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10/22/1942

Here is a "victory" screen. Losses in air war in Burma are the most worrisome area at this point. We are holding our own in the air-to-air fighting .. overall 2.5 to 1 .. but wind up breaking even when factoring in the losses on the ground (tough to keep av spt working on the ground at Akyab). But we don't typically loose nearly as many pilots as we do planes. In a recent turn, we lost 60 planes but only 15 pilots. This rate however, is still dangerous as we have to train them up from 20-30 to 70-80 before commiting and that takes a loooong time. And Moses seems to be sending all new air power to India. So our goal of holding Burma until late '43 still looks very difficult. We've spent the "Tony/Tojo" dollar, now trumped by the "P-38" c-note. Only improvement we have on the table is arrival of Jacks hopefully around Jan '43 .. or about 2.5 months out ... so the Tony's will have to do the bleeding until then.

We will move additional ground units to Burma, engineers, av spt and infantry. Akyab needs to be build up further in terms of AV strength. If moses comes at us again, it is not likely to be with just 2xarmoured bdes (as it was the first time).



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10/22/1942

Here are four airgroups readying to move to Burma (on Taan). They have completely refit/retraining and in the case of the Tony's are completing the swap out from Nates to Tony's. We only use Nates for training in China, though soon they will be gone and we will switch to Oscars.





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10/22/1942

And as an additional view of the lifecycle - here is a shot of several fighter groups recently banged up in Burma sitting back in Bangkok refitting. Soon decision will be made for each group whether to recommit to Burma or send back to China/PI for retraining. If the unit reaches the 60s it definitely goes for training. If in the 70s it depends on the needs. Like right now Manday has one Tony group at EXP 73 .. Mandalay has not been hit in a while (knock knock) and so we extend the shell game by "hiding" a relatively ineffective unit here. Well Moses sees the unit but not the EXP (unless he attacks). Of course, given his losses, I'm not sure most of Moses fighter units in India have very high EXP either. But we are still (barely) sticking to the standard of not first bringing units off training until they are EXP 80 (ideally 81 or 82 actually).





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"Better far than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle."
 
Best of all is being home on "civie street" with a nice deferred job at an A/C plant....
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ORIGINAL: Mike Scholl

"Better far than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle."
 
Best of all is being home on "civie street" with a nice deferred job at an A/C plant....

So ... where is my quote from ... eh?

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10/26/42

Aleutians:

The Hiryu/Soryu/Yamato group (TF52) has arrived. Raizo's CL/DD group (TF127) has replenished torpedos at Paramushiro (there is a recently arrived AD there now). A separate DD Group (TF55) has switched to ASW mode. The CVE Group (TF24) are ready to go as are the AO group (TF6). So this "armada" will proceed to the South to "clear baffles" as we have seen a lot of USN sub activity around us lately. So heading S. has two purposes .. (1) We need to "get off the radar screen" .. meaning we need to disappear ... and (2) Try to kill some subs ... we will switch this force to ASW mode, meaning one whole group of DD are in ASW TF and also meaning float planes and carrier bombers are optimizing their ASW stance.
At this point the US have probably got Atka comfortable in terms of supply. We were only able to really disrupt operations for a few days over the past few weeks we've seen unloading going on there. So the next major contest will be if they try to land somewhere. Atka is built out to the max as are Umnak and Dutch .. so to increase pressure on us, the US mostly need to try another landing. We now at least have about 214 carrier planes on hand. If the US tries something near to us, we can react with at least an attention getting reply.

The Northern Fleet Combat Force contains: 97 Zero, 42, Val, 75 Kate

TF52 (Ugaki, M.) 42 Zero 42 Val 42 Kate
Hiryu: 21 Zero, 21 Val, 21 Kate
Soryu: 21 Zero, 21 Val, 21 Kate
Yamato, Takao, Chokai, 13 DD (ASW=50) (Float Planes=12)

TF24 (Yamada, S.) 55 Zero 33 Kate
Hosho: 5 Zero, 5 Kate
Taiyo: 24 Zero
Unyo: 26 Zero
Chuyo: 27 Kate
Nagato, Furutaka, 3 CL, 9 DD (ASW=32) (Float Planes=5)

TF127 (Tanaka, R.)
CL Natori, 11 DD (ASW=44) (Float Planes=1)

TF55 (Maekawa, N.)
9 DD (ASW=36)

TF6 (Komatsu, T.)
4 AO (32000 fuel)
1 MSW, 2 PC, 1 PG (ASW=11)


Well, bottom line, there isn't much we can do to Atka that is worth doing. We could try to slip way South and threathen route between Anchorage and Dutch Harbor, or even Seattle to Anchorage. But we've sucked all the fuel out of Kiska and eaten 5K of the 32K capacity of the fleet train already and we haven't even started out on an OP yet. So we aren't gonna be able to spend a lot of time heading East. Probably best thing for us to do - is clear baffles and hang out in case US tries something aggressive. In the mean time we will continue to cover logistical build up in the Western Aleutians. This offers greatest chance of maximum delay in this area. Now if we were to transfer the main "KB" fleet train up here, then different story. Something upon which to cogitate.






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ORIGINAL: Mike Scholl

"Better far than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle."
 
Best of all is being home on "civie street" with a nice deferred job at an A/C plant....

So ... where is my quote from ... eh?

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That's not where I figured it would be from. Doesn't sound like something he'd say...[:D]
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ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

ORIGINAL: Mike Scholl

"Better far than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle."
 
Best of all is being home on "civie street" with a nice deferred job at an A/C plant....

So ... where is my quote from ... eh?

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Beats me..., sounds Japanese. My response is from my old man and two of his brothers who WERE overseas --- while my other two uncles were raking in the dough building airplanes at McDonald's. Guess who were the best off for the rest of all their lives?
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That's not where I figured it would be from. Doesn't sound like something he'd say...[:D]

Exactly - but that is/was the point. Most people think Gandhi was a "pacifist" which he was absolutely not. He was a non-violent fighter and there is a difference! In fact he died fighting. But he was a fighter not a pacifist! Now would his tactics work in all cases? I think not, Hitlers or Stalins would've just mowed him down, but he used the Brits sense of honor and justice as a weapon against them and it worked in that case anyway!

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Sneaky! And what HE should have said is "Better far than cowardice is not killing and being killed in battle." Wouldn't have been much of a "pacifist" if he went around "killing in battle"...
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One of his beliefs was that you didn't have to believe like him.

So, if you couldn't believe like him - that fighting without weapons was the way to go - then you were morally obligated to fight with them - rather than stand down - and be a coward. So he believed you had to fight either way - you just had a choice as to whether to fight (and die) without weapons or to fight (and maybe die or not die) with them!
Re-stated, being unwilling to fight with weapons, does not give one an excuse to be a coward, one has to fight either way.

But I use it as a sig line - mostly because it is NOT something most would expect to come from Gandhi, so a bit of an "educational opportunity" !!
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10/28/42


Aleutians:

The Northern Fleet has initiated "clearing of baffles" and hits two USN pig boats on the first day. We will continue these operations as we still see a concentration of USN subs around us.

Meanwhile a large fuel convoy is approaching Kiska. This gas will enable the Northern Fleet to camp around Kiska for some time.

Kaga will also approach Kiska in a few days and fly off a landbased Zero unit to defend Kiska and hopefully reduce the Coronado attacks against our shipping around Kiska!


OPERATIONAL REPORT FOR 10/26/42

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B5N Kate sighting report: 1 Allied ship at 92,37 , Speed 12 , Moving Northwest
B5N Kate attacking S-32 at 92,37
B5N Kate reports diving submarine at 91, 39
D3A Val attacking S-30 at 91,39
S-30 is reported HIT
B5N Kate reports radio transmissions at 92, 37
D3A Val reports radio transmissions at 92, 37
D3A Val reports radio transmissions at 91, 39
B5N Kate reports periscope at 92, 37
B5N Kate reports shadow in water at 91, 39
...
B5N Kate reports diving submarine at 92, 37
B5N Kate reports suspected submarine at 91, 39
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D3A Val reports diving submarine at 92, 37
D3A Val sighting report: 1 Allied ship at 92,38 , Speed 9 , Moving East
B5N Kate reports shadow in water at 92, 37
B5N Kate reports suspected submarine at 92, 38
D3A Val attacking S-32 at 92,37
S-32 is reported HIT
D3A Val reports shadow in water at 92, 38
B5N Kate reports radio transmissions at 92, 37
B5N Kate reports shadow in water at 89, 35


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11/06/42

Aleutians:
Still running ASW ops around Kiska. Still bringing in supply. Kaga has delivered one land based 27 plane Zero unit to Kiska and all three 9 plane Rufe units are there as well. This should at least slightly improve our ability to have shipping operate around Kiska.

Some snips from the Ops report. Including a second (in this game) rare case of a float plane claiming a hit on a sub.

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D3A Val sighting report: 1 Allied ship at 93,38 , Speed 8 , Moving East
B5N Kate sighting report: 1 Allied ship at 93,38 , Speed 9 , Moving East
D3A Val reports periscope at 93, 38
D3A Val attacking Thresher at 93,38
Thresher is reported HIT
B5N Kate reports suspected submarine at 93, 38
B5N Kate reports shadow in water at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake reports suspected submarine at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake reports periscope at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake reports shadow in water at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake reports diving submarine at 89, 42
E13A1 Jake reports shadow in water at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake reports shadow in water at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake reports periscope at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake reports shadow in water at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake reports shadow in water at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake reports suspected submarine at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake attacking Thresher at 93,38
E13A1 Jake reports radio transmissions at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake reports shadow in water at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake reports suspected submarine at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake reports shadow in water at 93, 38
E7K2 Alf reports shadow in water at 93, 38
E7K2 Alf reports shadow in water at 93, 38
<snip>
B5N Kate reports shadow in water at 93, 38
B5N Kate reports periscope at 93, 38
B5N Kate reports shadow in water at 93, 38
D3A Val reports shadow in water at 93, 38
D3A Val reports shadow in water at 93, 38
B5N Kate reports diving submarine at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake reports diving submarine at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake reports suspected submarine at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake reports shadow in water at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake reports periscope at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake reports periscope at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake reports shadow in water at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake reports shadow in water at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake reports shadow in water at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake reports shadow in water at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake reports suspected submarine at 93, 38
E13A1 Jake sighting report: 1 Allied ship at 96,33 , Speed 9 , Moving East
E13A1 Jake reports shadow in water at 93, 38
E7K2 Alf reports shadow in water at 93, 38
E7K2 Alf reports shadow in water at 93, 38
E7K2 Alf attacking Thresher at 93,38
Thresher is reported HIT



China:

Swirling battles around Honan seem to be settling down.


Burma:

Relentless Allied air offensives with 1000+ planes continue. Allies have 2 Indian Divisions bearing down on Mytchina, we are reinforcing our 5th Division with the 33rd Division.

Additional Engineers are also heading towards Burma from the Home Islands.

Our RO-34 had a good day off Akyab, sinking two of her tormentors, but her 55/55 experience was not improved by her escapades :<

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Sub attack at 30,28

Japanese Ships
SS RO-34

Allied Ships
PG Aster, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
MSW Cromer
PG Fritillary
MSW Cuttack
MSW Cochin

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Sub attack at 30,28

Japanese Ships
SS RO-34

Allied Ships
PG Fritillary, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
MSW Cromer
MSW Cuttack
MSW Cochin


Production
Production of the A6m3a has begun, this will enable introduction of this slightly more advanced but shorter ranged fighter into the CV and CVL airgroups.

Capital Ship Deployment

We have 3 CV and 4 CVL in the area between the Santa Cruz Islands and the Gilberts.

We also have 2 CV and 4 CVE in the Aleutians.

Kaga is operating as an airplane transport bringing aircraft to the Aleutians while Akagi completes refit at Tokyo.

Junyo is completing repairs at Osaka.

We are returning the 4 Kongos and the Ise/Hyuga to the Home Islands for refit. Fuso/Yamashiro are operating in the Gulf of Martaban. Nagato and Mutsu are in the Aleutians as is Yamato. Musashi is completing repairs at Kure.

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Production
Production of the A6m3a has begun, this will enable introduction of this slightly more advanced but shorter ranged fighter into the CV and CVL airgroups.

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why shorter ranged? The A6m3a has the same range (11 hexes) like the A6m2 in stock...
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Oops you're right!

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13 Nov 42


China:

Big strategy shift. Moses has finally brought P-38s to China. Not sure what all the ramifications of this will be but safe to say the tide has turned!

Probable actions/effects:

(1) China not likely to be very useful as a training ground for IJA going forward. We will probably shift training for IJA fighters to Manilla and then shift training for IJN fighters to Soerabaja. But the sizes of the airfields will significantly reduce the scale and hence pace of training. This will be the biggest short term effect.

(2) IJA Fighters - in addition to having their training activities drastically modified, the "front line" for the IJA fighter force has now dramatically increased. Up to this point we had typically 5 fighter regiments engaged in Burma at any given point in time, with the other 15+ regiments in various stages of training in China. This was a "luxurious" state relative to the situation we face now. We will have to maintain probably about half of the fighter force on the front lines now and only half in reserve training. This will reduce the "commit" EXP level from 80 down to 70 most likely. Also, we will need larger numbers of Tony and Tojo as all front line units must have these to even be able to "wave" at the P-38s before they go down. The Nates and Oscars will soldier on as the trainers in Manilla.

(3) IJA Bombers - we will try to conduct a few "hit and run" raids with the bombers in China - particularly at his cities - the resources and heavy industry and I'm sure he will do likewise to us. But we must now "write off" our resources and heavy industry in China as they cannot be protected from the air. The bulk of the IJA bomber force will move out to the Pacific and become ASW aircraft.

(4) China and Burma on the Ground. With the shift in the air situation the air defense of both Burma and China will be marginal. This will open us up to increased attacks from the air and reduce our supplies and mess up our ground forces thus making us more vulnerable on the ground. We expect to get pushed back in both Burma and China on the ground. We think only our ability to bomb supply in China has prevented Moses from attacking us on the ground to date - but now we can no longer sustain an "anti-supply" campaign, so his supplies can build up and attacks against our core cities should be possible. The heavy industry and resources will already be written off, but Moses acquisition of airbases closer to the our vulnerable areas will be to greatest effects of the ground war. We have two spare divisions at Truk, the 20th and the IG, left over from the attack on Port Morseby, we will now transfer these to CBI.

(5) Allied Bombing.
As Moses rolls back the front in CBI our rear areas will become vulnerable. Shipping lanes close to the Asian mainland will need to be rerouted through the PI or even out through the Pacific, through the Carolines and Marianas. This is not a huge negative, but does reduce our flexability and increases our time in deeper waters, where we are more vulnerable to his subs.
But worst of all, we will shortly have important areas subject to bombing. Bangkok, Hanoi, Saigon, Taiwan, China and even the Home Islands eventually can be hit from airbases Moses will capture as the front on the ground moves back. In fact some of these areas are already in range. Part of our defense will be to position Tojo units on cities we think are out of range of the P-38s, these cities then at least will be able to make the Allies pay a bit for unescorted attacks. But we cannot defend everything and the closer he gets, the more targets that will open up. Our Tony's will be used to defend specific tactical targets which are under attack by Allied ground forces, attempting to mitigate unrestricted bombing of our ground units.

(6) Naval
Unfortunately the ability of our Navy to intervene in the above is limited. Recently Moses bombed our "staging" point from which our Western Fleet can move into Akyab at night and then withdraw. So we can't even move to the staging point without being hit by B17s anymore. This means intervening at Akyab with other than submarines must risk loss of ships to airpower and hence cannot be a regular event. So the Navy will primarily remain in the Pacific against the Americans, even though it looks like Moses can now win the game in CBI alone.

Aleutians:


We do see what looks like a USN invasion flotilla moving North of the Aleutians and heading towards us. Not sure where they are going. We will move the Northern Fleet to within range of all targets and see what develops. Probably he will hit one of the unoccupied Islands and take a "freebee". This will enable him to build up quickly and cutoff our nearby islands. Once P-38s and B-17/24 can hit Kiska we will be untenable in the Aleutians, though I would expect the Kuriles to be safe until he can regain carrier superiority.


Central Pacific:

Moses is Bombarding our outlying Islands with BBs, Cruisers and B-17s. Our carriers are milling around trying to look threatening and we are bringing more Bettys forward in case he gets within range. It will be slow progress here for Moses until he can regain carrier superiority.

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11/14/42


Aleutians:

Moses went in and landed on the unoccupied Island between Adak and Amchitka. Not much we can really do about it - and he will be able to build it up and "snip off" Adak. But in the mean time we will try to extract some "payment" from his surface forces. In the below sequence, we are able to hit two of his BB.
Note the below combat reports are omitting all the action outside the Aleutians. We had the usual round of airstrikes in Burma.


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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 11/14/42


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TF 1072 troops unloading over beach at Ogliuga Island, 97,36



Allied ground losses:
1424 casualties reported Allies Landing on the Island


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Sub attack near Ogliuga Island at 97,36

Japanese Ships
SS I-6, hits 7

Allied Ships
AK Empire Waterhen
AP Van Imhoff
AP Empire Attendant
AK Dorothy Philips
AP Bloemfontrin
AK Ohioan
SC SC-643
SC SC-518
DD Perkins
DD Case
DD Lamson
DD Cummings

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TF 1072 troops unloading over beach at Ogliuga Island, 97,36



Allied ground losses:
1330 casualties reported

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Sub attack at 93,37

Japanese Ships
DD Hayashio
DD Tachikaze
DD Hatakaze
DD Harukaze
DD Shirayuki
DD Shinonome
DD Hamakaze
DD Yugumo

Allied Ships
SS Silversides, hits 1 USN Sub attacking our carrier group

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ASW attack at 93,37

Japanese Ships
DD Okikaze
DD Kamikaze
DD Nagatsuki
DD Fumizuki
DD Satsuki
DD Uranami
DD Isonami
DD Fubuki
DD Inazuma
DD Yugure
DD Wakaba
CL Natori

Allied Ships
SS Silversides


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Day Air attack on TF, near Ogliuga Island at 97,36

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 16
A6M3 Zero x 16
D3A Val x 28
B5N Kate x 46

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 9
P-40E Warhawk x 34

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 6 destroyed
A6M3 Zero: 7 destroyed, 1 damaged
D3A Val: 8 destroyed, 12 damaged
B5N Kate: 16 destroyed, 14 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 2 destroyed, 1 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 30 destroyed

Allied Ships
BB Washington, Torpedo hits 1
BB Maryland, Bomb hits 3
BB South Dakota, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 2, on fire The Northern Fleet carrier group goes in
CA Minneapolis

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
3 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on TF, near Ogliuga Island at 97,36

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 11
D3A Val x 11

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 5
Kittyhawk I x 4
P-40E Warhawk x 18

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 5 destroyed
D3A Val: 3 destroyed, 3 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged

Allied Ships
DD Sterett, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage Supporting strike launched from Kiska, this DD was sunk
DD Allen

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
1 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Ogliuga Island at 97,36

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 12
A6M3 Zero x 14
B5N Kate x 6

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 5
Kittyhawk I x 4
P-40E Warhawk x 18

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
A6M3 Zero: 5 destroyed
B5N Kate: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
Kittyhawk I: 7 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 13 destroyed

Allied Ships
DD Lamson, Torpedo hits 1, on fire

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
1 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
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Sub attack at 93,37

Japanese Ships
CVE Chuyo
DD Tachikaze
DD Hatakaze
DD Harukaze
DD Shirayuki
DD Shinonome
DD Hamakaze

Allied Ships
SS Silversides

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ASW attack at 93,37

Japanese Ships
DD Akikaze
DD Sawakaze
DD Minazuki
DD Asagiri
DD Usugumo
DD Ikazuchi
DD Hatsushima
DD Nenohi
DD Hatsuharu

Allied Ships
SS Silversides, hits 6, heavy damage Finally got some real damage

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Oh, P.S. regarding the Fuso which was hit by the 18 bombs from the B-17s ... she ended the turn at sea after the bomb attack with 9/0/48 ... then ducked in to Rangoon(Level-8 port) and ended this turn with 18/0/0. So, not too much damage you might say, but it does take a looong time to repair. Fortunately, I have built up Singapore repair capability so we will see how long it takes. I'd guess about two months.

But regardless I don't think we can get close enough with the old BBs now to get into Akyab and back out without getting tagged and we can probably count on our "staging" hexes being occupied by subs as they were this last time. So we either need faster forces or maybe guns at Akyab. But I struggle with the vision of dragging a pile of heavy coastal guns down the "trail" to Akyab!
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Well, then the alternative is a very big, well-escorted convoy. Is it worth it?
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?? To Do What? Bring in the guns?

They wouldn't last a week under his 1200 airplanes anyway.

I do have all four of my sub-minelayers going in to Akyab as often as possible. They've got a couple of DDs so far - but haven't tagged the BB yet. And my subs standing off have got 1xMSW and 2xPG from the "drive off the subs" forces he is using. Nah, the key to Burma as everywhere is the air - he who owns the air owns everything. And by widening the CBI air front to include all of China he has dramtically altered things. But we will have to try to adjust as best we can.

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