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

[Cap Mandrake]

Burma/Siam: The weather clears and we crush the Royal Thai Army unit at Udon Thani.

Morning Air attack on RTA/B Cavalry Division, at 61,59 (Udon Thani)

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Allied aircraft
Vengeance I x 31

Allied aircraft losses
Vengeance I: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
168 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 4 (2 destroyed, 2 disabled)

and


Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 6 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 2 minutes

Allied aircraft
Wellington Ic x 12

No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
167 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)

and

Morning Air attack on RTA/B Cavalry Division, at 61,59 (Udon Thani)

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Allied aircraft
B-17F Fortress x 3
B-25C Mitchell x 7

No Allied losses

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

[Cap Mandrake]

SE of Tavoy in jungle, we find some visitors from China. Hope they paid the political points to get here.

Ground combat at 54,61 (near Tavoy)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1378 troops, 61 guns, 96 vehicles, Assault Value = 19

Defending force 1935 troops, 19 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 63

Assaulting units:
268th Motorised Brigade

Defending units:
Yangtze SNLF

[Cap Mandrake]

LYB's east of Tavoy don't seem to be going anywhere either. Maybe we are at least cutting off the supply to Tavoy.

Ground combat at 55,60 (near Tavoy)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 3108 troops, 6 guns, 44 vehicles, Assault Value = 181

Defending force 12138 troops, 73 guns, 107 vehicles, Assault Value = 470

Assaulting units:
150th RAC Regiment
44th Indian Brigade

Defending units:
18th Garrison Unit
14th Tank Regiment
15th Garrison Unit
1st RTA/A Division
1st RF Gun Battalion

[Cap Mandrake]

Defense of Tavoy is slowly weakening.

Ground combat at Tavoy (54,60)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 26063 troops, 434 guns, 304 vehicles, Assault Value = 810

Defending force 9770 troops, 71 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 359

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

Assaulting units:
46th Indian Brigade
4th British Brigade
70th British Division
6th British Brigade
XXXIII Indian Corps
20th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment

Defending units:
62nd Inf Group Brigade
3rd RTA/B Division

[Cap Mandrake]

Night bombardment.

Night Naval bombardment of Tavoy at 54,60

Allied Ships
CA Cornwall
CA Devonshire
CL Birmingham
CL Hobart
CL Java
CLAA Van Heemskerck
DD Norman
DD Nestor
DD Arunta

Japanese ground losses:
47 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Runway hits 6
Port hits 1

[Cap Mandrake]

Port Blair. The LYB's flew in some reinforcements. Look, I don't know how to say this but the East Africa Brigade doesn't seem to have accepted the whole Empire idea. Not sure 45th Indian Brig has either.

Ground combat at Port Blair (46,58)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 3124 troops, 71 guns, 28 vehicles, Assault Value = 179

Defending force 4649 troops, 34 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 148

Assaulting units:
45th Indian Brigade
22nd (East African) Bde /6

Defending units:
41st Guard Battalion
3rd Raiding Regiment
Sasebo 3rd SNLF
2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy
29th JAAF AF Coy

[Cap Mandrake]

**********East Africa Brigade position, outside Port Blair*******

Cpl. Hussein Onyango Obama <speaking to a group of soldiers> Make no mistake! We are not going to help preserve the Empire for the goddamn King! I am the Corporal you have been waiting for! .......

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

************January 6, 1943(e)*************

PI: The ground crews, the pilots, the clerk-typists at Bataan are worn out and demoralized so we just move what we have left back over to Clark and let them have their way with Bataan. One P-40E pilot does not get the memo and tries to take on the entire Jap air forces. They have lots of planes at Manila and Busuanga.

How about the Tax Collectors? Massage Therapists? Bottle Washers?

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

************January 6, 1943(e)*************

PI: The ground crews, the pilots, the clerk-typists at Bataan are worn out and demoralized so we just move what we have left back over to Clark and let them have their way with Bataan. One P-40E pilot does not get the memo and tries to take on the entire Jap air forces. They have lots of planes at Manila and Busuanga.

How about the Tax Collectors? Massage Therapists? Bottle Washers?

Well, the massage therapists are in Olongapo....well...that's what I heard.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Ditto Mindanao. Everyone is ordered to stay on the ground. It works, but this is not a good strategy going forward, of course. RAF, US AAF, RCAF...everyone is out of replacement aircraft. It will be up to the AAA gunners for a while. This will start eating up our supplies but it can't be helped. The combat replay from yesterday shows an entire fresh Jap Tank Regt reduced to 0 AV in one attack. Two other tank regiments are nearly wrecked. Our Stuarts are taking it in the shorts to some degree but the M-10's are just eating the Ronsons alive at Clark..

Has the sub-space transporter stopped working? Are there spare parts? Or is the Empire jamming the beam?

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

************January 6, 1943(e)*************

PI: The ground crews, the pilots, the clerk-typists at Bataan are worn out and demoralized so we just move what we have left back over to Clark and let them have their way with Bataan. One P-40E pilot does not get the memo and tries to take on the entire Jap air forces. They have lots of planes at Manila and Busuanga.

How about the Tax Collectors? Massage Therapists? Bottle Washers?

Well, the massage therapists are in Olongapo....well...that's what I heard.

Heard from Moana? She would know.

[Cap Mandrake]

Merry Christmas! I drew my brother-in-law in the family gift exchange. The guy loves whiskeys..so I bought a big-ass bottle of high-end brown water and some Glenlivet. He thanked me and announced he had a week to drink it all because he was giving up all drinking after January 1

[Kursk1943]

[:D] Maybe then it is a very fitting present, because starting to give up drinking with a monstrous hangover coud be very promising...[:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

A strategic interlude...this doesn't happen very often as you may have deduced.

Allied Naval forces:

2 CV ready to go
1 CV ready in 19 days
1 RN CV in 40 days
Essex in 130 days

July 43...Christmas in July (2 CV, 3 CVL)

Fast BB's

2
Massachusetts in 43 days

CA

10 (2 damaged)

CL

13

We can't risk a carrier duel with the full KB until July although there may be opportunities for carrier operations if we have the KB located.

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

A strategic interlude...this doesn't happen very often as you may have deduced.

Allied Naval forces:

2 CV ready to go
1 CV ready in 19 days
1 RN CV in 40 days
Essex in 130 days

July 43...Christmas in July (2 CV, 3 CVL)

Fast BB's

2
Massachusetts in 43 days

CA

10 (2 damaged)

CL

13

We can't risk a carrier duel with the full KB until July although there may be opportunities for carrier operations if we have the KB located.

How many CV/CVL/CVE does JJ have?

[Cap Mandrake]

This means we have to creep forward with the little guys.

New Guinea: The Aussie diggers have hacked a "road" through the jungle and we can start up a build of Nadzab, which is buildable to level 9 and is immune to naval bombardment. This will take a while but it keeps all the lads from being bored while we wait for carriers and P-47's

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Merry Christmas! I drew my brother-in-law in the family gift exchange. The guy loves whiskeys..so I bought a big-ass bottle of high-end brown water and some Glenlivet. He thanked me and announced he had a week to drink it all because he was giving up all drinking after January 1

[:D]

You could have saved money and just bought him a screwdriver he could stick in his liver.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

A strategic interlude...this doesn't happen very often as you may have deduced.

Allied Naval forces:

2 CV ready to go
1 CV ready in 19 days
1 RN CV in 40 days
Essex in 130 days

July 43...Christmas in July (2 CV, 3 CVL)

Fast BB's

2
Massachusetts in 43 days

CA

10 (2 damaged)

CL

13

We can't risk a carrier duel with the full KB until July although there may be opportunities for carrier operations if we have the KB located.

How many CV/CVL/CVE does JJ have?

Here is what they probably DON'T have. They like to drive around in a Death Star with over 200 carrier bombers. It's nasty

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Merry Christmas! I drew my brother-in-law in the family gift exchange. The guy loves whiskeys..so I bought a big-ass bottle of high-end brown water and some Glenlivet. He thanked me and announced he had a week to drink it all because he was giving up all drinking after January 1

[:D]

You could have saved money and just bought him a screwdriver he could stick in his liver.

One of his daughters is getting married today. He can bring the stuff to the reception. The guests can help. [:)]


I am pretty sure USC dental school has an extra year just for drinking.

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Merry Christmas! I drew my brother-in-law in the family gift exchange. The guy loves whiskeys..so I bought a big-ass bottle of high-end brown water and some Glenlivet. He thanked me and announced he had a week to drink it all because he was giving up all drinking after January 1

[:D]

You could have saved money and just bought him a screwdriver he could stick in his liver.

One of his daughters is getting married today. He can bring the stuff to the reception. The guests can help. [:)]


I am pretty sure USC dental school has an extra year just for drinking.

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me...[:D]