(RA) IJN refloated Soulsilver (J)vs Deaniks (A)

[soulsilver]

March 28th

The day begins with several allied cargo ships being torpedoed near perth. Unfortunately they miss the tanker facepalm.*

Sub attack near Perth at 47,147

Japanese Ships
SS I-15

Allied Ships
xAK Kutsang, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

SS I-15 launches 2 torpedoes

Sub attack near Perth at 47,147

Japanese Ships
SS RO-64

Allied Ships
TK British Dutchess
AM Latrobe

Sub attack near Perth at 43,147

Japanese Ships
SS I-9

Allied Ships
xAK Hosang, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage

Sweeps go well today in India. final losses are 1 Zero and 4 Ki-43s for 10 hurricanes.

Morning Air attack on Calcutta , at 52,37

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 19

Allied aircraft
Hurricane I Trop x 9
Hurricane IIa Trop x 2
Hurricane IIb Trop x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane I Trop: 2 destroyed
Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed

Some PBYs take shots at a CL up north in the Aleutians. The float fighters send them off, but I really need a some fighters here, ill probably send a sentai of Zeros to Adak soon.

fternoon Air attack on TF, near Amchitka Island at 158,52

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
E13A1 Jake x 4

Allied aircraft
PBY-5 Catalina x 1

No Japanese losses

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
CL Otonase

The Burmese Brigades finally surrender. The Divisions will head north now to India.

Ground combat at 54,47 (near Ramree Island)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 31914 troops, 293 guns, 88 vehicles, Assault Value = 905

Defending force 3947 troops, 33 guns, 37 vehicles, Assault Value = 69

Japanese adjusted assault: 696

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 696 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), fatigue(-)
experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
45 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
4141 casualties reported
Squads: 54 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 359 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 11 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 18 (18 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 48 (48 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 3

I was a little too optimistic with my vanguard today and my tank column pays the price. Thankfully half the losses were motorized support. Once the bulk of the troops get here we will attack and route these two Chinese Corps.

Japanese adjusted assault: 97

Allied adjusted defense: 640

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 6

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 73 (4 destroyed, 69 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
697 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 55 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled

Assaulting units:
3rd Tank Regiment
13th Tank Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
12th Tank Regiment
8th Armored Car Co

Defending units:
60th Chinese Corps
5th Chinese Cavalry Corps

[soulsilver]

March 29th

The main event today was payback for the poor tank attack in China yesterday. It appears that the results of yesterdays attack gave dean the wrong idea regarding my strength as the main body of my push caught up right when he attacked. The results were devastating for the two Chinese corps. I don't think I've seen losses this one sided before.

Ground combat at 78,51 (near Chihkiang)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 16796 troops, 81 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 490

Defending force 78367 troops, 728 guns, 662 vehicles, Assault Value = 2203

Allied adjusted assault: 0

Japanese adjusted defense: 6181

Allied assault odds: 1 to 99

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), op mode(-), leaders(+)
Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-), supply(-)

Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
7006 casualties reported
Squads: 693 destroyed, 90 disabled
Non Combat: 237 destroyed, 180 disabled
Engineers: 19 destroyed, 12 disabled
Guns lost 75 (46 destroyed, 29 disabled)

Assaulting units:
60th Chinese Corps
5th Chinese Cavalry Corps

Defending units:
8th Armored Car Co
12th Tank Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
19th Division
110th Division
17th Division
3rd Tank Regiment
39th Division
104th Division
13th Tank Regiment
55th Infantry Brigade
15th Tank Regiment
13th Army
4th Mortar Battalion
21st Mortar Battalion
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
2nd Mortar Battalion

Indian reinforcements Strat moved into a Para today... they are out of position and will be cut off by my tanks. I'm really confused as to why he moved them there.


Ground combat at Tezpur (60,36)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 897 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 31

Defending force 10277 troops, 134 guns, 287 vehicles, Assault Value = 367

Japanese adjusted assault: 5

Allied adjusted defense: 50

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 10 (fort level 0)

Combat modifiers
Defender: op mode(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-), morale(-)
experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(+), leaders(-)

Japanese ground losses:
187 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 27 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
2nd Raiding Regiment

Defending units:
2nd Assam Rifles Battalion
7th Armoured Brigade
23rd Indian Division

[soulsilver]

30th of March

Sweeps trade relatively evenly in India losing 9 zeros and 1 oscar for 14 hurricanes.

A Naval surface TF is spotted north of Cochin containing the Repulse and some cruisers. Nagato and Mutsu based at Cochin along with 5 CAs, 1 CL, and 15 DDs will move to engage in a night battle tomorrow while the transports flee. All troops have been unloaded so not much at risk, but im not gonna give up a chance to take a favorable night engagement vs the British.

In china the 2 Chinese corps were soundly routed and the spearhead advances towards Chihikiang where there is minor opposition. The troops in Changasha are already encircled they just don't know it yet.

Allied adjusted defense: 7

Japanese assault odds: 154 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
76 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
3640 casualties reported
Squads: 68 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 235 destroyed, 16 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 21 (21 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2

[soulsilver]

March 31st
Honourable surface combat did not occur today, it appears that the British TF fucked off after it was spotted north of Cochin. Its odd that he would attempt probing movements with a Battlecruiser, but i guess he lost his nerves and pulled back.

Carrier Division 1 is currently patroling the edge of the map near the cape town off map exit looking for any ships heading to India. Carrier Divisions 2-3 are in Singapore refitting and replenishing their air units which took some loses during the raid earlier.

3 Zero units and 1 G4M unit arrived in Japan today to replace units withdrawing on the front lines earlier. Once the units are filled up ill decide where to send them, probably to India.

Sweeps go well in India trading 2 zeros, and a Oscar for 9 Hurricanes.

[soulsilver]

April 1st

The turn starts with a Sub missing a Tanker

Sub attack near Lahaina at 186,104

Japanese Ships
SS I-10

Allied Ships
TK Esso Durban
KV Dawson

And the last of my invasions with the amphibious bonus

Invasion Support action off Port Hedland (57,129)
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

5 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
PB Fuji Maru #4
PB Kantori Maru
PB Kanko Maru
xAK Konzan Maru

Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Since this was carried out on April 1st I guess the amphib bonus goes till at least April 1st.

And I fail to take Trincamalee again... Gonna wait for a Division and a regiment to get there before I try again.

Ground combat at Trincomalee (31,47)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 17836 troops, 152 guns, 24 vehicles, Assault Value = 583

Defending force 9045 troops, 70 guns, 45 vehicles, Assault Value = 128

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 95

Allied adjusted defense: 241

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 1)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
308 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 30 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Guns lost 10 (1 destroyed, 9 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
64 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled

Assaulting units:
20th Division
143rd Infantry Regiment
3rd Ship Engineer Regiment
32nd Special Base Force
38th JNAF AF Unit

Defending units:
Trincomalee Fortress
99th Indian Brigade

Sweeps are canceled by bad weather, ugh. Also I forgot to mention that Chikang was captured yesterday in China ill upload a picture of China tomorrow.

Edit: also forgot that B17s bombed Adak for the first time today, gonna try and get some fighters up there.

[soulsilver]

April 3rd

Not much has happened the last few days, bad weather in India has repeatably canceled sweeps of calcutta. I'm continuing to destroy cut off Indian troops in Burma, and moving to cut off a Indian Division that has been giving my Paras trouble up in north east India. ill post pictures of china and India in a bit.

I also have intel from my opponent that the torpedo on the Formidable didn't do much damage, So I expect that she is still part of the Allied line of battle.

In SW Pac im moving to build Air fields on Lunga and to reinforce Tagula island, which is already mined, and will receive Coastal guns when the port is built up enough.

The zero unit aboard Taiyo was withdrawn today as well, but I get a replacement unit in Bankok in 2 days. my CVEs needed some minor repairs anyways.

In Burma I have begun bombarding the 1st Burma Division with 3 old Predreadnought Era curisers that start as PG in this scenario. They are very slow but have reasonable firepower making them only suited for coastal bombardment duty.

[RangerJoe]

If you can't sweep Calcutta, why not sweep the kitchen floor? [&:]

[WriterNotViking]

ORIGINAL: soulsilver

Ok I have a question for you guys, im currently trying to convert the CS chitose to a CVL It has no damage and is disbanded in Nagasaki which has a sufficiently large dockyard. furthermore I have the ship set yes to upgrade.... not sure what my problem is.

The Chitose and Chiyoda conversions are governed by a different set of rules than the usual upgrades. See this thread, Alfred's post in particular :

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3819690

[soulsilver]

April 4th

The turn opens with some DDs and CLs stepping on a sub north of Cochin in south India.

ASW attack near Mangalore at 31,32

Japanese Ships
SS I-29, hits 10

Allied Ships
DD Decoy
CL Newcastle
CL Adelaide
DD Kelvin
DD Panther
DD Isis
DD Hotspur

I'm preparing for a potential raid this next turn, more likely that hes just probing my defenses in the south.

Sweeps in India are once again grounded by bad weather...... this is ridiculous I havent been able to sweep in a whole week now.

Air raids go in as normal in china

Morning Air attack on 58th Chinese Corps, at 79,50 , near Chihkiang

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 30
G3M2 Nell x 33
G4M1 Betty x 62
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 9

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged

Allied ground losses:
176 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

The turn ends with an unsuccessful attack in northern china vs encircled troops. I think I'll now officially give up killing them and just bypass them and ignore them.

2nd Kure Assault Division sucessfully unloaded at rennel Island, though i need 1 more day to unload some more supply and some support. Im not sticking around any longer since I'm spotted.

On another note A6M5 was accelerated 1 month a few days ago, I expect to receive it some time in 7/42.

[soulsilver]

Situation in India rn

P.S. forgot to mention the 33rd Division just unloaded at Chittagon. the 5th Division is on the way as well. Tomoyuki Yamashita, the tiger of Malaya is leading the campaign. The fruits of victory are falling into our mouths far too easily...

[soulsilver]

ORIGINAL: WriterNotViking

ORIGINAL: soulsilver

Ok I have a question for you guys, im currently trying to convert the CS chitose to a CVL It has no damage and is disbanded in Nagasaki which has a sufficiently large dockyard. furthermore I have the ship set yes to upgrade.... not sure what my problem is.

The Chitose and Chiyoda conversions are governed by a different set of rules than the usual upgrades. See this thread, Alfred's post in particular :

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3819690

Thanks for the help!

[soulsilver]

China situation April 4th

[soulsilver]

April 5th

The turn opens with one of my subs hitting a mine while attempting to mine Perth, Ironic i suppose. the subs still alive for now but has 75 float so I don't have high hopes.

Sweeps in India were halted AGAIN!!! omg I'm pissed now....

On the bright side a sub nails the Formidable again

Sub attack near Busselton at 47,150

Japanese Ships
SS I-155, hits 1

Allied Ships
CV Formidable, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
DD Paladin

The repulse is spotted north of Cochin again and is attacked by torpedo carrying H8ks for no effect. I am not sure why hes risking the repulse like this.

[soulsilver]

April 7th

Not a ton happened the last few turns other than the landing of construction units at Rennel island and a SNLF assault Division to garrison the Base. Bad weather has finally permitted sweeps of Calcutta but Dean is refusing to fly his fighters. If he refuses to fly his planes for another turn ill bomb the air field.

Sweeps in china net 5 P-40es and 3 P-39s over the past 2 turns for 1 Ki-43

The most important event of the turn was a shock attack across a river at what I thought was gonna be 80k vs 40k Chinese in good terrain. around another 40k walked into the tile right when the attack went through, which combined with the nasty forest hills terrain resulted in lopsided loses. I'm calling off my attempt to cut off Changsha. most of the spear head by Chihikiang will retire to the central Chinese plains cities west of Changsha to refit. The northern end of the pincer will retire to Ichiang. Not sure where I'm going to plan to hit next. Either way I expect at least a few months before I hit him somewhere else in China.

Defending force 59211 troops, 163 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1543

Japanese adjusted assault: 366

Allied adjusted defense: 2563

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 7

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), op mode(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
5957 casualties reported
Squads: 343 destroyed, 648 disabled
Non Combat: 27 destroyed, 143 disabled
Engineers: 9 destroyed, 59 disabled
Guns lost 80 (22 destroyed, 58 disabled)
Vehicles lost 99 (26 destroyed, 73 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
2504 casualties reported
Squads: 82 destroyed, 106 disabled
Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 29 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Guns lost 8 (1 destroyed, 7 disabled)

Assaulting units:
104th Division
110th Division
9th Tank Regiment
19th Division
39th Division
17th Division
12th Tank Regiment
13th Tank Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
8th Armored Car Co
15th Tank Regiment
4th Mortar Battalion
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
21st Mortar Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
2nd Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
40th Chinese Corps
8th New Chinese Corps
73rd Chinese Corps
6th Construction Regiment
98th Chinese Corps
45th Chinese Corps
58th Chinese Corps
94th Chinese Corps
5th Construction Regiment
60th Chinese Corps
19th Group Army
9th War Area
20th Group Army
30th Group Army
6th War Area
27th Group Army
2nd Chinese Base Force

Tricomalee achieved a 3:1 but failed to take the base today. Ill try and attack again tommorow.

Ground combat at Trincomalee (31,47)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 38877 troops, 306 guns, 60 vehicles, Assault Value = 1122

Defending force 8963 troops, 70 guns, 45 vehicles, Assault Value = 122

Japanese adjusted assault: 952

Allied adjusted defense: 309

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
661 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 80 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

Allied ground losses:
243 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 18 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled

Carrier Division 1 is currently hugging the western edge of the map looking for the reinforcement convoy I saw heading north from perth. I'll give it another turn or two before giving up.

At least something goes right in India this turn with a Indian battalion committing seppuku.

Ground combat at Rangpur (58,34)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 528 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 123

Defending force 1920 troops, 0 guns, 379 vehicles, Assault Value = 223

Assault collapses, survivors seek cover

Allied ground losses:
607 casualties reported
Squads: 19 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 26 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
4th Assam Rifles Battalion
45th Indian Brigade

Defending units:
2nd Tank Regiment
14th Tank Regiment
5th Tank Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
7th Tank Regiment

[RangerJoe]

Did you get the massive artillery out of Manchuria? That would help alot. So does the armour.

[soulsilver]

April 8th

good news for the most part today

day opened with a sub attack near Saipan.

Sub attack near Tinian at 108,95

Japanese Ships
xAK Tamaki Maru, Torpedo hits 1 (the attack only did 13 float damage somehow!!)
E W-14

Allied Ships
SS Grampus

Night port strikes against Townsville did some damage

Night Air attack on Townsville , at 92,144

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 7

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
AG Bonwin, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAKL Pulganbar, Bomb hits 1, on fire
PG Sacramento, Bomb hits 1, on fire

sweeps in Calcutta go in but are not met with any resistance. If he keeps not flying his planes I'm gonna start attacking the air field.

Sweeps in China trade about evenly. total loses are 7 k-43s for 8 p-40es and 4 p-39s, and a hurricane from sweeps in south India.

Morning Air attack on Tuyun , at 74,51

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 37

Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 20
P-40E Warhawk x 13

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 2 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 4 destroyed

And the good news is that Trincomalee falls today the troops will advance to Colombo and then land in south India.

Ground combat at Trincomalee (31,47)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 38354 troops, 306 guns, 60 vehicles, Assault Value = 1067

Defending force 8729 troops, 70 guns, 45 vehicles, Assault Value = 102

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 412

Allied adjusted defense: 141

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Trincomalee !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
491 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 35 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Allied ground losses:
5375 casualties reported
Squads: 37 destroyed, 13 disabled
Non Combat: 448 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 57 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 86 (86 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 36 (36 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 1
Units destroyed 1

In northwest India a British tank brigade shock attacks across a river trying to escape encirclement.

Ground combat at Rangpur (58,34)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 1703 troops, 24 guns, 187 vehicles, Assault Value = 234

Defending force 1914 troops, 0 guns, 379 vehicles, Assault Value = 224

Allied adjusted assault: 3

Japanese adjusted defense: 125

Allied assault odds: 1 to 41 (fort level 0)

Combat modifiers
Defender: preparation(-)
Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-)

Allied ground losses:
188 casualties reported
Squads: 14 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 8 (1 destroyed, 7 disabled)
Vehicles lost 88 (18 destroyed, 70 disabled)

Assaulting units:
45th Indian Brigade
2nd Assam Rifles Battalion
7th Armoured Brigade

[soulsilver]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

Did you get the massive artillery out of Manchuria? That would help alot. So does the armour.

Ive bought out 2 tank units and 2 heavy artillery units from manchuria for use in China. ill continue to buyout more artillery as i get the PPs.

[soulsilver]

April 9th

The day starts with a sub attack on the west coast

Submarine attack near San Francisco at 217,71

Japanese Ships
SS I-7

Allied Ships
xAK Idaho, Torpedo hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage

And a cruiser hits a mine at Tagula Island while trying to raid my shipping. Thankfully nothing was there.

TF 58 encounters mine field at Tagula Island (104,137)

Allied Ships
CA Minneapolis, Mine hits 1 (just a type 93 tho)

sweeps go in again in China and South India netting 5 hurricanes, 2 p40e and 2 P-39ds for 3 K-43s.

Carrier Division 1 was unable to find the convoy and will retire to Singapore. Might conduct a raid up by Karachi With carrier Divisions 1-3.

Hiyo Arrived today and will move to join her sister Junyo in Carrier Division 4.

got 2 new H8k/H6K units today as well as a Ruffe unit at Makin atoll. Might convert her into a Zero unit and fly her from one of my future converted CVE/CVL.

[RangerJoe]

Split up the Rufes and set them at dot bases to knock down Cats. Or put them on your CS for low CAP against TB and search aircraft.

*edit: When split up, they can even be loaded on cruisers for a little CAP as well. When the enemy gets the word that a search plane was shot down . . .

[soulsilver]

April 10th

Sweeps were contested today, and I shot down around 32 hurricanes of various types for a loss of 12 zeros. Not much to report otherwise.

Still getting supply hits in Bataan so not expecting that to be cleaned up for a while.