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Buckeye5 -> June 22 (8/27/2004 5:38:43 AM)
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We're clearly entering another surge in hostilities. The 22nd starts badly for the IJN. I-71, staking out Port Moresby harbor, is spotted by patrolling destroyers and attacked. The boat survives, but is going to be limping back to Truk for repairs.
As dawn breaks, a succession of airstrikes from Port Moresby finds the luckless Yukaze trying to make it home--she didn't get far, and is bombed, strafed, and torpedoed to bits by a succession of massive raids.
On the plus side, the strikes on Yukaze draw all hostile air activity away from my carriers, which have now steamed around the eastern tip of New Guinea and are heading west...the Enterprise, as expected, is retiring to the south, leaving the seas clear--except for the allied ships clustered at Port Moresby....
Air attack on TF, near Port Moresby at 10,40
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 47
A6M3 Zero x 12
D3A Val x 102
B5N Kate x 27
Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 17
P-400 Airacobra x 13
P-39D Airacobra x 32
P-40E Kittyhawk x 16
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero x 1 destroyed
A6M3 Zero x 2 destroyed
D3A Val x 3 destroyed
B5N Kate x 1 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat x 6 destroyed
F4F-3 Wildcat x 2 damaged
P-400 Airacobra x 6 destroyed
P-39D Airacobra x 9 destroyed
P-40E Kittyhawk x 5 destroyed
P-40E Kittyhawk x 2 damaged
WO V.Minegishi of DII-1 Daitai is credited with kill number 5
LCDR W. Leonard of VF-42 bails out WOUNDED and is RESCUED
Allied Ships
AP George Clymer, Bomb hits 2, on fire
SC 522
AP Wanganella, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AP Kanimbla, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AP President Jackson, Bomb hits 3, on fire
SC 520, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Mildura, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage
AP Monrovia
AP President Adams, Bomb hits 1
AP Ormiston, Bomb hits 1
MSW Whyalla, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AP Moreton Bay, Bomb hits 1, on fire
MSW Lismore, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AP Leedstown, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage
Allied ground losses:
Men lost 102
Air attack on TF, near Port Moresby at 10,40
Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 18
Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 11
P-40E Kittyhawk x 12
Japanese aircraft losses
B5N Kate x 4 destroyed
B5N Kate x 1 damaged
LTJG R. Crommelin of VF-42 is credited with kill number 3
Allied Ships
AK Mungana
CA Australia
PG Warrego
AK Murada
Air attack on TF, near Port Moresby at 10,40
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24
A6M3 Zero x 4
D3A Val x 23
Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 10
P-400 Airacobra x 8
P-39D Airacobra x 22
P-40E Kittyhawk x 13
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero x 1 destroyed
A6M3 Zero x 1 destroyed
D3A Val x 2 destroyed
D3A Val x 14 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat x 1 destroyed
P-400 Airacobra x 2 destroyed
P-39D Airacobra x 3 destroyed
P-39D Airacobra x 1 damaged
P-40E Kittyhawk x 3 destroyed
P-40E Kittyhawk x 1 damaged
WO D.Bando of EI-1 Daitai is credited with kill number 3
Allied Ships
DD Aylwin, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Morris, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Perkins, Bomb hits 1, on fire
Air attack on TF, near Port Moresby at 10,40
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 18
D3A Val x 23
B5N Kate x 22
Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 9
P-400 Airacobra x 1
P-39D Airacobra x 3
P-40E Kittyhawk x 6
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero x 1 destroyed
A6M2 Zero x 1 damaged
D3A Val x 1 destroyed
B5N Kate x 2 destroyed
B5N Kate x 1 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat x 1 destroyed
F4F-3 Wildcat x 1 damaged
P-400 Airacobra x 1 destroyed
P-39D Airacobra x 1 destroyed
P-39D Airacobra x 1 damaged
P-40E Kittyhawk x 1 destroyed
LTJG M.Gardner of VF-3 is credited with kill number 2
Allied Ships
SC 522, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
MSW Lismore, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AP Ormiston, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
AP President Adams, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AP Kanimbla, on fire, heavy damage
AP Westralia, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
SC 519, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Allied ground losses:
Men lost 55
Air attack on TF, near Port Moresby at 10,40
Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 56
B5N Kate x 40
Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 4
P-40E Kittyhawk x 3
Japanese aircraft losses
D3A Val x 3 destroyed
B5N Kate x 2 destroyed
B5N Kate x 1 damaged
FO K. Truscott of No. 76 Sqn RAAF is credited with kill number 3
Allied Ships
AP Moreton Bay, on fire
SC 519, on fire, heavy damage
AP President Adams, on fire, heavy damage
AP Heywood
AK Mildura, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AP Kanimbla, on fire, heavy damage
SC 522, on fire, heavy damage
MSW Wollongong, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AP Wanganella, on fire, heavy damage
AP George Clymer, on fire
AP Monrovia
AP Ormiston, on fire
MSW Lismore, on fire, heavy damage
AP Westralia, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AP Leedstown, heavy damage
Allied ground losses:
Men lost 29
Several transports and smaller escorts are confirmed sunk, and I suspect there will be a steady chain of cripples working their way south.
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