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23/3/42
Action on the field begins very early this morning.
The weather is going to be good - there is no wind, and although it is still cool, the promise of a good spring day can already be felt in the air.
On Allied airfields there would be large concrete areas, and special little bomb wagons shuttling here and there, each one designed especially to carry its own deadly cargo.
The Japanese here are not nearly so well equiped - here a hodge podge of captured trucks and other vehciles are doing the shuttling -and most of the work is being done the japanese way -through sheer manpower.
What concrete areas available near the hangers are packed with bombers awaiting to be bombed up - each one then in turn is being manually pushed to the flight line - no easy task, as they wiegh many tons.
The work started at 0330, it is now 0530 -and the last of the bombers are now bombed up -27 Betty Bombers, 26 Sallies.
Each plane has an assigned crew, and they still remain very busy.
Guns are being loaded, perspex is being polished, wings too. The long process of warming up the engines is beginning -it will take at least 30 minutes for this process as well.
In fact the entire field is now beginning to growl to the beat of Radials -as well as the bombers the full quota of zeros are warming up -27 in number
47th Sentai too will go today -just the 3 fighters -but every plane counts.
0545 -the briefing. It is a long one - take off will commence at 0600 -and form up completed by 0620 -expecting a further 9 navy fighters to join then.
Target Changsa airfield -0900 -and expect to see other army fighters there -oscars and nates from other fields -so look out and identify your enemy!
JuniB. Iwaya andInoue are todays pilots -they will fly today again ahead of the formation, free to hunt -there are enough zeros escorting the bombers.
Today the launch goes as planned -and the entire formation is on schedule at 15000 feet, headed north to the target
Inoue see's them first today -early -nearly 30 minutes from the target -a full flight of P40's climbing up from 10000 feet well below and behind them.
He grins -the Americans are in a very bad position - -he rocks his wings, and sees that Juni too smiles. Iwaya simply adjusts his goggles, and nods
They all turn and dive together -the classic movietone manouvere, wing down, turning in, and diving down.
There is plenty of time to select a target, Juni B and Iway move left, Inoue goes straight down the middle.
The enemy turn, or scatter -each to their own.
The sky fils with the chatter of guns, and the growl of fighter engines under full power.
Inoue turns into the direction of his target -they intercept -he fires -and sees with satisfaction pieces fly off his opponent, but curses as he guesses its next manouvere wrongly -it gets away
Juni B eager to make his score 3 attacks his target -but this is no chinese he engages -and although he too scores what appears to be good hits on his enemy - he fails to avoid the wingman, or even wingmen -3 heavy cannon shells tear into his plane.
The first strikes near the tail -and simply passes straight through.
The second slams into his engine block - the explosion of which precipitates several
catastrophic events.
The block is shoved a good foot left of its mount.
The propeller -now no longer lined up with its drive train, simply _if simply can be used to describe the act of hard metal tearing like cheese- seperates from the engine
The third shell is even worse -it strikes fair and square on the right wing root -shattering it.
The results are dramatic. Juni's fighter folds up -briefly crabbing across the sky sideways -the right wing folded up and over the plane -and then it disintergrates into a cartwheeling disintergrating component cloud.
Juni feels the impact -a terrifying explosion stunning him, then he is flung brutally hard into the left of the cockpit.
His reactions save him - even as the cockpit pitches violently forward, he has hit his strap release -and suddenly he finds himself being flung into the open sky - a searing pain in his left leg as it fails to clear the cockpit clearly.
He falls clear -and the second miricle occurs as his chute opens
He will need 38 stitches tonight - and can count himself vey, very lucky.............
Iwaya goes right as they went left, he fails to engage.
The P40's initially disrupted by 47th Sentais attack continue to try to attack the bombers, but still find themselves in trouble -the zeros -some 36 strong dive in, and take down 4 of them in short order.
The raid is good -many hits claimed.
47th Sentai is now down to 2 fighters, and 5 fit pilots
Juni B will be returned to the unit in 7 days time -his stitches will need some time to heal
With only 2 planes left a decision has to be made -what to do with the unit.
47th sentai is sent to Hong Kong field -and stood down, pending a decision.
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