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May 4, 1945
On the 4th I tried to create as much confusion as I could around Kume. Some of it seems to have worked. The Allies take the base, but we retake it by para assault! Very fun. No other real action on the day in the North. The DS and mob move slightly forward past Okinawa.
The Allies assault and will take Georgetown on Malaya within a day or two. I've got enough to hold for the time being at Taiping, but just one enough to get troops to rail down from the North. It all collapses quickly when it does.
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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 4, 1945
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Kume-jima at 94,65, Range 5,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
LB-101, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
LB-102
LB-103
LB-104
LB-105, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
LB-106
LB-107
LB-108
LB-109, Shell hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
LB-110
LB-111, Shell hits 2, on fire
LB-112, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
Allied Ships
APD Kline
APD Bunch
Maximum visibility in Partly Cloudy Conditions and 46% moonlight: 5,000 yards
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Amphibious Assault at Iriomote (89,65)
TF 684 troops unloading over beach at Iriomote, 89,65
Allied ground losses:
45 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Shanghai at 95,59
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes
Allied aircraft
FM-2 Wildcat x 4
SB2C-4 Helldiver x 6
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
E Hatsutaka
TK Gen'yo Maru, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x SB2C-4 Helldiver releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Amami Oshima at 97,62
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid spotted at 6 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 2 minutes
Japanese aircraft
N1K2-J George x 3
Allied aircraft
F6F-5 Hellcat x 14
SBD-6 Dauntless x 12
Japanese aircraft losses
N1K2-J George: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
SBD-6 Dauntless: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
Japanese Ships
xAK Tofuku Maru
xAK Jinsai Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Utide Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAK Taihei Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
9 x SBD-6 Dauntless releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
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Ground combat at Georgetown (49,74)
Allied Shock attack
Attacking force 19287 troops, 535 guns, 212 vehicles, Assault Value = 835
Defending force 5368 troops, 23 guns, 152 vehicles, Assault Value = 157
Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 5
Allied adjusted assault: 424
Japanese adjusted defense: 69
Allied assault odds: 6 to 1 (fort level 5)
Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 0
Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)
Japanese ground losses:
717 casualties reported
Squads: 24 destroyed, 15 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 7 destroyed, 13 disabled
Guns lost 6 (2 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Vehicles lost 24 (4 destroyed, 20 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
1206 casualties reported
Squads: 39 destroyed, 109 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 7 destroyed, 24 disabled
Guns lost 31 (1 destroyed, 30 disabled)
Vehicles lost 8 (1 destroyed, 7 disabled)
Assaulting units:
Lushai Brigade
11th PAVO Regiment
8th Indian Division
IV Corps Engineer Battalion
20th Indian Division
82nd (West African) Division
475th USA Rgt /6
1st Indian Medium Rgt /1
156th USA Base Force
126th RAF Base Force /2
Defending units:
4th Raiding Regiment
26th Tank Regiment
Yokosuka 3rd SNLF
9th Ind. Engineer Regiment
93rd JAAF AF Bn
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Ground combat at Kume-jima (94,65)
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 389 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 23
Defending force 209 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 9
Japanese adjusted assault: 15
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 15 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Kume-jima !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(-), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)
Japanese ground losses:
72 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
238 casualties reported
Squads: 11 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1
Assaulting units:
2nd Glider Inf. Rgt /1
1st Glider Inf. Rgt /1
Defending units:
503rd Parachute Rgt /1
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Down in Burma things have been going somewhat smoothly with troops leaving the area by rail. The Allies are infiltrating everywhere along Malaya though, and the capture of Georgetown means a split defence until I can rail some troops from Chumpon down the East side. Hopefully that goes well so I can get 1k AV into Singers at least.
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