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Banda Sea-- Lexington takes a torpedo in a night engaement with IJN Cl and DDs. Float damage 21 with heading back to Austrailia.

What a day of action though It started with after Lexington engagement
Day Time Surface Combat, near Bara at 73,106, Range 19,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CL Tenryu, Shell hits 5, on fire
CL Tatsuta, Shell hits 9, heavy fires
DD Minegumo, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Asagumo
PB Kyo Maru #10, Shell hits 8, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Shoei Maru, Shell hits 9, and is sunk
PB Shotoku Maru, Shell hits 11, and is sunk
AMC Kinryu Maru, Shell hits 3, on fire
AMC Kongo Maru, Shell hits 5
xAK Nishimi Maru, Shell hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Kaisyo Maru, Shell hits 4, on fire
xAK Nitian Maru, Shell hits 3, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAK Cheribon Maru, Shell hits 7, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Nitiho Maru, Shell hits 3, heavy fires
xAK Nagisan Maru, Shell hits 6, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Nasusan Maru, Shell hits 2
xAK Shofuku Maru, Shell hits 4, on fire

Allied Ships
CA Houston
CA Exeter, Shell hits 1
CL De Ruyter, Shell hits 2, on fire
CL Durban
DD Parrott
DD Pillsbury, Shell hits 2
DD Stewart, Shell hits 2, on fire

Lexington went to action with two good strikes

First one
Allied aircraft
SBD-2 Dauntless x 18
TBD-1 Devastator x 12


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
xAK Mansei Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Unkai Maru #6
xAKL Arizama Maru, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk
xAK Satsuma Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
xAKL Yosyu Maru, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
xAKL Tohuku Maru
xAKL Oridono Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage

Japanese ground losses:
453 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 34 disabled
Engineers: 12 destroyed, 11 disabled
Vehicles lost 20 (6 destroyed, 14 disabled)

Second one--
Allied aircraft
SBD-2 Dauntless x 18
TBD-1 Devastator x 12


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
xAK Unkai Maru #6, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk
xAKL Tensyo Maru, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk
xAKL Jinsan Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAKL Tohuku Maru, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
PB Rokko Maru #2, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage

Japanese ground losses:
1132 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 12 disabled
Non Combat: 88 destroyed, 49 disabled
Engineers: 18 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 32 (32 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 79 (60 destroyed, 19 disable

Finally-- Good news forom a dutch sub
ub attack near Billiton at 53,92

Japanese Ships
CV Soryu, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage


Allied Ships
SS KXV

Dec 24

DEI -- Eastern
Hiryu plus CVL making run north of Soerabja. Dutch air strke weak( I wasn't all that set for a run).

Banda Sea.
Kendari falls and Lexington is retiring, maybe all the way back to Townsville. Especially with the Hiryu racing towards Banda Sea.

Solomons--Us CA and Austrailia cruisers are now trailing transports headed to Lunga

Midway-- Hold on the first assaut. 34th Combat Engineers have made the difference

Must have been hard to watch as the Japanese
Japanese ground losses:
1696 casualties reported
Squads: 109 destroyed, 11 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 38 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 31 (29 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 7 (5 destroyed, 2 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
116 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 13 disabled


Assaulting units:
1st Maizuru Assault Division can't be much left of the division
61st Naval Guard Unit

John will be back to Midway. He doesn't like to being thwarted this early in the game. Next time he will bring two divisions!

ORIGINAL: khyberbill

John will be back to Midway. He doesn't like to being thwarted this early in the game. Next time he will bring two divisions!

Good I will be ready

Well, it's not a full division, more of a brigade in game terms, but we don't like to talk about it

Anyway, you are right, I would be chewing my monitor right now if I was John.

Dec 25

Central Pacific--
Midway-- After all the combat assaults yesterday. The defenders woke up to the sound waves lapping at the shore. The Japanese had withdrawn over night.

Solomons--

CA Canberra, CL Achilles, CL Perth ran into a Amph TF near Lunga, heavily damaged 5 AKs and sunk one PB. They are running back to Truk and I going to let them go.

Rabaul -- a couple of IJN BBs bombarded. So I will send most of the CAs in the area there.

DEI-- Quite

I am still looking for CVE Hohsu south of Java

Dec 26

DEI-- 4th Inf Div lands at Merak

Hiryu slips into the Indian Ocean east of Soerabaja. Will she go east or west. East is towards where the Lexington is. west is towards Cocos Islands ??????

Lost track of the Hoshu, I believe it is headed in the direction of the Cocos Islands, and sure enough she shows up and puts two bombs into the British Dauntless from Vals. I have transports unloading 6 brigades of Indian and British inf. I might have unloaded too much there --will be slightly needing more supplies. I will have to take care of that.

Dec 27.

DEI-- 4th division captures Merak

Find the Hoshu and Taiyo north of the Cocos Islands

SBD airgroups from the Enterprise launch a surprise airstrike on the Hoshu and Taiyo

Oh yes the Enterprise is on the scene. This is probably a BIG surprise for John

CVE Taiyo, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires didn't know there was another CVE in this TF till the strike
CVE Hosho, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
CL Yura, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires

Now we need to know where the Hiryu went. The Enterprise is about 3 days ahead of her if she is headed towards the Cocos Islands. It is probably time to move the Enterprise to safe location, but where?

I might have unloaded too much there --will be slightly needing more supplies. I will have to take care of that.

you can only station 30k troops here. I usually get enough from Dutch units to fill up the place.

ORIGINAL: khyberbill

I might have unloaded too much there --will be slightly needing more supplies. I will have to take care of that.

you can only station 30k troops here. I usually get enough from Dutch units to fill up the place.

It is Dec 27th and John has already landed in Java. I didn't expect it to happen so fast. I am using as many OP points as I can in some other areas. I guess I could use air transport. Right now the air transports are ferrying avation units, and HQs. I believe Java will only last another three weeks

He does move fast, he wants to secure his oil fast. Then he will drive onto Northern Oz. John cant stop once he gets going into a particular direction.

I wll am going to get back on this AAR--

I have been very busy, plus there seams to be Japanese all over Austrailia.

May 7, 1942

Three divisions were caught north of Alice Springs trying to reinforce Darwin. THen the hammer fell in March with Japanese landing on both east and west coasts of Austrailia. There are probably close to 10-15 Japanese divisions plus assets in Austrailia right now.

I have been busy on placing reinforcements in the pipeline, including the invasion forces released because of the Japanese landing. Where to go with them?

Cocos Isalnd is Allied with over 300av. One Japanese landing throw back in to the sea.
Noumea has fallen and Suva is a Allied stronghold. 500av and 250ac

In the last week a lone US CV raided all the way to Pagan( surprised John on that).

I will continue to update. Ideas are welcome.

No takers yet. Perhaps everyone is also reading John's AAR and can not comment.

Can you take Koepang and thus support your troops isolated in Northern Oz?