Kamikawa Maru 7/5/42 Issue

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Piegziu
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Kamikawa Maru 7/5/42 Issue

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Post by Piegziu » 23 Oct 2014, 17:16

On combinedfleet website we can read that in the morning (6:30) of 7th of May Kamikawa Maru dispatched several floatplanes from Deboyne.

I tried to confront this information with Kamikawa Maru Sento Shobu:
http://www.jacar.go.jp/DAS/meta/imageen ... S_TAG_S32=&

There come my doubts:
How many planes were send that day?
What was the name of those float planes (Jakes or Petes)?

In JACAR I can read that there were 3 planes but they left Deboyne seperately - 4:30, 5:30, 13:30 (Tokio time).

Any clues my friends? :)

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Re: Kamikawa Maru 7/5/42 Issue

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Post by fontessa » 23 Oct 2014, 21:37

Hello Piegziu,
Piegziu wrote: How many planes were send that day?
What was the name of those float planes (Jakes or Petes)?
According to pages 6 and 7 of JACAR C08030641200:
(0430 - 0945) 3 Jakes for enemy seaching
(0430 - * ) 1 Jake for air cover * 自爆 suicidal explosion
(0530 - 0830) 1 Pete for air cover
(1030 - 1330) 2 Petes for air cover
(1330 - 1700) 2 Jakes for enemy searching

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Re: Kamikawa Maru 7/5/42 Issue

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Post by Piegziu » 23 Oct 2014, 23:44

Thank you fontessa. You help me in each possible way. :D

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