On December 7th 1941, one of the most tragic events happened in the history of the United States. The Japaness bombed Pearl Harbor and sealed the fate of the United States into entering into World War II. On December 6th 2008, we are going to recreate this major event in World War II in Battleground Europe. Although we do not have the Americans in the game, we are going to use the ships and planes that we have modeled.

The Special Event will take place in the harbor of Antwerp with British and French destroyers, transports, and Fairmiles representing the American fleet at anchor in Pearl Harbor. The Japanese will be represented by Ju-87 Stukas. A map is located in the sign up thread that shows the placements of the American fleet anchored in Antwerp Harbor. There will be 4 groups of Stukas to choose to be a pilot representing the different groups of planes from the 4 Japaness carriers that took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
 

Malize is the author of this Special Event and he's done a fantastic job at laying out this Special Event to pay homage to one of the greatest defeats that the American fleet suffered in World War II. Icetwp is the Naval Commander for the American fleet.  You can find a Thread by Icetwp here for discussions and placements for the fleet aspect of the event. He is also helping players get a placement in the event and assigning players as crew members to get as many ships as possible multi-crewed.
 

To sign up for this Special Event and view the feet placement recon map, you can find that information here. We hope that you will take some time on December 6th, 2008 and join us in recreating this historical event that gave the United States no other option but to enter World War II, one of the Greatest Wars of modern day history.
 

Jammyman
Special Events Program Director / Intermission Scenario Development
WWII Online Battleground Europe
Corned Rat Software / Playnet Inc
www.BattlegroundEurope.com

UPDATE!
Written by MOTORMOUTH

The Pearl Harbor Event was awesome! The Special Events team outdid themselves on this one. I had an insane amount of fun, even if I only managed to pick off one plane out of the 60+ that blotted out the sun in 2 seperate waves.

Videos have also been uploaded to Filefront and Youtube: 

First wave:

http://files.filefront.com/pearl1mpg.../fileinfo.html


Second wave:

http://files.filefront.com/pearl2flv.../fileinfo.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHXBwEKFCBg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-8z6LVdYVg

A great big Thank You! to Jammyman, Malize, Icetwp and everyone who helped out and attended.

Looking forward to doing it again!