Author Topic: This Day in WWII: Sunday March 7, Spitfires arrive at Malta. Join us!  (Read 606 times)

Offline Brooke

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Don't forget to join us on Sunday, March 7, to commemorate the Siege of Malta.  March 7, 1942 was the date Spitfires first arrived to shore up the desperate British defense of Malta.

The small island of Malta played an extremely important role in WWII.  It was an ideal base for British airpower to attack axis supply shipping headed to North Africa.  The axis knew this, and there were ferocious battles for control of the island, with the Luftwaffe and Regia Aeronautica hurling their aerial might against tenacious, desperate RAF defense.  It was a close thing, with the RAF defenders nearly being annihilated on several occasions.  Had Malta fallen, the supply to and battles in North Africa could have gone quite differently.

We will run it on:
-- March 7 at 3 pm Eastern Time (which is 8 pm UK time) in Special Events II Arena.

Please join us to commemorate the battle, and please help us get the word out among your pals, squad mates, and players in the Main Arenas.

All are welcome, and no preparation is needed before showing up and having fun.  You can also show up for just part of the battle in case you can't make it at the start or can't stay the whole time.

More details on the setup are here:

http://ahevents.org/this-day-in-wwii-category/siege-of-malta.html

Offline DEEC0NX

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Re: This Day in WWII: Sunday March 7, Spitfires arrive at Malta. Join us!
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2010, 01:07:44 PM »
Should be a fun one! Ill try and post some pics after.

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Re: This Day in WWII: Sunday March 7, Spitfires arrive at Malta. Join us!
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2010, 05:30:13 AM »
Was a lot of fun brooke! <<S>> Will there be logs posted?

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Re: This Day in WWII: Sunday March 7, Spitfires arrive at Malta. Join us!
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2010, 10:01:45 AM »
Will post in adjacent thread...
« Last Edit: March 08, 2010, 10:03:22 AM by swareiam »
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Re: This Day in WWII: Sunday March 7, Spitfires arrive at Malta. Join us!
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2010, 04:53:28 PM »
The logs are posted here in the "This Day in WWII" section:

http://ahevents.org/eventlogs.html