DCS World DCS: The Channel

DCS: The Channel is an add-on map for DCS World, covering 40,000 square kilometres of the English Channel region in the Second World War era. Set between 1940 and 1945, it depicts South East England and North Eastern France, a setting for air battles and ground operations.

The Battle of Britain

The map is based on the events surrounding Operation Adlerangriff, Germany’s planned invasion of Britain in 1940. Britain’s air defences held, and the failure to defeat them became Hitler’s first major setback of the war. The map also covers the region that later served as a base for Allied aircraft and troops.

The Channel region

The map includes historical airfields, cities and towns, roads, railways, ports and other features, with detailed recreations of Chain Home radar stations, factories and fortifications. It includes the ports of Dover, Folkstone and Newhaven in England, and Boulogne-Sur-Mer, Calais and Dunkirk in occupied France, as well as the White Cliffs of Dover, the Seven Sisters and Dover Castle.

Nine airbases with grass or paved runways are represented in England and occupied France:

• Occupied France: Abbeville Drucat, Dunkirk Mardyck, Merville Calonne and Saint Omer Longuenesse.
• England: Detling, Hawkinge, Lympne, Manston and ALG USAAF High Halden.

The map also includes V-1 Flying Bomb launch sites in occupied France.