Join the fight...The battle rages AvA Arena this week

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**PLEASE READ MOTD WHEN YOU JOIN TO FIND AVAILABLE FIELDS**
Aircraft can be upped from available V bases

**THE ONLY ACTIVE /AVAILABLE FIELDS ARE**
Axis:V86,A11 A71  Allie: V83,A16,,A15,C57,C56 see below map

**PLEASE READ MOTD WHEN YOU JOIN TO FIND AVAILABLE FIELDS**
*There is very limited GV action at this stage of the set up*

The Fog of War Rolls In...
The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
**THE ONLY ACTIVE /AVAILABLE FIELDS ARE**

Axis:V86,A11 A71
Allies: V83,A16,,A15,C57,C56
Aircraft can be upped from available V bases
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ALLIES-ROOK orders:

Your  heading SE 100 degrees. Attack German  fields in grid
(V86) Grid 5,10,5 and (A11) Grid-5,9,5
Keep your head on a swivel for enemy patrols.
Patrols defend your bases at all cost!

Allies available Equipment:
V83=Spit V, P40b

A15=Boston III
A16= P38G(no 1000k bombs or rockets), P40, Shermin Fire fly
C57= SBD
C56= Seafire,F4F

Aircraft can be upped from available V bases
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AXIS-KNIGHT orders:

From base (V86)-Your heading W-NW270 degrees  
From base (A11)-Your heading is 300 degrees .
Attack Allied bases (V83) in grid 3,10,7 &
 (A16 ) grid 3,10,9
 Patrol for incoming cons.
Defend your bases at all cost.

 AXIS available Equipment:

V86=109F4, C.202, 109E,Panzer
A11=Available Equipment
FWA5, Bf110,109E
A71- Ju88 (no Torpedo's)

Aircraft can be upped from available V bases
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More state of the art equipment will resupply as we
approach February 1943...mid week
Allied resupply: P-39G, P40E, Spit IX,
Axis resupply:   Ju87D, 109G2,Tiger
 
Anglo-American invasion of North Africa. It took place on November 8, 1942
on the coasts of French Morocco and Algeria, during
World War II.
Although the British 8th Army, under the command of
Bernard Montgomery, had been fighting against the
German forces in North Africa, defeating Rommel’s
Afrika Korps at the Battle of El Alamein, on
November 5, 1942
 Wiston Churchill proposed an Allied invasion on French
 North Africa which would relieve the 8th Army’s efforts,
definitely clear the Axis Powers from
North Africa, improve naval control of the Mediterranean Sea and prepare for an invasion of
Southern Europe (Italy) in 1943.
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Death in the Sand



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JUST IN! Both Axis and Allied armor forces are massing in the desert. The battel rages,air land and sea
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Axis-Knight.. Deutsche Afrika Korps, led by the Desert Fox , General Erwin Rommel.

AxisBases V101 and V102   now have:

Panzer, Sdkfz,Ostwind


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Allies-Rook.. British 8th Army led by General Montgomery

Allied bases V100 and V102 now have
Sherman, M4A3,M3,M8,M16

There were continuous battles between the British 8th Army,under General Montgomery,  and the Deutsche Afrika Korps, led by the Desert Fox , General Erwin Rommel.

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ALLIES MAKE A RUN FOR TUNISIA,
P39D has arrived At Rook A16



The P-39 equipped the 81st Fighter Group, 350th Fighter Group and two squadrons of the 68th Observation Group in North Africa, coming into action by the end of 1942. All of these units struggled against the Luftwaffe. During the fighting in North Africa. The USAAF lost 107 P-39s, most of them lost to ground fire while undertaking ground attack missions. In return the P-39 pilots scored twenty confirmed aerial victories and destroyed a similar number of aircraft on the ground, but their main role by now was no longer as a air superiority fighter.

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AS ALLIES make a run for Tunisisa, Luftwaffe units flood  airfields  during the retreat to Tunisia

109G2 has arrived At Knight A11



The Bf 109G was issued to units in North Africa in June 1942. However, it took at least six months for every unit to move from the F to the G, so both versions were in use at El Alamein and during the retreat to Tunisia. This was the period that finally saw the allies gain air superiority over the desert, mostly due to their numerical advantages. The retreat also saw many aircraft abandoned due to faults that could otherwise have been easily fixed. However, this happened at the same time as the G-6 began to appear in North Africa, so many of the aircraft lost would soon have been replaced anyway. The Germans suffered increasingly heavy losses during this period. At the start of May 1943 the final Luftwaffe units in North Africa were evacuated to Sicily. The war in the desert was over.