Spidery
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Joined: 10/6/2012 From: Hampshire, UK Status: offline
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September 19th No night strikes. Heavy bombing of troops at Cheribon. quote:
Morning Air attack on 2nd Area Army, at 51,100 (Cheribon) Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 3 B-17F Fortress x 24 B-25C Mitchell x 19 B-25D1 Mitchell x 32 B-25G Mitchell x 24 B-26 Marauder x 3 P-40K Warhawk x 102 PB4Y-1 Liberator x 7 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 338 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 18 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 87 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 21 (1 destroyed, 20 disabled) ---- Allied aircraft Hudson I x 12 Spitfire Vc Trop x 8 B-17E Fortress x 2 B-25C Mitchell x 30 B-26 Marauder x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 165 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 12 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 26 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled) ---- Allied aircraft Hudson I x 12 B-25C Mitchell x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 81 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled ---- Allied aircraft B-25C Mitchell x 12 B-25G Mitchell x 12 B-26B Marauder x 3 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 68 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled ----- Allied aircraft B-25C Mitchell x 3 B-26B Marauder x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 36 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled However, fog of war is heavily over-estimating losses: 2 support and 2 squads destroyed and about 150 devices disabled (after the recovery phase). No 4E involved in those strikes and no 4E night-strikes for days. Hiei has reached the yards at Kure and will take 73 days to fix the structural damage now all the system damage has been fixed.
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