Speedysteve
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Hi all,
Firstly, many thanks for your comments over the past couple of days. You'll be pleased to know I've calmed down somewhat and rejected the silly notion of walking away from the game I accept now that part of what happened was my own making (still think it's silly though you have to have slower TF's following faster ones) and I was a little unlucky with my TF's retreating into the path of the enemy. Anyway it's in the past and time to adapt and move on.
Here's a review of the last 7 days..........
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Wake -
Wake fell to the Marines on the 14th. It was a tough fight and a further 800 Marines died on the 14th to taker the place....wiping out 4000 Japanese.
Since then the rest of the supplies have been trickling ashore, the Marines are starting to re-embark their transports and the Marine Def. Bn and Aviation support and ashore and working on cleaning up the place.
My CV's have headed back to PH and have just re-fuelled.
Time is tight and phase 2 of the Operation will commence as soon as the Marine laden transports return from Wake (ETA 10-12 days or so).
There's been no further Japanese interference.
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Australia -
The Butchers bill continued to grow as my fleet headed back to Carnarvon then Perth. Junyo and Hiyo sank a further 10 ships bringing the total to 42 ships (24 AP's, some nice AMC's, AM, CL Caradoc, AK's). As crsutton says these are not first line AP's BUT they are still vital nonetheless and has dramatic consequences for what I can and can't do in theatres outside of CentPac. I will have a look ot see if there's any AK's in the theatre I can convert to AP's for starters......
I phyisically no longer have the load capacity to re-attempt Port Hedland or anything in SoPac that requries a lot of shipping.
As such I've had no choice but to abandon any notion of re-taking northern Aus. I've started to withdraw my forces from Katherine and will center around Alice Springs where supplies are more plentiful.
I haven't decided what I'll do in SoPac/Aus now since this is 3 months work and planning down the drain (very frustrating). I will have a think over the next week or so.
There has been some minor retribution though with both Junyo and Hiyo being hit by subs......more later.
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CBI -
Question - when does Monsoon run from/to again?
2 main actions to note. First by the Allies on the 15th with the first large scale air operation in Burma for months against the Oilfields at Magwe. OVer 100 x LBA of various types took part escorted by 80 x Hurri from Akyab. A mixed force of Zero/Oscar and Tojo were on CAP throughout the day. 14 enemy fighters were claimed for 20 friendlies. 55% of the 300 capacity oilfield was disabled though which is good.
The second is in China with the Japanese launching an offensive to capture Kanshien. This was spearheaded by the 3rd Tank Division. I was initially outnumbered (1200 AV vs 700) but I have a substantial reserve force and a further 700 AV was there in a few days along with 2 x AT Rgt's which dented the latest Japanese effort:
Ground combat at Kanhsien (81,57)
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 34651 troops, 334 guns, 578 vehicles, Assault Value = 1268
Defending force 32580 troops, 455 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1118
Japanese adjusted assault: 839
Allied adjusted defense: 1049
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3)
Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-)
Japanese ground losses:
6860 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 372 disabled
Non Combat: 18 destroyed, 307 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 59 disabled
Vehicles lost 116 (3 destroyed, 113 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
1051 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 140 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 142 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Assaulting units:
35th Division
3rd Tank Division
60th Division
62nd Infantry Brigade
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
Defending units:
14th Chinese Corps
63rd Chinese Corps
9th Prov Chinese Corps
44th Chinese Corps
78th Chinese Corps
57th AT Gun Regiment
18th Chinese Base Force
56th AT Gun Regiment
It also looks as though Faber may be trying something to the SW but we'll see. I'm not overly concerned as I say I have a substantial force of reservs over 3000 AV.
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Submarine Warfare -
6 x dud/missed attacks.
First the retribution......
SS Seadragon fired 8 torpedoes in 2 attacks against CV Hiyo NW of Port Hedland on the 15th.....1 hit detonated not causing massive damage.
SS Trusty then tagged CV Junyo on the 20th SE of Singapore. 1 torpedo also hit home. I've vectored 2 subs towards Singapore to try to get her on the 21st.
SS Hake heavily damaged the fueld laden TK Itukusima Maru with a torepdo well to the SW of Japan. It's doubtful the TK would make it to port burning out of control.
SS S-18 and SS S-32 teamed up to sink the Aden Class AK Tatuha Maru off Shikuka.
SS Wahoo damaged AKL Horei Maru in a gun battle near Okinawa.
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RE: 13th January 1943 - Wake Invaded! - 
I have always rated my efforts at sub use but, from looking at the Japanese reinforcement queue, it does seem strangely daunting with the number of 'E' vessels entering service along with 3in A/S mortars and Type 2 DC's..... Even more so since the Japanese soon start to receive 5-8 TK/AO a month as reinforcements. Sheesh. I can only hope I find some way to be successful! 
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