After our Downtown game this afternoon, Paul and I played three games of Mr Jack today. Remarkably I won all three.
Its is amazing how such a simple game can lead to such intense thinking and headscratching and a real sense of achivement in winning.
Jul 11
Downtown XII – You Keep Me Hangin’ On
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Played Downtown scenario D3 You Keep Me Hangin’ On with Paul today.
I took the USN and was assigned a strike on a Haiphong POL storage site – a major target in a heavily defended part of Route Package 6B. The raid launched from the Oriskany consisted of four flights of Skyhawks, escorted by two pair of CAP Crusaders, two pair of armed escort Crusaders and two pair of SEAD Skyhawks with Shrikes. Post strike recon was to be a pair of RF-8Es.
I planned a quick dash from the sea direct to the target, egressing Haiphong to the East and back out to sea.
Paul decided to defend with a “SAM day” due to North Vietnam’s inability to deconflict aircraft and SAM defences early in Rolling Thunder.
Initially my SEAD Skyhawks were successful killing a Fire Can AAA system and shutting down a SAM site with Shrikes. Unfortunately there were four more SAM sites in the area and lots of AAA. One Crusader and two Skyhawks were shot down attacking the target and another 2 more Skyhawks crippled whilst heavily damaging the target.
The Haiphong AAA was amazingly successful in shooting down both recon Crusaders meaning no BDA was obtained!
All in all a USN disaster with a result of -22VP for a very significant defeat.
