1275psi
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14/6/43
Death snapping at your heals can give you wings.
All night long every man available slaved with frantic haste to restore Mandalay field to operational status –or something barely usable, at least.
All night long the enemy night bombers growled overhead –occasionally running in –the crumps of the bombs highlighting the prone, frozen figures all over the field
They did little damage – simply pressing the men to ever greater efforts.
Dawn comes swiftly –dirty, tired, Juni, Miyazaki, Inoue, Ginowa, clambered into their birds –and waited for the word.
It was not long coming –the pickets in the hills to the north began to ring in.
Bombers. P38’s. More bombers.
Now, overhead the steady drone of 70th sentai – the first Long range Cap patrol – KI-44’s.
Nakamura keeps his birds on the ground –timing is everything –too soon – too little fuel to intercept.
Too late – with a single taxi way to use - a alley way of death.
The men swaet
Sweat some more –flight suits , heavy, cloying
Too much time to think
The picture clears – the bombers are headed towards the 6th regiment to the east –but, but……………
GO! –GO! –lets go!
Engines bark, splutter, cough into life
Juni wastes no time –oil pressures, manifolds are good –tepmeratures have already been raised –he slams the throttle – the taxi way is so narrow –no room for error…..
Miyazaki coughs in the great cloud of dust thrown up by Juni- there is no hesitation –he too simply charges into the dust –and hopes that Juni is clear.
Inoue waits a second –spots vaguely the tree line to the right –throttles up – and crashes blindly off the strip –a great explosion of mud, dirt and water from the ditch along side the strip.
He swears –a horrible string of curses –railing against the enemy, this cocked up plane and its non existent view from the cockpit, against anything, everything –himself
His fighter effectively blocks the field.
Ginowa curses him, slams hard rudder, in effective brake, slides some how past, gets away.
Nobody else can follow
The 3 44’s clear the field, bank hard right , and climb, climb, climb
The sky is huge, immense, endless today –unblemished by a single cloud –and full of twisting, turning, spitting shapes ahead.
The hurricanes have bounced 70th -70th –who have never really been that good – and sent 3 of them spinnng down –scattering the rest.
Triumphant the Hurricanes are turning for home, 15 strong.
47th’s three best pilots slash in from the side –Juni , cold, cold, banks in hard, so hard he skids mere feet past the tail of the first hurricane he engages –his guns hammer, briefly, briefly –the pilot of the hurricane almost dissolving in a horrible red spray –his plane following suit in a single stunning moment.
Juni continues the skid, converting it into a continuing turn to port, and then as hard, as hard as he can, full opposite bank, trying to get onto the tail of the next fighter –and failing -the enemy climbing swiftly up, truk it, up over his sights, , he continues hard , hard starboard then, looking for the hurricane coming in the opposite direction –but there are now three of them – the circle closes, closes –guns hammer –he never flinches –somebody must have –he lives –and guns empty he dives away – and growls in delight at the sight of the tonies –like hawks –so many, many hawks now diving into the fight -……………..
Miyazaki simply flings himself at the enemy – all enthusiasm, no skill –all anger, no calculation.
He is lucky –courage though sometimes help to make luck – and he finds a hurricane drifting across his sights.
He latches on –it’s a long chase –almost 6 seconds long –and he yells -yells the chant of upbringing, of a life of indoctorination -BANZAI!!!!!!!!!! As the hurricane inverts –chugs horrible black smoke –and falls.
A wave of relief –he’s done it –justified his place.
Ginowa kills as well -47th score 3 today.
The tonies chase the hurricanes all the way to the hills –and reap a grim harvest
12 down
It should be some time before they try to come across alone again.
Operational report
47th sentai
Field all but closed at dawn –fully operational by days end
One plane destroyed on ground.
70th report 2 planes lost
3 Kills accredited -Ginowa 1, (now 3) Miyazaki 1, Juni 1 (now 3)
Huge numbers of planes reported by recon at Cox’s bazaar –rumours abound of “the big push”
We are ready for them!
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