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An action packed turn!
First Herbie pounds Palembang from the sea and then aircraft out of Singapore hit a big transport convoy heading West, no doubt the Palembang invasion force. The morning strikes by Vildebeeste and Swordfish find no enemy fighters covering the force and score hits on destroyers and transports. By the afternoon the KB's zeroes begin to cover the task force and prevent any significant attacks.
In Burma the AVG intercepts the supply runs to Lashio but he already has Oscars based there and shot down 2 P-40B's for 2 of their own. The attacks against Lashio will intensify in the coming days and a brigade is on the rail line two days out. Fuel stocks from Rangoon are being evacuated to Trincomalee and Colombo to prevent him from getting them as movement has been spotted heading north in the rail lines leading out of Indo-China.
Yet again submarines are in intensive action. The only hits were scored on the DD Whipple on ASW duty outside Sorebaja. Dutch and US submarines miss targets all over the theatre but none as spectacular as this one 
Wheres a Dutch sub when you need one!
Herb's troops also made landfall at Rabaul but the CD commander there had the troops well drilled as these excerpts from the CR reveal.
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Coastal Guns at Rabaul, 62,90, firing at TF 20
TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Rabaul, 62,90
56 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
PC Ch 24, Shell hits 1
PC Ch 30, Shell hits 1, on fire
PC Ch 29, Shell hits 1, on fire
AP Maruse Maru, Shell hits 1, on fire
PG Shotoku Maru, Shell hits 2
Japanese ground losses:
264 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
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Coastal Guns at Rabaul, 62,90, firing at TF 172
TF 172 troops unloading over beach at Rabaul, 62,90
98 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
MSW Tama Maru #2, Shell hits 2, on fire
AK Kanayama Maru, Shell hits 3
MSW Tama Maru No. 2, Shell hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
MSW Noshiro Maru #2, Shell hits 1, on fire
AP Tonei Maru, Shell hits 2
MSW Hagoromo Maru, Shell hits 1
CL Kashima, Shell hits 2
Japanese ground losses:
671 casualties reported
Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
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Coastal Guns at Rabaul, 62,90, firing at TF 20
TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Rabaul, 62,90
8 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AK Venice Maru, Shell hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
Japanese ground losses:
35 casualties reported
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Coastal Guns at Rabaul, 62,90, firing at TF 172
TF 172 troops unloading over beach at Rabaul, 62,90
36 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AK Taga Maru
AP Daihachikyo Maru, Shell hits 1
Japanese ground losses:
266 casualties reported
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In the PI's Davao has fallen and the fortification of Luzon is continuing in the face of Japanese lethargy in terms of their advance southwards.
The damaged CA Atago has been spotted heading towards Saigon and as the screenie shows three submarines converge on her route. She came under aerial attack from Singapore with no hits, but she was still burning from yesterdays torpedo hit. Her coordinates and course were signalled to submarine captains in the area and they now vector in like a pack of wolves. SS KXI sits just outside Saigon harbour to strike as the cruiser approaches home, if she gets that far!
< Message edited by cantona2 -- 6/7/2008 12:45:38 PM >
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