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Sub attack near Kanoya at 105,66
Japanese Ships
E W-24
TK Teiyo Maru
TK San Ramon Maru
Allied Ships
SS Growler
SS Growler launches 4 torpedoes at E W-24
Growler diving deep ....
E W-24 fails to find sub, continues to search...
E W-24 fails to find sub, continues to search...
E W-24 fails to find sub, continues to search...
E W-24 fails to find sub, continues to search...
E W-24 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
wrong target...
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Sub attack near Torishima at 106,68
Japanese Ships
AO Toho Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
AO Toei Maru
AO Nippon Maru
AO Ken'yo Maru
DD Yuzuki
Allied Ships
SS Pollack
SS Pollack launches 6 torpedoes at AO Toho Maru
Pollack diving deep ....
DD Yuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Yuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Yuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Yuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Yuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
we hit an empty AO but the chances seem not really high to see this valuable ship being sunk... usually these AO convoys are heavily escorted, only one DD attacked though...
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Morning Air attack on Prome , at 55,50
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 38,750 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 36
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
36 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 36750 feet
the enemy keeps on flying these sweeps against my empty bases...
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Morning Air attack on Prome , at 55,50
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 31
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
31 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 36750 feet
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Morning Air attack on Prome , at 55,50
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 40,750 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 3
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 36750 feet
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Morning Air attack on 16th Chinese Corps, at 72,56
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 16
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 18
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
74 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Aircraft Attacking:
18 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 11000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 16th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 16th Chinese Corps ...
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Morning Air attack on Prome , at 55,50
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 7
Ki-21-IIb Sally x 21
Ki-49-IIa Helen x 24
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIb Sally: 4 damaged
Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 26
Aircraft Attacking:
21 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 11000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
23 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 11000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
even bombers showed up today, hitting the empty airfield... flak achieved a lucky kill today...
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Morning Air attack on Prome , at 55,50
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 38,750 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 8
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 36750 feet
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Morning Air attack on Kavieng , at 106,122
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft
Mitchell II x 12
B-24D1 Liberator x 17
Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
Mitchell II: 1 damaged
B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged
Japanese ground losses:
19 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 48
Aircraft Attacking:
12 x Mitchell II bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
11 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
taking out Kavieng in preparation of the Rabaul invasion and aircraft from Rabaul were flown to this base... this is an airfield that can be supressed, only level 2 but such a small garisson that it takes forever to repair damage...
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Morning Air attack on Kavieng , at 106,122
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 10
B-25C Mitchell x 12
Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses
No Allied losses
Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 24
Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Kavieng , at 106,122
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 12
No Allied losses
Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 14
Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Rabaul , at 106,125
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft
B-26 Marauder x 36
B-26B Marauder x 11
Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
B-26 Marauder: 1 damaged
Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 44
Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
11 x B-26B Marauder bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
medium bombers work just fine, they really could take a lot of work off the heavy bombers... every turn I´m now pitying the decision to have these damned attack bombers in AE... Rabaul got a strong air defense (which doesn´t work at 10000ft of course) and attack bombers would be shot to pieces each time they would try to bomb (and miss) the base... just to think about the fact that I´m only getting this BS as replacement makes me
already have serious thoughts about ending the game as soon as I´m running out of medium level bombers...
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Morning Air attack on Rabaul , at 106,125
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft
B-26B Marauder x 16
Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses
No Allied losses
Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 13
Aircraft Attacking:
16 x B-26B Marauder bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Kavieng , at 106,122
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 10
No Allied losses
Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 11
Aircraft Attacking:
10 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Kavieng , at 106,122
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 27
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed on ground
Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 2 damaged
Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 27
Aircraft Attacking:
15 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Rabaul , at 106,125
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft
B-26 Marauder x 12
Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
B-26 Marauder: 1 damaged
Runway hits 4
Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Afternoon Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 22
Allied aircraft losses
B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged
Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 21
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Afternoon Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 10
Allied aircraft losses
B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged
Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 13
Aircraft Attacking:
10 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Afternoon Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 19
No Allied losses
Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 22
Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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ASW attack near Kochi at 106,63
Japanese Ships
DD Okikaze
E Hato
E Kamo
Allied Ships
SS Lapon
SS Lapon launches 4 torpedoes at DD Okikaze
Lapon diving deep ....
DD Okikaze fails to find sub and abandons search
E Kamo fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kamo fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kamo fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kamo fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kamo fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
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Ground combat at 56,56
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 62375 troops, 641 guns, 1599 vehicles, Assault Value = 2710
Defending force 62319 troops, 932 guns, 940 vehicles, Assault Value = 2395
Japanese adjusted assault: 1573
Allied adjusted defense: 2627
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
2995 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 284 disabled
Non Combat: 14 destroyed, 224 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 38 disabled
Vehicles lost 494 (14 destroyed, 480 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
1667 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 161 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 132 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Vehicles lost 43 (1 destroyed, 42 disabled)
Assaulting units:
74th Infantry Regiment
1st Tank Division
112th Infantry Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
143rd Infantry Regiment
33rd Division
52nd Division
11th Tank Regiment
56th Division
Guards Tank Division
Defending units:
14th Indian Division
2nd British Division
39th Indian Division
25th Indian Division
23rd Indian Division
26th Indian Division
the enemy attacks us in the hex South East of Moulmein and to my surprise does more damage to our troops than expected...
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Ground combat at 56,54
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 8705 troops, 466 guns, 313 vehicles, Assault Value = 2626
Defending force 92837 troops, 991 guns, 1092 vehicles, Assault Value = 3333
Japanese ground losses:
63 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
Vehicles lost 4 (4 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Assaulting units:
7th Indian Division
16th Light Cavalry Regiment
111th Chindit Brigade
19th Indian Division
7th Australian Division
70th British Division
6th Australian Division
20th Indian Division
77th Chindit Brigade
2/11th Field Regiment
6th Medium Regiment
2/9th Field Regiment
23rd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
RAF 221 Group Base Force
2/13th Field Regiment
XXXIII Indian Corps
106th RAF Base Force
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
20th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
IV Indian Corps
4th NW Frontier Base Force
Eastern Army
III Indian Corps
24th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
AHQ Bengal
8th Medium Regiment
XV Indian Corps
21st Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
26th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
Defending units:
48th Division
9th
38th Division
2nd Guards Division
53rd Division
2nd Tank Division
5th Guards Division
32nd Field AA Battalion
20th Ind. Mtn Gun Battalion
15th Army
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
31st Field AA Battalion
34th Field AA Battalion
) but it was easily enough to also take out the rest of the enemy fighters... Oscars and Zeroes being endlessly bounced created a 15-17:0 today... mhm...
