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Yava -> RE: 12/28/1941... Canton Island Slaughter (1/2/2008 4:09:29 PM)
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Gents,
the news are bad. Somehow Jap carriers managed to sneak near Canton Island and slaughter the Navy ships present there. The loses are quite high 4 DD's and a DMS.... CL Leander damaged, 3 more DMSs damaged and will probably sink. Fortunately we managed tounload supplies from Jacob Luckenbach before it got his by the enemy carrier based planes. This is a sad day for the Navy.
Day Air attack on TF, near Canton Island at 100,100
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 35
D3A2 Val x 32
Japanese aircraft losses
D3A2 Val: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
Allied Ships
DD Conyngham, Bomb hits 2, on fire
DD Cummings, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
DD Tucker, Bomb hits 4, on fire
DD Shaw, Bomb hits 7, on fire, heavy damage
Day Air attack on TF, near Canton Island at 100,100
Japanese aircraft
D3A2 Val x 17
No Japanese losses
Allied Ships
AK Jacob Luckenbach, Bomb hits 14, on fire, heavy damage
Day Air attack on TF, near Canton Island at 100,100
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 32
D3A2 Val x 10
No Japanese losses
Allied Ships
CL Leander, Bomb hits 5, on fire
Day Air attack on TF, near Canton Island at 100,100
Japanese aircraft
D3A2 Val x 16
B5N2 Kate x 10
Japanese aircraft losses
D3A2 Val: 1 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 3 damaged
Allied Ships
DD Reid, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
DD Conyngham, Bomb hits 7, on fire, heavy damage
DD Cassin, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Day Air attack on TF, near Canton Island at 100,100
Japanese aircraft
B5N2 Kate x 27
No Japanese losses
Allied Ships
DD Cummings, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Shaw, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
Meanwhile in more to the South the enemy captured Ellice Islands.
Port Moresby is still being attacked by Betties based in Rabaul. Our transports are moving in with supplies and troops are being scheduled to the place.
In the Palembang region our pilots managed to hit several Jap transports but their morale is tragic they will have to rest for a while....
In China the enemy tried to push our troops out of Canton but did not succed and sustained heavy loses. Some other exchange of fires took place around the northern part of the coutry.
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 51759 troops, 316 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 822
Defending force 19305 troops, 100 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 497
Japanese max assault: 897 - adjusted assault: 286
Allied max defense: 491 - adjusted defense: 1425
Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
2352 casualties reported
Guns lost 33
Allied ground losses:
115 casualties reported
Guns lost 4
As usuall, comments and hints are welcome [:)]
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