Author Topic: Apology to the 880 and 332nd (Read 601 times)

Sikboy · « **on:** December 20, 2003, 12:06:35 AM »

Ok, so I don't have a copy of the orders right here, but I think I said that one SBD should be able to sink a DD.

I was wrong. You guys did your jobs perfectly according to plan, but the plan had a major flaw. I'm sorry about that. on getting in and getting your ord on target, it's all that anyone could have asked.

-Sik

skernsk · « **Reply #1 on:** December 20, 2003, 12:41:21 AM »

1 torp can sink a DD .. it is not a strectch to assume that a fully loaded SBD could have sunk a DD. From the logs there were a few hits but nothing was sunk.

It was am n intense drop .. evading the zekes and then flying the ack gauntlet.

Squire · « **Reply #2 on:** December 20, 2003, 10:46:22 AM »

We had fun, it was a cool run. Dont sweat it.

daddog · « **Reply #3 on:** December 24, 2003, 04:34:11 PM »

How did I miss this thread?

No problem at all. We had a good time, wellllll most of us did.

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332nd Flying Mongrels
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zroostr · « **Reply #4 on:** December 25, 2003, 12:54:37 AM »

sounds like it was fun

Sikboy · « **Reply #5 on:** December 25, 2003, 08:52:32 AM »

I just wanted to apologise, because from the logs, it looked like many pilots singled out different DDs, and dropped on them. 6 different DDs were hit, but none sunk. I thought that might have been due to my suggestion that a single SBD could sink a DD (which, as it turns out is due to my having setup a H2H anti-ship map with reduced ship hardness to practice).

It's just tough when everything works as planned, the mission gets over the target safeley, executes an excellent attack, and exits with nothing to show for it.

-Sik

wklink · « **Reply #6 on:** December 26, 2003, 03:30:24 PM »

Actually we were quite scattered when we hit the destroyers. Despite the best effort of the the escorts the IJN fighters were able to get in and take some potshots at us. When we attacked the destroyers we hit them as a disorganized unit and that hurt our chances of sinking them.

As for sinking them with one 1K bomb, how many of those were 1k bomb hits vs the 100lbs we were carrying. I think a 1k bomb would seriously screw up a destroyer, possibly enough to sink it but it would probably take more than one or two 100lb hits to take out a destroyer. Of course I have always thought the damage model on ships has been pretty a-historic. Bomb hits should rarely sink a carrier IMHO while multiple torp hits should be the final coup-de grace as far as I'm concerned. There have been cases of Carriers taking four or five decent size bomb hits and still being able to leave the theatre, even ships like the Lexinton took two or three torps with little apparent damage (until the unfortunate explosions that claimed her later).

I don't know, even if we didn't kill the destroyers, I bet a lot of Imperial troops wouldn't have made it ashore.