February 2012 AHXARL Schedule
All races start 10:00 PM Eastern and 7:00 PM Pacific in SEA 1
This Day in History taken from onwar.com
Season 25 Finale, Tuesday, 07 February, 2012. Races start 10:00 PM Eastern and 7:00 PM Pacific in SEA 1. Scheduled Host CM Team.
This is the Season Finale for Season 25. It is open only to invitees, and will qualify some pilots for the next 68KO Cup Race.
Regulars and dropins are invited to watch. I urge the regulars to show up, as sometimes people don't show and we take the next on the list to race.
In North Africa... 07 February, 1941, Large-scale surrenders begin at Beda Fomm after the Italians have made fruitless attempts to break through to continue their retreat. Eventually about 25,000 more Italians will be taken, along with 200 guns and 120 tanks. Since the start of the campaign two months previously a force of no more than two divisions has destroyed 10 Italian divisions and taken 130,000 prisoners for the loss of 555 dead and 1400 wounded. Many of the British vehicles now desperately need repairs. In the evening Agedabia falls to the British forces. This Day in History taken from onwar.com
Season 26 Race 01, Tuesday, 14 February, 2012. Races start 10:00 PM Eastern and 7:00 PM Pacific in SEA 1. Scheduled Host is KAZ
First race of the new season, and beginning the second season of four in the race to the 68KO Cup. Get in at the beginning of this 12 race season to accumulate all the points you can.
Over Germany... 14 February, 1945, During the night (February 13-14), 773 Lancaster bombers, of British RAF Bomber Command, raid the eastern German city of Dresden. Five bombers are lost. However, the incendiary bombs dropped generate a fire storm that continues to burn for 7 days and 8 nights and ultimately razes 6.5 square kilometers. Casualty estimates vary from 30,000 to 250,000 killed. Among the witnesses to events in Dresden at the time is Kurt Vonnegut, an American POW, who will vividly describe the scene in Slaughterhouse Five. During the day, the US 8th Air Force raids Dresden where the firestorm continues. This Day in History taken from onwar.com
Season 26 Race 02, Tuesday, 21 February, 2012. Races start 10:00 PM Eastern and 7:00 PM Pacific in SEA 1. Scheduled Host is spammer.
Second in a series of 12 races, leading up to a Season Finale. Still time to join us and be in the running for season points.
In the Volcano Islands... 21 February, 1945, The naval gun and air bombardment (by US Task Forces 52, 54 and 58) continues. The escort carrier Bismark Sea is sunk and the fleet carrier Saratoga, an escort carrier and other ships are damaged by Kamikaze attacks. Elements of the US 5th Amphibious Corps continue to make slow progress toward Mount Suribachi to the south and the airfield to the north. There are Japanese counterattacks and infiltration attempts during the night. This Day in History taken from onwar.com
Season 26 Race 03, Tuesday, 28 February, 2012. Races start 10:00 PM Eastern and 7:00 PM Pacific in SEA 1. Scheduled Host is HB555.
Third in a series of 12 races, leading up to a Season Finale. Your chances for a Season Finale invite, based on points, is still viable.
In Italy... 28 February, 1944, German forces launch a second offensive against the Anzio beachhead held by forces of the US 6th Corps (Truscott). Four German divisions attack on either side of the Cisterna-Anzio road, defended by the US 3rd Division. German forces fail to break through. This Day in History taken from onwar.com
