Cap Mandrake
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Joined: 11/15/2002 From: Southern California Status: offline
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********************Jan. 1 , 1943(c)******************** Darwin/Bathurst: Largely uneventful day. Air attacks are gounded again except for a small raid of Bettys over Bathurst which are driven off. Bathurst runway was at 67% yesterday. May be ready today. That will free up the carriers. The tranpsorts at Gove have been drained of their fuel. The Royal Navy SCTF had to go back to Horn Is. Port Headrand: Hihgly effective ground attack raids. No Jap counterattack. Changsha: The place has been bombarded 3x daily for 2 mos. I guess there are lots of rodents and shoe leather to eat because the defenders are not ready to give up. Ground combat at Changsha (82,52) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 79263 troops, 723 guns, 360 vehicles, Assault Value = 2740 Defending force 75216 troops, 468 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2759 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 4 Japanese adjusted assault: 1717 Allied adjusted defense: 5343 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 3 (fort level 4) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 10456 casualties reported Squads: 159 destroyed, 952 disabled Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 44 disabled Engineers: 5 destroyed, 73 disabled Guns lost 76 (5 destroyed, 71 disabled) Vehicles lost 68 (2 destroyed, 66 disabled) Allied ground losses: 1126 casualties reported Squads: 10 destroyed, 195 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 51 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 16 disabled Guns lost 27 (2 destroyed, 25 disabled) Assaulting units: 2nd Ind.Mixed Regiment 23rd Tank Regiment 27th Division 58th Infantry Regiment 28th Division 3rd Division 9th Armored Car Co 102nd Infantry Regiment 41st Division 40th Division 51st Recon Regiment 11th Indpt Infantry Regiment 1st Army 3rd Hvy.Artillery Regiment 51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion 11th Army 5th Medium Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 26th Chinese Corps 73rd Chinese Corps 20th Chinese Corps 37th Chinese Corps 74th Chinese Corps 87th Chinese Corps 53rd Chinese Corps 56th Chinese Corps 5th Construction Regiment 27th Group Army 9th War Area 30th Group Army 1st Artillery Regiment 19th Group Army 57th AT Gun Regiment 7th Artillery Regiment 29th Group Army 17th Chinese Base Force 56th AT Gun Regiment
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