Bullwinkle58
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May 20, 1942
Gunfight at the OK Bengal
Look, Ma! A pun!
To be continued after I mow the grass.
OK, much later now. Friday evening, libation at my side. I just got the turn, so I have seen the results of today. Medium bad, but not all, as I will detail below.
1) What remians of Force Z, ex a certain BC, intercepts not the carriers but the surface heavies seen above in the screenie. Not really a fair fight, but there it is. POW still has ammo in the mags from 12/7; hope the powder is dry. The Dutch CLs have glass jaws too, but oh well. In they go, hoping POW's cycle time and crew experience will matter.
Day Time Surface Combat, near Great Nicobar at 36,63, Range 23,000 Yards
Allied aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft losses
C.XI-W: 1 destroyed
Japanese Ships
BB Kongo, Shell hits 7, heavy fires
BB Haruna, Shell hits 3, on fire
BB Kirishima
CA Mogami
CA Aoba, Shell hits 4, on fire
DD Akigumo, Shell hits 7, on fire
DD Kawakaze, Shell hits 2
DD Asagiri, Shell hits 3, heavy fires
Allied Ships
BB Prince of Wales, Shell hits 16
CA Dorsetshire, Shell hits 17, heavy fires, heavy damage
CL Sumatra, Shell hits 5, and is sunk
CL De Ruyter, Shell hits 11, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Paul Jones, Shell hits 6, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Vampire, Shell hits 2, heavy fires
DD Van Nes, Shell hits 1
DD Witte de With
DD Stronghold
DD Encounter, Shell hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
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What the report doesn't say, but the replay shows, is that 6 of the 7 hits on Kongo were penetrating, and all were POW main guns. Two were tower penetrations with reported heavy fires. Fingers crossed. At least one IJN DD should sink; the other is 60/40. The Japanese CAs were virtually untouched. Gunnery on both sides was generally lousy. Also wave after wave of torpedoes, with hits coming very late at close range. POW got off easy on the torps.
Then the withdrawl and the carriers got into the act. But first, after shedding ships into Escort TFs, the Japanese take another crack.
Day Time Surface Combat, near Great Nicobar at 35,63, Range 22,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
BB Haruna, on fire
BB Kirishima
CA Mogami
CA Aoba, on fire
DD Kawakaze
Allied Ships
BB Prince of Wales, Shell hits 20, on fire, heavy damage
DD Van Nes, Shell hits 1
All but two hits on POW were AA weapons, but two were CA main guns, and they started fires. My greatest fear, even more than flooding. I have posted the Tracker from next turn, and POW is in serious trouble. Either she gets good crew rolls on DC, or she's going to have Fires vault into the high 60s and is gone. Japan generally does not handle fire well at all, but the two with some here are not serious as far as I can tell.
2) The carriers. With Tracke rposted you can see the results. A lot of bouncing 250kgs, but some fires and new system damage.
Morning Air attack on TF, near Sabang at 36,70
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 19
B5N1 Kate x 6
B5N2 Kate x 8
D3A1 Val x 6
Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 1 damaged
D3A1 Val: 1 destroyed by flak
Allied Ships
DD Nizam, Bomb hits 1, on fire
BB Revenge, Bomb hits 1
Morning Air attack on TF, near Koggala at 33,61
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9
D3A1 Val x 7
Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 1 damaged
Allied Ships
DD Van Nes, Bomb hits 1, on fire
Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Great Nicobar at 36,63
Weather in hex: Thunderstorms
Raid spotted at 7 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 8
B5N1 Kate x 11
Allied aircraft
no flights
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
OS2U-3 Kingfisher: 2 destroyed
Allied Ships
DD Witte de With
CL De Ruyter, and is sunk
DD Vampire, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
11 x B5N1 Kate bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb
Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Sabang at 36,70
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 4,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9
B5N2 Kate x 5
D3A1 Val x 20
Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 6 damaged
Allied Ships
BB Revenge, Bomb hits 13, heavy fires
DD Nizam
Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Great Nicobar at 35,63
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 11
B5N2 Kate x 3
No Japanese losses
Allied Ships
BB Prince of Wales, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
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Tomorrow will be a critical day.
3) Some good news for the Allies. The landing at Lautem, already down an xAK, is raided by two cruisers from Darwin. They do well.
Day Time Surface Combat, near Lautem at 72,115, Range 20,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
DD Oite, Shell hits 2, heavy fires (reported hit by SDB later)
DD Hayate, Shell hits 8, heavy fires, heavy damage (probably sunk after Massive Explosion message)
xAK Toho Maru, Shell hits 17, and is sunk
Allied Ships
CA Pensacola
CL Perth, Shell hits 5
Japanese ground losses:
32 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Lauten falls to 19th Naval Guard attack, but only 750 men are ashore and I suspect almost no supplies. There are two more cruisers at Darwin.
4) Three Liberators hit Georgetown at night and do 5 Manpower hits for 2540 Fires. 2E and Banshees hit Djambi oil. No hits, and 4 Banshees are lost in glide bombing as well as 1 Zero. Later P-38 sweep destroys a Zero. Wellingtons hit just-lost Neikiang LI in attempt to destroy local supply, but are unsuccessful. B-17s stretch to max range for Samarinda Oil, but miss.
5) More Allied CAP is withdrawn and consolidated to rest, mostly at Mandalay.
6) Allies bombard at Bataan for 71 casualties. Japan takes undefended Bengkalis.
7) Oklahoma is fully repaired at EC and will head to Asia. Pennsylvania is about two weeks out. North Carolina arrives in a month. Wasp about the same. Not quite half of USN TB squadrons are updated to Avengers. My first CVE, Long Island, arrives. I think she comes without an air wing, but she can carry one.
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