Cap Mandrake
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Joined: 11/15/2002 From: Southern California Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: sprior PoW and Repulse are on their way round to Sydney after their dance with Betty, PoW has 25 sys damage and 34 eng, R has 26 sys and 18flt. Warspite has just arrived at Darwin, which would be great if there was any fuel there. Reso is at Columbo, Royal Sovereign and Indomitable at Karachi, all heavy USN forces have been moved to the east coast of Oz. Chicago and Pensacola are still at Darwin trying to pump out, but will have to go to Melbourne or Sydney for complete repairs. BTW...remember those hapless Banshees which appeared in Oz with the pilots still in training pants? Well, flying from Ambon, they put two big holes in Jap DD's operating off Kendari today. First the USN SBD's had a run at them: Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Boeton at 70,108 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 1 Allied aircraft SBD-3 Dauntless x 11 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses SBD-3 Dauntless: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged Japanese Ships DD Ayanami DD Arashio DD Shikinami Then the Banshees went in: Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Boeton at 70,108 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 3 Allied aircraft A-24 Banshee x 24 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses A-24 Banshee: 3 destroyed, 6 damaged Japanese Ships DD Arashio, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires DD Ayanami, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage DD Shikinami
< Message edited by Cap Mandrake -- 5/25/2010 6:35:40 PM >
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