AAR, Frame 1, "Beginning of the End"

[Ghosth]

332nd Sentai (Mongrels) claims 2 kills on b26's and another damaged posibly killed.

Rolled from 25, our orders had us patrol to 33, then turn west and patrol to 22 & 29. We were just by 24 in 2 wings of 4 N1K2-J fighters when we heard the AK's report a buff formation just south of us.

I took one b26 out, but got greedy & stupid & ended up in my silk. Rest of the squad helped finish off the bombers, then resumed their patrol. Spotted one lone dot N of 22 but were unable to close. 8 N1K2-J fighters rolled, 7 landed, XO is still lost in the jungle cussing himself.

(This message passed on to IJN HQ by a army platoon. Seems they were patroling S towards coast some 15 miles from 24. Maj Ghosth-san was somewhat delerious from malaria and kept muttering something about allied bombers and RTB 25)

[ 09-09-2001: Message edited by: Ghosth ]

[funkedup]

Yes Nash our job was to protect the Ju 88's.  Unfortunately we can only shoot at one plane at a time (no AIM-120 or AIM-54   ) so your 2:1 numerlcal advantage meant the bombers got hit.  Considering numbers/altitude/equipment I'm happy that any of the bombers survived.    
I'm not whining - C'est La Guerre!  It was fun too!

[ 09-09-2001: Message edited by: funkedup ]

[AKcurly]

AKs log:

We flew 13 KI-61s.

We killed 3 B26s and 1 P38

We lost 5 KI-61s.

AKcurly

[ 09-10-2001: Message edited by: AKcurly ]

[ 09-10-2001: Message edited by: AKcurly ]