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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/6/2015 2:19:05 PM   
Cap Mandrake


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Submarine attack near Goodenough Island at 102,130

Japanese Ships
SS RO-34

Allied Ships
CA Astoria, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/6/2015 2:21:45 PM   
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Oro Bay at 101,130

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 8

Allied aircraft
SBD-2 Dauntless x 3

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
SBD-2 Dauntless: 2 destroyed

And a few more.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Oro Bay at 101,130

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 8

Allied aircraft
SBD-3 Dauntless x 2

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
SBD-3 Dauntless: 1 destroyed

Go Boeing!....ahhh..close

Morning Air attack on TF, near Oro Bay at 101,130

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6

Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 2

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
DD Hamakaze, on fire

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Naval Attack: 4 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/6/2015 2:27:22 PM   
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Port Moresby at 98,130

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 28
B5N1 Kate x 10

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N1 Kate: 2 damaged

Allied Ships
xAK Age, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
xAK Skagerak, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/6/2015 2:28:30 PM   
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Buna at 100,129

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9
B5N1 Kate x 2

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
DD Gridley, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/6/2015 2:30:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		Another strike group finds poor Indianapolis in and out of the rain squalls and pulverizes her. Lexington is nearby.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Oro Bay at 100,131

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 6 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 1 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B5N2 Kate x 13
D3A1 Val x 9

Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 11

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 1 damaged

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
DD Craven, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
CA Indianapolis, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/6/2015 2:33:36 PM   
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Kiriwina Island at 103,131

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 11
B5N2 Kate x 9

Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 4

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
CA Astoria, Bomb hits 7, heavy fires, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B5N2 Kate bombing from 5000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/6/2015 2:34:48 PM   
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Lae at 99,126

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 10
D3A1 Val x 22

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 3 damaged

Allied Ships
DD Ellet, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/6/2015 2:35:38 PM   
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Port Moresby at 98,130

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9
B5N2 Kate x 13
D3A1 Val x 13

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
xAK Johanne Justesen, Bomb hits 7, and is sunk
xAK Anshun, Bomb hits 5, and is sunk

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/6/2015 2:36:57 PM   
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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Port Moresby at 98,130

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 31
D3A1 Val x 15

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
xAK Herstein, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Cycle, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
AM Townsville, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/6/2015 2:38:08 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Japanese aircraft
B5N2 Kate x 13
D3A1 Val x 9

Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 11

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 1 damaged



Your CAP did nothing? What was wrong?

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/6/2015 2:39:49 PM   
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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/6/2015 2:49:16 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Japanese aircraft
B5N2 Kate x 13
D3A1 Val x 9

Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 11

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 1 damaged



Your CAP did nothing? What was wrong?



Yes, well

1) P-40E has only a 6 hex range even with drop tanks and therefore struggles to have loiter time even at 2 hexes

2) They were tasked to cover Lexington which is in the same hex but a different TF so this is technically "spill-over" CAP

3) Bad weather

4) Zero escort present.


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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/6/2015 2:51:59 PM   
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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/6/2015 2:57:24 PM   
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What speed is Lady Lex making?


21 Kts (unless more damage accrued from her fires). We need a typhoon to save her, I think. We can try the same trick of blocking the exits to the Solomon Sea tonight but we are running out of cruisers.

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/6/2015 3:14:35 PM   
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What speed is Lady Lex making?


21 Kts (unless more damage accrued from her fires). We need a typhoon to save her, I think. We can try the same trick of blocking the exits to the Solomon Sea tonight but we are running out of cruisers.







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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/6/2015 7:49:41 PM   
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The thrust vector for Kirk's Enterprise is quite obviously not on axis with the center of mass. Every time you step on the gas the thing would pinwheel like Hell throwing the crew in their sissy uniforms into bulkheads and ceilings. If you were unlucky enough to be in the crapper at the time they would have to write a letter home to your family.


Don't forget the [tech] compensator which is housed inside engineering. By [tech] mechanism, it addresses your concerns about acceleration on the axial vector. It's been attended to.

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/6/2015 8:37:23 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

The thrust vector for Kirk's Enterprise is quite obviously not on axis with the center of mass. Every time you step on the gas the thing would pinwheel like Hell throwing the crew in their sissy uniforms into bulkheads and ceilings. If you were unlucky enough to be in the crapper at the time they would have to write a letter home to your family.


Don't forget the [tech] compensator which is housed inside engineering. By [tech] mechanism, it addresses your concerns about acceleration on the axial vector. It's been attended to.


Ha! Prate in head get to crose too tractor beam.

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/7/2015 1:28:36 PM   
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The thrust vector for Kirk's Enterprise is quite obviously not on axis with the center of mass. Every time you step on the gas the thing would pinwheel like Hell throwing the crew in their sissy uniforms into bulkheads and ceilings. If you were unlucky enough to be in the crapper at the time they would have to write a letter home to your family.

This is why they didn't have lavatories in Kirk's Enterprise (true fact!! None were included in the plans!!!) Who knew this wasn't an oversight?

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/7/2015 4:16:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Every one of the crippled ships from the first day battle was sunk..along with the two CA that stayed behind as a rear guard. Halsey himself went down swinging as he had transferred to one of his CA's when Enterprise sunk.

Lexington has her fires down to 20% and can still make 21 kts. She made it to Milne Bay yesterday. One DD will stay behind off Milne Bay and everyone else runs.

A ton of transports are bearing down on Rabaul. The fun will be over there soon. B-17's at PM on naval attack...we're up all day trying to get lucky.

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/7/2015 5:55:03 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy


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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

The thrust vector for Kirk's Enterprise is quite obviously not on axis with the center of mass. Every time you step on the gas the thing would pinwheel like Hell throwing the crew in their sissy uniforms into bulkheads and ceilings. If you were unlucky enough to be in the crapper at the time they would have to write a letter home to your family.


Don't forget the [tech] compensator which is housed inside engineering. By [tech] mechanism, it addresses your concerns about acceleration on the axial vector. It's been attended to.


Ha! Prate in head get to crose too tractor beam.



Well, true enough.

Full disclosure: I'm a Trekkie.

In my FTE as uberdork OG, I've also seen several original scripts of ST:TNG episodes. For the 'tech' bits that aren't integral to the plot line, the original scripts just block out the technobabble for later with "[tech]" in the written script. The technobabble (e.g., explanations for why toilets are no longer necessary on Constitution-class starships in the 23rd century) is filled in later. So please consider that my early script explanation.

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/7/2015 5:56:39 PM   
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Every one of the crippled ships from the first day battle was sunk..along with the two CA that stayed behind as a rear guard. Halsey himself went down swinging as he had transferred to one of his CA's when Enterprise sunk.

Lexington has her fires down to 20% and can still make 21 kts. She made it to Milne Bay yesterday. One DD will stay behind off Milne Bay and everyone else runs.

A ton of transports are bearing down on Rabaul. The fun will be over there soon. B-17's at PM on naval attack...we're up all day trying to get lucky.


Sounds like Lexington will be able to make it out of the hot zone unless some hotshot IJN submariner puts one up her smoking chuff.

What's the total butcher's bill, Cap'n? It sounds like it wasn't a very good couple days for the USN.

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/7/2015 8:00:33 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Every one of the crippled ships from the first day battle was sunk..along with the two CA that stayed behind as a rear guard. Halsey himself went down swinging as he had transferred to one of his CA's when Enterprise sunk.

Lexington has her fires down to 20% and can still make 21 kts. She made it to Milne Bay yesterday. One DD will stay behind off Milne Bay and everyone else runs.

A ton of transports are bearing down on Rabaul. The fun will be over there soon. B-17's at PM on naval attack...we're up all day trying to get lucky.


Sounds like Lexington will be able to make it out of the hot zone unless some hotshot IJN submariner puts one up her smoking chuff.

What's the total butcher's bill, Cap'n? It sounds like it wasn't a very good couple days for the USN.


Well..that might be true if the Wee Jap Dobbers don't pursue her into the Coral Sea.
We received such a congratulatory message on the shortwave.....but it wasn't probable..
not when they knew her only real escape route and there is no way to provide fighter cover over the Coral Sea



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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/7/2015 8:06:26 PM   
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Good news: JJ was so enjoying the blood sport off of New and Improved Guinea that they failed to notice Marblehead and some four stackers sneaking up.

We catch a very large ground unit(s) embarking at Balikpapan. This seems too large for a single SNLF unit but is clearly predominately infantry.
Very satisfying. It was a bombardment mission which is why the damage isn't worse.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Balikpapan at 64,97, Range 10,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CL Kuma
DD Kuretake
DD Sanae
xAP Hakone Maru, Shell hits 5, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAP Haruna Maru
xAP Rakuyo Maru, Shell hits 2
xAP Horai Maru
xAP Takatiho Maru, Shell hits 2

Allied Ships
CL Marblehead
DD Barker
DD Bulmer
DD Stewart
DD Paul Jones, Shell hits 1
DD Parrott, Shell hits 1

Japanese ground losses:
6909 casualties reported
Squads: 137 destroyed, 69 disabled
Non Combat: 211 destroyed, 77 disabled
Engineers: 19 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 30 (30 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 16 (16 destroyed, 0 disabled)

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/7/2015 8:09:05 PM   
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Balikpapan at 64,97, Range 11,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DMS W-13, Shell hits 20, and is sunk
DMS W-14, Shell hits 10, and is sunk
DMS W-15, Shell hits 10, and is sunk
DMS W-20, Shell hits 7, and is sunk

Allied Ships
CL Marblehead
DD Barker
DD Bulmer
DD Stewart
DD Paul Jones
DD Parrott[color]

And even when the sun comes up. Another 900 LYB's go into the drink. Almost 8K in total. We have a small LRCAP from down the coast of Borneo. This is apparently enough to scare off the dozens of Bettys at Kendari.

Day Time Surface Combat, near Balikpapan at 64,97, Range 23,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CL Kuma
DD Kuretake, Shell hits 3, on fire
DD Sanae, Shell hits 1
xAP Haruna Maru, Shell hits 9, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAP Rakuyo Maru, Shell hits 2, on fire
xAP Horai Maru
xAP Takatiho Maru, Shell hits 1

Allied Ships
CL Marblehead
DD Barker
DD Bulmer, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Stewart, Shell hits 1
DD Paul Jones, Shell hits 1
DD Parrott, Shell hits 1

Japanese ground losses:
870 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 23 disabled
Non Combat: 15 destroyed, 40 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Vehicles lost 6 (2 destroyed, 4 disabled)

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/7/2015 8:19:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		Coral Sea: We leave behind Benham at Milne Bay to cover the obvious exit. In retrospect we needed a cruiser too but somebody had to cover the Lexington TF.
Tone was in a fight yesterday but evidently has enough ammo. Probably should have set Benham on "absolute" to eat up some more time and ammo.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Milne Bay at 101,133, Range 10,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CA Tone, Shell hits 1
DD Tanikaze
DD Oshio
DD Arashio

Allied Ships
DD Benham, Shell hits 2, heavy fires

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/7/2015 8:24:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		Benham turns for home and finds a sub. Lexington is now well out into the Coral Sea...far enough?

Submarine attack near Milne Bay at 101,134

Japanese Ships
SS RO-33

Allied Ships
DD Benham, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/7/2015 8:28:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		Nope. 240 miles out from Milne Bay paths converge..Lexington at 21 Kts...Tone at 30+
Australia and the USN cruiser in a SCTF assigned to cover Lexington are picking their noses.

Day Time Surface Combat, near Milne Bay at 98,137, Range 22,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CA Tone
DD Tanikaze, Shell hits 1
DD Oshio, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Arashio, Shell hits 1

Allied Ships
CV Lexington, Shell hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
CA Northampton
DD Dunlap, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Mahan, Shell hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Drayton
DD Lamson
DD Porter

The damage is not catastrophic but likely enough to slow us down further.



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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/7/2015 8:31:47 PM   
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Day Time Surface Combat, near Cairns at 97,139, Range 23,000 Yards

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
SBD-2 Dauntless: 4 destroyed
F2A-3 Buffalo: 6 destroyed
SBD-3 Dauntless: 1 destroyed
SB2U-3 Vindicator: 3 destroyed

Japanese Ships
BB Hiei, Shell hits 3
CL Jintsu, Shell hits 2
CL Natori
DD Kasumi
DD Fubuki, Shell hits 10, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Shirayuki, Shell hits 3, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk

Allied Ships
CV Lexington, Shell hits 9, and is sunk
CA Northampton, Shell hits 6, on fire
DD Dunlap, Shell hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Mahan, and is sunk
DD Drayton
DD Lamson
DD Porter, Shell hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage

She slips under the waves along with two IJN DD's and one USN DD.

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/7/2015 8:33:45 PM   
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Day Time Surface Combat, near Cairns at 97,139, Range 24,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
BB Hiei, Shell hits 3
CL Jintsu, Shell hits 8, on fire
CL Natori, Shell hits 5, on fire
DD Kasumi
DD Fubuki, Shell hits 27, and is sunk

Allied Ships
CA Salt Lake City, Shell hits 2
CA Canberra, Shell hits 2
DD Balch, Shell hits 1

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RE: At dawn we slept.....in the cab on the way back fro... - 2/7/2015 8:35:34 PM   
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Cairns at 95,139

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A5M4 Claude x 7
B5N1 Kate x 3

Allied aircraft
F4F-3A Wildcat x 2

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N1 Kate: 1 destroyed
B5N1 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
DD Drayton

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