BillBrown
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First report, more later Dec 13, 1941 Things took a huge swing to the better this turn Morning Air attack on TF, near Howland Island at 146,125 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 34 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 44 B5N2 Kate x 74 Allied aircraft F2A-3 Buffalo x 13 F4F-3A Wildcat x 23 F4F-3 Wildcat x 10 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed B5N2 Kate: 3 damaged B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak Allied aircraft losses F2A-3 Buffalo: 1 destroyed F4F-3A Wildcat: 4 destroyed Allied Ships CV Enterprise, Torpedo hits 6, and is sunk DD Balch CA Chester CA Northampton, Torpedo hits 1 CA Salt Lake City Fuel storage explosion on CV Enterprise --------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Howland Island at 146,125 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 35 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 33 B5N2 Kate x 78 Allied aircraft F2A-3 Buffalo x 16 F4F-3 Wildcat x 7 Japanese aircraft losses B5N2 Kate: 6 destroyed, 1 damaged B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak Allied aircraft losses F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed Allied Ships CV Lexington, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage CA Astoria, Torpedo hits 1 CA Chicago, Torpedo hits 3, on fire CA Portland DD Drayton Fuel storage explosion on CV Lexington Heavy smoke from fires obscuring an Allied CV ------------------------------------------------------------- this took place at 7 hex range and the DBs were set for 6. Moving in to take care of the cripples with DBs. A lot of the afternoon Kates were using bombs, I only have 18 torpedoes left. But with no effective CVs to worry about, The Vals can clean up.
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