PzB74
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Joined: 10/3/2000 From: No(r)way Status: offline
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You were right Honda! Andy fanned his carriers out at full speed in 3 different directions. Some 20 transports and escorts were hit. Nothing valuable though and this is the price I have to pay for messing up with the KB This strike will cost us many ships, but it also means that we got more time to prepare for an invasion. Strike Force I has almost reached Japan and will join the Combined Fleet together with a new carrier in a weeks time. In 3 weeks the Kaga and Taiho will become operational again. I've moved hundreds of ac forward and I don't think Andy will dare to send a single Carrier TF towards Naha or the Home Islands. Most likely he will buzz around and sink another 20 transports. Since he probably got a powerful CAP setting I've prepped a little trap for him at Bonin Island. The crack George's and 150 other fighters are ready for the enemy. Thx A.Laurent! I think my plan is quite flexible. The Combined fleet will pose a threat to the enemy if we can weaken them. Imagine sending 9 battelships, 20 cruisers and 50 destroyers into the invasion beaches The enemy will have to face 5k mines, I doubt Andy is very keen on bombarding. One of the islands even got 240mm howitzers Still, I will follow the CAP and defend plan as outlined here on the forum. Each base got between 62 and 75k supplies. This will be exciting....the mother of all battles may be right around the corner! AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/23/44 Air Combat The B-29's can not close Pagan alone! Day Air attack on Pagan , at 64,62 Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-29 Superfortress x 43 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-29 Superfortress: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 13 casualties reported Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 48 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Put the crack 54 ac George unit on Iwo Jima at 10% CAP. Don't want to expend it yet. Still, one of 3 ac calimed at Hellcat. The convoy at Iwo Jima had unloaded all but a few support squads. Sad for the ships, but the Brigade was saved.... Day Air attack on TF, near Iwo Jima at 63,53 Japanese aircraft N1K1-J George x 3 Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 25 Allied aircraft F6F Hellcat x 27 SB2C Helldiver x 44 TBM Avenger x 23 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 12 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F6F Hellcat: 1 destroyed SB2C Helldiver: 3 damaged Japanese Ships AP Shuko Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire AP Rakuyo Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire AP Nichibi Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AP Tenran Maru, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage MSW W.30, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage MSW W.9, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AP Tenryu Maru, Bomb hits 7, on fire, heavy damage AP Tenzan Maru, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AP Taganoura Maru Japanese ground losses: 19 casualties reported ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The large cargo and troop convoys that just unloaded the Imp Div and 170k supplies were caught in the open and 3 escorts, 3 transports and 10 cargo ships were hit. MSW Wa 103, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage PC PC-20, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage PC Fukue, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage AK Juyo Maru, Bomb hits 10, on fire, heavy damage AK Taikei Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AK Oita Maru, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AK Shinfuku Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AK Reikai Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire AK Yasushima Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire AK Narita Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AK Gozan Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AK Italy Maru, Bomb hits 5, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AK Horaizan Maru, Bomb hits 9, on fire, heavy damage AP Ayaha Maru, Bomb hits 8, on fire, heavy damage AP Bokuyo Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire AP Arabia Maru, Bomb hits 1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enemy Carrier Strikes! The strikes were devastating, but we got hundreds of spare cargo ships. More will sink, and my only worry is that the troop ships that are trying to escape will get sunk
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"The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without" - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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