Speedysteve
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Hi all,
The Japanese have been very active over the past 2 days and the defence commander of Northern Australia has been outwitted..........
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Australia -
Out of the blue troops of IJA 5th Division stormed ashore outside of Darwin! The CD units in the area had been on high alert though and exacted a toll on the Japanese shipping as no pre-invasion bombardment had occured...... AKL Kikuryu Maru, AKL Misaki Maru and PB Aso Maru 3 all sustained heavy damage due to Point Emery's guns......
The Japanese co-ordinated well since the IJA 40th Bde, also, unexpectadly stormed into Katherine's defences further south.
In short Darwin's defenders will be cut-off unless they can extricate themselves south ASAP.
The good news is that an attack by 5th Division on Darwin stalled on the 31st:
Ground combat at Darwin (76,124)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 13296 troops, 123 guns, 69 vehicles, Assault Value = 474
Defending force 8238 troops, 96 guns, 26 vehicles, Assault Value = 203
Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2
Japanese adjusted assault: 175
Allied adjusted defense: 346
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 2)
Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), op mode(-), leaders(+)
Attacker: leaders(+), leaders(-)
Japanese ground losses:
543 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 39 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 17 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
547 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 15 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 63 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Assaulting units:
5th Division
Defending units:
Sparrow Battalion
19th Australian Battalion
2/2nd Ind Coy
Gull Battalion
A/B Battery Heavy Coastal Artillery Regiment
Emery Point Fortress
2nd RAN Base Force
Darwin RAAF Base Force
Northern Territory
1st Fgtr RAAF Wing
Further west CV Shokaku & co. appeared out of nowhere and launched a raid on Perth.....suspiciously on my part they went straight for the port rather than going for any TF's (there WERE several in the area) or the AF. I say suspiciously since BB POW has been repairing there for the past 2 months. Maybe just coincidence or maybe a viewer is a Faber spy  Anyhow she only sustained a bomb hit and is fine.
On the 31st Shokaku lingered and sank 4 Motor Launches protecting the harbour. Kittyhawks were on patrol then (piloted by rookies) who claimed 2 x Zeroes for 6 friendlies.
A mass of reinforcements are starting to wind their way to Australia. IF this is the battlefield Faber will be hard pushed to take it all.........
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CBI -
Usual shenanigans over Burma with a few Oscars going down for a couple of Hurri's over Katha.
The Chinese attacked at Sinyang on the 31st....disasterously:
Ground combat at Sinyang (86,48)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 65342 troops, 466 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1808
Defending force 27736 troops, 231 guns, 152 vehicles, Assault Value = 917
Allied adjusted assault: 1204
Japanese adjusted defense: 2353
Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
779 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 56 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 56 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
6935 casualties reported
Squads: 23 destroyed, 533 disabled
Non Combat: 13 destroyed, 190 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 28 disabled
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Submarine warfare -
SS Searaven got frisky on the 30th, outside of Shikuka harbour, by probably sinking AK Mikage Maru and then surfacign to duel with AK Ryuko Maru....in this engagement she only landed 6 shells and took 2 in return 1 of which destriyed her forward tubes......she's returning to Seattle to repair and upgrade.
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Upgrades -
April 1942 is upon us and that's a good month for US ship ugrades.....namely AA and Radar assets on CV/CA/DD's and SS's.......
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