RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler

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ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (4/26/2015 1:13:49 AM)
Sword drawn, CPT Nakatami led the 1st/3rd—now at half strength—straight up the road in another Banzai charge. Into the trenches occupied by enemy machineguns… [image]local://upfiles/51154/8121346F2E3D4768B9F0DED5933300B9.gif[/image]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (4/26/2015 1:15:44 AM)
The first attempt was repulsed; but Nakatani immediately ordered his 2nd and 3rd platoons to join in the assault. Bayonets affixed, 3rd Company let out a fearsome yell, “Banzai!!” and charged again up the steep mountain slope… [image]local://upfiles/51154/270C76AF7D4E4E98869FEB0EBE545541.gif[/image]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (4/26/2015 1:19:10 AM)
But they failed! Nakatani’s valiant but thoroughly exhausted men were unable to dislodge the enemy! They had to withdraw and resume their cover in the kunai just 100 or so meters away from the enemy. It was a very precarious position for 3rd Company… [image]local://upfiles/51154/85671308EC46455997A0307FCF3F6A32.gif[/image]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (4/26/2015 1:21:16 AM)
CPT Murakami, meanwhile, continued his reckless and frenzied charge, advancing 2nd Company up the mountain across 500 meters of high tropical grass and ignoring the intense rifle and machinegun fire that was now cutting down his men… [image]local://upfiles/51154/D45996BC8E0D4715930D00ADDC22B581.gif[/image]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (4/26/2015 1:24:13 AM)
The fog lifting a bit, the 3rd MG PLT could see at least 250 meters farther now. But it was for nothing—the Canadian rifle platoon that was its target had very effectively taken cover in the thick underbrush of the light jungle… [image]local://upfiles/51154/8CA12DFB80FC4A639417B0A95FF54906.gif[/image]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (4/26/2015 1:28:11 AM)
LTC Haga watched, profoundly disappointed, as he saw one assault after another fail. MAJ Kamishiro’s assault had also been repulsed. Even CPT Abe’s attack was denied. And his 2nd Company CDR, CPT Murakami, while admirably brave, he was too reckless. He had just watched as not less than 20 soldiers dropped dead or wounded. “Here” he said to his XO as he handed him his field glasses. “I am going to join them”, motioning up the mountain. “Perhaps I can help dislodge these dogs…” [image]local://upfiles/51154/E1D8C74A58274ADCB1A207B1F495E215.gif[/image]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (4/26/2015 1:36:55 AM)
Canadian Turn 6 Frightful losses. Japanese soldiers are falling too quickly for LTC Haga to monitor; nor does he care to try at the moment. He was scrambling as quickly as his legs could carry him. A Canadian rifle squad counterattacked MAJ Kamishiro and what was left of his 1st PLT. Pinned and exhausted as they were, in the open ground, they were overwhelmed and killed. Every last one except for Kamishiro, who withdrew to his other platoons (4th, 3rd, and 2nd). [image]local://upfiles/51154/6502A457DD124F8295235758D2B2EA32.gif[/image]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (4/26/2015 1:40:32 AM)
Japanese Turn 7 Now CPT Nakatami’s men’s fire was impotent. And the Canadians were too well entrenched. Murakami’s 2nd Company was equally ineffective. But MAJ Kamishiro was furious. His men would attack again. In hand to hand. He knew that they were too tired to be as spirited as he’d like them to be. In the spirit of banzai. But they would succeed, or they would die trying, like his 1st PLT had. He would attack again! This time with the remainder of his 1st Company… [image]local://upfiles/51154/904068CE7745420489A65CEE1ED4A324.gif[/image]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (4/26/2015 1:43:35 AM)
Again, failure. MAJ Kamishiro had now drawn his pistol. And was menacing his NCOs, “You cowardly dogs! Those inferior vermin have nothing over you yet you let just 20 pigs keep you from your duty! Your honor! You filthy dogs!” As LTC Haga continued his run up the mountainside, he considered where his guns were. Why were they not yet firing? The fog was indeed a curse today!

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (4/26/2015 1:46:33 AM)
The location of the 1/229th's guns... [image]local://upfiles/51154/9DF23EFEE65A46F49FE3DADD939E518A.gif[/image]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (4/26/2015 1:49:11 AM)
Canadian Turn 7 CPT Nakatani’s Company was now close to being no longer combat effective. All around his positions, many of his men lay dead or dying, clutching their wounds and moaning quietly… [image]local://upfiles/51154/EAFAC1CDD7484BE7B440A7E9E4D99DFE.gif[/image]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (4/26/2015 1:52:19 AM)
Japanese Turn 8 Completely focused. Almost possessed, Nakatani turned with sword in hand and ordered his men forward. The BN mortars had managed to drive the machinegunners away. Nakatani would take advantage of it. “Move! Now!” he ordered his men… [image]local://upfiles/51154/1CDACE28F0934B3A9BB5B90C387DBC83.gif[/image]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (4/26/2015 1:55:19 AM)
“Banzai!!” screamed CPT Murakami with sword and pistol in hand. He had made it to the high ridge, and then drove his young men into a frenzy… [image]local://upfiles/51154/8F96F6355D7A45029B2C428188C93768.gif[/image]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (4/26/2015 1:58:13 AM)
And they over ran the Canadians, eliminating all of them. Every last one, before continuing his charge further up and past CPT Nakatani’s positions, along his left flank. MAJ Kamishiro, in the meantime, swept the high ridge and the cross roads clear of a rifle PLT and of an enemy MG PLT… [image]local://upfiles/51154/29BA0B061D19459693AE78130B4B88EA.gif[/image]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (4/26/2015 2:04:48 AM)
…while CPT Abe continued in his attempt to advance along the BN right flank. But with so many of his men disrupted and disordered, he could not effectively coordinate their rifle fire… [image]local://upfiles/51154/3C5DD686CAB44FA68D1FB9FBB91DD959.gif[/image]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (4/26/2015 2:08:26 AM)
Canadian Turn 8 CPT Murakani and his 2nd Company now came under fire from the South, the East, and Northeast flanks. Intensive volleys of small arms fire killed or wounded thirty or more of his men… [image]local://upfiles/51154/90EBB42FF02C4FDA94AFFDFC2D1F1ABF.gif[/image]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (5/10/2015 10:24:24 PM)
Japanese Turn 9 Brandishing his sword high above his shoulder, and calling for his company to join him, Nakatani pushed forward again; his men followed him without hesitation, yelling “Banzaii!!” as they clambered up the mountainside. When they arrived at the Canadian trenches, the men utterly destroyed anyone who had remained. A first objective was finally taken! [image]local://upfiles/51154/8505FACDD7254D8BB1B6C21CE95414C6.gif[/image]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (5/10/2015 10:28:51 PM)
While Nakatani was driving up the mountainside, CPT Murakami drove his own 2d Co West. Still gasping for air, sweating and spent, his men obeyed. Quietly. Less enthusiastic, but focused. They were disciplined soldiers; so that when Murakami gave the orders, the 3 platoons moved as a single, determined organism…

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (5/10/2015 10:30:21 PM)
CPT Murakani's forward position: [image]local://upfiles/51154/DDEE37DB5D0A489DBC41B4945FD32304.gif[/image]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (5/10/2015 10:36:21 PM)
…and they were successful! Trapped between the chaos generated by Nakatani, and the determined drive of Murakami’s men, the sole Canadian platoon and their CO, surrendered to 2nd Company. The Canadian’s left flank had collapsed! [image]local://upfiles/51154/C98184C44AB740D4BF166099EC866F6C.gif[/image]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (5/10/2015 10:41:40 PM)
MAJ Kamishiro, meanwhile, was growing more and more frustrated with his men. It was as though they had struck a rock wall. A single reduced Canadian platoon was preventing him from keeping pace with the junior officers in the battalion. His men, however, were not unwilling; rather, they had moved so fast, gone so far, and achieved so much, under horrific fire and incurring many casualties, that they were low on ammunition, they were fatigued, and they were disoriented and experiencing a great deal of internal friction. In sum, they were at risk of no longer being combat effective… [image]local://upfiles/51154/1445702CD57447D9A998051D7A7AC996.gif[/image]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (5/10/2015 10:46:40 PM)
LTC Haga arrived at 2nd Company’s MG PLT’s forward location. Tired and sweaty, he immediately directed their weapons to focus on the crossroads location in order to support MAJ Kamishiro… [image]local://upfiles/51154/41F30C8B6615419DAF5DC1AF78F38690.gif[/image]

Warhorse -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (5/10/2015 10:49:04 PM)
Nice DAR going on here, just joined it, thanks!!

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (5/12/2015 2:06:40 AM)
Thanks, Mike. I'm glad you think so!

Warhorse -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (5/12/2015 11:35:37 PM)
A lot of work, putting together a DAR, only did one from a K'talan Mod scenario, adds life to the game reading it along like that, good stuff, man![sm=Cool-049.gif]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (5/17/2015 3:37:05 PM)
Canadian Turn 9 Canadian artillery was inaccurate or failed to keep up with 1/229th’s advance and resulted in nothing. CPT Nakatani’s 3rd Co, however, had lost all of its 2nd PLT. Intense small arms fire from the Canadians occupying the mountain pass decimated it, and all its remaining soldiers fell dead or wounded; while 1st/3rd and 3rd/3rd platoons were now at 50% strength. CPT Nakatani didn’t like it, but he remained undaunted. He would advance and exact his revenge…

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (5/17/2015 3:43:31 PM)
Japanese Turn 10 The fog thickened. Visibility shrunk to 500 meters just as the BN’s 70 and 75mm guns had set up in positions to bombard the high ridgeline. The gun platoon men were now not just fatigued and drenched in sweat, but cursing their luck: they would have to reload their guns onto the wagons and continue their ascent… [image]local://upfiles/51154/73919950DA0E4612B353938CE511EB00.gif[/image]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (5/17/2015 3:51:24 PM)
From the trenches they now occupied, CPT Nakatani peered over the escarpment, and “There…” he said to no one in particular. “There are the enemy’s mortars!” Now he pointed to entrenchments about 50 meters below them; well concealed in the 2 meter high kunai grass. As bullets whizzed past him, he lowered his head intent on seizing this new target of opportunity… [image]local://upfiles/51154/B05C17901219499693569E2438D99466.gif[/image]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (5/17/2015 3:57:40 PM)
The assault: [image]local://upfiles/51154/8149821D930544938C58F00FE5FBE137.gif[/image]

ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (5/17/2015 4:01:24 PM)
But his men were too exhausted and weak to succeed. His assault was repulsed… [image]local://upfiles/51154/CE751B81BE204A73BD58727083D8696A.gif[/image]

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