Cap Mandrake
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Joined: 11/15/2002 From: Southern California Status: offline
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Crap! 9-kt LCT's caught in the middle of the Ceram-NG channel. The actual losses are 30 Stuarts and half-tracks but more important are the LCT's. quote:
Day Time Surface Combat, near Gorong at 82,112, Range 20,000 Yards Japanese Ships CA Kumano DD Hamakaze DD Minegumo DD Kawakaze DD Umikaze Allied Ships LCT-58, Shell hits 2, and is sunk LCT-59, Shell hits 2, and is sunk LCT-60, Shell hits 2, and is sunk LCT-61, Shell hits 1, and is sunk LCT-62, Shell hits 3, and is sunk LCT-63, Shell hits 1, and is sunk LCT-64, Shell hits 2, and is sunk LCT-65, Shell hits 2, and is sunk LCT-66, Shell hits 1, and is sunk LCT-67, Shell hits 2, and is sunk SC-703, Shell hits 1, and is sunk Allied ground losses: Guns lost 16 (14 destroyed, 2 disabled) Vehicles lost 72 (61 destroyed, 11 disabled)
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