Nix mit der schitzengrubers! sprior v undercovergeek

[sprior]

Dec25th.

Singers falls, Honkers holds out. Still nothing in the PI.

[sprior]

Dec 26th

JJ lands on Savaii, yeah I didn't know where it was either. Look 96 miles to the NW of Pago Pago.

[sprior]

Dec 28th.

Don't know what happened to the 27th... Ambon reinforced. 18th UK Div arrives safely at Perth. First A-24s arrive at Darwin. Hong Kong survives another 1 to 1 attack. No landings in the PI yet.

[sprior]

Today's good news:

Sub attack near Donggala at 67,97

Japanese Ships
CS Mizuho, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage
CS Chitose
DD Kawakaze
xAP Hakone Maru
xAK Yasukawa Maru
DD Shiokaze
DD Suzukaze
DD Umikaze

Allied Ships
SS KX

Mean while the Wee Jap Timorous Beasties hold back from Georgetown, scared off by 2 destroyers.

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 24

Allied aircraft
Blenheim IF x 2
Buffalo I x 4

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 2 destroyed, 11 damaged

Allied Ships
DD Jupiter
DD Stronghold

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 18
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 14


Allied aircraft
Blenheim IF x 2
Buffalo I x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 5 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 1 destroyed, 6 damaged

Allied Ships
DD Stronghold
DD Jupiter

[sprior]

31/12

Okay, a pattern is emerging here. The IJA 7th Div just landed at Nadi, yes that one in Fiji. He's obviously staking out his claims and trying to isolate Oz from the US, pretty pointless as we all know Oz can be supplied from Cape Town, right? Right?

[USSAmerica]

Uh, sure.  [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

I wouldn't worry about having OZ cut off form the US. There will be plenty of oil for the three ships of the Royal Australian Navy.

Of course, there is the small problem of having an air defence system based on the Wirraway.

[sprior]

42 starts off well:

Morning Air attack on TF, near Sydney Island at 153,147

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes


Allied aircraft
F4F-3A Wildcat x 11
SBD-2 Dauntless x 33
SBD-3 Dauntless x 17


Allied aircraft losses
SBD-2 Dauntless: 1 damaged
SBD-3 Dauntless: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Kinugasa, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires
CA Kako, Bomb hits 2, on fire
CA Furutaka, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
CA Aoba, Bomb hits 8, heavy fires, heavy damage

then:

Allied aircraft
TBD-1 Devastator x 11


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
CA Kako, heavy fires
CA Furutaka, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
CA Kinugasa, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires

and

Allied aircraft
SBD-2 Dauntless x 33
SBD-3 Dauntless x 16


Allied aircraft losses
SBD-2 Dauntless: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Kako, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
CA Kinugasa, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
CA Furutaka, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Kyo Maru #8, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk

[sprior]

We've just decoded the following IJN signal traffic

'but YOU said just cruisers and destroyers, just sneak up behind them and have a look with the recon planes, YOU said - now look what youve done!!!

[Chickenboy]

Ouch...that smarts! Nice shootin' Tex.

[Cap Mandrake]

5 bomb hits on 11 TBD sorties....boy howdie!!

Did you have them on glide bomb attack or was it a local commders decision to leave the torps behind?

[sprior]

Embarassing (how many rs and ss are in that?) to follow

[Chickenboy]

I assume since we're talking about something with a word origin involving one's 'bare ass' that we're talking about the RN? [:'(]