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19 December 1941 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A few things learned and a menace removed. DEI: During the night Boise hit Singkawang alone. The IJN SCTF near Kuching reacted and the resulting battle was heated. I couldn't believe how much this ship can take and dish out. It managed to disengage but was again tracked down and Hatsushio put a Long Lance into her and sent her under. Banzai!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Naval bombardment of Singkawang at 56,88 Allied Ships CL Boise Japanese ground losses: 19 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 2 Port hits 1 CL Boise firing at Singkawang -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat, near Singkawang at 56,88, Range 20,000 Yards Japanese Ships CA Haguro, Shell hits 2 CA Nachi, Shell hits 4 CL Isuzu, Shell hits 6, heavy fires DD Kuroshio DD Oyashio DD Hatsukaze DD Natsushio, Shell hits 2 Allied Ships CL Boise, Shell hits 18, heavy fires, heavy damage Maximum visibility in Partly Cloudy Conditions: 28,000 yards CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 20,000 yards CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 20,000 yards Gallagher T. crosses the 'T' CL Boise engages CA Nachi at 20,000 yards -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat, near Pontianak at 55,90, Range 25,000 Yards Allied aircraft no flights Allied aircraft losses SOC-1 Seagull: 2 destroyed Japanese Ships CA Haguro CA Nachi CL Isuzu, heavy fires DD Kuroshio DD Oyashio DD Hatsukaze DD Natsushio Allied Ships CL Boise, Shell hits 20, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk Maximum visibility in Partly Cloudy Conditions: 28,000 yards CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 25,000 yards CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 25,000 yards CA Haguro engages CL Boise at 25,000 yards Range closes to 23,000 yards CL Boise sunk by DD Natsushio at 11,000 yards Combat ends with last Allied ship sunk... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Elsewhere in the area, Palembang is reinforced. 13 units and 13920 troops. That looks like a Brigade landing. So divisions will be needed. He has played this well. If I had brought enough to take this base early, I most likely would have gotten those troops sunk. If I didn't he reinforces. So the other option is to let him reinforce. Build forces. Move with as much as I can when I know I can get it there. In the meantime more actions like today are needed. Although it wasn't at no cost. The CL Isuzu has 34 system, 24 flood and 91 (!!) fires. Might not make it. It's going at cruise 4 hexes a day to Saigon. The two CA have system damage in the 20s. Jesselton fell today. Also, on the other side of things Jolo is ours and Ternate is landed. There are no troops here. I think I know where they've gone. subs: I-20 hits the AK Florence D with one torp today. No troops on, so they may be unloaded or just on the other ships. The SCTF is moving in regardless. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Wake Island at 136,98 Japanese Ships SS I-20 Allied Ships xAK Florence D., Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage AVP Avocet AK Castor xAP St. Mihel xAK Laida AM Grebe AM Tern SS I-20 launches 2 torpedoes at xAK Florence D. I-20 bottoming out .... AM Grebe fails to find sub and abandons search ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- China: Things went well in China. The AVG was encountered near Wuchang by Oscars diving out of the sun onto lower P-40s. They shot down 5 and took no losses. He was obviously at bomber altitudes, not expecting sweeps. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 20th Chinese Corps, at 83,51 , near Wuchang Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 10 Allied aircraft H81-A3 x 13 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses H81-A3: 2 destroyed CAP engaged: AVG/2nd Sqn with H81-A3 (13 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 13 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 10000 Raid is overhead -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sinyang is still ours. It withstood another 1:1 DA. The division made it in but didn't like much being attacked in move mode. The moral is down to 53. Still, this most likely means the base will survive. Forts were knocked to 1 but are at 84% and the extra engineers might throw them over the top to 2 again. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Sinyang (86,48) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 49725 troops, 275 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1547 Defending force 18772 troops, 178 guns, 13 vehicles, Assault Value = 582 Allied adjusted assault: 566 Japanese adjusted defense: 365 Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 2) Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 662 casualties reported Squads: 12 destroyed, 20 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled) Allied ground losses: 1186 casualties reported Squads: 10 destroyed, 212 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 21 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled Guns lost 13 (1 destroyed, 12 disabled) Assaulting units: 48th Chinese Corps 41st Chinese Corps 92nd Chinese Corps 85th Chinese Corps 12th Chinese Corps 29th Chinese Corps 90th Chinese Corps 7th New Chinese Corps 2nd Group Army 3rd Group Army 31st Group Army Defending units: 13th Division 1st Ind.Mixed Brigade 12th RGC Temp. Division 18th RGC Temp. Division 52nd Road Const Co 67th JAAF AF Coy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KMT troops moved into Hankow, Wuchow and Nanchang today. Bombardments will go tomorrow to see what we have. Only 1 unit is in Wuchow, so no fears there. At Hankow 10 units moved in. This is a substantial force. Most likely around 2000 AV. We have level 4 forts and 1200 AV, so no chance it's being taken, but I also can't push them out just yet. I'll just hit from the air and get reinforcements in quickly. It would be nice to be able to hit this many Chinese troops out of the forests in clear hexes. At Nanchang 5 units moved in. We have 500 AV plus level 4 forts here. I'll move the SNLF in as well to survive a first attack if he's going fast. Then the division will have time to make it. It's clear, so again, bombing will be key. Pacific: The Shock attack at Guam went poorly. A 1:3, still forts 1, and now we're all messed up. An SNLF from Babeldaob will move in quickly. PI: Surigao on Mindanao fell. No planes were up at Manila and our bombers again didn't fly. I'm only giving this a few more days here, then I'll move the zeros on to the next target. Malaya: A ton of flak at Singapore hurts our Sallys flying at 10k, but they manage to drop 2 250kg bombs on CL Dauntless and 1 on CL Dragon in port. Won't kill them but it might keep them out for a bit. Also, it makes him defend the base. Fighters in fact were sitting here after the turn. Lucky they were not up today. Tomorrow sweeps will fly. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 17 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 9 damaged Ki-21-IIa Sally: 3 destroyed by flak Allied Ships CL Dragon, Bomb hits 1 Repair Shipyard hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 2000 feet * City Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 8 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 2000 feet * Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 27 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 25 Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 29 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 4 damaged Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed by flak Allied Ships CL Dauntless, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires Port hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 25 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Glad they only had one over here at this point in the war! ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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