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1944 May 20 - 1/6/2015 2:55:34 PM

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1944 May 20

The Empire captured:

The Allies captured:
Sansapor
Woleai

There were Imperial amphibious or airborne operations at:

There were Allied amphibious or airborne operations at:
Woleai

Our subs got a PB and CV Zuikaku. One sub badly damaged.

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Sub attack near Jesselton at 68,85

Japanese Ships
CV Zuikaku, Torpedo hits 1
DD Shiratsuyu
DD Michishio
DD Asagiri

Allied Ships
SS Gurnard

SS Gurnard launches 6 torpedoes at CV Zuikaku
Gurnard diving deep ....
DD Asagiri fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Asagiri fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Asagiri attacking submerged sub ....
DD Asagiri fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Asagiri fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

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Naturally Zuikaku is on the sunk ships list!

Quiet in China.

Pegu hit again by 4EB.

Allied naval bombardments.

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Allied Ships Bombarding Babar
Allied Ships Bombarding Woleai
Allied Ships Bombarding Chichi-jima
Allied Ships Bombarding Woleai
Allied Ships Bombarding Pagan

The APD/fast xAKL TF stayed at Tarakan into daylight! In hindsight I should have stopped them unloading and ordered their flight directly. The results were predictable but could have been far worse. Four APD sunk and another two badly damaged. Those two can still supposedly make good speed and will head for Manado in the wake of their faster friends. Heavy rain at Tarakan might be what saved the day.

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Tarakan at 67,91

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 70 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 18 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zero x 45
A6M5b Zero x 9
B6N1 Jill x 18
B6N2 Jill x 50
D4Y1 Judy x 20
D4Y2 Judy x 42

Japanese aircraft losses
B6N1 Jill: 1 damaged
B6N2 Jill: 1 damaged
D4Y1 Judy: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
APD Fox, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
APD McKean
APD Rathburne, Bomb hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage
APD Kennison
APD Overton
APD Little
APD Herbert, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
APD Clemson, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
APD Schley
APD Lawrence
APD Noa
APD Gilmer
DMS Ellyson
APD Daniel T. Griffin, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
APD Crane, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
xAKL Masayas
APD Brooks
APD Waters
APD Kane

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x D4Y1 Judy releasing from 1000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 500 kg SAP Bomb
18 x B6N1 Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 45cm Type 91 Torp
5 x D4Y2 Judy releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 500 kg SAP Bomb
16 x B6N2 Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 45cm Type 91 Torp
11 x D4Y2 Judy releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 500 kg SAP Bomb
17 x B6N2 Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 45cm Type 91 Torp
17 x B6N2 Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 45cm Type 91 Torp
9 x D4Y1 Judy releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 500 kg SAP Bomb
11 x D4Y2 Judy releasing from 1000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 500 kg SAP Bomb
3 x D4Y2 Judy releasing from 1000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 500 kg SAP Bomb
4 x D4Y1 Judy releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 500 kg SAP Bomb
4 x D4Y2 Judy releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 500 kg SAP Bomb
8 x D4Y2 Judy releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 500 kg SAP Bomb

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring APD Rathburne
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring APD Fox

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Three B-24 raids hit Tarakan, doing great damage to the airfield and destroying 5x George on the ground, but it wasn't a factor. Our troops are still recovering in good order but due to the 1/2 preparation they have more disruption to recover. Not to mention 29 disabled infantry squads and a roughly equal number of other devices. Airlifts during the day helped deliver supplies. The second convoy with their remaining heavy equipment and a bunch of supply is heading back to Manado to wait under the presumed safety of P38 CAP, as is the invasion convoy for Jolo. Surface combat units are doing likewise, and empty supply ships from Tawi Tawi will still be over 100 miles from Manado when the sun comes up tomorrow. Destroyer Laws, sent from Tarakan back to station at Tawi Tawi instead chased an undetermined ship contact to the northern entrance of the Makassar Strait but did not catch her.

Our own fleet carriers are about three days away from Sangi at their cruising speed, with the escort carriers somewhat south of them and three days out from Manado. At cruising speed, the Imperial carriers could be there in two. Bandjermasin was hit by many B-29 groups and almost certainly put completely out of action. Davao was hit hard by B-24s and certainly closed to offensive operations. The fighter sweep of Davao yielded nothing. A number of subs are being dispatched from Babeldaob to the Sulu Sea.

The Empire's death gliders did make another sweep of Tawi Tawi, piling onto damage done in prior days to leave the Marine fighter group there with but one flyable Corsair. This could be to pave the way for their carriers' transit. A little rearranging of fighter assets puts a Corsair squadron at Manado to supplement the two P-38 groups there. A Kittihawk group is at Sidate, and over at Talaud-eilanden there are two P-38 groups and a P-39 group with a Corsair group added. The 4EB in the area are stood down to rest, which will leave almost all fighter activity as defensive. One more sub is being dispatched from Kendari to the Makassar Strait.

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Afternoon Air attack on Tawi Tawi , at 72,90

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 12 NM, estimated altitude 21,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
N1K1-J George x 31

Allied aircraft
F4U-1 Corsair x 4
F4U-1A Corsair x 7

Japanese aircraft losses
N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
F4U-1A Corsair: 2 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
29 x N1K1-J George sweeping at 19000 feet

CAP engaged:
VMF-224 with F4U-1 Corsair (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 15000.
Raid is overhead
VMF-115 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 6 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 19000 and 25000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 9 minutes

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Those aircraft came from Cagayan, where over 100 fighters are based.

The invasion of Woleai was against defenders only ghosts of their previous selves. Not sure what the op mode (-) was about, maybe they were trying to rest down disruption and did not see the invasion coming. Being isolated with no search in the area you see pretty much nothing, and there is no time to change mode for an auto-shock attack.

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Ground combat at Woleai (101,103)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 3732 troops, 30 guns, 51 vehicles, Assault Value = 130

Defending force 442 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Allied adjusted assault: 132

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 132 to 1 (fort level 4)

Allied forces CAPTURE Woleai !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), op mode(-), disruption(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), fatigue(-)

Japanese ground losses:
367 casualties reported
Squads: 53 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 19 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 17 (17 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
Fiji Brigade
5th AmphTrac Engineer Battalion

Defending units:
24th Infantry Regiment

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Here you see that fleeing enemy ship in the Makassar Strait, while the IJN carriers and escorts are hunted by subs sent for that purpose near Jesselton and Kudat.

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RE: 1944 May 19 - 1/12/2015 12:55:02 AM

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RE: 1944 May 19 - 1/12/2015 1:38:10 AM

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just starting to follow if you don't mind.

Heck, no I don't mind! Welcome aboard!

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1944 May 21 - 1/12/2015 1:50:11 AM

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1944 May 21

The Empire captured:

The Allies captured:

There were Imperial amphibious or airborne operations at:

There were Allied amphibious or airborne operations at:

Our subs came up empty.

Quiet in China. Too quiet - he's planning something!

Pegu was hit again.

Allied naval bombardments.

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Allied Ships Bombarding Chichi-jima
Allied Ships Bombarding Babar
Allied Ships Bombarding Pagan

The staff - yeah, the staff - forgot about another AK that was loading troops for Basilan. They got hit by Kamis 80 miles out and were very, very lucky. See picture of the results in next post. All 5 Oscars destroyed were shot down by one pilot!

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Basilan at 76,92

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 8

Allied aircraft
F4U-1 Corsair x 1

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 5 destroyed

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
AK Alamosa, Kamikaze hits 1, on fire

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar flying as kamikaze

CAP engaged:
VMF-224 with F4U-1 Corsair (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 15000.
Raid is overhead

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Tawi Tawi was swept by fighters from Cagayan again as the Imperial carriers entered the Sulu Sea. Only one Corsair rose in opposition but managed to survive. Now 7 are ready and 6 more projected to be ready tomorrow! Our additional subs will begin taking up station in two days. Our carriers are pretty much spotted. Detection is not terribly strong, but is probably enough for DAW HQ to have the lay of the land. Tomorrow our carriers will be under clear skies while the Emperor's will be under protective overcast. A Corsair group has been moved to Sangi.

The USA 147 IR at Tarakan is recovering disablements quite nicely, although disruption is still 13%. With the carriers pushing into the Celebes Sea in a couple of days I might wait for the rest of the Rgt before ordering the first attack. We'll see.

Imperial carriers pushing into very dangerous waters.

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RE: 1944 May 21 - 1/12/2015 1:50:58 AM

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Here is that kamikaze victim.

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1944 May 22 - 1/16/2015 5:00:15 AM

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1944 May 22

The Empire captured:

The Allies captured:

There were Imperial amphibious or airborne operations at:

There were Allied amphibious or airborne operations at:

Our subs got an xAKL

Quiet in China.

Continued bombing of Pegu. All Indian infantry squads are now upgraded to '44 standard. It will still be a few weeks, but I'm beginning to shuffle units around for later loading for the invasion (Pegu/Moulmein).

Allied naval bombardments.

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Allied Ships Bombarding Babar
Allied Ships Bombarding Chichi-jima
Allied Ships Bombarding Pagan

Disconcertingly, the Imperial carriers have simply disappeared. The disconcerting part is that they were well within our search coverage, so it is possible that they are close by but covered by bad weather. Tomorrow overcast is expected so the situation will still be dicey.

Davao was hit hard by the B-29s. The B-24s hit Banjermasin and Zamboagna; recon did not make it to the latter so it was hit lightly, but it's only a size 1 airfield. Miri airfield, BTW, has had more recon and now shows at 77% damage. The fleet carriers will take up station to the east of the center of the Celebes Sea while convoys again move toward Basilan, Jolo (invasion), and Tawi Tawi. The second Tarakan invasion convoy will refuel from oilers arriving at Manado tomorrow before heading that way again.

The partial Rgt at Tarakan has recovered quite nicely so we will try the first deliberate attack tomorrow. Preparation stands at 57% and some B-24 groups will make air strikes in support. Naval bombardment will be available the following day.

There are a couple of Imperial subs angling for our convoy and escort carrier traffic. The escort carriers will pass north of Talaud-eilanden. A destroyer group is now tasked with ASW and two more groups will be formed in the coming days. An RNZAF Ventura squadron will begin ASW operations out of Sidate.

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RE: 1944 May 22 - 1/16/2015 5:00:46 AM

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Here is the high level plan for the invasion of Pegu to undermine the current Imperial defensive position.

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RE: 1944 May 22 - 1/16/2015 5:00:23 PM

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Units Preparing for Pegu (Probably not enough sea lift for all.)
6th Medium Regiment (Would have to pay PP.)
2nd Indian Field Regiment (Would have to pay PP.)
88th Medium Regiment
122nd British AT Gun Regiment
231 Group Base Force
IV Indian Corps (Currently near the front line and might not make the invasion.)
2nd British/A Division (Will rebuild.)
2nd British/B Division
2nd British/C Division
8th Mahratta AT Gun Regiment
82nd (West African) Division
28th (East African) Brigade
17th Indian Light AA Regiment
12th Indian Heavy AA Regiment
15th Indian Heavy AA Regiment
16th Indian Heavy AA Regiment
20th Indian Heavy AA Regiment
11th PAVO Tank Regiment
18th Cavalry Tank Regiment
26th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment (Would have to pay PP.)
29th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment (Would have to pay PP.)
22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
1st Burma Battalion
4th Burma Battalion
5th Burma Battalion
2/15 Punjab Battalion
14th Indian Division (Currently near the front line and will not make the invasion.)
17th Indian/A Division (Will rebuild.)
17th Indian/B Division
17th Indian/C Division
Lushai Brigade
5307th Composite Regiment
4th Marine Division

Units Preparing for Moulmein
107th RAF Base Force (Will not make the invasion.)
III Indian Corps (Currently near the front line and might not make the invasion.)
BFF Brigade
1st Hyderabad Battalion
1st Mysore Battalion
XV Corps Engineer Battalion (Will not make the invasion. Defending Bassein.)
13th Burma Rifles Battalion
20th Indian Division (Will be part of the assault on Rangoon.)

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RE: 1944 May 22 - 1/16/2015 10:41:42 PM

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6th Medium Regiment (Would have to pay PP.)
88th Medium Regiment

Are these your SIGINT people? And why do you have to pay the 6th a Psychic Premium?

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RE: 1944 May 22 - 1/16/2015 11:02:32 PM

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6th Medium Regiment (Would have to pay PP.)
88th Medium Regiment

Are these your SIGINT people? And why do you have to pay the 6th a Psychic Premium?

Why yes. those British artillerymen are quite superstitious, you know!

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RE: 1944 May 22 - 1/21/2015 4:33:40 AM

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Shameless teaser:

Kamikaze attack! New Jersey hit 3 times. Lexington hit 6 times. Saratoga hit 12 times!

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RE: 1944 May 22 - 1/21/2015 10:52:36 AM

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As I started reading your post my first thought was... How did those Kamakazi's get the range to hit New Jersey??

Must have been a Belushi flashback...

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RE: 1944 May 22 - 1/21/2015 4:32:58 PM

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As I started reading your post my first thought was... How did those Kamakazi's get the range to hit New Jersey??

Must have been a Belushi flashback...

This is their elite Kamikaze unit - every pilot has at least 4 successful missions!

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RE: 1944 May 22 - 1/21/2015 6:22:20 PM

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Yes - those three ships make it New Jersey, Massachusetts, and New York!

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1944 May 23 - 1/21/2015 6:22:45 PM

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1944 May 23

The Empire captured:

The Allies captured:
Tarakan

There were Imperial amphibious or airborne operations at:

There were Allied amphibious or airborne operations at:

Our subs came up empty.

Quiet in China.

Pegu hit from the air again.

Allied naval bombardments.

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Allied Ships Bombarding Babar
Allied Ships Bombarding Chichi-jima
Allied Ships Bombarding Chichi-jima
Allied Ships Bombarding Pagan

Big kamikaze attack out of Cagayan against our fleet carriers!

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Jolo at 75,93

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 119 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 29 minutes

Japanese aircraft
N1K1-J George x 24
Ki-84a Frank x 24

Allied aircraft
F4U-1A Corsair x 10
F6F-3 Hellcat x 259

Japanese aircraft losses
N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed
Ki-84a Frank: 15 destroyed
Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
F6F-3 Hellcat: 2 destroyed

Allied Ships
CV Saratoga, Kamikaze hits 12, on fire
CV Lexington, Kamikaze hits 6
BB New Jersey, Kamikaze hits 3
CV Stewart Island

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-84a Frank flying as kamikaze

CAP engaged:
VF-17 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 11000 and 15000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 27 minutes
VF-34 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 12000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes
VF-40 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 25 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 14000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 45 minutes
VF-1 with F6F-3 Hellcat (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 27 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 15000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 54 minutes
VF-2 with F6F-3 Hellcat (1 airborne, 11 on standby, 24 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 16000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes
VF-3 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 12000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes
VF-42 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters to 7000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes
VF-6 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 12000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes
VF-8 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 16000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes
VF-9 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 14000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes
VF-10 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes
VF-11 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 14000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes
VF-16 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes
VF-18 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 15000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes
VF-71 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 16000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes

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Damage is amazingly light - see screenshot below. Lexington also lost a surface search radar; not important. Saratoga lost a back of 40mm and a bank of 5in so will have to head to Pearl for repairs soon. The Frank kamikaze planes were of course all destroyed, but the George escorts did quite well and lost "3", which could be 6 or could really be 3. Significantly, none of the Frank kamikazes were taken down in air to air combat! There are still 92 fighters shown by recon of Cagayan.

The fleet carriers and the escort carriers will take up station just SW of Jolo tomorrow to cover that landing. The Imperial carriers are not located but it seems unlikely that they will be sent back into a known submarine trap at this point. Four P-38 squadrons from Talaud-eilanden and Manado will sweep Cagayan while 15 B-24 groups (but with only partial readiness and some with fatigue in the teens) will hit the airfield there.

Tarakan was captured easily.

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Ground combat at Tarakan (67,91)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 2781 troops, 46 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 94

Defending force 1666 troops, 12 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 18

Allied adjusted assault: 76

Japanese adjusted defense: 13

Allied assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied forces CAPTURE Tarakan !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), disruption(-), preparation(-)
morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
740 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 23 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 11 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 8 (8 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2

Allied ground losses:
40 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
147th(Sep) Infantry Regiment

Defending units:
2nd Port Unit
4th JAAF AF Bn

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We still have a lot of groups on escort carriers flying Wildcats of one type or another. Those will have to all upgrade to Hellcats soon, given our none-shot-down experience with Hellcats and Corsairs versus kamikazes.

The 65 ready B-29s will hit Manpower at Batavia tomorrow. There is not much Manpower there, but this is an experiment to see how well this many B-29s with a normal range bomb load do at starting a firestorm.

Here are the kamikaze victims. Something tells me they won't all look this good. 12 hits on Saratoga!!!

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RE: 1944 May 22 - 1/22/2015 12:27:00 AM

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Here is the high level plan for the invasion of Pegu to undermine the current Imperial defensive position.

There just comes a time when the Japanese player must abandon all of Burma north of Moulmein. You take Pegu and every thing there is just plain trapped. Once the Allied gain control of the sea, North Burma is a death hole.

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RE: 1944 May 23 - 1/22/2015 12:30:57 AM

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1944 May 23

The Empire captured:

The Allies captured:
Tarakan

There were Imperial amphibious or airborne operations at:

There were Allied amphibious or airborne operations at:

Our subs came up empty.

Quiet in China.

Pegu hit from the air again.

Allied naval bombardments.

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Allied Ships Bombarding Babar
Allied Ships Bombarding Chichi-jima
Allied Ships Bombarding Chichi-jima
Allied Ships Bombarding Pagan

Big kamikaze attack out of Cagayan against our fleet carriers!

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Jolo at 75,93

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 119 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 29 minutes

Japanese aircraft
N1K1-J George x 24
Ki-84a Frank x 24

Allied aircraft
F4U-1A Corsair x 10
F6F-3 Hellcat x 259

Japanese aircraft losses
N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed
Ki-84a Frank: 15 destroyed
Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
F6F-3 Hellcat: 2 destroyed

Allied Ships
CV Saratoga, Kamikaze hits 12, on fire
CV Lexington, Kamikaze hits 6
BB New Jersey, Kamikaze hits 3
CV Stewart Island

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-84a Frank flying as kamikaze

CAP engaged:
VF-17 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 11000 and 15000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 27 minutes
VF-34 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 12000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes
VF-40 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 25 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 14000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 45 minutes
VF-1 with F6F-3 Hellcat (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 27 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 15000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 54 minutes
VF-2 with F6F-3 Hellcat (1 airborne, 11 on standby, 24 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 16000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes
VF-3 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 12000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes
VF-42 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters to 7000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes
VF-6 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 12000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes
VF-8 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 16000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes
VF-9 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 14000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes
VF-10 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes
VF-11 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 14000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes
VF-16 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes
VF-18 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 15000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes
VF-71 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 16000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes

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Damage is amazingly light - see screenshot below. Lexington also lost a surface search radar; not important. Saratoga lost a back of 40mm and a bank of 5in so will have to head to Pearl for repairs soon. The Frank kamikaze planes were of course all destroyed, but the George escorts did quite well and lost "3", which could be 6 or could really be 3. Significantly, none of the Frank kamikazes were taken down in air to air combat! There are still 92 fighters shown by recon of Cagayan.

The fleet carriers and the escort carriers will take up station just SW of Jolo tomorrow to cover that landing. The Imperial carriers are not located but it seems unlikely that they will be sent back into a known submarine trap at this point. Four P-38 squadrons from Talaud-eilanden and Manado will sweep Cagayan while 15 B-24 groups (but with only partial readiness and some with fatigue in the teens) will hit the airfield there.

Tarakan was captured easily.

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Ground combat at Tarakan (67,91)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 2781 troops, 46 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 94

Defending force 1666 troops, 12 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 18

Allied adjusted assault: 76

Japanese adjusted defense: 13

Allied assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied forces CAPTURE Tarakan !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), disruption(-), preparation(-)
morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
740 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 23 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 11 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 8 (8 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2

Allied ground losses:
40 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
147th(Sep) Infantry Regiment

Defending units:
2nd Port Unit
4th JAAF AF Bn

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We still have a lot of groups on escort carriers flying Wildcats of one type or another. Those will have to all upgrade to Hellcats soon, given our none-shot-down experience with Hellcats and Corsairs versus kamikazes.

The 65 ready B-29s will hit Manpower at Batavia tomorrow. There is not much Manpower there, but this is an experiment to see how well this many B-29s with a normal range bomb load do at starting a firestorm.

Here are the kamikaze victims. Something tells me they won't all look this good. 12 hits on Saratoga!!!

What was the range? I wonder if he had drop tanks on those Franks and forgot to remove them. The results look like what you would expect from fighters that were not carrying any bomb load.

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RE: 1944 May 23 - 1/22/2015 12:40:15 AM

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The range was about 5 or 6. I'll check more when I have the game open. I'll mention the drop tanks thing to Walter. I really have no idea and I don't see any notes about bomb load in the combat report.

In Burma he might be getting ready to pull back, I can't tell. He might figure they can fight their way to Chiang Mai, which they very well might be able to. Not in good shape of course, but in the grand scheme their job is to delay, and >100,000 K combat troops astride astride an advance means they have to be contained and that takes up some of my troops.

The thing in his favor in the whole area is that China has been mopped up, freeing a lot of Japanese heavy units for elsewhere. It won't take very much to hold the mountain passes. Chinese units (including those in Burma) have been taking about 25 replacement squads per day. But even so the best I can hope for is they take over all defense in the mountains and I get the Allied units out for use elsewhere.

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RE: 1944 May 23 - 1/22/2015 1:35:35 AM

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Sure it wasn't kamikazi hit by the Saratoga? That was not even a little scary for Sara and they had an 87% hit rate?

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RE: 1944 May 23 - 1/22/2015 2:10:02 AM

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Got the answer - yup, they were carrying the deadly drop tanks! Thank goodness.

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1944 May 24 - 1/22/2015 4:10:30 AM

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1944 May 24

The Empire captured:

The Allies captured:

There were Imperial amphibious or airborne operations at:

There were Allied amphibious or airborne operations at:
Jolo

Our subs came up empty.

Quiet in China.

Pegu hit from the air again.

Allied naval bombardments.

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Allied Ships Bombarding Babar
Allied Ships Bombarding Chichi-jima
Allied Ships Bombarding Pagan

About 1/3 of the troops and equipment are ashore at Jolo (the convoy arrived late in the day) but have 35% disruption from being cooped up in those landing craft for so long and only 51% prepared for the target. They would normally wait to recover before attacking, but recon has been showing <1,000 enemy troops with no guns and no vehicles. There was certainly no resistance to the landing.

The city strike on Batavia was grounded due to weather. We'll see if they go tomorrow.

Today's kamikaze strike was handled much better, even though about 3/4 dozen or so of the escort carriers had their fighters on training. Doh! That did still leave about 17 or 18 CVE with fighters on duty.

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Jolo at 73,91

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 115 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 28 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-84a Frank x 23

Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 5
F4F-4 Wildcat x 24
FM-2 Wildcat x 20
F4U-1A Corsair x 25
F6F-3 Hellcat x 304

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-84a Frank: 15 destroyed

No Allied losses

CAP engaged:
VF-17 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 13000 and 14000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes
VF-34 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes
VF-40 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 11000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes
VF-1 with F6F-3 Hellcat (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 27 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 17000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 50 minutes
VF-2 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 23 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 15000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes
VF-3 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes
VF-42 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 12000 and 15000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 20 minutes
VF-6 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 12000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 27 minutes
VF-8 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 12000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes
VF-9 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 13000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 25 minutes
VF-10 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 25 minutes
VF-11 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 13000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 23 minutes
VF-16 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 13000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes
VF-18 with F6F-3 Hellcat (1 airborne, 10 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 14000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes
VF-71 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 14000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes
VC(F)-21 with FM-2 Wildcat (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
18 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes
VC(F)-33 with F6F-3 Hellcat (1 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes
VF-35 with F6F-3 Hellcat (2 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes
VC(F)-39 with F6F-3 Hellcat (2 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 13000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 22 minutes
VC(F)-41 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 13 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 16000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes

Training flight from VC(F)-21 has been caught up in attack

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This defense was possibly aided by the sweeps and strikes on Cagayan, which might have kept the Imperial fighters too busy to provide escort. Later, a conventional strike from Ilolio came in against a surface action group just to the north.

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Tapul at 73,90

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 76 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 25 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B6N2 Jill x 8
N1K1-J George x 9

Allied aircraft
F4U-1A Corsair x 2
F6F-3 Hellcat x 16

Japanese aircraft losses
B6N2 Jill: 3 destroyed, 2 damaged
B6N2 Jill: 1 destroyed by flak
N1K1-J George: 4 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
F6F-3 Hellcat: 2 destroyed

Allied Ships
CA Pensacola

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B6N2 Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 45cm Type 91 Torp

CAP engaged:
VF-17 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 8 minutes
VF-34 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes
VF-40 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 8 minutes
VF-1 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes
VF-2 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 24 minutes
VF-3 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes
VF-42 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters to 7000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 13 minutes
4 planes vectored on to bombers

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The attacks on Cagayan went well. Three out of four of the P-38 squadrons made their attacks before the bombers, the last at the end of the day. The first three groups took losses but did their job of paving the way for the bombers. The airfield was hit hard and already shows 34% damage and only 20 fighters remaining. The bombers will go again tomorrow but the fighters will rest.

Here are today's air losses. The Georges over Cagayan outdid the P-38s by a wide margin but they still did their job.

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1944 May 25 - 1/25/2015 3:04:43 AM

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1944 May 25

The Empire captured:

The Allies captured:

There were Imperial amphibious or airborne operations at:

There were Allied amphibious or airborne operations at:
Jolo

Our subs came up empty. But their subs got a CVE.

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Sub attack near Jolo at 73,91

Japanese Ships
SS RO-101, hits 4

Allied Ships
CVE St. Lo, Torpedo hits 1
DE England
DD Helm
DD Sims

SS RO-101 launches 2 torpedoes at CVE St. Lo
RO-101 diving deep ....
DD Helm fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Sims attacking submerged sub ....
DD Sims fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sims fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sims attacking submerged sub ....
DD Sims fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

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See St Lo's status pic below. Stunningly, she broke out into an escort TF with no escort and set course for Tarakan! One of the the three-DD ASW TFs (with full racks) is on the way to ward her, and her course has been changed for Manado by a slightly circuitous route.

Quiet in China.

Air strikes on Pegu continue (for targeting supply).

Allied naval bombardments.

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Allied Ships Bombarding Cotabato
Allied Ships Bombarding Chichi-jima
Allied Ships Bombarding Babar
Allied Ships Bombarding Zamboanga
Allied Ships Bombarding Pagan

The attack at Jolo was a bust in spite of all the troops getting ashore with ample supply. No real casualties, but disruption is up to 45% so they will recover before attacking again.

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Ground combat at Jolo (74,90)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 1207 troops, 18 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 43

Defending force 584 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 9

Allied adjusted assault: 14

Japanese adjusted defense: 19

Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), experience(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)

Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
Torres Strait Battalion

Defending units:
8th JNAF Coy

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Lots of effective air strikes on Cagayan with many of the remaining Imperial death gliders destroyed on the ground, where they belong. See the day's air losses below.

The B-29 strikes on industry at Batavia flew today.

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Morning Air attack on Batavia , at 49,98

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 25 minutes

Allied aircraft
B-29-1 Superfort x 42

No Allied losses

Manpower hits 203
Fires 36720

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb
2 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb
2 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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Morning Air attack on Batavia , at 49,98

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 76 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 23 minutes

Allied aircraft
B-29-1 Superfort x 19

No Allied losses

Manpower hits 90
Fires 53040

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb
7 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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Morning Air attack on Batavia , at 49,98

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 36 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Allied aircraft
B-29-1 Superfort x 7

No Allied losses

Manpower hits 29
Fires 58395

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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Aerial recon of Batavia shows no industry destroyed. Is this normal? I have no experience with Manpower attacks. See the recon of Batavia below. DL is currently low.

Here are today's air losses.

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RE: 1944 May 25 - 1/25/2015 3:05:16 AM

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Here is St Lo. Not sure what happened with the game engine that she sped (or limped) off alone.

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RE: 1944 May 25 - 1/25/2015 3:05:32 AM

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Here is Batavia.

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RE: 1944 May 25 - 1/25/2015 4:21:35 AM

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Here is Batavia.

How do you know there was no damage to industry? Did you see the same figures before the attack? HI 22 seems like an odd figure - makes me think it is a remnant after the fires.
If there was indeed no industry destroyed I would put it down to the fires not being big enough to burn for days. This is when the industry damage seems to mostly take place.

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RE: 1944 May 25 - 1/25/2015 4:55:36 AM

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I did look before, but I neglected to record/screenshot it. I'm pretty sure these are the original figures, but if they're not then I think it odd that there is no industry damage (no figures in parentheses). I'm hoping that the problem is that recon didn't go well.

The fires shown for the attacks - probably heavy FOW - were 36720, 53040, and 58395. I don't know how those are reported, so I am assuming that each one is "current", meaning fires observed burning at that time (as opposed to adding up 36,720, 53,040, and 58,395 to get 148,155). So 58,395 were burning after the last attack, and 22,900 from the mouse-over (combination of all sources: recon, Intel, etc.) at the end of the day. Will that destroy any industry? Are my assumptions correct about the way that fires are reported? Using Manpower attacks is totally new to me.

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RE: 1944 May 25 - 1/25/2015 1:08:16 PM

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I believe you are correct with your observations concerning the fires, it shows cumulative fires. I do not think sans FOG that you damaged any industry yet. The fires are still burning though. The damage to man power says they can produce nothing until replaced. I wish I knew how long that takes. I have only staged five raids by B29 in three games so I am a novice as well particularly as I had to go after "B" targets also. I do know I reduced Rangoon to ashes in one raid and could not touch a Chinese cities industry in two raids.

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RE: 1944 May 25 - 1/25/2015 3:43:02 PM

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Thanks. I'm a little unsure about the Manpower being needed to produce anything because some bases have other industry but no Manpower at all. I thought that hitting Manpower was the way to start fires to destroy any/all industry.

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RE: 1944 May 25 - 1/25/2015 7:43:03 PM

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Thanks. I'm a little unsure about the Manpower being needed to produce anything because some bases have other industry but no Manpower at all. I thought that hitting Manpower was the way to start fires to destroy any/all industry.

Yes. This is it.

In my experience from the other side hit only Tokyo and Kyoto if at all possible. The big manpower in those bases starts bigger fires and there is a lot of stuff to burn down in each.

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RE: 1944 May 25 - 1/25/2015 7:58:16 PM

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Ah. OK. I was hitting Batavia Manpower just to try it out since I have no direct experience with how well it works, but it's a poor testing location because of the small Manpower industry size.

This first model of B-29 can only hit the Home Islands at extended range, so I figure they will have higher ops losses, plus the same combat losses, all for 1/2 the damage potentially done. So I would like to use them to get some things done rather than fritter them away early. Of the HI bases I have under recon (not many so far) I think Nagoya was the one with little or no fighter presence. Might be worth hitting there just to make certain that fighter presence in the HI is kept high (and correspondingly lower elsewhere).

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