wonderful turn! [:D]
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 03/28/43
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Night Air attack on Lashio , at 35,30
Allied aircraft
Beaufighter VIF x 17
No Allied losses
Aircraft Attacking:
7 x Beaufighter VIF bombing at 2000 feet
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Koepang at 28,77 [8D]
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
E7K2 Alf: 1 destroyed
Japanese Ships
ML Tsugaru, Shell hits 19, and is sunk
ML Okinoshima, Shell hits 1, on fire
ML Ikitsushima
PG Chokai Maru, Shell hits 11, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
ML Katsuriki
ML Yaeyama, Shell hits 1, on fire
ML Kamome, Shell hits 11, and is sunk
ML Shirakami, Shell hits 11, and is sunk
ML Naryu, Shell hits 5, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
ML Kyosai, Shell hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
ML Ishizaki
ML Takashima
ML Saishu
ML Aotaka, Shell hits 9, and is sunk
ML Wakatake
Allied Ships
BB Arizona
BB Idaho, Shell hits 1
CA Shropshire
DD Monssen
DD Benham
DD Ellet
DD Dunlap
DD Conyngham
DD Balch
DD Clark
Today we won the Jackpot! By pure luck (YES IT ONLY WAS LUCK ON OUR SIDE!!! 
) a bombardment TF entered the hex the same night as the Japanese ML TF which was hit hard! We sank several of the big MLs including ML Tsugaru which has a mine capacity of no less than 600 mines! 21 enemy MLs have been confirmed sunk so far, not bad, speaking of mine laying capacity, the enemy has lost over 50% of his capacity already. The TF wasn´t spotted during the day, this could have triggered airattacks by over 100 bombers.
I won´t complain! [;)] Another example of how careless Hortlund is with his ships: ML Hirashima which hit a VH2 at Kendari a couple of days ago was reported sunk today! It sank OFF AMBOINA! So what? The ML hits a mine at Kendari, where it could be disbanded in port immediately and then it sinks off Amboina. Well, I even care about MSW, small AKs, in fact I care about every ship in my arsenal that can be saved (and I´m the Allied with ten times more ships than the IJN). Heck, I even try to save ships that obviously can´t be saved. Hortlund is of other oppinion! It seems not worth for him to bring damaged ships to the next port where they can be disbanded. I guess this did cost him at least 100 ships of all different types so far.
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Naval bombardment of Koepang, at 28,77
Allied Ships
CA Shropshire
BB Idaho
BB Arizona
Japanese ground losses:
88 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
No biggy that the bombardment didn´t do much damage afterwards.
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Sub attack at 37,61
Japanese Ships
TK Ayazono Maru
PC Ch 10
PG Hayakafuku Maru
MSW W.17
MSW Wa 7
MSW Wa 5
Allied Ships
SS Albacore
torps hit the big TK but failed to detonate... Albacore is on her way to here homeport (Darwin).
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Sub attack at 48,59
Japanese Ships
AP Kasuga Maru #2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
Allied Ships
SS Haddock
Haddock is also retiring home and hits a small AP South East of the Philipines. Those attacks on transit are just luck when a sub stumbles over an enemy convoy, so that´s not an achievement of mine.
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Sub attack at 48,59
Japanese Ships
AP Kasuga Maru #2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Allied Ships
SS Haddock
Haddock expands her last torps with another attack on the damaged AP and sinks it. The captain, a US FLT went down with the ship! [:D]
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Day Air attack on Andaman Island , at 23,34
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft
F-5A Lightning x 3
LB-30 Liberator x 39
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 5 destroyed
E13A1 Jake: 2 destroyed
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 19
Aircraft Attacking:
24 x LB-30 Liberator bombing at 15000 feet
attack on medium height and we encountered no flak fire. Looks like the bombardment hit the base forces really hard. Low hit rate but still we destroyed over a dozen aircraft on the ground. If we can further reduce the attack height then it will surely be possible to supress Andaman.
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Day Air attack on Gili Gili , at 56,94
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft
F-5A Lightning x 4
B-24D Liberator x 137
Japanese aircraft losses
H8K Emily: 1 destroyed
Japanese ground losses:
93 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 64
Aircraft Attacking:
39 x B-24D Liberator bombing at 26000 feet
this attack came from Cooktown (normal range, compared to Cairns extended range) and we achieve a pretty good hit rate at save height. One B-24 was lost to ops but over 30 are damaged after such an attack. If you want to attack with full strenght you can´t do more than one attack a week.
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Day Air attack on Kiska Island , at 92,35
Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 37
SBD Dauntless x 40
TBF Avenger x 14
P-39D Airacobra x 17
PV-1 Ventura x 27
Allied aircraft losses
SBD Dauntless: 1 destroyed, 13 damaged
P-39D Airacobra: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged
PV-1 Ventura: 6 damaged
Japanese ground losses:
120 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 51
Port supply hits 2
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet
no matter how many hits we achieve, no matter how many casualties inflict, no matter how many guns we disable, not even 30.000 bomber attacks can silence flak guns in NM. Those attacks are cancelled now after losing way over 100 aircraft for nothing in return.
