JocMeister
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June 11-13th 1942 ______________________________________________________________________________ Black day for the RAF in India! ------------------------ NORPAC/WC ------------------------ KB pulls back after 2 strikes and sweeping San Diego for about even losses. I think the 30+ subs hunting him might have contributed. The usual strikes continue in the North. ------------------------ SOPAC ------------------------ A "CV TF" is spotted north of Noumea. I´m pretty certain there are no CVs in there but the OP report states "A Japanese BB spotted". I´ll divert some more NavS to the area and vector in the subs. Is he raiding or coming for Noumea? If the latter he will find its not so easy to take. 2 fully prepped divisions backed up by level 5 forts, tanks and some artillery. My Fast Transport and CA TF are already back to Sydney. Sara is still in the yard for refits and will be gone another 30 days. I still have York (with Avengers), 9 CAs, 12 CLs and around 40 DDs down here. I´ll fight for Noumea if he is coming. ------------------------ India ------------------------ As I noted in my earlier post my smaller stack are "safe". The 18th/B withdrew from the hex giving me full hexside control. Parts of Jeffs main stack arrived and he will probably route my stack but with a retreat path open the troops will live to fight another day. In fact my small stack already held against an attack. quote:
Ground combat at 52,30 (near Ranchi) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 28507 troops, 434 guns, 187 vehicles, Assault Value = 817 Defending force 21138 troops, 250 guns, 299 vehicles, Assault Value = 810 Japanese adjusted assault: 479 Allied adjusted defense: 309 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 1403 casualties reported Squads: 7 destroyed, 139 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled Allied ground losses: 1082 casualties reported Squads: 19 destroyed, 99 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled Engineers: 4 destroyed, 11 disabled Guns lost 33 (1 destroyed, 32 disabled) Assaulting units: 38th Division 4th Guards Division 3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment 3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 20th Ind. Mtn Gun Battalion 1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment 2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 3rd Mortar Battalion 3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 14th Ind.Art.Mortar Bn /5 2nd Mortar Battalion 1st RF Gun Bn /1 Defending units: 9th Indian Division 19th Indian Division 26th Indian Brigade 2/1 AIF Pioneer Battalion 85th British AT Gun Regiment Sadly the RAF takes a tremendous beating over the stack. Jeff finally managed to get some LRCAP up and my Blenheims had to go in unescorted since I don´t have any fighters with range enough. 35 are shot down (70% of the total force). I´ll see if I can revenge them tomorrow. An African BDE and some heavy AA arrived at the outskirts of Calcutta. A fast transport TF is standing by at CT waiting for the 32nd US ID arriving in 2 days. My main stack is pushing East towards Rajshashi. Jeff continues to play aggressively.
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