S3 Series

No...no Seppuku...yet.


Thank you all for your efforts in Frame 3. With hefty salutes to the RCAF for the immolation over our ships.

After some days of reflection, I know where mistakes were made. Foremost was my tardiness, but that was unavoidable. I should have assigned the RCAF a coordinated arrival time over the ships with Luftflotte 6 while the 352nd sat on Milne Bay. Later in the frame and after the CAP was destroyed, I moved the sgn plintered Lf6 towards Moresby, which allowed the Allies free reign at our fleet.

Added to that, I should have insisted that we attack Goodenough and send a few fighters to finish off 91 at Moresby.

That said, I thank you all for the honor of planning our evening and I look forward to making amends with my fighters in Frame 4 and 5.

Banzai!


Image taken at Wings Over Houston 11/1/2014 - Tora Tora Tora. Click image for larger version (6000x4000).

Sadly, my Ki43 needed a new engine (my internet was out for 28 hours starting at 7:05 pm Sunday night, another victim of a drunk driver) so I didn't get to participate.

No need to worry Sakai, hindsight is 20/20, in the heat of the battle, sometimes little things get missed that can turn out to be big things