GreyJoy -> RE: Carriers in the I.O. (7/31/2014 9:38:36 PM)
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June 23, 1942 A bad day for the IJ air Army OZ: the turn begins with a naval fight. I had spotted another convoy south of the map, moving to Cape Town. Sent my ships to intercept. It wasn't a convoy, but a SCTF! We tangled with it, sinking an old ducth DD and damaging a light cruiser, but nothing to write home about. CHINA: the whole chinese front South of Liuchow seems to have collapsed. The chinese are retreating everywhere, abbandoning Nanning and all the exposed positions around Liuchow! Good. The tanks keep on pushing forward, while our divisions are trying to encircle Changsha and are reducing the enemy's positions south of Chikkiang with the help of the bombers. Not bad, not bad. Now wanna wait to see if he abbandons Liuchow too or not. INDIA: here things went bad. I decided to test the enemy's force at Dehli. Sent a crack 45 A6M2 sentai and 84 KI-43 Ic to sweep. My pilots were good. The results were not. Lost 35 planes and 19 pilots, against only 15 enemy planes...OUCH!!!!!!! To add another bad news, an allied sub sunk a big xAK full of troops near Rangoon....[:o] Night Time Surface Combat, near Albany at 53,178, Range 8,000 Yards Japanese Ships CA Atago, Shell hits 1 CA Chokai DD Tanikaze DD Kasumi DD Shigure DD Suzukaze, Shell hits 2, on fire DD Shirayuki DD Wakatake DD Asagao DD Yugao Allied Ships CL Achilles, Shell hits 4, on fire DD Woodworth, Shell hits 2, on fire DD Ralph Talbot DD Shaw, Shell hits 1 DD Tucker DD Piet Hein, Shell hits 3, and is sunk Sub attack near Ramree Island at 52,49 Japanese Ships xAK Seattle Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage E Uji E Hashidate PB Tonon Maru PB Aso Maru #7 PB Tatsumiya Maru AK Ayatosan Maru AK Sakito Maru xAK Siberia Maru xAK Taikei Maru xAK Manyo Maru xAK Ikuta Maru xAK Daiya Maru xAK Taifuku Maru xAK Hankow Maru xAK Akagisan Maru xAK Senko Maru xAK Nissan Maru xAK Teiyo Maru xAK Kinai Maru E Tobui E Uruyame E Ishigaki Allied Ships SS Porpoise Japanese ground losses: 8 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Morning Air attack on Delhi , at 52,17 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 47 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 45 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb Trop x 16 Hurricane IIc Trop x 15 Mohawk IV x 16 P-40E Warhawk x 20 F4F-3A Wildcat x 27 F4F-3 Wildcat x 18 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 4 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-40E Warhawk: 3 destroyed F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 28 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet CAP engaged: VF-6 with F4F-3A Wildcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 16 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 18000 and 26000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes VMF-211 with F4F-3 Wildcat (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 10 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 18000 and 21000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes No.5 Sqn RAF with Mohawk IV (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 11 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 12000 , scrambling fighters between 18000 and 24000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes No.135 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 9 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 18000 and 27000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes No.615 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 8 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 22000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes 51st FG/26th FS with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 22000 and 23000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 minutes 23rd FG/74th FS with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 17000 and 21000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 16 minutes ....[:-][:-][:-][:-][:-][:-]
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