The format of your AAR is one of my favorites!

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JAAF will learn to fly low

JAAF will start to train close air support (CAS) and interdiction, especially at low altitudes, for the units currently equipped with the Mitsubishi Ki-51 , it struggles in the current role and with ...

If they concentrate to Singapore is 5 divisions the minimum needed to crack it?


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I use seven divisions if the enemy has retreated generally in good order. My OOB in a Scen 1 game for the assault is:
2nd Div
5th Div
18th Div
21st Div
33rd Div
38th Div ...

Review of Enemy Intelligence Gathering Operations

A couple weeks ago (game time) I was puzzled by how well enemy patrol aircraft were able to follow the KB transit through the Java Sea. Initially I chalked it up to long-range float planes from Cocos Island, such as Coronados, and LB-30s from ...

17 Dec 42

The Allies continue their assaults in the Marshalls and Solomons with special operations forces (USMC Airborne and Raider units).

The enemy rushes two Marine Raider battalions to Ailinglaplap, just ahead of Japanese reinforcements coming from Truk. The enemy suffers heavy disablements ...

16 Dec 42

No sign of the Allied carriers or battleships in the last few days. They all withdrew from CENPAC in the direction of Sydney, leaving the 32nd Inf Div and three tank battalions exposed on Kusaie Island and two USMC Parachute Battalions withering away on Ailinglaplap.

Fuel may be an issue ...

15 Dec 42

The enemy, presumably trying to salvage the airborne operation against Ailinglaplap, commits four squadrons of medium bombers with all his available P38s on LRCAP (at 8 hexes). It has little effect. The 2nd USMC Parachute Battalion is wiped out by attrition.

Meanwhile, B24s attempt to ...

14 Dec 41

Ailinglaplap, Marshall Islands

CDR Kageuke stood beside LCDR Kawabata, both men staring through binoculars at the line of ships approaching from the northwest. "Those lead pair are Kongo class battleships or I'm a snow monkey," Kageuke said.

"Hai, Kageuke-sama," the junior officer said ...

14 Dec 42

Ailinglaplap, Marshall Islands

This is it , CDR Kageuke thought as he blew his whistle to signal the retreat while slamming another magazine into his pistol. Firing over his shoulder, he moved from tree to tree as bullets whizzed all around him. More of his men fell, blood and flesh ...

13 Dec 42

Ailinglaplap, Marshall Islands

CDR Kageuke hid in the jungle with just a handful of men. In the distance, he could make out the rapid staccato of the enemies' semi-automatic Johnson rifles and the slower snap of Type 99 fire in return. He had no idea how many men he had left. Not many ...

12 Dec 42
Ailinglaplap Atoll, Marshall Islands

CDR Matsuo Kageuke, commanding officer of the 53rd Naval Guards, liked his sleep. It was an hour after dawn an he was still in his bunk, his mind just beginning the rise to consciousness. A few minutes passed. He could hear the quiet conversation of ...

12 Dec 42

The Allies conduct deep operations in CENPAC with USMC paratroop battalions, dropping on undefended Ontong Java (west of the Solomon Islands) and Ailinglaplap (in the Marshalls). The enemy marines take Ontong Java destroying a detachment of 6 Jakes operating from the atoll. The two ...

7- 11 Dec 42

CENPAC is the most active theatre. Japanese reinforcements arrive in time to Kusaie to turn the tide of the fight. The three U.S. Marine tank battalions had been inflicting one-side losses on the defending Naval Guard units while the U.S. 32nd Inf Div, getting unscrewed from its clumsy ...

The Japanese High Command was conducting a covert operation to the ski slopes of Utah over the past week, so turns were slow, though no adults or children were injured in the successful op.

6 Dec 42

A quiet day, relatively.

My carriers arrive in theatre and the enemy carriers appear to be withdrawing, both off Kusaie Island and Tagula Island.

In the Coral Sea, U.S. Navy Wildcats sweep Tagula Island from carriers to the southwest and are roughly handled by zeros on CAP, losing 10 of ...

5 Dec 42

The look in the eyes of few flight crews who returned told the story. The enemy fleet carriers had moved into the shallow waters surrounding Rossel Island and swarms of Grumman fighters were waiting. Losses were very heavy among the patrol aircraft, transport aircraft and medium bombers ...

4 Dec 42

So, the consequences of employing the Kido Butai in the Indian Ocean have become clearer. The Allied CENPAC and SOPAC commands conducted a mass of operations over the past week with a CV taskforce in each area of operations.

The enemy sent the 24th Inf Div with part of the 25th Inf ...

While PO Nishiura was piloting his obsolete D3A1 to glory for the Empire of Japan over Tugala and Rossel Islands, the frenetic Allied activity in the theatre was continuing a thousand miles to the east.

"Sir, patrol aircraft report a fast transport task force approaching Kusaie Island from the ...

1630, 2 Dec 42, somewhere over the Coral Sea.

With just enough daylight left in the long, summer day for the return flight, Petty Officer Nishiura found himself again over enemy transports, this time off Rossel Island, and again protected by a Kami (and graceful Ki-43 Army fighters) from the ...

0830, 2 Dec 1942, somewhere over the Coral Sea

Petty Officer Nishiura led his understrength Datai of seven lumbering D3A1 dive bombers, nervously scanning the skies for enemy CAP as he approach reported enemy shipping off Tugula and Rossel Islands. At 13,000 feet he was above a broken layer of gray ...