June 12, 1944 Washington DC
Intel
60 ships are based at Kitakyushu.
162 aircraft are based at Mukden.
Yongfung Bay Fortress is located at Wonsan.
28th Division is located at Tsitsihar.
56th Construction Battalion is located at Singapore.
116th Division is located at Canton.
37th Division is planning for an attack on Broome.
9th Ind. Brigade is located at Changsha.
Burma Area Army is loaded on an AK moving to Bangkok.
Maizuru 2nd SNLF is located at Tokyo.
13th Tank Regiment is planning for an attack on Chungking.
5th AF Construction Battalion is located at Singapore.
22nd Aviation Unit is located at Brunei.
72nd Division is located at Sendai.
14th Division is located at Hailar.
Recon
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Kratie vacant
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Alor Star 10 aux, 2 LCUs 3360/11/0
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Kendari many ships, 8 LCUs 34600/404/82
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 10 LCUs 19600/21/172
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Waingapu vacant
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Lunga 9 LCUs 3100/0/0
Combat
Tavoy was bombed by 34 X B-29 and 12 X Spitfire VIII were along as escorts. The port was lightly damaged, there were a few secondary explosions and personnel casualties were moderate.
Bangkok was swept by 32 X Thunderbolt II and 33 X P-38J. The Japanese, not willing to give up air superiority without a fight threw 55 X Zeke, 29 X George and 11 X Jack at the intruders. It was a bloody day as 6 Thunderbolts were shot down(1 damaged) and 2 Lightnings were killed (2 damaged), but it was lopsided victory as the Japanese lost 43 X Zeke, 20 X George and 6 X Jack for their efforts.
Dili was raided by 34 X B-24D and there were some secondary explosions and very light troop losses.
Lautem was paid a visit by 127 X B-25J and 24 X Kittyhawk III. The airfield was subjected to heavy damage, there were many secondary explosions and casualties were moderate.
Buna was hit by 36 X B-17E and the AA fire damaged 2 of them. The port had light damage.
The IJA 29th Ind. Mixed Brigade, in the Krung Thep area, was pounced on by 69 X Liberator VI (2 damaged), 20 X B-24J (1 damaged), 41 X Mosquito FB.VI (2 downed, 1 damaged), 43 X B-25J (3 damaged) and 36 X Thunderbolt II who had to fight their way through 14 X Zeke. 9 of the Zekes were flamed for their troubles and the unit took very heavy losses. The 127th IJNAF Base Force was next up and 5 X Zeke tried to fend off 36 X Liberator VI (4 damaged), 15 X B-24J, 6 X Mosquito FB.VI (1 damaged), 8 X B-25J Mitchell and 18 X Thunderbolt II. The Thunderbolts made quick work of the Zekes as they were all shot down. The Japanese had very heavy casualties. Not willing to go down meekly the Japanese threw 20 X Frances at the 18th UK Division and inflicted moderate losses on the unit. An ineffectual Japanese artillery bombardment interrupted the afternoon.
Tavoy witnessed another Allied artillery bombardment of the Japanese positions and losses were thought to have been light.
“That's interesting,” says Dave as he reads the newspaper. “It says here that LT R Little is of the AVG is still the top Allied ace in the Pacific with 25 kills. What's strange is that he was KIA a while ago. 2 pilots of VF-2 on the CV Lexington, LT W Dean and ENS B Johnson, are tied for second place with 24 kills each. The Navy has been busy.”
Tokyo's response to the Red Army moving troops into the countryside of Manchukuo for “exercises” was less than positive. It fell just short of demanding that these formations return to their bases. Moscow's response is that the units need to rest before moving. “See, I told you that those rats in Tokyo would do nothing about our troops moving into the countryside,” Stalin hisses with a grin.
The Lucky 11 have a brand spanking new B-29 as of today. They will have a few training flights with her before the big bomber is declared ready for a flight overseas. The men are thrilled to have this big bird and can't wait to put her through her paces. Gill shares in the excitement, but her harbors fear about what comes next when they're in combat. The men know that the 8th Air Force has been suffering very heavy losses against the Germans. Of course there is always the possibility that they won't be going to Europe.
The generals and admirals discuss the plans for the immediate future of Pacific operations as FDR listens. “The key is to disrupt the supply lines from the SRA. To do this Morotai should be taken, followed by Davao. Next the PIs are up. Once this is accomplished we rush in air assets and set up bases for our subs. An eye can also be cast towards Hong Kong or some other point on the Chinese coast to tighten the noose, though it won't be critical. Once we hold Manila our planes can reduce Formosa, if we choose, and our fleet can range where it chooses. An added plum would be if the IJN sortied so we could polish it off as a viable fighting force. Of course the bombing of Japan will be a focus and if possible the route through the Russian bases should be kept on the back burner.” The man finishes and takes his seat at the back of the room. There is little discussion and FDR thanks everyone for their contributions. All leave then save General Marshall and Admiral King, who FDR talks to about his concerns.
Operation Hay Action was launched by the Germans. They will kidnap 40,000 Polish children aged 10-14 for slave labor in Germany.
Victory Points Allied 33046 Japanese 32315
The Battle Under: The Allies Fight Back
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RE: The Meeting
Todd
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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RE: The Meeting
June 13, 1944 California
Intel
Peng Hu Fortress is located at Pescadores.
3rd Cavarly Brigade is located at Mishan.
44th Road Construction Battalion is located at Lunga.
9th Ind. Mixed Regiment is located at Paramushiro Jima.
11th Division is located at Mishan.
Northern Area Force is located at Etorofo Jima.
34193 men are based at Paramushiro Jima.
Recon
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Phnom Penh vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Bandou vacant
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 8 LCUs 17440/27/172
Combat
Nanning was swept by 39 X P-38J and there were 20 X Zeke, 18 X George and a Tony on hand to provide the entertainment. A Lightning was damaged in the melee while 11 Zekes, 8 Georges and the Tony were shot down.
Tavoy had moderately light losses from 32 X B-29 and 12 X Spitfire VIII disrupting their calm morning. An Allied bombardment attack resulted in extremely light Japanese troop losses.
Bangkok underwent a fighter sweep consisting of 30 X Thunderbolt II and 25 X P-38J. 28 X Zeke, 39 X George and 13 X Jack contested the skies losing 18 Zekes, 21 Georges and 3 Jacks. 5 Thunderbolts went down, another damaged and 2 Lightnings were destroyed.
Palau was raided by 36 X B-24J and the port took moderate damage, there were many secondary explosions and personnel losses were very light. Another strike roared in made up of 12 X SB2C (2 damaged), 18 X P-39D (1 damaged) and 24 X P-47D. They added light damage to the airfield and light casualties.
The IJA Imperial Guards Division at Krung Thep, was jumped by 92 X Liberator VI (3 damaged), 31 X B-24J, 41 X B-25J, 44 X Mosquito FB.VI and 65 X Thunderbolt II. When the bombs stopped raining down and the dust settled the Japanese had sustained very heavy losses. The Japanese artillery caused light Allied casualties. An Allied assault gained a little ground at the cost of extremely heavy losses to both sides.
The 6th Chinese Air Base Force was attacked by 6 X Helen, who did no damaged to the already ravaged remnants of the unit.
Stick has the day off and he spends it relaxing after a large breakfast of powdered eggs, powdered milk and stale bread. If this is how we eat I wonder what the infantry gets on the line, he wonders. Maybe it's true that the Navy gets the best food, but I'd be scared to death in a storm, he thinks. He then nods off for a long nap.
Gil is rapidly customizing he radio position. He has hung a picture of Elaine over the tiny desk that he sits at. The plane seems to work just fine and after another couple of flights they will be leaving Mather Field for parts unknown. Today he conned Ham into letting him fly in the nose for a while and the view was breathtaking, though in combat plexiglass won't be offering much in the way of protection.
Sandy got a few more letters today and she sat outside reading them. She longs for Bill to return and prays that he isn't hurt.
The first V1 was launched today.
A single Tiger tank, Michael Wittmann commanding, destroyed 25 Soviet tanks and other vehicles.
Victory Points Allied 33121 Japanese 32334
Michael Wittmann
Intel
Peng Hu Fortress is located at Pescadores.
3rd Cavarly Brigade is located at Mishan.
44th Road Construction Battalion is located at Lunga.
9th Ind. Mixed Regiment is located at Paramushiro Jima.
11th Division is located at Mishan.
Northern Area Force is located at Etorofo Jima.
34193 men are based at Paramushiro Jima.
Recon
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Phnom Penh vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Bandou vacant
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 8 LCUs 17440/27/172
Combat
Nanning was swept by 39 X P-38J and there were 20 X Zeke, 18 X George and a Tony on hand to provide the entertainment. A Lightning was damaged in the melee while 11 Zekes, 8 Georges and the Tony were shot down.
Tavoy had moderately light losses from 32 X B-29 and 12 X Spitfire VIII disrupting their calm morning. An Allied bombardment attack resulted in extremely light Japanese troop losses.
Bangkok underwent a fighter sweep consisting of 30 X Thunderbolt II and 25 X P-38J. 28 X Zeke, 39 X George and 13 X Jack contested the skies losing 18 Zekes, 21 Georges and 3 Jacks. 5 Thunderbolts went down, another damaged and 2 Lightnings were destroyed.
Palau was raided by 36 X B-24J and the port took moderate damage, there were many secondary explosions and personnel losses were very light. Another strike roared in made up of 12 X SB2C (2 damaged), 18 X P-39D (1 damaged) and 24 X P-47D. They added light damage to the airfield and light casualties.
The IJA Imperial Guards Division at Krung Thep, was jumped by 92 X Liberator VI (3 damaged), 31 X B-24J, 41 X B-25J, 44 X Mosquito FB.VI and 65 X Thunderbolt II. When the bombs stopped raining down and the dust settled the Japanese had sustained very heavy losses. The Japanese artillery caused light Allied casualties. An Allied assault gained a little ground at the cost of extremely heavy losses to both sides.
The 6th Chinese Air Base Force was attacked by 6 X Helen, who did no damaged to the already ravaged remnants of the unit.
Stick has the day off and he spends it relaxing after a large breakfast of powdered eggs, powdered milk and stale bread. If this is how we eat I wonder what the infantry gets on the line, he wonders. Maybe it's true that the Navy gets the best food, but I'd be scared to death in a storm, he thinks. He then nods off for a long nap.
Gil is rapidly customizing he radio position. He has hung a picture of Elaine over the tiny desk that he sits at. The plane seems to work just fine and after another couple of flights they will be leaving Mather Field for parts unknown. Today he conned Ham into letting him fly in the nose for a while and the view was breathtaking, though in combat plexiglass won't be offering much in the way of protection.
Sandy got a few more letters today and she sat outside reading them. She longs for Bill to return and prays that he isn't hurt.
The first V1 was launched today.
A single Tiger tank, Michael Wittmann commanding, destroyed 25 Soviet tanks and other vehicles.
Victory Points Allied 33121 Japanese 32334
Michael Wittmann
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Todd
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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RE: The Girls Are Back
June 14, 1944 Brisbane
Intel
33 aircraft are based at Kyoto.
52nd Road Construction Battalion is located at Sining.
120th IJA Base Force is located at Hanoi.
5th Air Fleet is located at Tokyo.
50th Construction Battalion is located at Kyoto.
67th Construction Battalion is located at Toyama.
12317 men are based at Kadina.
11th AA Regiment is located at Osaka/Kobe.
2nd Engineer Regiment is located at Sian.
15th Field Artillery Regiment is planning for an attack on Kweiyang.
11th NLF is located at Medan.
3550 men are based at Seoul.
Radio transmissions detected at Vancouver.
Recon
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Saigon 2 fighters, 31 bombers, 48 aux, 1 LCU 7500/40/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Victoria Point 13 aux, 2 LCUs 3700/11/0
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Kendari many ships, 8 LCUs 39820/415/142
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Waingapu vacant
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 8 LCUs 17120/26/184
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Lunga 9 LCUs 1360/0/0
Combat
The USN conducted a bombardment of Palau and the Japanese returned fire. The BB Arizona was hit once, the BB Tennessee was hit twice and the CL Columbia took 5 hits, The Japanese suffered very heavy losses. A strike of 8 X SB2C (3 damaged), 21 X P-39D (2 damaged) and 24 X P-47D added very light damage to the airstrip, a solitary secondary explosion and extremely light casualties.
A fighter sweep of Nanning by 39 X P-38J was engaged by 17 X Zeke, 15 X George and a Tony. 8 Zekes, 3 Georges and the Tony were destroyed at the cost of 6 Lightnings downed and 6 more shot up.
Ichang was raided by 60 X B-25J and 42 X P-40N escorting them. 20 X Jack, 7 X Nick and 23 X Tony met them and it was a bloody day for both sides. 3 Jacks were shot down (5 damaged), a Nick was destroyed (3 damaged) and 7 Tonys were killed (4 damaged). 5 X B-25J were downed and 11 more took damage while the Warhawks lost 23 planes. The airfield had light damage, some secondary explosions were claimed and casualties were light.
Bangkok was swept by 39 X Thunderbolt II and 22 X P-38J. They jumped the Japanese CAP, which was made up of 27 X Zeke, 33 X George and 18 X Jack. By the time the Allied fighters departed they had lost a Thunderbolt (another damaged) and a Lightning (1 damaged). They had killed 21 Zekes, 24 Georges and 2 Jacks.
Krung Thep was swept by 28 X P-38J and 22 X Zeke gave battle. 13 Zekes were destroyed for a lost P-38J and another damaged. Then 90 X B-29 arrived and they fought their way through 9 Zekes at the cost of 4 damaged bombers. A Zeke was damaged as the airfield took moderate damage, there were many reported secondary explosions and troop losses were light. The 18th UK Division was attacked by 3 X Frances and 2 were damaged as the British unit had very light casualties. The 3rd Indian Division was targeted by 9 X Helen and once more the Japanese only managed to cause very light losses.
Japanese aircraft. Then 21 X P-38J appeared and attacked 7 X Jack, downing 3 of them. The Japanese artillery did no harm and an Allied assault caused extremely heavy losses for both sides.
Kai Island was hit by 71 X P-38J and 2 X Kittyhawk III for light damage to the airfield, a single secondary explosion and moderately light casualties.
Dili's port had light damage, many secondary explosions and very light losses to the personnel when 36 X B-24J came calling.
Buna was bombed by 42 X B-24J and the airfield was moderately damaged, there were some secondary explosions and heavy casualties. 2 of the bombers were damaged by the AA fire.
The 5th New Chinese Corps was pounced on by 6 Helens and the Chinese had light losses.
Tavoy's defenses were tested and the attack was repulsed with both sides sustaining extremely heavy casualties.
Another test flight went off smoothly and Gil is anticipating an imminent departure for more dangerous places than California. He writes another letter to Elaine telling her that he misses her and that he hopes that she'll be there when he returns.
Sam hates this garrison duty. He tries to tell himself that it's better than attacking the Japanese in their fortified positions. He figures that some green outfit will be replacing the 25th once the division is back up to strength. Earlier in the day he wandered over to the airstrip that the See Bees continue to expand and listened to some music that they had on the radio. He asks them about fortifying the island and they told him that the airstrip is the priority.
Pete is overjoyed that Sylvia came home today with Pearl. She promises that she'll take it easy, but insists that she'll do the books. “That is I'll do them and order the things that we need in between Pearl's feedings and diaper changes. We'll be keeping the laundry pretty busy.” Pete is just happy to have his girls home so he readily agrees to everything that she says. Milt and Jac stop by that evening and after visiting with Pearl Milt heads into the pub for a nip.
Gene trudges home, tired and dirty. He had a few beers at the bar, but nobody spoke to him other than another one of the workers from the yard that he knows.
Victory Points Allied 33220 Japanese 32400
Intel
33 aircraft are based at Kyoto.
52nd Road Construction Battalion is located at Sining.
120th IJA Base Force is located at Hanoi.
5th Air Fleet is located at Tokyo.
50th Construction Battalion is located at Kyoto.
67th Construction Battalion is located at Toyama.
12317 men are based at Kadina.
11th AA Regiment is located at Osaka/Kobe.
2nd Engineer Regiment is located at Sian.
15th Field Artillery Regiment is planning for an attack on Kweiyang.
11th NLF is located at Medan.
3550 men are based at Seoul.
Radio transmissions detected at Vancouver.
Recon
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Saigon 2 fighters, 31 bombers, 48 aux, 1 LCU 7500/40/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Victoria Point 13 aux, 2 LCUs 3700/11/0
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Kendari many ships, 8 LCUs 39820/415/142
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Waingapu vacant
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 8 LCUs 17120/26/184
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Lunga 9 LCUs 1360/0/0
Combat
The USN conducted a bombardment of Palau and the Japanese returned fire. The BB Arizona was hit once, the BB Tennessee was hit twice and the CL Columbia took 5 hits, The Japanese suffered very heavy losses. A strike of 8 X SB2C (3 damaged), 21 X P-39D (2 damaged) and 24 X P-47D added very light damage to the airstrip, a solitary secondary explosion and extremely light casualties.
A fighter sweep of Nanning by 39 X P-38J was engaged by 17 X Zeke, 15 X George and a Tony. 8 Zekes, 3 Georges and the Tony were destroyed at the cost of 6 Lightnings downed and 6 more shot up.
Ichang was raided by 60 X B-25J and 42 X P-40N escorting them. 20 X Jack, 7 X Nick and 23 X Tony met them and it was a bloody day for both sides. 3 Jacks were shot down (5 damaged), a Nick was destroyed (3 damaged) and 7 Tonys were killed (4 damaged). 5 X B-25J were downed and 11 more took damage while the Warhawks lost 23 planes. The airfield had light damage, some secondary explosions were claimed and casualties were light.
Bangkok was swept by 39 X Thunderbolt II and 22 X P-38J. They jumped the Japanese CAP, which was made up of 27 X Zeke, 33 X George and 18 X Jack. By the time the Allied fighters departed they had lost a Thunderbolt (another damaged) and a Lightning (1 damaged). They had killed 21 Zekes, 24 Georges and 2 Jacks.
Krung Thep was swept by 28 X P-38J and 22 X Zeke gave battle. 13 Zekes were destroyed for a lost P-38J and another damaged. Then 90 X B-29 arrived and they fought their way through 9 Zekes at the cost of 4 damaged bombers. A Zeke was damaged as the airfield took moderate damage, there were many reported secondary explosions and troop losses were light. The 18th UK Division was attacked by 3 X Frances and 2 were damaged as the British unit had very light casualties. The 3rd Indian Division was targeted by 9 X Helen and once more the Japanese only managed to cause very light losses.
Japanese aircraft. Then 21 X P-38J appeared and attacked 7 X Jack, downing 3 of them. The Japanese artillery did no harm and an Allied assault caused extremely heavy losses for both sides.
Kai Island was hit by 71 X P-38J and 2 X Kittyhawk III for light damage to the airfield, a single secondary explosion and moderately light casualties.
Dili's port had light damage, many secondary explosions and very light losses to the personnel when 36 X B-24J came calling.
Buna was bombed by 42 X B-24J and the airfield was moderately damaged, there were some secondary explosions and heavy casualties. 2 of the bombers were damaged by the AA fire.
The 5th New Chinese Corps was pounced on by 6 Helens and the Chinese had light losses.
Tavoy's defenses were tested and the attack was repulsed with both sides sustaining extremely heavy casualties.
Another test flight went off smoothly and Gil is anticipating an imminent departure for more dangerous places than California. He writes another letter to Elaine telling her that he misses her and that he hopes that she'll be there when he returns.
Sam hates this garrison duty. He tries to tell himself that it's better than attacking the Japanese in their fortified positions. He figures that some green outfit will be replacing the 25th once the division is back up to strength. Earlier in the day he wandered over to the airstrip that the See Bees continue to expand and listened to some music that they had on the radio. He asks them about fortifying the island and they told him that the airstrip is the priority.
Pete is overjoyed that Sylvia came home today with Pearl. She promises that she'll take it easy, but insists that she'll do the books. “That is I'll do them and order the things that we need in between Pearl's feedings and diaper changes. We'll be keeping the laundry pretty busy.” Pete is just happy to have his girls home so he readily agrees to everything that she says. Milt and Jac stop by that evening and after visiting with Pearl Milt heads into the pub for a nip.
Gene trudges home, tired and dirty. He had a few beers at the bar, but nobody spoke to him other than another one of the workers from the yard that he knows.
Victory Points Allied 33220 Japanese 32400
Todd
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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RE: The Girls Are Back
June 15, 1944 Ulithi
Intel
17th Army is located at Clark Field.
1st Amphibious Brigade is planning for an attack on Wake Island.
Yokosuka Reserve Coastal Artillery Regiment is located at Tokyo.
4th AA Regiment is located at Toyama.
6th Division is planning for an attack on Chungking.
8th Division is located at Tsitsihar.
10th Aviation Rgt is located at Changchun.
3357 men are based at Hamamatsu.
125th IJA Base Force is located at Gili Gili.
153rd IJA Base Force is located at Marcus Island.
1st Reserve AA Regiment is located at Kyoto.
Recon
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Bandou vacant
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 8 LCUs 18080/26/148
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Camranh Bay 1 X AP, 1 X AK, 1 X AG, 42 bombers, 3 LCUs 7280/67/0
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Lunga 9 LCUs 11580/109/0
Combat
Once more Bangkok was swept and the Japanese had 22 X Zeke, 25 X George and 9 X Jack aloft. 28 X Thunderbolt II and 21 X P-38J screamed down on the Japanese who started to immediately tumble from the sky. As quickly as the one sided fight had begun, it was over and the Allied aircraft headed for home with a limping Thunderbolt and minus a destroyed Lightning. The Japanese lost 17 Zekes, 7 Georges and a Jack today.
27 P-38Js arrived over Krung Thep only to discover that the Japanese had no planes around. Later 18 X P-38J arrived and they found 7 X Zeke, 13 X George and 9 X Jack. The battle was joined and once more the Allied pilots and planes proved to much for the Japanese as 2 Zekes, 7 Georges and a Jack went down and a Lightning took some damage. Japanese artillery made lots of noise, but did no damage.
Buna was bombed by 48 X B-24D and it's airfield had very light damage, a couple of secondary explosions and moderate casualties.
Lunga's port was the target for 47 X B-24J. They did moderate damage, caused some secondary explosions and inflicted light losses.
The 5th New Chinese Corps had light losses from 9 Helens.
Palau was hit by 9 X SB2C (1 damaged), 20 X P-39D (1 damaged) and 21 X P-47D. The airfield took light damage and there were very light personnel casualties.
The SS Grouper, 71 miles SW of Nagasaki, spotted an AK steaming all alone. The sub proceeded to make a surface attack and hit her target with the deck gun 4 times and 3 fish also found the mark. The ship went down quickly.
Allied artillery at Tavoy inflicted extremely light Japanese casualties.
Pete is pooped by the end of a work day, but feeling better with Sylvia at home. Pearl wakes a few times a night to feed and Sylvia is pretty tired as a result. Pete wishes he could help, but she insists that he needs what little sleep he can get just to make it through the next day. He thinks back in time to when sleep was almost impossible and knows that this is nothing in comparison. Milt has actually been a big help in the pub and he confided that Jac threatened him with unmentionable consequences if he went there just for drinks. Pete smiled when he heard this and offered Milt a beer, which he gracefully accepted.
Gene stops in the bar for a quick beer and sees one of the men who are in question. He nods to the man when he was being looked at. Then after finishing his beer Gene left the bar and headed home. Nobody approached or followed him.
Slim and Gunny participated with the platoon in another exercise today. One of the men in the company suffered a broken arm when he slipped getting off of the APD. The men wonder why all of this is going on in the first place. “We always travel on transports or landing craft, never these APDs. I wonder what's up,” one of the guys asks nobody in particular. All he got we shrugs in answer.
“As good as the P-38s have been this new fighter promises to outshine it. If the base at Tori Shima is made big enough we could actually try to sweep Japan with them,” the major says. FDR listens and then asks if he's talking about the much anticipated P-51D. The answer was a yes and FDR turns to Frank Knox and asks if the Navy will be able to supply the Army Air Corps with such a base. Frank says that the task is difficult and that Tori Shima will never be big enough, no matter what, to enable the number of planes needed for the job that the Army wants.
FDR outlined his plans for the postwar United Nations.
Finnish troops were crushed by the Red Army.
600 RAF bombers hit LeHavre and Boulogne.
Victory Points Allied 33278 Japanese 32410
Intel
17th Army is located at Clark Field.
1st Amphibious Brigade is planning for an attack on Wake Island.
Yokosuka Reserve Coastal Artillery Regiment is located at Tokyo.
4th AA Regiment is located at Toyama.
6th Division is planning for an attack on Chungking.
8th Division is located at Tsitsihar.
10th Aviation Rgt is located at Changchun.
3357 men are based at Hamamatsu.
125th IJA Base Force is located at Gili Gili.
153rd IJA Base Force is located at Marcus Island.
1st Reserve AA Regiment is located at Kyoto.
Recon
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Bandou vacant
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 8 LCUs 18080/26/148
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Camranh Bay 1 X AP, 1 X AK, 1 X AG, 42 bombers, 3 LCUs 7280/67/0
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Lunga 9 LCUs 11580/109/0
Combat
Once more Bangkok was swept and the Japanese had 22 X Zeke, 25 X George and 9 X Jack aloft. 28 X Thunderbolt II and 21 X P-38J screamed down on the Japanese who started to immediately tumble from the sky. As quickly as the one sided fight had begun, it was over and the Allied aircraft headed for home with a limping Thunderbolt and minus a destroyed Lightning. The Japanese lost 17 Zekes, 7 Georges and a Jack today.
27 P-38Js arrived over Krung Thep only to discover that the Japanese had no planes around. Later 18 X P-38J arrived and they found 7 X Zeke, 13 X George and 9 X Jack. The battle was joined and once more the Allied pilots and planes proved to much for the Japanese as 2 Zekes, 7 Georges and a Jack went down and a Lightning took some damage. Japanese artillery made lots of noise, but did no damage.
Buna was bombed by 48 X B-24D and it's airfield had very light damage, a couple of secondary explosions and moderate casualties.
Lunga's port was the target for 47 X B-24J. They did moderate damage, caused some secondary explosions and inflicted light losses.
The 5th New Chinese Corps had light losses from 9 Helens.
Palau was hit by 9 X SB2C (1 damaged), 20 X P-39D (1 damaged) and 21 X P-47D. The airfield took light damage and there were very light personnel casualties.
The SS Grouper, 71 miles SW of Nagasaki, spotted an AK steaming all alone. The sub proceeded to make a surface attack and hit her target with the deck gun 4 times and 3 fish also found the mark. The ship went down quickly.
Allied artillery at Tavoy inflicted extremely light Japanese casualties.
Pete is pooped by the end of a work day, but feeling better with Sylvia at home. Pearl wakes a few times a night to feed and Sylvia is pretty tired as a result. Pete wishes he could help, but she insists that he needs what little sleep he can get just to make it through the next day. He thinks back in time to when sleep was almost impossible and knows that this is nothing in comparison. Milt has actually been a big help in the pub and he confided that Jac threatened him with unmentionable consequences if he went there just for drinks. Pete smiled when he heard this and offered Milt a beer, which he gracefully accepted.
Gene stops in the bar for a quick beer and sees one of the men who are in question. He nods to the man when he was being looked at. Then after finishing his beer Gene left the bar and headed home. Nobody approached or followed him.
Slim and Gunny participated with the platoon in another exercise today. One of the men in the company suffered a broken arm when he slipped getting off of the APD. The men wonder why all of this is going on in the first place. “We always travel on transports or landing craft, never these APDs. I wonder what's up,” one of the guys asks nobody in particular. All he got we shrugs in answer.
“As good as the P-38s have been this new fighter promises to outshine it. If the base at Tori Shima is made big enough we could actually try to sweep Japan with them,” the major says. FDR listens and then asks if he's talking about the much anticipated P-51D. The answer was a yes and FDR turns to Frank Knox and asks if the Navy will be able to supply the Army Air Corps with such a base. Frank says that the task is difficult and that Tori Shima will never be big enough, no matter what, to enable the number of planes needed for the job that the Army wants.
FDR outlined his plans for the postwar United Nations.
Finnish troops were crushed by the Red Army.
600 RAF bombers hit LeHavre and Boulogne.
Victory Points Allied 33278 Japanese 32410
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Todd
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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RE: Chills
June 16, 1944 Palau
Intel
5th Army is located at Tsitsihar.
1839 men are based at Hungnam.
Hoyo Fortress is located at Osumi.
101st IJNAF Base Force is located at Wotje.
252271 men are based at Kagoshima.
81st Naval Guard Unit is located at Sabang.
1st Mortar Battalion is planning for an attack on Chungking.
72nd Aviation Unit is located at Sapporo.
35th Army is located at Manila.
135th IJA Base Force is planning for an attack on Attu Island.
142nd IJA Base Force is located at Paramushiro Jima.
Elements of the 20th Mixed Brigade are located at Kuikang.
Recon
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Siemrem Reap vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Songkhia vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Waingapu vacant
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Amboina 3 X DE, 1 X AP, 6 fighters, 33 bombers, 23 aux, 11 LCUs 19900/155/0
PB2Y Coronado takes recon photos of Marcus Island 11 LCUs 14360/54/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Palau 7 LCUs 31740/174/0
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 8 LCUs 18180/24/165
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Tassafaronga 3 LCUs 5360/18/0
Combat
A Judy attacked the SS Swordfish 11 miles NW of San Jose and the sub reported that it suffered a hit. She will make for Ulithi with moderate flooding and systems damage.
The SS Lancetfish, 18 miles NE of Okinawa, attacked an unescorted AP. After 3 shell hits and 4 fish the troops on her were pouring into the water as fast as they could while the ship was sinking.
Ichang was swept by 31 X P-38J and the Japanese threw 24 X Jack, 5 X Nick and 22 X Tony at them. 7 Jacks were shot down (1 damaged), 2 Nicks were flamed (1 damaged) and 7 Tonys were sent tumbling from the sky. 3 Lightnings went down and another took some damage.
Tavoy was bombed by 47 X B-29, 98 X Liberator VI (3 damaged), 47 X B-24J, 18 X Thunderbolt II and 7 X Spitfire VIII who did extremely heavy damage to the airfield, light damage to the port, a great many secondary explosions were reported and there were very heavy personnel losses. Allied artillery dished out light losses to the Japanese today.
Bangkok was swept by 42 X Thunderbolt II and 27 X P-38J Lightning. The Allied fighters dove out of the sun and knifed through the gaggle of Japanese planes. Of the 45 X Zeke, 26 X George and 21 X Jack that started the fight 5 Zekes, 10 Georges and 19 Jacks lived to tell about it.
Krung Thep was raided by 57 X B-25J, 48 X Mosquito FB.VI and 54 X Thunderbolt II who dished out heavy damage to the airfield, there were many secondary explosions and troop casualties were very heavy. The 18th UK Division had light losses at the hands of 3 X Frances. Then 6 X Helen added moderate casualties a short time later. Japanese artillery once again ineptly expended ammo for no results.
Koepang was paid a visit by 40 X B-24D and 6 were damaged by the AA fire as they did moderately light damage to the port, saw many secondary explosions and caused moderate casualties.
Lautem was attacked by 142 X B-25J (1 damaged), 56 X P-38J, 15 X P-40N and 18 X Kittyhawk III. The airfield took moderate damage, the port was lightly hit, there were some secondary explosions and troop losses were heavy.
Palau was bombed by 40 X B-24J, 1 of which was damaged by flak. They did moderately heavy damage to the port, caused many secondary explosions and inflicted light losses on the personnel there. An hour later 8 X SB2C, 21 X P-39D (1 damaged) and 22 X P-47D Thunderbolt did light damage to the airfield and inflicted light casualties on the troops.
Lunga was raided by 42 X B-24J and the port took moderate damage, there were many secondary explosions and the troops had moderate losses.
The 5th New Chinese Corps was pounced on by 6 Helens and had light losses.
Ed's Old Gals sailed from Ulithi to unload on Palau as the island's defenses are getting an ever increasing dosage of bombs and shells in preparation of an invasion. Ed sits in his seat on the bridge of the Colorado and wonders if the IJN will make an appearance. He suspects that it's more likely to happen around the Bonin chain, but being ready never hurt anyone. A steward dumps garbage off of the fantail and watches what he thinks are sharks feed on it. A chill runs through him as he thinks of being in the water with them.
The Lucky 11 have been put on standby for orders and that, of course, triggers speculation among the crew as to when and where. Gil doesn't care as he feels that no matter where they end up it'll be dangerous.
Pete whistles happily as he goes about work. He's never been happier in all of his life and he owes it all to the Japanese. “It's a funny world we live in,” he says to one of the hotel's staff. The person just looks at him, wondering what Pete meant.
95 V1s were launched before 6AM today and a total of 244 reached England before the day was done.
Victory Points Allied 33376 Japanese 32436
Intel
5th Army is located at Tsitsihar.
1839 men are based at Hungnam.
Hoyo Fortress is located at Osumi.
101st IJNAF Base Force is located at Wotje.
252271 men are based at Kagoshima.
81st Naval Guard Unit is located at Sabang.
1st Mortar Battalion is planning for an attack on Chungking.
72nd Aviation Unit is located at Sapporo.
35th Army is located at Manila.
135th IJA Base Force is planning for an attack on Attu Island.
142nd IJA Base Force is located at Paramushiro Jima.
Elements of the 20th Mixed Brigade are located at Kuikang.
Recon
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Siemrem Reap vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Songkhia vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Waingapu vacant
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Amboina 3 X DE, 1 X AP, 6 fighters, 33 bombers, 23 aux, 11 LCUs 19900/155/0
PB2Y Coronado takes recon photos of Marcus Island 11 LCUs 14360/54/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Palau 7 LCUs 31740/174/0
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 8 LCUs 18180/24/165
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Tassafaronga 3 LCUs 5360/18/0
Combat
A Judy attacked the SS Swordfish 11 miles NW of San Jose and the sub reported that it suffered a hit. She will make for Ulithi with moderate flooding and systems damage.
The SS Lancetfish, 18 miles NE of Okinawa, attacked an unescorted AP. After 3 shell hits and 4 fish the troops on her were pouring into the water as fast as they could while the ship was sinking.
Ichang was swept by 31 X P-38J and the Japanese threw 24 X Jack, 5 X Nick and 22 X Tony at them. 7 Jacks were shot down (1 damaged), 2 Nicks were flamed (1 damaged) and 7 Tonys were sent tumbling from the sky. 3 Lightnings went down and another took some damage.
Tavoy was bombed by 47 X B-29, 98 X Liberator VI (3 damaged), 47 X B-24J, 18 X Thunderbolt II and 7 X Spitfire VIII who did extremely heavy damage to the airfield, light damage to the port, a great many secondary explosions were reported and there were very heavy personnel losses. Allied artillery dished out light losses to the Japanese today.
Bangkok was swept by 42 X Thunderbolt II and 27 X P-38J Lightning. The Allied fighters dove out of the sun and knifed through the gaggle of Japanese planes. Of the 45 X Zeke, 26 X George and 21 X Jack that started the fight 5 Zekes, 10 Georges and 19 Jacks lived to tell about it.
Krung Thep was raided by 57 X B-25J, 48 X Mosquito FB.VI and 54 X Thunderbolt II who dished out heavy damage to the airfield, there were many secondary explosions and troop casualties were very heavy. The 18th UK Division had light losses at the hands of 3 X Frances. Then 6 X Helen added moderate casualties a short time later. Japanese artillery once again ineptly expended ammo for no results.
Koepang was paid a visit by 40 X B-24D and 6 were damaged by the AA fire as they did moderately light damage to the port, saw many secondary explosions and caused moderate casualties.
Lautem was attacked by 142 X B-25J (1 damaged), 56 X P-38J, 15 X P-40N and 18 X Kittyhawk III. The airfield took moderate damage, the port was lightly hit, there were some secondary explosions and troop losses were heavy.
Palau was bombed by 40 X B-24J, 1 of which was damaged by flak. They did moderately heavy damage to the port, caused many secondary explosions and inflicted light losses on the personnel there. An hour later 8 X SB2C, 21 X P-39D (1 damaged) and 22 X P-47D Thunderbolt did light damage to the airfield and inflicted light casualties on the troops.
Lunga was raided by 42 X B-24J and the port took moderate damage, there were many secondary explosions and the troops had moderate losses.
The 5th New Chinese Corps was pounced on by 6 Helens and had light losses.
Ed's Old Gals sailed from Ulithi to unload on Palau as the island's defenses are getting an ever increasing dosage of bombs and shells in preparation of an invasion. Ed sits in his seat on the bridge of the Colorado and wonders if the IJN will make an appearance. He suspects that it's more likely to happen around the Bonin chain, but being ready never hurt anyone. A steward dumps garbage off of the fantail and watches what he thinks are sharks feed on it. A chill runs through him as he thinks of being in the water with them.
The Lucky 11 have been put on standby for orders and that, of course, triggers speculation among the crew as to when and where. Gil doesn't care as he feels that no matter where they end up it'll be dangerous.
Pete whistles happily as he goes about work. He's never been happier in all of his life and he owes it all to the Japanese. “It's a funny world we live in,” he says to one of the hotel's staff. The person just looks at him, wondering what Pete meant.
95 V1s were launched before 6AM today and a total of 244 reached England before the day was done.
Victory Points Allied 33376 Japanese 32436
Todd
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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RE: Ready For Anything
June 17, 1944 Ulithi
Intel
5th AA Regiment is located at Niigata.
25th Engineer Regiment is located at Sendai.
7th Aviation Rgt is located at Medan.
Karafuto Mixed Brigade is located at Shikka.
52nd Division is located at Kanazawa.
2nd Division is located at Marcus Island.
27th Aviation Unit is located at Toyohara.
Maizuru 4th SNLF is located at Rabaul.
5 men are based at Pagan.
5th Reserve AA Regiment is located at Taejon.
13th Tank Regiment is located at Changsha.
5th RF Gun Battalion is located at Sian.
53rd Heavy AA Battalion is located at Mutanchiang.
16th AA Regiment is located at Soerabaja.
10th Area Army is located at Chengting.
67th Construction Battalion is located at Toyama.
Recon
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Kompong Trach vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Kratie vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Waingapu vacant
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Namlea vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Palau 7 LCUs 31300/163/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Rabaul 25 bombers, 13 aux, 15 LCUs 31320/188/1
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Tulagi 7 LCUs 9860/51/0
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 8 LCUs 18380/18/164
Combat
Ed's Old Gals arrived and unloaded a naval bombardment of Palau and the Japanese returned fire hitting the BB Oklahoma 5 times. The airfield had light damage, the port moderate, there were many secondary explosions and personnel casualties were very heavy. 26 X B-24J added moderately light damage to the port, caused some secondary explosions and very light casualties. Then 9 X SB2C (1 damaged), 21 X P-39D (1 damaged) and 20 X P-47D arrived and the hit the airstrip for light damage, a secondary explosion and light personnel losses. The Old Gals retire towards Ulithi after depleting their ammunition.
Ichang underwent a fighter sweep by 28 X P-38J and 17 X Jack, 6 X Nick and 19 X Tony rose to the occasion. 6 Lightnings were shot down and another was damaged while the Japanese lost 2 Jacks, 3 Nicks and 7 Tonys.
Tavoy was attacked by 123 X Liberator VI (4 damaged), 46 X B-24J, 48 X B-29, 16 X Thunderbolt II, 12 X Spitfire VIII and 11 X Corsair IV. The airfield was extremely heavily damaged, the port had light damage, there were numerous secondary explosions and the troop losses were very heavy. The defenders were also subjected to an artillery bombardment that resulted in heavy losses.
Bangkok was under a CAP of 26 X Zeke, 14 X George and 12 X Frank when 29 X P-38J jumped them. Once the carnage ended 9 Zekes were shot down (4 damaged), 5 Georges were splashed (1 damaged) and 5 Franks were killed while 7 Lightnings were destroyed and 4 others were damaged. The Frank's introduction to combat had an effect.
Krung Thep was raided by 26 X B-25J, 47 X Mosquito FB.VI, 62 X Thunderbolt II and 24 X P-38J who did moderate damage to the airfield, caused many secondary explosions and inflicted heavy losses on the troops. A short time later 104 X B-29 rained their bombs down on the airfield adding moderate damage, many secondary explosions and heavy personnel losses. Japanese artillery once more demonstrated their inept usage of ordinance as they made some noise and did no harm. The Allied big guns replied and they dished out very heavy casualties to the Japanese.
Koepang was bombed by 46 X B-24D and the port was heavily damaged, there were lots of secondary explosions and very light casualties. 71 X P-38J attacked the port and flak damaged 4 of them while they did light damage and caused very light losses.
Lunga was visited by 33 X B-24J who did moderately heavy damage to the port and caused many secondary explosions.
The 5th New Chinese Corps was raided by 6 X Helen and had very light losses.
The Allied TF 27 miles W of Tori Shima was attacked by 27 X Jill and the CAP of 85 X Hellcat drove them off, destroying 6 Jills. No Allied ships ever saw any of the Japanese planes on anything other than radar.
Kwajalein was raided by 35 X PB4Y (8 damaged) and 21 X P-47D. The airfield was lightly hit, a single secondary explosion was reported and troop casualties were put at extremely light.
Gil and the rest of the Lucky 11 are dismayed as they are issued Arctic gear. “I guess there must be some place on earth worse than the Aleutians,” Brownie says. The rest of the crew shrugs, but nobody can think of a place. Gil just stares at the gear and wonders what it'll be like to be stuck in the middle of nowhere and freeze to boot.
Sam watches another twin motored plane, a Betty so he was told, fly past. A couple of the guys give it the finger, but nobody bothers to fire on it. “Maybe if they see so many of us here they won't try to retake this place,” a replacement says. He's told not to bet on it. The See Bees continue to struggle to expand the airstrip, but the going seems to be painfully slow. Sam does notice, to his satisfaction, that some work is being done to defensive positions. He still has a hole to fight from, but as an infantryman that's good enough for him.
Stick was flying a LRCAP mission over the TF that was shelling Palau and he marveled at the amount of explosions they dealt to the Japanese defenders. He wonders what it must be like to undergo such a horrible shelling, by such big guns and he's glad that he's sitting in his cockpit of the Corsair. Of course the mission ended without any Japanese planes being seen.
The training cycle seems to be easing up and to Gunny that can only mean one thing, action. The 2nd Marine Division sit at Ulithi ready for almost anything.
Elba was invaded and captured.
Victory Points Allied 33434 Japanese 32449
Intel
5th AA Regiment is located at Niigata.
25th Engineer Regiment is located at Sendai.
7th Aviation Rgt is located at Medan.
Karafuto Mixed Brigade is located at Shikka.
52nd Division is located at Kanazawa.
2nd Division is located at Marcus Island.
27th Aviation Unit is located at Toyohara.
Maizuru 4th SNLF is located at Rabaul.
5 men are based at Pagan.
5th Reserve AA Regiment is located at Taejon.
13th Tank Regiment is located at Changsha.
5th RF Gun Battalion is located at Sian.
53rd Heavy AA Battalion is located at Mutanchiang.
16th AA Regiment is located at Soerabaja.
10th Area Army is located at Chengting.
67th Construction Battalion is located at Toyama.
Recon
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Kompong Trach vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Kratie vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Waingapu vacant
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Namlea vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Palau 7 LCUs 31300/163/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Rabaul 25 bombers, 13 aux, 15 LCUs 31320/188/1
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Tulagi 7 LCUs 9860/51/0
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 8 LCUs 18380/18/164
Combat
Ed's Old Gals arrived and unloaded a naval bombardment of Palau and the Japanese returned fire hitting the BB Oklahoma 5 times. The airfield had light damage, the port moderate, there were many secondary explosions and personnel casualties were very heavy. 26 X B-24J added moderately light damage to the port, caused some secondary explosions and very light casualties. Then 9 X SB2C (1 damaged), 21 X P-39D (1 damaged) and 20 X P-47D arrived and the hit the airstrip for light damage, a secondary explosion and light personnel losses. The Old Gals retire towards Ulithi after depleting their ammunition.
Ichang underwent a fighter sweep by 28 X P-38J and 17 X Jack, 6 X Nick and 19 X Tony rose to the occasion. 6 Lightnings were shot down and another was damaged while the Japanese lost 2 Jacks, 3 Nicks and 7 Tonys.
Tavoy was attacked by 123 X Liberator VI (4 damaged), 46 X B-24J, 48 X B-29, 16 X Thunderbolt II, 12 X Spitfire VIII and 11 X Corsair IV. The airfield was extremely heavily damaged, the port had light damage, there were numerous secondary explosions and the troop losses were very heavy. The defenders were also subjected to an artillery bombardment that resulted in heavy losses.
Bangkok was under a CAP of 26 X Zeke, 14 X George and 12 X Frank when 29 X P-38J jumped them. Once the carnage ended 9 Zekes were shot down (4 damaged), 5 Georges were splashed (1 damaged) and 5 Franks were killed while 7 Lightnings were destroyed and 4 others were damaged. The Frank's introduction to combat had an effect.
Krung Thep was raided by 26 X B-25J, 47 X Mosquito FB.VI, 62 X Thunderbolt II and 24 X P-38J who did moderate damage to the airfield, caused many secondary explosions and inflicted heavy losses on the troops. A short time later 104 X B-29 rained their bombs down on the airfield adding moderate damage, many secondary explosions and heavy personnel losses. Japanese artillery once more demonstrated their inept usage of ordinance as they made some noise and did no harm. The Allied big guns replied and they dished out very heavy casualties to the Japanese.
Koepang was bombed by 46 X B-24D and the port was heavily damaged, there were lots of secondary explosions and very light casualties. 71 X P-38J attacked the port and flak damaged 4 of them while they did light damage and caused very light losses.
Lunga was visited by 33 X B-24J who did moderately heavy damage to the port and caused many secondary explosions.
The 5th New Chinese Corps was raided by 6 X Helen and had very light losses.
The Allied TF 27 miles W of Tori Shima was attacked by 27 X Jill and the CAP of 85 X Hellcat drove them off, destroying 6 Jills. No Allied ships ever saw any of the Japanese planes on anything other than radar.
Kwajalein was raided by 35 X PB4Y (8 damaged) and 21 X P-47D. The airfield was lightly hit, a single secondary explosion was reported and troop casualties were put at extremely light.
Gil and the rest of the Lucky 11 are dismayed as they are issued Arctic gear. “I guess there must be some place on earth worse than the Aleutians,” Brownie says. The rest of the crew shrugs, but nobody can think of a place. Gil just stares at the gear and wonders what it'll be like to be stuck in the middle of nowhere and freeze to boot.
Sam watches another twin motored plane, a Betty so he was told, fly past. A couple of the guys give it the finger, but nobody bothers to fire on it. “Maybe if they see so many of us here they won't try to retake this place,” a replacement says. He's told not to bet on it. The See Bees continue to struggle to expand the airstrip, but the going seems to be painfully slow. Sam does notice, to his satisfaction, that some work is being done to defensive positions. He still has a hole to fight from, but as an infantryman that's good enough for him.
Stick was flying a LRCAP mission over the TF that was shelling Palau and he marveled at the amount of explosions they dealt to the Japanese defenders. He wonders what it must be like to undergo such a horrible shelling, by such big guns and he's glad that he's sitting in his cockpit of the Corsair. Of course the mission ended without any Japanese planes being seen.
The training cycle seems to be easing up and to Gunny that can only mean one thing, action. The 2nd Marine Division sit at Ulithi ready for almost anything.
Elba was invaded and captured.
Victory Points Allied 33434 Japanese 32449
Todd
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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RE: Born Leader
June 18, 1944 Ulithi
Intel
18th Army is located at Buna.
2nd Reserve AA Regiment is located at Tokyo.
27th Engineer Regiment is located at Mishan.
10th Hvy Gun Regiment is located at Tsitsihar.
102nd Division is located at Cebu Island.
17th Army is located at Clark Field.
278568 men are based at Changkufeng.
31st AA Regiment is located at Sapporo.
3rd Reserve AA Regiment is located at Matsue.
Tone Hvy Gun Regiment is located at Changkufeng.
Maizuru Fortress is located at Maizuru.
23rd Engineer Regiment is located at Inch'on.
147th IJA Base Force is located at Miri.
Yosu Fortress is located at Masan.
5th Reserve AA Regiment is located at Taejon.
Radio transmissions detected at Bonin.
Recon
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Ubon vacant
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Georgetown vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Dili 2 LCUs 2160/2/0
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Babo vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Palau 7 LCUs 31000/171/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Finschafen vacant
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 7 LCUs 17320/23/165
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Tulagi 7 LCUs 8860/32/0
Combat
The morning's tranquility over Nanning was shattered when 26 X P-38J dove out of the sun and slashed through the 19 X Zeke and a Tony that were on CAP. 5 Zekes and the Tony were shot down while a Lightning was lost and another was damaged.
Tavoy was attacked by 119 X Liberator VI (2 damaged), 40 X B-24J, 18 X Thunderbolt II, 9 X Corsair IV and 9 X Spitfire VIII and the airfield was very heavily damaged, there were some secondary explosions and troop losses were heavy. Allied gunners inflicted moderate casualties on the Japanese troops.
Bangkok was swept by 24 X P-38J and they were greeted by 32 X Zeke, 12 X George and 7 X Frank. 5 P-38Js were shot down and 4 others were damaged while the Japanese lost 11 Zekes, 5 Georges (1 damaged) and 2 Franks (1 damaged).
Krung Thep was being protected by 18 X George when 19 X P-38J appeared. The Lightnings departed after downing 8 Georges and driving the others off. 8 X George had returned and were on hand when 47 X B-29 Superfortress, 57 X B-25J (1 damaged), 46 X Mosquito FB.VI, 47 X Thunderbolt II and 22 X P-38J attacked. The Georges were dispatched and 3 more were destroyed on the ground while the airstrip had heavy damage, there were many secondary explosions and heavy personnel losses. 99 X B-29 then came on and caused additional moderate damage to the airfield, caused a couple secondary explosions and inflicted moderate casualties on the Japanese. The 18th UK Division was attacked by 4 Helens and 1 was damaged by ground fire as the unit had negligible losses. The the 25th Indian Division was tagged by 3 X Frances and 1 was damaged. The unit sustained extremely light losses. Japanese artillery made noise once again and once more did nothing to the Allied troops. Allied artillery inflicted very heavy losses on the Japanese.
Kai Island was raided by 141 X B-25J and 24 X Kittyhawk III. The airfield was moderately damaged, there were some secondary explosions reported and casualties were very light.
Koepang was jumped by 42 X B-24J and 41 X P-38J. The AA fire damaged 8 of the Liberators while the port took moderate damage, a single secondary explosion was triggered and the troops had very light losses.
Palau was paid a visit by 27 X B-24J and flak damaged 4 of them. The port was lightly damaged and a few secondary explosions were seen. Then 9X SB2C (1 downed, 1 damaged), 21 X P-39D (1 damaged) and 23 X P-47D appeared. The airstrip took very light damage in the attack.
Buna was bombed by 42 X B-17E and the port was lightly damaged, a few secondary explosions were seen and the personnel had moderately light losses.
Port Moresby was the target of 42 X B-24J and the AA fire damaged 1 of the bombers. The airfield was moderately damaged, there were a few secondary explosions and the troops had light casualties.
Lunga was raided by 31 X B-24J and the port was heavily damaged, there were some secondary explosions and there were extremely light casualties.
The 5th New Chinese Corps had losses due to 6 marauding Helens.
Kwajalein was hit by 26 X PB4Y and 24 X P-47D for light damage to the airfield and a secondary explosion.
The SS Stingray, 22 miles S of Maumere, made a surface attack on a lone AP, hitting it 5 times with the deck gun and a torpedo.
An Allied attack at the crossroads about 78 miles W of Changsha resulted in moderate Japanese losses and very heavy casualties for the Chinese.
The Lucky 11 are rested and ready to go as their plane is given a last servicing before they depart for Alaska. They are scheduled to depart tomorrow morning. The prospect of Alaska has cast a pall over the crew and Jake tells them to relax that it's not as if it's the end of the world. “No just the _ss end of it,” replies Brownie. That raises a chuckle from the crew.
After work Gene hurries home without stopping at the bar. They told me not to go every day and that's just what I've been doing. The prospect of the spies no longer excites him as he's to tired from a long day of work.
Slim tells his boys to strip and clean their weapons because, “We could get the word at any time to go somewhere that we'll be called upon to entertain our Japanese friends.” The men grumble a bit, but know that Slim wouldn't keep after them if it wasn't for their own good. Gunny observed all of this and thinks that despite himself Slim has the makings of a born leader.
“Mother and daughter are doing fine, thanks,” says Pete to Mr. Doe. “Of course we could all use a bit more sleep, but the little princess hasn't seen fit to allow that as of yet.” The two men share the laugh over a cup of tea.
A V1 hit The Guards Chapel, across the street from Buckingham Palace, during Sunday morning services, killing 119 people.
Victory Points Allied 33492 Japanese 32469
Intel
18th Army is located at Buna.
2nd Reserve AA Regiment is located at Tokyo.
27th Engineer Regiment is located at Mishan.
10th Hvy Gun Regiment is located at Tsitsihar.
102nd Division is located at Cebu Island.
17th Army is located at Clark Field.
278568 men are based at Changkufeng.
31st AA Regiment is located at Sapporo.
3rd Reserve AA Regiment is located at Matsue.
Tone Hvy Gun Regiment is located at Changkufeng.
Maizuru Fortress is located at Maizuru.
23rd Engineer Regiment is located at Inch'on.
147th IJA Base Force is located at Miri.
Yosu Fortress is located at Masan.
5th Reserve AA Regiment is located at Taejon.
Radio transmissions detected at Bonin.
Recon
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Ubon vacant
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Georgetown vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Dili 2 LCUs 2160/2/0
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Babo vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Palau 7 LCUs 31000/171/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Finschafen vacant
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 7 LCUs 17320/23/165
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Tulagi 7 LCUs 8860/32/0
Combat
The morning's tranquility over Nanning was shattered when 26 X P-38J dove out of the sun and slashed through the 19 X Zeke and a Tony that were on CAP. 5 Zekes and the Tony were shot down while a Lightning was lost and another was damaged.
Tavoy was attacked by 119 X Liberator VI (2 damaged), 40 X B-24J, 18 X Thunderbolt II, 9 X Corsair IV and 9 X Spitfire VIII and the airfield was very heavily damaged, there were some secondary explosions and troop losses were heavy. Allied gunners inflicted moderate casualties on the Japanese troops.
Bangkok was swept by 24 X P-38J and they were greeted by 32 X Zeke, 12 X George and 7 X Frank. 5 P-38Js were shot down and 4 others were damaged while the Japanese lost 11 Zekes, 5 Georges (1 damaged) and 2 Franks (1 damaged).
Krung Thep was being protected by 18 X George when 19 X P-38J appeared. The Lightnings departed after downing 8 Georges and driving the others off. 8 X George had returned and were on hand when 47 X B-29 Superfortress, 57 X B-25J (1 damaged), 46 X Mosquito FB.VI, 47 X Thunderbolt II and 22 X P-38J attacked. The Georges were dispatched and 3 more were destroyed on the ground while the airstrip had heavy damage, there were many secondary explosions and heavy personnel losses. 99 X B-29 then came on and caused additional moderate damage to the airfield, caused a couple secondary explosions and inflicted moderate casualties on the Japanese. The 18th UK Division was attacked by 4 Helens and 1 was damaged by ground fire as the unit had negligible losses. The the 25th Indian Division was tagged by 3 X Frances and 1 was damaged. The unit sustained extremely light losses. Japanese artillery made noise once again and once more did nothing to the Allied troops. Allied artillery inflicted very heavy losses on the Japanese.
Kai Island was raided by 141 X B-25J and 24 X Kittyhawk III. The airfield was moderately damaged, there were some secondary explosions reported and casualties were very light.
Koepang was jumped by 42 X B-24J and 41 X P-38J. The AA fire damaged 8 of the Liberators while the port took moderate damage, a single secondary explosion was triggered and the troops had very light losses.
Palau was paid a visit by 27 X B-24J and flak damaged 4 of them. The port was lightly damaged and a few secondary explosions were seen. Then 9X SB2C (1 downed, 1 damaged), 21 X P-39D (1 damaged) and 23 X P-47D appeared. The airstrip took very light damage in the attack.
Buna was bombed by 42 X B-17E and the port was lightly damaged, a few secondary explosions were seen and the personnel had moderately light losses.
Port Moresby was the target of 42 X B-24J and the AA fire damaged 1 of the bombers. The airfield was moderately damaged, there were a few secondary explosions and the troops had light casualties.
Lunga was raided by 31 X B-24J and the port was heavily damaged, there were some secondary explosions and there were extremely light casualties.
The 5th New Chinese Corps had losses due to 6 marauding Helens.
Kwajalein was hit by 26 X PB4Y and 24 X P-47D for light damage to the airfield and a secondary explosion.
The SS Stingray, 22 miles S of Maumere, made a surface attack on a lone AP, hitting it 5 times with the deck gun and a torpedo.
An Allied attack at the crossroads about 78 miles W of Changsha resulted in moderate Japanese losses and very heavy casualties for the Chinese.
The Lucky 11 are rested and ready to go as their plane is given a last servicing before they depart for Alaska. They are scheduled to depart tomorrow morning. The prospect of Alaska has cast a pall over the crew and Jake tells them to relax that it's not as if it's the end of the world. “No just the _ss end of it,” replies Brownie. That raises a chuckle from the crew.
After work Gene hurries home without stopping at the bar. They told me not to go every day and that's just what I've been doing. The prospect of the spies no longer excites him as he's to tired from a long day of work.
Slim tells his boys to strip and clean their weapons because, “We could get the word at any time to go somewhere that we'll be called upon to entertain our Japanese friends.” The men grumble a bit, but know that Slim wouldn't keep after them if it wasn't for their own good. Gunny observed all of this and thinks that despite himself Slim has the makings of a born leader.
“Mother and daughter are doing fine, thanks,” says Pete to Mr. Doe. “Of course we could all use a bit more sleep, but the little princess hasn't seen fit to allow that as of yet.” The two men share the laugh over a cup of tea.
A V1 hit The Guards Chapel, across the street from Buckingham Palace, during Sunday morning services, killing 119 people.
Victory Points Allied 33492 Japanese 32469
Todd
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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RE: Leaving California
June 19, 1944 California
Intel
37105 men are based at Chiamussu.
Nagasaki Fortress is located at Nagasaki.
2nd Mixed Regiment is located at Hangchow.
23rd Tank Regiment is located at Chiamussu.
1st AA Regiment is located at Tokyo.
19th Division is located at Mishan.
17th Hvy Field Artillery Regiment is planning for an attack on Wyndham.
18th Division is located at Davao.
Keelung Fortress is located at Taipei.
115th IJNAF Base Force is located at Seoul.
5th Army is located at Tsitsihar.
Radio transmissions detected at Vancouver.
Recon
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Dili 2 LCUs 2820/3/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Palau 7 LCUs 30520/173/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Siador vacant
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 7 LCUs 16720/18/156
Combat
The SS Guardfish, 24 miles NW of Truk, attacked an extremely heavily escorted AK and hit it with a torpedo. As a result of the fire started by the attack Japanese soldiers were seen going into the water.
Nanning was swept by 24 X P-38J and they were opposed by 13 X Zeke of which 4 survived to tell of the lopsided fight.
Bangkok underwent a fighter sweep made by 20 X P-38J. 33 X Zeke, 10 X George and 7 X Frank rose to meet them and 10 X Zeke (2 damaged), 2 X George (1 damaged) and 6 X Frank were shot down at the cost of 1 P-38J destroyed.
Palau was raided by 20 X B-24J (5 damaged) and there were a couple of secondary explosions and extremely light casualties. Later 9 X SB2C (2 damaged), 17 X P-39D (2 damaged) and 23 X P-47D caused very light damage to the airstrip and a secondary explosion.
Gili Gili was struck by 38 X B-24D (7 damaged) for moderate damage to the airfield, a secondary explosion and very light losses.
The 5th New Chinese Corps was jumped by 9 Helens who couldn't find anything to hit.
The 18th UK Division, at Krung Thep, was hit by 23 X Frances who ran into 11 X P-38J. 6 X Frances went down and another took damage as the unit absorbed moderately heavy losses. Then the 3rd Indian Division was targeted by 4 X Helen who managed to inflict negligible casualties before being driven off by the Lightnings. As usual the Japanese artillery spent munitions and did no harm. The Allied guns caused heavy Japanese losses.
The Japanese ships about 151 miles SE of Kagoshima were attacked by 13 X PB4Y and 39 X P-38J. 3 AKs were hit by a bomb each, with 2 catching fire.
An Allied bombardment attack at Tavoy resulted in moderately heavy Japanese casualties.
At the preflight briefing the crews that are scheduled to leave this morning are told to leave their arctic gear in the barracks and just to get on the trucks that will deliver them to their planes. “Gentleman, your destination will be Pearl Harbor. Have a safe flight,” the captain says and just like that their journey will begin. Willy, the navigator is concerned because he'll have no landmarks with which to navigate and if it's cloudy taking any kind of fix will be tough to do. He tells Gil that he'll need him to “ride the beam” into Pearl once they pick it up. Now Gil is feeling the pressure. Once they are on the plane and rolling down the runway the jitters melt away and they get down to business. The bombardier and gunners gather and begin a card game before they drift off to various sports for some sleep. Gil dozes off, with his headset on, as usual.
Ed has made a formal request that the 2 BBs stationed at Wake Island be sent to him before the next big operation as their firepower will be needed. Now all he can do is hope that it doesn't fall on deaf ears. He smiles at his staff and says, “No commander in history has ever gone into battle with everything that he wants at his disposal. Why should we be any different?”
Sandy got another letter today and tomorrow she and Dave will go into town so maybe she'll get lucky and snare some more.
Victory Points Allied 33542 Japanese 32504
Intel
37105 men are based at Chiamussu.
Nagasaki Fortress is located at Nagasaki.
2nd Mixed Regiment is located at Hangchow.
23rd Tank Regiment is located at Chiamussu.
1st AA Regiment is located at Tokyo.
19th Division is located at Mishan.
17th Hvy Field Artillery Regiment is planning for an attack on Wyndham.
18th Division is located at Davao.
Keelung Fortress is located at Taipei.
115th IJNAF Base Force is located at Seoul.
5th Army is located at Tsitsihar.
Radio transmissions detected at Vancouver.
Recon
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Dili 2 LCUs 2820/3/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Palau 7 LCUs 30520/173/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Siador vacant
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 7 LCUs 16720/18/156
Combat
The SS Guardfish, 24 miles NW of Truk, attacked an extremely heavily escorted AK and hit it with a torpedo. As a result of the fire started by the attack Japanese soldiers were seen going into the water.
Nanning was swept by 24 X P-38J and they were opposed by 13 X Zeke of which 4 survived to tell of the lopsided fight.
Bangkok underwent a fighter sweep made by 20 X P-38J. 33 X Zeke, 10 X George and 7 X Frank rose to meet them and 10 X Zeke (2 damaged), 2 X George (1 damaged) and 6 X Frank were shot down at the cost of 1 P-38J destroyed.
Palau was raided by 20 X B-24J (5 damaged) and there were a couple of secondary explosions and extremely light casualties. Later 9 X SB2C (2 damaged), 17 X P-39D (2 damaged) and 23 X P-47D caused very light damage to the airstrip and a secondary explosion.
Gili Gili was struck by 38 X B-24D (7 damaged) for moderate damage to the airfield, a secondary explosion and very light losses.
The 5th New Chinese Corps was jumped by 9 Helens who couldn't find anything to hit.
The 18th UK Division, at Krung Thep, was hit by 23 X Frances who ran into 11 X P-38J. 6 X Frances went down and another took damage as the unit absorbed moderately heavy losses. Then the 3rd Indian Division was targeted by 4 X Helen who managed to inflict negligible casualties before being driven off by the Lightnings. As usual the Japanese artillery spent munitions and did no harm. The Allied guns caused heavy Japanese losses.
The Japanese ships about 151 miles SE of Kagoshima were attacked by 13 X PB4Y and 39 X P-38J. 3 AKs were hit by a bomb each, with 2 catching fire.
An Allied bombardment attack at Tavoy resulted in moderately heavy Japanese casualties.
At the preflight briefing the crews that are scheduled to leave this morning are told to leave their arctic gear in the barracks and just to get on the trucks that will deliver them to their planes. “Gentleman, your destination will be Pearl Harbor. Have a safe flight,” the captain says and just like that their journey will begin. Willy, the navigator is concerned because he'll have no landmarks with which to navigate and if it's cloudy taking any kind of fix will be tough to do. He tells Gil that he'll need him to “ride the beam” into Pearl once they pick it up. Now Gil is feeling the pressure. Once they are on the plane and rolling down the runway the jitters melt away and they get down to business. The bombardier and gunners gather and begin a card game before they drift off to various sports for some sleep. Gil dozes off, with his headset on, as usual.
Ed has made a formal request that the 2 BBs stationed at Wake Island be sent to him before the next big operation as their firepower will be needed. Now all he can do is hope that it doesn't fall on deaf ears. He smiles at his staff and says, “No commander in history has ever gone into battle with everything that he wants at his disposal. Why should we be any different?”
Sandy got another letter today and tomorrow she and Dave will go into town so maybe she'll get lucky and snare some more.
Victory Points Allied 33542 Japanese 32504
Todd
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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RE: Leaving California
June 20, 1944 Honolulu
Intel
28th Air Flotilla is located at Amboina.
208692 men are based at Truk.
4th AA Regiment is located at Toyama.
15th Field Artillery Regiment is planning for an attack on Kweiyang.
21st AA Regiment is planning for an attack on Chungking.
19th Army is located at Tokyo.
58th Division is planning for an attack on Chungking.
100th Division is located at Davao.
27th Air Flotilla is located at Toyohara.
78480 men are based at Sapporo.
32nd Heavy AA Battalion is located at Aomori.
11th Division is located at Mishan.
7th Division is located at Sapporo.
Recon
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Ubon vacant
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Georgetown vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Palau 7 LCUs 31500/176/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Siador vacant
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 7 LCUs 16040/17/170
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Lunga 9 LCUs 23660/214/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Dili 2 LCUs 2920/3/0
Combat
A pair of IJN MSWs encountered a mine field at Teloekbetoeng and started sweeping it.
The SS Jack, 28 miles S of Soc Trang, attacked a very heavily escorted AP and calmly proceeded to put 2 torpedoes into the target which caught fire and was heavily damaged.
Ed's Old Gals swung back into action with another naval bombardment of Palau and the Japanese returned fire hitting the following ships.
CA Vincennes 2 shell hits
BB Tennessee 2 shell hits
BB Arizona 6 shell hits
The Japanese ground losses were placed at very heavy. At almost the same time 7 X SB2C (2 damaged), 23 X P-39D (2 damaged) and 22 X P-47D Thunderbolt added very light damage to the airfield.
Tavoy was bombed by 74 X Liberator VI, 24 X B-24J, 6 X Thunderbolt II and 5 X Spitfire VIII. At no cost to themselves the Allied planes inflicted very heavy damage on the airfield, a couple of secondary explosions were seen and troop losses were heavy. The Allied artillery caused moderate Japanese losses.
Krung Thep was attacked by 42 X B-29, 46 X B-25J, 40 X Mosquito FB.VI, 3 X P-38J and 41 X Thunderbolt II. The airfield took heavy damage, there were a great many secondary explosions and casualties were heavy. Once more the Japanese artillery fired and once more they did no damage to anything other than the foliage. An Allied assault was repulsed with both sides taking extremely heavy losses, though the Japanese did suffer more.
Port Moresby's airfield was heavily damaged by 48 X B-24J (1 damaged). There was a secondary explosion and personnel losses were heavy.
Lunga was hit by 108 X B-24J and 48 X B-24D. There airfield was subjected to extremely heavy damage, there were many secondary explosions 6 X Dinah were destroyed and casualties were heavy.
The 6th Chinese Air Base Force was struck by 12 X Helen and nobody suffered any losses.
Bangkok underwent a fighter sweep made up of 17 X P-38J and 2 of the Lightnings were shot down while another was damaged by the CAP consisting of 16 X Zeke, 10 X George and 10 X Frank. 11 Zekes, 5 Georges and 4 Franks were trashed.
At the crossroads about 78 miles W of Changsha a Japanese artillery barrage inflicted moderate Chinese losses.
A troop convoy will enter Petropavlovsk's harbor in the morning and disgorge men and supplies for a future joint Soviet/American operation.
The guys are exhausted from the flight to Pearl. When they get off of the plane the first thing they ask about is the latrine, followed by the location of the mess hall, and the barracks where they can shower and sleep. Gil is relieved that they didn't get lost. Willy gives him a friendly poke in the ribs, a smile and a wink. “Sure beats the crap out of Alaska,” he says to Gil. All of the Lucky 11 believe in one another and they work well as a team.
The news hits with a shock and Red shows the message to Cookie who says, “He hasn't done wrong by us so far, but this going in on something sight unseen is risky. How about we offer him a piece of the action? If he agrees then we go for it and if he balks then we pass.” Red agrees to this plan and he sends a message back to their lawyer in Honolulu. Now only time and the bank will tell if they have bought more land or not.
Gene's mother is concerned with him. “You are starting to spend to much time drinking beer after work.” He tells her not to worry and that he's a big boy now. Nobody has approached him and he has developed a taste for beer while waiting.
Sandy wasn't disappointed as she has 4 letters from Bill in her possession. Dave is happy also as some parts that he's been waiting for have finally arrived. He's busily talking to the freight agent, “This darned war is killing me. How long can I keep jury rigging stuff to keep the old crates on the road?”
Cherbourg was attacked by the Americans.
Victory Points Allied 33591 Japanese 32418
Intel
28th Air Flotilla is located at Amboina.
208692 men are based at Truk.
4th AA Regiment is located at Toyama.
15th Field Artillery Regiment is planning for an attack on Kweiyang.
21st AA Regiment is planning for an attack on Chungking.
19th Army is located at Tokyo.
58th Division is planning for an attack on Chungking.
100th Division is located at Davao.
27th Air Flotilla is located at Toyohara.
78480 men are based at Sapporo.
32nd Heavy AA Battalion is located at Aomori.
11th Division is located at Mishan.
7th Division is located at Sapporo.
Recon
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Ubon vacant
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Georgetown vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Palau 7 LCUs 31500/176/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Siador vacant
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 7 LCUs 16040/17/170
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Lunga 9 LCUs 23660/214/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Dili 2 LCUs 2920/3/0
Combat
A pair of IJN MSWs encountered a mine field at Teloekbetoeng and started sweeping it.
The SS Jack, 28 miles S of Soc Trang, attacked a very heavily escorted AP and calmly proceeded to put 2 torpedoes into the target which caught fire and was heavily damaged.
Ed's Old Gals swung back into action with another naval bombardment of Palau and the Japanese returned fire hitting the following ships.
CA Vincennes 2 shell hits
BB Tennessee 2 shell hits
BB Arizona 6 shell hits
The Japanese ground losses were placed at very heavy. At almost the same time 7 X SB2C (2 damaged), 23 X P-39D (2 damaged) and 22 X P-47D Thunderbolt added very light damage to the airfield.
Tavoy was bombed by 74 X Liberator VI, 24 X B-24J, 6 X Thunderbolt II and 5 X Spitfire VIII. At no cost to themselves the Allied planes inflicted very heavy damage on the airfield, a couple of secondary explosions were seen and troop losses were heavy. The Allied artillery caused moderate Japanese losses.
Krung Thep was attacked by 42 X B-29, 46 X B-25J, 40 X Mosquito FB.VI, 3 X P-38J and 41 X Thunderbolt II. The airfield took heavy damage, there were a great many secondary explosions and casualties were heavy. Once more the Japanese artillery fired and once more they did no damage to anything other than the foliage. An Allied assault was repulsed with both sides taking extremely heavy losses, though the Japanese did suffer more.
Port Moresby's airfield was heavily damaged by 48 X B-24J (1 damaged). There was a secondary explosion and personnel losses were heavy.
Lunga was hit by 108 X B-24J and 48 X B-24D. There airfield was subjected to extremely heavy damage, there were many secondary explosions 6 X Dinah were destroyed and casualties were heavy.
The 6th Chinese Air Base Force was struck by 12 X Helen and nobody suffered any losses.
Bangkok underwent a fighter sweep made up of 17 X P-38J and 2 of the Lightnings were shot down while another was damaged by the CAP consisting of 16 X Zeke, 10 X George and 10 X Frank. 11 Zekes, 5 Georges and 4 Franks were trashed.
At the crossroads about 78 miles W of Changsha a Japanese artillery barrage inflicted moderate Chinese losses.
A troop convoy will enter Petropavlovsk's harbor in the morning and disgorge men and supplies for a future joint Soviet/American operation.
The guys are exhausted from the flight to Pearl. When they get off of the plane the first thing they ask about is the latrine, followed by the location of the mess hall, and the barracks where they can shower and sleep. Gil is relieved that they didn't get lost. Willy gives him a friendly poke in the ribs, a smile and a wink. “Sure beats the crap out of Alaska,” he says to Gil. All of the Lucky 11 believe in one another and they work well as a team.
The news hits with a shock and Red shows the message to Cookie who says, “He hasn't done wrong by us so far, but this going in on something sight unseen is risky. How about we offer him a piece of the action? If he agrees then we go for it and if he balks then we pass.” Red agrees to this plan and he sends a message back to their lawyer in Honolulu. Now only time and the bank will tell if they have bought more land or not.
Gene's mother is concerned with him. “You are starting to spend to much time drinking beer after work.” He tells her not to worry and that he's a big boy now. Nobody has approached him and he has developed a taste for beer while waiting.
Sandy wasn't disappointed as she has 4 letters from Bill in her possession. Dave is happy also as some parts that he's been waiting for have finally arrived. He's busily talking to the freight agent, “This darned war is killing me. How long can I keep jury rigging stuff to keep the old crates on the road?”
Cherbourg was attacked by the Americans.
Victory Points Allied 33591 Japanese 32418
Todd
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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RE: Basking In The Sun
June 21, 1944 Hawaii
Intel
Nakajo-wan Fortress is located at Kadina.
23rd Mixed Brigade is planning for an attack on Darwin.
15th Engineer Regiment is located at Amboina.
61st Ind. Mixed Brigade is located at Aparri.
44th Ind. Mixed Brigade is located at Kadina.
47912 men are based at Kanazawa.
13th Tank Regiment is planning for an attack on Chungking.
46th Division is planning for an attack on Eniwetok.
100th Division is located at Davao.
60624 men are based at Mutanchiang.
6th Reserve AA Regiment is located at Wonsan.
10th Construction Battalion is located at Tsitsihar.
13th Aviation Rgt is located at Mukden.
Recon
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Siemrem Reap vacant
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Victoria Point 4 aux, 2 LCUs 3640/9/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Koepang 4 LCUs 16200/42/0
PB2Y Coronado takes recon photos of Paramushiro Jima 6 LCUs 8540/43/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Madang vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Palau 7 LCUs 31320/166/0
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 7 LCUs 15760/20/163
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Lunga 9 LCUs 30460/294/0
Combat
The mine field at Teloekbetoeng continues to be swept by the pair of MSWs.
The SS Lancetfish, 23 miles N of Batan Island, tried to attack 4 X PC, but failed to achieve a favorable position to launch from.
A TK hit a mine at Palembang and was burning.
Tavoy was bombed by 105 X Liberator VI (2 damaged), 41 X B-24J (1 damaged), 18 X Thunderbolt II and 10 X Spitfire VIII. The airfield was heavily damaged, there were many secondary explosions and troop losses were heavy. Moderately heavy Japanese casualties were reported due to Allied artillery
Bangkok was swept by 30 X P-38J and 11 X Zeke, 8 X George and 12 X Frank gave battle at the cost of 6 Zekes and 7 Franks shot down. 3 P-38Js went down and 3 more were damaged.
Krung Thep was hit by 12 X B-29 (1 damaged), 14 X B-25J, 4 X Mosquito FB.VI and 14 X Thunderbolt II. The airstrip was lightly damaged, a secondary explosion was seen and casualties were light. A short while later 115 X B-29 arrived and inflicted moderately heavy damage on the airfield, caused many secondary explosions and heavy casualties. The 18th UK Division downed 1 of the 9 X Frances attacking and the unit had no losses. Then 9 X Helen tried and dished out moderately light casualties to the 18th. The 25th Indian Division was struck by 12 X Frances, 1 of which was damaged, for very light losses. Once more the Japanese gunners scared the wildlife with their noise and did little else.
The 5th New Chinese Corps had light losses from 9 X Helen.
A Chinese attack about 87 miles SW of Sian resulted in light Japanese and heavy Chinese casualties. The Japanese line is intact.
Continued Japanese shelling has pinned the Chinese unit at the crossroads and the Chinese had very light losses.
The Lucky 11 have the day to do whatever they want, within reason. Gil decides to visit the beach, others head into Honolulu for booze and women so he tags along. Once they arrive he wishes them happy hunting and he kicks off his shoes and takes a walk along the sand. He stops under a tree and pulls a smoke out and just lets his mind drift. A boy from Brooklyn that had never been anywhere until Uncle Sam came calling is now basking in the sun on a Hawaiian beach.
Red tells Cookie that the lawyer jumped at the chance and that he is willing to sink enough money into their endeavor to hold a 1/3 share. They discuss this and agree that it's OK so Red sends off the message telling the lawyer to deal with the bank on their behalf.
Sandy went for a walk in the mountains and managed to return in time to prepare dinner for herself and Dave. He makes a comment about how a simple thing like getting letters from Bill changes her into a happy person.
Sylvia is busy teaching their new manager her job. She's learning fast and Pete is content to be running the pub. Pearl still isn't allowing them much sleep and though Sylvia nurses her Pete wakes up and keeps them company during the feedings.
The Red Army launched more attacks on the Finns.
The US 8th Air Force raided Berlin and synthetic fuel plants at Leuna-Merseburg and then continued on to Russia
Victory Points Allied 33622 Japanese 32538
Intel
Nakajo-wan Fortress is located at Kadina.
23rd Mixed Brigade is planning for an attack on Darwin.
15th Engineer Regiment is located at Amboina.
61st Ind. Mixed Brigade is located at Aparri.
44th Ind. Mixed Brigade is located at Kadina.
47912 men are based at Kanazawa.
13th Tank Regiment is planning for an attack on Chungking.
46th Division is planning for an attack on Eniwetok.
100th Division is located at Davao.
60624 men are based at Mutanchiang.
6th Reserve AA Regiment is located at Wonsan.
10th Construction Battalion is located at Tsitsihar.
13th Aviation Rgt is located at Mukden.
Recon
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Siemrem Reap vacant
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Victoria Point 4 aux, 2 LCUs 3640/9/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Koepang 4 LCUs 16200/42/0
PB2Y Coronado takes recon photos of Paramushiro Jima 6 LCUs 8540/43/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Madang vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Palau 7 LCUs 31320/166/0
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 7 LCUs 15760/20/163
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Lunga 9 LCUs 30460/294/0
Combat
The mine field at Teloekbetoeng continues to be swept by the pair of MSWs.
The SS Lancetfish, 23 miles N of Batan Island, tried to attack 4 X PC, but failed to achieve a favorable position to launch from.
A TK hit a mine at Palembang and was burning.
Tavoy was bombed by 105 X Liberator VI (2 damaged), 41 X B-24J (1 damaged), 18 X Thunderbolt II and 10 X Spitfire VIII. The airfield was heavily damaged, there were many secondary explosions and troop losses were heavy. Moderately heavy Japanese casualties were reported due to Allied artillery
Bangkok was swept by 30 X P-38J and 11 X Zeke, 8 X George and 12 X Frank gave battle at the cost of 6 Zekes and 7 Franks shot down. 3 P-38Js went down and 3 more were damaged.
Krung Thep was hit by 12 X B-29 (1 damaged), 14 X B-25J, 4 X Mosquito FB.VI and 14 X Thunderbolt II. The airstrip was lightly damaged, a secondary explosion was seen and casualties were light. A short while later 115 X B-29 arrived and inflicted moderately heavy damage on the airfield, caused many secondary explosions and heavy casualties. The 18th UK Division downed 1 of the 9 X Frances attacking and the unit had no losses. Then 9 X Helen tried and dished out moderately light casualties to the 18th. The 25th Indian Division was struck by 12 X Frances, 1 of which was damaged, for very light losses. Once more the Japanese gunners scared the wildlife with their noise and did little else.
The 5th New Chinese Corps had light losses from 9 X Helen.
A Chinese attack about 87 miles SW of Sian resulted in light Japanese and heavy Chinese casualties. The Japanese line is intact.
Continued Japanese shelling has pinned the Chinese unit at the crossroads and the Chinese had very light losses.
The Lucky 11 have the day to do whatever they want, within reason. Gil decides to visit the beach, others head into Honolulu for booze and women so he tags along. Once they arrive he wishes them happy hunting and he kicks off his shoes and takes a walk along the sand. He stops under a tree and pulls a smoke out and just lets his mind drift. A boy from Brooklyn that had never been anywhere until Uncle Sam came calling is now basking in the sun on a Hawaiian beach.
Red tells Cookie that the lawyer jumped at the chance and that he is willing to sink enough money into their endeavor to hold a 1/3 share. They discuss this and agree that it's OK so Red sends off the message telling the lawyer to deal with the bank on their behalf.
Sandy went for a walk in the mountains and managed to return in time to prepare dinner for herself and Dave. He makes a comment about how a simple thing like getting letters from Bill changes her into a happy person.
Sylvia is busy teaching their new manager her job. She's learning fast and Pete is content to be running the pub. Pearl still isn't allowing them much sleep and though Sylvia nurses her Pete wakes up and keeps them company during the feedings.
The Red Army launched more attacks on the Finns.
The US 8th Air Force raided Berlin and synthetic fuel plants at Leuna-Merseburg and then continued on to Russia
Victory Points Allied 33622 Japanese 32538
Todd
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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RE: Hit The Hay
June 22, 1944 Brooklyn
Intel
4328 men are based at Pusan.
43rd Division is located at Naga.
4th South Seas Det. is located at Kwajalein.
Sanya Base Force is located at Taan.
15th Mixed Brigade is located at Canton.
5th AF Construction Battalion is located at Singapore.
14th Mortar Battalion is loaded on AP Jinsan Maru moving to Rabaul.
129534 men are based at Tsitsihar.
Tsugaru Fortress is located at Aomori.
52nd Road Construction Battalion is located at Sining.
57th Division is located at Fushan.
10th Hvy Gun Regiment is located at Tsitsihar.
248719 men are based at Sasebo.
Recon
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Luang Prabang vacant
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Alor Star vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Waingapu vacant
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Kai Island 6 LCUs 12640/40/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Truk 5 X AG, 2 bombers, 17 aux, 17 LCUs 38260/216/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Madang vacant
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Lunga 9 LCUs 24780/227/0
Combat
62 X B-29 attacked Krung Thep, doing moderate damage to the airfield, causing many secondary explosions and inflicting moderate casualties. The 3rd Indian Division was attacked by 7 X Frances (1 damaged) and had very light losses. The continued expenditure of ordinance by Japanese artillery to obtain no results is rapidly becoming an amusement to the Allied troops. They have taken to calling the gunners all sorts of names in derisive manners.
Koepang was raided by 11 X B-24D and 5 X P-38J. 7 of the bombers were damaged by AA, the port had light damage, there were a couple of secondary explosions and casualties were very light.
Lautem was hammered by 141 X B-25J and 24 X Kittyhawk III. A bomber was damaged by flak, the airstrip was heavily damaged, there were some secondary explosions triggered and losses were moderate.
The 2nd Amphibious Brigade, at Palau, was subjected to moderately light losses when 58 X P-38J (2 damaged) and 21 X P-47D hit it. Next up were 11 X SB2C (1 damaged), 18 X P-39D (1 downed, 1 damaged) and 21 X P-47D who struck the airfield for very light damage and a secondary explosion was seen .
The 5th New Chinese Corps had light casualties from an attack made by 9 X Helen.
Kwajalein's port was lightly damaged as 36 X PB4Y (2 damaged) and 24 X P-47D attacked. There were some secondary explosions and very light personnel losses.
The Chinese attacked again about 87 miles SW of Sian. No ground was gained, the Japanese had moderately heavy losses and the Chinese lost heavily.
Tavoy witnessed the Japanese defenders being shelled again and having moderately light losses.
The Japanese hurled an artillery barrage at the Chinese troops about 82 miles W of Changsha, but failing to harm anyone.
Yesterday Gil was leaving the beach when he ran into a group of submariners who were billeted at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. They persuaded him to join them for a drink. Gil was never a boozer, but he agreed to join them “for just one.” Today he awakened with a hangover that was awful. He also feels like he has cotton in his mouth. He looks around and has no idea where he is when suddenly a Shore Patrol jeep pulls up to him. “Hey pal you look lost. Need some help?” Gil replied that he had no idea where he was, but that he needed to get back to Wheeler. “Hop in and don't say a word about this to anybody as I wouldn't want our bad reputation to be ruined,” the man said. Off they went and when Gil arrived at the barracks he found some of the Lucky 11 looking like he felt. They showered and then headed off for some chow, exchanging stories of their adventures of the night before. Gil told them that he remembers nothing after having some drinks and that he caught a right back to the base.
Gene thought he was being followed on his way home, but he was to tired to really care or to try and do anything about it. He had something to eat after a shower and then hit the hay.
The men of the Lucky 11 head off to indulge themselves again today. Tomorrow they are scheduled for a training flight so Jake tells them that they had better be back in time for it and that drunkenness will not be tolerated.
FDR signed the GI Bill Of Rights, funds for housing and education after the war for US servicemen.
60 Luftwaffe planes surprised the USAAC shuttle base at Poltava in the Ukraine. 44 B-17s and 500000 gallons of fuel were lost.
The Russian summer offensive “Bagration” began with 124 divisions, 12ooooo men 5200 tanks, 30000 guns and 6000 planes. The Germans have 63 divisions, 900 tanks and 10000 guns.
Victory Points Allied 33655 Japanese 32550
Intel
4328 men are based at Pusan.
43rd Division is located at Naga.
4th South Seas Det. is located at Kwajalein.
Sanya Base Force is located at Taan.
15th Mixed Brigade is located at Canton.
5th AF Construction Battalion is located at Singapore.
14th Mortar Battalion is loaded on AP Jinsan Maru moving to Rabaul.
129534 men are based at Tsitsihar.
Tsugaru Fortress is located at Aomori.
52nd Road Construction Battalion is located at Sining.
57th Division is located at Fushan.
10th Hvy Gun Regiment is located at Tsitsihar.
248719 men are based at Sasebo.
Recon
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Luang Prabang vacant
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Alor Star vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Waingapu vacant
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Kai Island 6 LCUs 12640/40/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Truk 5 X AG, 2 bombers, 17 aux, 17 LCUs 38260/216/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Madang vacant
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Lunga 9 LCUs 24780/227/0
Combat
62 X B-29 attacked Krung Thep, doing moderate damage to the airfield, causing many secondary explosions and inflicting moderate casualties. The 3rd Indian Division was attacked by 7 X Frances (1 damaged) and had very light losses. The continued expenditure of ordinance by Japanese artillery to obtain no results is rapidly becoming an amusement to the Allied troops. They have taken to calling the gunners all sorts of names in derisive manners.
Koepang was raided by 11 X B-24D and 5 X P-38J. 7 of the bombers were damaged by AA, the port had light damage, there were a couple of secondary explosions and casualties were very light.
Lautem was hammered by 141 X B-25J and 24 X Kittyhawk III. A bomber was damaged by flak, the airstrip was heavily damaged, there were some secondary explosions triggered and losses were moderate.
The 2nd Amphibious Brigade, at Palau, was subjected to moderately light losses when 58 X P-38J (2 damaged) and 21 X P-47D hit it. Next up were 11 X SB2C (1 damaged), 18 X P-39D (1 downed, 1 damaged) and 21 X P-47D who struck the airfield for very light damage and a secondary explosion was seen .
The 5th New Chinese Corps had light casualties from an attack made by 9 X Helen.
Kwajalein's port was lightly damaged as 36 X PB4Y (2 damaged) and 24 X P-47D attacked. There were some secondary explosions and very light personnel losses.
The Chinese attacked again about 87 miles SW of Sian. No ground was gained, the Japanese had moderately heavy losses and the Chinese lost heavily.
Tavoy witnessed the Japanese defenders being shelled again and having moderately light losses.
The Japanese hurled an artillery barrage at the Chinese troops about 82 miles W of Changsha, but failing to harm anyone.
Yesterday Gil was leaving the beach when he ran into a group of submariners who were billeted at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. They persuaded him to join them for a drink. Gil was never a boozer, but he agreed to join them “for just one.” Today he awakened with a hangover that was awful. He also feels like he has cotton in his mouth. He looks around and has no idea where he is when suddenly a Shore Patrol jeep pulls up to him. “Hey pal you look lost. Need some help?” Gil replied that he had no idea where he was, but that he needed to get back to Wheeler. “Hop in and don't say a word about this to anybody as I wouldn't want our bad reputation to be ruined,” the man said. Off they went and when Gil arrived at the barracks he found some of the Lucky 11 looking like he felt. They showered and then headed off for some chow, exchanging stories of their adventures of the night before. Gil told them that he remembers nothing after having some drinks and that he caught a right back to the base.
Gene thought he was being followed on his way home, but he was to tired to really care or to try and do anything about it. He had something to eat after a shower and then hit the hay.
The men of the Lucky 11 head off to indulge themselves again today. Tomorrow they are scheduled for a training flight so Jake tells them that they had better be back in time for it and that drunkenness will not be tolerated.
FDR signed the GI Bill Of Rights, funds for housing and education after the war for US servicemen.
60 Luftwaffe planes surprised the USAAC shuttle base at Poltava in the Ukraine. 44 B-17s and 500000 gallons of fuel were lost.
The Russian summer offensive “Bagration” began with 124 divisions, 12ooooo men 5200 tanks, 30000 guns and 6000 planes. The Germans have 63 divisions, 900 tanks and 10000 guns.
Victory Points Allied 33655 Japanese 32550
Todd
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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RE: Nervous Tension
June 23, 1944 Ulithi
Intel
5818 men are based at Aomori.
19987 men are based at Eniwetok.
50th Construction Battalion is located at Kyoto.
19th Division is located at Mishan.
5th Army is located at Tsitsihar.
54th Division is located at Okayama.
20th Engineer Regiment is located at Canton.
15th Mixed Brigade is located at Canton.
57th Division is located at Fushan.
58th Construction Battalion is located at Takamatsu.
12th AA Regiment is located at Peking.
118th IJNAF Base Force is located at Andaman Island.
8th Area Army is located at Buna.
Recon
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Pisanuloke vacant
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Singapore 11 X AK, 1 X AP, 3 X AG, 10 fighters, 52 bombers, 34 aux, 10 LCUs 14060/30/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Maumere 1 LCU 1860/8/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Truk many AGs 6 bombers, 30 aux, 17 LCUs 51300/271/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Madang vacant
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 7 LCUs 16540/22/150
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Lunga 8 LCUs 25880/204/0
Combat
The SS Sturdy, 77 miles SE of Singapore, spotted a pair of very heavily escorted APs. She never got a decent setup and ultimately gave up the chase.
Ed's Old Gals conducted a naval bombardment of Palau with the CL Nashville taking 4 hits and the BB Arizona 3. The port and airfield were very lightly damaged, a few secondary explosions were seen and the troops sustained very heavy losses. The 2nd Amphibious Brigade was jumped by 17 X P-47D and 57 X P-38G (1 destroyed, 1 damaged) for extremely light losses. Later 13 X SB2C (2 damaged), 16 X P-39D (1 downed) and 18 X P-47D did light damage to the airfield.
Koepang was raided by 27 X B-24J and flak damaged 3 of them. The port was lightly damaged, a few secondary explosions were reported and casualties were moderately light.
Lautem was hit by 48 X B-24D. AA fire downed 1 and damaged another. The airfield was moderately damaged and personnel losses were light.
Port Moresby was raided by 33 X B-17E who managed to do light damage to the port, trigger some secondary explosions and inflict very light losses.
The 6th Chinese Air Base Force had no losses despite the efforts of 9 Helens.
Krung Thep witnessed the Japanese artillery inflict very light losses on the Allied troops.
At Tavoy the Allied gunners caused moderately heavy Japanese casualties.
At the crossroads W of Changsha the Japanese artillery scared the Chinese into staying down.
The Japanese unit, under Chinese pressure, pulled back from it's positions 83 miles SW of Sian.
Another general attack on Tavoy for tomorrow morning has been ordered. Some additional infantry brigades are being thrown into the fight.
Ship's captains are meeting on Ulithi to get their orders for the pending invasion of Palau.
Stick seems to be living in a Corsair cockpit as he's now flown plenty of combat missions plus who can count how many CAPs. The elusive first kill continues to evade and vex him.
The training mission was long and the Lucky 11 are pooped from it. After the debriefing they head off to wash up, eat and get some sleep. Tomorrow they will have 2 day passes at their disposal.
Pete is talking to some of his regular customers and of course the topic is the war. What they all are trying to understand is why the Japanese have been allowed to remain in such close proximity to Oz. In the meantime mother and baby are busy with another diaper change. The laundry is being kept busy as Pearl is a prolific diaper dirtier. She is still keeping her parents from getting a decent night's sleep.
Gene is finished with work and he heads to the bar with a group of the guys from the yard. After a beer he leaves and heads home, to tired to care about anything other than his bed.
Red and Cookie have a new partner and more land titled to them. “Taking in the lawyer was a good move,” says Cookie. “Now our debt is lower, we have more land and our legal fees have disappeared. If only this war would end.” Red is only half listening as he watches Lucky racing around on the deck.
The 2nd Marine Division is fit and ready to go, but they get no orders. Slim went swimming with the rest of his guys and the exercise helps to relieve the nervous tension.
Sam once again watches a Betty circling above and he wonders if the Japanese really know the situation on Tori Shima from these recon flights. A division to defend this little place will certainly not make it an easy nut to crack. Now if they only had some coastal artillery.
Eden told the House of Commons that about 50 “escaping” RAF officers at Stalag Luft III were murdered.
Victory Points Allied 33676 Japanese 32455
Intel
5818 men are based at Aomori.
19987 men are based at Eniwetok.
50th Construction Battalion is located at Kyoto.
19th Division is located at Mishan.
5th Army is located at Tsitsihar.
54th Division is located at Okayama.
20th Engineer Regiment is located at Canton.
15th Mixed Brigade is located at Canton.
57th Division is located at Fushan.
58th Construction Battalion is located at Takamatsu.
12th AA Regiment is located at Peking.
118th IJNAF Base Force is located at Andaman Island.
8th Area Army is located at Buna.
Recon
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Pisanuloke vacant
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Singapore 11 X AK, 1 X AP, 3 X AG, 10 fighters, 52 bombers, 34 aux, 10 LCUs 14060/30/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Maumere 1 LCU 1860/8/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Truk many AGs 6 bombers, 30 aux, 17 LCUs 51300/271/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Madang vacant
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 7 LCUs 16540/22/150
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Lunga 8 LCUs 25880/204/0
Combat
The SS Sturdy, 77 miles SE of Singapore, spotted a pair of very heavily escorted APs. She never got a decent setup and ultimately gave up the chase.
Ed's Old Gals conducted a naval bombardment of Palau with the CL Nashville taking 4 hits and the BB Arizona 3. The port and airfield were very lightly damaged, a few secondary explosions were seen and the troops sustained very heavy losses. The 2nd Amphibious Brigade was jumped by 17 X P-47D and 57 X P-38G (1 destroyed, 1 damaged) for extremely light losses. Later 13 X SB2C (2 damaged), 16 X P-39D (1 downed) and 18 X P-47D did light damage to the airfield.
Koepang was raided by 27 X B-24J and flak damaged 3 of them. The port was lightly damaged, a few secondary explosions were reported and casualties were moderately light.
Lautem was hit by 48 X B-24D. AA fire downed 1 and damaged another. The airfield was moderately damaged and personnel losses were light.
Port Moresby was raided by 33 X B-17E who managed to do light damage to the port, trigger some secondary explosions and inflict very light losses.
The 6th Chinese Air Base Force had no losses despite the efforts of 9 Helens.
Krung Thep witnessed the Japanese artillery inflict very light losses on the Allied troops.
At Tavoy the Allied gunners caused moderately heavy Japanese casualties.
At the crossroads W of Changsha the Japanese artillery scared the Chinese into staying down.
The Japanese unit, under Chinese pressure, pulled back from it's positions 83 miles SW of Sian.
Another general attack on Tavoy for tomorrow morning has been ordered. Some additional infantry brigades are being thrown into the fight.
Ship's captains are meeting on Ulithi to get their orders for the pending invasion of Palau.
Stick seems to be living in a Corsair cockpit as he's now flown plenty of combat missions plus who can count how many CAPs. The elusive first kill continues to evade and vex him.
The training mission was long and the Lucky 11 are pooped from it. After the debriefing they head off to wash up, eat and get some sleep. Tomorrow they will have 2 day passes at their disposal.
Pete is talking to some of his regular customers and of course the topic is the war. What they all are trying to understand is why the Japanese have been allowed to remain in such close proximity to Oz. In the meantime mother and baby are busy with another diaper change. The laundry is being kept busy as Pearl is a prolific diaper dirtier. She is still keeping her parents from getting a decent night's sleep.
Gene is finished with work and he heads to the bar with a group of the guys from the yard. After a beer he leaves and heads home, to tired to care about anything other than his bed.
Red and Cookie have a new partner and more land titled to them. “Taking in the lawyer was a good move,” says Cookie. “Now our debt is lower, we have more land and our legal fees have disappeared. If only this war would end.” Red is only half listening as he watches Lucky racing around on the deck.
The 2nd Marine Division is fit and ready to go, but they get no orders. Slim went swimming with the rest of his guys and the exercise helps to relieve the nervous tension.
Sam once again watches a Betty circling above and he wonders if the Japanese really know the situation on Tori Shima from these recon flights. A division to defend this little place will certainly not make it an easy nut to crack. Now if they only had some coastal artillery.
Eden told the House of Commons that about 50 “escaping” RAF officers at Stalag Luft III were murdered.
Victory Points Allied 33676 Japanese 32455
Todd
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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RE: Pieces Falling Into Place
June 24, 1944 Washington DC
Intel
116th Division is located at Canton.
104th Division is planning for an attack on Chungking.
Hunchun Garrison Regiment is located at Changkufeng.
12th Construction Battalion is located at Batan Island.
3rd Mortar Battalion is located at Balikpapan.
58th Construction Battalion is located at Takamatsu.
22nd Engineer Regiment is located at Mishan.
10th Construction Battalion is located at Tsitsihar.
44th Road Construction Battalion is located at Lunga.
28069 men are based at Naha.
31st Heavy AA Battalion is located at Aomori.
Recon
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Bangkok 74 fighters, 77 aux, 14 LCUs 39700/141/0
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Johore Bahru 11 bombers, 2 LCUs 4100/0/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Truk many AGs, 8 bombers, 31 aux, 17 LCUs 51200/277/0
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 7 LCUs 16260/16/155
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Amboina 3 X DE, 1 X AP, 6 fighters, 22 bombers, 20 aux, 13 LCUs 15840/85/0
Combat
Krung Thep was raided by 36 X B-29 and the Japanese had 3 X George and 8 X Irving on CAP duty. The Georges never managed to get into the action and the Irvings had 6 planes damaged in the halfhearted attacks that resulted in a damaged bomber. The airfield was moderately damaged, there were some secondary explosions and moderately light personnel losses. The 18th UK Division was bombed by 9 X Helen, 2 of which were damaged, and casualties were light. The 25th Indian Division was hit by 9 X Frances (1 damaged) and had no losses. The 3rd Indian Division was pounced on by 11 X Frances (1 damaged) and absorbed very light casualties. Japanese artillery caused extremely light Allied losses.
Dili was the target for 35 X B-24J and 42 X P-38J. The port was lightly damaged, there were a great many secondary explosions and casualties were light.
Palau had it's airstrip bombed by 29 X B-24J and the AA fire damaged 2 of the bombers. The damage done was moderate and a couple of secondary explosions were observed . Later in the day 12 X SB2C (1 damaged) and 19 X P-47D caused a secondary explosion at the port. The 2nd Amphibious Brigade was targeted by 52 X P-38G (3 damaged) and 18 X P-47D and the troops suffered no casualties.
Port Moresby was hit by 45 X B-24D and there was a lone secondary explosion for their efforts.
The IJA 36th Ind. Mixed Brigade, defending Tavoy, was jumped by 68 X P-38J (4 damaged), 48 X Thunderbolt II (3 damaged) and 7 X Spitfire VIII. The unit sustained very heavy losses. Then the 36th Ind. Mixed Brigade was the unfortunate recipient of the attention of 33 X B-29, 105 X Liberator VI, 41 X B-24J, 57 X B-25J (4 damaged), 46 X Mosquito FB.VI, 24 X P-38J Lightning, 78 X Thunderbolt II (1 damaged), 11 X Corsair IV and 12 X Spitfire VIII. The ground shook beneath the pounding and by the time the dust had settled the Japanese had absorbed additional very heavy losses. Allied intel experts figured that the Japanese unit was left in a state of being combat ineffective. An Allied assault caused a further reduction to the Japanese defenses and both sides suffered extremely heavy losses.
The 5th New Chinese Corps had moderate losses due to 9 X Helen attacking.
The SS Haddock, 78 miles N of Jesselton, located Japanese ships on her radar and she proceeded to intercept them. 5 X PGs were escorting an AP, which the sub hit with 2 torpedoes. The target was heavily damaged and burning as the sub made good her escape.
Japanese gunners inflicted extremely light casualties on the Chinese at the crossroads near Changsha.
A Grace loitered peeking at Tori Shima and Sam and members of his squad tried to identify the plane type as it flew by them repeatedly. “Not the same as they've been spying on us with lately,” says one of the guys. It's the same old boring stuff as Sam leads a patrol along the beach in their area. He wonders if the Japanese could really surprise them with an attack. He doubts it as flying boats are almost always heading out or returning from patrols, the Corsairs keep a watch on the skies, the USN lurks and the base's radar probes always searching. He still feels that it never hurt anyone to be ready for whatever may come.
The Palawan moved to the wharf at Guam and began loading supplies. As usual the crew speculate where they're bound for this time. Some of them think that Red should know, but he tells them that stuff like that only the captain knows. “He'll tell us when we're on our way I expect,” he answers them. Lately he's been having nightmares about the sinking back in the early days of the war.
Bill is busy shuffling paper work and he's feeling tired so he heads to his bunk. He knows that he didn't write a letter to Sandy today, but the truth of it is that he's to tired and there's nothing to say that he hasn't said many times already.
FDR is informed of the impending attack on Palau. The briefing continues with the subject of some quick grabs of Japanese bases on the PNG coast. “How many of these we take depends on the Japanese response or lack of one,” the captain states very blandly. What FDR wants to know about is when the supply lines from the SRA to Japan will be severed. The answer is that the last pieces to the puzzle are now falling into place.
Victory Points Allied 33696 Japanese 32581
Intel
116th Division is located at Canton.
104th Division is planning for an attack on Chungking.
Hunchun Garrison Regiment is located at Changkufeng.
12th Construction Battalion is located at Batan Island.
3rd Mortar Battalion is located at Balikpapan.
58th Construction Battalion is located at Takamatsu.
22nd Engineer Regiment is located at Mishan.
10th Construction Battalion is located at Tsitsihar.
44th Road Construction Battalion is located at Lunga.
28069 men are based at Naha.
31st Heavy AA Battalion is located at Aomori.
Recon
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Bangkok 74 fighters, 77 aux, 14 LCUs 39700/141/0
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Johore Bahru 11 bombers, 2 LCUs 4100/0/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Truk many AGs, 8 bombers, 31 aux, 17 LCUs 51200/277/0
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 7 LCUs 16260/16/155
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Amboina 3 X DE, 1 X AP, 6 fighters, 22 bombers, 20 aux, 13 LCUs 15840/85/0
Combat
Krung Thep was raided by 36 X B-29 and the Japanese had 3 X George and 8 X Irving on CAP duty. The Georges never managed to get into the action and the Irvings had 6 planes damaged in the halfhearted attacks that resulted in a damaged bomber. The airfield was moderately damaged, there were some secondary explosions and moderately light personnel losses. The 18th UK Division was bombed by 9 X Helen, 2 of which were damaged, and casualties were light. The 25th Indian Division was hit by 9 X Frances (1 damaged) and had no losses. The 3rd Indian Division was pounced on by 11 X Frances (1 damaged) and absorbed very light casualties. Japanese artillery caused extremely light Allied losses.
Dili was the target for 35 X B-24J and 42 X P-38J. The port was lightly damaged, there were a great many secondary explosions and casualties were light.
Palau had it's airstrip bombed by 29 X B-24J and the AA fire damaged 2 of the bombers. The damage done was moderate and a couple of secondary explosions were observed . Later in the day 12 X SB2C (1 damaged) and 19 X P-47D caused a secondary explosion at the port. The 2nd Amphibious Brigade was targeted by 52 X P-38G (3 damaged) and 18 X P-47D and the troops suffered no casualties.
Port Moresby was hit by 45 X B-24D and there was a lone secondary explosion for their efforts.
The IJA 36th Ind. Mixed Brigade, defending Tavoy, was jumped by 68 X P-38J (4 damaged), 48 X Thunderbolt II (3 damaged) and 7 X Spitfire VIII. The unit sustained very heavy losses. Then the 36th Ind. Mixed Brigade was the unfortunate recipient of the attention of 33 X B-29, 105 X Liberator VI, 41 X B-24J, 57 X B-25J (4 damaged), 46 X Mosquito FB.VI, 24 X P-38J Lightning, 78 X Thunderbolt II (1 damaged), 11 X Corsair IV and 12 X Spitfire VIII. The ground shook beneath the pounding and by the time the dust had settled the Japanese had absorbed additional very heavy losses. Allied intel experts figured that the Japanese unit was left in a state of being combat ineffective. An Allied assault caused a further reduction to the Japanese defenses and both sides suffered extremely heavy losses.
The 5th New Chinese Corps had moderate losses due to 9 X Helen attacking.
The SS Haddock, 78 miles N of Jesselton, located Japanese ships on her radar and she proceeded to intercept them. 5 X PGs were escorting an AP, which the sub hit with 2 torpedoes. The target was heavily damaged and burning as the sub made good her escape.
Japanese gunners inflicted extremely light casualties on the Chinese at the crossroads near Changsha.
A Grace loitered peeking at Tori Shima and Sam and members of his squad tried to identify the plane type as it flew by them repeatedly. “Not the same as they've been spying on us with lately,” says one of the guys. It's the same old boring stuff as Sam leads a patrol along the beach in their area. He wonders if the Japanese could really surprise them with an attack. He doubts it as flying boats are almost always heading out or returning from patrols, the Corsairs keep a watch on the skies, the USN lurks and the base's radar probes always searching. He still feels that it never hurt anyone to be ready for whatever may come.
The Palawan moved to the wharf at Guam and began loading supplies. As usual the crew speculate where they're bound for this time. Some of them think that Red should know, but he tells them that stuff like that only the captain knows. “He'll tell us when we're on our way I expect,” he answers them. Lately he's been having nightmares about the sinking back in the early days of the war.
Bill is busy shuffling paper work and he's feeling tired so he heads to his bunk. He knows that he didn't write a letter to Sandy today, but the truth of it is that he's to tired and there's nothing to say that he hasn't said many times already.
FDR is informed of the impending attack on Palau. The briefing continues with the subject of some quick grabs of Japanese bases on the PNG coast. “How many of these we take depends on the Japanese response or lack of one,” the captain states very blandly. What FDR wants to know about is when the supply lines from the SRA to Japan will be severed. The answer is that the last pieces to the puzzle are now falling into place.
Victory Points Allied 33696 Japanese 32581
Todd
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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RE: Pieces Falling Into Place
I'm sorry that this entry today leaves our characters doing their own thing. My father has been very ill of late and he's taken a turn for the worse so I just can't put my mind into it.
June 25, 1944 North of Sansapor
Intel
6902 men are based at Inch'on.
1st Mortar Battalion is planning for an attack on Chungking.
51st Road Construction Battalion is located at Changsha.
5th RF Gun Battalion is located at Sian.
1st Air Fleet is located at Tokyo.
14th Air Fleet is located at Manila.
59th Division is located at Kweilin.
27922 men are based at Changchun.
6th Division is planning for an attack on Chungking.
Recon
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Amboina 1 X AP, 3 X DE, 7 aux, 13 LCUs 29520/163/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Weewak vacant
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 7 LCUs 16780/15/156
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Lunga 8 LCUs 25580/268/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Truk many AG, 7 bombers, 28 aux, 17 LCUs 51580/282/0
Combat
The SS Haddock spotted and attacked an AK being escorted by a PG 81 miles N of Jesselton. She hit the AK with 2 fish leaving it ablaze and a heavy list to port. The sub was never detected.
Krung Thep was raided by 16 X B-29 and between the CAP of 77 X Zeke, 31 X George, 23 X Jack and 31 X Frank and the flak 6 of the big silver birds went down and 4 others took damage. $ X George, 4 X Jack and a Frank were damaged. No bombs were dropped on target. Japanese artillery caused very light Allied losses while the Allied big guns caused very heavy casualties for the Japanese.
Kai Island's airstrip was hit by 138 X B-25J and 24 X Kittyhawk III for moderately heavy damage, many secondary explosions and moderate personnel losses.
Koepang was attacked by 31 X B-24D and 38 X P-38J with the AA fire damaging 11 of the Liberators. The port was lightly damaged and a lone secondary explosion was seen.
Gili Gili had it's airfield struck by 46 X B-24J and flak damaged 6 of the bombers. The strip was lightly damaged and a secondary explosion was reported.
Lunga was bombed by 44 X B-24J with the port taking moderate damage and there were light losses.
Palau was attacked by 36 X TBF and 9 X F4F-4. The port was lightly damaged and there were a couple of secondary explosions. Another strike of 12 X SB2C and 9 X FM-2 added light damage to the port.
Kwajalein had it's airfield and port attacked by 28 X PB4Y (1 damaged), 32 X SB2C and 21 X P-47D. The 2 facilities both took light damage and there were many secondary explosions.
The Japanese ships 23 miles N of Sansapor were attacked by 28 X SB2C, 18 X TBM and 14 X F6F. They took the following damage according to the debriefings.
AP Jinsan Maru 6 bomb hits, 1 torpedo hit, sinks
PC Kyo Maru #11 2 bomb hits, 3 torpedo hits, sinks
PC Seki Maru #2 6 bomb hits 6, sinks
AP Arizona Maru 2 torpedo hits, on fire
AP Jinshu Maru 2 torpedo hits, on fire, heavy damage
There was a very large number of Japanese troops observed going into the water. All in all it was a good day's hunting for the Saratoga.
Tavoy witnessed an Allied bombardment that inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese defenders.
An ineffectual bombardment of the Chinese at the crossroads scared some scavenging dogs.
American commanders now know with certainty that the Japanese have been pulling troops back from their forward positions in the Solomons and PNG. There remains a mystery as to where these forces are going to despite the British expressing fears of growing Japanese strength in the Burma area.
Victory Points Allied 33777 Japanese 32494
June 25, 1944 North of Sansapor
Intel
6902 men are based at Inch'on.
1st Mortar Battalion is planning for an attack on Chungking.
51st Road Construction Battalion is located at Changsha.
5th RF Gun Battalion is located at Sian.
1st Air Fleet is located at Tokyo.
14th Air Fleet is located at Manila.
59th Division is located at Kweilin.
27922 men are based at Changchun.
6th Division is planning for an attack on Chungking.
Recon
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Amboina 1 X AP, 3 X DE, 7 aux, 13 LCUs 29520/163/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Weewak vacant
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 7 LCUs 16780/15/156
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Lunga 8 LCUs 25580/268/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Truk many AG, 7 bombers, 28 aux, 17 LCUs 51580/282/0
Combat
The SS Haddock spotted and attacked an AK being escorted by a PG 81 miles N of Jesselton. She hit the AK with 2 fish leaving it ablaze and a heavy list to port. The sub was never detected.
Krung Thep was raided by 16 X B-29 and between the CAP of 77 X Zeke, 31 X George, 23 X Jack and 31 X Frank and the flak 6 of the big silver birds went down and 4 others took damage. $ X George, 4 X Jack and a Frank were damaged. No bombs were dropped on target. Japanese artillery caused very light Allied losses while the Allied big guns caused very heavy casualties for the Japanese.
Kai Island's airstrip was hit by 138 X B-25J and 24 X Kittyhawk III for moderately heavy damage, many secondary explosions and moderate personnel losses.
Koepang was attacked by 31 X B-24D and 38 X P-38J with the AA fire damaging 11 of the Liberators. The port was lightly damaged and a lone secondary explosion was seen.
Gili Gili had it's airfield struck by 46 X B-24J and flak damaged 6 of the bombers. The strip was lightly damaged and a secondary explosion was reported.
Lunga was bombed by 44 X B-24J with the port taking moderate damage and there were light losses.
Palau was attacked by 36 X TBF and 9 X F4F-4. The port was lightly damaged and there were a couple of secondary explosions. Another strike of 12 X SB2C and 9 X FM-2 added light damage to the port.
Kwajalein had it's airfield and port attacked by 28 X PB4Y (1 damaged), 32 X SB2C and 21 X P-47D. The 2 facilities both took light damage and there were many secondary explosions.
The Japanese ships 23 miles N of Sansapor were attacked by 28 X SB2C, 18 X TBM and 14 X F6F. They took the following damage according to the debriefings.
AP Jinsan Maru 6 bomb hits, 1 torpedo hit, sinks
PC Kyo Maru #11 2 bomb hits, 3 torpedo hits, sinks
PC Seki Maru #2 6 bomb hits 6, sinks
AP Arizona Maru 2 torpedo hits, on fire
AP Jinshu Maru 2 torpedo hits, on fire, heavy damage
There was a very large number of Japanese troops observed going into the water. All in all it was a good day's hunting for the Saratoga.
Tavoy witnessed an Allied bombardment that inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese defenders.
An ineffectual bombardment of the Chinese at the crossroads scared some scavenging dogs.
American commanders now know with certainty that the Japanese have been pulling troops back from their forward positions in the Solomons and PNG. There remains a mystery as to where these forces are going to despite the British expressing fears of growing Japanese strength in the Burma area.
Victory Points Allied 33777 Japanese 32494
Todd
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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RE: Pieces Falling Into Place
I'm drained by RL so another entry with just the facts.
June 26, 1944 Burma
Intel
8th Ind. Brigade is planning for an attack on Chungking.
52nd Construction Battalion is located at Changchun.
24th Engineer Regiment is located at Chiamussu.
16th Aviation Rgt is located at Wuhan.
146th IJNAF Base Force is located at Buna.
13th Army is planning for an attack on Chungking.
1st Reserve Tank Regiment is located at Kitakyushu.
19th Engineer Regiment is located at Ichang.
10th Division is located at Tsitsihar.
28th Division is located at Tsitsihar.
Home Defense Force is located at Tokyo.
19th Army is located at Tokyo.
4th Air Division is located at Malang.
12th Heavy AA Battalion is located at Nagoya.
12th Ind. Brigade is located at Ichang.
56th Heavy AA Battalion is located at Arshaan.
Recon
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Johore Bahru 3 X AP, 3 X DE, 7 bombers
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Amboina 13 aux, 13 LCUs 34820/243/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Hollandia 1 X CA, 1 X AK
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 7 LCUs 17060/20/147
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Lunga 8 LCUs 16540/156/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Bangkok 7 X AP, 140 fighters, 146 aux, 13 LCUs 41240/174/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Truk many AG, 10 bombers, 30 aux, 17 LCUs 51200/304/0
Combat
The SS Sturdy, 80 miles NE of Batavia, attacked and hit an AK with 2 torpedoes setting it on fire and causing catastrophic damage. The 4 PGs escorting the sinking vessel never found their tormentor.
Krung Thep was swept by 66 X Thunderbolt II and they bounced the Japanese CAP of 3 X Zeke, 5 X George, 6 X Irving and 9 X Frank. As the battle raged another 12 X Irving joined in and that act enabled the Allied pilots to inflate the kill totals. 3 Zekes, 3 Georges, 18 Irvings and 9 Franks were shot down at no cost to the Allies other than fuel and ammunition. Japanese artillery inflicted moderate losses on the Allied forces in the area and the Allied guns caused very heavy Japanese casualties.
Palau's airfield was heavily damaged by 42 X B-24J who also caused a few secondary explosions and very light casualties. Later 35 X TBF (1 damaged) and 8X F4F-4 attacked causing a few secondary explosions. At the same time 11 X SB2C and 9 X FM-2 inflicted light damage on the port.
Port Moresby was bombed by 44 X B-17E and the port had moderate damage, a few secondary explosions and moderately heavy personnel losses.
The 6th Chinese Air Base Force was attacked by 9 X Helen and their bombs were dropped on already destroyed material.
The Japanese DDs near Tokyo were attacked by 12 X PB4Y, 5 of them were shot down and 2 others took damage from the CAP of 13 X Zeke, 13 X George, 6 X Jack, 21 X Oscar and 20 X Tony. 2 Zekes, 3 Georges, 2 Jacks, 3 Oscars (2 destroyed) and 2 Tonys were damaged in the fight. No hits were recorded on the pair of DDs.
Allied artillery at Tavoy was the culprit for the Japanese having light losses.
At the crossroads a Japanese bombardment had no effect on the Chinese other than pinning them in place despite their orders to withdraw.
The Red Army took Vitebsk.
The Danes held a general strike against the 8 PM to 5 AM curfew meant to fight sabotage.
American troops entered Cherbourg.
Victory Points Allied 33854 Japanese 32507
June 26, 1944 Burma
Intel
8th Ind. Brigade is planning for an attack on Chungking.
52nd Construction Battalion is located at Changchun.
24th Engineer Regiment is located at Chiamussu.
16th Aviation Rgt is located at Wuhan.
146th IJNAF Base Force is located at Buna.
13th Army is planning for an attack on Chungking.
1st Reserve Tank Regiment is located at Kitakyushu.
19th Engineer Regiment is located at Ichang.
10th Division is located at Tsitsihar.
28th Division is located at Tsitsihar.
Home Defense Force is located at Tokyo.
19th Army is located at Tokyo.
4th Air Division is located at Malang.
12th Heavy AA Battalion is located at Nagoya.
12th Ind. Brigade is located at Ichang.
56th Heavy AA Battalion is located at Arshaan.
Recon
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Johore Bahru 3 X AP, 3 X DE, 7 bombers
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Amboina 13 aux, 13 LCUs 34820/243/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Hollandia 1 X CA, 1 X AK
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 7 LCUs 17060/20/147
PBY Catalina takes recon photos of Lunga 8 LCUs 16540/156/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Bangkok 7 X AP, 140 fighters, 146 aux, 13 LCUs 41240/174/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Truk many AG, 10 bombers, 30 aux, 17 LCUs 51200/304/0
Combat
The SS Sturdy, 80 miles NE of Batavia, attacked and hit an AK with 2 torpedoes setting it on fire and causing catastrophic damage. The 4 PGs escorting the sinking vessel never found their tormentor.
Krung Thep was swept by 66 X Thunderbolt II and they bounced the Japanese CAP of 3 X Zeke, 5 X George, 6 X Irving and 9 X Frank. As the battle raged another 12 X Irving joined in and that act enabled the Allied pilots to inflate the kill totals. 3 Zekes, 3 Georges, 18 Irvings and 9 Franks were shot down at no cost to the Allies other than fuel and ammunition. Japanese artillery inflicted moderate losses on the Allied forces in the area and the Allied guns caused very heavy Japanese casualties.
Palau's airfield was heavily damaged by 42 X B-24J who also caused a few secondary explosions and very light casualties. Later 35 X TBF (1 damaged) and 8X F4F-4 attacked causing a few secondary explosions. At the same time 11 X SB2C and 9 X FM-2 inflicted light damage on the port.
Port Moresby was bombed by 44 X B-17E and the port had moderate damage, a few secondary explosions and moderately heavy personnel losses.
The 6th Chinese Air Base Force was attacked by 9 X Helen and their bombs were dropped on already destroyed material.
The Japanese DDs near Tokyo were attacked by 12 X PB4Y, 5 of them were shot down and 2 others took damage from the CAP of 13 X Zeke, 13 X George, 6 X Jack, 21 X Oscar and 20 X Tony. 2 Zekes, 3 Georges, 2 Jacks, 3 Oscars (2 destroyed) and 2 Tonys were damaged in the fight. No hits were recorded on the pair of DDs.
Allied artillery at Tavoy was the culprit for the Japanese having light losses.
At the crossroads a Japanese bombardment had no effect on the Chinese other than pinning them in place despite their orders to withdraw.
The Red Army took Vitebsk.
The Danes held a general strike against the 8 PM to 5 AM curfew meant to fight sabotage.
American troops entered Cherbourg.
Victory Points Allied 33854 Japanese 32507
Todd
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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RE: Pieces Falling Into Place
My father is now in ICU and my head just can't deal with the characters now, apologies.
June 27, 1944 Sarmi
Intel
10th Area Army is located at Chengting.
1836 men are based at Hungnam.
65th Construction Battalion is located at Kagoshima.
4th Mortar Battalion is planning for an attack on Kweiyang.
9th Engineer Regiment is located at Changkufeng.
10th Area Army is located at Chengting.
11th Ind. Brigade is located at Ichang.
3rd Hvy Field Artillery Regiment is located at Davao.
3rd Mountain Gun Regiment is located at Legaspi.
60th Construction Battalion is located at Tarakan.
3232 men are based at Anshan.
3541 men are based at Rahaeng.
5th Naval Construction Battalion is located at Singapore.
57th Division is located at Fushan.
45th Road Construction Battalion is located at Chiamussu.
33 aircraft are based at Kyoto.
Radio transmissions detected at Prince Rupert.
Recon
Pe-2R takes recon photos of Tsitsihar 15 LCUs 116500/1318/51
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Johore Bahru 2 X AP, 2 X AG, 1 X DE
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Koepang 4 LCUs 15560/43/0
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Babo vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Hollandia 1 X AP, 1 LCU 660/18/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Truk many AGs, 7 bombers, 28 aux, 17 LCUs 53020/301/0
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Gili Gili 10 LCUs 26640/240/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Bangkok 181 fighters, 201 aux, 12 LCUs 40600/186/0
Combat
2 Japanese MSWs encountered a mine field at Batavia and commenced sweeping operations.
Krung Thep was swept by 21 X P-38J and 3 Zekes, 3 Georges and 4 Franks were aloft. All of the Zekes and 3 Franks went down before the Lightnings' determined attack and the others fled. Allied troops had light losses due to being shelled and the Japanese had very very casualties from the Allied guns.
Port Moresby had it's port hit for moderately light damage, many secondary explosions and moderately light casualties.
Palau was attacked by 12 X SB2C, 27 X TBF and 14 X F4F-4 who managed to do light damage to the port, cause a couple of secondary explosions and inflict very light casualties at no cost to themselves.
The Japanese ships 29 miles N of Sarmi were attacked by 28 X SB2C, 18 X TBM and 14 X F6F. A PC was struck by 3 bombs and an AP took 4 bombs and a torpedo. Both vessels were burning and heavily damaged. Japanese troops took to the waters to avoid the flames. Later the PC slid under the oily waters.
Tavoy was the scene of an Allied artillery bombardment that caused heavy Japanese losses.
At the crossroads the Japanese threw some ordinance at the Chinese, but failed to hurt anyone.
Ed's Old Gal form up for another run at Palau.
The Russians took Orsha and destroyed the German 53 Korps.
Victory Points Allied 33898 Japanese 32620
June 27, 1944 Sarmi
Intel
10th Area Army is located at Chengting.
1836 men are based at Hungnam.
65th Construction Battalion is located at Kagoshima.
4th Mortar Battalion is planning for an attack on Kweiyang.
9th Engineer Regiment is located at Changkufeng.
10th Area Army is located at Chengting.
11th Ind. Brigade is located at Ichang.
3rd Hvy Field Artillery Regiment is located at Davao.
3rd Mountain Gun Regiment is located at Legaspi.
60th Construction Battalion is located at Tarakan.
3232 men are based at Anshan.
3541 men are based at Rahaeng.
5th Naval Construction Battalion is located at Singapore.
57th Division is located at Fushan.
45th Road Construction Battalion is located at Chiamussu.
33 aircraft are based at Kyoto.
Radio transmissions detected at Prince Rupert.
Recon
Pe-2R takes recon photos of Tsitsihar 15 LCUs 116500/1318/51
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Johore Bahru 2 X AP, 2 X AG, 1 X DE
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Koepang 4 LCUs 15560/43/0
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Babo vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Hollandia 1 X AP, 1 LCU 660/18/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Truk many AGs, 7 bombers, 28 aux, 17 LCUs 53020/301/0
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Gili Gili 10 LCUs 26640/240/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Bangkok 181 fighters, 201 aux, 12 LCUs 40600/186/0
Combat
2 Japanese MSWs encountered a mine field at Batavia and commenced sweeping operations.
Krung Thep was swept by 21 X P-38J and 3 Zekes, 3 Georges and 4 Franks were aloft. All of the Zekes and 3 Franks went down before the Lightnings' determined attack and the others fled. Allied troops had light losses due to being shelled and the Japanese had very very casualties from the Allied guns.
Port Moresby had it's port hit for moderately light damage, many secondary explosions and moderately light casualties.
Palau was attacked by 12 X SB2C, 27 X TBF and 14 X F4F-4 who managed to do light damage to the port, cause a couple of secondary explosions and inflict very light casualties at no cost to themselves.
The Japanese ships 29 miles N of Sarmi were attacked by 28 X SB2C, 18 X TBM and 14 X F6F. A PC was struck by 3 bombs and an AP took 4 bombs and a torpedo. Both vessels were burning and heavily damaged. Japanese troops took to the waters to avoid the flames. Later the PC slid under the oily waters.
Tavoy was the scene of an Allied artillery bombardment that caused heavy Japanese losses.
At the crossroads the Japanese threw some ordinance at the Chinese, but failed to hurt anyone.
Ed's Old Gal form up for another run at Palau.
The Russians took Orsha and destroyed the German 53 Korps.
Victory Points Allied 33898 Japanese 32620
Todd
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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RE: Training
June 28, 1944 Hawaii
Intel
5142 men are based at Wonsan.
7135 men are based at Nagasaki.
220656 men are based at Ominato.
4323 men are based at Pusan.
60611 men are based at Mutanchiang.
278589 men are based at Changkufeng.
Shanghai SNLF is located at Kweilin.
1st Mixed Brigade is located at Mutanchiang.
31st Division is located at Soerabaja.
11th Heavy AA Battalion is located at Osaka/Kobe.
17th Reserve Coastal Artillery Regiment is located at Niigata.
Yosu Fortress is located at Masan.
34th Division is located at Nanning.
36th Construction Battalion is located at Georgetown.
9th Ind. Mixed Regiment is planning for an attack on Wake Island.
Recon
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Bangkok 107 fighters, 114 aux, 13 LCUs 40880/201/0
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Johore Bahru 8 bombers, 1 X AP, 1 X DE, 3 X AG
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Koepang 4 LCUs 16560/37/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Hollandia 1 X AP, 1 LCU 660/18/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Truk many AGs, 9 bombers, 24 aux, 17 LCUs 52620/283/0
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Buna 11 LCUs 23740/23/0
Combat
A Helldiver has spotted an AP near Sarmi and reported a hit. In the afternoon 28 X SB2C and 15 X F6F attacked the Japanese AP and they claimed no fewer than 13 bomb hits, sending it to the bottom.
An SB2C spotted an AK near Hollandia and reported a hit. Later in the day the Japanese AK was attacked by 18 X TBM and the ship was hit by a solitary torpedo which did heavy damage and caused fires. Troops took to the waters in an effort to escape the sinking ship.
Ed's Old Gals hit Palau with a naval bombardment and the Japanese fired back hitting the BB Tennessee 5 times. The port and airfield took light damage, there were a couple of secondary explosions and personnel losses were very heavy.
The SS Jack, near Bangkok, tried and failed to attack a couple of heavily escorted APs. She went undetected.
The mine field at Batavia continues to be swept.
The SS Croaker, 72 miles W of Okinawa, hit an AK with 2 torpedoes and the 3 PGs and 2 PCs milled about while the sub made good her escape. The AK was a roaring inferno when last observed. Later in the day she managed another attack on a different AK and hit it with a torpedo.
Lautem was bombed by 45 X B-24D and 1 was damaged by the light and inaccurate ground fire. The airfield was moderately damaged, a secondary explosion was reported and moderately light losses were absorbed by the personnel.
Port Moresby was struck by 43 X B-24J and the airfield was moderately damaged, there were some secondary explosions and light casualties.
Tulagi's port was targeted by 41 X B-24D for moderately light damage and a secondary explosion.
The IJA 37th Division at Tavoy was attacked by 31 X B-29 Superfortress, 82 X Liberator VI (3 damaged), 31 X B-24J Liberator, 50 X B-25J (1 damaged), 39 X Mosquito FB.VI and 8 X Thunderbolt II. The unit sustained very heavy casualties. The IJA 36th Ind. Mixed Brigade was also hit by Allied aircraft as 6 X B-29, 27 X Liberator VI (1 damaged), 6 X B-24J, 5 X B-25J, 6 X Mosquito FB.VI and 2 X Thunderbolt II caused heavy losses. An Allied assault caused both sides to have extremely heavy losses. The Japanese defenses were rolled back a bit and Allied commanders hope to breach the line in the near future.
The 2nd Amphibious Brigade on Palau was hit by 48 X P-38G (1 damaged), 12 X P-47D and 7 X F4F-4 for negligible losses.
The 18th UK Division at Krung Thep was bombed by 3 X Helen and had extremely light casualties. The 25th Indian Division fared worse as 15 X Frances struck the unit and inflicted moderate losses. The 25th Indian Division was jumped by 3 X Helen and had no casualties. Light Allied casualties were the result of a Japanese artillery barrage. Allied artillery caused moderate Japanese losses.
The 6th Chinese Air Base Force was attacked by 12 X Helen and had no losses.
Bangkok was under an umbrella of 46 X Zeke, 12 X George, 12 X Jack and 18 X Frank when an Allied fighter sweep consisting of 46 X Thunderbolt II and 102 X P-38J attacked. The Japanese valiantly gave battle and every one of them was shot down at the cost of 10 Thunderbolt II downed (5 damaged) and 2 P-38J damaged.
Another Japanese bombardment at the crossroads kept the Chinese heads down, but caused no harm.
The Lucky 11 continue to enjoy Hawaii's beautiful weather. They had another training flight this morning, but it was a short hop out and back. Gill writes a letter to Elaine and hopes that his mail catches up to him sooner rather than later.
Still having not much to do other than watch the Japanese taking peeks of the island, Sam has taken to taking afternoon naps.
The Soviets took Mogilev.
The British were stopped near Caen by the Germans.
Victory Points Allied 34166 Japanese 32540
Intel
5142 men are based at Wonsan.
7135 men are based at Nagasaki.
220656 men are based at Ominato.
4323 men are based at Pusan.
60611 men are based at Mutanchiang.
278589 men are based at Changkufeng.
Shanghai SNLF is located at Kweilin.
1st Mixed Brigade is located at Mutanchiang.
31st Division is located at Soerabaja.
11th Heavy AA Battalion is located at Osaka/Kobe.
17th Reserve Coastal Artillery Regiment is located at Niigata.
Yosu Fortress is located at Masan.
34th Division is located at Nanning.
36th Construction Battalion is located at Georgetown.
9th Ind. Mixed Regiment is planning for an attack on Wake Island.
Recon
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Bangkok 107 fighters, 114 aux, 13 LCUs 40880/201/0
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Johore Bahru 8 bombers, 1 X AP, 1 X DE, 3 X AG
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Koepang 4 LCUs 16560/37/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Hollandia 1 X AP, 1 LCU 660/18/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Truk many AGs, 9 bombers, 24 aux, 17 LCUs 52620/283/0
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Buna 11 LCUs 23740/23/0
Combat
A Helldiver has spotted an AP near Sarmi and reported a hit. In the afternoon 28 X SB2C and 15 X F6F attacked the Japanese AP and they claimed no fewer than 13 bomb hits, sending it to the bottom.
An SB2C spotted an AK near Hollandia and reported a hit. Later in the day the Japanese AK was attacked by 18 X TBM and the ship was hit by a solitary torpedo which did heavy damage and caused fires. Troops took to the waters in an effort to escape the sinking ship.
Ed's Old Gals hit Palau with a naval bombardment and the Japanese fired back hitting the BB Tennessee 5 times. The port and airfield took light damage, there were a couple of secondary explosions and personnel losses were very heavy.
The SS Jack, near Bangkok, tried and failed to attack a couple of heavily escorted APs. She went undetected.
The mine field at Batavia continues to be swept.
The SS Croaker, 72 miles W of Okinawa, hit an AK with 2 torpedoes and the 3 PGs and 2 PCs milled about while the sub made good her escape. The AK was a roaring inferno when last observed. Later in the day she managed another attack on a different AK and hit it with a torpedo.
Lautem was bombed by 45 X B-24D and 1 was damaged by the light and inaccurate ground fire. The airfield was moderately damaged, a secondary explosion was reported and moderately light losses were absorbed by the personnel.
Port Moresby was struck by 43 X B-24J and the airfield was moderately damaged, there were some secondary explosions and light casualties.
Tulagi's port was targeted by 41 X B-24D for moderately light damage and a secondary explosion.
The IJA 37th Division at Tavoy was attacked by 31 X B-29 Superfortress, 82 X Liberator VI (3 damaged), 31 X B-24J Liberator, 50 X B-25J (1 damaged), 39 X Mosquito FB.VI and 8 X Thunderbolt II. The unit sustained very heavy casualties. The IJA 36th Ind. Mixed Brigade was also hit by Allied aircraft as 6 X B-29, 27 X Liberator VI (1 damaged), 6 X B-24J, 5 X B-25J, 6 X Mosquito FB.VI and 2 X Thunderbolt II caused heavy losses. An Allied assault caused both sides to have extremely heavy losses. The Japanese defenses were rolled back a bit and Allied commanders hope to breach the line in the near future.
The 2nd Amphibious Brigade on Palau was hit by 48 X P-38G (1 damaged), 12 X P-47D and 7 X F4F-4 for negligible losses.
The 18th UK Division at Krung Thep was bombed by 3 X Helen and had extremely light casualties. The 25th Indian Division fared worse as 15 X Frances struck the unit and inflicted moderate losses. The 25th Indian Division was jumped by 3 X Helen and had no casualties. Light Allied casualties were the result of a Japanese artillery barrage. Allied artillery caused moderate Japanese losses.
The 6th Chinese Air Base Force was attacked by 12 X Helen and had no losses.
Bangkok was under an umbrella of 46 X Zeke, 12 X George, 12 X Jack and 18 X Frank when an Allied fighter sweep consisting of 46 X Thunderbolt II and 102 X P-38J attacked. The Japanese valiantly gave battle and every one of them was shot down at the cost of 10 Thunderbolt II downed (5 damaged) and 2 P-38J damaged.
Another Japanese bombardment at the crossroads kept the Chinese heads down, but caused no harm.
The Lucky 11 continue to enjoy Hawaii's beautiful weather. They had another training flight this morning, but it was a short hop out and back. Gill writes a letter to Elaine and hopes that his mail catches up to him sooner rather than later.
Still having not much to do other than watch the Japanese taking peeks of the island, Sam has taken to taking afternoon naps.
The Soviets took Mogilev.
The British were stopped near Caen by the Germans.
Victory Points Allied 34166 Japanese 32540
Todd
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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RE: Pieces Falling Into Place
ORIGINAL: tocaff
My father is now in ICU and my head just can't deal with the characters now, apologies.
You don't have to apologize for that, and you don't have to post if you don't feel like you're in the mood for it.
Best wishes to your father - and strength to you.
RE: Stalin Is Overjoyed
Thanks Mongol_Horde. I have most of the stuff done from when I ran a turn. I just can't get into the story line at this point in time.
June 29, 1944 Burma
Intel
5th Air Division is located at Manila.
211860 men are based at Masan.
3rd AA Regiment is located at Tokyo.
116th Division is located at Canton.
57th Heavy AA Battalion is located at Changkufeng.
15th Construction Battalion is located at Tawi Tawi.
6630 men are based at Hakodate.
Tsushima Fortress is located at Masan.
2nd Reserve AA Regiment is located at Tokyo.
41st Heavy AA Battalion is located at Seoul.
23rd Mixed Brigade is planning for an attack on Darwin.
106th IJA Base Force is located at Anshan.
7th AA Regiment is located at Sendai.
Oshima Base Force is located at Kagoshima.
Radio transmissions detected at Prince Rupert.
Recon
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Bulla vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Koepang 4 LCUs 18420/46/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Hollandia 1 X AP, 1 X CA, 1 LCU 680/24/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Satawal vacant
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 7 LCUs 16140/14/128
Combat
The SS Croaker, 22 miles W of Okinawa, found a lone AK and fed it 2 fish which spelled the demise of the ship.
Hailar was swept by 27 X Yak-3. There were no Japanese planes in the air. This was not ordered and an investigation will be made. In the meantime Tokyo will be notified that this was unauthorized.
Bangkok was swept by 106 X P-38J and the Japanese threw 42 X Zeke, 18 X George, 12 X Jack and 23 X Frank at them. The Allies lost 17 aircraft and had 5 others take damage as they shot down 36 Zekes, 16 Georges, 11 Jacks and 17 Franks.
Krung Thep was swept by 37 X Thunderbolt II and they were opposed by 6 X Zeke, 6 X George and 8 X Frank. 3 Zekes, 5 Georges and 6 Franks went down before the blazing .50 cals of the Jugs. A lone Allied plane suffered some damage. Then 37 X B-29 (2 damaged) and 39 X B-24J (5 damaged) attacked and 2 Franks tried to stop them and were shot down. The airfield was moderately damaged, there were some secondary explosions and troop losses were heavy. Yet another raid comprised of 29 X B-29 came on, but they missed the target and the 2 Zekes in the air never made an attack. Artillery duels raged again today and the Allies had no losses while the Japanese suffered very heavily.
Kai Island was attacked by 140 X B-25J, 16 X P-40N and 22 X Kittyhawk III. The airfield took heavy damage, there were some secondary explosions, an Emily was destroyed and the personnel losses were heavy.
Lautem was struck by 38 X B-24J, 2 of which were damaged by AA fire. The airfield was moderately damaged, a secondary explosion was seen and casualties were extremely light.
Palau was raided by 31 X B-24J and the airstrip had moderate damage and there was a secondary explosion.
Lunga was hit by 33 X B-24J for light damage to the airstrip, some secondary explosions and light casualties.
The 6th Chinese Air Base Force was attacked by 12 X Helens who dropped their bombs on the destroyed remnants of the Chinese unit, doing no harm.
Tavoy was the scene of an artillery bombardment that inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese.
Chinese troops had extremely light losses due to a Japanese shelling at the crossroads.
Stalin is overjoyed that the Germans are crumbling before the onslaught of the Red Army. He is gradually casting his eyes towards the Japanese. His intentions are to recoup territory lost by the Czarist fools not so long ago.
70000 Germans of Army Group Center surrendered near Bobruisk. 16000 were killed, and 18000 more Germans were captured near Minsk.
Victory Points Allied 34292 Japanese 32679
June 29, 1944 Burma
Intel
5th Air Division is located at Manila.
211860 men are based at Masan.
3rd AA Regiment is located at Tokyo.
116th Division is located at Canton.
57th Heavy AA Battalion is located at Changkufeng.
15th Construction Battalion is located at Tawi Tawi.
6630 men are based at Hakodate.
Tsushima Fortress is located at Masan.
2nd Reserve AA Regiment is located at Tokyo.
41st Heavy AA Battalion is located at Seoul.
23rd Mixed Brigade is planning for an attack on Darwin.
106th IJA Base Force is located at Anshan.
7th AA Regiment is located at Sendai.
Oshima Base Force is located at Kagoshima.
Radio transmissions detected at Prince Rupert.
Recon
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Bulla vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Koepang 4 LCUs 18420/46/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Hollandia 1 X AP, 1 X CA, 1 LCU 680/24/0
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Satawal vacant
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 7 LCUs 16140/14/128
Combat
The SS Croaker, 22 miles W of Okinawa, found a lone AK and fed it 2 fish which spelled the demise of the ship.
Hailar was swept by 27 X Yak-3. There were no Japanese planes in the air. This was not ordered and an investigation will be made. In the meantime Tokyo will be notified that this was unauthorized.
Bangkok was swept by 106 X P-38J and the Japanese threw 42 X Zeke, 18 X George, 12 X Jack and 23 X Frank at them. The Allies lost 17 aircraft and had 5 others take damage as they shot down 36 Zekes, 16 Georges, 11 Jacks and 17 Franks.
Krung Thep was swept by 37 X Thunderbolt II and they were opposed by 6 X Zeke, 6 X George and 8 X Frank. 3 Zekes, 5 Georges and 6 Franks went down before the blazing .50 cals of the Jugs. A lone Allied plane suffered some damage. Then 37 X B-29 (2 damaged) and 39 X B-24J (5 damaged) attacked and 2 Franks tried to stop them and were shot down. The airfield was moderately damaged, there were some secondary explosions and troop losses were heavy. Yet another raid comprised of 29 X B-29 came on, but they missed the target and the 2 Zekes in the air never made an attack. Artillery duels raged again today and the Allies had no losses while the Japanese suffered very heavily.
Kai Island was attacked by 140 X B-25J, 16 X P-40N and 22 X Kittyhawk III. The airfield took heavy damage, there were some secondary explosions, an Emily was destroyed and the personnel losses were heavy.
Lautem was struck by 38 X B-24J, 2 of which were damaged by AA fire. The airfield was moderately damaged, a secondary explosion was seen and casualties were extremely light.
Palau was raided by 31 X B-24J and the airstrip had moderate damage and there was a secondary explosion.
Lunga was hit by 33 X B-24J for light damage to the airstrip, some secondary explosions and light casualties.
The 6th Chinese Air Base Force was attacked by 12 X Helens who dropped their bombs on the destroyed remnants of the Chinese unit, doing no harm.
Tavoy was the scene of an artillery bombardment that inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese.
Chinese troops had extremely light losses due to a Japanese shelling at the crossroads.
Stalin is overjoyed that the Germans are crumbling before the onslaught of the Red Army. He is gradually casting his eyes towards the Japanese. His intentions are to recoup territory lost by the Czarist fools not so long ago.
70000 Germans of Army Group Center surrendered near Bobruisk. 16000 were killed, and 18000 more Germans were captured near Minsk.
Victory Points Allied 34292 Japanese 32679
Todd
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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RE: Stalin Is Overjoyed
The game has just past 9/13/1944 and I find that I'm fighting some bugs almost as much as Steve.
June 30, 1944 Hawaii
Intel
4th Division is located at Davao.
44th Ind. Mixed Brigade is located at Kadina.
42nd AA Regiment is located at Seoul.
47th Division is loaded on AP Tatsutake Maru moving to Kadina.
57th Construction Battalion is located at Maizuru.
1st Guards Mixed Brigade is located at Tokyo.
25th Engineer Regiment is located at Sendai.
22nd Heavy AA Battalion is planning for an attack on Chungking.
12th AA Regiment is located at Peking.
Recon
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Ubon vacant
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Alor Star vacant
Mosquito PR.IX takes recon photos of Bulla vacant
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Koepang 4 LCUs 18080/43/0
F-5A Lightning takes recon photos of Port Moresby 7 LCUs 15260/18/138
F-5C Lightning takes recon photos of Satawal vacant
Combat
After having detached the CL Denver and the DDs Philip and Schroeder they made for Hollandia. An AK was caught there and repeatedly hit by the ship's guns, which sent her to the bottom. The ships will now rejoin the CVTF loitering to the NE.
Ed's Old Gals poured a naval bombardment into Palau and the BB Tennessee was hit by the Japanese 4 times, chipping some paint. The port and airfield were lightly damaged, a secondary explosion was observed and troop losses were very heavy. An air strike of 11 X SB2C, 32 X TBF and 13 X F4F-4 did light damage to the port and caused very light casualties.
Bangkok was under a CAP of 31 X Zeke, 15 X George, 7 X Jack and 18 X Frank when a sweep of 50 X P-38J dove on them. 17 Zekes, 10 Georges, a Jack and 9 Franks were destroyed while 9 Lightnings went down and 3 others took damage.
Krung Thep was swept by 38 X Thunderbolt II, but there was no Japanese opposition. Then 37 X B-29 and 36 X B-24J (2 damaged by flak) came on and caused moderate damage to the airfield, some secondary explosions were claimed and personnel casualties were moderately heavy. Another strike made up of 34 X B-29 appeared and added light damage to the airstrip, a couple of secondary explosions and light losses. The 3rd Indian Division was attacked by 5 Helens, 1 of which was damaged, and had extremely light losses. The Allied troops underwent an artillery bombardment and had light losses. Allied artillery caused heavy Japanese losses.
Port Moresby was raided by 30 X B-24D who caused moderately light damage to the airfield and light troop losses.
Lunga had it's airstrip lightly damaged by 25 X B-24J. There was a single secondary explosion and light casualties.
The IJA 49th Division, at Tavoy, was attacked by 37 X Liberator VI (1 damaged), 6 X Mosquito FB.VI and 11 X Thunderbolt II. The unit sustained heavy casualties. At almost the same time the IJA 36th Ind. Mixed Brigade was jumped by 65 X Liberator VI (1 shot down, 6 damaged), 40 X Mosquito FB.VI, 64 X B-25J Mitchell and 13 X Thunderbolt II who inflicted very heavy losses on the unit. An Allied assault gained no ground and both sides suffered extremely heavy casualties.
Elements of the IJA 1st Ind. Brigade, at the crossroads was attacked by 68 X B-25J (1 destroyed, 8 damaged) and 24 X P-40N. The unit had heavy losses. Japanese gunners failed to inflict any harm on the Chinese troops.
The Japanese response to Moscow's apology was any Soviet flight over Hailar will be met with defensive measures. Moscow replied that peaceful recon flights will continue and that if they are attacked it will violate prior agreements. Any violation of said agreements will be treated as aggression and will be dealt with appropriately.
Gunny and Slim finished their chow and took a walk, enjoying a smoke and some talk. The training has stopped, but nothing seems to be in the pipeline. “Typical of the Corps to get us wound up and then leave us waiting,” says Slim.
Sam is bored out of his mind. He keeps telling himself that boredom is better than combat. The replacements continue to flow to the 25th Division and now the NCOs are busily integrating them into the various units and getting them up to speed. It wasn't so long ago that Sam was a raw recruit. Now he's a veteran of more battles than he'd care to think of. “It's the next one that scares me half to death,” he tells some of the other NCOs from the company. “The Japs can't just let us have this island so close to them. As soon as the Navy is stuck somewhere else we'll get hit.” The talk about the vast minefields laid around their little piece of real estate and all agree that some ships would also be welcomed.
Another boring training flight for the Lucky 11 last night. It was an exercise in navigation that ended up with Gil directing them to ride the beam as Willy couldn't get a fix on any stars due to cloud cover. Gil was exhausted by the time they touched down from the stress. The guys teased him about his not being able to sleep during the mission.
Gene was so tired from working a double shift today that he went home, showered and fell into his bed. He fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow and he didn't wake up until his mother woke him the next morning. He grabbed a quick breakfast and then hurried back to the yard. “He's working to hard, to many hours,” his mother says to his father. His father says that it's better to be dead tired from work than dead fighting overseas.
The US severed diplomatic relations with Finland.
Victory Points Allied 34360 Japanese 32705
Todd
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2080768
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2080768