Bring me the head of Diego Garcia...and the Mayor of Addu Atoll too!

[Cap Mandrake]

Koepang: A few fighters from Lautem join in a furball over Koepang and get waxed. Gaak. Not very effective raid either. Bombers flying from Darwin which is level 7 now.


Morning Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1
Ki-61-Ia Tony x 12



Allied aircraft
B-17F Fortress x 5
B-24D Liberator x 6
P-39D Airacobra x 7
P-40E Warhawk x 3


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 damaged
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed on ground
Ki-61-Ia Tony: 1 damaged
Ki-61-Ia Tony: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-17F Fortress: 1 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 1 damaged
P-39D Airacobra: 2 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed

Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Runway hits 2

[Cap Mandrake]

Kendari: Bigger raid, no CAP. We sink the Emporer's numbah one sub. Crafty Little Yerrow Baahsterds try to trick us by naming ships Ohio Maru and Erie Maru. We see through trick, brow them up.

Morning Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 52


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed on ground

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
xAK Teishun Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
xAK Tyoyo Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAK Kenyo Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAK Unyo Maru #2, Bomb hits 1, on fire
E W-5, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Ohio Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Erie Maru, Bomb hits 1
SS I-1, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk

Japanese ground losses:
4 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 9
Port hits 3
Port fuel hits 1

[Cap Mandrake]

Overall, nothing bad happened off Northern Oz.

The carriers should be refueling at sea today.

Aus 6th and 7th Div are already on their way to Colombo (circumnavigating Oz to the East).

RN BB/BC will leave Darwin today after refueling.

Invasion for Sorong loading at Darwin. One USMC Regt and one tank bn. fully prepped.

Also to be done before a landing on Sualwese:

1) Build Terante to level 2 with adequate supply.
2) Pick up the workhorse 503rd PIR assemble at that base West of Ambon..forget what it is called. This preparation for an air drop on Sulawese.
3) Build up Saumalki to level 5 and get an Air HQ there.

[Cap Mandrake]

Burma: 23 Sallys attack 14 Brigade at Katha. After a stern talking to...the crabs leave their pits...and may wish they hadn't. Even so, they do hit some LYB's

Morning Air attack on 143rd Infantry Regiment, at 61,43 (Katha)

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 13
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 15



Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 7
Hurricane IIc Trop x 9
Liberator II x 20
Wellington Ic x 14
P-40K Warhawk x 22


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed
Liberator II: 1 damaged
Wellington Ic: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
P-40K Warhawk: 1 destroyed

Japanese ground losses:
32 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

The Dutch pilots...the two that are left..may have not understood the RAF-speak at the briefing. They miss the party. Poor bastard(s) probably need some R&R

Morning Air attack on 143rd Infantry Regiment, at 61,43 (Katha)

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 3
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 13



Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc Trop x 10
DB-7B x 2


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 destroyed
DB-7B: 1 destroyed

[Cap Mandrake]

14 Brigade is well and mightily wrecked but won't retreat. We can now see that IJA 1st Tank Div took a couple of days off.

Ground combat at Katha (61,43)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 11501 troops, 157 guns, 667 vehicles, Assault Value = 500

Defending force 2016 troops, 40 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 48

Japanese adjusted assault: 662

Allied adjusted defense: 5

Japanese assault odds: 132 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), disruption(-), preparation(-)
supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
152 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
265 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 47 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 9 (2 destroyed, 7 disabled)


Assaulting units:
14th Tank Regiment
1st Tank Division
143rd Infantry Regiment

Defending units:
14th British Brigade

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

See...that's the thing. Having spent half a century speaking an approximation of Engrish, I would have thought "pit" might be the aircraft reventments, but I also guessed "Bunting Tosser" was just a flouncy higher level naval officer.


I am also witholding judgement on whether it is all a conspiracy of thousands (well, at least 2..there is Admiral Lord SPrior and now, FOW appears to be in on it too). They may be secretly exchanging emails and giggling at our hillbilly gullibility.

I've half a mind to start making stuff up too.

These made up languages are ridiculuous! Anyways, enjoying the AAR, Cap'n. KA'PLAH!

[sprior]

I've half a mind

I could be cruel, but we're supposed to be on the same side.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: sprior

I've half a mind

I could be cruel, but we're supposed to be on the same side.

Oh bloody hell...[:(]

How can this live up to its moniker of the "World's Worst AAR" if you partners aren't engaging in direct personal attacks on the thread? Honestly, Sprior, sometimes it's like you're not even trying to bollocks this thing up...

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

I've half a mind

I could be cruel, but we're supposed to be on the same side.

[:)]

Hey...speaking of being on the same side, the RN needs to step up to the plate here. One of those adjective carriers shows up in Panama in 13 days with snazzy news airplanes but no surface escorts. Am I supposed to just send her across the Pacific with no DD's? You want she should take the secret submarine-proof tunnel to Cape Town?

I do have two USN DD's waiting to escort her should that be necessary.

[CaptDave]

Well over 48 hours with no posts -- that has to be a record for this AAR (or any other Mandrake AAR, for that matter). Is M&M's printing division on strike?

[Cap Mandrake]

I was at the convention in North Carolina.

I had to share a room (budget constraints) with Mayor Villaraigosa. Hory crap! You would not believe how long that guy spends on his hair. Annoying really.

In the end, I felt sorry for the poor bastard after that embarrassing floor vote disaster. He took it hard. I had to go downstairs and get him an old Marty Robins CD and a bottle of Patron.

He knew his career was shot. Bastard musta listened to El Paso 15 times straight. Not much left of the Patron, either.


When I came back upstairs he had his face in the waste bin.


Me: That is some serious bottle fatigue there, amigo!

Antonio: baaaaaahhhhh! Felina. Felina. Whirl Felina.

[Cap Mandrake]

Not counting the trip to North Carolina, I have worked 11 of the last 12 days. The baaaahsterds are killing me.


I got an email from somebody called Endpoint Encryption Support.



I'm not exactly sure what that is but I suspect it is why it takes 10 seonds between mouse clicks now. We are going to a McAfee encryption system. We used to use the one the CIA uses but it didn't meet new federal guidelines.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Not counting the trip to North Carolina, I have worked 11 of the last 12 days. The baaaahsterds are killing me.

Just hang on a little longer, Cap'n! As soon as a certain national health care program rolls into effect in 2014, all your worries will be solved! Yessiree-the sprites from gumdrop lane will sprinkle pixie dust from their unicorn mounts, flying briskly through the rainbow-colored skies.

[witpqs]

Yeah! I vote we replace ObamaCare with CaptainCare!

[Cap Mandrake]

Here is the good news. When I work for the governement I won't have to pretend to be nice any more.

[zuluhour]

deleted do to content: religion, politics and drugs.

[Cap Mandrake]

Drugs? Who said anything about drugs?

Patron is not a drug amigo. It's more of a dietary supplement. Organic too.

[Cap Mandrake]

Good news. Yorktown only has 20% flotation damage. Maybe she can be ready for Sumatra.

Two fast BB's have left Los Angeles after repairs and are bound for the Sundas.

Washington will support a landing at Sorong with one USMC Regt and a Bn of tanks. This may not be enough for Sorong but it should be enough to defeat a counterattack from the garrison. A Bn of combat engineers is also headed there from Sydney. The CVE's will also support the landing at Sorong, but It is dangerous for the CVE's to go too far North without the CV's, lest Jap carriers show up.

I will have to work something else out to get troops ashore on Sulawese. Perhaps LRCAP from Ternate and landing craft only.

All the B-24's are going after Koepang today. P-38's will sweep from Bathurst. I am getting tired of the damn Tojos there. I wonder if they are flying in from Waingapu?

Repulse and Pow headed to Sydney as are the CV's. Aus 6, 7th Div and Br 18th all on their way aroudn Oz

Recon B-24's at Saumalaki are reaching out all over the area. Palau was reconned yesterday (25 fighters). Another 25 fighters in Southern Borneo

[zuluhour]

The portion of the messeage deleted referring to drugs dealt with a left wing plan to open the Burma road. At the time of the post it seemed so simple. Just drop 1,ooo cartons of Rucky Rikes rilled with hydrocannobolism ([:D]) and scar'em to death.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: zuluhour
hydrocannobolism

Hydrocannobolism? Isn't that what happens to shipwreck survivors in life rafts when their mates get hungry? [:'(]

Perhaps you meant tetrahydrocannabinol? Yes-that would be a far easier sell to troops on the march.

But you've reminded me of the joke about two cannibals eating a clown...oh, forget it-you've surely heard that one...