Lowpe
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September 13, 1943 No night bombing. Both Wake and Trinkat hold, in fact no allied attacks at either. More troops and supplies landed at Wake. Decent day in the air, with 54 losses to both sides, 35 of the Japanese losses are Oscar IVs, most coming around Trinkat and Port Blair. Oscars sweep Port Blair, high, into a strong CAP, while Betties fly very low with Oscar escorts and bomb the airfields. The bombers manage to destroy many planes and plant some good hits on the airfield. Lightnings sweep Trinkat and catch some Oscars doing LRCAP over a fast transport fleet. In China, Japanese fighters sweep and down many Chinese fighters which are now based at Chungking. Will work on the bombing the airfield and sweeping heavily there this turn. Minisubs, in 4 2-ship task forces get one attack, miss on a destroyer, and one mini-sub is sunk. Only the fast minisubs attack. Since they all have 10 detection, I will disband them back to the pools and make some more...this time I will try single ship taskforces. The Super heavy BBs bombard Trinkat, despite sighting plane, only inflict 100 casualties. What to do at Wake? I can send the KB for a strike, his forces are hovering 1 hex to the west of Wake and try for a 8 hex strike. I would have done this, except I have several carriers in drydock repairing torpedo damage...my strike would only be 400 planes. If I had 700 planes I would have attacked this turn. My other tactic is to have a small task force go forward with a heavy LRCAP over it and try to ambush the Allies strike planes.
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