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RE: Act III - DBB-C Uncivil Engineer (J) vs. christophe... - 9/21/2021 3:18:05 PM   
Uncivil Engineer

 

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CVL Zuiho arrived at Singapore and will require 30 days in the shipyard for repair.

Carrier Division 2 (Hiryu, Soryu, Nagumo commanding) departed Soerabaja showing Ambon as the destination, but going to the Andaman Sea via waypoints, with a refueling stop at Singapore. CVL Junyo, now passing the NE corner of Borneo, will join in the vicinity Singapore. Carrier Division 3+ will depart tomorrow.

Repair of the oil facility at Miri has been stopped at 250 (of 300), temporarily.

Edit to add: (Part 2)

BB Yamato completed construction and is ready for sea trials at Hiroshima. A pair of destroyers have been dispatched from Tokyo to escort her to Singapore.



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RE: Act III - DBB-C Uncivil Engineer (J) vs. christophe... - 9/21/2021 3:39:35 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Uncivil Engineer

May 19, 1942 (part 1)

CVL Zuiho arrived at Singapore and will require 30 days in the shipyard for repair.

Carrier Division 2 (Hiryu, Soryu, Nagumo commanding) departed Soerabaja showing Ambon as the destination, but going to the Andaman Sea via waypoints, with a refueling stop at Singapore. CVL Junyo, now passing the NE corner of Borneo, will join in the vicinity Singapore. Carrier Division 3+ will depart tomorrow.

Repair of the oil facility at Miri has been stopped at 250 (of 300), temporarily.



Devious and dastardly!

I like it.

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RE: Act III - DBB-C Uncivil Engineer (J) vs. christophe... - 9/21/2021 4:36:18 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Uncivil Engineer

Umnak was reinforced by a US Tank Bn. I guess he's sending units to Umnak piecemeal because he has too few, and too small transports available. I would have expected a larger assault force on day 1. Whatever.


Go BIG or STAY HOME!

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RE: Act III - DBB-C Uncivil Engineer (J) vs. christophe... - 9/21/2021 5:22:23 PM   
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ORIGINAL: witpqs


quote:

ORIGINAL: Uncivil Engineer

May 19, 1942 (part 1)

CVL Zuiho arrived at Singapore and will require 30 days in the shipyard for repair.

Carrier Division 2 (Hiryu, Soryu, Nagumo commanding) departed Soerabaja showing Ambon as the destination, but going to the Andaman Sea via waypoints, with a refueling stop at Singapore. CVL Junyo, now passing the NE corner of Borneo, will join in the vicinity Singapore. Carrier Division 3+ will depart tomorrow.

Repair of the oil facility at Miri has been stopped at 250 (of 300), temporarily.



Devious and dastardly!

I like it.


I've found that's the only way to play Japan to help foil Allied intel. After our carrier battle in the Banda Sea in early May he told me via email that he thought my carriers were at Truk! They WERE. And I got lucky having stopped 7 hexes from his carriers (by dumb luck); I could attack him, but he could counter only with unescorted SBDs. Scratch one flattop!


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RE: Act III - DBB-C Uncivil Engineer (J) vs. christophe... - 9/23/2021 12:49:54 PM   
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A 2 BB US TF again bombarded Adak -

quote:

Night Naval bombardment of Adak Island at 162,52

Allied Ships
BB Pennsylvania
BB Oklahoma

Japanese ground losses:
364 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 32 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Runway hits 1
Port hits 3
Port supply hits 1


A Japanese evacuation TF managed to get to Adak unmolested by these US battleships and load a fragment of a shipping engineer unit. How the TF got in I can't explain. Maybe the TF's didn't see each other at night? Why didn't the Japanese transports abort due to the combat ships in the area? Why didn't the battleships attack? Here's the situation at the end of the turn. The LCU fragment has been loaded -



And piecemeal reinforcement/resupply of the Allied force at Umnak continues with several TFs arriving today.

The Japanese force at Hengyang was reinforced across the river from the SW and East. I wasn't sure whether the cross river move would cause a shock attack so I set the force already at Hengyang to shock. It seems some of the river crossing units shock attacked, and others didn't. Anyway, the attack didn't go as well as I had hoped, probably due to the defensive forts starting off the battle at 3 -

quote:

Ground combat at Hengyang (80,53)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 51635 troops, 501 guns, 331 vehicles, Assault Value = 2617

Defending force 53966 troops, 282 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1331

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 997

Allied adjusted defense: 858

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 2

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

Japanese ground losses:
4855 casualties reported
Squads: 92 destroyed, 439 disabled
Non Combat: 51 destroyed, 31 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 37 disabled
Guns lost 45 (6 destroyed, 39 disabled)
Vehicles lost 66 (57 destroyed, 9 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Allied ground losses:
2596 casualties reported
Squads: 35 destroyed, 184 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 33 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 26 (1 destroyed, 25 disabled)

Assaulting units:
51st Recon Regiment destroyed
40th Division
Kyuko Naval Guard Unit
22nd Division
104th/A Division
60th Division
1st Ind.Inf.Group
70th Division
11th Tank Regiment
15th Division
23rd Tank Regiment
6th Division
19th Ind.Mixed Brigade
104th/B Division
23rd Army
Botanko Hvy Gun Regiment
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
4th Mortar Battalion
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
46th Chinese Corps
56th Chinese Corps
5th Chinese Cavalry Corps
79th Chinese Corps
99th Chinese Corps
3rd New Chinese Corps
65th Chinese Corps
28th New Chinese Division
10th Group Army


Even after these casualties, the Japanese AV is about 2:1 and disruption and fatigue are not bad, so a deliberate attack will follow.



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RE: Act III - DBB-C Uncivil Engineer (J) vs. christophe... - 9/26/2021 11:30:47 AM   
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Another attack at Hengyang reduced the Chinese forts to 1 (combat summary not particularly important).

Transports trying to do anything in the Aleutians are being damaged or sunk by roving US cruiser task forces.


May 22, 1942

Bases captured today: Hengyang (RES 105(5), LI 39(1))

Most of the Chinese defenders at Hengyang withdrew to the west prior to the attack; the rear guard surrendered -

quote:

Ground combat at Hengyang (80,53)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 83912 troops, 768 guns, 366 vehicles, Assault Value = 1991

Defending force 9093 troops, 30 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 223

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 1475

Allied adjusted defense: 13

Japanese assault odds: 113 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Hengyang !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(+), disruption(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-)
experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
502 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 49 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
10638 casualties reported
Squads: 467 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 520 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 25 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 43 (43 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units surrendered 1

Assaulting units:
15th Division
22nd/B Division
22nd/A Division
40th Division
60th Division
104th/A Division
22nd/C Division
6th Division
11th Tank Regiment
Kyuko Naval Guard Unit
1st Ind.Inf.Group
23rd Tank Regiment
70th Division
19th Ind.Mixed Brigade
104th/B Division
Botanko Hvy Gun Regiment
4th Mortar Battalion
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
23rd Army
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
79th Chinese Corps


US cruisers bombarded Ambon.

Singapore's airfield reached level 7.




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RE: Act III - DBB-C Uncivil Engineer (J) vs. christophe... - 9/26/2021 12:01:42 PM   
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Bases assaulted today: Denpasar and Sinabang

Three US battleships bombarded Adak.

A sub torpedoed BB Ramilles east of Ceylon.

Japanese carrier strikes in the Bay of Bengal did some damage -

quote:

Morning Air attack on TF, near Little Andaman at 40,52

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 19
B5N2 Kate x 9

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
xAK Skagerak, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
xAK Tweedbank, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk


quote:

Morning Air attack on TF, near Little Andaman at 40,52

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
D3A1 Val x 9

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
xAK Empire Raja, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Anglo Indian, Bomb hits 2, on fire


A pretty feeble attack for 2 carriers!

A Japanese amphib TF headed to Buna to extract 4 and 7 Tank Rgts was effectively covered by CAP from Rabaul -

quote:

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Gasmata at 103,128

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A5M4 Claude x 2
A6M2 Zero x 6

Allied aircraft
A-24 Banshee x 10

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
A-24 Banshee: 4 destroyed, 3 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAP Dairen Maru



May 24, 1942

Bases captured today: Sinabang (vacant) and Pakhoi (RES 20(20))

Fighters from Rabaul and Manus were restationed to Buna to more effectively cover the evacuation of the tank regiments -

quote:

Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A5M4 Claude x 4
A6M2 Zero x 11
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 28

Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 3
B-17E Fortress x 7
B-26 Marauder x 33
P-39D Airacobra x 12
P-40E Warhawk x 7

Japanese aircraft losses
A5M4 Claude: 1 damaged
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged
B-26 Marauder: 5 damaged
P-39D Airacobra: 3 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 2 destroyed

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 1
Port hits 6


quote:

Morning Air attack on TF, near Buna at 99,129

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A5M4 Claude x 2
A6M2 Zero x 6
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 26

Allied aircraft
A-24 Banshee x 4
P-40E Warhawk x 7

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
A-24 Banshee: 3 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed


quote:

Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A5M4 Claude x 2
A6M2 Zero x 4
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 22

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 6

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 5 damaged


quote:

Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A5M4 Claude x 2
A6M2 Zero x 3
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 10

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 6

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged

Port hits 3


quote:

Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A5M4 Claude x 1
A6M2 Zero x 3
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 7

Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 7
B-26 Marauder x 3

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged
B-26 Marauder: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 6
Port hits 1


In China, three tank regiments moved west after capturing Shaoyang. When the Chinese there withdrew west, the tanks moved to encircle the defenders at Hengyang. The tank regiments entered the hex west of Hengyang at the same time the Chinese from Hengyang moved into the hex, so NEITHER SIDE CONTROLS THE HEXSIDES (as seen on the map below) -




That hex has been reinforced by infantry and more tanks from Hengyang. Why the Chinese are trying to move SW is a mystery to me!



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RE: Act III - DBB-C Uncivil Engineer (J) vs. christophe... - 9/27/2021 8:39:11 PM   
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Several air attacks on Buna and the evac TF there left the base trashed and one transport sunk. But, the evac TF escaped with a fragment of 4 Tk Rgt on board. CV Kaga completed repair at Kobe and awaits its air complement and some escorting destroyers.


May 26, 1942

Bases captured today: Denpasar

Japanese forces continued to reinforce Denpasar (before its capture) and Allied forces continued to reinforce Umnak.

BB Prince of Wales was sighted by a sub 4 hexes west of Chittagong.

Japanese carrier forces surprised the Allies at Rangoon -

quote:

Morning Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 54,53

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 79 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 29 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 55
B5N1 Kate x 8
B5N2 Kate x 95
D3A1 Val x 69

Allied aircraft
Blenheim IF x 3
Hurricane I Trop x 6
Hurricane IIb Trop x 48

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 8 destroyed
B5N2 Kate: 6 destroyed, 6 damaged
D3A1 Val: 4 destroyed, 12 damaged
D3A1 Val: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane I Trop: 2 destroyed
Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
CL Mauritius, Bomb hits 1
AMC Chitral, Bomb hits 7, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Rajput, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
xAK Clan Macnair
xAP Doumer, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk - Massive explosion on xAP Doumer
xAK Matiana, Bomb hits 7, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Tanda, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage
CL Enterprise
CL Capetown, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires
CL Colombo
AMC Manoora, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 4, and is sunk
xAP Dunedin Star, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
xAP Tjinegara, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
AMC Kanimlba, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
xAK Jaladuta, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires
xAK Durenda, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
CL Emerald
CL Dauntless
CL Dragon
CL Glasgow, Bomb hits 1
xAK Michael Embiricos, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk

Allied ground losses:
Guns lost 23 (19 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Vehicles lost 41 (21 destroyed, 20 disabled)


quote:

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 54,53

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 75 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 28 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 71
B5N1 Kate x 8
B5N2 Kate x 94
D3A1 Val x 100

Allied aircraft
Blenheim IF x 3
Hurricane I Trop x 5
Hurricane IIb Trop x 25

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 6 destroyed
B5N2 Kate: 9 damaged
D3A1 Val: 9 damaged
D3A1 Val: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IF: 2 destroyed

Allied Ships
CL Dragon
CL Capetown, Bomb hits 5, and is sunk - Magazine explodes on CL Capetown
AM Bobolink, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk
KV Fritillary, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAK Tanda, Bomb hits 6, and is sunk
CL Mauritius
CL Emerald, Bomb hits 1
xAP Sarpedonia, Bomb hits 3, on fire
CL Dauntless
xAK Clan Macnair
CL Danae


In China west of Hengyang a Japanese attack decimated the Chinese defenders, who retreated NW toward the closest base, rather than west along the main road -

quote:

Ground combat at 79,53 (near Hengyang)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 68590 troops, 544 guns, 448 vehicles, Assault Value = 2258

Defending force 38433 troops, 240 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 396

Japanese adjusted assault: 1331

Allied adjusted defense: 463

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
973 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 71 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Vehicles lost 41 (1 destroyed, 40 disabled)
Units pursuing 1

Allied ground losses:
14615 casualties reported
Squads: 546 destroyed, 17 disabled
Non Combat: 220 destroyed, 58 disabled
Engineers: 33 destroyed, 29 disabled
Guns lost 64 (53 destroyed, 11 disabled)
Units retreated 8

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
1st Ind.Inf.Group
40th Division
23rd Tank Regiment
11th Tank Regiment
5th Tank Regiment
60th Division
6th Division
15th Division
9th Tank Regiment
8th Division
13th Tank Regiment
19th Ind.Mixed Brigade
104th/B Division
23rd Army
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
99th Chinese Corps
5th Chinese Cavalry Corps
65th Chinese Corps
3rd New Chinese Corps
56th Chinese Corps
46th Chinese Corps
28th New Chinese Division
10th Group Army


A6M5 research advanced from Aug to Jul '42; research will advance to June about the middle of June. There are 8 research sites; I expect to put at least 6 of them into production. The other 2 will research the A6M5c (with armor, due Oct '44); skipping the b model, which is only slight improvement on the basic A6M5. CVs Shokaku and Zuikaku are scheduled for upgrade in June; I intend to try to time the upgrade so that when they finish their fighters will be A6M5 !





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RE: Act III - DBB-C Uncivil Engineer (J) vs. christophe... - 10/1/2021 2:20:02 PM   
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With naval attack orders and a secondary mission to attack Rangoon airfield and port, the carriers decided instead to basically take the day off! This was the sole attack mission flown by carrier aircraft (Akagi, Hiryu, Soryu, Shokaku, Zuikaku, Shoho, and Junyo) -

quote:

Morning Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 54,53

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B5N2 Kate x 21
D3A1 Val x 9

Allied aircraft
Martlet II x 3
Buffalo I x 1
Hurricane IIb Trop x 16

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 4 destroyed, 3 damaged
D3A1 Val: 1 destroyed

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
AM Cromarty
xAK Clan Macnair
PC Indus, Bomb hits 1


The Allies continued to bombard by air and sea Umnak and Ambon. Amchitka was bombarded by battleships for the first time, and Allied troops landed at Atka Is. in the Aleutians. Buna was bombed and strafed.

Sallies bombed Pegu at night, but did little damage.


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RE: Act III - DBB-C Uncivil Engineer (J) vs. christophe... - 10/2/2021 9:28:35 AM   
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Another day of the carriers not doing much, when much more was expected; could have been due to weather at sea.

A heavy cruiser TF lead by Adm Hirata attacked Allied shipping at Rangoon, sinking a PC and AM.

A Dutch CL TF bombarded Ambon.

A series of air attacks on Rangoon airfield did little damage; Betties from Victoria Point, then Sallies from Tavoy and Bangkok, then Helens from Bangkok. Carrier aircraft made a half hearted attack on a TF at Rangoon, getting one bomb hit, and even though the DL at Rangoon was 9/10, and a bunch of transports are visible in port, none were attacked!?

The Imperial Guard Div started unloading at Moulmein with escorting battleships; 56 Div is a few days down the road from Tavoy.

An attack west of Shaoyang should force a Chinese retreat tomorrow with the addition of a brigade of 3 Div -

quote:

Ground combat at 79,52 (near Shaoyang)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 10358 troops, 91 guns, 71 vehicles, Assault Value = 410

Defending force 28444 troops, 200 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 172

Japanese adjusted assault: 233

Allied adjusted defense: 125

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
442 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 50 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Vehicles lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1108 casualties reported
Squads: 18 destroyed, 42 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 48 disabled
Engineers: 8 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 25 (14 destroyed, 11 disabled)

Assaulting units:
58th Division
9th Tank Regiment
3rd/C Division
13th Army
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment

Defending units:
5th Chinese Cavalry Corps
65th Chinese Corps
99th Chinese Corps
56th Chinese Corps
3rd New Chinese Corps
46th Chinese Corps
28th New Chinese Division
10th Group Army


South of this battle the road to Kweilin is open, and Kweilin in not heavily defended.


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RE: Act III - DBB-C Uncivil Engineer (J) vs. christophe... - 10/4/2021 8:38:44 AM   
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Troops continued to unload at Moulmein (Japanese), Umnak, and Atka Is. (US).

A Japanese heavy cruiser TF bombarded Moulmein doing negligible damage. An Australian heavy cruiser TF bombarded Buna.

Nells, Betties, Sallies, and Helens bombed Moulmein doing little damage, but sustaining significant losses.

The retiring carrier TFs finally attacked Rangoon, but again failed to attack the multitude of transports in port -

quote:

Afternoon Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 38
B5N1 Kate x 7
B5N2 Kate x 55
D3A1 Val x 58

Allied aircraft
Hurricane I Trop x 6
Hurricane IIb Trop x 9

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 4 destroyed
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
D3A1 Val: 2 destroyed, 16 damaged
D3A1 Val: 3 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane I Trop: 1 destroyed
Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 damaged
Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed on ground

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

Airbase hits 18
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 41


In China -

quote:

Ground combat at 79,52 (near Shaoyang)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 14455 troops, 132 guns, 72 vehicles, Assault Value = 374

Defending force 27817 troops, 190 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 147

Japanese adjusted assault: 279 (only 5 AV short of a 2 to 1 attack)

Allied adjusted defense: 142

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: op mode(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
260 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 28 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Vehicles lost 20 (1 destroyed, 19 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
914 casualties reported
Squads: 79 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 20 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 15 disabled
Guns lost 8 (1 destroyed, 7 disabled)

Assaulting units:
9th Tank Regiment
58th Division
3rd/C Division
13th Army
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment

Defending units:
99th Chinese Corps
56th Chinese Corps
46th Chinese Corps
3rd New Chinese Corps
65th Chinese Corps
28th New Chinese Division
10th Group Army
5th Chinese Cavalry Corps


The brigade of 3 Div just arrived and did not attack, so a better result is expected tomorrow.


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Both sides continued to unload troops at Moulmein, Umnak, and Atka Is.

BB Yamashiro TF bombarded Moulmein, doing negligible damage.

The CVs are returning to Singapore for refit, refuel, aircraft replenishment, and new orders. Except Kaga, recently repaired, departed Kobe, showing Singapore as its destination (ostensibly joining Kido Butai), but in fact, going to the Aleutian Islands via waypoints. Allied naval combatants there have been venturing farther and farther west, not under air cover, so we hope to pick some off.

In China, again no luck -

quote:

Ground combat at 79,52 (near Shaoyang)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 14635 troops, 144 guns, 116 vehicles, Assault Value = 584

Defending force 27110 troops, 189 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 119

Japanese adjusted assault: 179

Allied adjusted defense: 139

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
156 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 44 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
611 casualties reported
Squads: 25 destroyed, 36 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 12 (1 destroyed, 11 disabled)

Assaulting units:
58th Division
70th Division
23rd Tank Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
3rd/C Division
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
13th Army
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
65th Chinese Corps
56th Chinese Corps
99th Chinese Corps
3rd New Chinese Corps
46th Chinese Corps
28th New Chinese Division
10th Group Army
5th Chinese Cavalry Corps


CVE Unyo arrived, with no aircraft.


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Australian forces assaulted Milne Bay -

quote:

Pre-Invasion action off Milne Bay (101,133)
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

181 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
CL Adelaide
AP American Legion
DD Humphreys

Allied ground losses:
72 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled


Amphibious Assault at Milne Bay (101,133)

TF 268 troops unloading over beach at Milne Bay, 101,133

Allied ground losses:
130 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 32 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 45 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 8 (0 destroyed, 8 disabled)
Vehicles lost 23 (0 destroyed, 23 disabled)


Invasion Support action off Milne Bay (101,133)
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

100 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
CL Adelaide
DD Humphreys
AP American Legion

Allied ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

CL Adelaide firing at 1st Division


Morning Air attack on Milne Bay , at 101,133

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 16
P-39D Airacobra x 1
P-40E Warhawk x 4

No Allied losses

Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 10
Runway hits 39


Morning Air attack on Milne Bay , at 101,133

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 12
P-39D Airacobra x 6

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2-N Rufe: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 8


Invasion Support action off Milne Bay (101,133)
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

108 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
AP American Legion
DD Humphreys

Allied ground losses:
67 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Ground combat at Milne Bay (101,133)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 12943 troops, 120 guns, 45 vehicles, Assault Value = 349

Defending force 2737 troops, 38 guns, 61 vehicles, Assault Value = 75

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

Assaulting units:
1st Division
9th Field Construction Battalion
2nd JNAF AF Unit

Defending units:
19th Australian Brigade
Aus II Corps /3
808th Aviation Engineer Battalion
1st RAAF Const Bn /2


Four US battleships bombarded Amchitka.

An attack at Moulmein reduced the British forts to 3 -

quote:

Ground combat at Moulmein (55,55)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 57258 troops, 553 guns, 220 vehicles, Assault Value = 1794

Defending force 42755 troops, 928 guns, 651 vehicles, Assault Value = 1058

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 3

Japanese adjusted assault: 656

Allied adjusted defense: 2663

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 4 (fort level 3)

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

Japanese ground losses:
3558 casualties reported
Squads: 101 destroyed, 182 disabled
Non Combat: 31 destroyed, 38 disabled
Engineers: 6 destroyed, 40 disabled
Guns lost 31 (5 destroyed, 26 disabled)
Vehicles lost 44 (4 destroyed, 40 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Allied ground losses:
1218 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 112 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 31 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 18 disabled
Guns lost 56 (4 destroyed, 52 disabled)

Assaulting units:
55th Cavalry Regiment destroyed
1st Tank Regiment
112th Infantry Regiment
41st Guard Battalion
Imperial Guards Division
33rd Division
56th Division
55th Engineer Regiment
4th Division
III./143rd Infantry Battalion
25th Army
55th Mountain Gun Regiment
5th Mortar Battalion
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion

Defending units:
26th Indian Brigade
16th Australian Brigade
18th Australian Brigade
18th British Division
22nd (East African) Brigade
63rd Indian Brigade
108th RAF Base Force
2/1st Lt AA Regiment
2/9th Fld RAA Regiment
Pathan Construction Battalion
6th Medium Regiment
2/13th Fld RAA Regiment
2/11th Fld RAA Regiment
2/2nd Hy AA Regiment
27th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
IV Indian Corps
101st RAF Base Force
77th Heavy AA Regiment
1st Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment
85th British AT Gun Regiment
1st Burma Auxiliary AA Regiment
108th RN Base Force


But in China, heavy losses to the defending Chinese, and retreat -

quote:

Ground combat at 79,52 (near Shaoyang)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 22852 troops, 212 guns, 187 vehicles, Assault Value = 561

Defending force 26992 troops, 190 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 78

Japanese adjusted assault: 265

Allied adjusted defense: 105

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
80 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 8 (1 destroyed, 7 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
7753 casualties reported
Squads: 314 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 435 destroyed, 20 disabled
Engineers: 41 destroyed, 12 disabled
Guns lost 58 (43 destroyed, 15 disabled)
Units retreated 8 NE into the woods

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
9th Tank Regiment
70th Division
23rd Tank Regiment
58th Division
3rd/C Division
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
13th Army
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
56th Chinese Corps
65th Chinese Corps
3rd New Chinese Corps
46th Chinese Corps
99th Chinese Corps
5th Chinese Cavalry Corps
28th New Chinese Division
10th Group Army


Ha-43 engine research (Sam and Ki-83) advanced from Jul to Jun '45
Ha-44 engine research (B6N1 Jill) advanced from Mar to Feb '43


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With an amphib TF enroute, Mataram flipped, so the TF will be diverted to Ruteng.

Allied transport unloading continued at Milne Bay, Umnak, and Atka Is.

US cruisers bombarded Ambon again; the damage was significant.

Somebody (it wasn't me) hit a mine (xAK Examiner at Port Moresby)!

An amphib TF delivering an SNLF unit to Lae took some hits from several Banshee flying out of Port Moresby and 2 sank. The TF should complete unloading tomorrow, but 2 other transports are on fire and will likely sink, too.

We attacked at Milne Bay, hoping for a good result before he can get fully reinforced (our forts are 3)-

quote:

Ground combat at Milne Bay (101,133)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 12908 troops, 120 guns, 45 vehicles, Assault Value = 345

Defending force 3723 troops, 66 guns, 71 vehicles, Assault Value = 83

Japanese adjusted assault: 275

Allied adjusted defense: 95

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
254 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 19 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
118 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled

Assaulting units:
1st Division
9th Field Construction Battalion
2nd JNAF AF Unit

Defending units:
19th Australian Brigade
808th Aviation Engineer Battalion
1st RAAF Construction Battalion
Aus II Corps /3


In China, after 2 days of tank only attacks, a full army has arrived northeast of Kweilin -






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Bases LOST today: Umnak and Atka Is.

Allied troops continued to unload at Milne Bay, Umnak, and Atka Is.

Nells bombed Chungking at night inflicting exactly zero damage. Wellingtons bombed Port Blair at night with the same result.

Four US battleships bombarded Atka Is.

A small supply/fuel TF reached Port Blair unmolested.

CL Emerald took 2 fish from a Japanese sub near Rangoon.

Banshees from Port Moresby again scored hits on our evacuation TF at Buna, but didn't sink anything new. The 2 transports burning from yesterday sank, however.

On the ground, 18 Div finally crossed the river east of Pegu completing it's weeks-long envelopment of Moulmein (18 Div departed Moulmein on Apr 13) -

quote:

Ground combat at 56,53 (near Pegu)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 14950 troops, 125 guns, 123 vehicles, Assault Value = 513

Defending force 4736 troops, 16 guns, 44 vehicles, Assault Value = 167

Japanese adjusted assault: 510

Allied adjusted defense: 233

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
917 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 47 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Guns lost 8 (1 destroyed, 7 disabled)
Vehicles lost 29 (2 destroyed, 27 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1502 casualties reported
Squads: 48 destroyed, 52 disabled
Non Combat: 48 destroyed, 27 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 12 (4 destroyed, 8 disabled)
Units retreated 2 (west to Pegu)

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
18th Division
14th Tank Regiment
15th Army

Defending units:
46th Indian Brigade
4/8th Gurkha Battalion


And northest of Kweilin -

quote:

Ground combat at 76,53 (near Kweilin)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 61130 troops, 497 guns, 370 vehicles, Assault Value = 1792

Defending force 8307 troops, 35 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 81

Japanese adjusted assault: 1298

Allied adjusted defense: 76

Japanese assault odds: 17 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
281 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 22 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
2792 casualties reported
Squads: 119 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 130 destroyed, 58 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 10 disabled
Guns lost 14 (4 destroyed, 10 disabled)
Units retreated 2 to Kweilin

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
60th/B Division
8th Division
19th Ind.Mixed Brigade
11th Tank Regiment
5th Tank Regiment
60th/A Division
15th Division
6th Division
13th Tank Regiment
60th/C Division
23rd Army
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
25th Chinese Corps
12th Group Army


We attacked at Milne Bay again -

quote:

Ground combat at Milne Bay (101,133)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 12739 troops, 120 guns, 45 vehicles, Assault Value = 327

Defending force 3695 troops, 66 guns, 71 vehicles, Assault Value = 74

Japanese adjusted assault: 193

Allied adjusted defense: 135

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
216 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 18 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled

Allied ground losses:
219 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 21 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Assaulting units:
1st Division
9th Field Construction Battalion
2nd JNAF AF Unit

Defending units:
19th Australian Brigade
1st RAAF Construction Battalion
808th Aviation Engineer Battalion
Aus II Corps /3


Not a very good result, but good enough for the Allies to decide to leave - see the Jun 3 report below.

The Americans finally attacked at Umnak. The initial assault landing was on May 15 (after 3 Japanese units and part of 16 Rgt had been airlifted out), and after continuous aerial and naval bombardment and reinforcement -

quote:

Ground combat at Umnak Island (169,51)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 4245 troops, 52 guns, 99 vehicles, Assault Value = 161

Defending force 1725 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 14

Allied adjusted assault: 138

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 138 to 1 (fort level 1)

Allied forces CAPTURE Umnak Island !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-)
supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
2225 casualties reported
Squads: 40 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 168 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 6 (6 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

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

Assaulting units:
151st Cmbt Engineer Battalion
87th Mountain Regiment
193rd Tank Battalion
NoPac Area /3

Defending units:
16th Infantry Regiment


16 Rgt has a fragment on Adak, so does not need to have PP spent to resurrect it.

They also attacked Atka Is. -

quote:

Ground combat at Atka Island (164,52)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 4592 troops, 57 guns, 14 vehicles, Assault Value = 156

Defending force 121 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2

Allied adjusted assault: 120

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 120 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Atka Island !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
173 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
1/297th Infantry Battalion
37th (Sep) Infantry Regiment
134th Cmbt Engineer Battalion
NoPac Area /2
1st AmphTrac Engr Bn /1

Defending units:
6th Indpt SNLF Coy


Again, a fragment of this unit is elsewhere, so no PPs are required to rebuild it. The Allies approach to these 2 bases shows his extreme caution. Either or both could have been taken a week to 10 days ago, but I guess he didn't know that. Adak and Amchitka are next; maybe he'll throw caution to the wind and get cocky. Kaga is now lurking west of the Aleutian chain. Undetected.

A6M5 Zero research is at 97%. Research at Hamamatsu and Maebashi was changed to A6M5b, then A6M5c, each maintaining 30(0) status. Had these not been changed now, both would have gone into production tomorrow and a switch back to research would not have been possible. I know this because on Jun 3 five A6M5 planes were produced AND the A6M5 sites are NOT shown in blue.

CVs Shokaku and Zuikaku began their 20-day Jun upgrades at Singapore, with their A6M2 Zero fighters offloaded for upgrade to A6M5.



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Bases assaulted today: Ruteng

Australian cruisers sank a supply PB at Buna, but the evacuation TF with part of 7 Tk Rgt escaped.

CL Dragon sucked up a sub torpedo near Moulmein.

The fragment of 1 Div at Rabaul was flown back into Milne Bay in preparation for a shock attack. But, the Allies loaded up their assault force there and left! I'm not sure if he did this or the local on the ground commander. They certainly loaded up quickly after unloading earlier in the day. Edit to add: Email intel tells me the local commander decided to skedaddle.

Tojos from Manus Is. flew LRCAP over Lae and downed 3 Warhawks with no loss. One of the Tojo pilots made ACE.

In far north China -

quote:

Ground combat at Kiuchuan (82,26)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 7091 troops, 38 guns, 71 vehicles, Assault Value = 247

Defending force 20441 troops, 117 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 616

Japanese adjusted assault: 37

Allied adjusted defense: 138

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 3 (fort level 1)

Combat modifiers
Defender: experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+), fatigue(-), supply(-)

Japanese ground losses:
401 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 76 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Vehicles lost 9 (1 destroyed, 8 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
542 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 72 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled

Assaulting units:
15th Tank Regiment
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade

Defending units:
82nd Chinese/A Corps
34th Separate Brigade
3rd Chinese Cavalry Corps
82nd Chinese/B Corps
2nd Construction Regiment
5th Chinese Base Force


After some rest we may try some tank only attacks.

A word on logistics - transport stats during the month of May:

Resource from Hokkaido: moved 1,514,000 vs 1,050,000 excess, so finally getting into the initial backlog
Resource from China/Manchukuo/Korea: moved 741,000 vs 717,000 excess.
Resource from Toyohara/Shikuka: moved 279,000 vs. 294,000 produced (getting better with loading at Shikuka's larger port, but this backlog won't be reduced until Toyohara's port reaches level 4)

Resource to Home Islands: 2,812,000 delivered vs. 2,415,000 needed

Oil from Palembang: moved 118,000 vs. 120,000 excess
Fuel from Palembang: moved 163,000 vs. 202,000 produced



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Bases captured today: Ruteng (vacant)

Bases assaulted today: Bima (vacant)

Nells bombed Chungking at night starting some fires.

CL Danae took a torpedo from a sub near Moulmein; the sub was sunk.

US cruisers bombarded Milne Bay; Aussie cruisers bombarded Milne Bay; Dutch light cruisers bombarded Ambon.

A lone Chinese corps crossed the river east of Sian and forced the defending Japanese brigade to retreat, and also forestalling the advance on Sian -

quote:

Ground combat at 86,41 (near Loyang)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 11154 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 372

Defending force 4435 troops, 36 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 63

Allied adjusted assault: 420

Japanese adjusted defense: 83

Allied assault odds: 5 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
1373 casualties reported
Squads: 15 destroyed, 18 disabled
Non Combat: 51 destroyed, 19 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 6 (2 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Units retreated 1

Allied ground losses:
313 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 74 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
36th Chinese Corps

Defending units:
59th Infantry Brigade


Four divisions reinforced by tanks and artillery of 23 Army entered Kweilin.


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Bases captured today: Bima (vacant)

An Allied xAP was sunk at Baker Is. by a sub torpedo. Aircraft at Baker have been flying continuous recon of Tarawa and Makin. A sub torpedo also hit a British tanker near the southern tip of India. And while we're talking about subs - I-32 fired 6 torpedoes at CV Illustrious in the Bay of Bengal, but missed. And a sub discovered a minefield at Luganville the hard way.

Six Tojos flying LRCAP from Manus Is. downed 2 unescorted Banshees at Madang.

CV Kaga is now detected in the Aleutians.

Our first attack at Kweilin reduced forts at a high cost in disablements -

quote:

Ground combat at Kweilin (76,54)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 61343 troops, 497 guns, 370 vehicles, Assault Value = 1857

Defending force 37004 troops, 209 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 722

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 816

Allied adjusted defense: 1439

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 2)

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

Japanese ground losses:
2966 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 372 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 31 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 18 disabled

Allied ground losses:
2671 casualties reported
Squads: 73 destroyed, 71 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 30 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 24 disabled
Guns lost 33 (2 destroyed, 31 disabled)

Assaulting units:
19th Ind.Mixed Brigade
60th Division
23rd Tank Regiment
5th Tank Regiment
6th Division
13th Tank Regiment
8th Division
15th Division
11th Tank Regiment
23rd Army
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
10th Chinese Corps
62nd Chinese Corps
63rd Chinese Corps
25th Chinese Corps
74th Chinese Corps
2nd Prov Chinese Corps
29th Group Army
16th Group Army
13th Chinese Base Force
12th Group Army
17th Chinese Base Force




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Wellingtons bombed Bangkok at night doing no damage.

US cruisers bombarded Ambon.

Kaga's Vals sank an AVD at Atka Is.

A deliberate attack at Moulmein reduced forts (at heavy cost) -

quote:

Ground combat at Moulmein (55,55)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 53898 troops, 545 guns, 219 vehicles, Assault Value = 1633

Defending force 44554 troops, 956 guns, 881 vehicles, Assault Value = 1115

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 568

Allied adjusted defense: 2117

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

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

Japanese ground losses:
3741 casualties reported
Squads: 51 destroyed, 308 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 40 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 32 disabled
Vehicles lost 52 (9 destroyed, 43 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
450 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 62 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 42 (1 destroyed, 41 disabled)
Vehicles lost 10 (1 destroyed, 9 disabled)

Assaulting units:
112th Infantry Regiment
1st Tank Regiment
Imperial Guards Division
33rd Division
56th Division
4th Division
55th Engineer Regiment
5th Mortar Battalion
25th Army
55th Mountain Gun Regiment
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion

Defending units:
16th Australian Brigade
18th British Division
7th Armoured Brigade
22nd (East African) Brigade
18th Australian Brigade
26th Indian Brigade
63rd Indian Brigade
2/9th Fld RAA Regiment
IV Indian Corps
2/13th Fld RAA Regiment
77th Heavy AA Regiment
2/1st Lt AA Regiment
108th RAF Base Force
2/11th Fld RAA Regiment
85th British AT Gun Regiment
1st Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment
1st Burma Auxiliary AA Regiment
2/2nd Hy AA Regiment
27th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
6th Medium Regiment
101st RAF Base Force
Pathan Construction Battalion
108th RN Base Force


Aichi Ha-60 engines began production. Yesterday the 5(0) research site at Gifu was changed to 0(5) Ha-45 engines (in research, and expanded to 0(30)). Today the 40(0) production site at Kanasawa was changed to 0(40) production of Ha-33 engines. The third site was increased by 10, making 90 Ha-60 engines.

A few days ago 21 Div departed Shanghai by brigade in 3 task forces, all showing Adak as their destination, but in fact heading to SOPAC via waypoints with refueling at Truk.


Jun 7, 1942 (part 1)

CV Akagi and CVL Shoho departed Singapore showing Adak as their destination (to join CV Kaga), but first going to the eastern DEI via waypoints. BB Yamato and 2 other BBs (currently undetected) began moving from Ruteng to the vicinity of Ambon.


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A Japanese sub put a torpedo in a tanker at Wallis Is. A Japanese sub put 2 torpedoes in a tanker east of Pearl Harbor.

CV Zuikaku's Zeroes upgraded to A6M5!

The first (of 5) Ki-61-Ia Tony research sites reached 30(0).

The airfield at Arorae reached level 1. This is an Allied base south of Tarawa and this is the first indication that it had been occupied. Wallis Is. is further south (and may also be occupied).

There were no ground attacks today while disablements at Moulmein and Kweilin are recovered.


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A Japanese 2 battleship task force was detected by subs moving north from Singapore into the Andaman Sea; there goes surprise.

Nells bombed Chungking at night starting fires.

A Japanese sub sank an APD at Baker Is.

Kaga's Zeroes strafed Umnak from 9 hexes and downed 3 Kittyhawks for 1 lost. Vindicator's from Dutch Harbor attacked Kaga at 10 hexes, but scored no hits.

Ida production (32(0)) at Gifu was changed to 0(22) A6M2 Zero. It should probably have been A6M5, but I can live with this; it can be changed to A6M5 later for no loss in production. The A6M2 inventory is abysmal.



Jun 9, 1942

Shokaku's fighters upgraded to A6M5. There are still 15 days until the CV upgrades are completed, so plenty of time to fill out the squadron and accumulate additional inventory for squadron size change in July. More on that later.

The BB TF mentioned yesterday ran in at high speed toward Rangoon and sank a KV. There were several juicy TF's there yesterday, but only this one remained (probably ASW to keep subs out of Rangoon). It was attacked by Albacore at night, but suffered no damage (at least by the British aircraft; there was plenty of damage from the high speed run in and out).

Nicks flying LRCAP over our 18 Div east of Pegu downed 1 Hurricane and 4 Blenheim bombers.

A sub put 2 torpedoes in BB Nevada at Dutch Harbor .

The Japanese sub that hit a mine a Luganville some days ago sank returning to base.

Another attack at Kweilin reduced forts to 0 -

quote:

Ground combat at Kweilin (76,54)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 62116 troops, 552 guns, 438 vehicles, Assault Value = 1806

Defending force 38728 troops, 214 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 591

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 1014

Allied adjusted defense: 695

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0

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

Japanese ground losses:
1915 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 204 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 24 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 16 disabled
Guns lost 23 (1 destroyed, 22 disabled)
Vehicles lost 40 (1 destroyed, 39 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
2703 casualties reported
Squads: 26 destroyed, 185 disabled
Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 46 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 19 disabled
Guns lost 29 (3 destroyed, 26 disabled)

Assaulting units:
8th Division
15th Division
13th Tank Regiment
23rd Tank Regiment
6th Division
5th Tank Regiment
1st Ind.Inf.Group
22nd Division
60th Division
19th Ind.Mixed Brigade
11th Tank Regiment
23rd Army
4th Mortar Battalion
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
26th Chinese Corps
63rd Chinese Corps
74th Chinese Corps
10th Chinese Corps
25th Chinese Corps
62nd Chinese Corps
2nd Prov Chinese Corps
29th Group Army
16th Group Army
13th Chinese Base Force
12th Group Army
17th Chinese Base Force


Small transport craft managed to get into Adak while CV Kaga distracted the enemy on the 8th, loaded up several disabled aircraft on the 9th, and departed west. There was sufficient aviation support for the airplanes, but no supply.





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Bases captured today: Kweilin (RES 27(13), LI 27(13))

Bases assaulted today: Waingapoe

One of our subs hit a mine at Dutch Harbor. Sallies bombed Chungking day and night starting some fires (and suffering no losses).

An over-stacked shock attack at Kweilin did the trick, but heavy losses on both sides -

quote:

Ground combat at Kweilin (76,54)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 71880 troops, 667 guns, 519 vehicles, Assault Value = 1624

Defending force 37049 troops, 211 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 440

Japanese adjusted assault: 1740

Allied adjusted defense: 535

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Kweilin !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
4053 casualties reported
Squads: 101 destroyed, 203 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 34 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled

Allied ground losses:
16285 casualties reported
Squads: 405 destroyed, 39 disabled
Non Combat: 448 destroyed, 99 disabled
Engineers: 117 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 62 (61 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Units retreated 12

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
1st Ind.Inf.Group
22nd Division
19th Ind.Mixed Brigade
5th Tank Regiment
6th Division
60th Division
8th Division
13th Tank Regiment
23rd Tank Regiment
15th Division
11th Tank Regiment
23rd Army
Botanko Hvy Gun Regiment
4th Mortar Battalion
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
62nd Chinese Corps
63rd Chinese Corps
26th Chinese Corps
10th Chinese Corps
25th Chinese Corps
74th Chinese Corps
2nd Prov Chinese Corps
29th Group Army
16th Group Army
12th Group Army
13th Chinese Base Force
17th Chinese Base Force


Our attack at Moulmein was not as fortunate -

quote:

Ground combat at Moulmein (55,55)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 49554 troops, 525 guns, 150 vehicles, Assault Value = 1441

Defending force 45525 troops, 853 guns, 915 vehicles, Assault Value = 1200

Japanese adjusted assault: 513

Allied adjusted defense: 7123

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 13 (fort level 3)

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

Japanese ground losses:
4866 casualties reported
Squads: 13 destroyed, 459 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 38 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 61 disabled
Guns lost 22 (2 destroyed, 20 disabled)
Vehicles lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
821 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 75 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 13 disabled
Guns lost 50 (8 destroyed, 42 disabled)

Assaulting units:
Imperial Guards Division
4th Division
33rd Division
56th Division
55th Engineer Regiment
55th Mountain Gun Regiment
5th Mortar Battalion
25th Army
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion

Defending units:
18th British Division
44th Indian Brigade
16th Australian Brigade
18th Australian Brigade
45th Indian Brigade
7th Armoured Brigade
26th Indian Brigade
63rd Indian Brigade
6th Medium Regiment
77th Heavy AA Regiment
27th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
101st RAF Base Force
108th RAF Base Force
2/9th Fld RAA Regiment
IV Indian Corps
2/1st Lt AA Regiment
1st Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment
2/2nd Hy AA Regiment
Pathan Construction Battalion
85th British AT Gun Regiment
2/11th Fld RAA Regiment
1st Burma Auxiliary AA Regiment
108th RN Base Force


I was hoping to attack here BEFORE he raised the forts, but waited too long. With the large number of disablements from this attack, there will be another long wait.

Just north of Moulmein, a Cav Recce Rgt entered the 18 Div space (forestalling its move SW toward Moulmein) and was pushed back, losing almost a third of its vehicles -

quote:

Ground combat at 56,53 (near Pegu)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 14545 troops, 125 guns, 122 vehicles, Assault Value = 472

Defending force 996 troops, 8 guns, 44 vehicles, Assault Value = 28

Japanese adjusted assault: 231

Allied adjusted defense: 11

Japanese assault odds: 21 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
39 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Vehicles lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
308 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 15 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 10 (5 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Vehicles lost 38 (13 destroyed, 25 disabled)
Units retreated 1

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
18th Division
14th Tank Regiment
15th Army

Defending units:
7th Cav Recce Regiment



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Bases captured today: Waingapoe (vacant)

In its first combat of our game, BB Yamato and task force (commanded by Adm Tanaka) sank several 2-point xAPs at Koepang -

quote:

Night Time Surface Combat, near Koepang at 68,116, Range 8,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
BB Yamato
BB Ise
CA Tone
CA Atago
CL Yubari
DD Maikaze
DD Nowaki
DD Arare
DD Isonami
DD Akebono
DD Shiokaze
DD Kiku

Allied Ships
AM Vireo, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
xAP Kedah, Shell hits 2, and is sunk
xAP Van Heemskerck, Shell hits 10, and is sunk
xAP Van Outhoorn, Shell hits 4, and is sunk
xAP Koolinda, Shell hits 20, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAP Morinda, Shell hits 9, and is sunk

Allied ground losses:
Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 8 (5 destroyed, 3 disabled)


then attacked a Dutch sub -

quote:

ASW attack near Koepang at 68,116

Japanese Ships
BB Yamato
CA Atago
DD Kiku
DD Akebono
DD Isonami

Allied Ships
SS KXII, hits 5


then bombarded Koepang -

quote:

Night Naval bombardment of Koepang at 68,116

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 21 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 2 destroyed on ground
P-39D Airacobra: 40 damaged
P-39D Airacobra: 4 destroyed on ground
PBY-5 Catalina: 1 damaged
PBY-5 Catalina: 1 destroyed on ground
B-339D: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
BB Ise
BB Yamato
CA Atago
CA Tone
CL Yubari
DD Kiku
DD Shiokaze
DD Akebono
DD Isonami
DD Arare
DD Nowaki
DD Maikaze

Allied Ships
HDML P 3, Shell hits 1, heavy damage

Allied ground losses:
595 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 20 destroyed, 45 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 27 (9 destroyed, 18 disabled)

Airbase hits 18
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 68


An Allied sub fired at CV Junyo near Phuket, but missed.

A friendly sub hit a mine at Moulmein, and sank.

Ha-45 engine research advanced from May to Apr '43 (Frank, George, Frances, Peggy(T))


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Task Forces surprised today: British CVs Indomitable and Illustrious (details below)

Sallies switched their target from Chungking to Changteh, but again, night bombing caused no damage.

A Dutch sub put a torpedo into one of our big oilers near Phuket. It's only 1 hex from Langkawi, but likely won't make it!

Admiral Nagumo surprised the Brits in the Andaman Sea with carriers Hiryu, Soryu, and Junyo -

quote:

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 52,56

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 78 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 29 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 46
B5N1 Kate x 7
B5N2 Kate x 37
D3A1 Val x 48

Allied aircraft
Sea Hurricane Ib x 13
Martlet II x 21

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 4 destroyed
B5N1 Kate: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
B5N1 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed, 17 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak
D3A1 Val: 1 destroyed, 12 damaged
D3A1 Val: 6 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
Sea Hurricane Ib: 1 destroyed
Martlet II: 2 destroyed

Allied Ships
CV Illustrious, Bomb hits 6, Torpedo hits 1
CV Indomitable, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CA Cornwall, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring CA Cornwall
Ammo storage explosion on CV Indomitable
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring CV Indomitable


The British TF was in clear weather, but the Japanese carriers were NOT, AND THERE WAS NO BRITISH COUNTERSTRIKE !!




The Chinese decided to go on the offensive ON THE GROUND, but only one attack worked well for them. Just south of Sian -

quote:

Ground combat at 84,42 (near Sian)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 24966 troops, 127 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1404

Defending force 27979 troops, 196 guns, 54 vehicles, Assault Value = 852

Allied adjusted assault: 582

Japanese adjusted defense: 2146

Allied assault odds: 1 to 3

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
655 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 72 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

Allied ground losses:
1247 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 117 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 9 disabled
Guns lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)

Assaulting units:
3rd Chinese Corps
40th Chinese Corps
12th Chinese Corps
57th Chinese Corps
76th Chinese Corps
85th Chinese Corps
3rd Group Army
5th War Area
34th Group Army

Defending units:
7th Ind.Mixed Brigade
3rd Ind.Mixed Brigade
110th Division
22nd Ind Engineer Regiment
3rd Hvy.Artillery Regiment


In the far north, where we had already begun to withdraw -

quote:

Ground combat at Kiuchuan (82,26)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 26812 troops, 183 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1021

Defending force 6281 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 166

Allied adjusted assault: 331

Japanese adjusted defense: 33

Allied assault odds: 10 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
2922 casualties reported
Squads: 72 destroyed, 89 disabled
Non Combat: 51 destroyed, 20 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 6 disabled
Guns lost 14 (4 destroyed, 10 disabled)
Units retreated 1

Allied ground losses:
469 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 53 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 3 disabled

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
82nd Chinese/A Corps
3rd Chinese Cavalry Corps
35th Chinese Corps
34th Separate Brigade
3rd Prov Chinese Corps
82nd Chinese/B Corps
2nd Construction Regiment
13th Group Army
5th Chinese Base Force

Defending units:
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade


Seems to be an awful lot of AV far away from the REAL action. IMHO. And east of Sian -

quote:

Ground combat at 86,41 (near Loyang)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 10689 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 300

Defending force 26168 troops, 204 guns, 141 vehicles, Assault Value = 630

Allied adjusted assault: 22

Japanese adjusted defense: 1195

Allied assault odds: 1 to 54

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

Japanese ground losses:
572 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 48 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

Allied ground losses:
552 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 75 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled

Assaulting units:
36th Chinese Corps

Defending units:
41st/B Division
59th Infantry Brigade
41st/A Division
9th Ind Engineer Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
6th Ind.Mixed Brigade
41st/C Division
1st Army
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment


And at Changteh -

quote:

Ground combat at Changteh (81,50)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 37895 troops, 139 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1168

Defending force 22901 troops, 219 guns, 24 vehicles, Assault Value = 632

Allied adjusted assault: 916

Japanese adjusted defense: 647

Allied assault odds: 1 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), fatigue(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1696 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 153 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 18 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Guns lost 69 (11 destroyed, 58 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
458 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 52 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Assaulting units:
53rd Chinese Corps
87th Chinese Corps
44th Chinese Corps
73rd Chinese Corps
6th Construction Regiment
9th War Area
6th War Area
20th Group Army
2nd Chinese Base Force

Defending units:
39th Division
68th Division
1st Mortar Battalion




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US cruisers sank a supply PB at Milne Bay, then bombarded the base, causing disablement to one squad -

quote:

Night Naval bombardment of Milne Bay at 101,133

Allied Ships
CA Minneapolis
CA Indianapolis

Japanese ground losses:
12 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

OS2U-3 Kingfisher acting as spotter for CA Minneapolis


Sallies bombed Changteh at night hitting nothing.

Akagi's Vals and Ryujo's Kates attacked a transport TF south of Timor, both unescorted, both getting one hit. The CV TF had Koepang as an alternate target, but probably due to a shortage of fighters this mission did not fly (for the second day).

In China, the Chinese "envelopment" from a few days ago was forced back, with heavy loss -

quote:

Ground combat at 86,41 (near Loyang)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 23301 troops, 204 guns, 81 vehicles, Assault Value = 1032

Defending force 10217 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 242

Japanese adjusted assault: 461

Allied adjusted defense: 125

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
307 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 20 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled

Allied ground losses:
3160 casualties reported
Squads: 107 destroyed, 27 disabled
Non Combat: 47 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 8 (3 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Units retreated 1

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
41st Division
6th Ind.Mixed Brigade
59th Infantry Brigade
3rd Tank Regiment
28th Division
9th Ind Engineer Regiment
1st Army
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
36th Chinese Corps


A Chinese attack at Changteh failed again, but reinforcements are on the way from Changsha -

quote:

Ground combat at Changteh (81,50)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 37551 troops, 139 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1127

Defending force 21826 troops, 211 guns, 24 vehicles, Assault Value = 526

Allied adjusted assault: 1714

Japanese adjusted defense: 935

Allied assault odds: 1 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
616 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 61 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

Allied ground losses:
1796 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 170 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 23 disabled

Assaulting units:
44th Chinese Corps
53rd Chinese Corps
73rd Chinese Corps
87th Chinese Corps
6th Construction Regiment
9th War Area
6th War Area
20th Group Army
2nd Chinese Base Force

Defending units:
39th Division
68th Division
1st Mortar Battalion


North of Kweilin tanks are inflicting damage on 21 Corps while waiting for infantry reinforcements -

quote:

Ground combat at 75,53 (near Kweilin)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 726 troops, 0 guns, 142 vehicles, Assault Value = 70

Defending force 4248 troops, 35 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 121

Japanese adjusted assault: 44

Allied adjusted defense: 205

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 4

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

Allied ground losses:
168 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 18 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
23rd Tank Regiment
11th Tank Regiment

Defending units:
21st Chinese Corps



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A very active day!

Bases assaulted today: Roti (vacant)

The carriers and battleships in the Andaman Sea regrouped yesterday, then moved to do some damage to the Brits today. A five BB TF moved to bombard Moulmein, and sank a PG on the way in -

quote:

Night Naval bombardment of Moulmein at 55,55 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Albacore I: 1 destroyed on ground
Martlet II: 1 damaged
Hurricane IIb Trop: 4 damaged

Japanese Ships
BB Yamashiro
BB Mutsu
BB Nagato
BB Kirishima
BB Kongo
CL Nagara
DD Tachikaze
DD Sagiri
DD Uranami
DD Shirayuki
DD Ariake
DD Murasame
DD Kasumi
DD Natsugumo

Allied ground losses:
99 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 15 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 9 (5 destroyed, 4 disabled)

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 7
Port hits 1

E13A1 Jake acting as spotter for BB Yamashiro


I expected more damage from 5 battleships. The fact that British carrier aircraft were there indicates that one of the carriers hit 2 days ago may be in trouble (or worse).

At the same time, a heavy cruiser TF encountered British light cruisers at Rangoon -

quote:

Night Time Surface Combat, near Rangoon at 54,54, Range 11,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CA Maya, Shell hits 1
CA Mogami, Shell hits 4
CA Kinugasa
CA Kako
CL Kitakami
DD Akigumo
DD Tokitsukaze
DD Arashi
DD Michishio
DD Minekaze
DD Akikaze

Allied Ships
CL Enterprise
CL Dauntless
CL Newcastle, Shell hits 1
CL Caledon, Shell hits 5, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Arunta, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Tenedos, Shell hits 1, heavy fires
DD Foxhound
DD Jupiter, Shell hits 1

Reduced sighting due to 0% moonlight
Maximum visibility in Clear Conditions and 0% moonlight: 12,000 yards

Hashimoto, Shintaro crosses the 'T'
Tennant, W.G. orders Allied TF to disengage
Magazine explodes on CL Caledon
Tennant, W.G. orders Allied TF to disengage (I guess they didn't listen the first time)
Task forces break off...


These cruisers then met a destroyer TF, which managed to escape (the first time). But, were reengaged -

quote:

Night Time Surface Combat, near Rangoon at 54,53, Range 10,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CA Maya
CA Mogami
CA Kinugasa
CA Kako
CL Kitakami
DD Akigumo
DD Tokitsukaze
DD Arashi
DD Michishio
DD Minekaze, Shell hits 1
DD Akikaze, Shell hits 2, on fire

Allied Ships
DD Thanet, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Express, Shell hits 14, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk

Reduced sighting due to 3% moonlight (looks like the moon came up!)


When the sun came up -

quote:

Day Time Surface Combat, near Rangoon at 54,54, Range 25,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CA Maya, Shell hits 17, on fire
CA Mogami, Shell hits 2
CA Kinugasa, Shell hits 6
CA Kako, Shell hits 2
CL Kitakami, Shell hits 3
DD Akigumo, Shell hits 6, heavy fires, heavy damage (sank later)
DD Tokitsukaze, Shell hits 4
DD Arashi, Shell hits 3
DD Michishio, Shell hits 4, on fire
DD Minekaze, Shell hits 14, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Akikaze, Shell hits 11, and is sunk

Allied Ships
CL Enterprise, Shell hits 5, on fire
CL Dauntless, Shell hits 2
CL Newcastle, Shell hits 9, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Arunta, Shell hits 7, heavy fires
DD Tenedos, Shell hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Foxhound, Shell hits 5, heavy fires
DD Jupiter, Shell hits 3, on fire

Maximum visibility in Clear Conditions: 30,000 yards

Tennant, W.G. orders Allied TF to disengage
Task forces break off...


quote:

Day Time Surface Combat, near Rangoon at 54,54, Range 24,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CA Maya, Shell hits 1, on fire
CA Mogami
CA Kinugasa, on fire
CA Kako
CL Kitakami
DD Akigumo, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Tokitsukaze, on fire
DD Arashi, on fire
DD Michishio, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Minekaze, and is sunk

Allied Ships
DD Thanet, Shell hits 9, and is sunk


Moulmein was bombed by the Japanese in 3 waves, but did negligible damage. Chiang Mai was bombed by the Brits, which damaged the airfield, but no Japanese planes are there.

The Akagi TF attacked Koepang with minimal success -

quote:

Afternoon Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 19
B5N2 Kate x 13
D3A1 Val x 14

Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 7

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 3 destroyed, 1 damaged
D3A1 Val: 4 damaged
D3A1 Val: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged

Runway hits 6


The Hiryu, Soryu, Junyo, Shoho TF attacked several TFs in the vicinity of Rangoon, UNESCORTED -

quote:

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 52,54

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 75 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 28 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B5N1 Kate x 7
B5N2 Kate x 5
D3A1 Val x 35

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 4

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N1 Kate: 4 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak
D3A1 Val: 7 destroyed, 14 damaged
D3A1 Val: 2 destroyed by flak

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
BB Revenge, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 2, on fire
BB Prince of Wales


quote:

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 53,54

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 17 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B5N2 Kate x 14

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 4

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 6 damaged

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
DD Arunta, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
CL Enterprise
DD Foxhound, on fire


quote:

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Bassein at 49,52

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 7 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 2 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B5N2 Kate x 13

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 3 damaged

Allied Ships
PG Lawrence, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires
xAK Jehangir
xAK Surada, Bomb hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Garmula, Bomb hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage

Massive explosion on PG Lawrence


The Zeroes must have been held back for CAP (set at 30%), but the TF WAS NOT ATTACKED.

A fragment of an Aussie brigade that had been landed adjacent to Milne Bay, walked in and was destroyed -

quote:

Ground combat at Milne Bay (101,133)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 14010 troops, 132 guns, 45 vehicles, Assault Value = 326

Defending force 202 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3

Japanese adjusted assault: 146

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 146 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), preparation(-)
Attacker: disruption(-), fatigue(-)

Japanese ground losses:
9 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Allied ground losses:
278 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 10 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 5 (5 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
1st Division
9th Field Construction Battalion
2nd JNAF AF Unit

Defending units:
19th Australian Bde /1


A Dutch sub fired torpedoes at CVE Hosho between Manado and Ambon, but they failed to detonate!


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RE: Act III - DBB-C Uncivil Engineer (J) vs. christophe... - 10/23/2021 9:10:10 AM   
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Bases captured today: Endeh and Roti (both vacant)

Sallies in China flew unescorted to bomb Changteh and got chewed up.

Akagi's Vals sank an AVP that left Roti before capture for adjacent Koepang -

quote:

Morning Air attack on TF, near Koepang at 68,116

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
D3A1 Val x 14

Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 2 damaged

Allied Ships
AVP Fazant, Bomb hits 5, and is sunk


Kaga, operating alone in the Aleutians, attacked a US TF at Amchitka. The cruisers moved there, but did not bombard the base, nor return to their own base ?! -

quote:

Morning Air attack on TF, near Amchitka Island at 158,52

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 78 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 29 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 13
B5N2 Kate x 24
D3A1 Val x 25

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 3 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak
D3A1 Val: 4 damaged

Allied Ships
CA Astoria, Bomb hits 1
CL Trenton
CL Helena, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1


quote:

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Amchitka Island at 158,52

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 63 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 23 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 13
B5N2 Kate x 21
D3A1 Val x 23

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 2 damaged
D3A1 Val: 1 damaged
D3A1 Val: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied Ships
CA Astoria, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1
CL Helena, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires
CL Trenton, Bomb hits 2
DD Henley


Zeroes based at Amchitka flying naval attack also got some hits on the destroyer Henley. Hopefully, Helena will be out of action for a while.

Fortresses flying from Darwin changed to naval attack (?!), but had no hits on either CVE Hosho near Ambon, nor BB Hiei near Koepang.

West of Kweilin the Chinese continue to take heavy casualties -

quote:

Ground combat at 75,54 (near Kweilin)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 59636 troops, 592 guns, 380 vehicles, Assault Value = 1394

Defending force 15597 troops, 104 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 131

Japanese adjusted assault: 901

Allied adjusted defense: 251

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1127 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 87 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 15 (1 destroyed, 14 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
6681 casualties reported
Squads: 220 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 201 destroyed, 71 disabled
Engineers: 7 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 20 (10 destroyed, 10 disabled)
Units retreated 4

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
15th Division
60th/A Division
22nd Division
13th Tank Regiment
5th Tank Regiment
6th Division
8th Division
60th/B Division
4th Mortar Battalion
23rd Army
Botanko Hvy Gun Regiment
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
10th Chinese Corps
25th Chinese Corps
63rd Chinese Corps
74th Chinese Corps
12th Group Army
29th Group Army



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RE: Act III - DBB-C Uncivil Engineer (J) vs. christophe... - 10/24/2021 12:02:52 PM   
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Big screw up on my part (I have no idea what I was thinking, or even IF I was thinking) - while starting to load a unit at Ambon, with CVE Hosho in the TF, Ambon was attacked by a US heavy cruiser TF, and Hosho was sunk. The mistakes here are too numerous to count.

BB Hiei and TF bombarded Koepang and made a huge discovery -

quote:

Night Naval bombardment of Koepang at 68,116

Japanese Ships
BB Hiei
CA Furutaka
CA Aoba
CL Jintsu
DD Yukaze
DD Yamakaze
DD Hayashio
DD Natsushio
DD Oyashio

Allied ground losses:
264 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 39 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 16 (8 destroyed, 8 disabled)

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 26
Port hits 1

BB Hiei firing at 32nd Infantry Division


In China, the offensive around Kweilin continued. West of the city the survivors of yesterday's attack surrendered -

quote:

Ground combat at 75,54 (near Kweilin)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 59130 troops, 591 guns, 380 vehicles, Assault Value = 1352

Defending force 1667 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 10

Japanese adjusted assault: 951

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 951 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
58 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

Allied ground losses:
2367 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 84 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units surrendered 2

Assaulting units:
8th Division
6th Division
5th Tank Regiment
60th/A Division
15th Division
22nd Division
13th Tank Regiment
60th/B Division
4th Mortar Battalion
23rd Army
Botanko Hvy Gun Regiment
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
10th Chinese Corps
12th Group Army


And north of the city infantry was added to the attack, but the attack still came up short -

quote:

Ground combat at 75,53 (near Kweilin)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 13350 troops, 109 guns, 146 vehicles, Assault Value = 414

Defending force 3803 troops, 34 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 75

Japanese adjusted assault: 216

Allied adjusted defense: 155

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
34 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Allied ground losses:
331 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 33 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled

Assaulting units:
23rd Tank Regiment
40th Division
11th Tank Regiment

Defending units:
21st Chinese Corps


At Changteh, a brigade of 3 Div arrived just in time to bolster the defense and the Chinese attackers paid a heavy price -

quote:

Ground combat at Changteh (81,50)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 29757 troops, 103 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1201

Defending force 25856 troops, 258 guns, 26 vehicles, Assault Value = 572

Allied adjusted assault: 798

Japanese adjusted defense: 1087

Allied assault odds: 1 to 2

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
399 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 36 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled

Allied ground losses:
3983 casualties reported
Squads: 158 destroyed, 76 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 40 disabled
Engineers: 21 destroyed, 15 disabled
Guns lost 29 (2 destroyed, 27 disabled)

Assaulting units:
73rd Chinese Corps
53rd Chinese Corps
9th Prov Chinese Corps
58th Chinese Corps
72nd Chinese Corps
44th Chinese Corps
87th Chinese Corps
78th Chinese Corps
6th Construction Regiment
30th Group Army
20th Group Army
6th War Area
9th War Area
2nd Chinese Base Force

Defending units:
39th/A Division
68th Division
39th/B Division
39th/C Division
3rd/A Division
1st Mortar Battalion



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RE: Act III - DBB-C Uncivil Engineer (J) vs. christophe... - 10/25/2021 9:49:40 AM   
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The Dutch CLs again bombarded Ambon. Yamato has been rearmed at Soerabaja, and will be heading in that direction with 2 older battleships soon. CV Akagi and CVL Ryujo will also be nearby. CV Kaga will leave the Aleutians and refuel enroute to rejoining Akagi.

It was a relatively good day in the air over Buna -

quote:

Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 34 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 10
A6M5 Zero x 7
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 17

Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 14

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 3 destroyed

quote:

Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 8 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 2 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 4
A6M5 Zero x 7
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 17

Allied aircraft
B-26 Marauder x 9

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 3 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-26 Marauder: 4 destroyed, 3 damaged

quote:

Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 37 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 3
A6M5 Zero x 7
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 12

Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 10
B-26 Marauder x 15

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 destroyed
B-26 Marauder: 5 destroyed, 4 damaged


Northwest of Kweilin Chinese casualties continued to mount -

quote:

Ground combat at 75,53 (near Kweilin)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 13287 troops, 109 guns, 146 vehicles, Assault Value = 410

Defending force 3482 troops, 34 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 36

Japanese adjusted assault: 374

Allied adjusted defense: 15

Japanese assault odds: 24 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), leaders(-), fatigue(-)
Attacker: shock(+), fatigue(-)

Japanese ground losses:
89 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
939 casualties reported
Squads: 85 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 44 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 17 (11 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Units retreated 1

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
40th Division
23rd Tank Regiment
11th Tank Regiment

Defending units:
21st Chinese Corps


The air action over Buna and some sweeps of Moulmein showed good results (at least for this day) -




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A very slow day!

US heavy cruisers bombarded Buna and were attacked by Nells and Betties from Rabaul, getting 1 hit. The cruisers remained at Buna.

That's it. No ground attacks other than artillery exchanges.

A brigade of 21 Div arrived at Madang; the other 2 brigades are at Rabaul and Hollandia.


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