At dawn we slept...in the cab on the way back from Olongapo

[Cap Mandrake]

********Bar, Royal Hawaiian, Oahu, (Downstairs from FOB Penthouse)*******

FAM:Maker's, rocks please.

Barkeep: <turns to two other customers who seem oddly foreign and are curiously dressed in identical Hawaiian shirts with palm trees and native types riding outrigger canoes>
And you boys, what will you have?

Foreign looking fellow in Hawaiian shirt, #1: Prease to have-ah watah.

FAM: Water? Let me get you something? You aren't going to believe how cheap the drinks are here...but don't tell the management. Barkeep, bourbon for my friends. You boys like bourbon, don't you?

Foreign looking fellow in Hawaiian shirt, #1: Hai! That-ah word be dericious.

FAM: Splendid! Where are you boys from?

Foreign looking fellow in Hawaiian shirt, #2: AN-juh-res!

Foreign looking fellow in Hawaiian shirt, #1: <elbows other fellow> ROS ANGERES!

FAM: "Ros Angeres"...oh, you mean LA. Lived there for 3 years in a crappy apartment with
paper walls. One neighbor was a screamer. She would moan louder and louder for 15 minutes every Saturday, Wednesday and Friday night.
Some sort of exercise, I imagine. The other neighbor was from Alberta and insisted on warming up her
car in morning at 3000 revs for 20 minutes even when it was 70 degrees out.

Foreign looking fellow in Hawaiian shirt, #1: Hai! paper warhs.

FAM: <suddenly grabs temples in anguish>....Uhhh..I've just felt a great disturbance in the force.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: zuluhour

"Bolstered by the fresh Wee Jap Dobbers, JJ tries again at Rabaul. Rejected"
Sure this is not commentary from the Terp Indiana game?

Terp Indiana

Maryland has Wee Jap Dobbers on the team? [X(]

[Cap Mandrake]

[:(]

Ground combat at Singapore (50,84)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 47584 troops, 474 guns, 475 vehicles, Assault Value = 1549

Defending force 32095 troops, 375 guns, 208 vehicles, Assault Value = 518

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 1554

Allied adjusted defense: 489

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Singapore !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
3559 casualties reported
Squads: 11 destroyed, 228 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 55 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 32 disabled
Vehicles lost 56 (2 destroyed, 54 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
33440 casualties reported
Squads: 627 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2029 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 121 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 199 (199 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 210 (210 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 28

Assaulting units:
5th Division
4th Tank Regiment
48th Division
1st Tank Regiment
21st Ind Engineer Regiment
18th Division
3rd Ind Engineer Regiment
7th Tank Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
25th Army
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
14th Army
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment

Defending units:
1st Manchester Battalion
2nd Gordons Battalion
1st Malay Battalion
2nd Loyal Battalion
3rd Cavalry Regiment
2nd Malay Battalion
3/16th Punjab Battalion
27th Australian Brigade
22nd Australian Brigade
SSVF Brigade
2/17 Dogra Battalion
5/2nd Punjab Battalion
1st HK&S Heavy AA Regiment
111th RAF Adv Base Force
Malaya Army
224 Group RAF
29 Battery/3 HAA
1st Indian Heavy AA Regiment
III Indian Corps
Singapore Base Force
22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
112th RAF Adv Base Force
2nd HK&S Heavy AA Regiment
11 Battery/3 HAA
Singapore Fortress
24th NZ Pioneer Coy
Malayan Air Wing
272/273rd Bty 80th AT Gun Regiment

[zuluhour]

"Maryland has Wee Jap Dobbers on the team?"

sure looked sounded like it on the radio....I prefer radio now especially baseball....easier to nap to.

[Cap Mandrake]

Finnschhaffenn: Some ancient dive bombers fly off one of the carriers to Port Moresby. Too late for Finnschhaffen, I'm afraid.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Finschhafen at 100,126

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Allied aircraft
SB2U-3 Vindicator x 9

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
xAKL Heiwa Maru, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
xAK Shinkoku Maru, Bomb hits 1

[Cap Mandrake]

JJ is landing on Java-jima, evidently the Koninklijke Luchtmacht needs some practice:

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Kalidjati at 50,99

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 4,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 8

Allied aircraft
139WH-3 x 7
B-339D x 1
CW-21B Demon x 4

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
139WH-3: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
B-339D: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
xAK Chowa Maru
xAK Hakubasan Maru

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

[:(]

Ground combat at Singapore (50,84)

BANZAI! BANZAI! BANZAI! [&o][&o][&o]


....


Too soon?

[Cap Mandrake]

"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?"

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

[:(]

Ground combat at Singapore (50,84)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 47584 troops, 474 guns, 475 vehicles, Assault Value = 1549

Defending force 32095 troops, 375 guns, 208 vehicles, Assault Value = 518

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 1554

Allied adjusted defense: 489

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Singapore !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
3559 casualties reported
Squads: 11 destroyed, 228 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 55 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 32 disabled
Vehicles lost 56 (2 destroyed, 54 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
33440 casualties reported
Squads: 627 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2029 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 121 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 199 (199 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 210 (210 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 28

That wasn't nice. Singers gone and no Honky Fidd, who's going to want a draft to the Far Flung now?

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

That wasn't nice. Singers gone and no Honky Fidd,

It was quite presumptuous. I don't remember even inviting the Little Yellow Baahstards, did you?

..who's going to want a draft to the Far Flung now?

What about Achmeds's hooka bar in Aden? Can you get a Guinness there?

[Cap Mandrake]

Still, I do confess a certain oriental efficiency here. Singapore falls on Dec 22 and Hong Kong even before that.

3 full divisions at Singers with 2 tank regiments, 2 Army HQ and a bunch of heavy arty.

[Cap Mandrake]

**********Christmas Eve, 1941***********

Java: The Royal Dutch Air Force does pretty much everything right..attack packets likely to encounter enemy CAP have escorts..recon is good...nice new paint jobs on the Uglofortreses....impressive..except for the detail of actually hitting anything.

The only birds we have in the area that do real damage are the FAA torpedo bombers..and most of them were blown up already. JJ jave a foothold on Java-jima and they brought lots of those short guys with the funny leggings.

Ground combat at Kalidjati (50,99)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 16604 troops, 102 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 691

Defending force 98 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 177

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 177 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Kalidjati !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender:
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
47 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

Allied ground losses:
113 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 5 (5 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 2

Assaulting units:
65th Brigade
2nd Tank Regiment
113th Infantry Regiment
56th Engineer Regiment
148th Infantry Regiment
56th Recon Regiment
II/124th Infantry Battalion
2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy
56th Field Artillery Regiment
1st Base Force

Defending units:
VkA-3 Sup Afd
VkA-4 Sup Afd

[Cap Mandrake]

Rabaul: The Marines just flown in to Rabaul do real damage. Two nice targets.
It was nice of them to bring 1000 lb bombs too!

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Kavieng at 106,122

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Allied aircraft
SB2U-3 Vindicator x 14

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
AMC Kongo Maru, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Mutsuki, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x SB2U-3 Vindicator releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
11 x SB2U-3 Vindicator releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring AMC Kongo Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring DD Mutsuki

[Cap Mandrake]

39th and 59th Aus Inf Bn are landing at Rabaul. Now we have to disrupt the WJD's ashore with naval bombardment and air bombardment, attack...kill them...then get everyone out before the KB shows up. [:)]

[Mundy]

A good lesson on why the real Japanese made their conquests under air cover, whether from land or KB.

[Cap Mandrake]

..

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Mundy

A good lesson on why the real Japanese made their conquests under air cover, whether from land or KB.

Yes. You could say this is an unintended consequence of the attack on Manila on Dec 7. Once we identified all 6 CV's operating in the DEI, the USN and RAN were granted a window of operational freedom.

Two full, crack SNLF units would be big prize but we can't stay too long or we will be the prize.

This also opens and opportunity to reinforce PM and Noumea. Still thinking about that. Both spots can be traps for the Allies.

[Cap Mandrake]

OK, I have a question (strictly hypothetical, of course):

..Suppose an Allied carrier is on a secret mission

..Let us further suppose that one of the TBD's spies a periscope

..Do the Wee Jap Dobbers get an intel message about being spotted by the Allied TBD?

[Cap Mandrake]

Forces at Rabaul. Right off, it doesn't seem we have enough to attack but perhaps after some further disruption on the LYB's?

Ground combat at Rabaul (106,125)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 2229 troops, 14 guns, 174 vehicles, Assault Value = 85

Defending force 4066 troops, 38 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 121

Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
Lark Force
2/1st Ind Coy
39th Australian Bn /1
53rd Australian Bn /1
B Coy/NG Rifles
Rabaul Base Force
Del Monte AAF Base Force /3

Defending units:
Maizuru 1st SNLF
Maizuru 2nd SNLF
2nd Indpt SNLF Coy

[Mike McCreery]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

OK, I have a question (strictly hypothetical, of course):

..Suppose an Allied carrier is on a secret mission

..Let us further suppose that one of the TBD's spies a periscope

..Do the Wee Jap Dobbers get an intel message about being spotted by the Allied TBD?

I believe in the OPS report it may say if the plane was spotted by an enemy TF.