Miller
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Joined: 9/14/2004 From: Ashington, England. Status: offline
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16th July - 6th August 43 A much busier period. By region: Burma: He restarts his air campaign with a vengence. The P47 makes it debut with 100 sweeping the sky over Rangoon, my Oscars were stood down so I'm thinking I got lucky....then the B24s show up and destroy 110 on the ground To be fair I probably would have lost as many in the air had they been up and at least most of the pilots survived. Since then I have mostly left them flying low % CAP as losses to his sweeps seem lighter for some reason. He quickly switches all his bombers to attack Toungoo as this is where his mega stack of troops ends up. I get lucky one day as he sweepers arrive after his bombers and I down almost 100 2E bombers, but that was a rare bright spot in the air. His first deliberate attack: Ground combat at Toungoo (57,50) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 196449 troops, 3331 guns, 3508 vehicles, Assault Value = 8095 Defending force 92891 troops, 1052 guns, 2484 vehicles, Assault Value = 3049 Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 5 Allied adjusted assault: 8674 Japanese adjusted defense: 11441 Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 5) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+), preparation(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 3589 casualties reported Squads: 12 destroyed, 304 disabled Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 72 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 60 disabled Guns lost 176 (20 destroyed, 156 disabled) Vehicles lost 151 (15 destroyed, 136 disabled) Allied ground losses: 16877 casualties reported Squads: 128 destroyed, 1576 disabled Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 342 disabled Engineers: 58 destroyed, 362 disabled Guns lost 312 (12 destroyed, 300 disabled) Vehicles lost 245 (25 destroyed, 220 disabled) Assaulting units: 7th Indian Division 254th Armoured Brigade 3rd Carabiniers Regiment 18th British Division XXXIII Corps Engineer Battalion 9th Indian Division 255th Armoured Brigade 3rd Cavalry Regiment 7th Australian Division 150th RAC Regiment 50th Tank Brigade 5th Chinese Corps 6th Australian Division Gardner's Horse Regiment 26th Indian Division 2nd British Division 1st New Chinese Corps 11th Indian Division 22nd (East African) Brigade 5th Indian Division 268th Motorised Brigade 25th Indian Division 19th Indian Division I Aus Corps Engineer Battalion 9th Australian Division 2nd Indian Heavy AA Regiment XV Indian Corps It looks like he is going to have to bomb me out of supply to force me to retreat. I have a large convoy with 250k supply enroute from the homeland, it is due to arrive in about 10 days so hopefully I can prolong this seige for a few more weeks at least. Marshalls/Cenpac: He take Eniwetok without any interference from me but then goes for Ponape. With no sign of his CVs in the area I did not commit the KB, but my Nettys from Truk do well putting 2 torps into the CVEs Anzio and Corregidor which were covering his invasion. Between mines and the CD unit on Ponape I take a chunk out of his shipping, sinking a couple of DDs and leaving numerous CAs and DDs on fire. Meanwhile a TF of old DDs meets a bombardment fleet before it can unload on the island: Day Time Surface Combat, near Ponape at 119,113, Range 29,000 Yards Japanese Ships DD Usugumo DD Hatsuyuki DD Yugiri, Shell hits 2 DD Amagiri, Shell hits 1 DD Fumizuki, Shell hits 1 DD Kikuzuki, Shell hits 1 DD Nagatsuki DD Mikazuki DD Mochizuki DD Yuzuki, Shell hits 1 Allied Ships BB Maryland, Shell hits 1 BB Colorado, Shell hits 2 BB West Virginia, Torpedo hits 2 BB Nevada BB Pennsylvania, Shell hits 1 BB Idaho BB New Mexico BB Mississippi DD Sims DD Dewey, Shell hits 1 DD Worden, Shell hits 2 DD Dale, Shell hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage The 2 torp hits on West Virginia prove critical and she is finished off by a sub the next day He gets 3 units with about 300AV ashore but my garrison holds long enough to allow me to get a spare div sitting at Truk to Ponape, so he will have to land more there if he wants to capture it. To round off a stinging defeat for the USN my Nettys finish off the two crippled CVEs and a sub sinks the CA Chicago (damaged in the invasion) in sight of Pearl Harbour. So that's an old BB, 2 CVEs a CA plus several DDs confirmed sunk, for a cost to me of two old DDs and about 30 a/c Elsewhere He is sweeping Rabual regularly and gets between 2:1 and 3:1 in kills, which I can still live with at the moment as long as the pilots keep bailing out to fight another day Lots of shipping at Port Moresby, I think he may be making a move in the Timor area very soon.
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