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Moondawggie -> Rabaul begins to crack (7/2/2006 2:01:29 AM)
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04/06/43
It's bad news when you're pounded day and night, as the Rabaul garrison has learned. Everytime some supply barges from Kavieng try to resupply Rabaul, they run into my bombardment TF making the nightly run from Buka to Rabaul. The barges don't last long, and my surface forces gain in night time experience.
Night Time Surface Combat, near Rabaul at 21,28
Japanese Ships
AG 118, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
AG 119, Shell hits 15, and is sunk
AG 120, and is sunk
AG 121, Shell hits 6, and is sunk
AG 122, Shell hits 6, on fire, heavy damage
AG 122, and is sunk
Naval bombardment of Rabaul, at 21,28
Japanese ground losses:
Men lost 194
Guns lost 1
Airbase hits 6
Runway hits 166
Port hits 3
A few IJN APs dare to risk the run out of Truk to the IJA bases to the south; those that do are quickly picked off by my Enterprise TF sailing between Truk and Kavieng. There is nos sign of his surface or air combatants at this point.
Air attack on TF at 20,11
Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 26
SBD Dauntless x 26
TBF Avenger x 18
Allied aircraft losses
TBF Avenger x 1 damaged
Japanese Ships
AP Yoshino Maru, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AP Maya Maru, Bomb hits 8, on fire, heavy damage
AP Kiri Maru
AP Hakka Maru, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
Japanese ground losses:
Men lost 246
Guns lost 2
Meanwhile, deliberate attacks by my 100K troops at Rabaul are beginning to crack the IJA defense:
Ground combat at Rabaul
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 69115 troops, 834 guns, 288 vehicles
Defending force 42981 troops, 408 guns, 19 vehicles
Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 6 [:D]
Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 6)
Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 5 [:D]
Japanese ground losses:
Men lost 947
Guns lost 3
Allied ground losses:
Men lost 198
The "Rising Sun" looks to be setting in the west...
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