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The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands (Hour by hour)
2/13/43
Morning:
-First air attack over the Allied task forces SW Vanikolo from Lunga japanese base. 35 Bettys with the escort of 12 A6M3a clash with a allied CAP with 60 Wildcats. No hits. 13 Bettys and 3 Zeros was shot down. 11 Wildcats also shot down.
Afternoon:
-Second raid again from Lunga base. Only 3 Bettys with a escort of 10 Zeros. 36 Wildcats ready on CAP. No hits on ships. Four Wildcats down with the three Bettys and two zeros.
2/14/43
Morning:
-Both sides launch attacks. The allies reach the japanese ships before.
-66 Dauntless and 60 Avengers with the escort of 63 Wildcats caught in a nightmare named japanese CAP with no less 84 Zeros. 57 Wildcats was shot down and 12 Zeros but the attackers get hits:
* CV Zuikaku (hit by one 1000 lbr bomb, minor damage and fire)
* CV Akagi (hit by one 1000 lbr bomb, two AA mounts destroyed and minor damage and fire)
* CV Junyo (hit by one torpedo starboard side, light flooding)
* CV Kaga (hit by three 1000 lbr bombs and one torpedo in port side, heavy damage, flight deck closed, violent fires spread, speed reduced to six knots)
* CV Hiyo (hit by one 1000 lbr bomb, heavy damage cause ammo explosion, violent fires spread, flight deck closed, speed reduced to 11 knots)
* BB Yamato (hit by two 1000 lbr bombs, one 6.1 in mount destroyed)
20 SBD and 23 TBF shot down by DCA and CAP.
-Second raid: 28 SBD with the escort of 17 Wildcats. Heavy dogfight with the 34 CAP Zeros. 7 Zeros and 13 Wildcats shot down. Again the allied get hits.
* CVL Shoho (hit by three 1000 lbr bombs, heavy damage, violent fires spread and ammo storage explosion, flight deck closed, speed reduced to 7 knots)
* CV Junyo (hit again by three 1000 lbr bombs, heavy damage, flight deck closed, violent fires and minor explosions, speed reduced to 4 knots)
-Third raid: 9 Avengers with the escort of 7 Wildcats. The CAP of 40 zeros shot down all of them. No hits.
-Fouth raid: 9 Avengers with the escort of 15 Wildcats. Another massacre. No hits. Two zeros, ten Wildcats and four Avengers shot down.
Morning, same time, the japanese attack:
-First raid: 43 Vals and 49 Kates with a escort of 75 zeros. The allied CAP was 63 Wildcats. Heavy dogfight favour to japanese side. 33 Wildcats and 13 zeros shot down. The japanese bombers do not see the TF 74 and attack only the TF76.
* CVE Suwanee (hit by two bombs, heavy damage)
* CVE Copahee (hit by three bombs and FIVE torpedoes, capsized and sinks)
* CVE Sangamon (hit by five torpedoes, sinks in the afternoon)
* CVE Altamaha (hit by one bomb and two torpedoes, heavy damage, flight deck closed)
* CVE Chenango (hit by four bombs, heavy fires spread, flight deck closed)
* CA Northampton (hit by two torpedoes in port side, heavy flooding, speed reduced to 11 knots)
* CVE Nassau (hit by one bomb, minor damage)
3 D3A and 7 B5N shot down.
-Second raid: 25 Vals with a escort of five zeros, only two Wildcats stay on CAP. Those are very soon shot down and the japanese gets new hits. Only two Vals destroyed.
* CVE Chenango (hit by three bombs, heavy damage)
* CVE Altamaha (hit by four bombs, critical damage)
* CL Concord (hit by one bomb, minor damage and fire)
Third raid: 22 A6M3a, 25 D3A, and 18 B5N; the only Wildcat on CAP is shot down with 4 B5N.
* CVE Chenango (hit by two bombs and one torpedo, critical damage)
* CVE Altamaha (hit by 7 bombs, critical damage, heavy fires)
* CL Concord (hit by one bomb, minor fire, speed reduced to 21 knots)
* CVE Suwanee (hit by three bombs, fligh deck closed, speed reduced to 2 knots, 1 mount 5in out)
-Fourth raid: 21 Vals and nine zeros flying from Lunga base. One Val shot down.
* CVE Chenango (hit by two bombs, the captain orders abandon ship, she sinks this afternoon)
-Fifth raid: 25 Vals and 18 Kates with 8 zeros in escort. No japanese plane shot down.
* CVE Altamaha (hit by one bomb and two torpedoes and sunk)
* CVE Nassau (hit by two bombs, heavy fires spread, speed reduced to 8 knots)
Afternoon: Both sides try to evade a night action.
-The TF 74, intact but without fighters launches a attack with 33 Dauntless and 9 Avengers with only 8 Wildcats on escort. The japanese CAP is 39 zeros. Another heavy dogfight win by japanese. The americans do not reach the ships, all Wildcats are shot down with 14 Dauntless and 6 Avengers.
-The japanese counterstrike. The sixth japanese raid, this time against the TF 74. 42 Vals and 48 Kates with 52 zeros on escort. Only four Wildcats on CAP. One zero, 8 Vals and 20 Kates was destroyed but the nipons get hits.
* CV Wasp (hit by three bombs, moderate fires)
* BB North Carolina (hit by one torpedo on port side, minor flooding)
* BB Indiana (hit by one bomb and two torpedoes, one 20mm AA mount destroyed by the bomb, only minor damage in superstructures, but moderate flooding and fires on port side, the ship reduces the speed to 16 knots)
* CV Hornet (hit by two bombs, minor damage)
-Seventh raid: 31 Vals and 14 zeros from Lunga base attack the TF 74 near Nendo. 20 Vals was shot down but again get hits.
* CV Hornet (hit by three bombs, heavy damage cause ammo storage explosion, flight deck closed, radar out, speed reduced to 11 knots)
* CV Wasp (hit by one bomb but with catastrophic results, the artifact penetrates the deck and explode besides a ammo and torpedo storage. The ships blow up and the fires spread very soon, flight deck closed, speed reduced to four knots)
2/15/43
After the massacre both sides try to escape a night action. CA Northampton docks in Vanikolo at only 7 knots. The crew try to stopper the flooding. CVE Nassau and CV Wasp going to E.Santo with the assistance of DD Buchanan and DD Chevalier. The rest going to Noumea.
2/16/43
Situation in CVs Kaga and Junyo is almost critical. Fires continue spread uncontroled.
Two air raids from Lunga against the crippled american ships. In the first, 10 Bettys do not get hits against the CVE Suwanee. The second raid, with 11 G4M1 also misses the CV Hornet that reduce your speed to 5 knots. The Wildcats of the Essex success to stop the japanese but only a Betty is shot down.
2/17/43
Yamaguchi give order to Junyo to try to reach Lunga cause your heavy flooding state and the ship going south at one knot escorted by DD Fumizuki.
CVE Suwanee reach E.Santo but this afternoon the base is attacked by 9 Bettys without escort and is hit by three torpedoes. The ship sinks in shallow waters.
2/19/43
CV Junyo is dead in the water. DD Fumizuki try to tow the ship to Lunga.
The japanese attack Vanikolo with 13 Bettys and 17 Zeros. The allied answer with 19 Wildcats on CAP but the CA Northampton is hit by two torpedoes and sinks. Two zeros and four Wildcats are shot down. The CV Wasp reach E.Santo.
2/20/43
The CV Junyo sinks few miles near Lunga. The CV Kaga, with heavy flooding is abandoned near Green Is.but capsizes suddenly killing the captain Okada and many crew.
The CVE Nassau reach E.Santo.
2/21/43
The CV Hornet is a few miles of Noumea, but your situation is critical with almost 80 % flooding damage.
2/22/43
The CVL Shoho sinks few miles northeast Rabaul cause heavy flooding.
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