larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (9/25/2017 6:49:42 PM)
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News from the South Pacific and all points at sea: Flash: Last night Kota Bhura was given the treatment of a naval bombardment by CL Sendai and escorts. There were 89 Allied ground losses without any hits on the Jap ships. Also: There were landings at Guam and Wake and a 1/2 a dozen other places. I'll report them later on below. Also: On the river near Nanking two Allied PG's (Wake RGC, and RN Peterel RGB ) nearly cornered the xAKL RGC Yangtze 15 and they closed to 2,000 yards before Allied commander E. Higgins ordered a disengagement and let him go free into the night. Allied sub S-27 was sighted by Jap PB Fuji Maru #4 and ran a pattern of DC's so thick that he ran out of ammo and the sub appearantly got away. I'll send 'em an email. Jap sub I-124 was ordered to patrol the Bataan hex and remain on station and no sooner did he get there than he sghted Allied PG Asheville and put two TT's in it. It was on fire and heavily damaged to say the least. The only bad thing about the whole adventure was that he fired 4 TT's and 2 of them missed. But TT's are a lot cheaper than a PG. Japanese Midget Sub SSX Ha-22 had a scarey moment last night. He had been inactive for the most part waiting for the oppertune moment since 7Dec and he just happened to be sighted by DD Allen and DMS Trevor and they hunted around a long time but soon abandoned the search. You had to be there to understand what I mean. And almost immediately after that encounter he was sighted by AMc Condor but he bottomed out and the Allied ship went away. Two transports, xAKLs, Hitora Maru and Higari Maru made landings at Hollandia without any escorts at all but only 2 coastal gun shots were fired so maybe they will be okie dokie. APD IJA Hakaze and AMC Saigon Maru made landings at Kuching on the north coast of Borneo near Singkawang and they were fired upon with vigor. AMC Saigon Maru fired back but neither ships got hit. One vehicle was lost in the landing. A truck with a support section. Just SW of Nanking, early this morning as the sun was coming up a Jap SCTF including 3 CA's and 2 TB's and a PG sighted and chased down an Allied TF of go PG's and sank them both. They were PG Wake with 3 shell hits and PG Peterel with 4 shell hits. Later this morning 12 Betty's decided to attack Singapore in daylight unescorted and were met by at least 48 Buffalo's and got chewed up. The mission was chased away from Singapore and lost 5 bombers before they got away. Lesson learned. And then 38 Nells escorted by 101 Zeros struck Clark AFB where they were met by 12 P-35A's and 15 P-40B's. 7 Zero's were destroyed but the flight got through the CAP and got 11 planes on the ground with one damaged P-35A to boot. Also, lthe airbase itself got 14 hits, the runway was hit 24 times and all this happened in about 16 minutes. And after that there was a aweep by 7 Zeros of Clark AFB and it was met by 7 P-40B's and each side lost one plane. The sweep happened at about 23,000 feet and was over in about 28 minutes. And now it's happening so fast I can't keep up. I'll do the rest in pictures.
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