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1943 September 10 The Empire captured: The Allies captured: Buna There were Imperial amphibious operations at: There were Allied amphibious operations at: Kingfish got a tanker southwest of Japan, but Tinosa scored better. quote:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Yap at 95,97 Japanese Ships CA Kumano, Torpedo hits 1, on fire CL Kinu DD Onami DD Murakumo DD Shirayuki Allied Ships SS Tinosa SS Tinosa launches 4 torpedoes at CA Kumano Tinosa diving deep .... DD Murakumo fails to find sub and abandons search DD Shirayuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Shirayuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Shirayuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Shirayuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Shirayuki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Empire, seeing supply about to start flowing into China, took a chance and won the die roll. quote:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 70,48 (near Kunming) Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 15650 troops, 75 guns, 646 vehicles, Assault Value = 668 Defending force 85416 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1265 Japanese adjusted assault: 447 Allied adjusted defense: 193 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-), morale(-) experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: shock(+) Japanese ground losses: 767 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 197 disabled Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 35 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Guns lost 6 (1 destroyed, 5 disabled) Vehicles lost 149 (39 destroyed, 110 disabled) Allied ground losses: 23150 casualties reported Squads: 767 destroyed, 9 disabled Non Combat: 1243 destroyed, 9 disabled Engineers: 5 destroyed, 1 disabled Guns lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units retreated 33 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 5th Tank Regiment 51st Infantry Brigade 17th Tank Regiment 4th Tank Regiment 3rd Tank Regiment 15th Tank Regiment 10th Tank Regiment 9th Tank Regiment 12th Tank Regiment 14th Tank Regiment 64th Infantry Brigade 11th Tank Regiment Defending units: 74th Chinese Corps 31st Chinese Corps 97th Chinese Corps 24th Chinese Corps 37th Chinese Corps 68th Chinese Corps 75th Chinese Corps 90th Chinese Corps 53rd Chinese Corps 99th Chinese Corps 3rd Chinese Corps 91st Chinese Corps 95th Chinese Corps 73rd Chinese Corps 54th Chinese Corps 8th New Chinese Corps 16th Group Army 3rd War Area 21st Group Army 9th Group Army 49th Chinese Corps 46th Chinese Corps 19th Group Army 52nd Chinese Corps 4th War Area 70th Chinese Corps 67th Chinese Corps 20th Group Army 62nd Chinese Corps 9th War Area 120th Red Chinese Division 56th Chinese Corps Lusu War Area 35th Group Army -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This makes the defense of Kunming uncertain. The 52nd Chinese Corps, with only Support squads remaining 39 (92), did not retreat and buys us another day. Buna is now ours, and as the defenders have no where to retreat to, the attackers will continue to assault until they are eliminated in place. Ground assault at Truk tomorrow. A few Betty and Nell raids were savaged over Truk, netting 10 and 2 of the attackers, respectively. An AO was lost near Palmyra to unknown causes. According to Tracker she was scuttled, so this might be a bug, although the operations report does say "Fires out of control, ship can not be saved." I'll check yesterday's reports to see if there is any mention of her that I missed at the time. She was in convoy with 4 other AO of similar speed escorted by 2x SC. The only other AO lost to date was in 1941. CVL Cowpens has refueled at Palmyra and is moving on. Here is the Intel screen.
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