Slitherine

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Night Naval bombardment of Vinh at 65,59

Japanese Ships
CL Yura
DD Hatakaze
DD Murakumo

Allied ground losses:
15 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Port hits 2
Port fuel hits 1

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Ground combat at Lae (99,126)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 14531 troops, 250 guns, 94 vehicles, Assault Value = 548

Defending force 1686 troops, 9 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 26

Allied adjusted assault: 199

Japanese adjusted defense: 22

Allied assault odds: 9 to 1 (fort level 2)

Allied forces CAPTURE Lae !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
600 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 16 disabled
Non Combat: 19 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 5 (5 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2

Allied ground losses:
60 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
9th Australian/A Division
44th British/A Division
27th Rhodesian Brigade
44th British/C Div /2

Defending units:
II/81st Naval Guard Unit
85th JAAF AF Bn

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Ground combat at Burnie (81,176)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 5361 troops, 139 guns, 51 vehicles, Assault Value = 171

Defending force 13456 troops, 84 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 108

Allied adjusted assault: 77

Japanese adjusted defense: 277

Allied assault odds: 1 to 3 (fort level 4)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
75 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

Allied ground losses:
451 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 53 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Guns lost 23 (1 destroyed, 22 disabled)
Vehicles lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled)

Assaulting units:
34th Infantry Regiment
6th Australian Bde /2
154th Field Artillery Battalion

Defending units:
46th Naval Guard Unit
65th Naval Guard Unit
15th Naval Construction Battalion
14th Naval Construction Battalion
204th Ship Eng Coy
17th Naval Construction Battalion
15th Port Unit
32nd Special Base Force
39th JNAF AF Unit
41st JNAF AF Unit
22nd JNAF AF Unit
41st JAAF AF Bn

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Tasmania: No, really, there are still Japs in Tasmania. Yesterday they tried a BONZAI charge and were massacred. So, I ordered a counterattack today. Did not know they had level 4 forts. We will need some combat engineers.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Tasmania: No, really, there are still Japs in Tasmania. Yesterday they tried a BONZAI charge and were massacred. So, I ordered a counterattack today. Did not know they had level 4 forts. We will need some combat engineers.

So the Japs were doing their Bonsai with their little trimming scissors when the General ordered them to make a Banzai charge and you got cut to pieces by their precision snips?

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Dobo at 83,116, Range 10,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
BB Fuso
BB Ise
CL Isuzu
DD Makigumo
DD Maikaze
DD Tokitsukaze
DD Hamakaze
DD Arashi
DD Natsugumo
DD Kawakaze

Allied Ships
PT-176
PT-177
PT-220
PT-221

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Taberfane at 82,117, Range 11,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CA Mikuma
CA Kumano
DD Isonami
DD Uranami
DD Yugiri
DD Amagiri

Allied Ships
YMS-95, Shell hits 3, and is sunk

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Dobo at 83,116, Range 11,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
BB Fuso
BB Ise
CL Isuzu
DD Makigumo
DD Maikaze
DD Tokitsukaze
DD Hamakaze
DD Arashi
DD Natsugumo
DD Kawakaze

Allied Ships
PT-165, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
PT-222
PT-299
PT-301, Shell hits 3, and is sunk

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Night Naval bombardment of Taberfane at 82,117

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 21 damaged
Wirraway: 19 damaged
Wirraway: 1 destroyed on ground
P-39D Airacobra: 14 damaged
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed on ground
SBC-4 Helldiver: 4 damaged
SBC-4 Helldiver: 1 destroyed on ground
P-40K Warhawk: 58 damaged
P-40K Warhawk: 5 destroyed on ground
P-40E Warhawk: 1 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed on ground
F-5A Lightning: 2 damaged
Kittyhawk III: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Kumano
CA Mikuma
DD Amagiri
DD Yugiri
DD Uranami
DD Isonami

Allied ground losses:
544 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 13 disabled
Non Combat: 30 destroyed, 95 disabled
Engineers: 7 destroyed, 6 disabled
Guns lost 26 (2 destroyed, 24 disabled)
Vehicles lost 13 (2 destroyed, 11 disabled)

Airbase hits 15
Airbase supply hits 11
Runway hits 81

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Cringe

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Night Naval bombardment of Taberfane at 82,117

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 21 damaged
Wirraway: 19 damaged
Wirraway: 1 destroyed on ground
P-39D Airacobra: 14 damaged
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed on ground
SBC-4 Helldiver: 4 damaged
SBC-4 Helldiver: 1 destroyed on ground
P-40K Warhawk: 58 damaged
P-40K Warhawk: 5 destroyed on ground
P-40E Warhawk: 1 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed on ground
F-5A Lightning: 2 damaged
Kittyhawk III: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Kumano
CA Mikuma
DD Amagiri
DD Yugiri
DD Uranami
DD Isonami

Allied ground losses:
544 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 13 disabled
Non Combat: 30 destroyed, 95 disabled
Engineers: 7 destroyed, 6 disabled
Guns lost 26 (2 destroyed, 24 disabled)
Vehicles lost 13 (2 destroyed, 11 disabled)

Airbase hits 15
Airbase supply hits 11
Runway hits 81

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ORIGINAL: JohnnieX

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Cringe

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Night Naval bombardment of Taberfane at 82,117

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 21 damaged
Wirraway: 19 damaged
Wirraway: 1 destroyed on ground
P-39D Airacobra: 14 damaged
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed on ground
SBC-4 Helldiver: 4 damaged
SBC-4 Helldiver: 1 destroyed on ground
P-40K Warhawk: 58 damaged
P-40K Warhawk: 5 destroyed on ground
P-40E Warhawk: 1 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed on ground
F-5A Lightning: 2 damaged
Kittyhawk III: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Kumano
CA Mikuma
DD Amagiri
DD Yugiri
DD Uranami
DD Isonami

Allied ground losses:
544 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 13 disabled
Non Combat: 30 destroyed, 95 disabled
Engineers: 7 destroyed, 6 disabled
Guns lost 26 (2 destroyed, 24 disabled)
Vehicles lost 13 (2 destroyed, 11 disabled)

Airbase hits 15
Airbase supply hits 11
Runway hits 81

That's very good shooting. Sometimes you just have to applaud.

Some of those shells must have hit a few things on the way through. Hit a Wirraway, ricocheted into a truck and then exploded in a foxhole.

Ouch!

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe
I have never seen a Japanese bombardment so effective.

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ORIGINAL: GetAssista

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe
I have never seen a Japanese bombardment so effective.

Overstacked airfield probably. Those things are shell magnets

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Night Naval bombardment of Dobo at 83,116

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIc Trop: 16 damaged
Hurricane IIc Trop: 2 destroyed on ground
P-38G Lightning: 30 damaged
P-38G Lightning: 1 destroyed on ground
Kittyhawk III: 7 damaged
Kittyhawk III: 1 destroyed on ground
PBY-5 Catalina: 2 damaged
PBY-5 Catalina: 1 destroyed on ground

Japanese Ships
BB Ise
BB Fuso
CL Isuzu
DD Kawakaze
DD Natsugumo
DD Arashi
DD Hamakaze
DD Tokitsukaze
DD Maikaze
DD Makigumo

Allied Ships
LCT-133, Shell hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
LCT-134, Shell hits 1, heavy damage
LCM 532A, Shell hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
LCT-130, Shell hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
LCM 532C, Shell hits 1, heavy damage
LCM 532D, Shell hits 1, heavy damage

Allied ground losses:
574 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 45 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 10 disabled
Guns lost 6 (1 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Vehicles lost 4 (2 destroyed, 2 disabled)

Airbase hits 33
Airbase supply hits 6
Runway hits 116

BB Ise firing at Dobo
Massive explosion on LCT-133
BB Fuso firing at Dobo
CL Isuzu firing at Dobo
DD Kawakaze firing at Dobo
DD Natsugumo firing at Dobo
DD Arashi firing at Dobo
DD Hamakaze firing at Dobo
DD Tokitsukaze firing at Dobo
DD Maikaze firing at Dobo
DD Makigumo firing at Dobo

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Day Time Surface Combat, near Dobo at 82,116, Range 25,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CA Mikuma
CA Kumano
DD Isonami
DD Uranami
DD Yugiri
DD Amagiri

Allied Ships
DM Ramsay, Shell hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I was about 75 A/C on a 300 AC field (level 6). Level 2 forts, jungle hex. 13K troops with a 35K troop capacity.

I think were only about 20 P-40K's when the shooting started. Some must have been hit repeatedly. Even so it was brutal. There are still 33 damaged planes there 2 days later after flying off what I could. As I recall, about 15 were flightworthy the next day.

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Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49-IIa Helen x 15

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49-IIa Helen: 6 damaged

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 2

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I was about 75 A/C on a 300 AC field (level 6). Level 2 forts, jungle hex. 13K troops with a 35K troop capacity.

I think were only about 20 P-40K's when the shooting started. Some must have been hit repeatedly. Even so it was brutal. There are still 33 damaged planes there 2 days later after flying off what I could. As I recall, about 15 were flightworthy the next day.

Isn't Taberfane one of those hexes that shows jungle but is coded clear?

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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 34570 troops, 337 guns, 90 vehicles, Assault Value = 881

Defending force 37506 troops, 447 guns, 372 vehicles, Assault Value = 856

Japanese adjusted assault: 548

Allied adjusted defense: 2548

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 4 (fort level 0)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
4493 casualties reported
Squads: 14 destroyed, 347 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 29 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 22 disabled

Allied ground losses:
350 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 55 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 14 (1 destroyed, 13 disabled)

Assaulting units:
25th Division
48th Division
8th Ind.Mixed Brigade
33rd/C Division
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion

Defending units:
91st PA Infantry Division
31st PA Infantry Division
21st PA Infantry Division
71st PA Infantry Division
31st Infantry Regiment
192nd Tank Battalion
1st Constabulary Regiment
35th Avn Sup
637th Tank Destroyer Battalion
11th PA Infantry Division
632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion
194th Tank Battalion
4th Constabulary Regiment
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
I/Prov'nl SPM Grp
II/Prov'nl SPM Grp
III/Prov'nl SPM Grp
501st Coast AA Regiment
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
165th Field Artillery Battalion
4th PAAC Avn Sup
86th PS Field Artillery Battalion
!/23rd PS FA Battalion
803rd Aviation Engineer Battalion
209th Field Artillery Battalion
24th PS FA Regiment
1st USMC AA Battalion
Clark Field AAF Base Force
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment

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Morning Air attack on Bangkok , at 56,62

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 39 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 17

Allied aircraft
P-43A-1 Lancer x 2
Liberator II x 5
B-17F Fortress x 5
B-24D1 Liberator x 6

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
P-43A-1 Lancer: 1 destroyed
Liberator II: 5 damaged
B-17F Fortress: 4 damaged

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 5

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Morning Air attack on Bangkok , at 56,62

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 36 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 14

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc Trop x 12
B-24D1 Liberator x 7

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 1

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Night Naval bombardment of Rangoon at 54,53

Allied Ships
CA Devonshire
CL Caradoc
CL Mauritius
CL Hobart
CL De Ruyter
CL Sumatra
CL Java
CLAA Van Heemskerck
DD Norman
DD Napier
DD Warramunga
DD MacDonough
DD Smith

Japanese ground losses:
59 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Light Industry hits 1
Manpower hits 2
Fires 138
Airbase hits 13
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 131
Port hits 10
Port fuel hits 3

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Day Time Surface Combat, near Boela at 80,110, Range 23,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
BB Hiei
DD Kagero
DD Oyashio
DD Yukikaze

Allied Ships
PT-176
PT-177
PT-220, Shell hits 2, and is sunk
PT-221, Shell hits 1, and is sunk

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Day Time Surface Combat, near Sorong at 82,107, Range 17,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Minekaze
DD Hasu
xAP Argentina Maru

Allied Ships
PT-76
PT-143
PT-158

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ASW attack near Taberfane at 82,118

Japanese Ships
SS I-18, hits 7

Allied Ships
DD Chevalier
DD Gansevoort

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Morning Air attack on Saumlaki , at 78,117

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 75 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 28 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 51
G3M3 Nell x 58
G4M1 Betty x 9

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M3 Nell: 5 damaged

Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Airbase hits 22
Airbase supply hits 13
Runway hits 70