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1942 July 10 INVADED Amphibious TF 99 offshore of Pagai-eilanden Amphibious TF 253 offshore of Car Nicobar Changsha, Mengtze, Urumchi are invested. CHANGED OWNERSHIP Japanese forces CAPTURE Darwin !!! Overall • No carrier sightings. Sqns Ryujo-1 and Chitose Ku S-1 sighted in action near Darwin. • Troops are loading for operation Cantankerous Olfactory; I assume that will take a couple of days. • We are short of destroyers for Op CO, but then again we are short of destroyers for everything and short of everything else for everything. Of course the ASW and Long Island groups will be recalled and reallocated before the fleet departs. • Still being without any current word on the major IJN fleet carriers this operation will be as risky as it gets, with all the USN carriers, all the operational USN battleships, and nearly all of the USN cruisers and destroyers involved. Read your Fleet Tactics (by Wayne Hughes) about the contrast in the concept of reserves in land operations versus naval operations. • The USA infantry squads are equipped as USA 41 Rifle Squad: 15 anti-armor, 22 anti-soft. The USMC infantry as USMC 42 Rifle Squad: 15 anti-armor, 23 anti-soft. The USMC Raiders as USMC Raider Squad: 15 anti-armor, 19 anti-soft. West Coast USA, Alaska, Hawaii • Enemy sub activity near Kona, San Francisco, Lihue. • All convoys report no contacts. • One of four ASW TF's on the hunt. quote:
ASW attack near Pearl Harbor at 177,112 Japanese Ships SS I-29 Allied Ships DD Smith DD Perkins DD Cushing SS I-29 launches 2 torpedoes at DD Smith DD Perkins fails to find sub and abandons search DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub quote:
ASW attack near Pearl Harbor at 177,112 Japanese Ships SS I-29, hits 6 Allied Ships DD Perkins DD Smith DD Cushing SS I-29 launches 4 torpedoes at DD Perkins DD Perkins fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Perkins fails to find sub and abandons search DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Cushing attacking submerged sub .... DD Cushing cannot establish contact with SS I-29 DD Cushing attacking submerged sub .... SS I-29 eludes DD Cushing by diving deep SS I-29 eludes ASW attack from DD Cushing DD Cushing loses contact with SS I-29 Escort abandons search for sub The sub is still firmly sighted and four ASW TF's are pursuing, plus Long Island with her DB's on naval search and her strong destroyer protection screen in case the prey becomes the hunter. Pacific • Enemy sub activity near Suva. • All convoys report no contacts. • Our old CL TF is now on a line level with Pearl Harbor and has not been spotted at all so far as we know. They will return to Pearl Harbor to refuel, then join Op CO as northern outriders to warn against IJN strikes into withdrawing convoys. New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomons, Papua New Guinea, New Britain • Enemy sub activity near Sydney. • All convoys report no contacts. • Fuel unloading at Melbourne. • SigInt pays off but escorts thwart the attack. quote:
ASW attack near Wyndham at 71,126 Japanese Ships PB Takunan Maru #5 Allied Ships SS Perch SS Perch is sighted by escort PB Takunan Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Takunan Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Takunan Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Takunan Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Takunan Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub • The last hurrah for now as the B-17's are assigned to bring supplies into Daly Waters. quote:
Morning Air attack on 8th Tank Regiment, at 75,125 , near Darwin Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 2 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 0 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 9 Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 3 Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 3 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 5000 feet * Ground Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: Ryujo-1 with A6M2 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 10000. Raid is overhead Chitose Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 10000. Raid is overhead Tainan Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 10000. Raid is overhead 16th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 12000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 12000. Raid is overhead • Darwin falls. quote:
Ground combat at Darwin (76,124) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 12671 troops, 100 guns, 14 vehicles, Assault Value = 389 Defending force 831 troops, 20 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 19 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 3 Japanese adjusted assault: 362 Allied adjusted defense: 3 Japanese assault odds: 120 to 1 (fort level 3) Japanese forces CAPTURE Darwin !!! Combat modifiers Defender: leaders(+), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 22 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 740 casualties reported Squads: 26 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 49 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 10 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 21 (21 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units destroyed 1 Assaulting units: 4th Division Defending units: Darwin Fortress • The handful of engineers with thr armoured units at Katherine have repaired base damage and will now work on at least rudimentary fortifications. Philippines DEI, Dutch new Guinea, Borneo, Malaya • Looks like the crabs will be getting some company. quote:
Japanese Fighter sighted over Christmas Island IO China • The mouse plays with its prey. quote:
Ground combat at 83,39 (near Sian) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 12443 troops, 104 guns, 55 vehicles, Assault Value = 902 Defending force 38784 troops, 65 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 315 Assaulting units: 34th Division 17th Division 37th Division Defending units: 16th Chinese/A Corps 81st Chinese Corps 9th Chinese/A Corps 57th Chinese/A Corps 35th Chinese Corps 27th Chinese Corps 38th Chinese/A Corps 88th Chinese Corps 98th Chinese Corps 61st Chinese Corps 92nd Chinese Corps 12th Chinese Corps 93rd Chinese Corps 33rd Chinese/A Corps 57th Chinese/C Corps 33rd Chinese/B Corps 4th Group Army 120th Red Chinese Division 9th Chinese/B Corps 38th Chinese/C Corps 9th Chinese/C Corps 4th Chinese Cavalry/A Corps 15th Chinese Base Force 16th Chinese/C Corps 38th Chinese/B Corps 51st Chinese Corps 129th Red Chinese Division 33rd Chinese/C Corps 13th Group Army 37th Group Army 12th Chinese Base Force 4th Chinese Cavalry/B Corps • Another armoured assault! quote:
Ground combat at 64,45 (near Paoshan) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 14870 troops, 162 guns, 113 vehicles, Assault Value = 596 Defending force 16860 troops, 62 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 604 Japanese adjusted assault: 34 Allied adjusted defense: 1459 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 42 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: Vehicles lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled) Allied ground losses: 60 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 18th Division 4th Tank Regiment 33rd/C Division 3rd Mortar Battalion Defending units: 28th Chinese Corps 54th Chinese Corps • Having caught some fleeting glimpses earlier, I am not surprised to now see an Imperial unit closing on Paoshan from the SW. Two hexes of mountainous cross country terrain I hope they run out of bullets quickly and then starve. We already have a unit moving from 4 hexes east of Kunming to Tsuyung, replacing the unit which marched to bolster defenses NW of Paoshan (where an Imperial Mixed Rgt is crossing the river). Another unit from east of Kunming is moving to Kunming. These Imperial movements are more than just part of increasing pressure across the board; they are aimed at undermining defenses in the mountains before Chinese units (soon to be) falling back from other areas can get there and dig in. Dastardly Imperials! India, Burma, Thailand, Indochina • Enemy sub activity near Karachi. • British major fleet units are spotted by Imperial sub-based aerial recon. Our ships are there to allow a carrier to withdraw. • The recent increase in size of Ledo airfield to size 8 has increased the daily supply land-draw cap to 1,100. Everything will help at this point so we can keep supply flowing into China. • The 102nd RAF Base Force, ex-Lashio and which moved to Paoshan in the early going to aid fortification building, has finally crossed the Burma-China frontier deep in the mountains. Counting the hex they are in and their destination of Ledo, they must now cross MT, JR, Mtn, and Jg. They took this long route to avoid being sniped. BTW, anyone know the difference between terrain types MT and Mtn? So far as I know there is only one type of mountain terrain listed in the manual. Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Russia Complete combat report attached.
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