rroberson
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Joined: 5/25/2004 From: Arizona Status: offline
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For the first time since I can remember playing as the Japanese I got 800kgs AND torpedo strikes. This is easily the most succesful Pearl Harbor strike I have ever had. Day Air attack on Pearl Harbor , at 114,72 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 90 D3A Val x 126 B5N Kate x 143 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 2 P-26A x 8 P-36A Mohawk x 2 P-40B Tomahawk x 14 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed D3A Val: 7 destroyed, 41 damaged B5N Kate: 10 destroyed, 33 damaged Allied aircraft losses F4F-3 Wildcat: 5 destroyed P-26A: 9 destroyed P-36A Mohawk: 12 destroyed P-40B Tomahawk: 38 destroyed PBY Catalina: 11 destroyed B-18A Bolo: 7 destroyed SBD Dauntless: 6 destroyed C-47 Dakota: 2 destroyed A-20B Boston: 4 destroyed B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed Allied Ships BB Tennessee, Bomb hits 9, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage BB Nevada, Bomb hits 7, on fire BB Maryland, Bomb hits 11, on fire, heavy damage BB California, Bomb hits 11, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AVD Thornton, Bomb hits 1, on fire BB West Virginia, Bomb hits 11, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage BB Oklahoma, Bomb hits 5, on fire AO Ramapo, Bomb hits 1, on fire BB Pennsylvania, Bomb hits 9, Torpedo hits 3, on fire CA San Francisco, Bomb hits 1 BB Arizona, Bomb hits 7, Torpedo hits 1, on fire DD Conyngham, Bomb hits 1, on fire AK Alchiba, Bomb hits 1, on fire DM Preble, Bomb hits 1, on fire CA New Orleans, Bomb hits 1 CL Detroit, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage CL Phoenix, Bomb hits 1 AK Mercury, Bomb hits 1, on fire Allied ground losses: 313 casualties reported Guns lost 5 Airbase hits 32 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 146 Had these ships been at sea. It would of been a clean sweep. As it is I fully expect him to lose 3 out of 8 battleships. Needless to say, I feel my strike was so successful I will be retiring my Carrier divisions. No sense in sticking around for a 2nd day of attacks, which frankly will only kill my aircrews. Off Malaya, I managed to get through the entire day without a single bomb stiking one of my transports. Again, that has never happened. It bodes well for my intial landings at Mersing. I made landings at Mersing, Guam, Tarawa, Kuching, Lingayen, Manado, Batan Islands, Admiralty Islands, Kavieng, Brunei, Miri, and Nauru Island. I have hit Borneo hard. I have long felt that its center location was ideal for supporting more landings along DEI once you can get the LBA bases set up. I have gone "very" light in the Philippines. Letting MacArthur rot on the vine makes more sense to me. PI has very little value to me other then a base. I can cut him off and starve him, bomb him and take the islands at my leisure once Malaya and DEI are mine. Tarawa landings are the first push at the perimeter in that direction. In the end Id like to push all the way out to Canton Suva and New Calendona, but those ops are some time away. My forces took Nauru Island, Batan Island, and Tarawa.
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