The Dragonfly War -Tone(J) v JonReb(A) Super Secret Japaneses AAR

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Brief for January 7

Overnight 4 attacks on Allied submarines off Home Islands, but not reports of any damage to submarines. An Allied submarine fires torpedoes at a minesweeper escorting a transport convoy to Luzon, but all torpedoes miss, and escort counter attack is ineffective.

North of Kuching 3 different Allied submarines try to penetrate the escort screen of the 2nd mobile striking force. The escorting destroyers manage to drive 2 of the attacking submarines off, but it is not thought than these 2 were damaged. But in a heavy depthbomb attack on the 3rd enemy submarine, they manage to force it to the surface, and sink it with gunfire.

Then in the morning the American cruiser USS Boise arrives off Saipan, and attacks the Port. But our only vessel present is a little coastal minesweeper on harbor patrol, and the demon boat Boise sinks this little ship then makes off. There is a report that a float plane on patrol off Saipan hit Boise with a bomb while on morning patrol. So we will wait for the morrow and hope our air search spots Boise so a approaching cruiser force can intercept her.

Ground troop positions were bombed both at Clark Field and Singapore today, by the Ki-48-Ib attack bomber air regiments. Tomorrow it will be the turn of the Ki-21-IIa medium bomber air regiments to strike the airfields at both Clark Field and Singapore.

1st air regiment Ki-43-Ic fighters carried out an offensive sweep over Rangoon today, and in fierce dogfighting shoot down 13 enemy RAF Buffalo or AVG Tomahawk fighters for the loss of 2 of our fighters.

Combat Report is attachment-

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Brief for January 8

Hello dear readers, Jon is traveling for next two weeks so turns will be slower.

Overnight RO-34 patrolling off Cooktown in Northeast Australia spots an Allied convoy of small naval support ships escorted by minesweepers. One of the minesweepers detects RO-34, but luckily cannot locate and attack her. These naval support vessels are Dutch, so it would appear that Jon is evacuating some shipping from the Dutch East Indies.

A chaser patrol locates and attacks the American submarine Swordfish south of Formosa, and it is reported that Swordfish is damaged in this attack. Also an American submarine attacks a transiting minefield tender south of Tokara retto, but its torpedoes miss, and the tender is unable to locate and attack the submarine. An American Submarine is also sighted by a chaser patrol south of Kobe, but is not attacked.

Landing operations in the Tarakan area commenced today with a support landing at Tandjoengselor south Tarakan. 9 Dutch Medium bombers attack shipping off Tandjoengselor in a morning raid, they are intercepted by 3 A6M2 naval fighters operating from the carriers of the 2nd mobile striking force. The defending A6M2 fighters manage to shoot down 2 of the attacking Dutch bombers, but the rest get though and attack, though luckily none hit their targets.

3 Dutch medium bombers also attack attempt to strike at the invasion convoy on its run in on Tarakan. These Dutch bombers are again intercepted by A6M2 naval fighters from the 2nd naval striking force which is covering the Tarakan operation. The A6M2 fighters manage to drive off this Dutch attack, and shoot down 2 of the attackers.

Also in the morning and in the same area, but further north off Tawi Tawi 6 naval G4M1 medium bombers attack an Allied coaster, remarkably all their bombs miss. Again in the afternoon 6 G4M1 medium bombers operating from Cagayan attack the same coaster but this time in company with another coaster. In this attack the naval bombers manage 1 bomb hit on the original coaster.

Again today heavy Ki-21-IIa medium bomber raids on both Clark Field, and Singapore airfields. In both these raids multiple base and runway hits are achieved. Also Ki-48-Ib light bombers strike at troops positions around Clark Field today.

I launched a corps sized ground attack today at Kweisui in Northern China to clear off the Chinese troops around the attack. The attack was not successful, and cost me more casualties that Jon, but it achieved odds of 1 to 1, so I will try again tomorrow. Ki-21-Ic medium bombers flying from Port Arthur supported this attack today, also Ki-51 light bombers flying from Kalgan were involved.

Combat Report is attachment-

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Brief for January 9th and 10th.

On the night of the 9th the that demon ship Boise attack a convoy in Home Island backyard just south of Kyushu. Luckily the convoy is returning empty to Osaka, but the Boise takes a heavy toll, and sinks 4 medium freighters and 3 accompanying escort ships. In the morning Home Island air search spot the Boise, but none of the available attack bombers sortie. Also a Patrol of 3 old destroyers chase Boise though out the next day and night to the north of the Marianas Islands, but do not make contact.

Also on night of the 9th I-7 puts a torpedo into an American cargo ship west of Pearl Harbor.

On 9th I take Tavoy in Burma, and Tandjoengelor across the river south of Tarakan in Borneo, and today I take Tarakan itself.

I launch heavy air raids at airfields and troop positions at both Clark Field and Singapore over last two days. Also today I launch an offensive fighter sweep over Rangoon, and bag 8 enemy fighters for the loss of 4 Ki-43-Ic.

The big news today is that morning and afternoon air search spot an enemy task force just northwest of the Marshall Islands. All the morning strike of 18 G3M2 torpedo bombers fail to find the enemy ships in a heavy overcast. But 9 torpedo bombers of the afternoon strike manage to find the enemy task force, and put 2 torpedoes into the British battleship Warspite. This is the force I think that an I-boat sunk a destroyer from north west of Pearl Harbor some days ago. I think Jon is going to bombard either Roi-Namur or Kwajalein with this force. He has also caught me out of position as I thought the this force was going to bombard Wake Island. The 4th fleet cruiser force is therefore patrolling just west of Wake hoping to react to this bombardment force, and I also did not know in contained Warspite.

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Brief for January 11.

One of Jons American submarines sinks a cargo freighter north of Formosa overnight, with torpedo that worked. Some more submarine contacts around Home Islands also overnight, but no damage done to either side.

Jon launches three night air raids, one hit Bangkok with 11 RAF Blenheim medium bombers, but no damage is done. Also Two raids of 3 Fortress heavy bombers each hits both Kuching and Saigon, but again no damage is reported.

During day I bomb heavily the airfields and troop positions at both Manila and Singapore. I also launch a heavy raid with naval medium bomber on Sambas. That was in support of the ground assault at Sambas today which was successful in capturing the town.

Naval infantry and pioneers started to land at Brunei, and Miri this morning. They will assault both ports tomorrow with naval gunfire and medium bomber support.

Intelligence report for day say that British battleship Warspite has sunk after taking 2 aerial torpedo hits off the Marshall Islands yesterday. I do not believe this report, as I do not think that 2 18 inch torpedoes could sink a British armored ship.

End, Tone.