Rumble in the Southwest witpqs-A vs Andav-J 2011-11-29 to 2017-02-08

[witpqs]

And the last two.

[witpqs]

Moonlight for the turn in flight is 21%. But those RN cruisers are out of ammo anyway. [:(]

[witpqs]

1943 October 03

The Empire captured:


The Allies captured:


There were Imperial amphibious operations at:


There were Allied amphibious operations at:


A very good day for the Allies

Over night our subs got a couple of Imperial ships, but the news of the night was the surface battle near Rangoon. Yesterday our cruiser force had engaged a merchant TF and sank about all of it, then made their assigned bombardment on the ground forces at Rangoon. The destroyers are not even equipped with torpedoes, and the cruisers were almost out of both torpedoes and main battery ammo.

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Rangoon at 54,54, Range 2,000 Yards

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
E13A1 Jake: 4 destroyed

Japanese Ships
BB Kongo
BB Musashi, Shell hits 23, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
CA Maya, Shell hits 1
DD Akizuki, Shell hits 2
DD Susuzuki, Shell hits 1
DD Hatsuzuki

Allied Ships
CA Dorsetshire
CA Sussex, Shell hits 3, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
CA Cornwall, Shell hits 5
DD Stronghold
DD Tenedos
DD Thanet, Shell hits 3, on fire

Poor visibility due to Thunderstorms with 21% moonlight
Maximum visibility in Thunderstorms and 21% moonlight: 2,000 yards
Range closes to 24,000 yards...
Range closes to 18,000 yards...
Range closes to 12,000 yards...
Range closes to 8,000 yards...
Range closes to 6,000 yards...
Range closes to 4,000 yards...
Range closes to 2,000 yards...
CONTACT: Allies radar detects Japanese task force at 2,000 yards
Allies open fire on surprised Japanese ships at 2,000 yards
CA Cornwall fires at BB Musashi at 2,000 yards
Magazine explodes on BB Musashi
BB Musashi sunk by CA Sussex at 2,000 yards
CA Cornwall fires at DD Susuzuki at 2,000 yards
CA Sussex launches Torpedoes at DD Akizuki at 2,000 yards
CA Cornwall engages DD Akizuki at 2,000 yards
CA Cornwall engages CA Maya at 2,000 yards
DD Susuzuki engages DD Thanet at 2,000 yards
DD Thanet engages DD Akizuki at 2,000 yards
Range increases to 5,000 yards
CA Sussex engages CA Maya at 5,000 yards
CA Maya engages CA Dorsetshire at 5,000 yards
CA Sussex engages DD Susuzuki at 5,000 yards
DD Akizuki engages DD Thanet at 5,000 yards
Palliser, Arthur FE orders Allied TF to disengage
Task forces break off...


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Sussex did sink. the air battles over Rangoon were just as fierce and the losses for the day are shown below. All in all, both our troops and the Empire's were subject to air strikes, although our troops were much better protected. In the end, I think it was the tanks that made the difference, being awesome on defense. I thought that a shock attack was in order, but in hindsight that would have been an outright disaster for the Empire.

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Ground combat at Rangoon (54,53)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 56736 troops, 421 guns, 29 vehicles, Assault Value = 2090

Defending force 34324 troops, 408 guns, 1160 vehicles, Assault Value = 776

Japanese adjusted assault: 833

Allied adjusted defense: 1477

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-)
experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
5064 casualties reported
Squads: 26 destroyed, 428 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 46 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 41 disabled
Guns lost 47 (2 destroyed, 45 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1268 casualties reported
Squads: 34 destroyed, 30 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 42 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled
Guns lost 28 (15 destroyed, 13 disabled)
Vehicles lost 54 (22 destroyed, 32 disabled)

Assaulting units:
9th Division
3rd Division
63rd Inf Group Brigade
40th Inf Group Brigade
16th Garrison Unit
1st RTA/A Division
29th Division
1st RTA/B Division
211th Ship Eng Coy
1st Air Army
34th Field AA Battalion
18th JNAF AF Unit
311th Ship Eng Coy
1st RF Gun Battalion
62nd JAAF AF Bn

Defending units:
16th LRP Brigade
3rd Cavalry Regiment
14th LRP Brigade
50th Tank Brigade
Gardner's Horse Regiment
255th Armoured Brigade
150th RAC Regiment
45th Indian Brigade
44th Indian Brigade
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
72nd British Brigade
Americal Infantry Division
23rd LRP Brigade
XV Indian Corps


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In China the stalwarts (2 units who had not retreated) from that larger ragtag group of survivors that made it back to friendly lines was destroyed in their effort to screen their fellows. Allied infantry divisions are closing in on the area so the road between Tsuyung and Kunming should hold, as should both Kunming and Tsuyung.

The troops at Truk will rest the one more day. Most of the 1st Adv Fleet Base is ashore and the boost in engineer services has finished repairing the runways and 50% repaired the air services.

Bunker Hill did upgrade at Manus so the other Essex class CV will put in to perform their AA upgrades.

Here are the troops at Rangoon.

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Here are the day's air losses. The P-47 and Corsair squadrons are now switching over to sweeping Rangoon. The next RN cruiser group is just short of its jump off point to bombard Rangoon (or Moulmein). In probably 2 days Force Z will make its jump off point to bombard Moulmein.

[JocMeister]

Ooo! Thats a nice day indeed! [:)]

[princep01]

Musashi sank from 2 torpedo hits and 20+ 8" hits???  Something is wrong there.  FOW may apply such that the battle report is under/overstated and the sinking of Musashi may be FOW too, but if it did sink, I am aghast, no, agog, that Musashi could be sunk with 8" hits and a couple of torpedos.
 
I would not be surprised to see her sail forth in a few months. 
 
Nonetheless, as I am one of your boosters and a fan, great work!
 
 

[Spidery]

ORIGINAL: princep01

Musashi sank from 2 torpedo hits and 20+ 8" hits???  Something is wrong there.  FOW may apply such that the battle report is under/overstated and the sinking of Musashi may be FOW too, but if it did sink, I am aghast, no, agog, that Musashi could be sunk with 8" hits and a couple of torpedos.

I would not be surprised to see her sail forth in a few months. 

I expect the magazine explosion didn't help the Musashi - one of those random things.

I thought ships reported as sunk during the replay always indicated something had sunk - but sometimes the ship name is wrong.

[JocMeister]

Didn´t GJ sink the Yamato with a single sub launched torp in his game vs rader? Also caused a magazine explosion! Boom! [:D]

[witpqs]

I almost always his Esc during combat animations, so I didn't see it precisely, and the combat report is slightly uninformative about the magazine explosion. Walter said it came after the 2nd torpedo hit. So it wasn't the 8" gunfire that mostly did her in. BUT - I would not be at all surprised if 8" AP gunfire could penetrate that armor at 2,000 yards. The energies those projectiles are traveling with is a whole different ball game that close in.

Even if none of the 8" penetrated, the magazine explosion and resulting fires and flooding, coupled with all the system damage from the gunfire and the two torps themselves could certainly do it.

While he didn't clarify Musashi or Yamato, the ship went down. Look at the day's air losses to see 9 Jakes lost on the ground. I seem to recall Yamato taking some damage a while back that would warrant yard time and although that repair work could be finished, more likely it was Musashi.

[princep01]

Nice!  Looks like you got her at little enough cost.
 
I'm no expert on shell penetration and the like, but 8" at 2000' would penetrate areas of the ship.  I am not sure about IJ ship design, but I do know what the Americans did.  With regard to armor plating, they used the concept of all or nothing (well, actually, little or nothing) in designing BBs.  So, an Iowa Class had areas that an average sort of shell would penerate, but those areas did not protect vital areas like the engine room, magazines, gun turrets or the fighting tower.  Even at close range, firing with a relatively flat tajectory, I seriously doubt an 8" would penetrate one of the armored areas.  Ring the bell, make the systems within malf; yeah, maybe, but I really don't think it would drill thru the armor and explode inside the turret (or whatever the protected area).  Could be wrong.  Musashi was very heavily armored, so I don't think an 8" did her in, but like you say, those hits no doubt did do a  lot of general system damage.
 
But a torp might  do the trick, as no ship is proof against the underwater menace striking a soft spot and brewing up a mag.
 
Maybe some of our ex naval types could kick in on this.

[obvert]

Interesting on Musashi. I wonder also if some of the work michaelm did on the affects of system damage made ships more vulnerable to this kind of thing after many non-penetrating hits. Jocke and I found a situation where his BBs were bombed extensively, but didn't show device damage until in port under repair.

I wonder if he changes made to allow that damage to be shown immediately now makes these kinds of things more likely to occur?

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: obvert

Interesting on Musashi. I wonder also if some of the work michaelm did on the affects of system damage made ships more vulnerable to this kind of thing after many non-penetrating hits. Jocke and I found a situation where his BBs were bombed extensively, but didn't show device damage until in port under repair.

I wonder if he changes made to allow that damage to be shown immediately now makes these kinds of things more likely to occur?

I don't know if Michael made any changes to that, but AE from day one has had some important differences in damage routines from WITP. Systems includes the damage control function, so the greater the sys damage the worse the ship is able to perform damage control.

[witpqs]

1943 October 04

The Empire captured:


The Allies captured:


There were Imperial amphibious operations at:


There were Allied amphibious operations at:


CA Hawkins was hit by a sub-launched torpedo over night and is headed to Colombo for repairs. We lost a Dutch sub in the Strait of Malacca, and our subs got a CM at Guam.

In China. Imperial troops are (of course) already in Kunming in force, and are now moving in force to block the road between Kunming and Tsuyung and to bolster their position in Tsuyung. The 9th Australian Division has 35 miles to go to reach Kunming. The USA 27th ID and the 11th East Africa Div will arrive at Tsuyung tomorrow and will then attack the Imperial forces present. The 6th Australian Div is about 3 or 4 days behind them and will continue on to hold the road between the two cities. The 7th Australian Div is another 4 or so days even further back.

At Kunming itself, the Chinese units are struggling for supply but now the Allied units have basically full wagons. It won't be long before all units there have supply. Two of the Chinese units are ordered to move up the road (they will pass 9th Aus) to free up space for the incoming, more powerful unit.

The troops at Rangoon continue to recover, while the air battles were just as intense. We will begin to scale back bomber support as it is needed in China. A Liberator III group that should be still training but was instead committed with unready pilots. They have experience in the 30s and 40s and defensive skill about the same; their losses showed it and they will get back to training. It looks like about 10 days before the first relief division arrives at Rangoon, with the next division about 4 or 5 days behind the first one. Recon indicates that the number of Imperial troops at Rangoon has increased from about 70,000 to about 90,000. As you can see below, disruption among our troops is down significantly, so they should hold.

Truk airfield is fully operational and the port is down to 98% damage. Recon has been operating for two days and (coupled with a long range group at Ponape) has been giving us a look at Guam, Rota, Tinian, and Saipan. The defenses on Rota are far less extensive than on the other three. One USMC division is still 13 fatigue but the attack is ordered anyway. The battleships are just close enough to make it and the cruiser groups are bombarding every day (rearming right at Truk via replenishment ships).

The 4 Essex class CV are upgrading at Manus and will be ready in 9 days. That will be just about right for the Babeldaob invasion force to load and reach their vicinity.

Here are the day's air losses.

[witpqs]

Here are the troops at Rangoon.

[witpqs]

At this point the tactical plan for the Rangoon area is to hold at Rangoon, fixing the Imperial forces there, while the front line just SW of Toungoo is massively reinforced to produce a breakthrough. There are about 1,240 AV in infantry and several good arty units in place. A number of units have been behind the lines either recovering after earlier battles or getting squads upgraded. Those will be joined by 3rd USMC Div and the three USA tank/tank destroyer units all re-tasked from crossing the border into China. That 1,733 AV will bring the total to 2,973 AV, a larger force than crossed into Rangoon. The Empire currently has in place about 29,900 troops, 225 guns, and 66 AFV. Even the 1,240 AV currently in place is much larger, but might not force a quick breakthrough in the jungle. The reinforcements will rally at Toungoo and march to arrive at the front all at once, attacking the next day. In company with AA units, they will march for Pegu to trap or force the withdrawal of Imperial forces at Rangoon and on the road NE of Rangoon.

[witpqs]

1943 October 05

The Empire captured:


The Allies captured:


There were Imperial amphibious operations at:


There were Allied amphibious operations at:


A busy day. None of our subs scored over night, which has become a bit unusual, but Repulse was torpedoed about 200 nm W Rangoon and will head to Colombo for repairs. The naval bombardments against the remaining defenders at Truk were better than usual, disabling a bunch of combat and support squads. In China the 27th ID made it to Tsuyung but the 11th East Africa Div did not, so the attack there will be the day after tomorrow. Tsuyung is much over stacked now and units are moving out as quickly as possible. The 9th Australian Div is almost sure to make Kunming tomorrow and two units will simultaneously move out to make room for them (leaving Kunming only much over stacked!). Meanwhile, the Empire attacked SE of Kunming.

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Ground combat at 69,49 (near Kunming)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 10802 troops, 99 guns, 514 vehicles, Assault Value = 444

Defending force 27800 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 744

Japanese adjusted assault: 43

Allied adjusted defense: 1414

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 32

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

Japanese ground losses:
957 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 92 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 116 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 17 (11 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Vehicles lost 183 (38 destroyed, 145 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
835 casualties reported
Squads: 17 destroyed, 60 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
4th Tank Regiment
5th Tank Regiment
12th Tank Regiment
17th Tank Regiment
14th Tank Regiment
23rd Tank Regiment
58th Infantry Regiment
6th Tank Regiment
104th/B Division
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
1st Mortar Battalion
Kanno

Defending units:
14th Chinese Corps
76th Chinese Corps
21st Chinese Cavalry Division
32nd Chinese Corps
86th Chinese Corps
27th Group Army


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With only supply to work with - no fortifications and no anti-armor weapons - our guys did pretty darn well.

The troops at Rangoon are doing very well too (see below), with disruption and fatigue low and AV recovering for all units. Even large escorts were unable to get the Helens through for more than harassment due to the vigilance of the CAP.

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Morning Air attack on 3rd Carabiniers Regiment, at 54,53 (Rangoon)

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
N1K1-J George x 2
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 52
Ki-49-IIb Helen x 9
Ki-84a Frank x 19

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc Trop x 1
P-40K Warhawk x 10
P-40N1 Warhawk x 5
P-40N5 Warhawk x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49-IIb Helen: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40K Warhawk: 3 destroyed
P-40N1 Warhawk: 1 destroyed
P-40N5 Warhawk: 1 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Ki-49-IIb Helen bombing from 9000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
No.11 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
312th BG/388th BS with P-40K Warhawk (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 12000
Raid is overhead
51st FG/16th FS with P-40K Warhawk (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 12000
Raid is overhead
51st FG/25th FS with P-40K Warhawk (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Raid is overhead
23rd FG/74th FS with P-40K Warhawk (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 9000
Raid is overhead
23rd FG/75th FS with P-40K Warhawk (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Raid is overhead
80th FG/88th FS with P-40N1 Warhawk (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Raid is overhead
80th FG/89th FS with P-40N1 Warhawk (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 9000
Raid is overhead
80th FG/90th FS with P-40N5 Warhawk (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 12000
Raid is overhead



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Now flown by crack pilots our P-47s are performing great when acting as hunters, in this case sweeping. 6 P-47 pilots became aces over Rangoon today. See the air losses below for a complete tally, which included intercepting Helen raids, escorting B-17 raids, and of course the sweeps at Rangoon and Biak. Below are the P-47 sweeps over those two bases. Note that at Biak they had the assist of a nighttime bombardment.

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Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 69 NM, estimated altitude 39,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 20 minutes

Japanese aircraft
N1K1-J George x 3
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 3
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 44
Ki-84a Frank x 11

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc Trop x 1
P-40K Warhawk x 1
P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 22

Japanese aircraft losses
N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 2 destroyed
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 11 destroyed
Ki-84a Frank: 3 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 1 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 37000 feet

CAP engaged:
24th Sentai/B with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 7 scrambling)
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters to 32560.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes
202 Ku S-1 Det B with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling)
2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters to 33800.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 16 minutes
4th Sentai Det B with Ki-84a Frank (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 3 scrambling)
Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters to 31514.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 25 minutes
25th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
9 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 14000 , scrambling fighters to 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 87 minutes
47th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters to 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes
54th Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 12000 , scrambling fighters to 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes
64th Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 25000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes
77th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 29000 , scrambling fighters to 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes
11th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 3 scrambling)
5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 24000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 32560.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes
77th Sentai Det A with Ki-84a Frank (0 airborne, 2 on standby, 1 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 31514.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes



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Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 70 NM, estimated altitude 38,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 20 minutes

Japanese aircraft
N1K1-J George x 1
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 22
Ki-84a Frank x 6

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc Trop x 1
P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 23

Japanese aircraft losses
N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 11 destroyed
Ki-84a Frank: 3 destroyed

No Allied losses

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 37000 feet

CAP engaged:
24th Sentai/B with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters to 15000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 63 minutes
202 Ku S-1 Det B with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 9 minutes
4th Sentai Det B with Ki-84a Frank (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters to 14000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes
25th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
7 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 14000 , scrambling fighters to 20000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes
47th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 12000 and 18000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes
54th Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 12000 , scrambling fighters to 15000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes
77th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 29000 , scrambling fighters to 18000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes
11th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 24000 , scrambling fighters between 14000 and 16000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 29 minutes
77th Sentai Det A with Ki-84a Frank (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 13000 and 17000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 24 minutes



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Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 38 NM, estimated altitude 38,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 2
Ki-84a Frank x 2

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc Trop x 1
P-40K Warhawk x 1
P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 21

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40K Warhawk: 1 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
20 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 37000 feet

CAP engaged:
24th Sentai/B with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters to 16000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 50 minutes
4th Sentai Det B with Ki-84a Frank (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters to 13000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes
77th Sentai Det A with Ki-84a Frank (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters to 13000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 8 minutes



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Morning Air attack on Biak , at 87,110

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 39,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
N1K1-J George x 2
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 7

Allied aircraft
P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed

No Allied losses

CAP engaged:
253 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 24 minutes
246th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling)
5 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 31000 , scrambling fighters to 31000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes



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Morning Air attack on Biak , at 87,110

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 38,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
N1K1-J George x 2
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 4

Allied aircraft
P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 22

Japanese aircraft losses
N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 3 destroyed

No Allied losses

Aircraft Attacking:
22 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 37000 feet

CAP engaged:
253 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters to 32000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes
246th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 31000 , scrambling fighters between 35000 and 36000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 56 minutes



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POW will bombard Moulmein tonight, while a CA will bombard Tavoy, and a CL will run interference to try and intercept a 3x CM + xAK convoy seen moving along the coast. Other RN cruisers are on station for the following night.

At Truk the story was the same as the last time our forces attacked when just a little less ready than desired: good odds but bad results.

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Ground combat at Truk (112,108)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 34191 troops, 580 guns, 618 vehicles, Assault Value = 862

Defending force 12474 troops, 115 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 178

Allied adjusted assault: 1236

Japanese adjusted defense: 133

Allied assault odds: 9 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
734 casualties reported
Squads: 46 destroyed, 18 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 20 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 15 (12 destroyed, 3 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1345 casualties reported
Squads: 58 destroyed, 50 disabled
Non Combat: 19 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 7 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 22 (14 destroyed, 8 disabled)
Vehicles lost 27 (15 destroyed, 12 disabled)

Assaulting units:
3rd Marine Division
762nd Tank Battalion
1st Marine Division
763rd Tank Battalion
24th Infantry Division
Otago (Mtd) Rifles Regiment
1st Fleet Advn Base Force
3rd NZ Division

Defending units:
Sasebo 5th SNLF
Guards Mixed Brigade
42nd Naval Guard Unit
46th Naval Guard Unit
30th Infantry Regiment
41st Infantry Rgt /2
4th Base Force
Truk Naval Fortress
48th Naval Guard Unit
4th Port Unit

Even still this grinds away at the remaining defenders. Disruption is very high in our units and they will rest for likely 3 days before attacking again. The ships and planes will keep up the tempo.

Here are today's air losses.

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Here are the troops at Rangoon.

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Here is a look at Repulse.

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I pulled a sunk ships report. Click on the attachment to this post, then click on the file name to open it, then maximize the window to see it formatted correctly.

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Wow, no CVs lost for the Allies! You've done well there.

Looks like he's done a good job keeping TK/AO protected so far as well.