castor troy
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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Sep 15, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Daito Shoto at 100,72 Japanese Ships PB Chohakusan Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage TK San Diego Maru TK Ogura Maru #2 E Yaeyama Allied Ships SS Tinosa, hits 1 SS Tinosa launches 6 torpedoes at PB Chohakusan Maru Tinosa diving deep .... E Yaeyama fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yaeyama fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yaeyama fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yaeyama attacking submerged sub .... E Yaeyama attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub there would have been some nice targets... the PB is sunk though... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Kushiro at 122,54 Japanese Ships SC CHa-33 SC CHa-25 SC CHa-42 Allied Ships SS Lapon SS Lapon is located by SC CHa-33 Lapon diving deep .... SC CHa-42 fails to find sub and abandons search SC CHa-33 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-33 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-33 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-33 attacking submerged sub .... SC CHa-33 is out of ASW ammo SC CHa-33 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-33 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Torishima at 107,68 Japanese Ships xAK Tenryu Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage xAK Macassar Maru xAK Victoria Maru PB Hakata Maru #2 Allied Ships SS Snapper SS Snapper launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Tenryu Maru Snapper diving deep .... PB Hakata Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Hakata Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Hakata Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Hakata Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Hakata Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub also a freighter bites the dust today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Darwin at 76,124 Japanese Ships SS I-121 <-- IJN minelayer Allied Ships SC-643 LST-459 LST-457 LST-446 LCI-335 LCI-332 LCI-330 LCI-219 LCI-84 LCI-24 SC-984 SC-983 SC-644 SS I-121 is sighted by escort SC-984 fails to find sub and abandons search SC-983 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC-644 fails to find sub and abandons search Escort abandons search for sub a convoy enters Darwin the same time as this bugger... if the sub lays some mines here it shouldn´t be a problem because there are enough minesweepers around... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Daito Shoto at 103,68 Japanese Ships TK Azurai Maru, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage PB Ryuto Maru PB Myoken Maru SC Ch 47 TK Toan Maru TK Ogura Maru #3 PB Seki Maru #3 PB Nigitsu Maru Allied Ships SS Sealion SS Sealion launches 4 torpedoes at TK Azurai Maru PB Seki Maru #3 fails to find sub and abandons search PB Nigitsu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Nigitsu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Nigitsu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Nigitsu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Nigitsu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Nigitsu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub we get our tanker today! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 40,740 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 27 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 23 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 36740 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kolaka , at 68,105 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 42,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 1 Allied aircraft P-38G Lightning x 22 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38G Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet * CAP engaged: 202 Ku S-1 Det A with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead sent the Lightnings to Babar today to have them sweep the base West of Kendari because Kendari is the main airbase in the area and I guess Rainer felt pretty much save there so far... we can reach the base with 4Es from Darwin at extended range but I´m not really keen on attacking as we´ve spotted some 150 fighters at the base... could result in only some two dozen in the air though with recon being wrong all the time and radar not working... guess there are some 80 fighters and 1/4 would be in the air... decided to attack sooner than later with Lightnings doing a sweep before the bombers show up (at least that´s the plan with the Lightnings being closer to the target)... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kolaka , at 68,105 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 42,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-45 KAIc Nick x 4 Allied aircraft P-38G Lightning x 22 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-45 KAIc Nick: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 21 x P-38G Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet * CAP engaged: 5th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIc Nick (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 11000 Raid is overhead next squadron meets some Nicks, these would be a threat to the bombers (threat is an exaggeration but at least they´re more dangerous than Zekes)... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kompong Chhnang , at 59,68 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 42,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-45 KAIc Nick x 1 Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 22 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-45 KAIc Nick: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 40000 feet * CAP engaged: 21st Sentai with Ki-45 KAIc Nick (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 12000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes also sweeping in Thailand... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kolaka , at 68,105 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 41,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 2 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 9 Ki-45 KAIc Nick x 1 Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 22 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed Ki-45 KAIc Nick: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-38H Lightning: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 5 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 40000 feet * CAP engaged: 248th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (9 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes 202 Ku S-1 Det A with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead 5th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIc Nick (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 11000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes we had the dive in the other sweeps, this one ended quickly with the result of one fighter downed and others damaged... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kompong Chhnang , at 59,68 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 44,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 40000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 40,750 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 9 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 4 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 9 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 36750 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 40,740 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 36740 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 46 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 7 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 52 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 110 Aircraft Attacking: 21 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 25 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 27 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 25 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dili , at 71,115 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 46 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 6 damaged Port hits 5 Port fuel hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 11000 feet Port Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 11000 feet Port Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 11000 feet Port Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 11000 feet Port Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb the Venturas top themselves again... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dili , at 71,115 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Port fuel hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 11000 feet Port Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dili , at 71,115 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 25 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Port hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 11000 feet Port Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 11000 feet Port Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kolaka , at 68,105 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 42,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 1 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 6 Ki-45 KAIc Nick x 8 Allied aircraft P-38G Lightning x 3 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses P-38G Lightning: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: 5th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIc Nick (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (8 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 11000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes 248th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 127 minutes 202 Ku S-1 Det A with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 21 minutes that´s what you get from such a nice "feature" of squadrons losing three of their aircraft all the time (I seriously don´t want to believe this is wad as I would lose all respect of people coming up with such a strange idea - this has nothing to do with realism)... two of the Lightnings were downed while being outnumbered 5:1... and now think about working land based radar if the strike routine as it is... shaking head... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kolaka , at 68,105 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 43,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 1 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 5 Ki-45 KAIc Nick x 7 Allied aircraft P-38G Lightning x 3 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: 202 Ku S-1 Det A with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 20 minutes 248th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 22 minutes 5th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIc Nick (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 7 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 11000 , scrambling fighters to 11000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 minutes and so on... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kompong Chhnang , at 59,68 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 48 NM, estimated altitude 44,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 9 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 40000 feet * 3 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 40000 feet * 3 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 40000 feet * and so stupid... make a choice: bad design or a bug... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kolaka , at 68,105 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 43,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 1 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3 Ki-45 KAIc Nick x 6 Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 3 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-45 KAIc Nick: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: 202 Ku S-1 Det A with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 20 minutes 248th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 46 minutes 5th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIc Nick (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 11000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes and another one... yeah, this is how it was in WWII, every fighter squadron being sent out lost three fighters on the way to target ALL THE TIME... not 1, not 2, not 4, not 8... THREE all the time... so stupid... it would be stupid enough to seem them near always losing fighters on their way, but the stupidity tops itselve by having always THREE fighters being lost... go through the 30 pages of the AAR and you can count up the number of times this studity came up already... it´s all there, noone can deny it... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 14th Chinese Corps, at 64,59 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 29 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 49 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 29 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 9th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 14th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 9th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 14th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 9th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 14th Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kompong Chhnang , at 59,68 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 43,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 40000 feet * and the last squadron, the three fighters of this squadron that were lost came in earlier already with 2x3 lost fighters of the other two squadrons... some things should only cause you headache while you insist on saying it would work well... every human being to a different ego of course... the total result today of course wasn´t pleasant, the fragments were shot up badly (mostly damaged aircraft that crashed or were write offs) and the result of the fragmented strikes were no less than 9 Lightnings lost for reported 11 enemies downed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Darwin at 76,124 Japanese Ships SS I-121, hits 14 Allied Ships SC-643 LST-459 LST-457 LST-446 LCI-335 LCI-332 LCI-330 LCI-219 LCI-84 LCI-24 SC-984 SC-983 SC-644 SS I-121 is sighted by escort SC-984 fails to find sub and abandons search SC-983 attacking submerged sub .... SC-644 attacking submerged sub .... SC-644 is out of ASW ammo Escort abandons search for sub I-121 is attacked again, this time taking some near misses and one direct hit... not much damage inflicted it seems... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Hollandia (93,116) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 51045 troops, 1008 guns, 942 vehicles, Assault Value = 1958 Defending force 6693 troops, 66 guns, 44 vehicles, Assault Value = 249 Japanese ground losses: 11 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units destroyed 1 Assaulting units: 13th Canadian Brigade 15th NZ Brigade 43rd Infantry Division 32nd Infantry Division 158th(Sep) Infantry Regiment 24th (Sep) Infantry Regiment 14th Canadian Brigade 22nd Marine Regiment II Aus Corps Engineer Battalion 7th Infantry Division 98th Field Artillery Battalion 135th USA Base Force 165th Field Artillery Battalion 141st USA Base Force Defending units: 12th Division Yokosuka 5th SNLF /1 Combined 8th SNLF /1 25th JAAF AF Bn /1 45th JNAF AF Unit /2 54th JNAF AF Unit /1 our troops arrived at Hollandia and as expected, we don´t meet much resistance here anymore... the five fragments are so small one of them is even destroyed by our bombardment that didn´t show much effect other than the recon you get from the intelligence shells... also the division seems to be totally understrenght, Rainer has used air transport as usual to evacuate as much as possible... no problem at all to take the place...
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