castor troy
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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 07/12/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 66,76 Japanese Ships DD Yunagi DD Matsukaze DD Harukaze DD Susuzuki DD Teruzuki DD Akizuki Allied Ships SS Pompano, hits 11, on fire, heavy damage after achieving 9 near misses yesterday I´ve thought that Miller would order his sub back to either PH or Midway so I´ve sent my three ASW TFs to an expected position where they should meet the sub... one did and the Akizukis prove to be quite good ASW platforms as the Type 2 DC is far better than the Type 91 or 95. Another 9 near misses but also two hits by Type 2 DCs. The sub isn´t reported sunk though and was later in the day unsuccesfully attacked by a Helen. Wonder if Pompano will make it all the way back... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 24 encounters mine field at Goodenough island (56,93) Japanese Ships AG AG-356, and is sunk AG AG-2094, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage VH2 mine hit as a barge convoy passes through Goodeneough island... Looks like a sub has been here for a visit... We pass our hex and hit one out of, I don´t know, two dozen mines while the Allied fast transport DDs go in and out of PM where there surely have to be still over a thousand of my mines but they have yet to hit one... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 8 J1N1-S Irving x 27 D3A Val x 24 A6M3a Zero x 86 B5N Kate x 8 G3M Nell x 35 G4M1 Betty x 53 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 326 Ki-49 Helen x 25 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 10 casualties reported Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 6 Runway hits 239 Port hits 3 Port fuel hits 1 Port supply hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Gasmata , at 59,90 Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 111 Allied aircraft P-38G Lightning x 45 P-47C Thunderbolt x 37 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 38 destroyed, 19 damaged Allied aircraft losses P-38G Lightning: 19 destroyed, 7 damaged P-47C Thunderbolt: 5 destroyed, 19 damaged oh well... no wonder how experienced my pilots are, they have no chance against the Thunderbolts... The enemy comes in for a sweep, of course get´s the bounce over our base and we see 50% of our fighters in the air. Had to move in the Tojos as we´re in the process of unloading some 40.000 supplies from our 1750 ton AKs as Gasmata is our supply hub for the barge convoys supplying our bases around Port Moresby. After this slaughter, there are now 4 more Tojo sentais in need of 3 months of training. We lose around 30 pilots today. So far we´ve upgraded already half a dozen Tojo sentais to Tonies. Within another 5-6 weeks we will have upgraded all Tojos to Tonies, hopefully this will make life for Allied fighters harder. At least we´ve destroyed a 2,5 weeks replacement of Lightnings but in 9 or 10/43 the J-model will show up and this means the enemy will get some 100 Lightnings (together with the G-model) a month. So good bye to the funny time... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107 Allied aircraft F4F-4 Wildcat x 53 PBY Catalina x 5 Kittyhawk I x 16 F4U-1 Corsair x 96 No Allied losses Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 36 Aircraft Attacking: 10 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet too many Corsairs doing training runs for my taste... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107 Allied aircraft Beaufighter VIF x 17 Beaufighter VIC x 9 No Allied losses Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 4 x Beaufighter VIF bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107 Allied aircraft SBD Dauntless x 44 TBF Avenger x 16 PBY Catalina x 1 F4U-1 Corsair x 9 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 22 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x TBF Avenger bombing at 10000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107 Allied aircraft Beaufighter VIC x 3 Beaufighter Mk 21 x 13 B-25C Mitchell x 32 B-26B Marauder x 47 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 36 Aircraft Attacking: 36 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 67,32 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 43944 troops, 455 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 931 Defending force 5452 troops, 57 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 99 Japanese max assault: 762 - adjusted assault: 259 Allied max defense: 102 - adjusted defense: 73 Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 372 casualties reported Guns lost 10 Vehicles lost 1 Allied ground losses: 158 casualties reported Guns lost 6 will take quite some time to kill off this static region fortress... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Borzya Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 9175 troops, 233 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4858 Defending force 61964 troops, 287 guns, 13 vehicles, Assault Value = 906 Allied ground losses: 344 casualties reported Guns lost 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Chungking Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 15768 troops, 181 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2319 Defending force 280718 troops, 1427 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 6691 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Kweiyang Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 22702 troops, 267 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2452 Defending force 166634 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4819 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Ulan-Ude Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 22794 troops, 267 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 1576 Defending force 9575 troops, 134 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 414 Allied ground losses: 5 casualties reported Guns lost 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Uglahamensk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 22443 troops, 255 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 481 Defending force 5760 troops, 27 guns, 112 vehicles, Assault Value = 95 Allied ground losses: 10 casualties reported Guns lost 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Wyndham Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 8323 troops, 282 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4223 Defending force 151621 troops, 1066 guns, 416 vehicles, Assault Value = 3060 Allied ground losses: 321 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Wyndham´s av is going down, no doubt there must be a supply issue for the Allied. How can that be as I guess the resupply attempt brought something like 60-70.000 supplies. On the other side, there are a hell a lot of troops and they will suck up quite some supplies each month and with the so fast going game it´s probably already two or three months ago when the supplies came in... in any case, that´s really good news... I still have a lot of bombers and escorts in the area so if the Allied try another supply run then they can expect to lose a lot of ships again as this time there will be less carriers to cover them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Karachi Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 100443 troops, 823 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2713 Defending force 78080 troops, 660 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1529 Japanese ground losses: 352 casualties reported Guns lost 7
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