castor troy
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Just after the sinking of two enemy CVEs, we have a very bad turn... a lot of those smilies today... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/16/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Andaman Island at 23,34 Japanese Ships CA Mogami CA Kako, Shell hits 2, on fire CL Kuma, Shell hits 3 DD Kisaragi DD Uzuki, Shell hits 3, on fire Allied Ships CA Frobisher CL Leander, Shell hits 1, on fire DD Fletcher DD Chevalier, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire Like I mentioned last turn, we send a cruiser TF to Andaman Island and see an enemy cruiser TF reacting! Donīt know where it came from, we havenīt spotted them before, so this was an excellent move by our opponent. The battle shows an amazing fact. CL Leanders 6 inch shells did penetrate the IJN CA armor at 6000yards, while the 7,5 inch shells from CA Frobisher didnīt! What kind of crap is that ship? Not surprising, our torps miss while the enemy hits as usual. CL Kuma was hit by 3x5 inch shells from Fletcher that penetrated the CLīs armor. At this point we hoped to see no further encounter. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Andaman Island at 23,34 Japanese Ships CA Mogami, Shell hits 1 CA Kako, Shell hits 1, on fire CL Kuma, Shell hits 6 DD Kisaragi DD Uzuki, on fire Allied Ships CA Frobisher, Shell hits 4, on fire CL Leander, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage DD Fletcher, Shell hits 1, on fire DD Chevalier, on fire But as usual, when the Japanese have superior forces we see more than one encounter. Again, our torps missed while the enemy torps hit. Also Frobisher is hit by 3x8 inch shells that penetrated the armor. After having our ships damaged, we knew they wouldnīt move a lot of hexes during the day... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 77 encounters mine field at Andaman Island (23,34) Japanese Ships MSW Hinode Maru #18 MSW Banshu Maru #8 MSW W.20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Dutch Harbor , at 103,36 Allied aircraft P-39D Airacobra x 63 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 48 x P-39D Airacobra bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Kiska Island , at 92,35 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 48 TBF Avenger x 29 PBY Catalina x 5 Wellington III x 62 PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses Wellington III: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 160 casualties reported Guns lost 4 Runway hits 18 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Wellington III bombing at 19000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Shuzan Naval Guard Unit, at 103,36 Allied aircraft SBD Dauntless x 47 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 7 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 5th Mortar Battalion, at 34,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 56 P-40E Warhawk x 21 Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIb: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 48 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 11 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 33rd/B Division, at 34,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 75 Kittyhawk I x 14 Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIb: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged Japanese ground losses: 81 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet suddenly the AA unit in this hex becomes a killer. We lose 7!! Hurricanes today... All in all, today we lose 12 aircraft for no enemy aircraft lost. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 21,33 Japanese aircraft B5N Kate x 4 Japanese aircraft losses B5N Kate: 1 damaged Allied Ships CL Leander, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 4 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet our SC TF was split in single ship TFs after the battle during the night and ALL single ship TFs were spotted during the day! Those 4 Kates from Andaman of course sink Leander. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 20,32 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 12 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 10 damaged Allied Ships CA Frobisher, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 4 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet and of course we see the lonely CA Frobisher being attacked also from Betties on long range torp attack. In sinking condition, chance to survive 15%. On the other hand our 100+ 4Es did spot the enemy CA/DD/AK TF (some 12+ ships) 8 hexes from Cooktown but of course didnīt launch - like so many times before. Unfortunately our opponent seems not to face such problems. I was already amazed to see all 4 single ship TFs being spotted, not to talk about seeing both single cruisers being attacked. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Akyab Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 42030 troops, 552 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 1514 Defending force 94618 troops, 933 guns, 21 vehicles, Assault Value = 1695 Allied ground losses: 79 casualties reported Guns lost 1
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