Tuesday April 26th, 2010 10:00pm Eastern in SEA I - Aces High eXtreme Air Racing League - Season 22 Race Finale. Scheduled host is CM Team
The finale race of season 22, this is an invite only race. All racers who attended Season 22 should stop by to watch, and possibly be picked off the bench to race. Winners in this race qualify for a chance to win one of the three trophy's later in the year at the annual 68KO Cup Race, the culmination of four seasons worth of winners.
On this day in History, 1945, On the Western Front... The British 2nd Army completes the capture of Bremen. US 3rd Army units take Regensburg while other elements enter Austria. In the south, the French 1st Army reaches Lake Constance.
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HereWednesday April 27th, 2010 10:00pm Eastern in SEAII – Snapshot
”Rhythm of the Cobra” Hosted by 68Raptor.
The men and P-39s of the USAAF's 8th Pursuit Group (PG) achieved operational readiness in Port Moresby, New Guinea, at the end of April 1942. Eager to engage the enemy, the PG sortied an offensive sweep to the Japanese airfields at Lae and Salamaua on the last day of April.
Formation leader Lt Col Boyd D 'Buzz' Wagner reports:
"Our approach was made on Lae from 50 miles out to sea at an altitude of about 100ft in order to prevent our detection. When about 20 miles out, four aeroplanes were sent ahead to engage the Japanese Security patrol over Lae Drome. The top cover drew the enemy security patrol off to the east of Lae Drome, and no aerial resistance was encountered during our strafing attack. Inaccurate ground machine gun and ack-ack fire was observed.
Our strafing aeroplanes were then attacked from above by several Zero fighters. Belly tanks were dropped immediately and throttles opened. Our formation began to pull away from the Zeros when the last four P-39s turned to engage three of the enemy fighters in combat. In the meantime, more Zeros had appeared, and it is estimated that we were attacked by 12 to 13 altogether. The four P-39s were now hopelessly outnumbered, so I turned the entire formation back and a terrific fight ensued between 13 P-39s and an equal number of Zeros."
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