1275psi
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Hidaka leads them higher, higher, higher, through the thinning mist, mist/cloud, whatever it is melting away in the morning sun. He banks south at 12000 feet, and joins the other fighters streaming south. The enemy approach, and like bees to honey, they draw the fighters to them The helldivers have seperated, the avengers come in, packed tight, a stream of bombers nearly a mile long,, the Hell cats weaving above them, the thatch weave working like a loam . Shokaku's zeros weave in, now Amagis, now Shohos, ... Zeros go down, another, and another But the hellcats are getting thinner too..............too many enemy, too many bombers to protect Hidaka banks them again, zuihos 18, flying parrallell to the bombers. Ahead, almost below, the flanking destroyers begin to appear The sky is filling with flack They are at 2000 feet now, the bombers, breaking up into groups, picking their targets. Hidaka attacks They dive,..... A hellcat flashes past Diogawa.......too easy..............a burst.........a kill the avengers float up, up. They are amongst them! He picks the first one, turrett turning frantically his way...........oh, its been so long!.....close, get closer.......turret, man, the hammer of guns, shattering glass, blood, slumping men...............and past, banking, up, up into the belly of the next beast, firing, firing, rolling past...flames erupting from that buka, rolling away, falling, away, thats 2!.....bank!, rudder, kick!, stick, body lurching, head swivelling...the sky seemingly full of avengers, avengers firing, avengers burning..........and like barracuda amongst bait fish, his eagles.........hunting, hunting, and killing he rolls inverted, the ocean rising above him, the, stick hard over, the savage beauty of when it all just comes together.........another burst, and another fat barsted falls, and his guns hiss empty............ Wolves amongst lambs, Combined fleets CAP has fought well. But they still get through.......
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