The Solomon Battles

[dhyran]

SEC 27 "Battle of Solomon Islands 1943"
Frame 1 "New Gorgia Island"

Event is open for everyone, welcome!

Start time Sunday the 5th June at 8:00pm UK, 21:00 CET, 10:00pm EET (Finland/Russia), 3:00pm EST



Background
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To make the first Buna Allied offensive in the Pacific more effective, the Americans readied a separate attack from a different direction. That decision brought American forces into the Solomon Islands and U.S. Army infantry onto the island of Guadalcanal.

Amphibian tractors, Guadalcanal

On the morning of August 7th, 1942, the First Marine Division followed heavy naval preparatory shelling, and landed on the north beaches east of the Tenaru River. In a three-month struggle marked by disease (diarrhea, malaria, dysentery, skin fungus), and many casualties, the marines took an airfield and established a beachhead roughly six miles wide and three miles deep.

During the last weeks of 1942 and the first weeks of 1943, the Americans strengthened their foothold on Guadalcanal by reorganizing and bringing in fresh troops, the Second Marine Division and the 25th Infantry Division. The Japanese held off five American battalions for a month, which delayed the advance west long enough for the defenders to evacuate 13,000 men from the island. Allied forces quickly constructed landing strips — the first series of island hopping had begun. Thats where our SEC 26 starts!


Orders Frame 1

Allies
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Bishops, 60% of participants

-- Fighter avaible at C39 C40 A2 A23

F4F
F4U-1 / 1A
B-25C A23 A2 only
P-38G A23 A2 only
C-47 A23 A2
SBD

-- Wirblewind enabled everywhere on land.

Allied Orders Frame 1
Primary Target: Destroy Airbases A21 A26 (Fighter and bomber hangars and bomb the town down to 60%, capture both!

Secondary Target: Will be announced to the allied CO when the frame starts

Axis
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Knights, 40% of participants

Aircrafts avaible at A19 A20 A21
 
A6M2 CV A21
A6M3 CV A21
Ki-61 A19 A20
G4m Betty A19 A 20
B5N CV



-- Wirblewind enabled everywhere on land.

Axis Orders Frame 1

Primary Target: Sink at least 2 CVs, defend all Japanise A21 A26
Secondary Target: Will be announced to the axis CO when frame starts


Specials!
Both sides are able to control their CVs, both should be a CO job!
Allied CV C 38-C41
Axis CV north of A26



ARENA SETTINGS
Terrain: coralsea
Event start, game time: 12:00
Time multiplier: 1.0
Fuel Multiplier: 1.0
Icons: Using FSO standard Icons Settings
9000ft both, full icon detail 2400ft
Radar: Sector bars enabled.
Base flashing set to 5 miles (26400).
Tower Range 5 miles (26400) for display to aid players.
Killshooter: Off.
Friendly collisions: Off.
Kill messages: Off.
2 lives for every player.
Both sides may rearm/refuel on hotpads.
Formations: Off

design by dhyran
hosted by unclkurt

[zack1234]

Hurrah! Secs are fun

[Yarbles]

Looks good 

[Noir]

F4U-1A ?

[dhyran]

F4U-1A ?

The Chance Vought F4U-1A Corsair. VF-17, "Jolly Rogers", U.S. Navy, Munda, New Georgia, Solomon Islands. This plane was used from 1943 to 1944.
F4U-1A (Corsair Mk II): The designation F4U-1A does not appear in lists of Corsair Bureau Numbers and was not in official use, being applied post-war to differentiate mid to late production F4U-1s from the early production variant

search for Jolly Rogers VF-17

maybe we will bring it in frame 2 or 3, its a bit in between, maybe i will be limited like we did limit the 190A5 in the last SEC 26

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dhyran

[Noir]

ok so only the F4U-1 will be enabled I presume as the event happen in the first weeks of 1943, the 1A is a totally different bird...

according to this bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,297500.0.html even the -1 shouldn't be included...will do more search when Im off this smartphone

[dhyran]

ok so only the F4U-1 will be enabled I presume as the event happen in the first weeks of 1943, the 1A is a totally different bird...

according to this bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,297500.0.html even the -1 shouldn't be included...will do more search when Im off this smartphone

All my sources (Books and Inet) clearly named the Corsairs at the Solomon Battles:

VMF-124 was formed September 7, 1942 at Camp Kearney. In late October they got some of the first F4U Vought Corsair fighters to roll off the assembly line, making them first squadron to receive the new plane. (See One Man´s Journey by Robert M. Berg.)

The squadron left San Diego on January 8, 1943 on the USS Lurline and arrived at Guadalcanal on February 12, 1943. That afternoon they flew their first combat mission, logging 9 hours in the air. VMF-124 remained in the Solomons until September 7, 1943, participating in the Russells, New Georgia, and Vella Lavella operations.

 VMF-124 was formed on September 2, 1942 at Camp Kearney, San Diego, California. They were declared fully operational on December 28, 1942 even though the squadron’s pilots had only an average of 25 hours each in the plane. They arrived on Guadalcanal on the morning of February 12, 1943 led by their commanding officer, Major William Gise. The squadron flew their first mission before lunch that day, with twelve F4Us escorting a PBY Catalina on a 230 mile mission to pick up two downed pilots at Sandfly Bay, Vella Lavella.

The first F4U pilot to be decorated with the Medal of Honor came from VMF-124 — 1st Lt Kenneth A. Walsh for a mission on August 30, 1943, during which he shot down four Japanese Zeros before ditching his borrowed Corsair. The squadron remained in the Solomon Islands until September 1943, fighting over the Russell Islands, New Georgia and Vella Levella.


some nice VF 17 background

http://www.almansur.com/jollyrogers/tomblackburn.htm

The development from the F4u-1 to the 1A was an ongoing process, so we bring the 1A in frame 3 which reflect the late 43 situation

we will play the SEC 27 frames in these steps:

We start at the line 21 Feb!

Salute
dhyran

[Noir]

late 1943 seems ok to have the A6m5b, who said turkey shooting in the back?

[dhyran]

late 1943 seems ok to have the A6m5b, who said turkey shooting in the back?

we gonna put the A6m5 in frame 3

[Yarbles]

Would the F6 have been involved. Presumably not as it looks like you've done your research and some    

[dhyran]

Would the F6 have been involved. Presumably not as it looks like you've done your research and some    

well, on the other hand we don't have all japanese planes avaible in AH which were in duty back in 1943, so its a question of balance. If you would place the f6f in it would be a bit out of balance!
If we would allways try to play the scenarios like history was, axis would be outnumbered up to 10:1, and allied players would lose intrest because of lack of targets. In this case here it is pretty much the same with this SEC

[dhyran]

Gents,

unclkurt will run his first SEC all on his own. Pilots, give him a good welcome and have a good time!

Salute!
dhyran

[Noah17]

I was going to register but I guess this is just a show up ahead of time kind of thing?
 

[klingan]

I was going to register but I guess this is just a show up ahead of time kind of thing?
 

Yupp   

[dhyran]

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