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Juanpableiro-Degolandesa war (or JPM-Drman war), from the 3189. While this war sparked from colonial disputes in Ushaenor, this war will see action not only in Ushaenor, but as well Aels, in the Elguie-Degoland border.
In this aeronaval battle, some recognition aircrafts of Degoland detected in the straits two battleships -"JPM Jean" and the "JPM Paul"- and a heavy cruiser -the "JPM Mombeen", who where sailing to Ushaenor to provide support to the colonial fleet -who had suffered some severe defeats, being old and obsolete units, against the degolandians-.
Once detected the JPMian ships, a bomber squadron of the DR Army, escorted by fighters of the 12th Squadron of the DR Air force and a wing of the 4th Naval Squad -with Torpedo bombers- where quickly sent to try to strike the enemy ships.
When the JPM detected this, they used the catapults of their ships to launch -fighter-bombers of the Condor 19 type- they where carrying. Originally, these 10 aircrafts where to be delivered to the colonies in Ushaenor, and weren't float planes, seaplanes or amphibians. The JPM pilots where on a mission without return.
In the end, due the enemy aircraft and anti-aircraft fire, the DR lost several bombers and fighters. The ships of the JPM only suffered minor damages due the enemy action, and from the 10 fighter-bombers of the JPM, only two where lost to the pilots of Degoland:
But due the lack of capability to return to the ships, two airplanes ended crashing in the sea, while the last 6 ones where to land in Sargos, where the pilots will be interned for the rest of the war.
Other of my old, old drawings of school times, done between the 2003 to 2005, when I had my free-form roleplay game of nations.
When drawing naval and air battles, I think my results where even poorer than in land battles. Less impresive, and much less dinamic.
As well, I was in general quite ignorant of aircrafts!
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given the diffference in tech-level this would be pretty one-sided
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I wasn't thinking it was so much: in WW2 still many naval airplanes where a bit obsolete airplanes with two wings, but they demostrate in the mediterranean fleet to still be useful!
-or ask the Italians how things went against the torpedo ones of the brits! in WWII!-
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That's actually not bad at all!! ^_^
The action very much resembles the description of the heroics of the pilots of CAM-ship launched Hurricanes during the Second World War. The British discovered early on in the War that their convoys were vulnerable from airborne attacks from Luftwaffe Focke-Wulf Fw-200 "Condor" bombers. Given the shortage of carrier ships, the British initially solved this by equipping a number of cargo ships with a catapult, on which a Hawker Hurricane fighter was mounted. When the ships came under attack, the fighter was launched and expected to defend the convoy. However, these early CAM-ships did not have a flight-deck, so the pilot was expected - if he survived the encounter with the enemy - to either head for the closest shores, or to ditch his aircraft close to the convoy ships, so he could be recovered.
35 merchant ships were converted to CAM-ships, of which 12 were lost to enemy action. CAM-Hurricanes had 9 combat encounters with enemy aircraft, resulting 8 kills and 3 enemies chased off, for the loss of 8 aircraft and 1 pilot.
Later on, the CAM ships were replaced by Escort Carriers and Merchant Aircraft Carriers, smaller and lighter versions of the main aircraft carriers, especially designed to escort convoys.
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AH! I had forget a bit of the CAM-ship fighters, but when writing this I remembered from somewhere about something similar... and now I remember why! My brother had a model of it, and I readed many, many years ago, the leaflet that came with it! X3
-thanks for the info!-
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Despite the problems, you cover so much! (even if these craft could not be in such close proximity!) Burning wreckage, floating ditched planes, bombers trying to hit their targets, great stuff! Biplanes shouldn't have had a chance, but they did well for six of ten to survive!
Hitting ships with bombs from the air is not a task for the untrained! It isn't too surprising that all the ships survived, especially with some air cover. Still, dive bombers and torpedoes rendered big ships very vulnerable in WWII, battleships descending into obsolescence.
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Thanks!
Indeed, hitting ships with bombs isn't easy! In one of the first aeronaval battles of story -the rebellion of the Navy, Chile, 1931- the air force tried to bomb the navy: only damages was on a cruiser, as a bomb falled near in the water. Two government planes where ligthly damaged by AA fire:
In that case, the pilots had no previous experience in bombing ships -and in general, none in the world had much experience in that field-, and neither the crews of the ships knew well how to use the AA guns, as the ships where refited not long ago in England, adding the AA guns! XD
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I was reminded of the Battle of Midway, where despite preknowledge and massive preparations, the large number of American ground based bombers sent out to attack Japanese ships couldn't hit hardly anything despite dropping massive amounts of bombs!
Or the torpedo bombers who died heroically but utterly failed due to obsolete equipment!
Yet the disproportionate power of bombs from the air was well proven when a squadron of dive bombers luckily found their targets and effectively destroyed three carriers in under a minute!
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15 B-17s is not a large number for attacking a freely maneuvering naval force.Β Β The ideal attacking force would be simultaneous dive bomber and torpedo strikes,Β Β hopefully with torpedo bombers not quite as obsolete as the TDB-1, the ideal torpedo strike isΒ from a semicircle around the front ot the target so that no mater which way it turns there will be a torpedo approaching.
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