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No screens unfortunately, Snag was obviously not on this time so I clicked in vain. Quite an turn in the extreme! AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Oct 17, 42 ASW Attacks A major convoy near Karachi! ASW attack near Karachi at 39,8 Japanese Ships SS I-32 Allied Ships DD Decoy PG Hindustan AMC Chitral TK Fenris xAP Kelantan xAP Aquitania xAK Varela xAK Uffington Court xAK Trevilley xAK Markhor xAK Hadleigh xAK Empire Rani xAK Barjora xAK Ikauna xAK Gandara xAKL Belray DD Hotspur DD Foxhound SS I-32 launches 6 torpedoes at DD Decoy I-32 bottoming out .... DD Hotspur fails to find sub and abandons search DD Foxhound fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Foxhound fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Foxhound fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Foxhound fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Foxhound fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Air Combat This was extreme; 22!!! Allied sweeps over Shwebo in Burma Almost a bit surrealistic, but this shows how many ac Andy got. He used ca a 10-12 bases that launched a couple of strikes each. In all 266 enemy fighters took part in the sweeps. We had ca 120 CAP fighters in the air, less than I hoped for but some of the Zero's and Tojo's didn't show up. The first sweeps suffered quite heavy losses but then losses evened out and after 10 sweeps all of our fighters had left the airspace. Total air losses for the day was something like 50 Jap ac against 60 Allied. Fighting over our own bases saved many pilots, 15 were KIA and 9 WIA. Hopefully Allied pilot losses were much higher. We receive 160 Tojo's each month, so I'm game for a little battle of attrition over Burma now as the odds are more in our favor than they ever will be again. The challenge is the fact that we are facing so many Allied airfields and the further our troops advance the more difficult it will be to support them as our rear area bases get out of range. After this days air battles I stood LRCAP down over Shwebo and rested it at Magwe and moved some units to Rangoon while moving a couple of bomber formations forward to strike Allied airfields. Our best Army bomber at this time is the Helen II, it got armor and an extended range of 13 hexes. It has only been in production for a short time and we don't have many of them yet. The other units have a max range of 12 hexes and only the Lily II has armor. Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 30,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 16 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 104 Allied aircraft P-40K Warhawk x 16 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 2 destroyed Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-40K Warhawk: 3 destroyed CAP engaged: 11th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 22 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 Raid is overhead 21st Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 17000 Raid is overhead 50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 19 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 Raid is overhead 64th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 22 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 Raid is overhead 77th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 22 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 Raid is overhead 203rd Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 10 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes 260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 19 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Raid is overhead -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 13 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 76 Allied aircraft P-40E Warhawk x 23 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-40E Warhawk: 6 destroyed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 29,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 10 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 70 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 13 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 destroyed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 32,700 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 8 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 64 Allied aircraft Hurricane I Trop x 14 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Hurricane I Trop: 1 destroyed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 8 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 60 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 14 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIc Trop: 2 destroyed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 35,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 7 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 56 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 9 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 35,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 5 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 54 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb Trop x 14 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 3 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 30,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 4 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 37 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 13 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 destroyed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 36,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 4 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 28 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb Trop x 13 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed, 1 damaged -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 3 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 19 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 14 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIc Trop: 2 destroyed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 31,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 7 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb Trop x 14 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 4 x Hurricane IIb Trop sweeping at 29000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 35,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb Trop x 10 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 10 x Hurricane IIb Trop sweeping at 29000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb Trop x 12 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Hurricane IIb Trop sweeping at 30000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 34,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft Kittyhawk IA x 14 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Kittyhawk IA sweeping at 29000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb Trop x 13 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 13 x Hurricane IIb Trop sweeping at 24000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft P-40K Warhawk x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x P-40K Warhawk sweeping at 29000 feet Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb Trop x 2 P-40K Warhawk x 5 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 2 x P-40K Warhawk sweeping at 29000 feet 2 x Hurricane IIb Trop sweeping at 29000 feet 3 x P-40K Warhawk sweeping at 29000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft P-40E Warhawk x 6 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 14000 feet * 3 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 14000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 31,700 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft Hurricane I Trop x 16 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 16 x Hurricane I Trop sweeping at 29700 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb Trop x 2 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Hurricane IIb Trop sweeping at 24000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 2 Kittyhawk IA x 2 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Hurricane IIc Trop sweeping at 29000 feet * 2 x Kittyhawk IA sweeping at 29000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 30,700 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft Hurricane I Trop x 2 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Hurricane I Trop sweeping at 29700 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb Trop x 6 Hurricane IIc Trop x 7 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Hurricane IIc Trop sweeping at 30000 feet * 2 x Hurricane IIb Trop sweeping at 30000 feet 2 x Hurricane IIc Trop sweeping at 30000 feet * 2 x Hurricane IIb Trop sweeping at 30000 feet 2 x Hurricane IIc Trop sweeping at 30000 feet 2 x Hurricane IIb Trop sweeping at 30000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Allied aircraft Blenheim I x 12 Blenheim IV x 57 Hudson IIIa x 12 Hurricane IIa Trop x 8 Beaufort V x 12 Bolingbroke IV x 12 No Allied losses Runway hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Bolingbroke IV bombing from 22000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 lb GP Bomb 12 x Beaufort V bombing from 22000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x Blenheim IV bombing from 22000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 lb GP Bomb 12 x Blenheim IV bombing from 22000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 lb GP Bomb 15 x Blenheim IV bombing from 22000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 lb GP Bomb 12 x Blenheim I bombing from 22000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 lb GP Bomb 15 x Blenheim IV bombing from 22000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 lb GP Bomb 12 x Hudson IIIa bombing from 22000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 lb GP Bomb 3 x Blenheim IV bombing from 22000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft Blenheim IV x 9 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 9 x Blenheim IV bombing from 22000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This was our single strike on the forces routed north of Shwebo. It was surprisingly successfull and our Nicks claimed numerous AVG and Aircobra fighters at a low altitude and the bobmers hit their targets hard. Morning Air attack on 5th Chinese Corps, at 60,44 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 29 Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 39 Allied aircraft H81-A3 x 12 P-39D Airacobra x 7 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses H81-A3: 3 destroyed P-39D Airacobra: 2 destroyed Allied ground losses: 109 casualties reported Squads: 3 destroyed, 10 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 29 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 5000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 33 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick sweeping at 5000 feet * CAP engaged: 11th FG/41st FS CAF with H81-A3 (12 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (12 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 12 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 15000 Raid is overhead AVG/2nd Sqn with P-39D Airacobra (7 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 7 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Raid is overhead Also attacking 17th Indian Division ... Also attacking 5th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 17th Indian Division ... Also attacking 5th Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most of the bombers in Souther China has been tasked with reducing the defenders at Nanning. This will take some time.... Morning Air attack on 52nd Chinese Corps, at 72,55 (Nanning) Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 25 Ki-48-IIa Lily x 12 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-48-IIa Lily: 1 damaged Allied ground losses: 52 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 52nd Chinese Corps, at 72,55 (Nanning) Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 10 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 12 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 30 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 6 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground Combat This is a isolated Chinese Corps that I have to reduce. Ground combat at 80,56 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 7781 troops, 65 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 285 Defending force 2449 troops, 23 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 89 Japanese adjusted assault: 259 Allied adjusted defense: 268 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 162 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Allied ground losses: 130 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 10 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 17th/B Division 116th/B Division Defending units: 50th Chinese Corps -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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"The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without" - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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