Burma Backwater-Stalemate in the CBI 1943Registration is open, Squadron Leaders please choose a side.
Registration will be open until 6:00pm on 4/26/2011 (Tuesday).
Assignments will be posted the next week along with CICs.
http://ahevents.org/fso-current-next-event.htmlThe airwar in Burma in 1943 was something of a forgotten one. With both the Allies and the Japanese focused elsewhere in the Pacific and the Mediterranean There was little movement on the ground in Burma. Having driven the British back into India, the Japanese seemed content to consolidate their positions and harass the Allies from the air. The British, while determined to hit back, had most of their resources tied up in Europe and the Med. From bases in China the USAAF also made tentative raids into Burma. With their limited and somewhat outdated aircraft, the Allies seemed content to bomb Rangoon, one of the most heavily defended targets in Southeast Asia to interrupt Japanese shipping while attacking Japanese outposts throughout Burma from the air tying up Japanese resources that were desperately needed in the Pacific
Nowhere else would you find the Hurricane IIc still the front line fighter for the RAF outside of Burma. Even more surprisingly the other frontline RAF fighter right up to 1944 was the Curtiss Hawk 75 or Mohawk as it was called by the RAF. Towards the end of 1943 the first Spitfire Vc arrived in theater already obsolete in the ETO and MTO but a great improvement over the current RAF fighters. Opposing it were the Ki-43 Oscars of the Japanese Army Air Force along with a small number of pre-production Ki-44 Tojo fighters.
Japanese Army twin engine and single engined bombers escorted by fighters attacked British air bases and targets of opportunity. Blenheim twin engined bombers and Vultee Vengeance dive bombers did most of the bombing work for the RAF along with a few B-24 Liberators and B25C Mitchell's of the USAAF flying out of China.
Allied Aircraft- Five of six aircraft types must be flown
Hurricane IIC (RAF)
P-40E Warhawk (USAAF)
Seafire IIC Max. 45 (Sub for Spitfire Vc Trop)
B-25 Mitchell Min. 30 – 15 for RAF and 15 for USAAF (Formations enabled)
B-24 Liberator Max. 20 (Formations enabled)
Dauntless (Sub for RAF Vultee Vengeance)
Axis Aircraft- Four of five aircraft types must be flown
A6M2 Zero / A6M3 Zero (Sub for Ki-43)
KI-84 Frank Max. 45 (Sub for Ki-44)
G4M1 Betty Min. 20
B5N Kate (Bombs only)
KI-61 Tony
Airfields Allied A41, A42, A43, A7, A12
Plane Restrictions: P-40E, B-24 and B-25 (USAAF) are only allowed to use A12 and only these planes may use A12. Allied planes may land and rearm at all friendly fields.
Axis A1, A2, A4, A8, A10, A11
Axis planes may land and rearm at all friendly fields.
Scoring Points Fighters – 1 point
Allied Twin Engined Bombers – 2 points
Allied Four Engined Bombers – 5 points
Axis Bombers – 5 points
Strategic Factory Buildings – 1 point
Fighter Hangar – 20 points
Bomber Hangar – 20 points
Vehicle Hangar – 20 points
Guns – 1 point
Fuel – 2 points
Ord. – 2 points
Barracks – 2 points
Radar – 10 points
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