Yup they are BORG .. without a doubt .. see this :-
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 07/26/43
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Naval bombardment of Attu Island, at 92,34
Allied Ships
DD Welles
DD McCalla
DD Lardner
DD Duncan
DD Nicholas
Japanese ground losses:
10 casualties reported
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Naval bombardment of Attu Island, at 92,34
Allied Ships
DD O'Bannon
DD Pringle
DD Barton
DD Meade
CA San Francisco
CA New Orleans
BB California
BB Arizona
Japanese ground losses:
182 casualties reported
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Naval bombardment of Attu Island, at 92,34
Allied Ships
DD Flusser
DD Stack
DD Maury
DD Stanly
DD Bache
DD Anthony
CL Phoenix
CL Richmond
BB Pennsylvania
Japanese ground losses:
145 casualties reported
Shelled by every available ship in theatre ..
followed by :-
Day Air attack on 23rd Engineer Regiment, at 92,34
Allied aircraft
SBD Dauntless x 2
Beaufort I x 3
B-24D Liberator x 24
No Allied losses
Japanese ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Day Air attack on 21st Division, at 92,34
Allied aircraft
SBD Dauntless x 13
Beaufort I x 11
B-24D Liberator x 51
No Allied losses
Japanese ground losses:
67 casualties reported
AND
Day Air attack on 21st Division, at 92,34
Allied aircraft
PB4Y Liberator x 9
No Allied losses
Japanese ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Have to say bad weather prevented larger raids. even so .
attack 1
Ground combat at Attu Island
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 33453 troops, 233 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 479
Defending force 13362 troops, 0 guns, 10 vehicles, Assault Value = 212
Allied max assault: 504 - adjusted assault: 546
Japanese max defense: 119 - adjusted defense: 13
Allied assault odds:
42 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
146 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 3
Allied ground losses:
365 casualties reported
Guns lost 7
Attack 2
Ground combat at Attu Island
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 33197 troops, 228 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 455
Defending force 13193 troops, 1 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 215
Allied max assault: 478 - adjusted assault: 549
Japanese max defense: 124 - adjusted defense: 16
Allied assault odds:
34 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
239 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Vehicles lost 2
Allied ground losses:
356 casualties reported
Guns lost 10
ARGHHHHH [:@][:@][:@][:@].. try again tomorrow .. they havnt eaten for 2 months at least
or had shelter in one of the most hostile environments on earth, and they still cause me
more casualties .. checked everything .. HQ's/Leaders all adequate/good.
SIGH ..
OK back to more interesting stuff ..
Air raids today (again) .. characterised by heavy loss of escort but the bombers made it
through without much in the way of loss.
1st UP allied air attack at troop ships unloading ? at munda in the solomons
Day Air attack on TF, near Munda at 64,95
Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 38
Allied aircraft
F4U-1 Corsair x 12
TBF Avenger x 13
Kittyhawk I x 8
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 6 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
F4U-1 Corsair: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
TBF Avenger: 4 destroyed, 4 damaged
Kittyhawk I: 5 destroyed
Japanese Ships
AP Jinshu Maru
AP Heiwa Maru
AP Hino Maru #3, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
Heavy losses for the kittyhawks. and the Tojo's riddled the Torpedo bombers hence the
bad results. never mind ..
Japanese raids on unloading transports in sumatra ..
Even with 100 a/c defending i suspect fatigue ( from flying in last turn) made the
combat a bit in favour of japan. Also i suspect that the japanese dross pilots
died in the past 4 days so only the elite came on today.
Day Air attack on TF, near Kuala at 20,43
Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 6
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 13
Ki-21 Sally x 12
Ki-48 Lily x 5
Allied aircraft
F4U-1 Corsair x 12
Hurricane II x 9
P-40B Tomahawk x 42
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 6 destroyed
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 10 destroyed
Ki-21 Sally: 1 destroyed, 6 damaged
Ki-48 Lily: 2 destroyed, 1 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
F4U-1 Corsair: 4 damaged
Hurricane II: 1 damaged
P-40B Tomahawk: 3 destroyed, 7 damaged
Allied Ships
AK Princess of Negros
AK Legazpi
AK Empire Scout, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AK Empire Resistance
Day Air attack on TF, near Kuala at 20,43
Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 7
G4M1 Betty x 31
Allied aircraft
F4U-1 Corsair x 12
Hurricane II x 9
P-40B Tomahawk x 39
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 4 destroyed
G4M1 Betty: 4 destroyed, 6 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
F4U-1 Corsair: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged
Hurricane II: 1 damaged
P-40B Tomahawk: 7 destroyed, 4 damaged
Allied Ships
AK Halldor, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage SANK and fuel on fire for good measure.
AK Gran, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
Day 2 ..
Rennel island was rained out ..
Malaya wasn't
Day Air attack on TF, near Kuala at 20,43
Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 3
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 10
Ki-21 Sally x 21
Ki-48 Lily x 4
Allied aircraft
F4U-1 Corsair x 6
Hurricane II x 7
P-40B Tomahawk x 28
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 3 destroyed
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 10 destroyed BETTER
Ki-21 Sally: 4 destroyed, 1 damaged
Ki-48 Lily: 2 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
F4U-1 Corsair: 1 damaged
Hurricane II: 1 destroyed
P-40B Tomahawk: 4 damaged
Allied Ships
AK Bisayas, Bomb hits 1
AK Legazpi
AK Empire Resistance
AK Princess of Negros
What does that come to ?
Japan loses 46 , allies 16 (mostly the AVG).
OK ish ..
Remember i was going to raid Georgetown with surface raiders ..
whoops !
TF 1042 encounters mine field at Georgetown (23,44)
Allied Ships
DD Express, Mine hits 1, on fire
DD Rapid, Mine hits 1, on fire
CL Java, Mine hits 1, on fire
TF called off the shelling and retired to sabang.
DD Rapid quite badly damaged, the CL Java only slightly (14 sys), and the DD express
somewher in the middle. it was worth a try i suppose.
Nice dutch sub caught a japanese merchantman off palembang and showed the USN how its
supposed to be done :-
Sub attack near Palembang at 20,55
Japanese Ships
AK Hamburg Maru, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
Allied Ships
SS KVIII
the USN wasn't paying attention though
Sub attack at 59,86
Japanese Ships
AK Lyons Maru
Allied Ships
SS Pollack ( back home for more dud torpedos)
Also is he retireing from the burmese front line ? his AV has reduced quite significantly
Ground combat at 31,32
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 696 troops, 24 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value =
2423
Defending force 142929 troops, 1299 guns, 481 vehicles, Assault Value = 3138
Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
HUMM .. might just throw in my repairing divs and have a go. lets send them off today and
see what happens.
Okey dokey. back to bombing the troops in port moresby. airfield and port are already
ruined.
Day Air attack on 56th Division, at 53,91
Allied aircraft
P-47C Thunderbolt x 30
No Allied losses
Japanese ground losses:
45 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
first combat use of the P47C.. not bad .
then this [:D]
Day Air attack on 56th Division, at 53,91
Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 39
B-24D Liberator x 65
No Allied losses
Japanese ground losses:
162 casualties reported
Guns lost 8
Vehicles lost 1
nice one boys.
Remember i was going to exchange the slow AK's for fast ones at sydney ?.. yes skip next line
no ... for the US and commonwealth fighters i'm stealing for the british theatre.
Well the AK's all bloody upgraded and now have sys damage 11-12 .. thats another weeks
delay at least . as the AR's moved upto townsville. [:(] The upside is that they
all now mount radar (on a merchantman ?)and have 20 AA guns too .. quite cool really.
The 4 BB's made it safely to Rennel , so these and the PT's should dissuade any more
bombardment runs. and a few more CA(2) CL(2) DD(4) sent up from luganville to
round out the task force. still leaving another similar sized group in luganville
for when they have to retire as there isn't any fuel at rennel ( and wont be for some time
as its a level 0 port). Or else i run merchant men up and refuel from them instead.
The CV Hornet 2 has loaded up its VT5 (torp bombers) that have been size 4 and living
in the south pacific since the original sank. fingers crossed they will improve into
the proper unit size, but after being on land who can say [&:].
the other carriers are 1 day out from a refuel stop at pago . then aukland then townsville
then invade port moresby.
Oddly enough something interesting happened in canada ! , well sort of interesting
54 C47 commanda transport planes arrived at prince rupert ( all damaged). will take a while
to fix them up and fly them down to San Fran, just to pack them up again for shipping
to australia [;)]
piccie of another air attack on sumatra.
One odd thing, the planes i flew out of kuala to sabang to rebuild didn't , the new fragments
arrived in Pagan of all places ? no air HQ even there ! . i cannot fathom this unit
re-appearing lark at all. not i have to rail them to madras and sail the blighters
down to sumatra .. bah .I'm getting grumpy in my old age[:)]
bye
