Dec 21st 1942
The citizens of the Co-prosperity sphere hear the drone of many airplanes, its louder then the normal fighter sound that fills the air. As the peer north they see many large airplanes, the allied powers are again trying to disturb the peace and tranquility the co-prosperity sphere provides. They see the Japanese fighters head towards the group the warning of the approaching enemy planes is not enough to stop the bombers initially. The bombers pass up the airfield and head towards the harbor, there are a dozen transports unloading but the planes ignore these and go after the docked ships. There are to many planes not to miss these ships, but there are only 4 patrol boats, and 2 minesweepers.
The enemy planes turn back after their loads are released and run into the full might of the fighter defense. Many go down. Several more raids come in, and some bombers turn back in fear. At the end of the day all 4 patrol boats and 2 minesweepers are at the bottom of the Harbor. But as the walk thru the streets counting the wreckage they total 65 enemy planes lost for only 12 samurai's. Amazingly it is reported only 2 pilots are killed. This definatly must be a blow to the allied morale!
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Morning Air attack on Diamond Harbour , at 52,38
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 42
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 72
Allied aircraft [X(]
Beaufighter VIc x 8
Beaufort I x 12
Blenheim I x 2
Blenheim IV x 46
Hudson IIIa x 17
Hurricane IIc Trop x 16
Liberator II x 3
Wellington Ic x 30
Bolingbroke IV x 12
B-24D Liberator x 22
B-25C Mitchell x 16
P-38E Lightning x 9
P-38F Lightning x 27
P-40K Warhawk x 32
No Japanese losses [:D]
Allied aircraft losses
Beaufighter VIc: 1 destroyed
Beaufort I: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged
Blenheim I: 1 destroyed
Blenheim IV: 6 destroyed
Hudson IIIa: 2 destroyed
Wellington Ic: 1 destroyed
Bolingbroke IV: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
P-38E Lightning: 2 destroyed
P-38F Lightning: 1 destroyed
P-40K Warhawk: 1 destroyed
Japanese Ships
DMS W-11, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk
DMS Uruko, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk
PB Shinko Maru #5, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk
PB Zosen Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Sonan Maru #5, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
PB Kanko Maru, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
Japanese ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Port hits 8
Port fuel hits 2
Port supply hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Bolingbroke IV bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 4 x 250 lb GP Bomb
15 x Blenheim IV bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 4 x 250 lb GP Bomb
11 x Wellington Ic bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x Beaufort I bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 2 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x Blenheim IV bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 4 x 250 lb GP Bomb
12 x Blenheim IV bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 4 x 250 lb GP Bomb
15 x Wellington Ic bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x Blenheim IV bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 4 x 250 lb GP Bomb
3 x Liberator II bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x Wellington Ic bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x Hudson IIIa bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 4 x 250 lb GP Bomb
5 x Hudson IIIa bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 4 x 250 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
CAP engaged:
As can be seen very few airborne
251 Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 16 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 32810 , scrambling fighters between 12000 and 32000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes
1st Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (5 airborne, 12 on standby, 25 scrambling)
5 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 32810 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 32810.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes
59th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 25 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 30000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes
260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 25 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 30000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes
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Morning Air attack on Diamond Harbour , at 52,38
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 25
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 27
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 58
Allied aircraft
Hudson IIIa x 4
P-40K Warhawk x 11
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
Hudson IIIa: 2 destroyed
P-40K Warhawk: 3 destroyed
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Morning Air attack on Diamond Harbour , at 52,38
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 22
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 53
Allied aircraft
Liberator II x 10
B-24D Liberator x 15
B-25C Mitchell x 17
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
Liberator II: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 14 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 1 destroyed
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Morning Air attack on Diamond Harbour , at 52,38
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 3
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 14
Allied aircraft
Wellington Ic x 12
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
Wellington Ic: 3 destroyed, 3 damaged
This battle was very realistic, very few of the fighters were ready for the initial raid, and the initial battle was brief before the bombers did the port strike, most of the damage to the first raid was done after the port strike where the japanese fighters had reached greater numbers. The subsequant raids encountered these higher numbers but the Japanese planes gradually ran out of ammo or were to tired, as can be seen from the last raid. It was a victory from the air side with 65 enemy planes to 12 japanese. The loss of the PB's was minor as those ships had been in port for many months. I give credit to the experianced Samurai's fighting over their base where the enemy had to travel to us.
China
We attack at Ankang and get 1 to 2 odds, barely missing 1 to 1 we are not totally unhappy with the results. As we see they are out of supply and in a bad way. There are inaccurate reports of Chinese killed obviously.
Ground combat at Ankang (82,42)
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 76757 troops, 651 guns, 153 vehicles, Assault Value = 2784
Defending force 80558 troops, 421 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3256
Japanese adjusted assault: 1760
Allied adjusted defense: 2023
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 0)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-)
Japanese ground losses:
12056 casualties reported
Squads: 16 destroyed, 730 disabled
Non Combat: 16 destroyed, 678 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 102 disabled
Vehicles lost 19 (0 destroyed, 19 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
4474 casualties reported
Squads: 42949613 destroyed, 348 disabled
Non Combat: 42949622 destroyed, 369 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 13 disabled
Assaulting units:
40th Division
34th Division
6th Division
39th Division
3rd Division
15th Division
11th Army
Defending units:
98th Chinese Corps
4th Chinese Corps
27th Chinese Corps
22nd Chinese Corps
51st Chinese Corps
42nd Chinese Corps
8th Route Army
79th Chinese Corps
1st Chinese Corps
63rd Chinese Corps
9th Chinese Corps
72nd Chinese Corps
15th Chinese Corps
69th Chinese Corps
80th Chinese Corps
88th Chinese Corps
46th Chinese Corps
4th Chinese Cavalry Corps
91st Chinese Corps
35th Chinese Corps
16th Chinese Corps
19th Chinese Corps
3rd Prov Chinese Corps
6th Group Army
18th Group Army
13th Group Army
2nd War Area
7th Group Army
3rd Heavy Mortar Regiment
Northern Australia
The 12th division reached Broome yesterday and today launched its shock attack. The 2 regiments there immediatly surrender. They were out of supply, disrupted from daily bombings. That leaves the one regiment 40 miles to the south. Then we can deal with the regiments advancing from the south.
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Ground combat at Broome (62,127)
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 13520 troops, 124 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 463
Defending force 2183 troops, 107 guns, 93 vehicles, Assault Value = 49
Japanese adjusted assault: 390
Allied adjusted defense: 6
Japanese assault odds: 65 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Broome !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(-), disruption(-), preparation(-), experience(-)
supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-)
Japanese ground losses:
59 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
3616 casualties reported
Squads: 147 destroyed, 65 disabled
Non Combat: 286 destroyed, 53 disabled
Engineers: 11 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 225 (198 destroyed, 27 disabled)
Vehicles lost 182 (152 destroyed, 30 disabled)
Units destroyed 2 [:D]
Assaulting units:
12th Division
Defending units:
145th Infantry Regiment
148th Infantry Regiment
