| Nomad 
 
 Posts:  5905
 Joined:  9/5/2001
 From:  West Yellowstone, Montana
 Status: offline
   | June 2, 1943 
 First, I got a sub
 
 Submarine attack near Kendari  at 71,106
 
 Japanese Ships
 SS I-30, hits 18,  heavy fires,  heavy damage
 
 Allied Ships
 CA Louisville
 CA Houston
 CA Northampton
 CLAA San Juan
 DD Woodworth
 DD Aaron Ward
 DD Flusser
 DD Smith
 DD Conyngham
 DD Frazier
 
 SS I-30 forced to surface!
 /snipped out a bunch of lines
 Sub slips beneath the waves
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 A different sub tagged one of my good BBs
 Sub attack near Kendari  at 71,106
 
 Japanese Ships
 SS I-11
 
 Allied Ships
 BB Massachusetts, Torpedo hits 1
 BB South Dakota
 DD Drayton
 DD Cummings
 DD Downes
 DD Cassin
 DD Shaw
 
 SS I-11 launches 6 torpedoes at BB Massachusetts
 
 I was lucky, one torp was a DOINK.
 
 BB Massachusetts is damaged, but should make port with no problems
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 Landed the 9th Australian Infantry Division at Kendari
 As expected there were a good amount of disabled troops
 I am not sure I have enough right now to take the base.  Here is
 his bombardment attack
 
 
 Ground combat at Kendari (70,106)
 
 Japanese Bombardment attack
 
 Attacking force 1153 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 74
 
 Defending force 10029 troops, 134 guns, 130 vehicles, Assault Value = 301
 
 Assaulting units:
 48th Naval Guard Unit
 3rd Base Force
 
 Defending units:
 9th Australian Division
 
 I have a small Naval Bombardment TF that will hit the base tonight
 and I will let the unit try and get some of the disabled back into
 fighting shape.
 
 The entire division did unload and it has plenty of supply but I will be
 landing another 12,000+ supply tonight
 
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 I did not expect bombers at Sorong, but there were a few.
 
 Morning Air attack on TF, near Boela at 80,110
 
 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud
 
 Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
 Estimated time to target is 13 minutes
 
 Japanese aircraft
 D3A1 Val x 7
 
 Japanese aircraft losses
 D3A1 Val: 1 damaged
 
 Allied Ships
 APA W.A. Holbrook, Bomb hits 3
 APA Harris
 
 Allied ground losses:
 33 casualties reported
 Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
 Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 2 disabled
 Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
 
 Aircraft Attacking:
 3 x D3A1 Val releasing from 2000'
 Naval Attack:  1 x 250 kg SAP Bomb
 4 x D3A1 Val releasing from 3000'
 Naval Attack:  1 x 250 kg SAP Bomb
 
 
 
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 Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Boela at 80,110
 
 Weather in hex: Light rain
 
 Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
 Estimated time to target is 14 minutes
 
 Japanese aircraft
 D3A1 Val x 6
 
 Japanese aircraft losses
 D3A1 Val: 1 damaged
 
 Allied Ships
 AM Shepparton, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
 APA Harris, Bomb hits 3,  on fire
 
 Aircraft Attacking:
 2 x D3A1 Val releasing from 3000'
 Naval Attack:  1 x 250 kg SAP Bomb
 4 x D3A1 Val releasing from 2000'
 Naval Attack:  1 x 250 kg SAP Bomb
 
 I lost an AM, but the two APAs are damaged but able to make 3 hexes per phase
 so they will return back to safety.  They did unload the entire unit and enough
 supply for the next couple of weeks.
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 My SBDs from Namlea launched against a surface TF
 
 I did not really expect them, but there are BBs there.
 Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Sorong at 82,107
 
 Weather in hex: Severe storms
 
 Raid detected at 32 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
 Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
 
 Allied aircraft
 SBD-3 Dauntless x 13
 
 Allied aircraft losses
 SBD-3 Dauntless: 9 damaged
 
 Japanese Ships
 BB Kongo, Bomb hits 1
 
 Aircraft Attacking:
 1 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 2000'
 Naval Attack:  1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
 2 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 4000'
 Naval Attack:  1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
 10 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 3000'
 Naval Attack:  1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
 
 
 
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 Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Sorong at 82,107
 
 Weather in hex: Severe storms
 
 Raid detected at 57 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
 Estimated time to target is 22 minutes
 
 Allied aircraft
 SBD-3 Dauntless x 15
 
 Allied aircraft losses
 SBD-3 Dauntless: 3 damaged
 
 Japanese Ships
 BB Haruna
 BB Kongo
 
 Aircraft Attacking:
 15 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 4000'
 Naval Attack:  1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
 
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 I am working on a response, I have options
 Even though one of my modern BBs took a Torp, there are still 2 more modern
 BBs in that TF, I might try and get into a surface combat.
 
 
 Information to keep in mind.  I sank I-30 which is a seaplane carrying sub
 The lost aircraft report for today lists 2 Jakes.  It looks like he is putting
 Jakes on his subs.  We are playing with no house rules so no fault, just info
 that he has a very large search radius with his subs.
 
 
 < Message edited by Nomad -- 2/22/2022 4:27:01 PM  >
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