castor troy -> RE: AAR 42 (12/8/2021 1:07:59 PM)
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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 22, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Malang , at 55,105 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 117 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Japanese aircraft G3M2 Nell x 6 G4M1 Betty x 91 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 18 damaged Allied ground losses: 10 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 13 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 45 Aircraft Attacking: 27 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 8000 feet Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb 18 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 8000 feet Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb 22 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 8000 feet Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb 3 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 8000 feet Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb 7 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 8000 feet Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb 6 x G3M2 Nell bombing from 8000 feet Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb 7 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 8000 feet Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb 7 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 8000 feet Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Malang , at 55,105 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 116 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 46 minutes Japanese aircraft G3M2 Nell x 6 G4M1 Betty x 3 Japanese aircraft losses G3M2 Nell: 3 damaged G4M1 Betty: 2 damaged Runway hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x G3M2 Nell bombing from 8000 feet Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb 3 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 8000 feet Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Jolo at 73,94 [image]local://upfiles/13774/9AA9155FA57F47EFA833C25456407E2C.jpg[/image] Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft DB-7B x 14 B-26 Marauder x 16 Allied aircraft losses DB-7B: 1 damaged Japanese Ships xAP Rakuyo Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire xAK Thames Maru AK Tosan Maru AK Sagami Maru xAP Huzi Maru xAP Kongo Maru xAP Kobe Maru xAP Takatiho Maru xAP Tatsuta Maru Japanese ground losses: 10 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled we surprise the enemy by moving medium bombers to Manado after spotting an enemy convoy moving into the area and getting too close to Manado... unfortunately I just get confirmation of how totally useless medium bombers have become in naval attacks, even at 2000ft... all crews are 70 nav skill and out of way over 100 bombs dropped we get one hit... also moved USMC dive bombers into the area and guess what, forgot about switching them from training to nav attack... Aircraft Attacking: 9 x DB-7B bombing from 2000 feet Naval Attack: 4 x 250 kg SAP Bomb 13 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 2000 feet Naval Attack: 6 x 500 lb SAP Bomb 5 x DB-7B bombing from 2000 feet Naval Attack: 4 x 250 kg SAP Bomb 3 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 2000 feet Naval Attack: 6 x 500 lb SAP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Jolo at 73,94 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft B-25C Mitchell x 6 B-26 Marauder x 10 Allied aircraft losses B-25C Mitchell: 2 damaged Japanese Ships xAP Kongo Maru xAP Huzi Maru xAP Hakone Maru xAP Argentina Maru AK Sagami Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire Japanese ground losses: 187 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 10 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 2000 feet Naval Attack: 6 x 500 lb SAP Bomb 6 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 2000 feet Naval Attack: 6 x 500 lb SAP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 35th JNAF AF Unit , at 64,97 (Balikpapan) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft B-17D Fortress x 5 B-17E Fortress x 31 LB-30 Liberator x 3 Allied aircraft losses B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 104 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 8000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 8000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 5 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 8000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 8000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 8000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 8000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 8000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x LB-30 Liberator bombing from 8000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 5th JNAF AF Unit ... Also attacking 35th JNAF AF Unit ... Also attacking 5th JNAF AF Unit ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 5th JNAF AF Unit , at 64,97 (Balikpapan) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 11 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 8000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 8000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 5th JNAF AF Unit , at 64,97 (Balikpapan) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 6 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 24 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 8000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Jolo at 73,94 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-25C Mitchell x 4 Allied aircraft losses B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged Japanese Ships xAP Rakuyo Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire Japanese ground losses: 78 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 4 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 2000 feet Naval Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAP Rakuyo Maru -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 5th JNAF AF Unit , at 64,97 (Balikpapan) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft LB-30 Liberator x 7 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 55 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 7 x LB-30 Liberator bombing from 8000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 5th JNAF AF Unit , at 64,97 (Balikpapan) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 2 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 0 minutes Allied aircraft B-17D Fortress x 5 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 5 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 8000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Jolo at 73,94 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 2,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft DB-7B x 11 B-25C Mitchell x 5 B-26 Marauder x 20 Allied aircraft losses B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged Japanese Ships xAK Pacific Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire xAP Argentina Maru xAK Oregon Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire xAK Atutasan Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage xAP Horai Maru xAP Teikyo Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire xAP Takatiho Maru xAK Nako Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires xAP Tatsuta Maru xAP Hakone Maru Japanese ground losses: 368 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 26 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled amazingly enough the bombers even achieved some hits during the afternoon strike but we also dropped a hell a lot of bombs here... this is a very exceptional result and in the course of this campaign I have decided not to use medium bombers in a nav attack role anymore... torpedo bombers score hits like wild, pure medium bombers are in some way totally nerved, no idea why... Aircraft Attacking: 6 x DB-7B bombing from 2000 feet Naval Attack: 4 x 250 kg SAP Bomb 5 x DB-7B bombing from 2000 feet Naval Attack: 4 x 250 kg SAP Bomb 4 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 2000 feet Naval Attack: 6 x 500 lb SAP Bomb 10 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 2000 feet Naval Attack: 6 x 500 lb SAP Bomb 6 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 2000 feet Naval Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 5 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 2000 feet Naval Attack: 6 x 500 lb SAP Bomb Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Oregon Maru Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Nako Maru -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Jolo at 73,94 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 4,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-25C Mitchell x 4 Allied aircraft losses B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged Japanese Ships AK Kyushu Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire Japanese ground losses: 263 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 19 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 4 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 2000 feet Naval Attack: 6 x 500 lb SAP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Malang (55,105) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 78370 troops, 912 guns, 215 vehicles, Assault Value = 1821 Defending force 56861 troops, 475 guns, 166 vehicles, Assault Value = 1144 Japanese adjusted assault: 675 Allied adjusted defense: 3184 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 4 (fort level 3) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 5269 casualties reported Squads: 201 destroyed, 257 disabled Non Combat: 10 destroyed, 126 disabled Engineers: 5 destroyed, 34 disabled Guns lost 69 (7 destroyed, 62 disabled) Vehicles lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled) Allied ground losses: 2218 casualties reported Squads: 17 destroyed, 120 disabled Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 58 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 23 disabled Vehicles lost 6 (1 destroyed, 5 disabled) next attack at Malang and the Dutch mountaineers again trash the enemy assault units... we're still not suffering a lot destroyed squads but disabled squads become more numerous so if the enemy doesn't grant us time to recover we will soon be also starting to take more destroyed squads... if we keep going like this the Dutch will for sure kill more enemy combat squads than we are going to lose when the base will inevitably surrender at some point... I wouldn't be willing to take such losses as the Japanese commander... Assaulting units: Kimura Det Yokosuka 4th SNLF 33rd Division I./4th Infantry Battalion 67th Naval Guard Unit 1st Engineer Co 9th Infantry Regiment 2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy Guards Mixed Brigade III./4th Infantry Battalion II./4th Infantry Battalion 4th Ind Engineer Regiment Maizuru 2nd SNLF 64th Naval Guard Unit 1st Indpt SNLF Coy 1st Ind Engineer Regiment 91st Naval Guard Unit 4th Division 6th Indpt SNLF Coy 77th Infantry Regiment Miura Det 10th Garrison Unit 88th Naval Guard Unit 55th Division 20th Infantry Regiment 8th Tank Regiment 15th Naval Guard Unit II/19th Naval Guard Unit 1st Raiding Regiment 46th Naval Guard Unit 41st Infantry Regiment III/66th Naval Guard Unit 79th Garrison Battalion 16th Army 25th Army 23rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment 41st Field AA Battalion 5th Mortar Battalion 3rd Mortar Battalion 36th Field AA Battalion 9th RF Gun Battalion 8th RF Gun Battalion 11th RF Gun Battalion 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 10th RF Gun Battalion II/66th Nav Gd /2 Defending units: W Borneo KNIL Battalion 1st Cav Regiment Prajoeda Cdo V Landstorm Cdo I Marechausse Cdo IV Landstorm Cdo Tjepoe Cdo II Landstorm Cdo Mobiele Battalion 4th KNIL Regiment VII KNIL Battalion 1st KNIL Regiment 6th KNIL Regiment 3rd Cav Sqdn Tjilitjap Cdo I/II Barisan Cdo VI Landstorm Cdo Groep Zud I Landstorm Cdo III/IV Barisan Cdo Marinier Battalion II Marechausse Cdo Roodenburg Cdo 2nd KNIL Regiment Makassar KNIL Cdo Lijfwacht Cav Sqdn Riouw Cdo III Landstorm Cdo Makassar RK Cdo S Borneo KNIL Battalion 2/15 Punjab Battalion 1st Bengal Construction Battalion VkA-1 Sup Afd HQ I KNIL Division VLG-I Sup Groep 24th NZ Pioneer Coy NI-MLD VLG-V Sup Groep VkA-3 Sup Afd KNI Leger VLG-IV Sup Groep 224 Group Base Force VLG-II Sup Groep 4th Cav Sqdn Pathan Construction Battalion A-III-Ld AA Battalion 1st Bombay Construction Battalion HQ II KNIL Division A-II-Ld AA Battalion Broome RAN Stn Base Force Hedland RAN Stn Base Force ABDA 1st Madras Construction Battalion VLG-III Sup Groep A-I-Ld AA Battalion HQ III KNIL Division 221 Group Base Force ML-KNIL VkA-2 Sup Afd VkA-4 Sup Afd 106th RN Base Force -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Padang (44,85) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 5313 troops, 36 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 163 Defending force 1962 troops, 11 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 39 Japanese adjusted assault: 82 Allied adjusted defense: 22 Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Padang !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), fatigue(-), morale(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 35 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 273 casualties reported Squads: 17 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 25 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 9 (9 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units retreated 3 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! the Dutch on Sumatra are less fortunate though... Assaulting units: 42nd Naval Guard Unit 43rd Naval Guard Unit 63rd Naval Guard Unit Defending units: Padang Cdo Pakanbaroe Cdo Emmahaven Defenses
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