wobbly
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Joined: 10/16/2002 From: Christchurch, New Zealand Status: offline
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Disaster in the Philippines as Manila and 40K troops fall. The battered Boise seccumbs to the wounds received from the air and a hapless Blenheim squadron looses 75% of its planes to zeros over the mini CV fleet. AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/06/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Tarakan at 33,61 Japanese Ships CA Nachi, Shell hits 7 CL Naka, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 1 DD Oyashio, Shell hits 2 DD Harusame DD Yudachi Allied Ships PT PT-35 PT PT-41, Shell hits 10, and is sunk The only brightside to a bitter day a nice torpedo hit on the Naka. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Tjilitjap at 19,62 Japanese Ships CL Natori DD Satsuki DD Fumizuki Allied Ships AK Empire Lightning, Shell hits 8, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk AK Bintoehan, Shell hits 8, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Unfortunately the plane bait I had at Tjilitjap were visited by a small surface unit - bang down I go again. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Corregidor M Fortress, at 43,52 Japanese aircraft Ki-27 Nate x 21 Ki-21 Sally x 46 Ki-48 Lily x 12 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21 Sally: 3 damaged Ki-48 Lily: 1 damaged Allied ground losses: 22 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 15000 feet 15 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 15000 feet 12 x Ki-48 Lily bombing at 15000 feet 20 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 15000 feet Everyday for the last 2 weeks it seems PzB has managed to get weather in the Philippines that has allowed these guys to visit - they are doing fantastically well at smashing everything on the ground. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 20,67 Japanese aircraft A5M4 Claude x 5 A6M2 Zero x 15 Allied aircraft Blenheim I x 12 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 2 damaged Allied aircraft losses Blenheim I: 20 destroyed, 2 damaged Japanese Ships DD Yamakaze 10 aircraft and their pilots are lost - a bitch slapping if ever there was one. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Soerabaja at 22,65 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 1 D3A Val x 1 B5N Kate x 3 Japanese aircraft losses B5N Kate: 1 damaged Allied Ships TK Mindanao, Bomb hits 1, on fire ML Gouden Leeuw, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage I also have some transports just outside Soerabaja and they are found by a small jap air attack - look at the accuracy: 4 bombers 3 hits. I have to wittle these pilots away! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 22,54 Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 5 Ki-30 Ann x 18 Ki-21 Sally x 36 Ki-48 Lily x 20 Allied aircraft CW-21B Demon x 5 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses CW-21B Demon: 4 destroyed Allied Ships TK British Motorist, Bomb hits 8, on fire, heavy damage TK Empire Druid, Bomb hits 2, on fire AK Empire Clive, Bomb hits 11, on fire, heavy damage AK Empire Faith AK Empire Tower, Bomb hits 1 Why on earth would you join my Navy? Poor buggers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 22,54 Japanese aircraft G3M Nell x 16 Japanese aircraft losses G3M Nell: 1 damaged Allied Ships AK Empire Clive, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage TK Empire Druid, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage AK Empire Tower, Torpedo hits 1, on fire Just what they needed some Nells to help out. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Manila Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 109487 troops, 897 guns, 303 vehicles Defending force 30428 troops, 88 guns, 17 vehicles Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Manila base !!! Allied aircraft no flights Allied aircraft losses PBY Catalina: 1 destroyed Japanese ground losses: 562 casualties reported Guns lost 17 Vehicles lost 1 Allied ground losses: 40736 casualties reported Guns lost 127 Vehicles lost 9 Nothing though can compare to the black moment of a black day. 40K troops go into the bag on the first deliberate attack because the troops at Clarke retreat to Manila rather than bataan where the supplies are. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phew - I just want to scarper. The Phillipines is a total loss - the troops remaining in Bataan just do not have enough numbers to resist for very long - even with the 16K supplies there. The retreat to Manila has killed me. I think I am just trying to reinforce too close to the front, I am loosing my way with the defense of Burma too - I feel that with the way he sped through Malaya and the Philippines - like I should just pull back to India. Even then I have shown, with my naval assets, how to be targets rather than terrorisers. So I don't even feel safe in India: look at how he came and went how he pleased by Trimcomalee... A Black day - a black day indeed. Densionh, I think my attempts to get resources out were ill founded - especially ones to Palembang - it is just too vulnerable. You can possibly get some out of Java as long as you are careful about using your fighter assets. On the whole though you just cannot do much about his attacks. William Amos: He didn't try to land - this was a PT boat squad passing through as far as I can tell. By the way the shore battery does have 14" guns as you surmised - please oh please let him try an invasion that way. I'm not holding my breath though - he hasn't put too many steps wrong so far.
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