castor troy
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And hereīs the rest of 3/25/43... Day Air attack on TF at 25,83 Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 6 G3M Nell x 6 G4M1 Betty x 13 Allied aircraft F4F-4 Wildcat x 8 FM-2 Wildcat x 6 Japanese aircraft losses G3M Nell: 1 damaged G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged Allied aircraft losses F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged Allied Ships CA Chester BB Washington, Torpedo hits 1 CVL Independence BB North Carolina Aircraft Attacking: 2 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet this is a TF in the same hex as Yorktown and Hornet is in. Donīt know if Wasp is also in this TF... Washington takes a fish and counter floods... enemy Cap has not much effect anymore but they got one shot at the Nells and all of them turned back so Cap wasnīt totally useless... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 34,84 Japanese aircraft Ki-49 Helen x 15 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed, 10 damaged Allied Ships BB Warspite, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet Warspite still afloat? Thought the ship would be finished already... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 34,84 Japanese aircraft G3M Nell x 13 Japanese aircraft losses G3M Nell: 12 damaged Allied Ships BB Warspite, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G3M Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet Warspite takes another one... doubt she will make it... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 32,85 Japanese aircraft G3M Nell x 2 Allied aircraft P-38G Lightning x 19 Japanese aircraft losses G3M Nell: 1 destroyed not good... Miller set Lightnings from Wyndham to fly LRCAP... they are covering the TF with all the fuel loaden AOs. I would fly cover with everything I have over the supply carrying AKs though... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 35,84 Japanese aircraft B5N Kate x 27 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 4 No Japanese losses Allied Ships DD Bailey, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet more of the silly targetting routine... we start attacking the DDs that were split off from the supply convoy due to damage... total overkill and there are far more important targets around... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 35,83 Japanese aircraft B5N Kate x 24 Japanese aircraft losses B5N Kate: 2 damaged Allied Ships DD Bagley, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 4 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet Bagley is killed too, the Allied lose 6 DDs today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 32,85 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 18 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 38 Allied aircraft P-38G Lightning x 19 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 12 damaged Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 11 destroyed, 5 damaged ouch... Allied aircraft losses P-38G Lightning: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged Allied Ships DD Helm AO Cimarron, Torpedo hits 1, on fire DD Mugford AO Cache Aircraft Attacking: 2 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet even though our Tojos are high experienced, they have no chance... they are on escort, they got bounced on and on and on and the far less exp Lightnings achieve a 11:1 kill rate... we will see many of those encounters in the next months I fear... and we wonīt have a really competitive fighter until the Frank shows up... lol, that will be in mid 44... damage done here wasnīt worth the losses... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 34,84 Japanese aircraft Ki-49 Helen x 3 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49 Helen: 1 damaged Allied Ships CVE Chenango, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet 3 Helen, 3x250kg AP bomb hits on the CVE that was already lying dead in the water... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 34,84 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 3 damaged Allied Ships AO Tallulah, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet damaged AO that was alone trying to make Wyndham... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Derby , at 24,85 Allied aircraft Beaufort I x 9 B-25C Mitchell x 83 B-25J Mitchell x 13 No Allied losses Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 71 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Beaufort I bombing at 15000 feet 3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 15000 feet this attack doesnīt concern us at all... those bombers are coming from Broome and Broome will soon be in Japanese hands. Our tanks will arrive there in three days, curious what we will encounter there, other than level 9 forts and base forces (hopefully nothing else... ) guess Miller wanted to go sure that this airfield canīt be used to launch strikes on his fleeing TFs... good decision. But I donīt have air support there (could be flown in with Tabbies though) and the airfield was quite damaged before this strike anyway (that was the reason I didnīt fly in bombers). Now it is totally out of operational state though. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 34,83 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 6 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 41 Allied aircraft Brewster 339D x 17 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 6 damaged Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 3 destroyed, 5 damaged Allied aircraft losses Brewster 339D: 9 destroyed Allied Ships DD Laffey AK Empire Voice Aircraft Attacking: 2 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet Also the supply convoy is covered by LRCAP from Wyndham. Only by Dutch Brewsters but they donīt perform that bad as they take down 3 of the Tojos for no loss. Usually the Brewsters lost something like 15:1, their exp must have been terrible, donīt know about their exp they had today... This is the MAIN target for all my forces, but I canīt tell that the targetting routine... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 25,83 Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 63 G3M Nell x 9 G4M1 Betty x 6 Ki-49 Helen x 6 Allied aircraft F4F-4 Wildcat x 4 FM-2 Wildcat x 3 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3a Zero: 3 destroyed, 4 damaged G3M Nell: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged Allied aircraft losses F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged FM-2 Wildcat: 2 destroyed Allied Ships CV Yorktown, Torpedo hits 3, on fire CV Hornet, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet 1 x G3M Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet afternoon strike from Koepang, again against the TF with Hornet and Yorktown. Again I can only shake my head about the number of bombers, this is a wet fart when I look at the bomber numbers at Koepang. But considering the number of bombers and the fatigue of the crews, this was an amazing result. Itīs a pity that we split our attacks between both carriers. Hornet was hit in the morning by a torp, suffered an ammo storage explosion and now takes another torp and suffers again an ammo storage explosion. Should be quite damaged now, one or two more torps would probably done her in. Yorktown takes three torps but no follow on explosions and while the ship is on fire, it doesnīt even show up as heavily damaged. So what will bigbaba do with this TF now? Bringing back Yorktown and Hornet to Wyndham (would mean they will be in attack range tomorrow also, probably for two days), or moving them towards Perth, then they will perhaps still be in range tomorrow. But itīs a loooong way to Perth and I doubt that both would make it, only with a hell a lot of luck. IMO a move towards Wyndham would mean both will be sunk. CV Lexington is also at Wyndham, at least this is what Miller stated in his last email. This attack really made the overall situation for the Allied totally catastrophic. With bad weather over Koepang or a worse hit rate, the Allied would have lost a lot, but the would still have Yorktown, Hornet, Wasp and CVL Independence that could have got away. Now it really looks grim... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 34,84 Japanese aircraft B5N Kate x 23 G4M1 Betty x 10 No Japanese losses Allied Ships CVE Chenango, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet Kates from Darwin finish the last floating CVE... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 34,84 Japanese aircraft D3A Val x 84 A6M3a Zero x 21 B5N Kate x 111 No Japanese losses Allied Ships CVE Chenango, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 4 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet 1 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet and while the targetting routine was already bad in the morning, it doesnīt do better in the afternoon... letīs fire off a full KB strike against an already sunk CVE... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 34,84 Japanese aircraft B5N Kate x 26 Japanese aircraft losses B5N Kate: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged Allied Ships BB Warspite, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet Warspite dies... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Wyndham Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 252257 troops, 2235 guns, 27 vehicles, Assault Value = 4845 Defending force 137908 troops, 1034 guns, 355 vehicles, Assault Value = 3009 Japanese max assault: 4046 - adjusted assault: 1618 Allied max defense: 3241 - adjusted defense: 7824 Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 8) Japanese ground losses: 7583 casualties reported Guns lost 124 Vehicles lost 8 Allied ground losses: 1866 casualties reported Guns lost 75 Vehicles lost 5 why risking the whole USN and RN to bring supplies to Wyndham? The troops there donīt need any supplies at all, they get an insane adjusted av anyway while we donīt even bring down the forts. This was our fourth attack and all that happens is that our losses are getting higher with every attack... thatīs just crazy. We have used up nearly 50.000 supplies from Darwin already, thatīs surely a couple of times more than the Allied even had at Wyndham at the start of the siege and they still donīt suffer at all... nice die rolls... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Chungking Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 15843 troops, 179 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1863 Defending force 272429 troops, 1467 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 6453 Allied ground losses: 23 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Kweiyang Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 22707 troops, 268 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2822 Defending force 178931 troops, 10 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5104 Allied ground losses: 34 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 24,86 Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 45372 troops, 113 guns, 2442 vehicles, Assault Value = 1366 Defending force 19846 troops, 101 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 448 Japanese max assault: 2248 - adjusted assault: 1494 Allied max defense: 346 - adjusted defense: 91 Japanese assault odds: 16 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 253 casualties reported Guns lost 4 Vehicles lost 10 Allied ground losses: 1152 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Vehicles lost 4 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! weīre shock attacking us towards Broome... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 36,88 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 53043 troops, 625 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 2096 Defending force 83330 troops, 961 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2052 Allied ground losses: 105 casualties reported Guns lost 3 wonder if the six Allied divisions four hexes South of Darwin will ever dare to attack. Doubt they are in good supply. My divisions are, they are drawing supplies from our huge storages at Darwin while the Allied have to draw them from Alice Springs over a dozen of hexes of roads and rail. And I doubt that Alice Springs has a lot of supplies anyway. So the next place would be in the Townsville area, probably too far away... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Thursday Island Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 6684 troops, 30 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 150 Defending force 620 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 15 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 36,88 Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 83149 troops, 953 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2043 Defending force 96397 troops, 1034 guns, 32 vehicles, Assault Value = 2096 Japanese ground losses: 231 casualties reported Guns lost 7 Vehicles lost 1
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