AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 10, 42
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ASW attack near Suva at 131,161
Japanese Ships
SS RO-60
Allied Ships
PC Daphne
quite a long journey for a RO boat to show up near the Fijis... most likely one of the 8000 endurance boats...
SS RO-60 is sighted by escort
RO-60 diving deep ....
PC Daphne fails to find sub, continues to search...
PC Daphne fails to find sub, continues to search...
PC Daphne fails to find sub, continues to search...
PC Daphne fails to find sub, continues to search...
PC Daphne fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
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Morning Air attack on Lingayen , at 79,75
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 8
B-17E Fortress x 20
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
CA Nachi, Bomb hits 2
BB Haruna, Bomb hits 9, on fire
BB Kongo, Bomb hits 10, on fire
CA Myoko, Bomb hits 2
BB Yamashiro, Bomb hits 7
CA Atago, Bomb hits 1
CA Suzuya, Bomb hits 3
CA Takao, Bomb hits 1
CA Haguro, Bomb hits 1
CA Kumano, Bomb hits 2
CL Jintsu, Bomb hits 1
DD Akatsuki, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
CL Kiso, Bomb hits 1
DD Arashio, Bomb hits 1, on fire
CL Sendai, Bomb hits 1, on fire
Japanese ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Port hits 11
the Empire, mmmhhh, Republic strikes back... Mundy kept quite some surface assets on station on Luzon which were spotted daily, but yesterday they were gone and recon showed them at anchor at the tiny port of Lingayen... most likely the enemy wanted to save fuel and disbanded the ships as we have nothing else left than a dozen PTs that are on station at Bataan... that was the go for the USAAF's heavy bombers to return to Clark Field and fly a strike against the enemy's fleet... as we had evacuated all of the airforce except some recons and float planes from Luzon the enemy must have felt quite safe and didn't even have CAP over the port as all the fighters at the airfield are on offensive duty so our heavy bombers came in in perfect weather and picked their targets... one 500lb bomb after another detonated on the armored decks of the enemy ships and it was quite nice to watch, well knowing that we only did minor damage as these ships weren't damaged before so the fires won't do all that much... only the two DDs suffered damage from bombs penetrating their decks...
nice to see three Kongos here and not moving around with KB, I ussually keep the Kongos with my carriers...
Aircraft Attacking:
7 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 5000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
8 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 5000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 5000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
8 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 5000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Lingayen , at 79,75
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 13
Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 1 damaged
Japanese Ships
BB Haruna, Bomb hits 3, on fire
BB Yamashiro, Bomb hits 10, on fire
BB Kongo, Bomb hits 7, on fire
CA Nachi, Bomb hits 3
CA Atago, Bomb hits 1
CA Mikuma, Bomb hits 1
DD Hibiki, Bomb hits 1, on fire
CA Myoko, Bomb hits 1
CA Kumano, Bomb hits 1
CA Mogami, Bomb hits 1
Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Port hits 2
Port supply hits 2
we've flown in all 60 available heavy bombers (in the whole Pacific) to do maximum damage and another wave keeps pounding the enemy fleet with their 500lb bombs... if the player could just decide the loadout of bombers, dropping 1000lb bombs here would make such a difference as those are a threat to the cruisers and also got so much more effect on the BBs even if they don't penetrate...
Aircraft Attacking:
7 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 5000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 5000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Lingayen , at 79,75
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid spotted at 25 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 7
Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 1 damaged
Japanese Ships
BB Kongo, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires
CA Mogami, Bomb hits 1
CA Takao, Bomb hits 1
BB Haruna, Bomb hits 2, on fire
CA Haguro, Bomb hits 1
BB Yamashiro, Bomb hits 3, on fire
CA Nachi, Bomb hits 1
Port hits 1
Port supply hits 1
Kongo is now showing heavy fires, gotta rack up quite some sys damage...
Aircraft Attacking:
7 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 5000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Lingayen , at 79,75
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 6
Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 1 damaged
Japanese Ships
BB Yamashiro, Bomb hits 4, on fire
CA Haguro, Bomb hits 1
BB Haruna, Bomb hits 5, on fire
BB Kongo, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires
CA Takao, Bomb hits 1
CL Sendai, Bomb hits 1, on fire
Port hits 4
not over yet and despite low number of bombers they score quite a lot of bomb hits which wouldn't be possible real life they way the bombers dropped their load in formation, guess 6-10 bomb hits would have been the absolute maximum...
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 5000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Lingayen , at 79,75
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 6
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
CL Sendai, Bomb hits 1, on fire
BB Kongo, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires
BB Haruna, Bomb hits 2, on fire
CA Mikuma, Bomb hits 1
CA Kumano, Bomb hits 1
BB Yamashiro, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires
CA Takao, Bomb hits 1, on fire
CA Suzuya, Bomb hits 1
Port supply hits 3
last wave of Beasts shows up and now also Yamashiro is heavily burning... I doubt any of those ships is in danger of being sunk and the heavy cruisers most likely haven't suffered any real damage but the heavily burning Kongos are most likely out of the fight for a couple of weeks...
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 5000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Singapore at 50,84
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 34 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
G3M2 Nell x 3
G4M1 Betty x 4
No Japanese losses
Allied Ships
ML No. 311
HDML 1063
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 15000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
3 x G3M2 Nell bombing from 23000 feet *
Naval Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb
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Ground combat at Singapore (50,84)
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 40070 troops, 511 guns, 365 vehicles, Assault Value = 1237
Defending force 59259 troops, 560 guns, 350 vehicles, Assault Value = 1223
Japanese adjusted assault: 381
Allied adjusted defense: 2805
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 7 (fort level 3)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)
Japanese ground losses:
9257 casualties reported
Squads: 216 destroyed, 499 disabled
Non Combat: 63 destroyed, 217 disabled
Engineers: 26 destroyed, 72 disabled
Guns lost 53 (22 destroyed, 31 disabled)
Vehicles lost 49 (9 destroyed, 40 disabled)
Units destroyed 1
Allied ground losses:
905 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 109 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 24 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled
Vehicles lost 41 (16 destroyed, 25 disabled)
the B-17 on the enemy fleet was a morale booster today but the real important battle was fought on Malaya when the IJA shock attack across the river right into Singpore's defenders... like on Luzon Mundy hasn't recombined his units yet and takes massive damage in the river crossing, one unit being outright destroyed... the defenders suffered mostly disablements and the attacker must be horribly disrupted... like on Luzon we were thinking about a counterattack and even though I would never suggest an attack to anybody I thought it would be worth a try and all units were ordered to deliberate attack tomorrow... spent nearly 200 pp to switch leaders within the important units at Singapore, can only hope that is going to pay off...
Assaulting units:
148th Infantry Regiment
15th Ind Engineer Regiment
55th Cavalry Regiment
1st Tank Regiment
4th Ind Engineer Regiment
I/124th Infantry Battalion
21st Infantry Regiment
23rd Ind Engineer Regiment
14th Tank Regiment
41st Guard Battalion
55th Infantry Regiment
Sasebo 3rd SNLF
113th Infantry Regiment
56th Recon Regiment
Sasebo 8th SNLF
55th Engineer Regiment
22nd Recon Regiment
114th Infantry Regiment
56th Engineer Regiment
Yokosuka 4th SNLF
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ship Engineer Regiment
55th Mountain Gun Regiment
1st RF Gun Battalion
55th Const Co
34th Field AA Battalion
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
5th Mortar Battalion
14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
56th Field Artillery Regiment
Southern Fleet
302nd Ship Eng Coy
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion
18th Mountain Gun Regiment
53rd Const Co
54th Const Co
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Mortar Battalion
21st JAAF AF Bn
Defending units:
3rd Cavalry Regiment
27th Australian Brigade
2nd Malay Battalion
5/14th Punjab Battalion
22nd Australian Brigade
1st Manchester Battalion
SSVF Brigade
1st Hyderabad Battalion
1st Mysore Battalion
FMSV Brigade
3rd SSVF Battalion
2nd Gordons Battalion
2/17 Dogra Battalion
2nd Loyal Battalion
11th Indian Division
1st Malay Battalion
9th Indian Division
113th RAF Adv Base Force
Malaya Army
2nd ISF Base Force
1st HK&S Heavy AA Regiment
224 Group RAF
Malayan Air Wing
112th RAF Adv Base Force
111th RAF Adv Base Force
Singapore Base Force
110th RAF Adv Base Force
223 Group RAF
Singapore Fortress
3rd HK&S Light AA Regiment
109th RAF Adv Base Force
1st Indian Heavy AA Regiment
III Indian Corps
3rd Heavy AA Regiment
AHQ Far East
2nd HK&S Heavy AA Regiment
22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
109th RN Base Force
