Rio Bravo
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Combat Report for August 3, 1942 Opening Note El Lobo has advised that he will soon be visiting Marcus Island to destroy all Allied ground forces, aircraft, and ships that may be on "....that worthless piece of sand." I am not surprised and believe him. El Lobo will not allow the Allies to be so close to Japan proper this early in the war. Presently, all the Allies have at Marcus Island is the 177th USAAF BF, the 5th Marine Defense Battalion, 12 Catalina PBY-5As, six patrolling submarines, and 120 miles due East is the CVE Long Island accompanied by a Battleship, a CL, and five destroyers. I am considering, packing up the BF and Defense Battalion, ordering the Long Island back to Adak Island, and flying the Catalinas back to Wake Island, so that when El Lobo arrives there is nothing at Marcus for him to destroy. It would be futile to throw more troops onto Marcus (and it is an atoll so couldn't toss much onto the island anyway). I think it would be funny if El Lobo shows up with a big invasion force to find the sand only inhabited by crabs and seagulls. What do the War College Members think? Additionally, SIGNIT reports that the Guards Tank Division is planning to attack Akyab. The statistics at Akyab are as follows: Port: 0(23%) Air Capacity: (3 (1%) Fort: 4 (52%) Supply: 169 Supply Required: 1,665 Assault Value: 291 The big problem for the Allies at Akyab is supply. Six transports fly supply to Akyab every day, but the supply is used up immediately. And, considering that it is the Monsoon Season, only a trickle of supply is dripping down from Chittagong through Cox's Bazar to Akyab. I have decided to pull out the construction engineers and port service detachment. I have the entire Eastern Army and elements of I Australian Corps (a total of 1,769 AV) at Cox's Bazar. So, I could easily reinforce Akyab, but again, no supply. I am considering pulling out the ABDA forces. What do the members of The War College Think? Japanese Forces Shove Chinese Back Near Kweiyang: Ground combat at 73,47 (near Kweiyang) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 9363 troops, 74 guns, 352 vehicles, Assault Value = 426 Defending force 5982 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 258 Japanese adjusted assault: 208 Allied adjusted defense: 70 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 186 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 16 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Allied ground losses: 2233 casualties reported Squads: 57 destroyed, 32 disabled Non Combat: 38 destroyed, 32 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Units retreated 2 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 57th Infantry Brigade 7th Tank Regiment 10th Tank Regiment 2nd Recon Battalion 2nd Mobile Infantry Regiment Defending units: 84th Chinese Corps Lusu War Area Japanese Destroy a Vanguard Near Kweiyang: Morning Air attack on Kweiyang, at 74,49 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 7 Allied aircraft P-66 Vanguard x 3 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses P-66 Vanguard: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: 246th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes Allies Send Three More Sallys to the Scrapyard Near Cungking! Morning Air attack on 30th Chinese Corps, at 75,47 , near Chungking Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 18 Allied aircraft P-66 Vanguard x 4 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 3 destroyed, 4 damaged No Allied losses Allied ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 10000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb CAP engaged: 5th FG/17th FS CAF with P-66 Vanguard (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 10000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 10000. Raid is overhead Also attacking 65th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 30th Chinese Corps ... End Note Map of the Allies first conquest shown below. Best Regards, -Terry
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"No one throws me my own guns and tells me to run. No one." -Bret (James Coburn); The Magnificent Seven
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