Mike Solli
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Joined: 10/18/2000 From: the flight deck of the Zuikaku Status: offline
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I'm going to do something you guys always complain about; talk about WitP. In my PBEM, I invaded Attu a couple of months ago figuring it was lightly defended. Oops. 3 RCTs, artillery, CD and some other stuff. It's turning into our Guadalcanal. I have air and sea superority and have dumped more troops on the island than him but he has a major base at Adak while I've got a relatively longe supply line. I had most of my BBs there bombarding it regularly to reduce supply, but he claims to have 175k supply still there. Anyway, he bombarded one night I did and we had a surface battle between BBs. He ended up losing the Nevada and I lost the Fuso. Three other BBs of his took damage and left. I decided to bombard Adak (mainly to kill the dozen or so B-24s he had harassing my ships) and found the 3 BBs there. In comes one of my KBs (3 CVs and a CVL). Here's what happened: Day Air attack on Adak Island , at 97,38 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 10 D3A Val x 54 B5N Kate x 77 Allied aircraft no flights Japanese aircraft losses D3A Val: 1 destroyed, 16 damaged B5N Kate: 19 damaged Allied aircraft losses B-24D Liberator: 3 destroyed PBY Catalina: 1 destroyed Allied Ships BB Tennessee, Bomb hits 6, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage BB Arizona, Bomb hits 5, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage BB Pennsylvania, Torpedo hits 3, on fire DM Gamble, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage CLAA Juneau, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage CA Astoria, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 228 casualties reported Guns lost 4 Vehicles lost 2 Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 23 Port hits 4 Aircraft Attacking: 22 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet 24 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet 19 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet 15 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet 17 x B5N Kate bombing at 10000 feet 16 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet 17 x B5N Kate bombing at 10000 feet The Vals went for the air field to get the B-24s and the Kates went for the ships. All of the bomb hits are 800kg bombs. I didn't see any of them sink this turn. We'll see what happens tonight. Now back to the mindless banter.
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