Cap Mandrake
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Joined: 11/15/2002 From: Southern California Status: offline
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*************April 5, 1943(c)************ PI: JJ sends in a battlewagon to Lucena. Somehow our guys did not see it coming. USS Kimball is in the wrong place. We have an AK and AM docked and unloading cargo. They are spared. Curiously, the airfield is spared a bombardment. Night Time Surface Combat, near Lucena at 79,79, Range 1,000 Yards Japanese Ships BB Kirishima CL Tama DD Teruzuki DD Makinami DD Onami DD Hagikaze DD Harusame Allied Ships PC Kimball, Shell hits 8, and is sunk Kirishima exits through our minefield gauntlet and sinks some PT boats. Day Time Surface Combat, near Calapan at 78,79, Range 15,000 Yards Japanese Ships BB Kirishima CL Tama DD Teruzuki DD Makinami DD Onami DD Hagikaze DD Harusame Allied Ships PT-116, Shell hits 3, and is sunk PT-127, Shell hits 3, and is sunk PT-221, Shell hits 1, and is sunk A LYB DD in anther task force (I think) is not so lucky TF 132 encounters mine field at Lubang (78,78) Japanese Ships DD Niizuki, Mine hits 1
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