AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Apr 06, 42
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Sub attack near Sydney at 92,168
Japanese Ships
SS I-175, hits 2
Allied Ships
DD Hughes
DD Sims
DD Anderson
besides I-173 in the area we attack I-175 today achieving a whopping two near misses before Anderson ran out of depth charges...
SS I-175 launches 2 torpedoes at DD Hughes
DD Anderson fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Anderson fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Anderson attacking submerged sub ....
DD Anderson fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Anderson fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
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ASW attack near Sydney at 92,168
Japanese Ships
SS I-175
Allied Ships
DD Hughes
DD Sims
DD Anderson
SS I-175 is located by DD Hughes
I-175 diving deep ....
DD Anderson fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Anderson fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Anderson fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Anderson attacking submerged sub ....
SS I-175 eludes DD Anderson by diving deep
SS I-175 eludes DD Anderson by diving deep
SS I-175 eludes DD Anderson by diving deep
DD Anderson cannot establish contact with SS I-175
DD Anderson fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
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Morning Air attack on Rabaul , at 106,125
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 13
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 13
Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 6
B-17E Fortress x 27
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ib Oscar: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 1 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 7 damaged
Japanese Ships
CA Maya, Bomb hits 2
xAK Nissen Maru #3, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAK Mikasa Maru, Bomb hits 1
xAP Buenos Aires Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
BB Haruna, Bomb hits 6
CA Ashigara, Bomb hits 2
CL Yubari, Bomb hits 1
xAK Azuchi Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Port hits 2
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1
the B-17 strike out of Port Moresby goes in at Rabaul in bad weather unfortunately and unlike previous port strikes the hit rate isn't as high but this is also related to the fighter presence and more flak fire (which isn't as heavy as expected)... we do find the expected Oscars on CAP though both Sentais still flying the totally obsolet -Ia and -Ib models which can hardly down an Allied fighter with their armament let alone a heavy bomber so the kill rate was in favour of the bombers as we didn't lose a B-17 to the Oscars... the damage to the ships looks better on paper than it actually is, the 500lb bombs bounced off the heavy cruisers just as they did on Haruna so the only damage we did was against the freighters and transports as even Yubari's deck armor can withstand 500lb bomb hits...
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 8000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 8000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 8000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 8000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 8000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 8000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
CAP engaged:
13th Sentai with Ki-43-Ia Oscar (3 airborne, 6 on standby, 4 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 12000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes
244th Sentai with Ki-43-Ib Oscar (3 airborne, 6 on standby, 4 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 8000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes
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Morning Air attack on Rabaul , at 106,125
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 39 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 8
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 8
Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 6
B-17E Fortress x 6
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 5 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged
Japanese Ships
BB Haruna, Bomb hits 3
CL Sendai, Bomb hits 1
CA Maya, Bomb hits 3
Port hits 1
Port fuel hits 1
more bombers show up and this time we even had a bomb penetrating the deck of CL Sendai...
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 8000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 8000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
CAP engaged:
13th Sentai with Ki-43-Ia Oscar (0 airborne, 3 on standby, 4 scrambling)
1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 12000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes
244th Sentai with Ki-43-Ib Oscar (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 8000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes
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Morning Air attack on Rabaul , at 106,125
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 39 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 5
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 6
Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 6
B-17E Fortress x 6
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 4 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed by flak
Japanese Ships
BB Haruna, Bomb hits 3
CA Chokai, Bomb hits 1
CL Yubari, Bomb hits 1
Port hits 2
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 8000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 8000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
CAP engaged:
13th Sentai with Ki-43-Ia Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling)
1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes
244th Sentai with Ki-43-Ib Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling)
2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 8000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes
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Morning Air attack on Rabaul , at 106,125
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 38 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 4
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 4
Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 6
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged
Japanese Ships
BB Haruna, Bomb hits 1, on fire
CA Chokai, Bomb hits 1
CA Ashigara, Bomb hits 1
last wave dropping their load leaving us with a mixed feeling about the attack... probably due to the earlier successes with B-17 port strikes we expected a better outcome, I'm unsure we even sink a merchant today and caused only minor damage to the warships at Rabaul and in total we lost 7 bombers to flak/ops... in terms of damage done/received this strike was a bad day but naval search spotted all shipping running North from Rabaul, most likely going back to Truk so strategically the day was a success as Mundy sees Rabaul as a threatend port he can't use (at least for the moment)...
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 8000 feet
Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
CAP engaged:
13th Sentai with Ki-43-Ia Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling)
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters to 7000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes
244th Sentai with Ki-43-Ib Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling)
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters to 13000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 142167 troops, 1547 guns, 1070 vehicles, Assault Value = 3452
Defending force 51749 troops, 632 guns, 283 vehicles, Assault Value = 360
Japanese adjusted assault: 1040
Allied adjusted defense: 982
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 2)
Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
4631 casualties reported
Squads: 41 destroyed, 305 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 51 disabled
Engineers: 13 destroyed, 55 disabled
Guns lost 41 (6 destroyed, 35 disabled)
Vehicles lost 44 (9 destroyed, 35 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
1422 casualties reported
Squads: 176 destroyed, 130 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 84 disabled
Engineers: 7 destroyed, 19 disabled
Guns lost 23 (5 destroyed, 18 disabled)
Vehicles lost 24 (6 destroyed, 18 disabled)
enemy is pushing his troops hard at Clark but Allied troops lack numbers and combat power now and we suffer four times the destroyed combat squads than the enemy even though we could disable a good number... but also this is looking better on paper than it really is as the disablements are spread over all those units and can be recovered pretty quickly...
Assaulting units:
65th Brigade
82nd Naval Guard Unit
38th Division
20th Ind Engineer Regiment
1st Tank Regiment
Guards Mixed Brigade
16th Engineer Regiment
I./4th Infantry Battalion
18th Division
20th Infantry Regiment
III./4th Infantry Battalion
Kure 3rd SNLF
2nd Tank Regiment
2nd Recon Regiment
2nd Indpt SNLF Coy
Maizuru 1st SNLF
16th Infantry Regiment
83rd Naval Guard Unit
5th Division
6th Tank Regiment
Yokosuka 1st SNLF
3rd Ind Engineer Regiment
41st Guard Battalion
9th Infantry Regiment
Yokosuka 3rd SNLF
4th Tank Regiment
Imperial Guards Division
56th Division
24th Infantry Regiment
7th Tank Regiment
21st Ind Engineer Regiment
Sasebo 8th SNLF
19th Ind Engineer Regiment
14th Tank Regiment
Yokosuka 2nd SNLF
Kimura Det
48th Division
63rd Inf Group Brigade
2nd Engineer Regiment
Sasebo 3rd SNLF
1st Sasebo SNLF Coy
30th JNAF AF Unit
47th Field AA Battalion
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion
2nd Base Force
14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
30th Fld AA Gun Co
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
36th Const Co
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Ship Engineer Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
44th Field AA Battalion
1st Ship Engineer Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
45th Field AA Battalion
2nd Field Artillery Regiment
20th Ind. Mtn Gun Battalion
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
1st Naval Construction Battalion
23rd AA Regiment
38th Field Const Co
39th Field Const Co
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
3rd Construction Battalion
37th JNAF AF Unit
48th Field AA Battalion
II./4th Infantry Battalion
24th Nav Gsn Unit
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
8th Port Unit
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
14th Army
37th Const Co
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
1st RF Gun Battalion
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
2nd Mortar Battalion
2nd Port Unit
16th AA Regiment
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
40th Field AA Battalion
48th JAAF AF Bn
Defending units:
21st PA Infantry Division
31st PA Infantry Division
91st PA Infantry Division
61st PA Infantry Division
101st PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
57th PS Infantry Regiment
11th PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
3rd Constabulary Regiment
1st Constabulary Regiment
71st PA Infantry Division
45th PS Infantry Regiment
51st PA Infantry Division
4th Constabulary Regiment
US Forces Far East
II Corps
803rd Aviation Engineer Battalion
Nichols Field AAF Base Force
31st Infantry Regiment
86th PS Field Artillery Battalion
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
II/Prov'nl SPM Grp
Del Monte AAF Base Force
1st Port Maint Engineer Battalion
3rd Heavy AA Regiment
Subic Bay Defenses
73rd PA Infantry Regiment
I Corps
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
4th PAAC Avn Sup
I/Prov'nl SPM Grp
III/Prov'nl SPM Grp
1st USMC AA Battalion
24th PS FA Regiment
24th Avn Sup
11th PAAC Avn Sup
Clark Field AAF Base Force
!/23rd PS FA Battalion
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
