Curious if CV went down?

[akbmzawy]

the AKs was tasked to hit a CV in sectors (12-10), (13-10), (12-11), (13, 11). We found the fleet but did not sink it amongst our group of SBDs.

Where do we find this info about if that CV was finally sunk or survived?

[forHIM]

ahevents.org/eventlogs.html  Select FSO, then the event, hit get fso logs.  This will tell you if a ship went down or not.  Whether it was the CV or not, Baumer will usually tell in his scoring write up.
 

[akbmzawy]

I have checked there and no mention if any CVs were sunk by either side, so we can wait for the summary you speak of. Thanks

[daddog]

You have to look carefully. It will list the ships, but not what kind.

Here is an example from my squad. Lucky sunk a ship last night.

[akbmzawy]

I missed that entry, however the sectors are not listed, so Base (CV) 17 is not known at the time of attack.

I dont know the CV number in the sector we bombed.

Congrats to your group for gettin her done!

[Saxman]

Whatever ship was sunk at C17, it wasn't the carrier. The boat was alive and well when VMF-251 recovered at the end of the night.

[sqwiglly]

17 was in 7.15 area i think(my map is fuzzy)

[Bannor]

LOL! We lost all our even # CVs. The odd ones survived!

[Big Rat]

Whatever ship was sunk at C17, it wasn't the carrier. The boat was alive and well when VMF-251 recovered at the end of the night.

Saxman,

I believe it was the cruiser that was sunk.  I was one of the scouts for 332nd in a heavy F6F.  I spotted the carrier and radio'd the position back to the strike group and informed them that I saw no CAP directly over the carrier.  Told my wingman that we will go ahead and make our run and exit south.  I made my run straight on to the carrier from about 14k and dropped my bombs at about 6k,  I don't know if both or one of my 500lbs hit (didn't record ).  I looked back to see the carrier smoking and looked back to my left to see a see of red planes where there was nothing before .  The CAP must have just been out of dot range when I started my run, but it was like I shook a hornet's nest when that bomb(s) hit.  My Wingman was unfortunately a bit behind me and must have tangled with a zero for a bit or the ack since he had an oil hit.  Told him to nose down and dive away to the south to bring as much CAP down with him as possible.  We both got away, but our strike package that followed didn't fair so well against the zeros.  Nice defence

 
BigRat

[Saxman]

We had our CAP divided into three groups: a low CAP within visual range of the boat, and two groups (one flight under my command, the other consisting of three flights under DH367th) patrolling high about 25 miles out from the task group.

It must have been you and your wingman that we saw flash the task group, because before we even made contact with the bombers both high divisions were rushing back to the CV when the dar ring lit up (GOD that's a short range dar in this setup). That actually may have worked to our advantage, otherwise we might have missed the approach of the dive bombers a few minutes later.

That's the dice roll with flying a long range patrol. You can locate and intercept the enemy before they reach their attack point, but there's a lot more territory to cover so it's easier to miss them if you're not in just the right place at the right time. Especially without overlapping dar circles to help pinpoint to the location.

[Bannor]

And to add to that, when the second strike came in, the second lifers were starting to up....I'm sure all of us were hitting the launch button trying to get up asap. The "Field is not open"  message kept popping up. "Come on T+60, come on!" LOL Everything goes slow when you are in a hurry!