May 21, 1942
The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
1) News from the Bay of B.: Japan has LOTS of bombs. Pass it on.
Multiple interactions. A small surface TF, refugees from the first day, had gone to Pt. Blair undamaged, rearmed and refueled, then come back SW to try to get in the way of a retreating Kongo before heading for Colombo. Instead it runs into the Hammer of Thor. Escapes, and gives good intel of what's running around the Bay, but it's pant changing time at the old movie house for a few minutes.
Day Time Surface Combat, near Great Nicobar at 39,65, Range 24,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
CV Junyo
CV Hiyo
CS Nisshin
BB Fuso
BB Yamashiro
CA Suzuya
CA Kumano
DD Oshio
DD Inazuma
DD Shirakumo
DD Shirayuki
DD Yugiri
DD Amagiri
DD Oboro
DD Akebono
Allied Ships
CL Emerald, Shell hits 1
DD Hotspur
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Then the carriers get into it.
Morning Air attack on TF, near Car Nicobar at 43,61
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid detected at 60 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 26 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 20
B5N1 Kate x 6
B5N2 Kate x 3
D3A1 Val x 9
Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 3 damaged
Allied Ships
BB Royal Sovereign, Bomb hits 8, on fire, heavy damage
CL Glasgow
Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Car Nicobar at 43,61
Weather in hex: Partial cloud
Raid detected at 79 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 33 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 19
B5N1 Kate x 11
D3A1 Val x 15
Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 2 damaged
Allied Ships
BB Royal Sovereign, Bomb hits 10, on fire, heavy damage
CL Glasgow, Bomb hits 6, heavy fires, heavy damage
Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Great Nicobar at 37,63
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9
B5N2 Kate x 5
D3A1 Val x 2
Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 1 damaged
Allied Ships
CL Emerald, Bomb hits 2, on fire
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POW is not found, but increasing flooding message is recieved twice, always bad news. All of the retreating are at Mission speed this turn out of necessity. Not helpful. Tomorrow I hope to slow some. POW had a strong TF of Arizona and escorts sent out from Colombo to meet and merge, whcih may help a bit, but it may be too late.
2) Red sub icon near Batavia in shallow water. APD from Oosthaven sent to deal. The APD scores several penetrating hits before losing contact. Later in the turn, after many interim battles, the sub is encountered on the surface and the APD puts six rounds into the hull while the sub flings salvo after salvo of torpedoes. When contact is lost the sub STILL has not sunk, and the icon is still there.
ASW attack near Batavia at 49,97
Japanese Ships
SS I-156, hits 6, heavy damage
Allied Ships
APD John D. Edwards
SS I-156 is sighted by escort
APD John D. Edwards firing on surfaced sub ....
APD John D. Edwards firing on surfaced sub ....
APD John D. Edwards firing on surfaced sub ....
APD John D. Edwards firing on surfaced sub ....
APD John D. Edwards firing on surfaced sub ....
APD John D. Edwards firing on surfaced sub ....
APD John D. Edwards firing on surfaced sub ....
Contact with submarine is lost
3) A TF was seen by air search yesterday at Makassar. Light TF sortied from Soerbaja to raid. It does well.
Night Time Surface Combat, near Makassar at 65,106, Range 11,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
DD Wakaba, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Mochizuki
xAK Onoe Maru, Shell hits 17, heavy fires
xAK Kosin Maru, Shell hits 18, heavy fires, heavy damage
Allied Ships
APD Barker
DD Parrott
DD Tenedos, Shell hits 1
4) At Timor, Dili falls to a Raiding unit. The cruisers from yesterday are ordered to Dili but do not attack the landing. The other two cruisers at Darwin are ordered to go bombard Lautem and see if the supply situation can be made critical.
5) Allied strat bombing all over the map fails. Probably time to rest and reconstitute.
6) Two ASW encounters in the Sea of Japan keep up the pressure.
7) Lots of Japanese sweeps mostly find open air. At Palembang a large Sally raid comes in unescorted and is roughed up badly. Four downed, 10 damaged. Palembang Forts are over 80% of 5. The Indian LCU sent to raid Djambi is back and resting. Supply over 180,000.
8) Japan attacks at Bataan and fails again. Forts reduced to 2.
Ground combat at Bataan (78,77)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 45571 troops, 472 guns, 446 vehicles, Assault Value = 1539
Defending force 48370 troops, 615 guns, 645 vehicles, Assault Value = 1411
Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2
Japanese adjusted assault: 172
Allied adjusted defense: 2017
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 11 (fort level 2)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
4557 casualties reported
Squads: 45 destroyed, 266 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 39 disabled
Engineers: 8 destroyed, 67 disabled
Guns lost 44 (6 destroyed, 38 disabled)
Vehicles lost 43 (6 destroyed, 37 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
350 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 48 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Vehicles lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Assaulting units:
9th Infantry Regiment
16th Recon Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
80th Infantry Regiment
38th Division
20th Infantry Regiment
16th Engineer Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
48th Division
7th Tank Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
14th Army
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
36th Const Co
Defending units:
3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion
51st PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
4th Marine Regiment
31st PA Infantry Division
11th PA Infantry Division
21st PA Infantry Division
71st PA Infantry Division
41st PA Infantry Division
45th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
194th Tank Battalion
31st Infantry Regiment
91st PA Infantry Division
Manila Bay Defenses
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
14th PS Engineer Regiment
2nd PA Constabulary Division
Bataan USN Base Force
Manila USAAF Base Force
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
Provisional GMC Grp
USAFFE
Cavite USN Base Force
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
II Philippine Corps
Far East USAAF
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
I Philippine Corps
Asiatic Fleet
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
9) The Chinese stack outside Chungking to the west deliberate attacks to see what's there. Good thing. Losses are heavy on both sides, but the VP rule helps ease the sting for the Allies. Chinese arty is invoved too, which helps.
Ground combat at 75,45 (near Chungking)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 73969 troops, 498 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2852
Defending force 34687 troops, 240 guns, 13 vehicles, Assault Value = 1281
Allied adjusted assault: 1037
Japanese adjusted defense: 887
Allied assault odds: 1 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(+), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
2825 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 319 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 28 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Allied ground losses:
6448 casualties reported
Squads: 30 destroyed, 546 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 29 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 41 disabled
Guns lost 31 (8 destroyed, 23 disabled)
Assaulting units:
75th Chinese Corps
32nd Chinese Corps
67th Chinese Corps
41st Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Corps
36th Chinese Corps
14th Chinese Corps
92nd Chinese Corps
57th AT Gun Regiment
1st Artillery Regiment
7th Artillery Regiment
Defending units:
58th Division
70th Division
60th Division
102nd Infantry Regiment
22nd/C Division
10) Mandalay Forts go to 5.
