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The KB got of a series of violent attacks against 2 Allied convoys during the morning phase
on the 9th of September. The convoys were erased...  Guess they were carrying supplies for the Solomons.
Perhaps that will force Andy to stand down his bombers. He's pushing them to mutiny!
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 09/09/43
Air Combat
Let's ignore the daily bombing missions in the South Pacific today and concentrate
on naval air attacks!
Betty's based at Truk struck against ships unloading on the beaches west of Rabaul!
With a little luck we could have hit a couple of ca's...
Day Air attack on TF at 60,89
Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 11
Allied aircraft
P-47C Thunderbolt x 9
Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 9 destroyed
Allied Ships
CA Canberra
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet
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Day Air attack on TF at 60,89
Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 3
Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 3
P-47C Thunderbolt x 6
Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
Allied Ships
CA Quincy
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet
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Here are the KB attacks against 2 enemy convoys!
Day Air attack on TF at 71,90
Japanese aircraft - no escorts...why does this make me extremely unhappy? Seems to happen 9 out 10 times
no matter how I organize my carrier fleets 
D4Y Judy x 68
B5N Kate x 104
Japanese aircraft losses
D4Y Judy: 1 damaged
B5N Kate: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged
Allied Ships - this is the fun stuff 
AK Steel Voyager, Torpedo hits 6, on fire, heavy damage
AK Empire Hawk, Bomb hits 1
AK Mormacwren, Bomb hits 6, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Charles McCormick, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AK West Ivis, Bomb hits 8, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK Empire Pennant
AK West Cactus, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AK Empire Heath, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
AK Hamakua, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
SC SC-741, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK Empire Glade, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Empire Bruce, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
SC SC-749, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage - yeah right...!
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Day Air attack on TF at 71,90 - a follow up attack, also unescorted...grrrr
Japanese aircraft
D4Y Judy x 59
B6N Jill x 31
Japanese aircraft losses
B6N Jill: 2 damaged
Allied Ships
AK Hamakua, on fire, heavy damage
AK Empire Heath, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK West Ivis, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AK Admiral Wiley, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Empire Pennant, Bomb hits 2, on fire
SC SC-741, on fire, heavy damage
AK Charles McCormick, on fire, heavy damage
AK West Cactus, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Empire Glade, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AK Steel Voyager, on fire, heavy damage
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Day Air attack on TF at 71,90 - a third unescorted strike!
Japanese aircraft
D4Y Judy x 17
B5N Kate x 12
No Japanese losses
Allied Ships
AK West Cactus, on fire, heavy damage
AK Empire Glade, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK Empire Pennant, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
AK Empire Hawk, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
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Day Air attack on TF at 73,90 - a second convoy is then targetted and most of my escorts follow this modest strike in!
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 16
A6M5 Zeke x 93
D3A Val x 8
D4Y Judy x 18
B5N Kate x 42
No Japanese losses
Allied Ships
AK Kahuku, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AK Selma City, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AK Hawaiian, Bomb hits 11, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
SC SC-702, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK American Packer, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
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Day Air attack on TF at 73,90 - no more targets...
Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zeke x 16
D3A Val x 8
B5N Kate x 8
No Japanese losses
Allied Ships
AK Selma City, on fire, heavy damage
AK Kahuku, on fire, heavy damage
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Ground Combat
Repulsed yet again with heavy losses.
Ground combat at Kavieng
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 72251 troops, 661 guns, 5 vehicles
Defending force 20631 troops, 93 guns, 91 vehicles
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
1851 casualties reported
Guns lost 46
Vehicles lost 3
Allied ground losses:
157 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Vehicles lost 5
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Situation Map: KB missions
I faced a series of difficult choices today: what should I do with the KB?
I decided to send one carrier division with the Junyo and 4 light carriers south to finish
of another enemy cargo convoy. The only threat should be enemy medium/heavy bombers
without escorts since the US carriers were spotted at Gili Gili today.
Well..not all of them: the surface combat group that was spotted yesterday heading north towards
the Marshalls included 1 or 2 enemy carriers that attempted to strike at our ships at Kwajalein.
Since most of our ships were disbanded into port they didn't find any targets.
Pretty sure Andy will race south and hide among his LBA. I'm putting the main force of the KB
some way west of the US bases north in the Gilberts. Perhaps his carriers will react? Can't ignore
the opportunity to knock one or two birdfarms out. It's a risk but a calculated one. Andy is aggressive
so let's try him. Carpe Diem baby 
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RE: Fortress Rabaul fights back! - 
! Just have to say that again and again and again! Damn, they have to look at those results and change something. There are ridicoulos kill rates in the early war achieved by Japanese but the results of the Allied planes is.... Repeat, we´re talking here about experienced Japanese pilots, not green boys with 20 hours of flight training. RIDICOULOS!
- I agreed with you on the point that the main problem is the combat system which leads to the largest part of the unrealistic results we are witnessing. Numerically speaking the 20 can't shoot down one hundred, for simple ammo and non-ubiquituous reasons I agree too, my main point was about this total absence of leaking from the attacking forces on every side. As you say, vastly inferior number of RAF planes manage to strike efficiently, and I agree totally with you: if BoB had beem played with the WiP engine, it is just like having everytime whole squadrons wiped out during unbalanced encounters. That's just not fair: even when falling upon unescorted stukas, Ive never read about total obliteration just like those we may see in WiP... 
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