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RE: it goes on... - 7/6/2009 9:26:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		Now this will be really intersteing! Let's ee how my friend bigbaba will do against you schluchtenscheißer 

Impressive work so far, I'd be interested if you are able to do so without restricting HRs...


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RE: it goes on... - 7/6/2009 10:26:30 AM   
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Now this will be really intersteing! Let's ee how my friend bigbaba will do against you schluchtenscheißer 

Impressive work so far, I'd be interested if you are able to do so without restricting HRs...




Without the "restricting" house rules I´ve done even better because in the first 12 months those restricting hrs mostly restrict the Japanese. Afterwards the hr that restricts the Allied the most is the stacking rule about carrier based ac as they can´t put a dozen Essex classes together with two dozen CVEs into one hex. On the other hand, I can´t put 800 aircraft onto an atoll either.

I´ve played at least half a dozen PBEMs with those hrs, also as the Allied and I can asure you that none of the hrs is the reason if you do good or bad. Of course as the Allied you can´t do bad during amphibious invasions when you can have 1500 carrier based ac in one hex as 500 Hellcats on Cap are bulletprove until not a single Japanese aircraft is left.

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RE: it goes on... - 7/6/2009 10:47:19 AM   
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Status: offline 		Damit wollte ich Deinen Erfolg nicht schmälern! Mir sind Deine HRs lediglich zu restriktiv.


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RE: it goes on... - 7/6/2009 11:17:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		ja ja. du möchtest am liebsten 50 torpedoboote in eine basis stationieren und damit meine schlachtflotte aufhalten, gelle?

HRs sind schon was notwendiges, weil das spiel einige dinge selbst nicht regeln kann.

ich kann chris auch versichern, dass ich meine 4E bomber nicht im "weltraum" fliegen lasse, wo sie trotz immunität gegenüber CAP und flak ganze basen verwüsten. sowas macht keinen spass.



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RE: it goes on... - 7/6/2009 12:16:45 PM   
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ja ja. du möchtest am liebsten 50 torpedoboote in eine basis stationieren und damit meine schlachtflotte aufhalten, gelle?

HRs sind schon was notwendiges, weil das spiel einige dinge selbst nicht regeln kann.

ich kann chris auch versichern, dass ich meine 4E bomber nicht im "weltraum" fliegen lasse, wo sie trotz immunität gegenüber CAP und flak ganze basen verwüsten. sowas macht keinen spass.





The bombers can´t overfly the fighters anyway, only flak fire above 25.000ft. Flak is useless anyway, sorry, Japanese flak is useless anyway.

Btw, this AAR is OFF LIMITS for you as soon as you will get the turn this evening...

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RE: it goes on... - 7/6/2009 1:36:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		Just to echo Chris's praise, it has been an entertaining eight months (realtime), just a shame I was on the receiving end most of the time! Its unfortunate we had the disagreement near the end, but we could have worked through it had I decided to continue the game.

Good luck to bigbaba, however he has a very hard job ahead of him. Chris exploited my weakness in ground combat and as a result I had lost many divisions. I managed to land the equivalent of seven fully prepped divs at Makin (the wrong choice of base, one of my many mistakes), but they hardly made a dent.....

Looking at the Allied ground reinforcement schedule, only 15 more full divs arrive before the end of the game, plus roughly as many brigades. IMO not enough to get sustained offensive going, especially when you consider Chris has (I guess) 70-80 divs to play with - 20 alone in Austrailia at the moment!

I will continue to read this AAR with interest.

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RE: it goes on... - 7/6/2009 5:16:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		70-80 divs would be fun Paul! A rough guess would be that I have 12.000 assault points to play with, means those are Southern Area, Burma Area or from other non restricted commands. Means the equivalent of 30 divs which seems impressive too, but there are lots of nav guard units and smaller sized bgds/rgts too.

But of course the time until mid 44 will be fun for the Japanese and that´s what I need, MORE troops. If the Allied won´t get going (which I doubt anyway after the Makin landings) then I will have a nice defensive perimeter with some good defenses. You can never defend everything and the Allied will always land more troops at one site than there are defenders but I´m quite confident. The Makin invasion failed due to me bringing there more troops than originally planned but after seeing 500 assault points being wiped out on Canton in three days easily I´ve thought that I either DEFEND the place or have nearly anything there at all. The loss of Mutsu was a high price but the damage done wasn´t low either and better to lose a BB after taking out half a dozen heavy cruisers, lots of DDs and damaging a couple of BBs than to lose it in half a year to your carriers while doing no damage at all.

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RE: it goes on... - 7/7/2009 1:13:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well done! I'm as amazed as you that Miller chose Makin.

One question - not to discourage continuing the fight, but how will you and Bigbaba address the impending Japanese fuel shortage?


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RE: it goes on... - 7/7/2009 7:16:35 AM   
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Well done! I'm as amazed as you that Miller chose Makin.

One question - not to discourage continuing the fight, but how will you and Bigbaba address the impending Japanese fuel shortage?




hmm, not at all... I was able to accumulate 100.000 tons of fuel in 2 months, this due to me having KB and all warships in port. So without using any capitol ships I can just keep my merchant fleet running. And I guess in 12 monhts at the latest the merchant fleet will be in trouble of getting wrecked anyway, then there´s no need for fuel for the merchants anymore. I can just hope I will be able to still use the remaining warships.

With the loss of BB Mutsu last turn, we already adressed the fuel issue.

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RE: it goes on... - 7/7/2009 8:46:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		Let's all hope you won't get into fuel trouble... - as AE is released before you face that! 

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RE: it goes on... - 7/8/2009 3:39:30 AM   
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RE: it goes on... - 7/8/2009 9:28:42 AM   
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Status: offline 		It goes on Gentlemen! Again... bigbaba is the new (old) Allied commander and the next two or three weeks will be really hard for me I guess as bigbaba followed this AAR and pretty much should know everything about me, from tactics to strategy and thoughts what my enemy should or shouldn´t do. Not just that, of course I will now face a different situation with an Allied commander of which I´m not sure yet which tactics he will employ.

This is the first turn under a new Allied command and it was an exciting one.

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 10/23/43

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ASW attack at 81,80

Japanese Ships
DD Kikuzuki
DD Satsuki
DD Sazanami
DD Akebono
DD Oboro
DD Amagiri

Allied Ships
SS Scorpion

one of my ASW TFs that I´ve sent out from Kwajalein to deal with the at least two dozen subs in the Marshalls and Gilberts...

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ASW attack at 81,80

Japanese Ships
DD Kikuzuki
DD Satsuki
DD Sazanami
DD Akebono
DD Oboro
DD Amagiri

Allied Ships
SS Scorpion

another attack run, another time no DCs dropped... until last turn I considered the enemy subs as the biggest threat for my warships as I was quite sure that Miller wouldn´t move further North with his carriers (if he would have I would have let lose my 1000 land based ac and KB a turn later). Now that Bigbaba is in command I don´t know if I have to fear something else in this area than just the subs...

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Sub attack at 89,93

Japanese Ships
SS I-16

Allied Ships
TK Empire Coral, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
TK Empire Gold
TK William H. Berg
TK Chas Kurz
SC SC-1069
SC SC-1063
SC SC-1060
SC SC-741
SC SC-739
SC SC-709
SC SC-631

I don´t know why Miller had a tanker convoy near the invasion site... this TK is fuel loaden so perhaps the fire damage will result in enough flt damage that the ship sinks... but don´t hold your breath as the Japanese if you achieve one torp hit...

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Sub attack near Mili at 84,85

Japanese Ships
DD Tamanami, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Cero

Cero finishes off one of my DDs that has been in sinking condition anyway after the naval engagements near Makin. The loss of 5 Yugumo class DDs hurts as those are the only DDs that carry air search radar at the moment. The 6th DD of my BB TF that attacked the shipping around Makin is moderately damaged. Losses for us were BB Mutsu and 5 Yugumos with Yamato having 25 sys damage. Cero was later hit by aircraft...

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Sub attack near Kwajalein at 79,79

Japanese Ships
CL Oi
DD Wakazuki
DD Niizuki
DD Hatsuzuki
DD Susuzuki
DD Teruzuki
DD Akizuki
CL Kinu
CL Isuzu
CL Naka
CA Takao

Allied Ships
SS Hackleback, hits 4

wow, again we´ve been really lucky. CL Oi was hit but like the torps that hit Musashi earlier, also those torps failed to detonate. Lot of luck for us considering the date... Many Type 2 DCs dropped, only 4 near misses... This is my second CV TF that I had in the area (not KB) that was returning to Kwajalein.


just look at all the enemy subs...











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RE: it goes on... - 7/8/2009 9:30:31 AM   
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Sub attack at 87,91

Japanese Ships
SS I-123

Allied Ships
BB California, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
DD Case

BANZAI! We´ve spotted many TFs going East or South East from the Gilberts and I was sure that there would be many ships trying to make Canton Island with it´s port big enough to disband the ships into it. There are a dozen Japanese subs operating near the Gilberts and I even decided to use two of my mine laying subs (that were returning from a mine laying mission) in the sub patrol role. Here you can see what I´ve mentioned earlier. The BB only has ONE escort which makes it easy for our sub to attack and score. The two enemy BB/CA TFs that were shot up at Makin nearly lost all their escorts or had them heavily damaged. The damaged capital ships (guess also the undamaged ones) then headed towards Canton in more or less separate TFs (if I can trust my naval search results). And that´s when my subs get into play, resulting in a BB sunk. There should also be BB Tennessee around somewhere which left Makin heavily damaged.

California was confirmed sunk right after this attack. BANZAI! Another Allied capitol ship sunk by a Japanese sub.






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Naval bombardment of Karachi, at 21,3

Allied Ships
DD Roebuck
DD Redoubt
DD Rocket
DD Rotherham
DD Rapid
CA Sussex

Japanese ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

one of the first things that make it obvious that a new Admiral is in command of the Allied forces...

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ASW attack at 22,45

Japanese Ships
PC Hirado
PC Kanju
PC Wakamiya

Allied Ships
SS Tally Ho, hits 4, heavy damage

We´ve succesfully pursued Tally Ho and another DC2 hit sinks the bugger...

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Sub attack at 91,94

Japanese Ships
SS I-158

Allied Ships
DD O'Brien

O´Brien was able to evade the torps... either this DD is alone on it´s way away from the Gilberts or it´s the only escort of a capital ship...

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ASW attack at 84,82

Japanese Ships
DD Yunagi
DD Asanagi
DD Hayate
DD Oite
DD Hatakaze
DD Matsukaze

Allied Ships
SS Snook

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ASW attack at 88,91

Japanese Ships
SS I-166

Allied Ships
DE Gilmore, on fire, heavy damage
DE Levy
DE Jaccard
DD Edsall
DD Aylwin, heavy damage

IIRC those escorts were part of an amphibious TF that landed troops on Makin, also heading SE now...

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Day Air attack on Trivandrum , at 13,21


Allied aircraft
Vengeance I x 16


Allied aircraft losses
Vengeance I: 7 damaged

Runway hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Vengeance I bombing at 2000 feet

clearly a sign of enthusiams of the new Allied commander. Air attack out of Ceylon...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 47
A6M5 Zeke x 86
D3A Val x 51
A6M5c Zeke x 47
A6M3a Zero x 35
B5N Kate x 152
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 70
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 35
Ki-61 Ic x 47

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
26 casualties reported

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 158
Port hits 5
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet

we won´t change our so far succesful strategy and will of course try to keep pilot experience within the IJAAF and IJNAF high...

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Day Air attack on Lae , at 54,87


Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 32
PV-1 Ventura x 70
PB4Y Liberator x 6


Allied aircraft losses
PV-1 Ventura: 5 destroyed, 30 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
41 casualties reported

Airbase hits 16
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 74

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x PV-1 Ventura bombing at 10000 feet

strike out of Port Moresby, looks like bigbaba wants to put pressure on my everywhere right from the start... I´m not impressed by an attack on Lae, doesn´t mean anything at the moment. I won´t contest any of those strikes if there are follow on ones...

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Day Air attack on 1st Ind. Brigade, at 43,32


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 8


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
18 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet

While Miller attacked my troops at Kweiyang, bigbaba attacks the units at Chungking with his British fighter bombers...

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Day Air attack on 36th Division, at 43,32


Allied aircraft
P-40N Warhawk x 16
Hurricane IIc x 9


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
22 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x P-40N Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 6th Ind. Brigade, at 21,3


Allied aircraft
Corsair IV x 5
Barracuda x 16
Spitfire Vb x 10
Vengeance I x 16
Liberator VI x 29
P-40E Warhawk x 22
Hurricane IIc x 9


Allied aircraft losses
Barracuda: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged
Vengeance I: 10 damaged
Liberator VI: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
36 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Barracuda bombing at 10000 feet

also ground attacks against my units in Australia...

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Day Air attack on 25th Division, at 69,23


Allied aircraft
Pe-2 x 13


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
7 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
13 x Pe-2 bombing at 11000 feet

and in Russia...
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Day Air attack on 16th AA Regiment, at 46,103


Allied aircraft
Barracuda x 14


Allied aircraft losses
Barracuda: 2 destroyed, 10 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Barracuda bombing at 10000 feet
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Day Air attack on 44th Heavy AA Battalion, at 46,103


Allied aircraft
Spitfire Vb x 9
Beaufort I x 5
B-25C Mitchell x 69
B-25J Mitchell x 22
F4U-1 Corsair x 5
B-17E Fortress x 6


Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 13 damaged
B-25J Mitchell: 8 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 3 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
175 casualties reported
Guns lost 11

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x Beaufort I bombing at 11000 feet

I´m not really happy if my AA units get attacked... an attack like this really wrecks an AA btn...

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Day Air attack on 30th Division, at 46,103


Allied aircraft
Beaufort I x 4
B-25C Mitchell x 23
B-25J Mitchell x 24
B-17E Fortress x 2


Allied aircraft losses
Beaufort I: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 9 damaged
B-25J Mitchell: 1 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
73 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Beaufort I bombing at 11000 feet

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Day Air attack on 47th Division, at 43,32


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 21
Hurricane IIc x 18


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
27 casualties reported
Guns lost 6

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet

perhaps I´m going to take out the airfield once and for all, means destroying the aircraft. I doubt that the Chinese have enough supplies to get replacement aircraft but there´s still Akyab in Allied hands that has a level 1 airfield. I guess that Karachi - Ceylon - Akyab - China is still a possible route for Allied aircraft. Destroying the enemy ac at Chungking probably only makes sense if we also take out Akyab, which I should have done a year ago already...

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Day Air attack on 108th Region Fortress, at 65,32

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 358

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
137 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
20 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet

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Sub attack at 88,91

Japanese Ships
SS I-166

Allied Ships
AR American Packer, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK Morton M. McCarver
AK Lyman Beecher
AK Leslie M. Shaw
MSW Oracle
MSW Swallow
DE Wileman
DE Burden R. Hastings
DD Fox

I wondered during the invasion of Makin why there´s an AR within one of the amphibious TFs. Now it is heading away from the Gilberts and heavily hit by one of our subs...

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Naval bombardment of Karachi, at 21,3

Allied Ships
DD Roebuck
DD Redoubt
DD Rocket
DD Rotherham
DD Rapid
CA Sussex

Japanese ground losses:
17 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

this TF bombarded during the night and now also during the day... how does this work now...

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ASW attack near Mili at 84,85

Japanese Ships
DD Shinonome
DD Ikazuchi
DD Hibiki
DD Wakaba
DD Hatsushima
DD Kawakaze

Allied Ships
SS Cero, heavy damage

those DDs were sent to Mili to be taken into my BB TF to act as escorts. It was a very dangerous turn for our BBs there as they had only one DD which was damaged... as you can see, Cero shows up heavily damaged after being hit by a bomb during the day...

the really amazing thing was that bigbaba moved his carriers closer to Mili today. We spotted at least two CV TF four hexes South of the base and I was shocked first when we spotted the carriers there as I´ve thought this would mean that the enemy will attack my BBs as four hexes means Hellcat and TBF torp range. No strikes were launched so I guess bigbaba limited the range of his bombers and placed the carriers where they are now to draw in airstrikes (same distance to the enemy carriers and Makin from all my bases). As the invasion failed anyway, I stood down my bombers.



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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 373536 troops, 4457 guns, 1348 vehicles, Assault Value = 9394

Defending force 145607 troops, 1839 guns, 210 vehicles, Assault Value = 2996



Allied ground losses:
204 casualties reported
Guns lost 3


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Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 27663 troops, 304 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 2467

Defending force 94077 troops, 1114 guns, 314 vehicles, Assault Value = 1775



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22573 troops, 266 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 3524

Defending force 313135 troops, 799 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 8636



Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Iman

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 41533 troops, 389 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 858

Defending force 52912 troops, 498 guns, 209 vehicles, Assault Value = 915



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Ground combat at Townsville

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 7246 troops, 228 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4677

Defending force 125764 troops, 845 guns, 455 vehicles, Assault Value = 2055



Allied ground losses:
26 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22812 troops, 244 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 1294

Defending force 126995 troops, 219 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2461



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Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 71869 troops, 974 guns, 312 vehicles, Assault Value = 1775

Defending force 122703 troops, 1361 guns, 13 vehicles, Assault Value = 2467


Japanese ground losses:
389 casualties reported
Guns lost 53
Vehicles lost 5


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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 106487 troops, 1689 guns, 134 vehicles, Assault Value = 2990

Defending force 458992 troops, 4510 guns, 3386 vehicles, Assault Value = 9394


Japanese ground losses:
107 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 1


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Ground combat at Iman

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 41839 troops, 455 guns, 174 vehicles, Assault Value = 915

Defending force 41533 troops, 389 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 858


Japanese ground losses:
36 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 105076 troops, 883 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 3164

Defending force 98306 troops, 1129 guns, 21 vehicles, Assault Value = 2073


Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported

Allied ground losses:
27 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


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Ground combat at Cairns

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 36096 troops, 407 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1011

Defending force 271495 troops, 2123 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 4278


Japanese ground losses:
26 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Townsville

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 60144 troops, 605 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 2055

Defending force 234115 troops, 2372 guns, 28 vehicles, Assault Value = 4677


Japanese ground losses:
56 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

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RE: it goes on... - 7/8/2009 9:55:22 AM   
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RE: it goes on... - 7/8/2009 10:32:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		Starting with the capital ships that are confirmed sunk during the Allied attempt of taking Makin atoll. There will be probably more to come or have already been sunk but I haven´t got the confirmation for it. For sure sunk up to now are four heavy cruisers and one light cruiser and the US battleship California. I expect to see perhaps one or two more heavy cruisers going down from gunfire damage during the night battles near Makin.

Starting with CA Houston....



USS Houston (CA-30, originally CL-30), 1930-1942

USS Houston, a 9050-ton Northampton class light cruiser, was built at Newport News, Virginia. She was commissioned in June 1930 and reclassified as a heavy cruiser a year later, at which time her hull number was changed from CL-30 to CA-30. After initial operations in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, Houston steamed to the western Pacific in early 1931 to become flagship of the Asiatic Fleet. She served in that role until November 1933, spending considerable time in Chinese waters protecting U.S. interests during the conflict between China and Japan.

Following her Asiatic Station tour, Houston crossed the Pacific to join the Scouting Force. During the rest of the decade, she regularly partcipated in exercises, including the periodic Fleet Problems that tested the Navy's war plans and readiness. She was flagship of the United States Fleet during September-December 1938 and also carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt on a number of occasions in 1934, 1935, 1938 and 1939.

In November 1940, Houston returned to the Philippines for her second deployment as Asiatic Fleet flagship. When Japan escalated its disputes with the U.S. into open warfare in December 1941, the cruiser was sent south to Australian and Netherlands East Indies waters. As the heaviest unit of the Allied naval force in that area, she was actively employed in the desperate struggle against the Japanese East Indies' offensive. A enemy bomb disabled her after gun turret on 4 February 1942, but she remained in the combat zone, fighting off air raids and taking part in the Battle of the Java Sea on 27 February.

The next day, with the situation in the East Indies now hopeless, Houston was ordered to leave the area. Steaming in company with the Australian light cruiser Perth, she encountered a strong Japanese navy force supporting an amphibious landing on western Java, near the Sunda Strait. In a valiant night battle against overwhelming odds, Houston and Perth were sunk by enemy gunfire and torpedos.







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RE: it goes on... - 7/8/2009 10:38:07 AM   
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USS Northampton (CA-26, originally CL-26), 1930-1942

USS Northampton, a 9050-ton light cruiser built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was the first of a class of six similar ships. Commissioning in May 1930, she made a shakedown cruise to the Mediterranean and thereafter took part in the United States' Fleet's regular program of operations and exercises. Reclassified as a heavy cruiser in July 1931, she received a change in hull number from CL-26 to CA-26. Northampton primarily served in the Atlantic and Caribbean areas until 1932, then was mainly in the Pacific. In mid-1941, she steamed across that ocean to visit Australia.

On 7 December 1941, Northampton was at sea with the USS Enterprise task force. The next day, she entered Pearl Harbor to witness first hand the devastation caused by Japan's suprise attack. Her early wartime operations were primarily in the Hawaiian area, but in late January 1942 she went to the central Pacific, where on 1 February she bombarded Wotje, in the Marshall Islands. A second bombardment, of Wake Island, was delivered on 24 February. Northampton was unsuccessfully attacked by Japanese aircraft at that time. In March, she operated with the carrier task force that struck Marcus Island and the next month took part in the Doolittle Raid on Japan. She accompanied USS Enterprise to the south Pacific in May 1942 and escorted her through the Battle of Midway in early June.

Northampton returned to the southern Pacific in August 1942 to participate in the Guadalcanal campaign. Serving for the next two months with carrier task forces, she was present when USS Wasp was sunk by a Japanese submarine on 15 September and accompanied USS Hornet during the 26 October Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. When that carrier was disabled by enemy torpedoes and bombs, Northampton tried to tow her out of danger, but had to abandon Hornet to her fate after another air attack inflicted fatal damage.

During November, Northampton joined a cruiser-destroyer surface action group. On the night of 30 November 1942, her task force intercepted several Japanese destroyers off Guadalcanal. The resulting Battle of Tassafaronga was a shattering experience for the U.S. Navy, which received further proof of the enemy's superiority in night gun and torpedo combat. Northampton was one of four U.S. heavy cruisers hit by Japanese torpedoes. A serious fire amidships prevented damage control parties from controlling her flooding, and she sank stern-first three hours after she was hit.

USS Northampton's wreck was found and examined in 1991-92. Her hull is intact and upright on the bottom of Guadalcanal's "Iron Bottom Sound", some two-thousand feet below the surface. Her guns are still trained out to port, as they were nearly fifty years earlier when she engaged Japanese destroyers in the Battle of Tassafaronga.







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USS Salt Lake City (CA-25, originally CL-25), 1929-1948

USS Salt Lake City, a 9100-ton Pensacola class heavy cruiser built at Camden, New Jersey, was commissioned in December 1929. Her original hull number, CL-25, was changed to CA-25 in July 1931. The ship's first two years of active service were spent in the Atlantic area. She shifted her base to the U.S. west coast in early 1932 and was thereafter generally in the Pacific, with occasional trips through the Panama Canal for brief operations in the Caribbean and Atlantic. In mid-1941, Salt Lake City crossed the Pacific to visit Australia.

On 7 December 1941, when the United States was brought into World War II by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Salt Lake City was operating with the USS Enterprise task group. She remained in the Hawaiian area for the next two months, then participated in her task force's central Pacific raids during February and March 1942. In April, she was part of the force that executed the Doolittle raid on Japan. During August-October 1942, Salt Lake City was in the south Pacific to support the campaign to seize and hold Guadalcanal. She escorted USS Wasp during the landings of 7-8 August and subsequent operations, and was present when Wasp was sunk by a Japanese submarine on 15 September. On 11-12 October, Salt Lake City helped fight the Battle of Cape Esperance, receiving damage from enemy gunfire.

Following repairs, Salt Lake City was sent to the north Pacific. There, on 26 March 1943 she was the largest U.S. ship present during the Battle of the Komandorski Islands, and was again damaged by Japanese shells. She continued her support of the Aleutian Campaign until September, when she returned to Hawaii to prepare for central Pacific operations. These included the seizure of the Gilbert Islands in November 1943, the invasion of the Marshalls in January and February 1944, and raids on Japanese bases in February-April. The cruiser had a brief north Pacific tour in mid-1944, followed by further central Pacific operations. She took part in carrier operations prior to and during the October 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf.

In 1945, Salt Lake City participated in the Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns. After the fighting ended in August, she supported the Occupation of Japan and "Magic Carpet" operations to transport American servicemen back to the U.S. The now-elderly cruiser was then placed in relatively inactive status until sent to serve as a target during the July 1946 atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. Left severely damaged by this experience, USS Salt Lake City was decommissioned a month later. She was sunk as a target for conventional weapons in May 1948.







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RE: it goes on... - 7/8/2009 10:53:16 AM   
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H. M. S. H A W K I N S


"Improved BIRMINGHAM" class cruiser built by HM Dockyard, Chatham and laid down on 3rd June 1916. The HAWKINS fought the Armada. Completed on 19th July 1919 she went to the China Station until 1928 and paid off for major repair. In 1929 this ship re-commissioned for service in the Atlantic Fleet and after refit was re commissioned again for duty in the East Indies. On return to UK in 1935 she paid off into Reserve. During 1939 she was taken in hand for modernisation by H M Dockyard Portsmouth that was completed on 23rd December 1939. After a successful 'WARSHIP WEEK' National Savings campaign in February 1942 she was adopted by the civil community of the Borough of Stockport then in the County of Cheshire.



B a t t l e H o n o u r s



ARMADA 1588 - NORMANDY 1944



H e r a l d i c D a t a

Badge: On a Field Blue, a demi-Moor Proper, bound and decorated gold,

arising out of wavelets black and silver.



M o t t o

Nil desperandum: 'Never despair'







D e t a i l s o f W a r S e r v i c e



1 9 3 9



September Under refit and re-arming at Portsmouth (See General Information).

to Nominated for trade defence in South Atlantic.

November Harbour trials



December Post refit sea trials

23rd On completion of trials and storing too passage to work-up at Portland.



1 9 4 0



January Worked-up at Portland

9th Took passage from Portland to join Squadron for trade defence and interception

of commerce raiders and blockade runners.

14th At Freetown

17th Took passage from Freeetown for duties in South Atlantic



February Under refit at Port Stanley.

On completion deployed on patrol in Plate area.



March Patrol and interception in South Atlantic and West Indies in continuation.

5th Sailed from Montevideo for patrol and took passage on completion to Port Stanley

15th Sailed from Port Stanley to resume Plate area patrol



April South Atlantic patrols in continuation

to

June



July Carried out search for German commerce raider in West Indies area.



August

Patrol and trade defence in continuation.



September Passage to Durban for refit.



October Under refit.



November Post Refit trials.

19th On completion resumed duties in South Atlantic.



December Deployed in South Atlantic.

4th Joined HM Cruiser DEVONSHIRE as relief for HM Cruiser CUMBERLAND in Ocean Escort

or military convoy WS5B during passage from Freetown to Durban.

8th Detached to refuel.

10th Rejoined WS5B.

12th Detached on arrival of WS5B at Durban.

Took passage to Freetown for escort of military convoy.



January At Freetown.

8th Provided Ocean Escort for Convoy WS5A with HM Cruiser NORFOLK from Freetown.

9th Detached with HM Aircraft Carrier FORMIDABLE.

Took independent passage to Simonstown with HMS FORMIDABLE.

Transferred to East Indies Squadron for convoy defence and interception duties in Indian

Ocean.

21st Escorted ss ANSELM and ss CITY OF CANTERBURY from WS5A into Capetown.

22nd Detached on arrival of ships in Capetown.

27th Escorted ss ANSELM from Capetown for passage to Durban

. 29th Detached on arrival at Durban and joined ships of WS5A for passage to Aden.

Relieved as Ocean Escort for WS5A by HM Cruisers CERES and SHROPSHIRE.



February

1st Took passage from Mombasa to support military operations in Italian Somaliland.

Covered HM Aircraft Carrier FORMIDABLE which was diverted during passage in the Indian

Ocean to join Mediterranean Fleet to carry cut air attacks at Mogadishu.

10th Joined HM Aircraft Carrier HERMES, HM Cruisers CAPETOWN, CERES, and

SHROPSHIRE, and HM Destroyer KANDAHAR in Force T on formation for support of

operations and landings by Indian troops in Somaliland.

11th Intercepted 8 Italian and 2 German ships attempting to leave Mogadishu following

sighting by aircraft from HMS HERMES. Five Italian ships scuttled en approach.

17th Detached to join Hunting Group V in search for German battleship ADMIRAL SCHEER

reported in Indian Ocean.

21st Detached to join HM Australian Cruiser AUSTRALIA as escort for military convoy

WS5B off Mombasa on passage in Indian Ocean.

22nd Relieved by HM Cruiser ENTERPRISE and rejoined search for ADMIRAL SCHEER after a

sighting report by an aircraft from HM Cruiser GLASGOW.

. 26th Search abandoned and resumed convoy defence role.



March

3rd Arrived at Aden

12th Rejoined Hunting Group V for Patrol and interception duty in Indian Ocean.

Detached for convoy defence between Durban and Capetown.



April Joined HM Cruisers CORNWALL and LEANDER in search for commerce raider in Indian

Ocean.

On release took passage to Simonstown.

18th Sailed to Capetown for escort of military convoy.

20th Joined military convoy WS7 ships as escort for passage to Durban.

28th Detached from WS7 when relieved by HM Cruisers COLOMBO and GLASGOW in position

O3 32N. 51.12E



May Trade defence and interception duty in continuation.

24th Joined military convoy WS8A during passage from Freetown and relieved HM Cruiser

MAURITIUS as Ocean Escort for passage in Indian Ocean.

31st Sailed from Durban with WS8A.



June

2nd Detached from WS8A for repair.

4th Under repair at Durban.



July On completion took passage to join military convoy W59A.

2nd Relieved HM Cruiser BIRMINGHAM as Ocean Escort for WS9A for passage to Durban.

8th Sailed from Durban as Ocean Escort for ships of WS9A during passage to Aden.

21st Detached from WS9A on arrival at Aden.



August Indian Ocean trade defence in continuation.



September

2nd Joined military convoy WS10 as Ocean escort from Capetown to Durban.

8th Detached on arrival of WS10 at Durban.

9th Escorted ss ARONDA from Durban to join military convoy WS10B for onward passage

to Bombay.

On arrival deployed as Ocean Escort for WS10B.

15th Detached from WS10B in position 03.32N 51.12E on relief by HM Cruiser EMERALD.

Resumed trade defence duty in Indian Ocean.



October Indian Ocean deployment in continuation.



November Withdrawn from service for refit and took passage to UK.



December Taken in hand for refit at Portsmouth on arrival.

20mm Oerlikon guns and 2 1b Pom Poms fitted.

Aircraft warning radar fitted on both masts with new tripod mainmast.

Surface warning radar Type 271 fitted.

Fire control radar Type 285 installed for 4" AA mountings/

(For details of the development and use of radar in the RN see RADAR AT SEA by D Hawse).



1 9 4 2



January Under refit.

to Nominated for service with 5th Cruiser Squadron. Post refit trials

March



April Harbour trials



May Post refit sea trails and storing

29th On completion took passage to Scapa Flow.



June Worked up with ships of Home Fleet for operational service.

29th Deployed in NW Approaches based on Clyde



July

26th Joined HM Battleship DUKE OF YORK with four destroyers as escort for passage to

Iceland.

Returned to Clyde when detached.



August Passage from Clyde to Freetown.

7th Arrived at Freetown.

15th Joined military convoy WS21 as Ocean Escort during passage from Freetown with HM

Destroyers CATTERICK and PETARD.

27th Detached on arrival of WS21 at Capetown.

30th Rejoined WS21 on departure from Capetown as Ocean Escort for passage in Indian Ocean.



September

5th Arrived at Durban with WS21

10th Remained with ships of WS21 when Aden Section detached.

11th Detached from WS21 Bombay Section on relief by HM Cruiser ENTERPRISE.

Escorted ss VOLENDAM during passage to Mombasa from WS21.

13th Joined Squadron at Kilindini for deployment in Eastern Fleet for convoy defence

and patrol in Indian Ocean and Red Sea.



October

11th Joined military convoy WS22B as Ocean Escort for Bombay Section.

17th Detached from WS22B on arrival at Bombay.



November Indian Ocean deployment in continuation.

11th Joined military convoy WS23 escorted by H M Armed Merchant Cruiser CARTHAGE as relief for

HM Cruiser DAUNTLESS during passage from Durban.

16th Detached from WS23 as escort for ss EMPRESS OF RUSSIA for passage to Mombasa.

18th Detached from mercantile on arrival at Mombasa.



December Indian Ocean duties in continuation.



1 9 4 3



January Transferred to 4th Cruiser Squadron.

29th Joined Squadron at Bombay.



February Eastern Fleet trade defence and interception duties in continuation.



March

9th Joined military convoy WS26 during passage in Indian Ocean as the relief for HM Cruiser

BIRMINGHAM.

11th Detached from WS26 with Bombay Section redesignated WS26B as escort for passage to Bombay.

17th Detached from WS26B on arrival at Bombay



April Deployed for Squadron duties in Indian Ocean.

to Passage to Simonstown for refit.

May



June Under refit at Simonstown.



July Post refit trials before resuming Indian Ocean duties.

Took passage to Ceylon.

August Indian Ocean Squadron duties in continuation.

28th Joined military convoy WS32 with H M Destroyers NORMAN, QUDEERON and RAPID

for escort during passage to Bombay.



September

3rd Detached from WS32 on relief by HM Cruiser EMERALD.

Embarked CinC Eastern Fleet for passage to Ceylon on transfer of Flag.



October Convoy defence and interception duty in Indian Ocean.

to

November



December Under refit and repair at Simonstown.



1 9 4 4



January Post refit trials and passage to Kilindini to resume duties. Arrived at Kilindini

11th Sailed from Kilindini with Convoy KR8 as escort during passage to Colombo with HM Destroyers

PALADIN and PETARD.

Local Escort was provided by H M Corvette HONESTY HM Cutters SENNEN and LULWORTH.

This convoy comprised the troopships ss KHEDIVE ISMAIL, VARSOVA, EKMA, ELLENGA

and CITY OF PARIS

12th Convoy attacked by Japanese submarine 127 in 1 1/2 Degree Channel, Maldives.

Troopship KHEDIVE ISMAIL was torpedoed and sunk with heavy loss of life.

Remained with convoy because of lack of A/S capability.

(Note: I27 was later sunk by the destroyers (See FIGHTING DESTROYER by G Cornell and

PASSAGE TO DESTINY by B J Crabb.)

13th Arrived at Addu Atoll with the four troopships

Embarked survivors of KHEEDIVE ISMAIL from HMS PETARD and resumed the passage

to Colombo



March

1st Arrived at Colombo with KR8.

Withdrawn from Eastern Fleet duties for service in Hone waters.

19th In collision with Greek destroyer KANARIS in Red Sea during passage to UK.

29th Arrived Clyde for repair.

31st Taken in hand for repair in commercial shipyard.



April Under repair

20th On completion joined 1st Cruiser Squadron, Home Fleet.

Detached for support duty with Force "U" in Western Task Force during Normandy

landings. (Operation NEPTUNE).

Allocated to Bombarding Force "A" with US battleship USS NEVADA, US cruisers USS

QUINCY and USS TUSCALOOSA, H M Monitor EREBUS and H M Cruisers BLACK PRINCE

and ENTERPRISE.

May Carried out preparation exercises in NW Approaches for NEPTUNE bombardment duty.

25th Assembled with Bombarding Force A at Belfast.



June

4th Operation delayed by 24 hours during passage with Bombardment Force ships.

5th Joined USS BAYFIELD (Flagship of Force "U") and Dutch Gunboat SOEMBA off Isle of

Wight for passage through swept channels.

6th Provided naval gunfire support during assault on UTAH Beach.

(Note: Bombardment targets allocated were Maisy and St. Martin de Varreville batteries.

12th Deployed at GCOSEBERRY4, north of Courselles with Commodore Depot Ships embarked.

Provided support and accommodation for crews of small craft.

Available for bombardment duty if required.

20th After release from NEPTUNE took passage to rejoin Home Fleet.

31st At Rosyth and withdrawn from operational service.

Nominated for service in Training Squadron at Rosyth.



August Passage to Clyde for refit.



September Under refit and conversion prior to relieving HM Cruiser DAUNTLESS.



1 9 4 5



January Under refit

to Future deployment under consideration.

April



May Training requirement cancelled and ship to reduce to Reserve status.



June Reducing to Reserve in Clyde.







doesn´t really look like a heavy cruiser to me, definetely works better in WITP than in real life I guess... really an old ship for WWII action... the single gun mounts alone seem to be strange to me...




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USS California (BB-44), 1921-1959

USS California, a 32,300-ton Tennessee class battleship, was built at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, and commissioned in August 1921. During the 1920s and 1930s, she actively participated in the activities of the United States Battle Fleet, often acting as flagship. In 1925, California was one of the ships that conducted a major trans-Pacific cruise to Australia and New Zealand.

With most of the fleet, California deployed to Hawaii in 1940 and was based there as tensions rose in the Pacific over the next year. When Japanese carrier planes raided Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, she was badly damaged by torpedoes and bombs, slowly settling to the harbor bottom over the next few days. Her salvage, repair and modernization represented a major undertaking by the Pearl Harbor and Puget Sound Navy Yards and was not completed until January 1944.

Over two and a half years after she was sunk, California reentered combat, providing heavy gunfire support for the invasions of Saipan, Guam and Tinian during June and July 1944. In October and November, she took part in the Leyte Campaign, including the 25 October 1944 Battle of Surigao Strait, history's last fight between opposing battleships. In January 1945, California participated in the Lingayen Gulf invasion. Damaged by a "Kamikaze" suicide plane on 6 January, she remained in action for more than two weeks before steaming to the U.S. for repairs and an overhaul.

California returned to the Western Pacific in June 1945, in time to take part in the final stages of the Okinawa campaign. She covered occupation activities in the wake of Japan's surrender, then sailed for the Atlantic by way of the Indian Ocean and the Cape of Good Hope. After her arrival at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in December 1945, the battleship was generally inactive until her formal decommissioning in February 1947. After twelve years in the Reserve Fleet, USS California was sold for scrapping in July 1959.







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RE: it goes on... - 7/8/2009 12:21:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		After a heroic and succesful fight against enemy naval forces near Makin, BB Mutsu was destroyed by enemy carrier based aircraft during retiring to Mili. After losing BB Hyuga, this is the second IJN BB lost durign the war. Major losses so far, 2 BBs, 1 Ca.




Battleship Mutsu underway, date unknown

Year Completed: 1921
Displacement 42,850 tons
Dimensions 725'2" x 113'6" x 31'2"
Speed 27 knots
Armament 8 x 16"/45
20 (later 18) x 5.5"/50
8 x 5"/40 DP
up to 98 x 25mm AA
Armor 11.8" belt
7" deck
14" turret face
14.5" conning tower
Crew 1368



if the Nagatos would have a max speed of 27 in WITP like the info given on combined fleet then I guess she would have made the four hexes to Mili. With the speed of 24 in WITP she was only able to make three hexes after losing one hex due to damage.





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1 June 1918:
Yokosuka Navy Yard. Battleship MUTSU, designed by naval architect Cdr, constructor, (later Vice Admiral, constructor) Hiraga Yuzuru, is laid down.

1 May 1920:
Yokosuka. Captain (later Rear Admiral) Komaki Shizen (former CO of AC NISSHIN) is posted as Chief Fitting-Out officer.

31 May 1920:
Yokosuka. MUTSU is launched.

9 July 1920:
Captain Komaki becomes Commanding Officer and retains duty as Chief Equipping Officer.

1 March 1921:
Captain Komaki is relieved of duty as Chief Fitting-Out officer. He remains Commanding Officer.

19 October 1921:
During speed trials, MUTSU attains 26.728 knots.

24 October 1921:
MUTSU is completed and commissioned in the IJN. Captain Komaki remains the Commanding Officer. She is incorporated into the Sasebo Naval District.

18 November 1921:
Captain (later Rear Admiral) Kurose Seiichi (former CO of BB AKI) assumes command.

1 December 1921:
Attached to BatDiv 1, First Fleet.

1922:
A smoke defelector, slightly thicker than NAGATO's, is fitted to the fore funnel to keep the bridge clear of funnel smoke at high speeds. A captive balloon is embarked on the fantail.

6 February 1922: The Washington Treaty:
Washington, DC. Japan, United States, Britain, France and Italy agree to limit the displacement and main armament of their capital ships, aircraft carriers and cruisers and to limit the total tonnage and age of their capital ships and carriers. Battleships and aircraft carriers are set at a ratio of 5:5:3 for the navies of Great Britain, the United States and Japan. Japan's Plenipotentiary at the conference is her Minister of the Navy, Admiral (later Fleet Admiral/Prime Minister), the Baron, Kato Tomosaburo.

During the conference, the US representative suggests MUTSU should be scrapped. However, Japanese delegates maintain MUTSU had been commissioned on 10 September 1921 and had already steamed 2,500 nautical miles. The Japanese finally manage to save MUTSU.

12 April 1922:
Early in the morning, the First Fleet anchors at Yokohama and hoists White Ensigns. The Prince of Wales and his ADC, Lt (later Admiral of the Fleet) Lord Louis Mountbatten visit MUTSU and NAGATO, both flying royal pennants.

28 August 1922:
Kure. BatDiv 1's NAGATO, MUTSU, KONGO, HIEI, KIRISHIMA and ISE depart for the Siberian coast on maneuvers and a flag-showing mission, preceding withdrawal of Japanese troops.

1 December 1922:
Captain (later Rear Admiral) Teraoka Heigo (former CO of KIRISHIMA) assumes command.

1 September 1923:
Changshan archipelago, Korea Bay. The Great Kanto Earhquake occurs.

2 September 1923:
The battleships of the First Fleet depart Changshan for Kyushu.

3 September 1923:
In the afternoon, the fleet steaming at 20 knots, enters a typhoon area.

4 September 1923:
NAGATO and MUTSU arrive at Uchinoura Bay, Kyushu, to embark food, provisions and medical supplies. Both battleships depart on that same day. Enroute to Yokosuka, a foreign cruiser (possibly armored cruiser USS HURON (CA-9) is briefly sighted.

1 December 1923:
Captain (later Vice Admiral) Hara Kanjiro (former CO of AC IZUMO) assumes command.

30 March 1924:
Amami O-Shima, 8 miles NW of Sotsu-Takasaki. During towing exercises, the CO of NAGATO misjudges the drift of his vessel. NAGATO grazes MUTSU. Thanks to last-minute maneuvers undertaken by both battleships there are no casualties, but NAGATO loses one of her anchors and her hull plating receives minor damage.

August 1924 to March 1925:
The top of the fore funnel is swept back.

10 November 1924:
Captain (later Admiral/MoN/Prime Minister) Yonai Mitsumasa (former CO of FUSO) assumes command.

1 December 1925:
Reserve ship. Captain (later Rear Admiral) Ikeda Tanin (former CO of TOKIWA) assumes command.

1 December 1926:
Captain (later Vice Admiral) Edahara Yurikazu assumes (former CO of IWATE) command.

5 February 1927:
The stem is rebuilt; however, it is not successful and NAGATO is not so fitted.

20 October 1927:
Yokohama Bay. After serving as Emperor Hirohito's (Showa) flagship during naval maneuvers, MUTSU serves as the Emperor's flagship during that year's annual Naval Review.

1 December 1927:
Captain (later Vice Admiral) Hori Teikichi (former CO of NAGARA) assumes command.

10 December 1928:
Captain (later Admiral) Yoshida Zengo (former CO of KONGO) assumes command.

29 March 1929:
Saeki Bay. MUTSU is in BatDiv 3, First Fleet with light cruisers YURA, NAGARA and NATORI.

21 April 1929:
MUTSU and the First Fleet's cruisers arrive at Nagasaki.

30 November 1929:
Captain (later Vice Admiral) Anno Kiyoshi (former CO of YUBARI) assumes command.

22 April 1930: The London Treaty:
London. The Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armament is signed by Japan, Great Britain and the United States. It is an extension of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. The signatories agree not to build new capital ships until 1937. A number of existing capital ships are to be scrapped.

1 December 1930:
Captain (later Rear Admiral) Monai Isao (former CO of NAKA) assumes command.

September 1931: The Manchurian Incident:
Manchuria. Japan claims Chinese soldiers sabotaged the Japanese-controlled Manchurian railway. The Japanese Kwantung army attacks the Chinese Army and soon conquer all of Manchuria. They set up the puppet state of Manchukuo headed by the former Emperor of China, Henry Pu-Yi. China appeals to the League of Nations. The League sends V. A. G. R. Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton, to Manchuria to lead a Commission to investigate.

1 December 1931:
Captain (later Vice Admiral) Kikuno Shigeru (former CO of KIRISHIMA) assumes command.

1932:
Four twin (4x2) dual purpose 5-inch (127-mm) HA guns are installed. The existing 3-inch (76-mm) AA guns are landed.

10 May 1932:
Captain (later Vice Admiral) Wada Senzo (former CO of HIEI) assumes command.

1 November 1932:
Captain (later Rear Admiral) Ando Takashi (former CO of TAKAO) assumes command.

1 December 1932:
Attached to BatDiv 1, First Fleet.

25 February 1933:
Geneva, Switzerland. The League of Nations. The Lytton Commission reports that Japan violated Chinese sovereignty and should return Manchuria to China. At a Special Assembly, 40 nations vote that Japan should withdraw. Only Japan votes against it. Instead of returning Manchuria, Japan instructs its representative Yosuke Matsuoka (later Foreign Minister), to walk out of the League. After withdrawing from the League, Japan also decides that she will no longer abide by restrictions such as the Washington of 1922 and the London Treaty of 1930 that impose limitations on the number and size of her warships.

October 1933:
Yokohama Bay. MUTSU again serves as the Emperor's flagship during naval maneuvers and for the annual Naval Review.

15 November 1933:
Reserve ship. Captain (later Rear Admiral) Kasuya Soichi (former CO of YAMASHIRO) assumes command.

20 November 1933:
Rebuilding of pagoda mast started. 10-m (in place of 8-m) rangefinders fitted on turrets 2 and 3. A Kure Type No. 2 Model 3 catapult is fitted.

1 June 1934:
Transferred to Yokosuka Naval District.

5 September 1934: First Reconstruction and Modernization:
Yokosuka Navy Yard. MUTSU's hull is lengthened aft, a triple bottom and massive torpedo-bulges are fitted and all torpedo tubes are removed. An armor strake is fitted to hull bottom in the vicinity of the turn of the bulges. The thickness of the horizontal armor over her magazines and machinery spaces is increased. All of her 20 original steam boilers are removed and replaced with four large Kampon oil-fired boilers in addition to six rebuilt small boilers. Her maximum speed is 25 knots. MUTSU’s fore funnel is removed.

New main caliber turrets taken from unfinished battleships KAGA and TOSA are installed. Her 16.1-inch (410-mm) guns' elevation is increased to 43 degrees, increasing their maximum range to 41,448 yards or 23.5 miles. Additional armor is fitted to turret faces, sides and tops. The barbette armor is likewise strengthened. The secondary batteries 5.5-inch (140-mm) guns' elevation is increased to 35 degrees. Two upper deck secondary caliber guns are landed. Four twin dual purpose 5-inch guns are installed and 20 Type 96 25-mm AA guns are fitted. A Kure Type No. 2 Model 5 catapult and a collapsible crane are fitted. Three Nakajima E4N2 floatplanes are embarked.

15 November 1934:
Captain (later Vice Admiral) Hosogaya Boshiro (former CO of CHOKAI) assumes command.

15 November 1935:
Captain (later Rear Admiral) Kasuga Atsushi (former CO of YURA), CO of CHOKAI assumes additional temporary duty as CO of MUTSU.

2 December 1935:
Captain (later Vice Admiral) Koori Hidesaburo (former XO of CL KISO) assumes command.

27 July 1936:
Diring speed trials, MUTSU attains 25.283 knots.

30 September 1936:
MUTSU's First Reconstruction and Modernization is completed. Her standard displacement is now 39,050-tons.

16 November 1936:
Captain (later Vice Admiral) Goto Eiji (former CO of TAKAO) CO of Yokosuka Naval Barracks assumes command assumes additional temporary duty as CO of MUTSU until 1 December 1936.

1 December 1936:
Attached to BatDiv 1, First Fleet.

7 July 1937: The Marco Polo Bridge (First "China") Incident:
Lugouqiao, China. Japanese troops are on night maneuvers at the bridge. They fire blank cartridges. Chinese troops fire back, but do not cause injuries. At morning roll call, the Japanese discover a soldier missing and assume the Chinese captured him. The Japanese demand entry to Beijing to look for the soldier. The Chinese refuse. The Japanese then shell the city. An undeclared war on China begins.

11 August 1937:
Departs Sasebo to protect the lines of communications to northern China.

15 August 1937:
Returns to Sasebo.

20 August 1937:
Departs Mitsuhama (Ehime prefecture) carrying 2,000 men from the 11th IJA Division.

23 August 1937:
Arrives at Shanghai, China. The troop transport is completed.

24 August 1937:
Off Shanghai. Joint operations are conducted with land forces and aircraft.

25 August 1937:
Returns to Sasebo.

15 September 1937:
Departs Sasebo for operations off northern China.

23 September 1937:
Returns to Sasebo.

1 December 1937:
Captain (Admiral, posthunously) Tagaki Takeo (former CO of TAKAO) assumes command.

9 April 1938:
Departs Sasebo for operations off southern China.

14 April 1938:
Operations off southern China are concluded.

17 October 1938:
Departs Sasebo for operations off southern China.

23 October 1938:
Operations are concluded.

15 November 1938:
Captain (Vice Admiral, posthunously) Goto Aritomo assumes (former CO of CHOKAI) assumes command.

15 December 1938:
Reserve ship.

1 November 1939:
Captain (later Vice Admiral) Hoshina Zenshiro (former CO of CHOKAI) assumes command.

15 November 1939:
Attached to BatDiv 1, First Fleet.

26 March 1940:
Departs Sasebo for operations off southern China.

2 April 1940:
Operations are concluded.

15 November 1940:
Captain (later Vice Admiral) Kobayashi Kengo (former CO of TAKAO) assumes command.

1941:
External degaussing coils fitted. Anti-torpedo bulges are filled with crushing tubes.

24 February 1941:
Departs Sasebo for operations off southern China.

3 March 1941:
Operations are concluded.

11 August 1941:
Attached to BatDiv 1, Combined Fleet. Captain (later Rear Admiral) Kogure Gunji (former CO of CHIKUMA), is posted as Commanding Officer.

Hashirajima. MUTSU is in Admiral (Fleet Admiral, posthumously) Yamamoto Isoroku's (former CO of AKAGI) BatDiv 1 with her sister ship, the Combined Fleet's flagship, NAGATO. MUTSU is home-ported at the Yokosuka for crew rotations and repairs.

30 August 1941:
Arrives at Yokosuka.

3 September 1941:
Dry-docked at Yokosuka.

13 September 1941:
Undocked.

21 September 1941:
Departs Yokosuka.

23 September 1941:
Off Murozumi.

1 November 1941:
Anchors at Saiki in readiness.

19 November 1941:
Arrives to Hashirajima.

25 November 1941.
Departs for Kure.

29 November 1941:
Returns to Hashirajima.

1 December 1941:
Kure. Dry-docked for repairs and maintenance.

3 December 1941:
Undocked. Returns to Hashirajima. Anchors in readiness condition.

8 December 1941: Operation "Z" – The Attack on Pearl Harbor:
BatDiv 1 sorties from Hashirajima to the Bonin Islands with the First Fleet's BatDiv 2's ISE, FUSO, YAMASHIRO, HYUGA, CarDiv 3's light carrier HOSHO, escorted by DesDiv 21's WAKABA, NENOHI, HATSUHARU and HATSUSHIMO and DesDiv 27's ARIAKE, YUGURE, SHIRATSUYU, SHIGURE, MIKAZUKI and YUKAZE.

13 December 1941:
BatDiv 1 returns to Hashirajima, maintains ‘standby alert’. During this period, BatDiv 1 is involved in training, exercises and gunnery practice in the western Inland Sea. Minor repairs are carried out at Kure.

18 January 1942:
Kamegakubi Naval Proving Ground, Inland Sea, 15 miles SW of Kure. MUTSU acts as a target tug during new battleship YAMATO's gunnery trials off Kurahashi Island. MUTSU tows old Italian-built armored cruiser NISSHIN which, as a target ship, had been sunk earlier, but raised. YAMATO sinks her again with her 18.1-inch shells.

20 January 1942:
Proceeds to Kure.

24 January 1942:
Returns to Hashirajima. Maintains 'standby alert' and training in the Inland Sea.

12 February 1942:
YAMATO joins BatDiv 1 with MUTSU and NAGATO. The Combined Fleet's flag is transferred from the NAGATO to YAMATO.

28 February 1942:
Departs for Agenosho (Bonin Islands).

1 March 1942:
Returns to Hashirajima.

5 March 1942:
At Kure for maintenance.

27 March 1942:
BatDiv 1 departs Hashirajima for training, returns to Tokuyama Bay.

30 March 1942:
At Hashirajima.

7 April 1942:
At Kure.

1 May 1942:
Captain Kogure is promoted to Rear Admiral.

5 May 1942:
BatDiv 1's MUTSU and NAGATO depart Hashirajima for gunnery practice in the Iyo Nada with BatDiv 2. The HYUGA's No. 5 turret gun blows up. She departs for Kure with FUSO as escort. MUTSU and the other battleships return to Hashirajima.

11 May 1942:
BatDiv 1 departs Hashirajima for gunnery and AA practice in the Iyo Nada. Returns that night.

15 May 1942:
Batdiv 1 departs Kure for three days of exercises with CruDiv 7's MOGAMI, MIKUMA, KUMANO and the SUZUYA in the Inland Sea.

18 May 1942:
Returns to Hashirajima.
19 May 1942:
The First Fleet and the First Air Fleet depart Hashirajima for two days of maneuvers at sea.

23 May 1942:
The fleets return to Hashirajima.

29 May 1942:
The First Fleet's Main Body: BatDiv 1's YAMATO, NAGATO and MUTSU departs Hashirajima with the light carrier HOSHO, the seaplane tenders CHIYODA and NISSHIN, Supply Group No. 1's oilers NARUTO and TOEI MARU and DesRon 3's light cruiser SENDAI with nine destroyers.

4 June 1942: Operation "MI" - The Battle of Midway:
The Main Body remains 300 miles behind Vice Admiral Nagumo's First Carrier Striking Force and does not engage U.S. forces.

5 June 1942:
The Main Body joins up with the remnants of Vice Admiral (Admiral, posthumously) Nagumo Chuichi's (former CO of YAMASHIRO) retiring Carrier Striking Force. MUTSU takes aboard about one-half of the survivors from the carriers AKAGI, KAGA, SORYU and HIRYU that had been picked up earlier by DesRon 10's destroyers. The MUTSU refuels DesRons 3 and 10's destroyers.

14 June 1942:
The Main Body returns to Hashirajima.

20 June 1942:
Hashirajima. Captain (later Rear Admiral) Yamazumi Teijiro (former CO of MYOKO) assumes command. Rear Admiral Kogure is reassigned as the Chief of Staff of Vice Admiral Ozawa Jisaburo's (former CO of HARUNA) 1st Southern Expeditionary Fleet.

3 July 1942:
At Tokuyama, probably to refuel.

6 July 1942:
Returns to Hashirajima.

14 July 1942:
Hashirajima. The First Fleet is reorganized. MUTSU and NAGATO are transferred from the Combined Fleet's Bat Div 1 to Vice Admiral Shimizu Mitsumi's (former CO of ISE) First Fleet in BatDiv 2 with YAMASHIRO, FUSO, ISE and HYUGA. BatDiv 2 performs 'standby alert' and training missions.

18 July 1942:
Departs Hashirajima. Arrives at Kure.

22 July 1942:
Kure. Drydocked.

29 July 1942:
Undocked.

3 August 1942:
Returns to Hashirajima.

9 August 1942:
MUTSU is attached to Vice Admiral (later Admiral) Kondo Nobutake's (former CO of KONGO) Second Fleet, Advanced Force for Guadalcanal operations.

11 August 1942:
Departs Yokosuka for Truk with Kondo's Advanced Force: CruDiv 4's ATAGO, TAKAO and MAYA, CruDiv 5's HAGURO and MYOKO, CarDiv 11's seaplane tender CHITOSE, DesRon 4's light cruiser YURA and nine destroyers.

17 August 1942:
The Advanced Force arrives at Truk. MUTSU and three destroyers are assigned to the Fleet Train of the Support Force. The Fleet Train supports Kondo's Advanced Force and Vice Admiral Nagumo's Third Fleet.

20 August 1942:
Admiral Yamamoto dispatches the Advanced Force to rendezvous with Nagumo’s Main Body that is then enroute from Kure.

A Kawanishi H6K "Mavis" flying boat spots USS LONG ISLAND (ACV-1) ferrying aircraft. The MUTSU, the cruiser ATAGO and destroyers pursue the American ship, but no contact is made. (They are too late. LONG ISLAND, then 190 miles south of Guadalcanal off San Cristobal, catapults 19 Marine Grumman F4F "Wildcat" fighters and 12 Marine Douglas SBD "Dauntless" dive-bombers. They are the first aircraft to land on "Henderson" Field, Guadalcanal, home of the soon-to-be named "Cactus Air Force").

21 August 1942:
Nagumo's Third Fleet, Main Body: CarDiv 1's SHOKAKU and ZUIKAKU, CarDiv 2's RYUJO, BatDiv 11's HIEI, and KIRISHIMA, CruDiv 7's KUMANO and SUZUYA, CruDiv 8's CHIKUMA and TONE and Desron 10's light cruiser NAGARA and three destroyers is scheduled to arrive at Truk. Instead, Yamamoto orders Nagumo to refuel at sea from oilers and continue on towards Guadalcanal.

24 August 1942: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons:
At sea. Provides close support.

27 August 1942:
The MUTSU fires four rounds at tracking enemy aircraft. The MUTSU group is ordered south of the Solomon Islands to locate and attack an American Task Force that was spotted there by Japanese reconnaissance planes. MUTSU and her group fail to make contact and she is ordered to retun to port.

2 September 1942:
Arrives at Truk.

5 September 1942:
The Advanced Force returns to Truk.

9 September 1942:
MUTSU is incorporated into the Main Body of the Guadalcanal Operation Force. Training and maintenance at Truk.

20 September 1942:
Defensive anti-aircraft fire in the Rabaul area is unskilled and uncontrolled, so competent AA gunnery officers and men from MUTSU and YAMATO are dispatched from Truk to Rabaul to serve as instructors.

22 September 1942:
Truk. Thereafter, MUTSU participates in battle exercises.

17 October 1942:
Truk. Fleet oiler KENYO MARU arrives empty. MUTSU and YAMATO each off-load 4, 500-tons of fuel to the oiler so that she can refuel fleet units for the Guadalcanal operations.

7 January 1943:
MUTSU departs Truk via Saipan then to Kure with carrier ZUIKAKU, CruDiv 7's SUZUYA, Des Div 6's INAZUMA, DesDiv 19's ISONAMI, DesDiv 27's ARIAKE. DesDiv 20's AMAGIRI also escorts the task group from Saipan to Kure.

12 January 1943:
MUTSU detaches from the task group and makes port at Yokosuka Navy Yard.

12-28 January 1943:
Returns to Hashirashima. MUTSU resumes 'standby alert'.

29 January 1943:
Yokosuka. Drydocked

6 February 1943:
Undocked.

15 February 1943:
Departs Yokosuka.

16 February 1943:
Arrives at Hashirajima. Resumes training duties.

23 February 1943:
MUTSU’s home port is changed from Yokosuka to Hashirajima.

4 March 1943:
Departs Hashirajima. Arrives at Kure.

8 March 1943:
Departs Kure. Returns to Hashirajima.

10 March 1943:
Captain Miyoshi Teruhiko (former CO of MYOKO) assumes command. Captain (later Rear Admiral) Yamazumi is reassigned as Chief of Staff of the Eighth Fleet at Rabaul.

26 March 1943: The Battle of the Komandorski Islands:
North Pacific, off the Kamchatka Peninsula, Siberia. Rear Admiral (later Vice Admiral) Charles H. McMorris (former CO of SAN FRANCISCO, CA-38) in USS RICHMOND (CL-9) with SALT LAKE CITY (CA-25) and four destroyers engages Vice Admiral Hosogaya Boshiro’s (former CO of MUTSU) Fifth Fleet's heavy cruisers NACHI (F) and MAYA, light cruisers TAMA and ABUKUMA and four destroyers escorting Convoy "D" carrying troops and supplies for the isolated garrison on Attu Island in the Aleutians. In a four-hour running gun battle, McMorris succeeds in causing the Japanese to abort their resupply mission. Disgraced, Hosogaya is relieved of command and forced to retire in July.

13 April 1943:
MUTSU departs Hashirajima for Kure. At Kure, in response to the Battle of the Komandorski Islands, she is made ready to participate in a sortie to reinforce the Aleutians. MUTSU takes aboard a full load of ammunition and supplies.

17 April 1943:
Departs Kure. Returns to Hashirajima.

18 April 1943:
Admiral Yamamoto, CINC, Combined Fleet, is killed by USAAF P-38s at Bougainville while visiting bases. This event undoubtedly delays the Aleutian sortie.

26 April:
Departs Hashirajima for Tokoyama, probably to refuel.

28 April 1943:
Returns to Hashirajima.

4 May 1943:
Departs Hashirajima for gunnery practice in the Iyo Nada.

5 May 1943:
Returns to Hashirajima.

10 May 1943:
Departs Hashirajima for gunnery practice in the Iyo Nada.

11 May 1943:
Returns to Hashirajima.

12 May 1943: American Operation "Landcrab":
Rear Admiral (later Admiral) Thomas C. Kinkaid's (former CO of INDIANAPOLIS, CA-35) Task Force 16, covered by Rear Admiral Francis W. Rockwell's (former CO of THATCHER, DD-162) Task Force 51, lands the Army's 7 th Division that captures Attu Island, Aleutians.

13 May 1943:
Returns to Hashirajima.

27 May 1943:
At Kure's Drydock No. 4 where her hull bottom is cleaned.

31 May 1943:
Returns to Hashirajima.

7 June 1943:
Captain Tsuruoka Nobumichi, who assumed command of the FUSO on June 1st, pays a call aboard MUTSU to meet with Captain Miyoshi, a classmate in Etajima's 43rd class.

8 June 1943:
MUTSU is moored at the flagship buoy midway between Hashirajima and the Suo-Oshima islands about two miles SW of Hashirajima. She hosts 113 flying cadets and 40 instructors of the Tsuchiura Naval Air Group who are aboard for a familiarization tour.

Captain Tsuruoka's FUSO is moored about 1,100 yards SW of MUTSU. DesRon 11’s flagship, light cruiser TATSUTA and several of the squadron’s newly commissioned destroyers are moored more distantly south of Hashirajima.

1145: After lunch, MUTSU’s deck crew prepares to move to mooring buoy No. 2 because NAGATO is expected to return at about 1300 from Kure after being drydocked. There is heavy fog and visibility is down to 500 yards. MUTSU's magazines contain a full load of ammunition including 16.1-inch Type 3 "Sanshikidan" incendiary shells designed as anti-aircraft rounds. Each shell weighs 2,064-lbs. and contains 1,200 submunitions. Each turret magazine contains 240 shells (120 per gun), including 50 "sanshiki-dans."

1213: Suddenly, MUTSU’s No. 3 turret’s magazine explodes. Vice Admiral Shimizu, Commander of the First Fleet, a few miles away aboard NAGATO sees a brilliant white explosion. Shortly thereafter, he receives a coded message from FUSO’s Captain Tsuruoka. It says: "MUTSU blew up!"

MUTSU breaks in two. The 535-ft forward section collapses to starboard, sinks quickly and lies on the pagoda mast on the floor of the bay. The 147-ft stern section upends, but remains floating. FUSO immediately launches two of her Vedette boats. Her crew rescues 353 survivors of the 1,474 crewmembers aboard MUTSU. Only 13 of the visiting flying cadets/instructors are among the survivors. The IJN can ill-afford the loss of 140 instructors and pilot trainees, particularly after the heavy losses sustained in April in Operation "I-GO" during the reinforcement of the 11th Air Fleet at Rabaul. Later, destroyers TAMANAMI and WAKATSUKI arrive, as do boats from TATSUTA and the cruiser MOGAMI. An antisubmarine alert is put into effect immediately.

1430: NAGATO arrives after zigzagging through Hiroshima Bay. Later, since no submarines are sighted, the alert is cancelled. Later, the frequency of patrols by naval vessels and aircraft is increased in Hiroshima Bay, the Iyo-nada and the Bungo and Kii Suido channels. NAGATO moors about 3,000 yards off FUSO’s port beam and takes aboard the survivors rescued by TATSUTA. All 39 wounded sailors are transported by TAMANAMI to a secluded hospital on Mitsukoshima. [1] A major cover-up is launched to conceal that something has happened to MUTSU. To further prevent rumors from spreading, many survivors are later sent to remote garrisons on Tarawa, Makin, Kwajalein, Saipan and Truk.

9 June 1943:
Hashirajima: At about 0200, MUTSU’s stern section sinks and comes to rest nearly upright in 130 feet of water in Hiroshima Bay at 33-58N, 132-24E.

In the morning, the first divers arrive and remain on the site for several months. FUSO serves as the "headquarters" for the salvage efforts. To conceal that MUTSU has sunk the divers are told that the ship they are exploring is similar to sister-ship NAGATO. Then the divers are allowed to familiarize themselves on NAGATO.

The final list of those lost aboard MUTSU totals 1,121 men including her skipper, Captain Miyoshi and his Executive Officer, Captain Ono Koro (former XO of KIRISHIMA), both of whom are promoted to Rear Admiral, posthumously.

Tokyo: The IJN suspects that the Type 3"Sanshiki-dan" incendiaries are the cause because a fire at the Sagami arsenal a few years earlier was caused by improper storage of the incendiary materials. After the accident, the Minister of the Navy, Admiral Shimada Shigetaro (former CO of HIEI) orders the Type 3 shells offloaded from all IJN ships carrying them.

Hashirajima: The "M-Commission" led by 60-year old Admiral Shiozawa Koichi (former CO of FURATAKA) is convened to conduct a formal accident investigation. Shiozawa considers all possibilities from the possibile detonation of "Sanshiki" shells to improbable attacks by a lone American torpedo plane or an attack by either a midget or fleet submarine.

Cdr Yasui Yasukado, the inventor of the "Sanshiki" shells is called in to testify. Tests are conducted at Kamegakubi on some shells salvaged from turret No. 3 and on shells from the previous lot and the next lot. An experiment is conducted by engineer troops with dozens of witnesses of the accident who had survived. The test uses a specially built model of turret No. 3. The final experiment is also based on the identification of the color of the smoke generated during the burning of Sanshiki shells compared to gunpowder. The smoke of burning powder is reddish-brown, while the smoke of burning Sanshiki shells is white. The witnesses of the disaster insist that they saw reddish-brown smoke. Moreover, during testing, it becomes clear that explosions do not occur below 80 degrees Centigrade. Cdr Yasui only escapes blame for the disaster by the IJN's top brass because the tests disclose that the Type 3 shells do not explode easily.

The M-Commission labors for two months and prepares their report. The commission doubts that the shells had caused the disaster. As a result the loading of Sanshiki shells on board ships is resumed. Later, the IJN revises completely their standards for the handling and storage of explosives aboard ships.

The investigation concludes that the explosion was "most likely caused by human interference". Some investigators think there was a ring of saboteurs, but the principal suspect is a disgruntled seaman gunner of turret No. 3 who had brooded over theft charges and was killed in the blast. The divers search for his body but it is never found. During the war, the belief persists that, somehow, he managed to escape.

22 July 1943:
Although the divers report that MUTSU is "bent like a broken nail", it is proposed to salvage the ship, tow it to a drydock at Kure and put her back on the line - optimistically - in three months. To convince their superiors in Kure, a dive is made with a modified 6-man minisub, but it snags on a railing on MUTSU. All officers aboard almost suffocate before the minisub breaks free. Finally, it is decided that it is impossible to raise MUTSU.

15 August 1943:
The survivors of MUTSU stationed on FUSO are transferred to NAGATO that, with other fleet units, departs via Yashima and Yokosuka for Truk. Once the survivors arrive on Truk, they form the reserve unit of the local 41st Guard Force. About 150 are sent to Saipan and almost all are killed there in 1944 during the U. S. invasion of the Marianas.

1 September 1943:
Removed from the Navy List.



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TF 1018 encounters mine field at Nanomea Atoll (87,101)

Allied Ships
DD Crane
DD Vampire

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TF 1059 encounters mine field at Nanomea Atoll (87,101)

Allied Ships
DMS Zane
DMS Southard
DMS Perry

many small to medium sized TFs are arriving at Nanomea, which seems to be the main port for disbanding ships now after the attack on Makin...

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Sub attack at 89,92

Japanese Ships
SS I-166

Allied Ships
AK Hatterlock
DE Gilmore, heavy damage
DE Levy
DE Jaccard
DD Edsall
DD Aylwin, heavy damage

2 torps missed the AK...

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Naval bombardment of Karachi, at 21,3

Allied Ships
DD Rotherham
DD Roebuck
DD Rocket
DD Redoubt
DD Rapid
CA Sussex

Japanese ground losses:
35 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

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Day Air attack on Trivandrum , at 13,21


Allied aircraft
Vengeance I x 14


Allied aircraft losses
Vengeance I: 2 damaged

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x Vengeance I bombing at 2000 feet

those attacks in India don´t concern me at all...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 47
A6M5 Zeke x 86
D3A Val x 24
A6M5c Zeke x 47
A6M3a Zero x 49
B5N Kate x 51
P1Y Frances x 29
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 70
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 34
Ki-61 Ic x 82

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
37 casualties reported

Airbase hits 10
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 62
Port hits 4
Port supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Goodenough island , at 56,93


Allied aircraft
Spitfire Vb x 9
P-38G Lightning x 39
PV-1 Ventura x 59
PB4Y Liberator x 8


Allied aircraft losses
PV-1 Ventura: 1 destroyed, 10 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
35 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 9
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 46

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x PV-1 Ventura bombing at 11000 feet

I guess bigbaba has no real plan what to do yet, he just attacks bases that come to mind out of the blue it seems...

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Day Air attack on Charter Towers , at 45,103


Allied aircraft
PV-1 Ventura x 11


Allied aircraft losses
PV-1 Ventura: 2 destroyed, 7 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
32 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x PV-1 Ventura bombing at 15000 feet

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Day Air attack on 40th Division, at 21,3


Allied aircraft
Vengeance I x 2
Liberator VI x 10
P-40E Warhawk x 3


Allied aircraft losses
Vengeance I: 2 damaged
Liberator VI: 5 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
33 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Liberator VI bombing at 15000 feet

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Day Air attack on 1st Ind. Brigade, at 43,32


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc x 9


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Hurricane IIc bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 36th Division, at 43,32


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 17
P-40N Warhawk x 16
Hurricane IIc x 17


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
75 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x P-40N Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on 4th Ind. Brigade, at 21,3


Allied aircraft
Corsair IV x 4
Barracuda x 12
Spitfire Vb x 10
Vengeance I x 9
Liberator VI x 18
P-40E Warhawk x 18
Hurricane IIc x 8


Allied aircraft losses
Barracuda: 2 damaged
Vengeance I: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged
Liberator VI: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
32 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x Barracuda bombing at 11000 feet

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Day Air attack on 68th Division, at 69,23


Allied aircraft
Pe-2 x 15


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Pe-2 bombing at 10000 feet
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Day Air attack on 47th Division, at 43,32


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 9


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 108th Region Fortress, at 65,32

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 276

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
180 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet

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Ground combat at Makin

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 42511 troops, 286 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1005

Defending force 51458 troops, 165 guns, 20 vehicles, Assault Value = 847



Allied ground losses:
210 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Vehicles lost 3

and now look at this! If there´s something the Allied lack in this PBEM then it´s ground troops due to the horrendous losses so far. Well, why on earth are more than 50.000 troops left behind on Makin then? This is unbelievable for me. All Allied TFs have left the scene around Makin and are heading away from the Gilberts, leaving nearly 850 av there to die. Why? Just tell me why? When you can land nearly all your troops in one turn then you should have enough transports around to more or less pick up everything again. Evacuations in WITP work just fine as you don´t face any CD fire. I can´t believe it, I just can´t believe it...

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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 373482 troops, 4459 guns, 1346 vehicles, Assault Value = 9393

Defending force 145388 troops, 1834 guns, 210 vehicles, Assault Value = 2993



Allied ground losses:
307 casualties reported
Guns lost 4


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Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 70100 troops, 689 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 2919

Defending force 94267 troops, 1111 guns, 315 vehicles, Assault Value = 1775



Allied ground losses:
50 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22591 troops, 267 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 3523

Defending force 312603 troops, 781 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 8640



Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Iman

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 41487 troops, 389 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 858

Defending force 52811 troops, 494 guns, 209 vehicles, Assault Value = 914



Allied ground losses:
25 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Townsville

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 7034 troops, 230 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4691

Defending force 126303 troops, 856 guns, 455 vehicles, Assault Value = 2063



Allied ground losses:
410 casualties reported
Guns lost 7


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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22815 troops, 244 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 1290

Defending force 126837 troops, 218 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2458



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Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 71949 troops, 971 guns, 313 vehicles, Assault Value = 1775

Defending force 143592 troops, 1507 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 2919


Japanese ground losses:
163 casualties reported
Guns lost 7
Vehicles lost 2


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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 106374 troops, 1684 guns, 134 vehicles, Assault Value = 2981

Defending force 458799 troops, 4512 guns, 3382 vehicles, Assault Value = 9393


Japanese ground losses:
250 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 2


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Ground combat at Iman

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 41747 troops, 452 guns, 174 vehicles, Assault Value = 914

Defending force 41487 troops, 389 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 858


Japanese ground losses:
11 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 105633 troops, 901 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 3199

Defending force 98249 troops, 1119 guns, 21 vehicles, Assault Value = 2070


Japanese ground losses:
200 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
Vehicles lost 1

Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


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Ground combat at Cairns

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 36227 troops, 414 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1021

Defending force 272653 troops, 2147 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 4337


Japanese ground losses:
12 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Townsville

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 60098 troops, 607 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 2051

Defending force 234039 troops, 2390 guns, 27 vehicles, Assault Value = 4691


Japanese ground losses:
353 casualties reported
Guns lost 19


and another important happening this turn. I had 5 subs within an area of 6 hexes near Canton Island and today Allied 2E and 4E bombers achieved no less than 7 hits on my subs near Canton, which resulted in two subs destroyed immedietely, one heavily damaged (actually sunk too with 92 flt damage) and another one moderately damaged (40+ flt). Well, Canton Island can field something like 250 ac and I bet we´ve seen 200 bombers on 100% ASW today in just this single spot.

No hr about that, the only hr Miller and I had agreed during the game was keeping carrier based bombers on a low nav/asw search percentage, but that´s not something that was agreed from the start. I had my own hr about keeping my bombers spread out, not getting my sentais within ASW range of each other and not moving in hundreds of bombers into one place to do the vacuum cleaner trick. What can I say, today´s result can easily convince me about thinking different, this would 100% sure result in an absolutely useless USN subwarfare if bigbaba wants to do one. We´ll see...





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Post #: 1463
RE: it goes on... - 7/10/2009 8:27:05 AM   
castor troy


Posts: 14330
Joined: 8/23/2004
From: Austria
Status: offline 		During the night, CA Portland was confirmed sunk a couple of hexes North of Nanomea atoll. Heavy cruiser number five lost during the Allied attack on Makin. BANZAI! BANZAI! BANZAI!


AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 10/25/43

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ASW attack at 94,99

Japanese Ships
SS I-18

Allied Ships
DMS Hamilton

Hamilton again. IIRC then this DMS is the escort of a damaged BB that was spotted a couple of times going towards Canton Island. Hamilton seems to do a damn fine job as this isn´t the first time that a sub of mine is kept from attacking the damaged BB...

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Naval bombardment of Karachi, at 21,3

Allied Ships
CA Sussex

those nav bombardments don´t make much sense...

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TF 1014 encounters mine field at Suva (86,114)

Allied Ships
MSW Agra
DD Litchfield

The Fidjis seem to also be the destination of some of the Allied TFs that were part of the makin invasion...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 47
A6M5 Zeke x 54
D3A Val x 24
A6M5c Zeke x 47
A6M3a Zero x 79
B5N Kate x 51
P1Y Frances x 35
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 70
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 35
Ki-61 Ic x 82

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 174
Port hits 3
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Rabaul , at 61,88


Allied aircraft
PV-1 Ventura x 57
PB4Y Liberator x 9


Allied aircraft losses
PV-1 Ventura: 3 damaged

Japanese Ships
AK Yamashimo Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Japanese ground losses:
58 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Port hits 5
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x PV-1 Ventura bombing at 15000 feet

attack on Rabaul today, my heavy flak defense there seemed to have worked very, very well... this AK is the only ship left in Rabaul´s anchorage as I´ve withdrawn everything from there when the P-38J showed up. No need to defend the place with fighters for the moment. The AK was in port as it got flt damage from a Mariner on nav search...

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Day Air attack on 1st Ind. Brigade, at 43,32


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 7


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
12 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 36th Division, at 43,32


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 18
P-40N Warhawk x 16
Hurricane IIc x 9


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
123 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x P-40N Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on 11th Division, at 59,6


Allied aircraft
MiG-3 x 56
Yak-1 x 28
Yak-9D x 73
IL-2 Shturmovik x 46


Allied aircraft losses
IL-2 Shturmovik: 8 destroyed, 30 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
62 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x IL-2 Shturmovik bombing at 2000 feet

the Russian get active too but the Shturmovik got hit hard...

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Day Air attack on 16th AA Regiment, at 46,103


Allied aircraft
Spitfire Vb x 9
PV-1 Ventura x 4
B-25C Mitchell x 67
B-25J Mitchell x 45
F4U-1 Corsair x 5
B-17E Fortress x 3


Allied aircraft losses
PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 16 damaged
B-25J Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 6 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
442 casualties reported
Guns lost 17

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet

another AA rgt is wiped out completely. Once again I can only point out that it´s just a myth on the forum that always the strongest units in a hex are attacked. Not at all. There are a dozen divs in this hex and what is the target of a full strike? An AA unit once again...

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Day Air attack on 68th Division, at 69,23


Allied aircraft
Pe-2 x 6


No Allied losses

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Pe-2 bombing at 10000 feet
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Day Air attack on 42nd Division, at 46,103


Allied aircraft
PV-1 Ventura x 5
B-25C Mitchell x 37
B-25J Mitchell x 14
B-17E Fortress x 3


Allied aircraft losses
PV-1 Ventura: 3 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged
B-25J Mitchell: 3 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
166 casualties reported
Guns lost 6

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-25J Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet


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Day Air attack on 47th Division, at 43,32


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 8
Hurricane IIc x 18


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
97 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Hurricane IIc bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on 133rd IJN Base Force, at 72,107


Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 38
Liberator VI x 10
B-25J Mitchell x 86


No Allied losses

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Wellington III bombing at 10000 feet

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Sub attack at 89,96

Japanese Ships
SS I-16

Allied Ships
AK Samuel Adams, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK William G. Fargo
AK Thomas Corwin
AK Stanford Newel
AK Nathaniel Bowditch
MSW Oracle
MSW Swallow
DE Wileman
DE Burden R. Hastings
DD Fox

medium sized AK is hit...

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Sub attack at 92,95

Japanese Ships
SS I-6

Allied Ships
BB Colorado, Torpedo hits 1
DD Frazier

and another BB is hit! Banzai! My subs really have done a great job so far. One hit won´t put the BB under for sure but it´s a nice result again. And again I can only wonder what the Allied are doing... There are capitol ships EVERYWHERE South and South East of the Gilberts at the moment and most of them are either completely unescorted or have a useless escort of one or two DDs. The Allied must have surely far more than a hundred DDs in total so I don´t know what this should be... You can have your ships unescorted for one turn - this is when my surface combat TFs have shot up the enemy BB TFs´ escorts near Makin) - but then you have to immedietely put all your damaged ships into one TF the next round (creating an escort TF) and have AT LEAST 6 DDs in it. Of course you put your remaining undamaged ships into one TF also and don´t forget about the escorts. This is really poor (sorry) playing. It´s been days after the attacks around Makin and there are Allied BBs going around without escorts, I just can´t believe it... but it will get even better the coming turns...

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Ground combat at Makin

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 42778 troops, 289 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1011

Defending force 51818 troops, 174 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 873



Allied ground losses:
125 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 373469 troops, 4454 guns, 1345 vehicles, Assault Value = 9393

Defending force 146030 troops, 1835 guns, 212 vehicles, Assault Value = 3002



Allied ground losses:
147 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 70129 troops, 687 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 2263

Defending force 94321 troops, 1114 guns, 315 vehicles, Assault Value = 1775



Allied ground losses:
75 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22586 troops, 266 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 3442

Defending force 311993 troops, 772 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 8627



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Ground combat at Iman

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 41447 troops, 395 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 858

Defending force 52528 troops, 490 guns, 211 vehicles, Assault Value = 912



Allied ground losses:
25 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Townsville

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 6550 troops, 222 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3886

Defending force 126359 troops, 857 guns, 456 vehicles, Assault Value = 2064



Allied ground losses:
25 casualties reported

Ground combat at Townsville

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 6550 troops, 222 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3886

Defending force 126359 troops, 857 guns, 456 vehicles, Assault Value = 2064



Allied ground losses:
25 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22645 troops, 240 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 1281

Defending force 126675 troops, 217 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2457



Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 72113 troops, 975 guns, 313 vehicles, Assault Value = 1775

Defending force 111426 troops, 1102 guns, 13 vehicles, Assault Value = 2263


Japanese ground losses:
82 casualties reported
Guns lost 8
Vehicles lost 1


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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 106858 troops, 1693 guns, 134 vehicles, Assault Value = 3002

Defending force 458440 troops, 4506 guns, 3381 vehicles, Assault Value = 9393


Japanese ground losses:
208 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 2


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Ground combat at Iman

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 41522 troops, 449 guns, 176 vehicles, Assault Value = 912

Defending force 41447 troops, 395 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 858


Japanese ground losses:
30 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 106178 troops, 917 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 3222

Defending force 98856 troops, 1142 guns, 20 vehicles, Assault Value = 2064


Japanese ground losses:
192 casualties reported
Guns lost 16
Vehicles lost 1

Allied ground losses:
24 casualties reported
Guns lost 3


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Ground combat at Townsville

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 92687 troops, 845 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 2064

Defending force 196167 troops, 2237 guns, 23 vehicles, Assault Value = 3886


Japanese ground losses:
93 casualties reported
Guns lost 9

Allied ground losses:
77 casualties reported
Guns lost 5


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Ground combat at Cairns

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 36312 troops, 418 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1029

Defending force 273652 troops, 2170 guns, 10 vehicles, Assault Value = 4379


Japanese ground losses:
61 casualties reported



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Post #: 1464
RE: it goes on... - 7/10/2009 8:32:19 AM   
castor troy


Posts: 14330
Joined: 8/23/2004
From: Austria
Status: offline 		Heavy cruiser USS Portland was confirmed sunk today. Fifth heavy cruiser sunk due to damage received during night naval engagements with superior IJN forces around Makin. BANZAI! BANZAI! BANZAI!

USS Portland (CA-33), 1933-1959

USS Portland, first of a class of two 9800-ton heavy cruisers, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. Commissioned in February 1933, she took part in the search for survivors of the crashed airship Akron in April of that year. During the rest of the 1930s, Portland operated with the U.S. Fleet in the Pacific and Caribbean areas, with occasional special assignments that took her elsewhere. In October 1935, she escorted USS Houston (CA-30), with President Roosevelt on board, on a voyage from San Diego, California, through the Panama Canal to Charleston, South Carolina. She first crossed the Equator during Fleet maneuvers in May 1936.

When the Pacific War began with Japan's 7 December 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor Portland was at sea with the USS Lexington task force. Later in the month she accompanied that carrier on a mission to support the abortive Wake Island relief expedition. In March-June 1942, she escorted the carrier Yorktown, taking part in the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway. For most of the rest of 1942, Portland was involved in the Guadalcanal campaign. She was part of the USS Enterprise task force during the August invasion of Guadalcanal and Tulagi, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons later in that month and the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in the last part of October. On 13 November, she was part of a surface combat unit that fought a greatly superior Japanese force close to Guadalcanal. Portland was torpedoed in the stern in that action and had to be towed to Australia for temporary repairs.

Returned to active service in May 1943, Portland took part in the Aleutians campaign from then until September. In the last two months of 1943 and the first four months of 1944 she was part of the armada that helped capture bases in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands and raided the Japanese elsewhere in the central Pacific and New Guinea. She received a west coast overhaul in mid-1944, but was back in the combat zone in time to participate in the Palaus landings in September and the Leyte invasion in October. During the latter operation she also participated in the night Battle of Surigao Strait. Portland remained in the Philippines into March 1945, then moved north to support the Okinawa campaign. She was flagship of Commander Marianas in August and September, and the surrender of Truk took place on her deck. Portland carried homeward-bound troops from Hawaii to the east coast in the Fall of 1945 and celebrated Navy Day (27 October) at Portland, Maine. She entered the Reserve Fleet at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in July 1946 and remained there, in "Mothballs", until 1959, when she was sold for scrapping.





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RE: it goes on... - 7/10/2009 9:11:04 AM   
castor troy


Posts: 14330
Joined: 8/23/2004
From: Austria
Status: offline 		AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 10/26/43

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TF 1013 encounters mine field at Nanomea Atoll (87,101)

Allied Ships
AK Gandara, Mine hits 1, on fire


Allied ground losses:
26 casualties reported

sub laid mines at Nanomea... would be cool to hit a heavily damaged capitol ship to finish it...

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ASW attack at 88,96

Japanese Ships
SS I-166, hits 3

Allied Ships
DD Isis
DD Hotspur
DD Foxhound

there are still enough escorts around in totally unimportan transport TFs so this makes it even more ridicoulos that damaged capitol ships cruise around without or with tiny escorts... even the AI does better sometimes and I just don´t understand it...

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Naval bombardment of Karachi, at 21,3

Allied Ships
DD Rotherham
DD Roebuck
DD Rocket
DD Redoubt
DD Rapid
CA Sussex

Japanese ground losses:
48 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

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TF 1033 encounters mine field at Nanomea Atoll (87,101)

Allied Ships
MSW Oriole
MSW Penguin
MSW Tanager

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TF 1044 encounters mine field at Nanomea Atoll (87,101)

Allied Ships
DD Fullam
DD Eaton

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TF 1050 encounters mine field at Nanomea Atoll (87,101)

Allied Ships
MSW Bittern
MSW Bobolink
PG Warrego
PG Swan
DE Steele
DE LeHardy

see! Lots of escorts returning to Nanomea, it would have been easily possible to assign escorts to the damaged capitol ships...

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Sub attack at 97,99

Japanese Ships
SS I-18

Allied Ships
TK Empire Coral

West of Canton Island, we again moved subs into this area as we wanted to get a chance to attack the expected US BB that is heading to Canton... more about that later on...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 47
A6M5 Zeke x 86
D3A Val x 24
A6M5c Zeke x 47
A6M3a Zero x 86
B5N Kate x 51
P1Y Frances x 44
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 70
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 35
Ki-61 Ic x 81

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
26 casualties reported

Airbase hits 9
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 162
Port hits 5
Port supply hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Charter Towers , at 45,103


Allied aircraft
PV-1 Ventura x 6
B-25C Mitchell x 102
B-24D Liberator x 6
B-24J Liberator x 9


Allied aircraft losses
PV-1 Ventura: 4 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 4 destroyed, 34 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 6 damaged
B-24J Liberator: 7 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
764 casualties reported
Guns lost 15

Airbase hits 11
Airbase supply hits 10
Runway hits 90

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-24D Liberator bombing at 10000 feet
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet

Bigbaba said he wouldn´t attack from high alt, but there´s no reason to wreck his bomber force with attacks like this either...

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 47
Liberator VI x 12
B-25J Mitchell x 101


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 11
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 134

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Wellington III bombing at 10000 feet

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Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23

Japanese aircraft
Ki-46-III Dinah x 2

No Japanese losses

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Day Air attack on 2nd Reserve AA Regiment, at 46,103


Allied aircraft
Spitfire Vb x 8
PV-1 Ventura x 3
B-25C Mitchell x 58
B-25J Mitchell x 40
F4U-1 Corsair x 3
B-17E Fortress x 3


Allied aircraft losses
PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 4 destroyed, 20 damaged
B-25J Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 18 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
279 casualties reported
Guns lost 8

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet

and again, an AA unit is attacked...

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Day Air attack on 26th Division, at 69,23

Japanese aircraft
Ki-61 Ic x 40

Allied aircraft
Pe-2 x 8

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-61 Ic: 3 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Pe-2: 8 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
31 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Pe-2 bombing at 10000 feet

we have put LRCAP over Blagoveshchensk to finish some of the remaining Russian bombers there. Bigbaba obvioulsy isn´t as carefully looking at the map as Miller has been and he missed noticing that I´ve transferred fighters into the region. Doesn´t matter, even though we had 40 fighters attacking the Russian, not one was downed... disappointing...

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Day Air attack on Imperial Guards Division, at 46,103


Allied aircraft
Spitfire Vb x 11
Ventura V x 3
PV-1 Ventura x 3
B-25C Mitchell x 89
B-25J Mitchell x 58
F4U-1 Corsair x 6
B-17E Fortress x 3


Allied aircraft losses
PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 2 destroyed, 23 damaged
B-25J Mitchell: 15 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 3 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
174 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-25J Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet
3 x Ventura V bombing at 10000 feet

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Day Air attack on 108th Region Fortress, at 65,32

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 18
P1Y Frances x 3
Ki-49 Helen x 202

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
137 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet

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Day Air attack on TF at 88,97

Japanese aircraft
P1Y Frances x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
P1Y Frances: 3 damaged

Allied Ships
DD Aylwin, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x P1Y Frances launching torpedoes at 200 feet

and here we go! I really have no clue on what the new Allied commander really is thinking. And I also can´t say that this is because someone might be inexperienced because I was inexperienced too in my early PBEMs but have never done something so obviously wrong like the Allied have been doing since the failed attack on Makin.

first, the for the Allied so important ground troops are left behind, UNBELIEVABLE

then, damaged and undamaged Allied capitol ships have been cruising around without adequate escorts and my subs can wreck havoc (one more or less undamaged BB was sunk just from a sub attack)

then, out of a sudden, the Allied CVs start moving South! What the heck??? There is no reason, repeat, no reason for the Allied to move their CVs away from the Gilberts when there are still a dozen of TFs around that need to be guarded against my LBA (that I kept grounded the last turns just because of the reason that I don´t want to see them being shot up by Hellcats). The Allied CVs were spotted last turn being already in a position 5 hexes South of the last Allied TF to the North, just three hexes off the Gilberts. Well, this of course invited me to move in my bombers again, which lead to the for the moment last mistake:

of not keeping my airfields in the Gilberts and on Baker island surpressed and this is just unbelievable. Sorry but, that is really, really bad playing. At the moment, this feels just like playing the AI because there are things happening that I just don´t understand how that can be and this makes another victory smelling a little rotten...

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Day Air attack on TF at 87,94

Japanese aircraft
P1Y Frances x 22

Japanese aircraft losses
P1Y Frances: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged

Allied Ships
AK Stephen H. Long, heavy damage
AK Charles N. McGroarty, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
APD Crosby, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK Francisco Coronado, heavy damage
AK James M. Goodhue, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK Sigli, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK Zebra, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x P1Y Frances launching torpedoes at 200 feet

why, just why were the CVs sent South and why haven´t the airfields been kept surpressed... WHY?

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Day Air attack on TF at 87,94

Japanese aircraft
P1Y Frances x 52

Japanese aircraft losses
P1Y Frances: 2 damaged

Allied Ships
AK Dorothy Philips, heavy damage
AK Luther S. Kelly, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Stephen H. Long, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AK Zebra, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AK Francisco Coronado, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK Scotia
AK Morazan, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK Monarch of the Sea, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK William Vanderbilt, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Josiah Snelling, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
56 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x P1Y Frances launching torpedoes at 200 feet

Makin, Tarawa and Baker Island were the bases that we´ve sent bombers again, Apamama received search aircraft only. I could have flown in a hundred torp bombers more but didn´t do that because I didn´t want to see my bombers not launching (for whatever reason) while Allied bombers could show up over my bases to torch them... again a day with absolutely avoidable Allied losses...

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Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23

Japanese aircraft
Ki-46-III Dinah x 2

No Japanese losses

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Day Air attack on TF at 89,98

Japanese aircraft
P1Y Frances x 9

Japanese aircraft losses
P1Y Frances: 5 damaged

Allied Ships
AK William Dunbar
AK Peter H. Burnett, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
AK William M. Stewart

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x P1Y Frances launching torpedoes at 200 feet

then the afternoon strikes go in...

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Day Air attack on TF at 87,94

Japanese aircraft
P1Y Frances x 25

Japanese aircraft losses
P1Y Frances: 2 damaged

Allied Ships
AK Zebra, on fire, heavy damage
AK Luther S. Kelly, on fire, heavy damage
AK Dorothy Philips, heavy damage
AK Josiah Snelling, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK Sigli, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AK Charles N. McGroarty, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x P1Y Frances launching torpedoes at 200 feet

only one torp hit because all other ships that where targeted where sunk already... guess at least a dozen Allied transports were destroyed today...

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Day Air attack on TF at 87,94

Japanese aircraft
P1Y Frances x 16

Japanese aircraft losses
P1Y Frances: 4 damaged

Allied Ships
AK Henry Durant, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Luther S. Kelly, on fire, heavy damage
AK Francisco Coronado, on fire, heavy damage
AK Charles N. McGroarty, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x P1Y Frances launching torpedoes at 200 feet

same here, most of the ships were sunk already...

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Day Air attack on TF at 87,97

Japanese aircraft
P1Y Frances x 7

Japanese aircraft losses
P1Y Frances: 7 damaged

Allied Ships
BB Tennessee, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
BB Pennsylvania

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x P1Y Frances launching torpedoes at 200 feet

and here comes the most important strike of the day! This TF was cruising around 5 hexes South of Apamama and while we spotted it yesterday (identifying one of the BBs) it seems that the bigger transport TFs around were more important than those (at least) two BBs heading South. I was already jumping up and down when finally a small strike from Makin went in to put two torps into Tennessee that was already heavily damaged when leaving Makin. This could put the BB into serious trouble, as she won´t be disbanded at Nanomea (level 4 port) within the next two days. An absolutely cool day if it wouldn´t have been just a gift from the Allied player that would have been absolutely avoidable. Again, I can´t believe what is going on. What should I have done? Not doing my best to hurt the enemy? I don´t know, but it´s just toooo easy.


Makin surely was the wrong place for such an invasion going in. Perhaps the Gilberts were possible for the Allied, but then Apamama would have been the only target, everything else was just too far, especially when you think about 11 hexes Zero range and 11 hexes torp range for the Frances. Not to talk about the effective strike range of my major naval combatants. The best target would have been Baker with it´s level 4 airfield. The Allied own the atolls South of the Gilberts and with Baker the Gilberts would have been in real trouble when I think about the fact that P-38Js could reach all three atolls there and hundreds of 4Es could flatten every airfield there with ease.

So the invasion failed, which isn´t hat much of a tragedy at the point where it was obvious that the Marines can´t take the base (which was already on the first day). But then, IMO Allied mistake after mistake followed each other. Instead of just picking up the troops again and heading home under cover of Allied CVs this now turns out into a slugfest for the Japanese with dozens of transports, half a dozen cruisers and a BB sunk already. At least one more BB has to be in sinking condition (perhaps even two) with probably another British heavy cruiser already sunk or in sinking condition. A torp hit into an Essex class CV as bonus. 50.000 Allied troops were left behind. All in all a disaster IMO.

We´ve lost a BB and probably 5 DDs, another BB moderately damaged. 100 aircraft were lost.





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Ground combat at Makin

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 43067 troops, 301 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1018

Defending force 52119 troops, 188 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 894



Allied ground losses:
264 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
Vehicles lost 1

for the moment, Allied av is going up due to recovering disabled squads I guess but I doubt that the supply will last for long as the Allied TFs were only unloading for one turn...

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Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 108032 troops, 1103 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 2270

Defending force 94360 troops, 1115 guns, 315 vehicles, Assault Value = 1775



Allied ground losses:
92 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 373537 troops, 4454 guns, 1347 vehicles, Assault Value = 9391

Defending force 146880 troops, 1846 guns, 212 vehicles, Assault Value = 3016



Allied ground losses:
373 casualties reported
Guns lost 9


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22645 troops, 267 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 3442

Defending force 311171 troops, 759 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 8625



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Ground combat at Iman

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 41506 troops, 397 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 861

Defending force 52346 troops, 483 guns, 211 vehicles, Assault Value = 907



Allied ground losses:
52 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Townsville

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 6540 troops, 221 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3895

Defending force 126527 troops, 862 guns, 455 vehicles, Assault Value = 2070



Allied ground losses:
125 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22682 troops, 241 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 1284

Defending force 126470 troops, 215 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2452



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Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 72202 troops, 976 guns, 313 vehicles, Assault Value = 1775

Defending force 111472 troops, 1103 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 2270


Japanese ground losses:
442 casualties reported
Guns lost 16
Vehicles lost 2


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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 107094 troops, 1691 guns, 134 vehicles, Assault Value = 3004

Defending force 458107 troops, 4507 guns, 3379 vehicles, Assault Value = 9391


Japanese ground losses:
324 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Iman

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 45394 troops, 477 guns, 176 vehicles, Assault Value = 907

Defending force 41506 troops, 397 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 861


Japanese ground losses:
29 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Chungking

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 17471 troops, 169 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2452

Defending force 63296 troops, 658 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 1284


Japanese ground losses:
11 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 106520 troops, 920 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 3244

Defending force 98649 troops, 1130 guns, 20 vehicles, Assault Value = 2059


Japanese ground losses:
198 casualties reported
Guns lost 7

Allied ground losses:
34 casualties reported
Guns lost 4


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Ground combat at Townsville

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 92735 troops, 847 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 2070

Defending force 195728 troops, 2222 guns, 25 vehicles, Assault Value = 3895


Japanese ground losses:
244 casualties reported
Guns lost 16

Allied ground losses:
27 casualties reported
Guns lost 3


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Ground combat at Cairns

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 36434 troops, 424 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1041

Defending force 241622 troops, 2008 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 3816


Japanese ground losses:
26 casualties reported

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Status: offline 		When looking at the aircraft losses then the Frances seems to be an improvement over the Betty. The only Betties that will still be used offensively will be the Okha carrying model in late 44 but I guess there won´t be much more on map than one or two daitais at a time. 90 Okhas will be produced a month and I will only use the highest exp daitai to launch them (if I get them through Cap).

The "low" attack alt of Allied bomber strikes is reflected by the high Mitchell losses this turn...




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Status: offline 		I´ve mentioned it two turns ago, the Allied are operating hundreds of 2E and 4E bombers on nav/asw search at single bases. This has wiped out half a dozen subs (out of half a dozen ) near Canton and as we´ve spotted high value targets heading there I was once again stupid enough to send in another 5 subs this turn as I´ve thought that the Allied bombers would switch to airfield attack immedietely when I move ac into the Gilberts (as the Allied player can see this...). I was wrong and the Allied still had all the bombers on asw which resulted in this:

OPERATIONAL REPORT FOR 10/26/43

PBM Mariner sighting report: 9 Japanese ships at 56,88 , Speed 4 , Moving Southwest
PBM Mariner sighting report: 9 Japanese ships at 58,91 , Speed 8 , Moving Northeast
PBM Mariner has spotted AG-107 at 58,91
Liberator VI reports diving submarine at 95,97
Wellington III reports periscope at 97,99
Liberator VI attacking I-179 at 95,97
I-179 is reported HIT
Wellington III reports submarine at 98,99
Wellington III attacking I-179 at 95,97
I-179 is reported HIT
Liberator VI reports submarine at 95,98
Liberator VI reports submarine at 97,99
Liberator VI attacking I-179 at 95,97
Liberator VI attacking I-177 at 98,99
Liberator VI reports submarine at 95,97
Wellington III attacking I-18 at 97,99
I-18 is reported HIT
Wellington III attacking I-177 at 98,99
I-177 is reported HIT
Wellington III attacking I-179 at 95,97
Wellington III attacking I-177 at 98,99
I-177 is reported HIT
Wellington III reports diving submarine at 97,99
Wellington III reports diving submarine at 98,99
Wellington III reports diving submarine at 95,97
Wellington III reports submarine at 95,98
PB2Y Coronado has spotted AG-2066 at 56,88
PBM Mariner reports suspected submarine at 98,99
PB2Y Coronado reports submarine at 95,97
PB2Y Coronado reports shadow in water at 97,99
PB2Y Coronado reports diving submarine at 94,97
PB4Y Liberator attacking I-18 at 97,99
I-18 is reported HIT
PB4Y Liberator reports submarine at 95,97
OS2U-3 Kingfisher reports diving submarine at 98,99
OS2U-3 Kingfisher reports submarine at 98,99
PB4Y Liberator reports conning tower at 98,99
PB2Y Coronado reports shadow in water at 97,99
PB2Y Coronado reports shadow in water at 94,97
PB2Y Coronado reports periscope at 98,99
PB2Y Coronado reports submarine at 95,97
PV-1 Ventura reports conning tower at 88,97
Ki-46-III Dinah takes recon photos of Chungking
Ki-46-III Dinah takes recon photos of Karachi
Ki-46-III Dinah takes recon photos of Trimcomalee
Ki-46-III Dinah takes recon photos of Colombo
Ki-46-III Dinah takes recon photos of Port Moresby
H8K Emily takes recon photos of Kiska Island
R-12 takes recon photos of Khomsomalsk
Ki-46-III Dinah takes recon photos of Blagoveshchensk
Ki-46-III Dinah takes recon photos of Blagoveshchensk
Ki-46-III Dinah takes recon photos of Iman
Ki-46-III Dinah takes recon photos of Iman
Ki-46-III Dinah takes recon photos of Iman
LT Tyler B. of VF-2 is credited with kill number 8
Ki-46-III Dinah sighting report: 1 Allied ship at 98,100 , Speed 11 , Moving Southwest
Ki-46-III Dinah reports suspected submarine at 85, 89
Ki-46-III Dinah damaged by flak
Ki-49 Helen reports periscope at 84, 82
Ki-46-III Dinah sighting report: 1 Allied ship at 81,91 , Speed 8 , Moving Southwest
Ki-46-III Dinah attacking Tunny at 81,91
Ki-46-III Dinah reports shadow in water at 84, 82
Ki-49 Helen reports radio transmissions at 84, 82
Ki-46-III Dinah attacking Grayling at 85,87
Ki-46-III Dinah has spotted Empire Peregrine at 87,101
Ki-46-III Dinah reports shadow in water at 80, 93
Ki-46-III Dinah sighting report: 1 Allied ship at 87,101 , Speed 14 , Moving Northeast
Ki-46-III Dinah has spotted Antrim at 88,98
Ki-46-III Dinah reports radio transmissions at 81, 91
Ki-46-III Dinah has spotted Scotia at 87,94
H8K Emily reports suspected submarine at 85, 89
H8K Emily reports radio transmissions at 81, 91
H8K Emily has spotted Massachusetts at 87,101
H8K Emily reports suspected submarine at 81, 88
H8K Emily reports periscope at 76, 91
H8K Emily sighting report: 1 Allied ship at 77,96 , Speed 9 , Moving Southwest
H8K Emily reports periscope at 81, 91
H8K Emily reports shadow in water at 80, 93
H8K Emily has spotted Wasp at 87,101
H8K Emily has spotted Bunker Hill at 87,101
H8K Emily has spotted Morazan at 87,94
H8K Emily reports shadow in water at 80, 93
H8K Emily reports shadow in water at 77, 96
H8K Emily has spotted George Ross at 87,101
H8K Emily reports periscope at 76, 91
H8K Emily reports shadow in water at 85, 87
H8K Emily attacking Dragonet at 85,89
H8K Emily reports periscope at 84, 82
E7K2 Alf reports shadow in water at 84, 82
E13A1 Jake reports suspected submarine at 84, 82
Ventura V reports shadow in water at 98,99
Liberator VI attacking I-168 at 95,98
I-168 is reported HIT
Liberator VI reports periscope at 98,99
Wellington III reports periscope at 95,98
Wellington III attacking I-18 at 97,99
I-18 is reported HIT
Wellington III reports oil slick at 98,99
Liberator VI reports diving submarine at 95,98
Liberator VI attacking I-18 at 97,99
Liberator VI attacking I-177 at 98,99
I-177 is reported HIT
Liberator VI reports shadow in water at 95,97
Wellington III reports periscope at 97,99
Wellington III reports oil slick at 98,99
Wellington III reports submarine at 95,97
Liberator VI reports submarine at 97,99
Liberator VI reports submarine at 98,99
Liberator VI attacking I-179 at 95,97
Liberator VI attacking I-168 at 95,98
I-168 is reported HIT
Liberator VI attacking I-18 at 97,99
Liberator VI reports submarine at 98,99
Wellington III reports submarine at 95,98
Wellington III reports conning tower at 97,99
Wellington III attacking I-177 at 98,99
I-177 is reported HIT
Wellington III reports diving submarine at 95,97
Wellington III reports shadow in water at 98,99
Wellington III attacking I-179 at 95,97
Wellington III reports diving submarine at 97,99
Wellington III attacking I-177 at 98,99
I-177 is reported HIT
Wellington III reports submarine at 97,99
Wellington III reports suspected submarine at 98,99
PB2Y Coronado has spotted AG-2529 at 58,91
AG-2529 is reported HIT
B-24D Liberator reports diving submarine at 88,97
PB2Y Coronado reports shadow in water at 97,99
PB2Y Coronado attacking I-177 at 98,99
I-177 is reported HIT
PB2Y Coronado sighting report: 1 Japanese ship at 94,97 , Speed 10 , Moving Southeast
B-24D Liberator reports oil slick at 88,97
B-17E Fortress attacking I-16 at 88,97
PB2Y Coronado reports conning tower at 94,97
PB2Y Coronado reports diving submarine at 98,99
PB2Y Coronado reports periscope at 94,97
PB2Y Coronado reports periscope at 95,97
PB4Y Liberator reports conning tower at 97,99
PB4Y Liberator reports submarine at 98,99
OS2U-3 Kingfisher attacking I-177 at 98,99
OS2U-3 Kingfisher reports diving submarine at 88,97
OS2U-3 Kingfisher sighting report: 1 Japanese ship at 89,96 , Speed 8 , Moving Southeast
OS2U-3 Kingfisher reports submarine at 88,97
OS2U-3 Kingfisher reports shadow in water at 97,99
OS2U-3 Kingfisher reports conning tower at 88,97
OS2U-3 Kingfisher reports periscope at 97,99
OS2U-3 Kingfisher reports diving submarine at 98,99
PB4Y Liberator reports diving submarine at 97,99
PB4Y Liberator reports suspected submarine at 95,97
PB2Y Coronado reports submarine at 95,98
PB2Y Coronado reports diving submarine at 94,97
PB2Y Coronado reports shadow in water at 94,97
PB2Y Coronado reports shadow in water at 95,97


13 hits in just one turn... 4 subs immedietely sank this turn. In one of the last replies from my former opponent Miller he said it doesn´t make sense to keep his subs within the SRA as the would get damaged and sometimes sunk from my 90 exp Helens (which are mostly mid 80 sentais) there. I´ve went through all the Allied sub losses this turn and the Allied lost 16 subs to bombs while at sea. They´ve lost far more but that´s due to my port attacks. Another good dozen was sunk by DCs. This during 23 months of war. Now I´ve lost 10 subs to mass use of Allied LBA within three days, more are damaged. Therefore all my self self imposed hrs about air asw were thrown overboard. This use of the anti sub vacuum cleaner has just robbed the Allied any chance to do damage to my merchant fleet during the rest of the war and I guess bigbaba doesn´t even know that. He will face four sentais of high exp Helens in one small area as soon as I spot more than just one or two subs there. So everytime he comes in with half a dozen subs to an area, 180 Helens will transfer to a nearby base and you can bet that they will hurt the subs...

A couple of turns ago I´ve posted a screenshot with at least two dozen subs in the Marshalls. I had a hell a lot of sightings and even a lot of attacks, I did not get a single kill (at least not a confirmed one). I had my Vals and Kates on nav attack 20% nav search and moved two Helen sentais and a Helen daitai - together 99 bombers into the area and spread them out from Kwajalein to Tarawa. I guess the Allied have 200 bombers on Canton alone.

I´ve suffered more sub losses around Canton in three days than I´ve suffered the last 10 months.


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RE: it goes on... - 7/10/2009 12:45:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yeah baby! CA Frobisher was confirmed sunk today on it´s way back to friendly waters. This is the sixth heavy cruiser going down due to battle damage suffered near Makin. BANZAI!


AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 10/27/43

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ASW attack at 93,96

Japanese Ships
SS I-158, hits 7

Allied Ships
AK Josiah Royce
AK John J. Ingalls
AK John H. Couch
AK Jacques Laramie
AK Gilbert Stuart
MSW Herald
MSW Starling
DD Hatfield
DD Monaghan

moderate damage to the sub, it will head full speed towards Kwajalein...

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TF 1031 encounters mine field at Nanomea Atoll (87,101)

Allied Ships
MSW Rail
MSW Champion
APD Dickerson
DE Austin
AK Empire Barracuda, Mine hits 1, on fire


Allied ground losses:
41 casualties reported

not much damage causing mine hit...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 47
A6M3a Zero x 54
P1Y Frances x 21
Ki-61 Ic x 62

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 76
Port supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Apamama , at 86,92

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 32
B-24D Liberator x 34
B-24J Liberator x 80

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 1 damaged
B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
162 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Airbase hits 10
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 156

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 10000 feet

Bigbaba now seems to have been alerted by my anti shipping strikes out of the Gilberts and sent his bombers to take out Apamama. Though Apamama never had anything else than search aircraft. Makin´s and Tarawa´s airfields were evacuated anyway as I wanted to get my bombers out. One of those 4E strikes is enough to put the small airfields in the Gilberts out of operation for at least 3-7 days, so it would have been easy to prevent me from flying air strikes, when the Allied don´t want to keep the CVs in the area to protect the retiring TFs.

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Day Air attack on Gili Gili , at 56,94

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 33
PV-1 Ventura x 59
PB4Y Liberator x 9

Japanese aircraft losses
L3Y Tina: 4 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
PV-1 Ventura: 6 destroyed, 26 damaged
PB4Y Liberator: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
80 casualties reported

Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 24

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing at 12000 feet

right target picked this day. While bomber strikes all happen simualtenously, the air transport phase is always after the air strikes, which makes the developer´s theory of all aircraft taking off simualtenously ad absurdum. The transports are always torched on the ground, even if they should be in the air when the bombers go in. I wanted to use my Tinas to fly remaining fragments of AA units to Charter Towers.

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Day Air attack on Baker Island , at 94,92

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 62
Liberator VI x 36
Ventura V x 6
PB4Y Liberator x 15

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed
E7K2 Alf: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Wellington III: 4 damaged
Liberator VI: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged
Ventura V: 1 damaged
PB4Y Liberator: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
67 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 131

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Liberator VI bombing at 10000 feet
3 x Ventura V bombing at 10000 feet

I was kind of afraid when seeing this strike going in as I still had bombers on Baker (they didn´t launch yesterday and I´ve thought I could keep them there one more turn). When looking at the ac destroyed on the ground I was sure though that our bombers would have launched to attack shipping North West of Canton Island...

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Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23

Japanese aircraft
Ki-46-III Dinah x 2

No Japanese losses

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Day Air attack on 40th Division, at 21,3


Allied aircraft
Corsair IV x 13
Spitfire Vb x 4
Liberator VI x 34
Hurricane IIc x 9


Allied aircraft losses
Liberator VI: 1 destroyed, 17 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
91 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Liberator VI bombing at 10000 feet

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Day Air attack on 5th Division, at 46,103


Allied aircraft
Spitfire Vb x 9
Ventura V x 3
PV-1 Ventura x 5
B-25C Mitchell x 70
B-25J Mitchell x 15
F4U-1 Corsair x 5
B-17E Fortress x 3


Allied aircraft losses
Ventura V: 1 damaged
PV-1 Ventura: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 2 destroyed, 18 damaged
B-25J Mitchell: 2 destroyed, 6 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
347 casualties reported
Guns lost 9
Vehicles lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet

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Day Air attack on 35th Heavy AA Battalion, at 46,103


Allied aircraft
PV-1 Ventura x 3
B-25C Mitchell x 59
B-25J Mitchell x 18
B-17E Fortress x 3


Allied aircraft losses
PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 2 destroyed, 13 damaged
B-25J Mitchell: 7 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 3 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
302 casualties reported
Guns lost 8

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet

another AA unit wiped out... could you attack my divisions perhaps?

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Day Air attack on 59th Division, at 69,23

Japanese aircraft
Ki-61 Ic x 26

Allied aircraft
Pe-2 x 9

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-61 Ic: 3 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Pe-2: 3 destroyed, 3 damaged

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Pe-2 bombing at 10000 feet

forgot my Tonies on LRCAP and to my total surprise, bigbaba also kept his bombers on ground attack. He really doesn´t care about air or naval losses at all it seems. Can´t say I really like that.

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Day Air attack on 47th Division, at 43,32


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc x 7


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
37 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x Hurricane IIc bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 108th Region Fortress, at 65,32

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 27
P1Y Frances x 34
Ki-49 Helen x 258

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
165 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
20 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet

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Day Air attack on TF at 94,97

Japanese aircraft
P1Y Frances x 31

Japanese aircraft losses
P1Y Frances: 13 damaged

Allied Ships
AK George S. Boutwell, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
AK Glenn Curtiss
AK John H. Couch, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Henry J. Raymond
AK Jacques Laramie, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Hatfield
AK John J. Ingalls, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Juan Cabrillo, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK Ina Coolbrith, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Jubal A. Early, Torpedo hits 1, on fire


Allied ground losses:
35 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x P1Y Frances launching torpedoes at 200 feet

this is the strike from Baker Island. Probably another four, perhaps five ships sent to the fish for only one loss within the bombers... again, those losses could have been EASILY avoided...




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Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23

Japanese aircraft
Ki-46-III Dinah x 2

No Japanese losses


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Ground combat at Makin

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 43426 troops, 309 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1027

Defending force 52397 troops, 199 guns, 21 vehicles, Assault Value = 907



Allied ground losses:
229 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

will wait until I see the av going down (would mean the enemy ran out of supply) and then I will start to take those troops out...

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Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 107757 troops, 1092 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 2256

Defending force 94277 troops, 1114 guns, 315 vehicles, Assault Value = 1778



Allied ground losses:
82 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 373520 troops, 4449 guns, 1348 vehicles, Assault Value = 9389

Defending force 147070 troops, 1846 guns, 212 vehicles, Assault Value = 3015



Allied ground losses:
383 casualties reported
Guns lost 6


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22590 troops, 266 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 3439

Defending force 310391 troops, 749 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 8618



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Ground combat at Iman

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 41624 troops, 395 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 865

Defending force 52082 troops, 480 guns, 209 vehicles, Assault Value = 906



Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Townsville

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 6598 troops, 222 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3895

Defending force 126685 troops, 865 guns, 455 vehicles, Assault Value = 2077



Allied ground losses:
27 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22665 troops, 241 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 1285

Defending force 126284 troops, 216 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2445



Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 72239 troops, 975 guns, 313 vehicles, Assault Value = 1778

Defending force 111097 troops, 1092 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 2256


Japanese ground losses:
517 casualties reported
Guns lost 9
Vehicles lost 1


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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 107346 troops, 1693 guns, 134 vehicles, Assault Value = 3009

Defending force 457714 troops, 4502 guns, 3380 vehicles, Assault Value = 9389


Japanese ground losses:
416 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 3

Allied artillery stays very effective...

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Ground combat at Iman

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 45211 troops, 473 guns, 176 vehicles, Assault Value = 906

Defending force 41624 troops, 395 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 865


Japanese ground losses:
67 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Vehicles lost 2


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Ground combat at Chungking

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 17380 troops, 169 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2445

Defending force 63290 troops, 658 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 1285



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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 106845 troops, 926 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 3260

Defending force 99128 troops, 1140 guns, 20 vehicles, Assault Value = 2054


Japanese ground losses:
293 casualties reported
Guns lost 11

Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Townsville

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 93043 troops, 853 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 2077

Defending force 196190 troops, 2222 guns, 23 vehicles, Assault Value = 3895


Japanese ground losses:
271 casualties reported
Guns lost 13

Allied ground losses:
21 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Cairns

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 36572 troops, 429 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1050

Defending force 242432 troops, 2026 guns, 10 vehicles, Assault Value = 3855


Japanese ground losses:
27 casualties reported





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RE: it goes on... - 7/10/2009 8:25:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hmmm, no offense to either player, but it seems that where Miller's blind spot was ground combat, Big Baba has ignored control of the skies during the (premature) retreat from Makin.

Agree that Baker is the logical target from the Allied perspective as it allows extension of the LBA umbrella throughout the Gilberts and Marshalls, leading to unfavorable conditions for employment of Japanese LBA or carrier air power, which in turn leads to Allied air superiority and eventual victory.

IF Big Baba doesn't try to rescue the 50K troops trapped on Makin, given previous Allied ground losses I think you may have to comtemplate the unthinkable - victory over the Allies in the war. While this victory will probably look like stalemate, it is much better than the usual fate of Japan in WITP. We shall see, but I think victory is actually possible.

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