EUBanana
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Joined: 9/30/2003 From: Little England Status: offline
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Its been pretty much two months of war now, so time to take stock. In the air, air to air losses are running at 4.8 to 1, in Japan's favour. (104 vs 482 planes shot down). Almost 130 of these 480 were P-40Bs or P-40Es, with a pretty much equal number of Buffaloes of various incarnations. He's lost ~40 Oscars and ~40 Zeroes. The low number of Oscars is mainly because he's not been putting those on the front line very much, they do tend to suffer when they fight. Two out of 3 AVG squadrons have been pretty badly mauled, the third (in Yenan, quiet spot) is still with average experience 70 plus. Even the mauled squadrons have a number of very good pilots, though. The submarine war has been almost as bad. I've been bitching about Japanese ninja submariners every other post I think, well, the hard statistics back up the bitching. Allied submarines have managed the following :- 2 AKs, 2 APs, 1 PC, 1 PG, 1 ML from the Dutch sub fleet 1 TK from the British sub fleet such as it is US S-boats have sunk two DDs, an AK and an MSW (probably as a result of giving them aggressive commanders, they take on the ASW forces a lot!) The crappy Mark 14 torpedo of the other US sub classes has managed 2 AKs, an AO and a PC. So a total of 16 ships due to various causes, and a number more damaged. The Allies have lost nine submarines (two Dutch, two S-boats, the rest were Salmon or P class US submarines). Japanese submarines have sank 19 AKs, 7 APs, 5 TKs, 3 AOs, an AVD, two AVs, an AR, one PG, 3 PCs, 2 MSWs, 7 MLs (), 3 DDs, one DM, and 2 BBs. They have sustained 5 losses (one of which was a Glen carrier). Some of the early successes can be explained by the number of unescorted convoys running around in the opening weeks. However thats not the whole story, because as you can see by the number of Allied ASW ships that were sunk, which are not inconsiderable, even Allied escorts are apparently little more than hapless targets in some Japanese sub captains torpedo sights. So bad was it that US aircraft carriers had to be deployed as ASW platforms! Mines have been pretty muted but Allied mines have proven to be more effective so far. Not too surprising given he is on the offensive and thus assaulting ports where the Allies have prepared warm welcomes. Allied mines have sunk a Jap DD, a minesweeper (ironic), an AP and a PG. The Allies have lost an AK and a DD to Japanese mines. I'm not even going to go into the aircraft kills, for the Jap side thats just too vast for me to even begin to add up. Overall Allied shipping losses have been very heavy though, due to my tendency to only evacuate ships at the last minute. On the one hand that has given me some options (like, concentrating engineers at Palembang). On the other hand it means a lot of Allied merchants have gone down in flames. In terms of ships lost, no Jap ship bigger than a destroyer has been lost so far. I've seen worse Allied losses but they are pretty bad. Two BBs, 2 CAs, 7 CLs, 14 DDs. Surface combatant, submarine and air dropped torpedoes pretty much account for a third each of the Allied losses. Only 1 Allied warship has been sunk by a gun (USS Helm, sunk by a Jap heavy cruiser at Wake). So in pretty much every aspect of the war, the Allies are getting a six of the best pants down thrashing. Not good!
< Message edited by EUBanana -- 7/12/2008 8:49:46 PM >
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