I've been playing Wing Commander The Secret Missions and when I checked the killboard I noticed that 1LT Tanaka (aka Spirit) was KIA. To make things worse the next two missions I had to fly solo.

Was this done on purpose to make the game more difficult because she didn't got killed when she was on my wing and I also hadn't seen a funeral cutscene.
Also according to the WC Wiki, Spirit is still in WC2.

This really sucks because now I don't get to talk to her between missions and I have to fly solo missions. :^(

Thanks a lot, this is exactly what I need! :^)

I found the patch here.

For anyone who want's a quick breakdown of how I fixed it, here's what I did:
- Unzip the files in the GAMEDAT folder in the Wing Commander installation folder
- Open dosboxWC_single.conf with notepad and put a "#" before "exit" and save and exit
- Rightclick on the properties on the Wing Commander shortcut and in the targetfield remove "-c exit" and apply
- Use the shortcut to start Wing Commander and select "Exit Program"
- At the command prompt type "cd gamedat" and press Enter
- Now type "wcsav" and press enter
- The program should start and you can do all sort of thing but all I needed to do is press Esc and it would apply the fixes

Thank you for the step by step, been a long time since I mess around with dos command prompt.