Why, Chickenboy-san ... it sounds like you are siding with Allied-mens side! Are you confused about which Mandrake/sprior-sans AAR you are in? [:'(]
Sadry, not-ah this time, most honorabre torpedo magnet fanboi. Chickenboy-san try on very rare occasion to keep it-ah "rear" and provide honest-to-ah-goodness advice.
Why, Chickenboy-san ... it sounds like you are siding with Allied-mens side! Are you confused about which Mandrake/sprior-sans AAR you are in? [:'(]
Sadry, not-ah this time, most honorabre torpedo magnet fanboi. Chickenboy-san try on very rare occasion to keep it-ah "rear" and provide honest-to-ah-goodness advice.
Honestry. [;)]
Ah-so! Chickenboy-san very crever! Give just enuff good advice to make his bad advices crediburh!
No matter how bad a situation is, you can always make it worse. - Chris Hadfield : An Astronaut's Guide To Life On Earth
Quite a complicated turn. Arizona and 5 DD's will take up a patrol box near Noumea plus the only PT boats left (3). 97 fighters in the air over Noumea (barring a successful Jap night bombardment)
The other ships, including the AD and AE and TK's and 2 BB's will retreat to Tanna. We will need some surface firepower for tomorrow night as well.
1) Leave the BB's in battle line at Noumea to fend off potential night or even daytime surface raids...and hope the fighters can protect them in the morning?
2) Leave Trenton and a few DD's at Noumea and send the BB's to Tanna. Let the little guys absorb the first strike and hope the airfield survives?
If the AF escapes damage it will be level 3 tomorrow. JJ will have to be cautious about dedicating bombers to AF strikes because they have seen the USN carriers
The AF is key here as it ultimately controls the the N&I C AOR. Anything that allows it to go to Level 3 and stay operational is unfortunately expendable.
This is true. Given the pace of destruction of Oz, our threat to the WJD troops on N&IC is our only leverage.
Noumea: Either JJ chopped their naval attack range down or they advanced no further or the AI chose not to attack against the CAP over Noumea. We got only sweep attacks. Naturally, the P-400's with 47-55 experience pilots did not fare so well.
Morning Air attack on Noumea , at 115,160
Weather in hex: Heavy cloud
Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 19,070 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 13
Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 1
P-39D Airacobra x 40
P-400 Airacobra x 11
P-40B Warhawk x 24
F4F-3 Wildcat x 14
Went to the beach yesterday..fantastic weather, water unbelievably warm...set of huge waves came in and started to push me back to the breaking zone so I had to work pretty hard to get back out. Hory crap! Admiral Mandrake was completely sucking wind. I new the CO2 level was rising but nobody told me the Oxygen level had got so low! The lifeguard came out and asked if Admiral Mandrake needed help. I sent him over to help some teenage girls who were panicked. Much better to go glub glub than lose face.
After that Admiral Mandrake came to his senses, sat down in his beach chair, poured a big Red Solo Cup full of Jameson and 7-up that he sneaked onto the beach in a 7-up bottle and watched everyone else get rescued, of which there were many, probably dozens. Every 10-15 minutes another huge set would arrive and all those new beachgoers who had not seen the previous set would get caught in the washing machine with huge chop and a tremendous backsurge after two or three waves piled up a billion gallons of water on the steep beach. You could see 7-8 human heads sticking out of the foam being carried back out 50 yds in seconds. Nobody drowned, AFAIK, but they really should have closed the beach.
After that Admiral Mandrake came to his senses, sat down in his beach chair, poured a big Red Solo Cup full of Jameson and 7-up that he sneaked onto the beach in a 7-up bottle and watched everyone else get rescued, of which there were many, probably dozens. Every 10-15 minutes another huge set would arrive and all those new beachgoers who had not seen the previous set would get caught in the washing machine with huge chop and a tremendous backsurge after two or three waves piled up a billion gallons of water on the steep beach. You could see 7-8 human heads sticking out of the foam being carried back out 50 yds in seconds. Nobody drowned, AFAIK, but they really should have closed the beach.
Halfway through this post I thought the "sets" you were talking about were the ones barely hidden by bikinis ... [;)]
No matter how bad a situation is, you can always make it worse. - Chris Hadfield : An Astronaut's Guide To Life On Earth
KB standing off 320 WNW of Noumea...now said to have 84 fighters. JJ sent three 21 plane fighter sweeps yesterday. That is over 75% of their fighter strength. They don't dare do that if they close to SBD range, although they could still use their range advantage to pound Arizona or the AF.
We can't really afford to lose 32 fighters a day but they can't keep it up forever either. We will move some P-39's from Brisbane and some more P-40B's from Tanna. Maybe send in some A-24's to bomb La Foa and make JJ nervous.
76 new P-39's just arrived at Suva in crates yesterday.
After that Admiral Mandrake came to his senses, sat down in his beach chair, poured a big Red Solo Cup full of Jameson and 7-up that he sneaked onto the beach in a 7-up bottle and watched everyone else get rescued, of which there were many, probably dozens. Every 10-15 minutes another huge set would arrive and all those new beachgoers who had not seen the previous set would get caught in the washing machine with huge chop and a tremendous backsurge after two or three waves piled up a billion gallons of water on the steep beach. You could see 7-8 human heads sticking out of the foam being carried back out 50 yds in seconds. Nobody drowned, AFAIK, but they really should have closed the beach.
Halfway through this post I thought the "sets" you were talking about were the ones barely hidden by bikinis ... [;)]
Speaking of that, Mothers of America, will you please check what your teen daughters are wearing to the beach! It's like Brazil. I can't believe any parent would go along with that. I felt like I needed to hand out exam gowns.