castor troy
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Looks like we´re achieving our goals! You know that I´m not amused about the Allied subs, it seems we are causing Miller some headache too. His statement in his last email: 
Sub I-3 is a right pain in the arse.......like women sometimes can be ;-)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 03/02/42
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ASW attack near Muntok at 21,55
Japanese Ships
PC Ch 32
PC Ch 18
PC Ch 17
PC Ch 16
PC Ch 15
PC Ch 14
Allied Ships
SS S-36, hits 2
we start off with the usual fight against the Allied pirates...
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Sub attack near Muntok at 21,55
Japanese Ships
APD APD-34, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage 
APD APD-36
APD APD-35
APD APD-33
APD APD-32
APD APD-31
Allied Ships
SS S-36
damn! The APD is dead, 1% chance to make it to Singapore... damned sub... those APDs are my best ASW weapons...
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Day Air attack on Hengchow , at 45,37
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 25
Ki-30 Ann x 12
Ki-32 Mary x 7
Ki-51 Sonia x 12
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-32 Mary: 2 damaged
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 15
Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-30 Ann bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Wuchow , at 42,39
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 36
Ki-21 Sally x 76
Ki-48 Lily x 26
Ki-49 Helen x 46
No Japanese losses
Runway hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 26000 feet
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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 69
No Japanese losses
Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 22
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x A6M2 Zero bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Bali , at 24,68
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 22
Ki-21 Sally x 53
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 2 damaged
Allied ground losses:
9 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 1
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 6
Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on No. 107 RN Base Force, at 27,56
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24
B5N Kate x 10
Ki-27 Nate x 74
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 42
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
9 casualties reported
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! Enemy TFs are sighted 120 and 180 miles East of Wake!!!!! 
Day Air attack on TF, near Wake Island at 82,63
Allied aircraft
F2A Buffalo x 5
F4F-3 Wildcat x 12
SBD Dauntless x 70
TBD Devastator x 18
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
AK Kinko Maru, Bomb hits 9, on fire, heavy damage
AK Chikuzan Maru, Bomb hits 5, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Hachirogata Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AK Toyo Maru, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK Zogen Maru, Bomb hits 5, on fire, heavy damage
AK Nikkyu Maru, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
AK Tamishima Maru, Bomb hits 6, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
7 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet
2 x TBD Devastator launching torpedoes at 200 feet
god damn, I´m asking me if this can really happen twice! Just like at Midway, out of a sudden the enemy CVs pop up two hexes off the base! Again, there more than 40 search aircraft on nav search and again it is possible for the Allied CVs to sneak in unseen. I´m sure the carriers moved in at full speed, but to counter this, I have placed 6 subs 12 hexes East of Wake to either sight the enemy, or at least sight one of the enemy´s search aircraft to alert me.
And once again it seems Miller is too lucky for us...  TONIGHT, TWO!!!!! TFs arrived at Wake. One TF was already there... what can I say... one day later, one day earlier...
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Day Air attack on TF, near Wake Island at 82,63
Allied aircraft
F2A Buffalo x 2
F4F-3 Wildcat x 6
SBD Dauntless x 72
TBD Devastator x 33
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
MSW Wa 1, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AK Bandoeng Maru, Bomb hits 7, on fire, heavy damage
MSW Wa 19, Bomb hits 8, on fire, heavy damage
AK Cheribon Maru, Bomb hits 6, on fire, heavy damage
AK Gyoku Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire
AK Shanghai Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Akasisan Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
9 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet
2 x TBD Devastator launching torpedoes at 200 feet
two of my TFs are totally destroyed... this is the morning phase... can´t those damned carriers be at least clouded in? No luck...
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But the Empire strikes back! 
Day Air attack on TF at 84,64 
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 40
B5N Kate x 42
Allied aircraft
F2A Buffalo x 19
F4F-3 Wildcat x 42
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 10 destroyed, 12 damaged
B5N Kate: 8 destroyed, 26 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
F2A Buffalo: 14 destroyed
F4F-3 Wildcat: 7 destroyed, 21 damaged
Allied Ships
CV Enterprise, Torpedo hits 6, on fire, heavy damage
CA Northampton
CV Yorktown
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
BANZAI! At Midway, IMO the Allied were lucky in every aspect! But lucky or not, you can´t be 100% lucky everytime! And this time, Miller will surely be thinking that he had no luck at all! Guess what, the two Allied CV TFs got SEPERATED!!!  This CV TF took position 120 miles SE of Wake and the other one that should have followed ended up 180 miles SE of Wake!
And as I have mentioned before, Wake is becoming a fortress, after the fall of Midway, we immediately transfered Kates to Wake. No Betties / Nells because the airfield is only level 3 yet and I knew, if the enemy carriers would show up, they would again close in enough to be in torp range of the Kates. Out of 54 Kates and 54 Zeroes we see a good number attacking (we also have an air HQ at Wake) and with the enemy CV TFs being seperated, the enemy Cap isn´t bullet prove, even though there are again a lot of Marine fighters in the air also. The high exp Navy Wildcat pilots prove to be deadyl against our Zeroes, but still, the Zeroes enable the torp carrying bombers to do their torp runs. Only two Kates were shot down by the enemy fighters. Not like at Midway, when 50+ high exp Betties / Nells only achieved two torp hits on the slow moving BBs, the 40 Kates doing torp runs put 6 fish into CV Enterprise! Needless to say that the ship is confirmed SUNK!
BANZAI! BANZAI! BANZAI!
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Day Air attack on TF, near Wake Island at 82,63
Allied aircraft
F2A Buffalo x 2
F4F-3 Wildcat x 3
SBD Dauntless x 36
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
AK Beryl, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AK Fukushu Maru, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
AK Taki Maru, Bomb hits 5, on fire, heavy damage
AK Tainan Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire
Japanese ground losses:
278 casualties reported
Aircraft Attacking:
9 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet
then in the afternoon, the enemy again launches strikes, targetting the third TF. This is one of the two TFs that moved in exactly today, fully loaden with construction btns...
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Day Air attack on TF, near Wake Island at 82,63
Allied aircraft
F2A Buffalo x 2
F4F-3 Wildcat x 10
SBD Dauntless x 47
TBD Devastator x 30
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
AK Fukushu Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK Yamazuki Maru, Bomb hits 6, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Tainan Maru, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK Taki Maru, Bomb hits 6, on fire, heavy damage
AK Beryl, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
Japanese ground losses:
528 casualties reported
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x TBD Devastator launching torpedoes at 200 feet
9 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet
the whole TF is destroyed... mmmm...  lost something like 20 ships today...
and still, we have sunk CV Enterprise, so I wonder if Miller will see this operation as a success... I would cheer if he would have arrived yesterday and two of my TFs wouldn´t be at Wake while only one would have been beat up. As it is now, I´m not that happy with it, even though I should be I guess.
It´s just like that I don´t like losing ships that way... not again...
with the loss of CV Enterprise, I guess this will mean that Miller has to be more carefully in future. This also shows that LBA can put serious harm on his CV fleet, so without nuking my airfields, upcoming invasions could get more than bloody for him.
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Day Air attack on TF, near Wake Island at 82,63
Allied aircraft
SBD Dauntless x 14
No Allied losses
Aircraft Attacking:
5 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF at 84,64
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 2
B5N Kate x 10
Allied aircraft
F2A Buffalo x 4
F4F-3 Wildcat x 11
Japanese aircraft losses
B5N Kate: 1 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
F2A Buffalo: 1 damaged
Allied Ships
CV Enterprise, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
the bombers couldn´t find Enterprise anymore, the carrier sunk within minutes after 6 torp hits...
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Day Air attack on TF at 85,64
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 34
B5N Kate x 3
Allied aircraft
F2A Buffalo x 8
F4F-3 Wildcat x 40
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 9 destroyed, 10 damaged
B5N Kate: 3 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
F2A Buffalo: 5 destroyed
F4F-3 Wildcat: 8 destroyed, 18 damaged
Allied Ships
CL Helena
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
and here we attack the second carrier TF. Our Zeroes do better against the Wildcats here than against Enterprise´s and Yorktown´s fighters. Those Navy fighter pilots are the best the Allied have and they did a pretty good job against my high exp Zeroes. Even though there are more than enough Navy pilots in the pool for the Allied, replacing a lost 80+ fighter pilot with a 60 exp pilot isn´t a good deal, so every Allied CV fighter pilot counts. The Marine Buffalos were mostly only targets for our Zeroes.
Here are the air losses. A clear victory for us. It seems like Enterprise didn´t launch bombers as they went down with the carrier. That´s excellent, I expected them to bogey out to the other three remaining carriers where they could be used to fill out the losses of high exp pilots of future operations. The Wildcats achieved a kill rate a bit better than 1:1 the Buffalos were nothing but targets so all in all we even achieved a 1.7:1 kill rate in our favour. Not bad against a numerical superiority...
what a great victory this would have been if my TFs would have left Wake to the North again and being out of range of the carriers...
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Ground combat at Hengchow
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 10964 troops, 337 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1599
Defending force 90780 troops, 495 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2530
Allied ground losses:
191 casualties reported
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Ground combat at Wuchow
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 2076 troops, 80 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1168
Defending force 73263 troops, 519 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1960
Allied ground losses:
66 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
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Ground combat at Kweiyang
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 68185 troops, 469 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1873
Defending force 74834 troops, 769 guns, 727 vehicles, Assault Value = 1804
Japanese ground losses:
37 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
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< Message edited by castor troy -- 11/30/2008 3:55:31 PM >
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RE: it goes on... - 
In AE this will be 20 ac lost then??? 
Those two subs operating around Midway have been REALLY succesful... 
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