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Guadalcanal & the IJN barge traffic jam - 4/13/2010 1:37:58 PM   
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It appears from the Allied Commanders reports that the IJN/IJA have decided on beachfront property on Guadalcanal by taking Tassafaronga and Taivu.  The IJN supplies lots of barges at Shortland Island so the IJA can send in the small packets of troops over several days.  HQ SOPAC decided swift action needed to be taken and ordered every PG, PC, and SC into Lunga to sink these barges, since the USN Pilots refuse to attack the IJN tin cans on the beach....
 
Unfortunately, the IJN stationed 2 CVs west of Lunga and their pilots got some target practice.  4 SC ships sunk and Captain R. Jones went down with his ship.
 
I can only hope the men on Guadalcanal can endure the IJA piecemeal troops and put up enough resistance to hold that highly valued position.

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RE: Guadalcanal & the IJN barge traffic jam - 4/15/2010 2:45:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		indeed 5th carrier division got some practice shooting at tiny escort vessels. However, the enemy will miss those craft later on...

On the other side of the theatre our bombers decimated another allied convoy. First, G3M Nell and G4M Betty squadrons put some torpedoes into these ships unloading troops at PM. After that, Vals and Kates finished the job. Three more transports lost, along with their crews and a decent number of soldiers....

one of the earlier victims, the juicy 15p "Esperance Bay" sunk last night too...



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RE: Guadalcanal & the IJN barge traffic jam - 4/15/2010 3:03:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		we forgot to mention that the airwar is running fine too. Last engagement over PM ended up at a 4.5:1 ratio (seven own losses against 32 USAAF/RAAF a/c).

Enemy C47 Dakotas keep on falling into the vast Sea too...

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RE: Guadalcanal & the IJN barge traffic jam - 4/16/2010 4:12:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		The enemy tried to reinforce his Lunga garrison, but this attempt run right into the A/C of our most busy 5th carrier division...

three more allied DDs sunk, loaden with precious troops.




deadly fishes...



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RE: Guadalcanal & the IJN barge traffic jam - 4/16/2010 4:13:28 PM   
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RE: Guadalcanal & the IJN barge traffic jam - 4/17/2010 10:05:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		this afternoon, our victorious troops took Lunga with an all-out attack... and 6k enemy troops still stranded far from home...







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RE: Lunga - 4/19/2010 1:23:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes Ralf, you are having all the fun, with your IJN/IJA dominating the south pacific.  but the time will come when the things turn around, and then the USN and the Allied Invasion will begin.  It is possible that the Allies can choose to land when and where they want at that time... so you pile up your troops on Guadalcanal and I will skip it and land somewhere else...

And if you try to land on Noumea, I have troops in reserve... waiting for you...


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RE: Lunga - 4/21/2010 9:51:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		We´re looking forward to any allied invasion attempt, wherever & whenever it will take place. Of course the enemy will need some ships for such an enterprise, but one of our lurking submarines caught another allied transport just off Townsville harbour entrance, and delivered some torps along with 5.5" shells into its belly... The enemy vessel sunk right during the attack...






BTW there is no hard "Noumea-plan" yet, but you never know what the top brass at the Imperial GHQ far back in Tokyo is up to...

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Allied Ships - 4/21/2010 2:13:38 PM   
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RE: Allied Ships - 4/22/2010 4:27:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		vital parts of Kido Butai have arrived in the theatre, and they got busy from the start. On their way south in the SoPac area our A/C spotted some surface units heading towards Guadalcanal. Obviously the enemy still tries to rescue some troops from there... only to end up loosing more ships during that brave move.
One heavy cruiser (the INDIANAPOLIS) sunk, along with some DDs.



AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/15/42

Weather: Partly Cloudy

Sub attack at 53,66

Japanese Ships
SS I-28

Allied Ships
PG Tui, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage


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Air attack on TF at 44,51

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 4
D3A Val x 27

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A Val x 9 damaged

Allied Ships
DD Henley, Bomb hits 15, on fire, heavy damage
DD Dunlap, Bomb hits 3, on fire
CA San Francisco, Bomb hits 2


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Air attack on TF at 44,51

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 44
A6M3 Zero x 4
D3A Val x 69
B5N Kate x 24

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A Val x 1 damaged
B5N Kate x 2 destroyed
B5N Kate x 5 damaged

Allied Ships
CA Indianapolis, Bomb hits 19, Torpedo hits 5, on fire, heavy damage
DD Fanning, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage


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escort vessel that ate THREE fishes... too much!






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RE: PG Tui sunk - 4/22/2010 7:07:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		yes, your IJN subs have spotted the line of PG picket ships I placed on patrol from Noumea to Luganville... I was hoping these would use up all your torpedoes so your subs will leave or get hit with a depth charge and then be sunk... besides PH continues to send these to me when I really need more AP/AK transports and some more CA/CLAA/DD....

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RE: PG Tui sunk - 4/23/2010 12:08:59 PM   
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Taivu - red sandy beach and surf - 4/23/2010 1:28:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		The troops that were "relocated" from Lunga to Taivu - some have been rescued and unfortunately the remaining 6000 men were lost to an all out attack from the IJA as they pursued them thru the jungle and onto the beach.... some tried to swim away but were shot in the back and became shark food....

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RE: Taivu - red sandy beach and surf - 4/23/2010 1:52:34 PM   
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SS chase - 4/23/2010 1:59:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		in the meantime the enemy tries to get some lucky shot at my fleet. They massed in the Shortlands vicinity, just to fell victim to our IJN a/c on ASW patrol.
Two US submarines are reported sunk the last two days, while several others were also seriously hit.

Besides this, not much action to report. Obviously the Allies retreated south, run for cover and re-organize their assets.


at the start the IJN is pretty good in ASW...



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Allied Intel Report - 4/23/2010 2:01:37 PM   
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SS chase succeeds - 4/23/2010 2:14:27 PM   
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Pearl Shipyards!!! - 4/26/2010 1:30:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		Pearl Shipyards have released 51 AP/AK to me in 1 turn...  I really would like to have some WARSHIPS!!! first to protect the transports but I dont see them releasing them anytime soon.... so I now have to figure this out?????






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RE: Pearl Shipyards!!! - 4/26/2010 2:43:13 PM   
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ORIGINAL: stingray








Imperial HQ asked me to forward you utmost thanks for this free intel...

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RE: Pearl Shipyards!!! - 4/26/2010 2:48:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		due to the obvious lack of A/C (the enemy lost all these PBYs along with C-47s at a rate of 1...2 per day while on airlift duty) KB was able to sneak all along the Aussie caost undetected, and met another allied force consisting of warships. It seems there were on a supply run to or from PM...

A rain of bombs and torpedoes sealed their fate... However, in exchange for 25 of our attacking A/C.



AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/28/42

Weather: Partly Cloudy

Air attack on TF at 10,50

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 42
D3A Val x 45
B5N Kate x 34

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A Val x 1 destroyed
D3A Val x 21 damaged
B5N Kate x 5 destroyed
B5N Kate x 15 damaged

Allied Ships
CA Louisville, Bomb hits 12, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CL St. Louis, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
DD Lamson, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
DD Mustin, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Mahan, Bomb hits 6, on fire, heavy damage
CA Chicago, Bomb hits 8, on fire, heavy damage
DD O'Brien
DD Lang, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage


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Air attack on TF at 10,50

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5
D3A Val x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A Val x 3 damaged

Allied Ships
CA Chicago, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage


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Air attack on TF at 10,50

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5
A6M3 Zero x 7
B5N Kate x 14

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N Kate x 2 destroyed
B5N Kate x 13 damaged

Allied Ships
DD Hughes, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Balch
CA Chicago, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage


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Air attack on TF at 10,50

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 7
D3A Val x 17
B5N Kate x 12

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A Val x 2 destroyed
D3A Val x 4 damaged
B5N Kate x 2 destroyed
B5N Kate x 5 damaged

Allied Ships
DD Ellet
DD Selfridge
CL St. Louis, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CA Louisville, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CL Leander, Bomb hits 2
DD O'Brien, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Hughes, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage


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RE: Pearl Shipyards!!! - 4/26/2010 3:07:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		hopefully the miracle workers at Pearl Shipyards will release better equiped warships with the 40mm bofors instead of popguns from WWI era...

Strange behavior from the KB to lurk so close to LBA from Townsville... Are there any troop transports heading for Cairns/Townsville/PM???

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RE: Pearl Shipyards!!! - 4/27/2010 11:39:29 AM   
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ORIGINAL: stingray

hopefully the miracle workers at Pearl Shipyards will release better equiped warships with the 40mm bofors instead of popguns from WWI era...



tell those guys not to forget fitting additional anti-torpedo-bulges!

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war comes closer... - 4/27/2010 4:57:22 PM   
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at night, some wrecked allied vessels slipped beneath the waves



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RE: Pearl Shipyards!!! - 4/27/2010 5:01:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		The following day our airforce was busy at PM, heavily attacking some FT TF consisting of AV type seaplane tenders... Again, they had troops on board. And got lost...

Port Moresby is crammed with LCU, but seems to be pretty impotent to us since there is not a single fighter providing CAP. Either supply is desperately low (what all the FT tries might suggest) or the enemy pulled back his fighter squadrons...?




easy pray for G4Ms with their deadly fishes...



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AVs under attack - 4/27/2010 5:04:04 PM   
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RE: AVs under attack - 4/27/2010 5:04:41 PM   
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RE: Port Moresby - 4/27/2010 5:27:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes Ralf is correct... Port Moresby is in the red zone for Supply.... with no supply on the way since every FT TF has been sunk by the IJN KB of 6 carriers plus CVL escorts....

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RE: Port Moresby - 4/28/2010 5:14:48 AM   
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RE: Port Moresby - 4/28/2010 5:30:29 PM   
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RE: Intel Report - 4/28/2010 7:09:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		Another Day/Turn and 1 more AP/AK transport TF showed up in Noumea, but still no Warships!  Aircraft have been ordered for SWPAC but replacements are slow to arrive....

last turn RGIJN landed some troops at PM to get intel on the type and number of Allied INF units located there...  it is only a matter of time before the big FT TF shows up with the SNLF units to evict the Allied INF from their homes...


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