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U.S. COAST GUARD Perry Class Destroyer keeping the high seas safe.

**UPDATE**  Thanks to Cypher1o1, You now can drop this into your "SAVED GAMES" just like a normal skin and when you place it into your mission, just sel ect your skin fr om the drop down  menu.

**UPDATED** Moved USCG emblem from Stern to the Bow of the Ship

Pack contains liveries for every Arleigh Burke-class destroyer from DDG-51 to DDG-119 (excluding DDG-118 which was not yet active until December 2021). What originally started as a project for only the Flight IIa destroyers (DDG-79 and up) quickly became an effort to bring all ships in class to DCS. Using publicly available SECNAV documentation and imagery, each ship is assigned to the correct squadron as-of October 2020.

3 ship USS Arleigh Burke Class.
The mod contains three ships:
USS Cole (new model, please, delete the old model)
USS Bainbridge
USS Pinckney

A Messerschmitt Bf 109 K4 based on a G6/AS unit 'Green 13', the personal mount of Kommodore Walter 'Gulle' Oesau of Stab./JG1 - Paderborn, Germany, May 1944.
It was whilst flying this machine that Oesau met his end, the details of which are not entirely historically clear.
To install just unzip to your Saved Games>Liveries>Bf-109K-4 Folder (if you haven't got one then just create one).
Enjoy and don't scratch the paintwork!
The zip file contains both a censored AND uncensored version of the skin.

A tribute to the carpenters, furniture makers, seamstress/seam(ers?) and everyone else responsible for production of the famous Mosquito, 'The Wooden Wonder' as it became known as...
https://youtu.be/M7oejDsvBt8?si=fZq0NHjFaLaBaSIn

To install simply unzip the file and drop it into Saved Games > DCSopenbeta > Liveries > MosquitoFBMkVI
If you don't have the Mosquito folder then just copy the name exactly and create one.

Enjoy and don't scratch the pai.... Oh no, you can't because there isn't any!!

A Mustang MkIV (KH729) Y2 A - Squadron Leader Mitchell ‘Johnny’ Johnston 442 Sq. RCAF - RAF Digby (UK) June 1945.
Just extract the file and place it into your Saved Games>DCS.openbeta>Liveries>P-51D folder and BINGO!

The images have me dressed as Santa as the pilot. This is NOT the case in the actual .zipfile by the way! It was merely a way of me passing on Yuletide greetings. I wouldn't inflict ME on you as the pilot as it would probably end in tears!!
Have fun,
Rap

An I-16 'Ishak' (Donkey) or 'Rata' (Rat) in a pre-finished state with only the flight surfaces covered with linen. The fuselage is in it's pre-linen covered state of a coat of phenol-formaldehyde resin, this giving the normally light wood an orange-brown appearance.

Republic P-47D Thunderbolt 'Schmaltzie/Mercedes' of the 65th Fighter Squadron, 57th FG based in Corsica and Italy 1944-45.
Piloted by Lt. F. J. Middleton (pictured standing on the wing root of 'Little Bunny'), the crew chief was S/Sgt. L. Walker and the armourer was Cpl. S. Bauer.

P-47D 'Frigid Midgit'. Pilot 2nd Lt. Jack Hallett 394 FS 367FG St. Dizier France March 1945
The 'natural metal' of the wing sections was due to repair after 2nd Lt. Hallett crashed inbetween two trees after attempting to 'buzz' three of his Squadron who were crossing a small swing-bridge on their way to the airfield at St. Dizzier. He was test-flying a Thunderbolt as the 367th had only just received three of them for assessment prior to being assigned them to replace their P-38 Lightnings.
As Hallett himself said of the Thunderbolt (after only 45 minutes in it), "When you pulled back the stick in a P-38 the plane would go up whereas the P-47 had a much higher wing-load... I pulled back on the stick and the attitude changed but the altitude did not!". As he passed over the guys on the bridge he managed to crash the brand-new unit inbetween two trees. Hence the bare aluminium wings, fitted as a replacement for the ones he'd irrepairably damaged!
True story.

P-51D Mustang 'Meatball Rap II' of 1st. Lt. (F/O) Charles Lane, 99th FS 332nd FG 'Red Tails'. Ramitelli, Italy March 1945. Note the late war 99th FS nose band marking on this machine is light blue instead of the earlier dark blue and white diamond pattern. Of course, given the name I had no choice but to make this one!