castor troy
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I can say that Miller was lucky and unlucky in this turn... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 09/15/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1026 encounters mine field at Darwin (36,84) Allied Ships PT PT-119, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 14,85 Japanese Ships SS I-166, hits 10 Allied Ships CV Indomitable, heavy damage DD Inconstant DD Jupiter This is when he definetely was lucky! I-166 unfortunately fired only a salvo of two torps from her rear tubes instead of trying to attack with the four front tubes... the torps missed the heavily damaged British CV! That would have been great to put two torps into the carrier! In return, the two British DDs achieve 10 near misses, I-166 is out of action and has to retire to Japan for major repairs... sys damage nearly at 30... This is half a dozen hexes West of Broome, so Miller is now trying to move his damaged ships around Australiaīs West coast... all our subs have been ordered into attack position to hunt down this TF! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 30,78 Japanese Ships AG AG-5163, Shell hits 7, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Grayback -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Koepang , at 28,77 Allied aircraft PBY Catalina x 3 B-25C Mitchell x 105 Allied aircraft losses PBY Catalina: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged B-25C Mitchell: 3 destroyed, 24 damaged Japanese ground losses: 156 casualties reported Guns lost 4 Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 33 Aircraft Attacking: 2 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 15000 feet Miller has increased his attack alt again even though he didnīt reall suffer from attacking at 10.000ft... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 104 B5N Kate x 4 Ki-27 Nate x 35 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 175 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 113 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Darwin , at 36,84 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 73 No Japanese losses now what about that? This is the ordered KB sweep and all my pilots are doing is flying a sightseeing round over Darwin showing Japanese strenght! This is GOOD NEWS! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Darwin , at 36,84 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 62 G3M Nell x 70 G4M1 Betty x 24 Japanese aircraft losses G3M Nell: 3 destroyed, 19 damaged G4M1 Betty: 4 damaged Allied Ships CA Dorsetshire, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage DD Witte de With, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AP Wanganella, Torpedo hits 1 CL Sumatra, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage CA Cornwall, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage CL Hobart, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage DMS Chandler, Bomb hits 1, on fire DMS Zane, Bomb hits 1, on fire ML Gouden Leeuw, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AP Heywood, Bomb hits 1, on fire AK Mauna Ala, Bomb hits 1, on fire AP Henry T. Allen, Bomb hits 1, on fire DD Kortenaer, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage CLAA Van Heemskerck, Bomb hits 1, on fire DD Van Nes, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Port hits 1 Port fuel hits 1 Port supply hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 25 x G3M Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet 18 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 10000 feet and here comes the strike from Amboina, exactly like it was ordered! At this stage it was obvious that the dozen BBs have already left the area. It seems they are not even in Northern Australia anymore. But the British cruisers that were damaged at Lautern are and our first attack hits them hard. Not as hard as I wished but letīs hope for the second strike. With so many ships in port our strike gets too much dispersed but so far Iīm happy with it. Even though there are a dozen Allied units at Darwin, flak is far from being strong and THATīS a surprise for me. Over Wyndham Iīve lost over 50 bombers to flak! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Darwin , at 36,84 Japanese aircraft G3M Nell x 150 G4M1 Betty x 121 Japanese aircraft losses G3M Nell: 3 destroyed, 26 damaged G4M1 Betty: 8 damaged Allied Ships DD Witte de With, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage CA Cornwall, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AP Moreton Bay, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage CA Exeter, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage CLAA Van Heemskerck, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage DD Norman, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AR Harpoon, Torpedo hits 1, on fire CL Leander, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire AP Siberg, Torpedo hits 1 CL Sumatra, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage DD Kortenaer, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage CL Perth, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage CA Dorsetshire, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AP President Hayes, Bomb hits 1 AP Van Cloon, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AP Rochussen, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage MSW Agra, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AP Koolama, Bomb hits 1, on fire AP Wanganella, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AP Ruth Alexander, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage DD Van Ghent, Bomb hits 1, on fire AP Empire Pride, Bomb hits 1, on fire CL Hobart, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage DD Piet Hein, Bomb hits 2, on fire AP Van Rees, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage DMS Elliot, Bomb hits 1, on fire DMS Wasmuth, Bomb hits 1, on fire DD Isaac Sweers, Bomb hits 1 AP Crescent City, Torpedo hits 1 DD Stuart, Torpedo hits 1 DD Nizam, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 49 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Port hits 7 Port fuel hits 1 Port supply hits 3 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x G3M Nell bombing at 10000 feet 18 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet It couldnīt go better and also the strike from Kendari shows up in full strenght and exactly as ordered! Unbelievable that everything has gone off like we planned it! Looks like thinking about what all could go wrong brought us luck this time... Our hits are dispersed over a lot of ships again and perhaps you could wish some more hits from more than 270 bombers but this is not the time to complain I guess. At the end of the turn we get two confirmed sinkings: CA Cornwall and DD Van Nes! I hope to see CA Dorsetshire sinking also and if weīre lucky one of the CLs could sink also. You could expect to see more ships being sunk with two such strong strikes but with the heavy cruiser our sub sunk North of Darwin and two more perhaps going down I will be satisfied for the moment. This strike should achieve one more thing: Miller has to put a lot of fighters at his airfield! This should have shown him that he has to protect his bases against long range strikes of my IJN bombers. And if he puts 100 or more fighters at a base, he has 100 or more bombers less at a base and this is what we want. We can perhaps deal with strikes of 100-125 bombers, but repeated strikes of 500-600 bombers will break our neck. We achieved an "ok-result" and we really suffered very low losses and this is what surprised me the most. KB wasnīt spotted the whole turn and this was luck for us also. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 33rd Division, at 29,23 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 32 Hurricane IIc x 15 Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIb: 20 damaged Hurricane IIc: 8 damaged Japanese ground losses: 77 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 12,86 Japanese Ships SS I-158, hits 3 Allied Ships CLAA Capetown, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage DD Inconstant DD Jupiter DD Griffin DD Hotspur This is the TF with CV Indomitable. I-158 also attacks with her two rear tubes but the skipper proves to be a man who knows what heīs doing. Both torpedoes slammed into the already damaged CLAA Capetown and the AA-cruiser sinks within minutes. The angry DDs drop a lot of DCs but they achieve only three near misses. I-158 continues with sys 9 to take part in the hunt for CV Indomitable. I really have to say that my subs perform excellently! Weīre still early in the war but they have achieved some major sinkings and also a lot of hits on lower value ships for nearly no losses within our submarine force... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 34,80 Japanese Ships SS RO-68 Allied Ships AK West Nilus, Torpedo hits 1, on fire with Timor being so close to my bases, this is a really good place to use those otherwise useless short legged RO-class subs... the already damaged West Nilus takes a torp but still doesnīt show up as heavily damaged... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Sian Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 14274 troops, 458 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2882 Defending force 112575 troops, 529 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3605 Allied ground losses: 84 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Kweiyang Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 16007 troops, 201 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3423 Defending force 206544 troops, 540 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4842
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