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What's wrong with my watchman? He seems to have some sort of skin condition. :o
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...205014_921.jpg After an unsuccessful surface attack at a Nippon Maru in a small convoy in the Bismarck Sea, I picked up this task force after managing to evade three DDs hounding me from said convoy. I was not in a good position so all I could do was watch them sail by and wonder what could have been... :damn: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...214935_750.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...215103_906.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...215117_062.jpg A few days later I am attacked by some of Duci's famous evil airplanes. :lol: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...215838_796.jpg I have always wondered why Kent Heavy Cruisers insist on putting around at 5 knots outside Brisbane. They're just asking to become sub food. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...220621_453.jpg Upon finishing that patrol (I got two Horai Marus), I was notified I was getting a new conning tower. USS Pogy gets her spiffy new tower. :cool: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...221620_890.jpg |
Heading out to drop off an Australian agent on the Solomans.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...141911_656.jpg Prop check! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...144137_859.jpg |
PE3.3
Here is something that don't happen often, the weather is shifting from nice weather to rain in PE3.3, the result is
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/2461/pe33le3.jpg and a sunrise the next day: http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/8...sunrisejh6.jpg |
Some shots of a Taiyo-class CVE that fell victim to the USS Spearfish on her first patrol. This occured in the vicinity of the Solomons in Aug 1942.
I had actually picked up a radar contact which I managed to intercept. It resolved into a small TF in line astern formation, comprising in the lead, an Asashio-class DD, the Taiyo, a Mogami-class CA, then another DD. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...%201/Taiyo.jpg I submerged off the port bow of the TF and lay in wait. I launched 3 fish, of which one was a dud. But two hit roughly in the centre which was enough to induce a severe list to port. Here you can see the wake from the torps. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...201/taiyo2.jpg The result: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...01/Kaboom1.jpg 2nd hit http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...01/Kaboom2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...stingbadly.jpg I fired the last torp in the bow tube. Unfortunately the lead DD had circled back and took the torp meant for the CVE. I swung around and fired one torp from the stern tube. By now the Taiyo was dead in the water. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...01/Kaboom3.jpg It sank soon after the 3rd hit, followed by the DD about 10 minutes later. |
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The joys of radar
Patrol number I forget... September 1943. Sent to Tarawa to recon, then to the Marshalls to patrol, then to the Marshalls to hunt for baddies... then just let loose to hunt. Nothing sighted at all. If you look over the first 2 patrol logs you'll see I have been developing a taste for raiding harbours. After being let loose on this last patrol I had a choice of Rabaul, Truk or Wake, all of which were reachable with fuel to get home. I've raided Rabual twice already, and enjoyed sneaking past the submerged mountain at the north end of Wake, but the one and only attempt I made on Truk I almost got my butt handed to me because I got caught between a subchaser and the anti-submarine nets on the west side of the island. I made it out, but with lots of holes in the hull. Now, with more experience, and a boat full of fish, I decided to go back.
Looking at the map I couldn't see any likely place where the nets would hang over water deep enough to let me slide under. Instead, I turned the surface search radar to full range scan and cruised up and down the east side of the Island doing a recce. 5 patrol vessels in total. I waited until they were heading in opposite directions, aimed for the gap and opened the throttles. I entered Truk in broad daylight, at flank speed, on the surface! Once I was in shallow water I figured I'd crossed the nets, slowed and submerged. On the way in the radar had picked up 4 stationary vessels in the centre of the port area. I clicked on them expecting them to be merchants, but it came up as a task force. So far the biggest warship I'd sunk was a CL, so this was promising. I slip as deep as I can, only 10 feet below the keel, and move into a firing position. Major hassle is that I have a mix of Mk23's and Mk14's, so I need to get inside 4000yds. Move in, stop engines, raise scope. 4 BB's, all stationary! Yamatao, Fuso, Kongo and I forget the 4th. Here's me with 4 stationary BB's and a full boat of fish! Playtime!:arrgh!: I did discover that ships in port are harder to sink. 8 hits on Yamato including 2 magazine explosions (very pretty) and she finally went down. Well, sat on the bottom. Didn't even get her decks wet it was so shallow. Fuso also went down, on her side. Other 2 also settled on the bottom, but although they were decks awash, and making the 'sunk ship' sound, the still came up as valid targets on the attack map, I could still lock with the scope, and I didn't get a 'sink' message. Damn. Still, 2 BB's in a patrol is a good haul, and crippling 2 more ... :sunny:. By now I have 2 escorts buzzing around. My developed trick of placing myself in a firing position difficult to pass over worked... the harbour defence boat scooted by and ran straight into a dock... and tied up! Must be an AI thing. The subchaser was a different story. Him I had a very hard time getting rid of. I used my last 2 torps (stern) to get rid of him. They fly well, don't they? By now it's dark, and with no fish left, time to run. Again, to miss the nets, it's a surface run. I come up to 29 feet so the radar will work to find 7 escorts patrolling along my chosen route. 2 are stationary, so really only defining a route, while the other 5 need to be avoided. Again, using the radar I pick the time, come to the surface and go to flank. I had to keep nudging the course north to avoid 2 of them, but we did it. A clear run back to port, and my first battlewagons! Oh, no medal either. Didn't crack the 100,000ton mark. P |
USS Jack on calm seas at sunrise
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A victim of the USS Spearfish on her 2nd war patrol, in the Bismarck Sea.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...SH4/Victim.jpg Another victim from the same patrol. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ctimablaze.jpg |
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I was attacking a convoy when these two ships got bungled up with each other. I hit and disabled one and the other just sat there as it rammed into the other. I heard the sound that ships make when they hit bottom and followed the noise with the external cam to see what all the commotion was. I found the one ship landing on top of the other.
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Meh...
Would be cool to see, but the screenies are just too dark... :(
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All Hands Man Your Battle Stations
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Great shot, CaptainNemo!
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Got Her!
500 Yards....giver or take.....Heavy fog, rain.....
6 fish under the keel, took only 4....... http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/7...her0001cp9.jpg http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/7...ing0001hi1.jpg |
For The Geordie Boys
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Man, you just can't beat the the RFB/PE3 combo. (Images resized to 800x600).
Medium freighter split in half in Kiska Bay: http://www.northrim.net/jhouck/image...ke_in_half.jpg Bow shot on a modern freighter off Kyushu in heavy seas: http://www.northrim.net/jhouck/images/SH4/bow_shot.jpg Same freighter plunging and leaving debris and oil slick: http://www.northrim.net/jhouck/images/SH4/plunging.jpg Now, if I could just get the trees off the Aleutian Islands.... |
I recently started yet another new career on Dec. 8, 1941 at Manila (USS Skipjack). My orders were to drop an agent off... on Manila. Why didn't he just drive? Would have got there a LOT faster! :lol:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...210520_781.jpg But he insisted on the slow way... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...210826_796.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...210840_265.jpg After dropping him off I sent a status report to get new orders that were farther than 19nm away. :88) For some reason I just like this shot. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...211814_593.jpg I like this night one, too. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...212105_140.jpg |
The Asashio (in the foreground) had the misfortune of running down the starboard side of the medium freighter in the background. The net effect was taking one of the two torps I intended for the freighter... Her momentum carried her quite a distance while she broke apart.
Two for one... http://www.northrim.net/jhouck/images/SH4/Overlap.jpg Got held down by two destroyers... One pinging, the other laying down the ashcans... The Waiting Game... http://www.northrim.net/jhouck/image...ing%20Game.jpg |
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