random_rail -> CAW-Raise the Dead @ Phillipine Sea as Japanese (3/11/2008 9:57:52 PM)
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I thought I would try this out, I figured with the air group changes and 2 more decks, I might be able to make a fight of it. First I went after the air group south of Iwo Jima. Then the one off Chichi Jima. Fate was kind to me, and sent the 2 fast carrier groups out from Saipan in a manner that allowed me to engage one, and remain out of range of the other. I then engaged the other one. Then the small group of CVE's off Tinian. Then the large group of CVEs off Saipan. By doing it a little bit at a time, rather than just wading into the middle of it, I was able to eat the elephant. A list of ships sunk by me, and my casualties follows. I forgot to write down what the airplane losses were, but they were pretty heavy for me. American ships sunk: Enterprise Lexington Princeton San Jacinto Yorktown Hornet Belleau Wood Bataan Bunker Hill Wasp Monterrey Cabot Essex Cowpens Langley Iowa South Dakota Kitkun Bay Gambier Bay Nehenta Bay Fanshaw Bay Midway White Plains Kalinin Bay Indianapolis Baltimore Boston Canberra 22 tin cans and CL Japanese ships sunk: Zuiho It was 4295 points to 819. I lost one ship and had 3 wounded, against 59 sunk and 19 damaged.[:)]
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