released in 1988 by Lucasfilm Games.It is set in the World War II Pacific air war theatre, and was the first of Lucasfilm Games' trilogy of World War II flight simulations, followed by Their Finest Hour (1989) and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe (1991).
Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain is a World War II combat flight simulation game by Lawrence Holland, released in October 1989 [1] for the Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS systems. It was the second game in the trilogy of World War II titles by Lucasfilm Games , the others being Battlehawks 1942 (1988) and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe (1991).
1942 was also the first Capcom game designed with Western markets in mind. That was why they decided to have the player pilot an American P-38 fighter plane, to appeal to the American market. [ 10 ] The game is loosely based on the Battle of Midway , which was a turning point in the Pacific War when the Americans began defeating the Japanese.
At the end of the war Harry Watt, the film's director, noted with regret that most of the flight officers and crew who appeared in the film did not survive the duration of the war. [14] For example, the front gunner in the film was played by Flight-sergeant Joseph Ronald Bird who lost his life on the 27/28 August 1942 flying as rear gunner of a ...