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October 4, 1943
Allies bomb Rabaul at night with 3 B24; 18 Irvings rise to challenge them, and after one gets shot down, and most run out of ammo before making a pass, we manage to inflict 2 op losses on them. A success!
Meanwhile, in Burma, Tanaka and his light cruisers are sent into Rangoon to disrupt the Allied war effort. He is off to a slow start and makes Rangoon late, held up by PT boats, where they sink one, and then encounter 2 Allied Destroyers, that in truth, kind of roughly handle Tanaka. No merchant convoys present.
However, Tanaka opens his orders, and he is ordered to remain on station, utter madness as dawn approaches. Someone screwed up in the Admiralty.
And to confuse matters more, all of Tanaka's numerous escorts get pulled away to defend the runway at Pegu or Moulmein where they tangle with P47s. KAI Dinahs aren't much of a match for the Thunderbolt, especially when they fly at 18K and the Jugs are at 41K.
But the Japanese fighters struggle on, mostly going down in flames, but some do exact some revenge on the Mustangs, which have been relegated to escort duty and this time it is the Allies time to go down in flames.
The KAI Dinah even makes some passes, starting to shoot at range 5, then 4, then 3, then 2 and they even got credited with a kill, but the odd thing is when the Dinah confronts the bombers they are driven off before even opening up on them at long range with their cannons.
I thought that was the purpose of having that big cannon....shoot at enemy bombers from outside their defensive guns' ranges.
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