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[font="Verdana"]SUBS: [/font] Just outside Soerabaja during the night I-124 intercepted CL Sumatra leaving the area and put one torp into her. If I remember rightly this is the CL that appears in Soerabaja around now in a damaged state, and she was smoking before the attack. Hopefully this was enough to put her under. Can't be sure though.
[font="Verdana"]DEI: [/font] Bandjermasin is invaded today to provide a forward airbase for the Java invasions. I'm thinking of going in at both Banjowengi and Semarang. Another group of Dutch bombers sorties against the TF and is wiped out by LR CAP.
[font="Verdana"]CHINA:[/font] It looks like a full ten corps were wiped out yesterday from the attack results today at Nanyang. One more seems to have been wiped out today, as well as the 181 listed infantry squads destroyed. Sucks that i didn't get numbers for the amount of squads actually destroyed for the units that were surrounded and surrendered.
Chengchow was taken with no opposition. Loyang should fall tomorrow.
After sweeping the base one group of Sallys hit Changsha, and surprisingly found the AVG there. One plane was destroyed and 11 more damaged. More of this to come.
[font="Verdana"]PI: [/font] In preparation for our coming reinforcements, some BBs hit Cagayan pretty hard. This should soften the troops up.
[font="Verdana"]MALAYA:[/font] Troops are still resting. The IJAAF is doing good work to suppress for building, as 31 field hits were accompanied by 12 on the base and 3 supply hits today.
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Sub attack near Pamekasan at 58,106
Japanese Ships
SS I-124
Allied Ships
CL Sumatra, Torpedo hits 1
SS I-124 launches 4 torpedoes
I-124 diving deep ....
Sub escapes detection
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Night Naval bombardment of Cagayan at 79,89
Allied aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft losses
Stearman 75M: 2 damaged
Japanese Ships
BB Yamashiro
BB Mutsu
BB Nagato
BB Kongo
CL Kitakami
Allied ground losses:
289 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 25 destroyed, 31 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 17 (12 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Manpower hits 4
Fires 2712
Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 6
Runway hits 16
Port hits 6
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 4
BB Yamashiro firing at Cagayan
BB Mutsu firing at 102nd PA Infantry Division
BB Nagato firing at Cagayan
BB Kongo firing at Cagayan
CL Kitakami firing at 102nd PA Infantry Division
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Afternoon Air attack on Changsha , at 82,52
Weather in hex: Partial cloud
Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 13
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 12
Allied aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
H81-A3: 11 damaged
H81-A3: 1 destroyed on ground
Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 21
Aircraft Attacking:
13 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Bandjermasin at 60,99
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 5
Allied aircraft
139WH-3 x 10
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
139WH-3: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged
139WH-3: 1 destroyed by flak
Japanese Ships
CL Tama
CL Kuma
Aircraft Attacking:
7 x 139WH-3 bombing from 1000 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 300 kg SAP Bomb
CAP engaged:
84th I.F.Chutai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 6000
Raid is overhead
24th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
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Ground combat at Nanyang (85,45)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 6369 troops, 77 guns, 853 vehicles, Assault Value = 2453
Defending force 42071 troops, 291 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 108
Japanese adjusted assault: 312
Allied adjusted defense: 19
Japanese assault odds: 16 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: disruption(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-), experience(-)
supply(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 7 (2 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
1086 casualties reported
Squads: 181 destroyed, 12 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 21 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 17 disabled
Guns lost 27 (5 destroyed, 22 disabled)
Assaulting units:
13th Division
13th Indpt Infantry Regiment
8th Ind.Mixed Brigade
5th Tank Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
35th Division
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
32nd Division
7th Ind.Mixed Brigade
12th Tank Regiment
23rd Tank Regiment
6th Ind.Mixed Brigade
12th Indpt Infantry Regiment
2nd Ind.Mixed Brigade
56th Engineer Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
1st Engineer Regiment
10th Tank Regiment
11th Tank Regiment
26th Recon Regiment
12th Army
1st Army
4th Mortar Battalion
11th Field Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
90th Chinese Corps
41st Chinese Corps
13th Chinese Corps
87th Chinese Corps
59th Chinese Corps
7th Chinese Corps
94th Chinese Corps
3rd Group Army
5th War Area
2nd Group Army
31st Group Army
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[font="Trebuchet MS"]These beasts pack a punch, but if there is CAP they're useless.[/font]
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