[font="Times New Roman"]Dec 5, 1944[/font]
Raids on Palembang and Medan met with resistance but after cutting through did major damage to the oil. I'll just keep these plugging away, and I would bet after a month there will be negligible oil left for the Japanese in the DEI. These strikes also decimated the daylight fighters flying night CAP here.
Another set of strikes hit Bangkok airfields. Not many altogether, but since the airfield is packed they did significant damage. This highlights my issues with night bombing airfields in game. This was only three groups of B-24s and took out about 35 planes at night on the ground.
B-29s also hit Taihoku, which had no CAP up, and started a good 60k+ fires. That should take out some of the useful oil and resources there.
I tried a DA with the East African Brigade on Sinabang, but failed badly to break through the very small Japanese garrison. I'll fly some extra supply in, look for a better commander, and do some bombing here. It'd be nice to have this base as another pressure point the Japanese have to worry about in the area and to support the troops now lodged and stuck at Sabang, nearby.
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Night Air attack on Medan , at 46,76
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 79 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 24 minutes
Japanese aircraft
J1N1-Sa Irving x 11
Allied aircraft
B-29-25 Superfort x 10
Japanese aircraft losses
J1N1-Sa Irving: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
B-29-25 Superfort: 5 damaged
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B-29-25 Superfort bombing from 8000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Night Air attack on Djambi , at 48,88
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-29-1 Superfort x 6
No Allied losses
Oil hits 9
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 7000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Night Air attack on Medan , at 46,76
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 45 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes
Japanese aircraft
J1N1-Sa Irving x 4
Allied aircraft
B-29-25 Superfort x 7
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
B-29-25 Superfort: 2 damaged
Oil hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
7 x B-29-25 Superfort bombing from 8000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Night Air attack on Medan , at 46,76
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 19 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-29-25 Superfort x 3
No Allied losses
Oil hits 12
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-29-25 Superfort bombing from 8000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Night Air attack on Palembang , at 48,91
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid detected at 79 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 24 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-84r Frank x 14
Ki-100-I Tony x 5
Allied aircraft
B-29-25 Superfort x 18
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-84r Frank: 3 destroyed
Ki-100-I Tony: 2 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
B-29-25 Superfort: 2 damaged
Oil hits 7
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B-29-25 Superfort bombing from 8000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Night Air attack on Bangkok , at 56,62
Weather in hex: Partial cloud
Raid detected at 24 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft
B-24J Liberator x 9
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-102a Randy: 1 destroyed on ground
Ki-100-I Tony: 1 destroyed on ground
No Allied losses
Japanese ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 8000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Night Air attack on Bangkok , at 56,62
Weather in hex: Partial cloud
Raid spotted at 3 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 0 minutes
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft
B-24J Liberator x 9
Japanese aircraft losses
N1K5-J George: 1 destroyed on ground
Ki-102a Randy: 3 destroyed on ground
Ki-100-I Tony: 1 destroyed on ground
L2D2 Tabby: 2 destroyed on ground
Ki-84r Frank: 1 destroyed on ground
B7A2 Grace: 1 destroyed on ground
Allied aircraft losses
B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged
Airbase hits 14
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 26
Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 8000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Night Air attack on Palembang , at 48,91
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid detected at 16 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-84r Frank x 2
Allied aircraft
B-29-1 Superfort x 3
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-84r Frank: 1 destroyed
No Allied losses
Oil hits 12
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 8000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Taihoku , at 87,63
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-29-25 Superfort x 17
No Allied losses
Manpower hits 69
Fires 55880
Aircraft Attacking:
7 x B-29-25 Superfort bombing from 8000 feet
City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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ASW attack near Quinhon at 65,69
Japanese Ships
E W-29, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
E Sagi
E No.3
E No.1
SC Ch 5
AO Toei Maru
AO Shinkoku Maru
AO Nippon Maru
AO Kokuyo Maru
AO Ken'yo Maru
DD Namikaze
DD Yakaze
DD Hatakaze
Allied Ships
SS Finback, hits 4
SS Finback launches 4 torpedoes at E W-29
DD Namikaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Yakaze attacking submerged sub ....
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Ground combat at Sinabang (42,76)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 4659 troops, 69 guns, 49 vehicles, Assault Value = 134
Defending force 4047 troops, 10 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 17
Allied adjusted assault: 14
Japanese adjusted defense: 85
Allied assault odds: 1 to 6 (fort level 4)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: leaders(-), supply(-)
Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
22nd (East African) Brigade
Defending units:
15th Ind. Engineer Regiment
22nd JAAF AF Bn
77th Infantry Bde /17
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The KB seems to be doing something over in the Marianas. Either adding or retrieving troops. Guam is well stacked, but Saipan and the others don['t seem to have nearly as much. I also notice the Northern islands including Pagan are hardly defended. I think I'll aim to move up to the dots here and build them to cut off the Marianas a bit. This'll give excellent search and recon coverage of Central Pacific movements and some looks at the Home Islands as well.
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
