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Speedysteve -> 5-6th May 1942 (6/25/2010 12:10:10 PM)
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Hi all,
The main action over the past 2 days is from Burma and China.
A series of P40 and Hurricane Fighter Sweeps were planned in the Katha area on the 6th. Several Oscar's intercepted but were decimated by the staggered Allied sweeps.. If I can believe my boys they downed 16 x OScars for the loss of 2 x Hurricane.
In China, the Japanese desperately tried to break out of the encirclement near Nanyang with little gain but heavy losses:
Ground combat at 86,46
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 18728 troops, 144 guns, 178 vehicles, Assault Value = 697
Defending force 44721 troops, 383 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 971
Japanese adjusted assault: 269
Allied adjusted defense: 860
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 3
Combat modifiers
Defender: experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
2428 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 121 disabled
Non Combat: 18 destroyed, 97 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Vehicles lost 32 (9 destroyed, 23 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
589 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 42 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 40 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
The Chinese will counter-attack to compress the Japanese positions tomorrow.
Further south 2 Chinese Corps stormed the river towards Nanchang with some (surprising) success:
Ground combat at Nanchang (85,54)
Allied Shock attack
Attacking force 15049 troops, 104 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 591
Defending force 17145 troops, 142 guns, 152 vehicles, Assault Value = 526
Allied adjusted assault: 542
Japanese adjusted defense: 539
Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 4)
Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 3
Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), fatigue(-)
Japanese ground losses:
81 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
1204 casualties reported
Squads: 11 destroyed, 80 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 83 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Of course my boys need to be reinforced so a couple more Corps are on the way..............
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The only other sad news was that the Phillipine resistance on Mindanao ended on the 5th May when 17000 Soldiers surrendered to the Japanese at Cagayan.
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Intel reports a lot of Japanese troops and tanks are aboard ships heading towards Japanese controlled Dili. Probably a staging area before moving into Northern Aus......bring it on. Another 200 AV of US Troops are approaching Normanton headed by a Marine Rgt.
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