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Another surprise move by Tom
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SOPAC
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All of the sudden Tom lands on Norfolk Island. I saw the TF leaving Noumea but was sure it was a big CA TF heading out to hunt for Achilles and Perth. Instead this:
Amphibious Assault at Norfolk Island (113,170)
TF 69 troops unloading over beach at Norfolk Island, 113,170
Japanese ground losses:
102 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
20 troops of a IJA Hy Inf Sqd 41 accidentally lost during unload of 4th JAAF AF Bn
Looks like pretty low prep landing. Not sure how much he was gutted but he will need some intact AV to capture Norfolk. Its empty though. But its only a level 1 AF and only 15 hexes from the level 8 AFs at Auckland. Tom probably intends for it to act as a forward scouting base. I might let him for a while as no traffic moves through this area anyway.
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Burma
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Tom sweeps Chittagong again. Doing way better then I would have liked and gets a 1:1 on the day.
Morning Air attack on Chittagong , at 55,41
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid detected at 133 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 39 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 6
Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 31
Hurricane IIc Trop x 14
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed
Morning Air attack on Chittagong , at 55,41
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid detected at 21 NM, estimated altitude 35,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 22
Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 35
Hurricane IIc Trop x 16
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 1 destroyed
No Allied losses
Aircraft Attacking:
18 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick sweeping at 31000 feet
Morning Air attack on Chittagong , at 55,41
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid detected at 121 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 30 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 39
Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 25
Hurricane IIc Trop x 11
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 4 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb Trop: 2 destroyed
Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-43-IIa Oscar sweeping at 15000 feet
I would kill for some Corsairs or P38s right now. [:(]
Have to pull back to Calcutta for now in case bombers come for the AF tomorrow. Have about 70% of the planes grounded due to damage. Have to be careful with the pools. Some squadrons upgrade directly from the Hurricane "b" to Spit VII or Thuds. So if I run out of "b"s they are useless. Only found one such squadron so far though but there might be more.
