SierraJuliet -> Khota Bharu CAPTURED (4/18/2009 4:19:31 AM)
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10 December 1941 Malaya Sea: See my previous post regarding the battle involving Kongo and Prince of Wales. Kongo reported 1 hit and Haruna 2 hits without any real damage being caused. Air: 3 Blenheim and 3 Hudson escorted by 19 Buffalo make a strike on shipping. A LRCAP of 10 Zero inflicts 5 Buffalo and 2 Blenheim destroyed. Another strike by a mixed force of allied bombers is met by a CAP of 4 Oscar and for the loss of 1 Vildebeest the attacker manages to strafe Kumano. At Songhkia 3 Swordfish make an attempt on shipping. They are met by 8 Claude on CAP and 2 Swordfish are downed. In yet another attack on shipping 6 Vildebeest escorted by 5 Buffalo are opposed by 4 Oscar and at the end of the attack the Oscars and flak have claimed 3 Buffalo and 2 Vildebeest destroyed. My heart sank when I saw 36 Sally on a bombing run over Khota Bharu take on a CAP of 16 Tomahawk. Expecting something of a bloodbath I was surprised to see the bombers holding their own with many attacking fighters driven off by the defensive fire from the bombers. In the end only 2 Sally were destroyed and 8 of the Tomahawk reported as damaged. Land: Last turn Ambassador evacuated the base at Khota Bhura and my forces there looked a bit silly launching a bombardment attack on an enemy that had taken to the hills. This turn the base is captured. Burma Air: Ambassador is continuing with night time air attacks on Bangkok. To date they have not achieved much success and during this raid he loses 1 Blenheim to flak. 9 far ranging Nell make an attack on Shipping at Akyab. No damage caused but should give Ambassador something to think about in the rear areas of Burma. China (Hong Kong) Air: Air attacks inflict 43 casualties on 83rd Chinese Corps, 56 casualties and 1 gun lost on 46th Chinese Corps, 20 casualties on 46th Chinese Corps, 10 casualties on 80th Chinese Corps, 8 casualties on 27th Chinese Corps for the loss of 1 Ann Land: A shock attack is ordered at Yenen but it fails get odds any better than 0 to 1. My forces suffer 2214 casualties, 39 guns lost and 2 vehicles lost. Chinese loses are reported as 426 casualties and 2 guns lost. This is a set back and my forces will need some time to recover. Ambassador has lots of troops on the move in China especially around Yenen so things could hot up here for a while. In something of a mirror image to the failed assault of Yenen Chinese forces (lots of them –the 62nd, 63rd, 66th, 83rd, 46th, 64th and 39th Chinese Corps) launch a deliberate assault on Canton. My forces here are a little light on with the siege of Hong Kong underway but the level 4 fort a Canton is a big help and the Chinese forces only achieve assault odds of 0 to 1. Japanese losses are reported as 41 casualties and 1 vehicle lost to Chinese 881 casualties and 41 guns lost. I recall reading in another post in a time long ago that the Chinese find it very difficult to replace lost guns so these lost guns are hopefully a good result. South East Pacific Land: Troops are ashore at Makin and capture the base. DIE Sea: A strike of 16 Kates from Ryujo locates AK Dos Hermanos and put 3 torpedoes into her. This AK is later reported to have sunk. Subs SS I-121 finds DD Express and manages to score 1 torpedo hit. Express was reported the previous day to be in company with Repulse….. shame I-121 couldn’t locate Repulse. SS I-18 operating off of San Francisco is located by and takes 3 hits from DDs Crosby, Kilty, Crane, Kennison, Dent, Talbot and Waters. I-18 has been hit hard and is located again by Kilty, Crane and Kennison and suffered another 3 hits. She is eventually lost later that day. SS S-37 locates a convoy and hits AP Arizona Maru with 1 torpedo. The PC escort in turn scores a reported 6 hits on S-37 Near Lingayen a small ASW task force comprised of DDs Asagumo, Minegumo and Natsugumo locate SS Permit and score 3 hits. Naval Losses for the Day BB Prince of Wales, DD Tenedos, AS Holland, AS Otus, AK Don Jose, AK Anakan, AK Dos Hermanos, AK Governor Wright SS I-18 Comments I now have a toehold in Malaya with the capture of Khota Bharu. China looks to be hotly contested for the time being. On the naval side of things the mopping up of Prince of Wales is a good result. Ambassador advised that he had been hoping to hang on to her but that was not to be. The result of the naval interdiction south of Tawi Tawi was also a good result. My first submarine has been lost but some of Ambassador’s subs have also taken hits.
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