pauk
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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 09/02/42 BURMA Battle for Akyab continues. Enemy fighters were over Akyab, intercept my transports but none of them was shot down. I reinforced Akyab right in time! Meanwhile, Allied bombers destroying airfield at Akyab (not sure what he want there). Day Air attack on Akyab , at 30,29 Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 35 B-24D Liberator x 35 IL-4c x 11 No Allied losses Airbase hits 7 Runway hits 90 All bombing at 6000 feet. NLF holds against part of Burma rifle bde. Another NLF will arrive tonight at the base (fast transports). My main fleet (5 hexes south of Akyab wasnt spoted today and will visit Akyab port tonight. Lets hope Andy would send another fast transport... Ground combat at Akyab Allied Shock attack Attacking force 533 troops, 8 guns, 0 vehicles Defending force 502 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles Allied assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese ground losses: 20 casualties reported Allied ground losses: 78 casualties reported Guns lost 5 CHINA Ground combat at 46,32 - north of Ichang Allied Shock attack Attacking force 31850 troops, 44 guns, 0 vehicles Defending force 1583 troops, 9 guns, 0 vehicles Allied assault odds: 36 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 304 casualties reported Guns lost 5 Allied ground losses: 103 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Defeated Japanese Units Retreating! It seems that enemy knows our plans! 10 enemy units marching from Chungking towards Sian - i do not know if they would arrive on time to boost Chinese defensive positions 120 miles north of Ichang. AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 09/03/42 PACIFIC I really don't have clue what this Scot doing with his subs??? Large sub TF founded near Ewinotok (or whatever)- moving SE and was tracked last few days. Unfortunatly, those subs escapaed safetly and hit one of my transports... Sub attack at 79,80 Japanese Ships AK Akashi Maru, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Trigger ----------------------- ASW attack at 80,81 Japanese Ships DD Shinonome PC Ch 14 PC Showa Maru #3 PC Shonon Maru #15 PG Zuiko Maru PG Shinko Maru #3 PG Santos Maru PG Magan Maru PG Kanko Maru Allied Ships SS Trigger Americans starts bombing Mili. I didn't want allow them cheap training and ordered LR CAP over Mili for the next day. Day Air attack on Mili , at 84,85 Allied aircraft P-40B Tomahawk x 6 B-25C Mitchell x 30 B-17E Fortress x 28 Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 15 Port hits 1 All bombing at 6000 feet BURMA My surface fleet didn't find anything at Akyab port, but FT disembarks other NLF - the enemy will be defeated there tomorrow. AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 09/04/42 PACIFIC Not suprisingly, Tonys performed best. 65th Sentai is awarded with 13 kills (10 enemy bombers and 3 fighters) and they are responsible for all shoted down B-17E this turn, i think. Zeros (exp from 72-75) couldn't hurt enemy monsters (they damaged some, but with no kills) but they shot down quite a lot Mitchells. I guess that these B-17 are veterans, but hey, i didn't sleep either! I checked their experience level and some pilots of this elite Sentai (overall exp - 88) are gained experience: J. Futagami -3 kills +2 exp (now 91) S. Ishida - 1 kill +1 exp (91) O. Miyabe - 1 kill +1 exp (95) R. Kasabe -1 kill +1 exp (86) This Sentai withdrew to Wotje to recuperate - i have big plans forthis eilte interceptor group (exp 89!). BURMA I think Andy got message "no more easy gains for you" after his colonial troops are defeated at Akyab and forced to retreat towards Dacca (nice, malaria will spare my soldier bullets). Ground combat at Akyab Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 1606 troops, 9 guns, 0 vehicles Defending force 465 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 39 casualties reported Guns lost 3 Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Now what? It seems that Andy hoped for another cheap gain (Akyab) but I denied that him. But I'm on alert there - Bettys on naval search reported presence of the enemy ships in India. Not a lot ships, but i need to be careful there. CHINA One division joined my bde in hex north of Sian and enemy was forced to retreat in Sian. Good - his defeated units will drawn supply. Ground combat at 47,28 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 32001 troops, 390 guns, 0 vehicles Defending force 12176 troops, 58 guns, 0 vehicles Japanese assault odds: 6 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 87 casualties reported Guns lost 12 Allied ground losses: 56 casualties reported Defeated Allied Units Retreating! My units still are 40 miles from his blocking force near Ichang, and it would be interesting to see who will came first. But "Seprtlja-go" does not depend only on that - i'm reinforcing my "Homan Army group" north of Homan and hopefully Andy would think either i planing main attack there (and send reinforcements to Sian), either i would be able to broke his defence at this hex. IMPERIAL HQ NEWS SHEET It seems that enemy plans offensive(s) against our Empire in the future. Most likely would attack in two theatres at the same time what would cause spliting of our Navy and KB. According to our inteligence service these two theatres are Burma and Marshalls. We are not going to reinforce Malaya/Burma with ships anymore - what is there it have to be enough for holding the line (Akagi, Hosho, 3 BBs). Air force is getting stronger day by day (have 3 crack LBA daitais) and two Zero daitais will be reinforced with two chutais. Two more IJA AF groups (Tojo and Tony) now transfering to Burma. PACIFIC - one Tony sentai from Truk is sent to Kwajelein, and one crack Oscar sentai (from Australia) is sent to Truk where will upgrade to Tony. Upgraded carriers (Hiryu, Soryu, Kaga) will join rest of KB in Truk after repairing all damage.
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