I convinced him to share some information this time around. It's even worse than I thought. He's been training all his pilots with "general training", which means they train a little bit of every skill. So instead of say, pilots in fighters who are really good at air-to-air combat, he has pilots in fighters that are so-so at air-to-air, so-so at bombing, so-so at ASW, so-so at flying cargo planes full of rubber dog **** out of Hong Kong, etc.
So once he started taking losses among his elite pilots, these jacks-of-all trades started replacing them, which has been leading to even worse losses, and more of these unprepared replacements....
And that's how you get Turkey Shoots in 1942.
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