Cap Mandrake
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Joined: 11/15/2002 From: Southern California Status: offline
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San Jose: Now FO Downing, RCAF, will have something for his memoris. I haven't even looked at the replay yet, but..38 Zeroes, 39 Kates, 4 Vals..gotta be carriers....and more than one. The ground troops were from a construction engineer Bn. trying to get ashore to build up the airfield. Morning Air attack on TF, near San Jose at 78,84 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 34 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 29 A6M3a Zero x 9 B5N1 Kate x 4 B5N2 Kate x 35 D3A2 Val x 4 Allied aircraft Hurricane XIIb x 12 F4F-4 Wildcat x 10 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 4 destroyed A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed B5N2 Kate: 8 damaged B5N2 Kate: 3 destroyed by flak Allied aircraft losses Hurricane XIIb: 1 destroyed Allied Ships CL Denver, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage xAP Clan Alpine, Bomb hits 2, on fire DD Jenkins DD Cony Allied ground losses: 10 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B5N2 Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo 4 x D3A2 Val releasing from 3000' * Naval Attack: 2 x 60 kg GP Bomb 12 x B5N2 Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo 8 x B5N2 Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo 4 x B5N1 Kate bombing from 5000 feet Naval Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb CAP engaged: VMF-122 with F4F-4 Wildcat (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (10 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes No.118 Sqn RCAF with Hurricane XIIb (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (12 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes
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