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SDOEWAR Report, June 27th
 By Gregor 'Gecko' Veble

The tensions grew high during past weeks as both sides began accumulating their forces in the three potential areas of conflict: Dover, Africa and Rhineland. On June 18th, the inevitable happened. The forces of the nations referring to themselves as the Axis initiated an attack on the premises close to Dover. Soon after the attack, war was declared to the nations opposing the Axis, which by then already formed an alliance.

Fig. 1. Bombing an Allied airfield

The Allied forces expected such an attack and were well prepared. The Axis were somewhat surprised by the resistance, and their attack on the Allied premises was not as successful as hoped for, although they did suffer only minimal losses. They do need to be thankful to their superior so called 'jet' plane technology for this, as their incredibly fast Me-262 fighters kept them on a safe distance from the much slower Spitfires, and enabled the Axis to attack them by what some of the observers would describe as the Axis planes 'booming' onto the Allied pilots and then 'zooming' away. We do believe that this tactics will find a more appropriate description in the near future.

The same day the war then spread onto the other theaters as well. In Africa, while successfully diverting the Axis attack, the Allied forces suffered a similar fate to what happened over the Channel. The organization and planes simply were not a match for the Axis war machine, although their heroic efforts did prevent the bombing raid from being successful.

Fig. 2. A small plane and a big shore battery

The Allies quickly recovered from the attacks on the two fronts, and started an bombing raid close to the river Rhine themselves. The mighty bombers B-17, escorted by the beautiful P-51 'Mustang' fighters and the trusty Spitfires, surprised the Axis forces, which did not expect such a fierce attack so early in the war. The losses were about the same on both sides, which boosted the morale of the Allied pilots, and convinced the Axis that they just might not be unbeatable.

Fig. 3. Begin your run!

The war then continued with the Allies starting a bombing raid with their B-17 bombers taking off towards the channel, but one of their bombers had to return to the base due to technical problems and one was shot down before reaching the French coast. The Allied fighters dominated the airspace this time, though, and caused considerable losses to the Axis side. The Axis did manage to destroy a flak site on the British coast. The Allied fighters' good fortune didn't carry over to the African theater, where a similarly configured package failed completely and all Allied planes were lost with minimal Axis forces attrition.

Fig. 4. Destroying a fellow 'jet'