Mission Impossible? Hades1001(A) vs Hongye(J)

[hades1001]

May 06, 42

I have foreseen that Jap will invade Fiji, and concentrate some air force ahead of time. My Carriers are coming form PH and it will take a few days before we can find a chance to engage.

However, my air strikes went in uncoordinated and were slaughtered by CAP without achieving any hit.
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Sub attack near Suva at 132,161

Japanese Ships
CV Zuikaku
BB Hiei
BB Haruna
CA Chikuma
CS Chiyoda
CS Chitose
DD Oboro
DD Yugiri
DD Uruyuke
DD Tatsuyuke
DD Ushio
DD Sazanami

Allied Ships
SS Silversides



SS Silversides launches 6 torpedoes at CV Zuikaku


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Morning Air attack on Suva , at 132,160

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 94
B5N2 Kate x 224



Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 2 damaged

No Allied losses


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


Airbase hits 20
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 71


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Morning Air attack on TF, near Suva at 132,161

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 131 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 60 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 225



Allied aircraft
SBD-2 Dauntless x 59


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
SBD-2 Dauntless: 11 destroyed


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Morning Air attack on TF, near Suva at 132,161

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 132 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 59 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 223



Allied aircraft
A-24 Banshee x 21
P-38E Lightning x 19
P-400 Airacobra x 59
P-40E Warhawk x 10
SB2U-3 Vindicator x 9


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
A-24 Banshee: 9 destroyed, 1 damaged
P-38E Lightning: 3 destroyed
P-400 Airacobra: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed
SB2U-3 Vindicator: 6 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CV Hiryu



Aircraft Attacking:
1 x A-24 Banshee releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb


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Morning Air attack on TF, near Suva at 132,160

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 40



Allied aircraft
SBD-2 Dauntless x 8


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
SBD-2 Dauntless: 2 destroyed

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Suva at 132,160

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 40



Allied aircraft
A-24 Banshee x 4
P-400 Airacobra x 6
P-40E Warhawk x 18
SB2U-3 Vindicator x 2


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
A-24 Banshee: 1 destroyed
A-24 Banshee: 1 destroyed by flak
P-400 Airacobra: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 4 destroyed
SB2U-3 Vindicator: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CVE Taiyo
CVE Hosho
BB Hyuga



Aircraft Attacking:
2 x A-24 Banshee releasing from 10000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb

[hades1001]

May 1, 42 - May 08, 42

Suva and Nandi fall shortly after Japanese landing. I have fortified New Caledonia Islands but didn't expect Japs to land here before attacking Noumea.

And CV Zuikaku evade 6 torpedoes again today!

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Sub attack near Suva at 132,160

Japanese Ships
CV Zuikaku
BB Hiei
BB Haruna
CA Chikuma
CS Chiyoda
DD Yugiri
DD Uruyuke
DD Tatsuyuke
DD Ushio
DD Sazanami

Allied Ships
SS Gato



SS Gato launches 6 torpedoes at CV Zuikaku

[hades1001]

May 09, 42

OZ

Something is seriously wrong in West Australia. I'm expecting no more than 3 Div Japs marh into Kalgoorlie and here it comes, 8 Divs equal. Japs!

How come Japanese have over 9,000AV in India, 3000 in west Australia and 1000 more to invade Fiji at the same time? I didn't expect Japs to have this many LCUs at the this time of war. It totally disrupted my defense plan and 4 Aussie Divisions at Kalgoorlie crushed by the invincible IJ amry. I lost all the four Divs here and about 1,000 Australia infantry squads. On top of the 400 in Delhi and it means it takes more than two years, roughly around the end of 1944 to rebuild all the Aussie Divisions I lost...
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Ground combat at Kalgoorlie (56,147)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 71343 troops, 569 guns, 370 vehicles, Assault Value = 2670

Defending force 43129 troops, 569 guns, 787 vehicles, Assault Value = 1032

Japanese adjusted assault: 3191

Allied adjusted defense: 241

Japanese assault odds: 13 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Kalgoorlie !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
5847 casualties reported
Squads: 20 destroyed, 319 disabled
Non Combat: 14 destroyed, 355 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Guns lost 11 (1 destroyed, 10 disabled)
Vehicles lost 63 (3 destroyed, 60 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
16546 casualties reported
Squads: 221 destroyed, 318 disabled
Non Combat: 1155 destroyed, 418 disabled
Engineers: 234 destroyed, 32 disabled
Guns lost 302 (296 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Vehicles lost 561 (499 destroyed, 62 disabled)
Units retreated 21


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
16th Infantry Regiment
60th Infantry Brigade
17th Division
58th Infantry Brigade
34th Division
8th Recon Regiment
104th Division
6th Division
24th Infantry Regiment
8th Tank Regiment
148th Infantry Regiment
56th Recon Regiment
7th Ind.Tank Bde /2
21st AA Regiment
23rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
16th Army
21st Army

Defending units:
3rd Australian Division
4th Australian Division
2/1 AIF Pioneer Battalion
34th Combat Engineer Regiment
5th Australian Division
6th Aus Cav Brigade
5th RAAF Base Force
16th RAAF Base Force
109th Tank Attack Regiment
208th Coast AA Regiment
12th RAAF Base Force
3rd RAAF M/W Sqn
30th Aviation Base Force
65th Coast AA Regiment
1st RAAF M/W Sqn
III Australian
210th Coast AA Regiment
197th Coast AA Regiment
78th Coast AA Regiment
4th RAN Base Force
2nd Australian Hvy AA Regiment

[jeffk3510]

On that combat report I see a - for opmode and prep...surely your men were in COMBAT mode and atleast somewhat prepped for that base?

Would you be able to post your CURRENT situation on all theaters and what is happening... seems to be very aggressive and taking a lot of ground...

Have you turned back anything?

[PaxMondo]

Wow, we're only updated to May '42 and the game is in '43. Sheesh, a lot of ground covered.

"How come Japanese have over 9,000AV in India, 3000 in west Australia and 1000 more to invade Fiji at the same time? I didn't expect Japs to have this many LCUs at the this time of war. It totally disrupted my defense plan and 4 Aussie Divisions at Kalgoorlie crushed by the invincible IJ amry. "

My guess is that he moved some from India to Oz without you being aware ...

[hades1001]

No his army is still in India and this invasion of west Australia started a month ago.

Actually my guess would be that my opponent has bought several Division from China with only 500-600 PP per division.

[kfsgo]

ORIGINAL: hades1001

Actually my guess would be that my opponent has bought several Division from China with only 500-600 PP per division.

Yeah.

On the Delhi attack:

52nd Div is an Eastern Army unit
53rd Div is a Central Army unit

both of which are restricted to Japan, so ~3000PP to release "normally", 750 on the cheap

11th, 12th, 15th Air Def AA Rgts are Central Army units

On the Kalgoorlie attack:

6th Div is an 11th Army unit
17th Div is a 13th Army unit
34th Div is an 11th Army unit
104th Div is a 23rd Army unit

60th Bde is a 1st Army unit
58th Bde is an 11th Army unit

21st AA Rgt is a Mongol Army unit
8th Recon Rgt is a 20th Army unit


so those would require buyout from China to be in Australia. Maybe ~6600PP to release "normally", 1650 on the cheap

Given an embarcation date of about the 1st of April (given time required for shipping) Japan would have accumulated about 105 days of PPs - 105*60 = 6300, and of course starts with 500, so 6800 available. Ie, most of those could probably have been made available so far, if Japan has done absolutely nothing else with PPs...but probably not all of them.

e: other restricted units, at Karachi a couple weeks ago:

61st-64th Infantry Groups (~3000PP)
1st Mortar Rgt (350PP)

and hell, maybe a few others.

[hades1001]

yeah after the Australia Campaign we implemented the HR that no cheap LCU anymore.

But before the HR I have no idea how many Divisions and other units have been bought with a discount value...

[PaxMondo]

Well, you can sum up how many PP's he would have had and then apply it to how many div's he could have bought .. quite a few ...

[hades1001]

Yes a lot, you will see. This not all the Jap troops yet.

Actually by my account there would be some 26,000AV unrestricted troops for Japan by Apr 43. Even after May 42 he can only buy troops with full PP. That's still a lot!

[hades1001]

May 10, 42 - May 16, 42


Japs are building Fiji up and no major combats for a few days.

Japs bombard Lugaville and 2 ships were damaged by mines.
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TF 63 encounters mine field at Luganville (120,150)

Japanese Ships
CL Isuzu, Mine hits 1
DD Yayoi, Mine hits 1, on fire

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Night Naval bombardment of Luganville at 120,150

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
P-40B Warhawk: 1 destroyed on ground

Japanese Ships
CA Kinugasa
CA Nachi
CL Yubari
CL Tatsuta
CL Kuma
CL Naka
CL Sendai


Allied ground losses:
185 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 57 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 16 (2 destroyed, 14 disabled)


Airbase hits 19
Airbase supply hits 6
Runway hits 56

[hades1001]

May 17, 42

It's really hard at this stage to kill a Jap sub!
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ASW attack near Auckland at 118,185

Japanese Ships
SS I-19, hits 6, heavy damage

Allied Ships
DD Hull
xAP Wahine
xAP Rangatira
xAP Aorangi
xAP Santa Barbara
xAP Maui
xAP Lurline
xAP President Coolidge
DD Norman
DD Jupiter

[hades1001]

May 18, 42 - May 22, 42

Japanese invasion fleet left Fiji and are heading towards Pago Pago. My carriers are not far from Pago Pago and ready to engage.

Japs landed at Tulagi, I have evacuate the place and not much left for Japs.

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Amphibious Assault at Tulagi (114,137)

TF 7 troops unloading over beach at Tulagi, 114,137

Japanese ground losses:
1282 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 175 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 155 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 20 (0 destroyed, 20 disabled)
Vehicles lost 7 (0 destroyed, 7 disabled)


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Ground combat at Tulagi (114,137)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 3216 troops, 134 guns, 170 vehicles, Assault Value = 32

Defending force 9228 troops, 53 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 262

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



Assaulting units:
132nd Infantry Rgt /1
8th Marine Rgt /3
131st Field Artillery Battalion
64th Coast AA Regiment
147th Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Marine Defense Battalion
148th Field Artillery Battalion

Defending units:
146th Infantry Rgt /1
44th Nav Gd /1
59th Div /1

[hades1001]

May 23, 42

SoPAC

KB abandoned the invasion fleet and moved 2 hex southeast, and guess what, my SCTF waiting to go into the beachhead was stationing there. And it's a tragedy to lose several CA/CL's to the smart arse KB.

And the Japs landed at Pago Pago.
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Ta'u at 154,166

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 164 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 70 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 71
B5N2 Kate x 87



Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 6 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 2 destroyed by flak

Allied Ships
CL Nashville, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
DD Cummings
CL Helena
DD Ellet
CA Dorsetshire, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage
CL Honolulu, Torpedo hits 2
CA Canberra
CL St. Louis, Torpedo hits 3, heavy damage
DD Downes


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Morning Air attack on TF, near Ta'u at 154,166

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 46 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 19 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B5N2 Kate x 13



No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
CL Honolulu, Torpedo hits 4, and is sunk
CL Helena
CA Canberra, Torpedo hits 1


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Morning Air attack on TF, near Ta'u at 154,166

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 38 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B5N2 Kate x 9



Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 2 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied Ships
CA Dorsetshire, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
CL Helena
CA Canberra, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage


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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Ta'u at 154,166

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 155 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 66 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 70
B5N2 Kate x 80



Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 5 damaged

Allied Ships
CL Helena
CA Canberra, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
DD Dunlap
DD Cassin
DD Case
DD Laffey
DD Ellet
CL St. Louis, heavy damage
DD Lamson
DD Downes
DD Cummings


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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Ta'u at 154,166

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 43 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 18 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B5N2 Kate x 27



Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
CL Helena, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
DD Laffey
DD Shaw
DD Case


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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Ta'u at 154,166

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 12 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B5N2 Kate x 27



Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 1 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied Ships
CA Canberra, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
CL St. Louis, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Downes, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Cassin



当天日军在pago pago登陆，上岸三个旅团两个联队
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Ground combat at Pago Pago (148,161)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1550 troops, 31 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 80

Defending force 8348 troops, 63 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 189



Assaulting units:
Samoan Marine Battalion
8th Marine Defense Battalion
255th USN Base Force

Defending units:
62nd Infantry Bde /1
56th Infantry Bde /1
Kure 5th SNLF /1
8th Ind.Mixed Bde /2
144th Infantry Rgt /4

[hades1001]

May 25, 42

My first carrier battle in AE!

I divided my 4 carrier into 4 TFs to maximize the coordination and they went in at flank speed and engaged with KB just 1 hex away! Allied coordination was not too bad, and Jap carriers are running out of torpedos in the attack of my SCTF. Though the result is in favor of Japan. I found that allied 1000lb bomb is not very reliable because I saw several bomb hits in the animation but they did't do much damage.

CV Soryu and CVL shoho(confirmed) was reported to be sunk. Which is not true. Japs managed to save Soryu and brought her back in later wars. I have 3 damaged CVs heavy damaged. Two of them could be saved if i know the rule to use cruise speed. Instead I ordered the three CVs to retire at full speed and this order directly lead to the lost of my three carriers! Saratoga, Hornet and Yorktown...I wish I know the rule battle before I engaged in a carrier battle. Now I have only 3 carriers left include Wasp, and the first Essex is due next May. Which means in 1 year US will have only 3 operational carriers against the whole IJ KB. Not good.


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Morning Air attack on TF, near Pago Pago at 149,162

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 68 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 70
B5N2 Kate x 221



Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 11 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied Ships
CV Hornet, Bomb hits 1
CA Salt Lake City, Bomb hits 1
CV Saratoga, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
CA New Orleans
DD Balch
CA Pensacola, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage
CA Portland
DD Ralph Talbot
DD Clark
DD Blue

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Pago Pago at 148,162

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 157 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 62 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 232



Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 72
F4F-4 Wildcat x 54
SBC-4 Helldiver x 36
SBD-3 Dauntless x 90


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat: 10 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat: 10 destroyed
SBC-4 Helldiver: 7 destroyed, 5 damaged
SBC-4 Helldiver: 1 destroyed by flak
SBD-3 Dauntless: 8 destroyed, 13 damaged
SBD-3 Dauntless: 2 destroyed by flak

Japanese Ships
CV Akagi, Bomb hits 2
CV Kaga, Bomb hits 1
CV Shokaku
CV Hiryu
CVL Shoho, Bomb hits 3, on fire
CVL Ryujo
BB Haruna
CV Zuikaku, Bomb hits 1
CV Soryu, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires


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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Pago Pago at 149,162

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 155 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 66 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 70
B5N2 Kate x 220



Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 10 damaged

Allied Ships
CA Salt Lake City, Bomb hits 7, heavy fires, heavy damage
CV Hornet, Bomb hits 5, heavy fires
CA Minneapolis
CV Yorktown, Bomb hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage
CA New Orleans, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Phelps, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Patterson
CA Astoria
CA San Francisco
DD Clark
DD Balch
DD Henley


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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Pago Pago at 148,162

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 153 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 61 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 227



Allied aircraft
F4F-3A Wildcat x 18
F4F-3 Wildcat x 12
F4F-4 Wildcat x 25
SBC-4 Helldiver x 35
SBD-3 Dauntless x 41


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3A Wildcat: 7 destroyed
F4F-3 Wildcat: 4 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat: 6 destroyed
SBC-4 Helldiver: 8 destroyed, 5 damaged
SBD-3 Dauntless: 7 destroyed, 9 damaged
SBD-3 Dauntless: 1 destroyed by flak

Japanese Ships
CVL Shoho, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
CV Akagi
CV Kaga
CV Shokaku
CV Soryu, Bomb hits 1, on fire
CVL Ryujo
CVL Zuiho
CV Zuikaku
BB Haruna
DD Yugumo

[hades1001]

As you can see it took 5 1000lb to sink CVL shoho and some hits on Akagi and Kaga are just shrugged off

Maybe it's just because I'm unlucky? It could be another Midway legend...

[hades1001]

Pic of damaged CVL shoho

She sunk the day after the battle.

[hades1001]

And here is a long asked intelligence screenshot. Shortly after the battle on May 25.

[Crackaces]

CV Soryu, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires + CV Soryu, Bomb hits 1, on fire

The Soryu is in trouble. She is set on fire in the morning "heavy fires"-- probably from a critical hit, and is still on fire in the afternoon with an additional bomb hit. Hardly shugging it off it will be interesting if she burms to the waterline or somehow makes it to a port.

[hades1001]

May 26, 42

Saratoga was too heavily damage to escape. She was finished by the retiring KB though. My other two carriers which could be saved have been lost because of my stupidity.

Pago Pago and Tulagi fall today.
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Pago Pago at 149,165

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 121 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet
Estimated time to target is 51 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 52) D9 a0 x( x& J' K
B5N2 Kate x 39


Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 5 damaged

Allied Ships
CA Pensacola, heavy damage
CV Saratoga, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Ralph Talbot, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires