As I said earlier, today largely consists of sweeps and bombing runs in India to take advantage of his weak CAP/LRCAP and I am decently successful, destroying a number of fighters and potentially weakening his CAP enough to make my bombers useful. These sweeps take place both at Ceylon and Akyab, where I will increase my bombing runs over the next few turns. On Ceylon, I am also moving my garrison to Colombo to hold as long as possible, as that is where all my supply is.
Morning Air attack on Jaffna , at 31,45
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 25 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 12
Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 16
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 5 destroyed
No Allied losses
Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Hurricane IIb Trop sweeping at 20000 feet
Morning Air attack on Akyab , at 54,45
Weather in hex: Heavy cloud
Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20
Ki-44-Ia Tojo x 5
Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 16
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 4 destroyed
Ki-44-Ia Tojo: 2 destroyed
No Allied losses
In the Aleutians, his carriers move back, but the Yamato and a few escorts stick around near Prince Rupert. I even get the message below...doubt it actually happened and my pilot is being optimistic, but fun to see nonetheless.
PBY-5 Catalina from VP-42 has spotted BB Yamato at 197,48
BB Yamato is reported HIT
" - BBfanboy
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