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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Have on February 15, 2007, 01:02:39 AM
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Hello all and welcome today to the traditional thursday snapshot. The setup today is a bit rarer one - Ghosts in the Darkness: Cats Eyes. This will be flown in night as the name tells.
Description:
March 1941
From November to Christmas 1940 the Luftwaffe continued to bomb London and many other cities other than London, attacking Southampton, Portsmouth, Liverpool, Birmingham and Bristol. But still the Luftwaffe frequently visited London after hours. After the year ended the weather turned for worst. And the night blitz halted. The cancellation of Sea Lion didn’t mean an end to Luftwaffe Operations over England so the Luftwaffe planned a two-prong attack to further the success of the U-boats destruction of British Convoys.
The Luftwaffe planned to strike hard at the Ports such as Plymouth, Cardiff, Hull, and Swansea to disrupt allied shipping and hit hard at the British aircraft factories. During the two month hiatus on major bombing the RAF got caught up on Night fighter technologies. One plan was “Cat Eyes” Single seat interceptors flying at certain altitudes at a likely target. GCI was most effective; by March of 1941 GCI radar stations were all along the South and east coasts. Directing the new Hurricane Mk IIC fighters to the incoming night raids.
The RAF had identified some of the pathfinder units and dispatched Intruder patrols of Hurricanes and Bostons to attack and harass their airfields in France and Holland. During March the Bombers began to feel the effects of GCI and the RAF was realizing the benefits. March brought the welcome change as RAF night fighters claimed 22 kills, compared to 17 of the AAA guns. In April, RAF night fighters shot down 48 bombers with 39 falling to the guns. Adding to the aircraft being shot down over Britain, the Night Intruders were racking up kills during their Night Harassment missions over France, catching the weary bomber pilots on their return to France. During May the night defenses accounted for 138 German bombers, 96 of them claimed by RAF night fighters. By this time Hitler was planning for the Invasion of Russia. And began to withdraw Luftwaffe bomber units to Poland for the Invasion. Britain’s first ordeal by the Night bomber came to an end.
The event will begin at 21.00 CET, 3 PM EST in the Special Events Arena. Please be there some 10-15 minutes early.
http://ahevents.org/western-european-theatre/ghosts-in-the-darkness-cats-eyes.html (http://ahevents.org/western-european-theatre/ghosts-in-the-darkness-cats-eyes.html)
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aww man would love to take part in this as i live in plymouth :P but i finish work at 7pm GMT, 3pm EST and wont get home till about 10 minutes after :(
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3 PM EST ??? I thought the snapshots were scheduled in the evening, that's afternoon, noon on west coast, most of us have jobs and are at work. Doubt you'll get many at that time of day.
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Originally posted by 68Ripper
3 PM EST ??? I thought the snapshots were scheduled in the evening, that's afternoon, noon on west coast, most of us have jobs and are at work. Doubt you'll get many at that time of day.
There are players in other parts of the world who are not able to stay awake till the early morning. You have your wednesday snapshot, we have the thursday one. Which runs at 9 pm in my time zone :)
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Originally posted by Lusche
There are players in other parts of the world who are not able to stay awake till the early morning. You have your wednesday snapshot, we have the thursday one. Which runs at 9 pm in my time zone :)
ok my bad :aok
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It was a fun snapshot, the night time looked good now. The cockpit lights are no longer blinding bright (as they were when I last attended a night operation in AH, a few months back), the clouds looked nice over the channel and it was hard to see the enemies at times. Could have had some more people in there but was very fun with those present. :)
Thanks to all participants today and to the CM team for arranging these. :aok
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Yep, it was fun and a nice change from the everlasting daylight of MA :)
The scores can be found from this link to snapshot forum (http://forums.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=2332007#post2332007).
Thursday snapshots at 3pm EST are indeed targeted mainly for the euro players, who typically are unable and/or unwilling to stay up and play in events in the US prime time.
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Thanks to Have, 68Hawk, the guys from LR3 and everyone else who was there...
Had Great fun