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Air War....

This includes losses on all fronts, but most of them occurred in the CBI or Southwest Pacific.

Airframe Pools:
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Airframe Current //// Diff*
P-38E --- 00 /// +00
P-39D** --- 50 /// -64
P-40E --- 62 /// -08
P-400 --- 05 /// +00
Hurricane IIb --- 28 /// +01
Hurricane IIc --- 61 /// +30
Buffalo I --- 00 /// -04
Mohawk IV --- 18 /// -08
Hurricane XIIb --- 46 /// +18
Kittyhwak I --- 06 /// +04

CBI:
In the CBI there are two British Hurricane IIb Trop ACUs, one Canadian Kittyhawk I ACU, one US P-400 ACU, two P-40E ACUs plus the one P-40E ACU that is rebuilding which was pulled from Rangoon that can rotate in as needed. British Pilots have 60+ Exp and 70 Air. Canadian and US Pilots have 50+ Exp and 70+ Air. There are sufficient pilots in the reserve and training pools to supply replacement pilots as needed with these skill. The training program is working to increase the average us Exp to 60 as quickly as possible for the Canadian and US pilots.. As 60 Exp Pilots come free they are added as replacements as needed. The two P-38 ACUs in the Southwest Pacific have 70+ Exp and 70+ skill pilots.

Southwest Pacific
Allied High Command is looking at starting a massive bomber campaign to shut down or at least impede his air operations out of the level two Airfield at Tulagi. This will be timed to start as the landing forces are about to unload for Operation Apple Jacks. The hope is with the USN 1st BAT DIV for surface cover, the Marine Air ACUs for air cover and this heavy bomber offensive he won't be able to interfere with Apple Jacks,

* The Diff is the difference in the airframe pools from the June 30th date that the air war stated in Rangoon.
** 75 P-39D's were used to upgrade thee P-39E ACUs to free up 36 air frames.

Question of the Day

When a land unit withdraws out of theater does the leader go back the "pool" or is the leader gone?

Return of the Subs....

Seem that AirGriff is surging the submarines again to Peal Harbor. I have re-tasked the bombers at Pearl to ASW, they were training secondary skills to get their Exp above 50 (all of them have 70+ GND).

Unleash the ASW!

30 July 42 - 02 August 42 Executive Summary

There the air war in Rangoon has shifted into high gear, will detail it in a separate post. As its August of 1942, a large number of bomber units expand to larger size and put a nice dent in my pool of trained pilots.

Raiding
Sub attack near French Frigate Shoal SS I-5, hits 1 vs DD Monssen
ASW attack near Lakatoro SS RO-68 DD Flusser, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
Sub attack near Pearl Harbor SS I-172 vs BB Nevada, Torpedo hits 2

He has a good day at sea, despite massive air and ASW forces the Japaneses win this round.

Allied Naval Forces
Fleet of Doom: USN CAR DIV 1 (Wasp), USN CAR DIV 2 (Lexington), CAR DIV 3 (Saratoga), Force H (Illustrious), Force Z (Repulse and North Carolina) are at Pearl Harbor for R&R. Will depart in four days to cover Operation Super Golden Crisp.

Task Force Formidable is now in route to San Diego to withdraw. Enterprise has 37 days left to be fully repaired at Pearl Harbor. The Yorktown and Hornet will complete their July upgrade is 9 days.

The USN 1st Bat Div (Pennsylvania + 3 DDs): At Luganville. Waiting the Repair of the Warspite (5 days) and reinforcements in route from Pearl to bring the Bat Div up to a four Battleship Strength. The Maryland [1/3(3)/0] is Making Temporary Repairs and then will move to Ceylon to clear the major floatation Damage. The Arizona [30/17(4)/24], Quincy [25/9(8)/6(1)] and two DD are in Sydney for repair. The Arizona will need to make for Ceylon or Colombo to repair the major floating Damage after system damage is cleared.

Force X (Revenge, Royal Sovereign, Ramillies): at Colombo.

Mini-Doom: The small CVE fleet, in two separate taffys has been formed. Currently it comprises the Long Island with 17 Marine F2A-3 Buffalo fighters (speed 16) in one. The second one contains the CL Hermes (speed 25) with 20 Sea Hurricane Ib. Both of these are south are at Suva, waiting to surge to support landings in the Southwest Pacific.

KB and Mini-KB
Assumed to be repairing at Rabaul/Truk.

China
He has continued to bombard from the ground at Wenchow to work to burn off my supplies and damage the airfield, supplies stand at 1.4K (steady). We also have 32K troops in the max stacking of 40K. My air force has withdrawn for now.

His army is also prepping for a 42/43 offensive once Wenchow falls. Moving units to hold the areas he is prepping to attack and protect against any Flanking maneuvers. Targets he is prepping for are: Sian, Wuchow, Changsha and Chenchow.

Burma
The ground offensive continues with four days of bombardments. Intel Monkey shows the 55th Infantry Bde, 33rd Division, 204th Ship Eng Coy, 21st Med FA Bn,15th Army, 55th Eng Reg, 112th Infantry Reg and 14th Ind. Art. Mortar Bn prepping for Rangoon.

At Rangoon to oppose them I have the 1st Burma Infantry Division, the 17th Indian Infantry Division, three Burma Infantry Bn, three base force Bn, the Burma Corps HQc, 21K of Supplies, Fort 2-22%. The Air Summary will follow in another post. There are four HDML's to provide bombardment cover. He has twenty-two Land units in Rangoon.

At Mandalay there are 40K of supplies, three Burma Infantry Bn, two base force and Forts 4 - 11%. Three poorly equipped Indian Armored Cav Rgts, the 7th Armored Bde, and the Burma Inf Bde are making their way south after smashing two armored Tank Rgts + one inf Reg on the road to Mandalay. They have caught the retreating forces one hex north of Toungoo but will make a deliberate attack again this turn.

At Port Blair there are four HDML, 1 ACM, 148 mines, 2 Base Forces and the 45th Indian Bde, 38K of Supplies and Fort 3-90%. All land units are 100% prepared and the leader of the 45ht has been upgraded.

The air force is bombing the two Armored Reg and one inf moving south of his and has damaged the air field at Toungoo to 100%.

Operation Apple Jacks
One day late and a dollar short, so it is now a battle of attrition to regain Ndeni. The goal is to turn this into a front where we can bring the same amount or more force into play and drain him of planes, supplies and pilots. I want to see if I can use up my current model airplanes before they cannot be used on the front lines in early 1943.

At Vanikoro is a Port level 1, the Airfield 5-39% and the Fort 3, 14 PT Boats, one ACM, 150 mines and one AGP. The 1st Marine Raider Bn and the 8th Marine Def Bn, 1st US Naval Construction Bn , 13th MAG HQ, 2nd USMC Parachute Bn, 2/7 Commando Bn, 3rd Naval Const Bn, 94th Cst AA Rgt and the Del Monte AAF Base Force are at this location. There is one P-39D ACU, two A-24 ACUs, one F4F-3P ACU, one F2A-2 Buffalo ACU, one F4F-3A Wildcat, one SBC4-Helldiver and one one SB2U-3 Vindicator. Additional Marine Fighter and Dive Bomber ACUs are ready to rotate in or base here as the airfield expands.

Luganville is safe with Forts Level 3, Airfield 7-68% two CD LCUs, one ACM, the 2nd Marine Divion + a lot of friends and 148 mines. If I can come up with the PT boats I will also add some here but this may take a while as I have a bunch of them in the Line Islands. The island has 284 Aviation Support and one Air HQ. four B-17E ACUs, three P-39D ACUs, two P-38E ACUs and one PBY-5 ACU. The bombers are training for Naval attack. At Koumac I have one B-17D ACU, two B-17E ACUs and one LB-30 ACU are training for Naval attack.

In the next 30 days or sooner the following will occur to support the advance on Ndeni in Phase 2:
1) The medium range bombers from Pago Pago will deploy to Lugnaville to smash the airfields or Ports that are built on Ndeni, as airfield space is created.
2) The 1st Marine Division, 641st Towed TD Bn, 1 USMC Parachute BN and one FA BN that are now prepping for Ndeni (50% and counting) based at Suva.
3) A trickle down of fighters to the four Marine ACUs at Pago Pago has started. As ACUs with the F2A-2 Buffalo's are filled out they will be added to the air war over the Santa Cruz Islands.
4) There are two US 25 Fighter ACU's located at Suva and Pago Pago that can be rotated in as needed for air cover --- along with four 25 Fighter ACU's located at Noumea.

The needed lift is in place in Suva, waiting for the USN 1st BAT DIV to receive some reinforcements to provide surface cover. Looks like we will start loading next turn.

Operation Honeycomb
The 147th Sep Inf Reg and the 318th Base Group hold Baker Island. One aviation Eng Bn landed and this operation is now considered complete.

Operation Mr. T
The retaking of the Ellice Islands: Vaitupu and Funafuti. Allied high command wants to make sure we keep the pressure on him from both the Southwest and Central Pacific. I think I am going to fall into a very historical Left-Right attack along the MacArthur and Nimitz lines of advance.

From Nadi the 4 FA Bn, 32nd Infantry Div and the 192nd Tank Bn will attack Funafuti, preparation in the mid 80’s. The 754th Tank Bn, Americal Inf Div and the 205th FA Bn will attack from Koumac and take Vaitupu - ~50% prepped and climbing.

Operation Cookie-Crisp
The landing at Tabiteuea and Tarawa. Forces will stage from Pearl will take these islands. At this point it is just planning and prepping. I don’t expect to be able to do this until all the carriers have completed their upgrades.

For Tabiteuea the 27th Infantry Division, the 181st FA Bn, 763rd Tank Bn, 97th Cst AA Rgt, 145 FA Bn,and the 34th Cmbt Eng Rgt are all prepping for this in the low-80s {most of them}. The 3rd Marine Division will join them once done in the NOPAC.

For Tarawa the 24th Infantry Division (2/3 Restricted), 134th Combat Engr Bn, 198th FA Bn, 110th Cmbt Engr Bn, 223rd FA Bn, 40th Infantry Division and the 762nd Tank B are all prepping in the mid-20’s to the mid-70's.

Operation Super Golden Crisp
Given he now controls Attu as of June 20th 1942, I have decided on an operation to evict him as quickly as possible before the winter sets in. The main purpose of this is more maskirovka than anything else. I want AirGriff to feel threatened in the north in the hopes he starts diverting resources and units to the defensive line in the Kurile's.

The 3rd Marine Division and 3rs Pioneer Bn are in Seattle and are prepping for the landing, the lift just arrived and will need two days to sort out its minor damage before we begin loading. The Fleet of Doom will support the landing from Pearl Harbor to make as much noise as possible.

1. At Anchorage we have one B-17E ACU, one B-25B ACU and one C-47 ACU.
2. Add ACM and 150 mines to Adak.

Japanese Amphibious Landings:
Amphibious Assault at Molu (79,116)

Japan Conquerors the Following Bases:
Molu
Lloilo

Allies Amphibious Landings:
None.

Allies Conquerors the Following Bases:
None.

Start of August Air War Update ....

In the last four days, especially day 3 and day 4 spelled the end of the effectiveness of the ACUs based in Rangoon. I have the ability to rotate them all out of the air units and rotate in fresh replacements, the question is should I? As a side note those Tojo's are tough, I hope the P-40K allows for a better exchange rate next month.

After debating it for a bit, I decided to go for broke and double down. If this does not work I will need to withdraw the air force for four to ten days to regain moral before I can try again. The reasons I chose to fight are as follows:

1) I am not certain he can swap his ACUs out as their moral falls as I can.
2) Can he take the supply drain for continued bombing and air frame replacement?
3) If he can bomb Rangoon from the Air, it will fall shortly after this starts to occur.
4) If I can by a little time for my air units that I have pulled out to regroup they may be ready to go back into the breach once more....

July 30th - August 2nd
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Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3 Zero: 7 destroyed, 7 Ops
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed, 2 Ops
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 5 destroyed
Ki-49-Ia Helen: 8 destroyed, 4 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Buffalo I: 3 destroyed
Hurricane IIb Trop: 12 destroyed
P-400 Airacobra: 7 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 15 destroyed,4 Ops
Mohawk IV: 1 destroyed on ground

Airframe Pools: This includes losses on all fronts, but most of them occurred in the CBI or Southwest Pacific.
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Airframe Current //// Diff*
P-38E --- 00 /// +00
P-39D** --- 53 /// -61
P-40E --- 80 /// +10
P-400 --- 05 /// +00
Hurricane IIb --- 19 /// -08
Hurricane IIc --- 66 /// +35
Buffalo I --- 00 /// -04
Mohawk IV --- 18 /// -08
Hurricane XIIb --- 49 /// +21
Kittyhwak I --- 08 /// +06

* The Diff is the difference in the airframe pools from the June 30th date that the air war stated in Rangoon.
** 75 P-39D's were used to upgrade thee P-39E ACUs to free up 36 air frames.

5th August Air War Update ....

The gamble to double down works, the next two days go very well for the Allies in the Air. However, we can't maintain this level of loss forever. In reserve we are down to two British Fighter ACUs and one Canadian Fighter ACU with moral over 90 that be rotated in. If we can't buy five or six turns of time we will have to stand down for a bit for the other ACUs to recover their moral.

Over Rangoon we now have two USA P-40E ACUs, one British Mohawk ACU one British Hurricane IIb and one British Hurricane (night) based there. We need 110 Aviation support and have 86.

Airframe Pools: This includes losses on all fronts, but most of them occurred in the CBI or Southwest Pacific.
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Airframe Current //// Diff*
P-38E --- 00 /// +00
P-39D** --- 55 /// -59
P-40E --- 62 /// -08
P-400 --- 05 /// +00
Hurricane IIb --- 06 /// -21
Hurricane IIc --- 68 /// +37
Buffalo I --- 00 /// -04
Mohawk IV --- 11 /// -15
Hurricane XIIb --- 51 /// +23
Kittyhwak I --- 08 /// +06

* The Diff is the difference in the airframe pools from the June 30th date that the air war stated in Rangoon.
** 75 P-39D's were used to upgrade thee P-39E ACUs to free up 36 air frames.

03 August 42 - 04 August 42 Executive Summary

There the air war in Rangoon has shifted into high gear as noted in the post above. Forces for Operation Super Golden Crisp and Operation Apple Jacks have started loading and expect to depart is four days.

Raiding
ASW attack near Lunga PB Busho Maru vs SS S-23, hits 6
Sub attack near Pearl Harbor SS I-6, hits 3 vs DD Wilson
ASW attack near Yasawa Islands SS I-11 vs APD Rathburne, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Sub attack near Yasawa Islands SS I-11 vs APD Rathburne, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage (later sinks)

He has another good day at sea, a four B-26 ACUs are moved to Noumea to support the ASW efforts. I am working to free up additional naval ASW assets for this area but it will be a couple of weeks until this deployment is complete.

Allied Naval Forces
Fleet of Doom: USN CAR DIV 1 (Wasp), USN CAR DIV 2 (Lexington), CAR DIV 3 (Saratoga), Force H (Illustrious), Force Z (Repulse and North Carolina) are at Pearl Harbor for R&R. Will depart in four days to cover Operation Super Golden Crisp.

Task Force Formidable is now in route to San Diego to withdraw. Enterprise has 36 days left to be fully repaired at Pearl Harbor. The Yorktown and Hornet will complete their July upgrade is 7 days.

The USN 1st Bat Div (Pennsylvania, Idaho, New Mexico, Mississippi, 2 CA, 5 DD & 1 DMS): At Luganville. Waiting the Repair of the Warspite (3 days). Will provide surface cover for Apple Jacks.

Force X (Revenge, Royal Sovereign, Ramillies, Valiant): at Colombo.

Mini-Doom: The small CVE fleet, in two separate taffys has been formed. Currently it comprises the Long Island with 17 Marine F2A-3 Buffalo fighters (speed 16) in one. The second one contains the CL Hermes (speed 25) with 20 Sea Hurricane Ib. Both of these are at Suva, waiting to surge to support landings in the Southwest Pacific as needed.

KB and Mini-KB
Assumed to be repairing at Rabaul/Truk.

China
He has continued to bombard from the ground at Wenchow to work to burn off my supplies and damage the airfield, supplies stand at 1.2K (falling). We also have 32K troops in the max stacking of 40K. My air force has withdrawn for now.

His army is also prepping for a 42/43 offensive once Wenchow falls. Moving units to hold the areas he is prepping to attack and protect against any Flanking maneuvers. Targets he is prepping for are: Sian, Wuchow, Changsha and Chenchow.

CBI
The ground offensive continues with two days of bombardments. Intel Monkey shows the 55th Infantry Bde, 33rd Division, 204th Ship Eng Coy, 21st Med FA Bn,15th Army, 55th Eng Reg, 112th Infantry Reg and 14th Ind. Art. Mortar Bn prepping for Rangoon.

At Rangoon to oppose them I have the 1st Burma Infantry Division, the 17th Indian Infantry Division, three Burma Infantry Bn, three base force Bn, the Burma Corps HQc, 17K of Supplies, Fort 2-65%. There are four HDML's to provide bombardment cover. He has twenty-two Land units in Rangoon.

At Mandalay there are 40K of supplies, three Burma Infantry Bn, two base force and Forts 4 - 11%. Three poorly equipped Indian Armored Cav Rgts, the 7th Armored Bde, and the Burma Inf Bde are making their way south after another victory last turn, we will try and take Toungoo and continue the drive south. The hope is that he will need to divert land units and supply from the push at Rangoon.

At Port Blair there are four HDML, 1 ACM, 148 mines, 2 Base Forces and the 45th Indian Bde, 38K of Supplies and Fort 3-90%. All land units are 100% prepared and the leader of the 45ht has been upgraded.

The air force is bombing the land forces and air field at Toungoo (100% damaged). At this time there appears to be two inf rgts, two recon rgts with 7560 troops, 42 Guns and 19 AFVs at the base.

Operation Apple Jacks
One day late and a dollar short, so it is now a battle of attrition to regain Ndeni. The goal is to turn this into a front where we can bring the same amount or more force into play and drain him of planes, supplies and pilots. I want to see if I can use up my current model airplanes before they cannot be used on the front lines in early 1943.

At Vanikoro is a Port level 1, the Airfield 5-46% and the Fort 3, 14 PT Boats, one ACM, 150 mines and one AGP. The 1st Marine Raider Bn and the 8th Marine Def Bn, 1st US Naval Construction Bn , 13th MAG HQ, 2nd USMC Parachute Bn, 2/7 Commando Bn, 3rd Naval Const Bn, 94th Cst AA Rgt and the Del Monte AAF Base Force are at this location. There is one P-39D ACU, two A-24 ACUs, one F4F-3P ACU, one F2A-2 Buffalo ACU, one F4F-3A Wildcat, one SBC4-Helldiver and one one SB2U-3 Vindicator. Additional Marine Fighter and Dive Bomber ACUs are ready to rotate in or base here as the airfield expands.

Luganville is safe with Forts Level 3, Airfield 7-74% two CD LCUs, one ACM, the 2nd Marine Divion + a lot of friends and 148 mines. If I can come up with the PT boats I will also add some here but this may take a while as I have a bunch of them in the Line Islands. The island has 284 Aviation Support and one Air HQ. four B-17E ACUs, three P-39D ACUs and two P-38E ACUs. The bombers are training for Naval attack. At Koumac I have one B-17D ACU, two B-17E ACUs and one LB-30 ACU are training for Naval attack.

The 1st Marine Division, 641st Towed TD Bn, 1 USMC Parachute BN, 54th Base Group, 1st Pion Bn, and the 1st USM Tank Bn are loading at Suva now for the landing and will depart in four days. All units are 80 - 100% prepped for the target.

Operation Mr. T
The retaking of the Ellice Islands: Vaitupu and Funafuti. Allied high command wants to make sure we keep the pressure on him from both the Southwest and Central Pacific. I think I am going to fall into a very historical Left-Right attack along the MacArthur and Nimitz lines of advance.

From Nadi the 4 FA Bn, 32nd Infantry Div and the 192nd Tank Bn will attack Funafuti, preparation in the mid 80’s. The 754th Tank Bn, Americal Inf Div and the 205th FA Bn will attack from Koumac and take Vaitupu - ~50% prepped and climbing.

Operation Cookie-Crisp
The landing at Tabiteuea and Tarawa. Forces will stage from Pearl will take these islands. At this point it is just planning and prepping. I don’t expect to be able to do this until all the carriers have completed their upgrades.

For Tabiteuea the 27th Infantry Division, the 181st FA Bn, 763rd Tank Bn, 97th Cst AA Rgt, 145 FA Bn,and the 34th Cmbt Eng Rgt are all prepping for this in the low-80s {most of them}. The 3rd Marine Division will join them once done in the NOPAC.

For Tarawa the 24th Infantry Division (2/3 Restricted), 134th Combat Engr Bn, 198th FA Bn, 110th Cmbt Engr Bn, 223rd FA Bn, 40th Infantry Division and the 762nd Tank B are all prepping in the mid-20’s to the mid-70's.

Operation Super Golden Crisp
Given he now controls Attu as of June 20th 1942, I have decided on an operation to evict him as quickly as possible before the winter sets in. The main purpose of this is more maskirovka than anything else. I want AirGriff to feel threatened in the north in the hopes he starts diverting resources and units to the defensive line in the Kurile's.

The 3rd Marine Division, 3rd Pioneer Bn, Camp Adair, 4th Air Advn Base Force, I US Corps, and the 165th FA Bn are loading in Seattle for this landing now. They are all prepared around 70%. The Fleet of Doom will depart Pearl Harbor is 4 days to cover this landing.


Japanese Amphibious Landings:
None.

Japan Conquerors the Following Bases:
Sabang

Allies Amphibious Landings:
None.

Allies Conquerors the Following Bases:
None.

Battle North of Toungoo...

Three poorly equipped Indian Armored Cav Rgts, the 7th Armored Bde, and the Burma Inf Bde attack and drive the Japanese into Toungoo. The forces switched to rest mode and will march south to Toungoo and see if I can take that base as well. The hope is to draw off supplies and land units from his drive on Rangoon.

All of the bomber units in the area will work to keep Toungoo closed and bomb the two Inf Rgts and two Recon Rgts. Intel reports 7560 troops, 42 Guns and 19 AFVs at the base with a 9/10 detection level.

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Ground combat at 57,49 (near Toungoo)
Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 6273 troops, 36 guns, 387 vehicles, Assault Value = 382
Defending force 3967 troops, 30 guns, 35 vehicles, Assault Value = 128

Allied adjusted assault: 247
Japanese adjusted defense: 85

Allied assault odds: 2 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
1377 casualties reported
Squads: 44 destroyed, 29 disabled
Non Combat: 35 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Vehicles lost 15 (11 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Units retreated 2

Allied ground losses:
182 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 25 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 21 (1 destroyed, 20 disabled)

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
43rd Cavalry Regiment
BFF Brigade
B Sqn 3rd Hussars Regiment
42nd Cavalry Regiment
7th Armoured Brigade

Defending units:
2nd Recon Regiment
24th Infantry Regiment

05 August 42 - 08 August 42 Executive Summary

Well Rangoon falls [X(][X(], at least most of the air force had withdraw the turn before. At this point I am certain he had one other offensive up he sleeve given he has between four and six divisions out of site. I assume its in China but one can never tell, he gains 1800 VPs with the loss of Rangoon.

The question now is how does supply get into Burma? Does any supply flow overland without any roads, and if so how often and along what route?

Raiding
TF 476 encounters mine field at Tabiteuea SS Sculpin, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Sub attack near Torokina xAK Ginyo Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage vs SS KXII
Submarine attack near Truk xAKL Daitei Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage vs SS Grouper
Day Time Surface Combat, near Wyndham CL Naka, Shell hits 1, DD Shirakumo, Shell hits 1 vs xAK Cardross, Shell hits 12, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
Sub attack near Truk xAK Kinjosan Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage SS Trout

Allied Naval Forces
Fleet of Doom: USN CAR DIV 1 (Wasp), USN CAR DIV 2 (Lexington), CAR DIV 3 (Saratoga), Force H (Illustrious) are in route to support Operation Super Golden Crisp. Force Z (Repulse and North Carolina) are at Pearl Harbor just departed to support this operation.

Task Force Formidable is now in route to San Diego to withdraw. Enterprise has 31 days left to be fully repaired at Pearl Harbor. The Yorktown and Hornet will complete their July upgrade is 3 days.

The USN 1st Bat Div (Pennsylvania, Idaho, New Mexico, Mississippi, 2 CA, 5 DD & 1 DMS): Waiting the Repair of the Warspite (3 days). Providing escort for the Apple Jacks taffy.

Force X (Revenge, Royal Sovereign, Ramillies, Valiant): at Colombo.

Mini-Doom: The small CVE fleet, in two separate taffys has been formed. Currently it comprises the Long Island with 17 Marine F2A-3 Buffalo fighters (speed 16) in one. The second one contains the CL Hermes (speed 25) with 20 Sea Hurricane Ib. Both of these are at Suva, waiting to surge to support landings in the Southwest Pacific as needed.

KB and Mini-KB
Assumed to be repairing at Rabaul/Truk. There are 55 ships reported in port at Rabaul.

China
He has continued to bombard from the ground at Wenchow to work to burn off my supplies and damage the airfield, supplies stand at 1.2K (steady). We also have 32K troops in the max stacking of 40K, Forts 3(9)-64%. My air force has withdrawn for now.

His army is also prepping for a 42/43 offensive once Wenchow falls. Moving units to hold the areas he is prepping to attack and protect against any Flanking maneuvers. Targets he is prepping for are: Sian, Wuchow, Changsha and Chenchow.

CBI
Rangoon falls, details to follow in a separate post. The forces at Rangoon withdraw to Bassein and will fall back to Prome: 1st Burma Infantry Division, the 17th Indian Infantry Division, three Burma Infantry Bn, three base force Bn and the Burma Corps HQc.

At Mandalay there are 43K of supplies, three Burma Infantry Bn, two base force and Forts 4 - 12%. Three poorly equipped Indian Armored Cav Rgts, the 7th Armored Bde, and the Burma Inf Bde are making their way south after another victory last turn, we will try and take Toungoo and continue the drive south.

At Port Blair there are four HDML, 1 ACM, 148 mines, 2 Base Forces and the 45th Indian Bde, 38K of Supplies and Fort 3-90%. All land units are 100% prepared and the leader of the 45ht has been upgraded.

The air force is bombing the land forces and air field at Toungoo (90% damaged). At this time there appears to be two inf rgts, two recon rgts with 7560 troops, 42 Guns and 19 AFVs at the base. As he has moved in 58 fighters to Rangoon, all air operations without fighter escort will stop.

Operation Apple Jacks
One day late and a dollar short, so it is now a battle of attrition to regain Ndeni. The goal is to turn this into a front where we can bring the same amount or more force into play and drain him of planes, supplies and pilots. I want to see if I can use up my current model airplanes before they cannot be used on the front lines in early 1943.

At Vanikoro is a Port level 1, the Airfield 5-60% and the Fort 3, 14 PT Boats, one ACM, 150 mines and one AGP. The 1st Marine Raider Bn and the 8th Marine Def Bn, 1st US Naval Construction Bn , 13th MAG HQ, 2nd USMC Parachute Bn, 2/7 Commando Bn, 3rd Naval Const Bn, 94th Cst AA Rgt and the Del Monte AAF Base Force are at this location. There is one P-39D ACU, two A-24 ACUs, one F4F-3P ACU, one F2A-2 Buffalo ACU, one F4F-3A Wildcat, one SBC4-Helldiver and one one SB2U-3 Vindicator. Additional Marine Fighter and Dive Bomber ACUs are ready to rotate in or base here as the airfield expands.

Luganville is safe with Forts Level 3, Airfield 7-89% two CD LCUs, one ACM, the 2nd Marine Divion + a lot of friends and 148 mines. If I can come up with the PT boats I will also add some here but this may take a while as I have a bunch of them in the Line Islands. The island has 284 Aviation Support and one Air HQ. four B-17E ACUs, three P-39D ACUs and two P-38E ACUs. At Koumac I have one B-17D ACU, two B-17E ACUs and one LB-30 ACU. All of the bombers are bombing the airfield at Tulagi and the P-38E's are sweeping the same base.

The 1st Marine Division, 641st Towed TD Bn, 1 USMC Parachute BN, 54th Base Group, 1st Pion Bn, and the 1st USM Tank Bn are 80 - 100% prepped for the target. All land units are at sea and being escorted to the landing site by the USN 1st BAT DIV, 12 hexes from Ndeni.

Operation Mr. T
The retaking of the Ellice Islands: Vaitupu and Funafuti. Allied high command wants to make sure we keep the pressure on him from both the Southwest and Central Pacific. I think I am going to fall into a very historical Left-Right attack along the MacArthur and Nimitz lines of advance.

From Nadi the 4 FA Bn, 32nd Infantry Div and the 192nd Tank Bn will attack Funafuti, preparation in the mid 80’s. The 754th Tank Bn, Americal Inf Div and the 205th FA Bn will attack from Koumac and take Vaitupu - ~50% prepped and climbing.

Operation Cookie-Crisp
The landing at Tabiteuea and Tarawa. Forces will stage from Pearl will take these islands. At this point it is just planning and prepping. I don’t expect to be able to do this until all the carriers have completed their upgrades.

For Tabiteuea the 27th Infantry Division, the 181st FA Bn, 763rd Tank Bn, 97th Cst AA Rgt, 145 FA Bn,and the 34th Cmbt Eng Rgt are all prepping for this in the low-80s {most of them}. The 3rd Marine Division will join them once done in the NOPAC.

For Tarawa the 24th Infantry Division (2/3 Restricted), 134th Combat Engr Bn, 198th FA Bn, 110th Cmbt Engr Bn, 223rd FA Bn, 40th Infantry Division and the 762nd Tank B are all prepping in the mid-20’s to the mid-70's.

Operation Super Golden Crisp
Given he now controls Attu as of June 20th 1942, I have decided on an operation to evict him as quickly as possible before the winter sets in. The main purpose of this is more maskirovka than anything else. I want AirGriff to feel threatened in the north in the hopes he starts diverting resources and units to the defensive line in the Kurile's.

The 3rd Marine Division, 3rd Pioneer Bn, Camp Adair, 4th Air Advn Base Force, I US Corps, and the 165th FA Bn loaded and in route to the landing, 40 hexes away. They are all prepared around 70%. The Fleet of Doom will cover this landing.


Japanese Amphibious Landings:
Amphibious Assault at Denpasar (58,108)
Amphibious Assault at Gorontalo (72,99)
Amphibious Assault at Zamboanga (75,89)

Japan Conquerors the Following Bases:
Gorontalo
Rangoon

Allies Amphibious Landings:
None.

Allies Conquerors the Following Bases:
None.

Rangoon Falls.....
We withstand the 1:2 on Day one, but on Day three he gets a 2:1 and the base fall, Most of the air force left on Day 2 but the other planes were damages and could not get away. Most of them would have gotten away if we could have held for one more attack but I still have come out ahead as he has yet to fight any of the Hurricane IIc airframes and the P-40K arrives next month.

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Ground combat at Rangoon (54,53)
Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 40322 troops, 526 guns, 133 vehicles, Assault Value = 1013
Defending force 28020 troops, 258 guns, 291 vehicles, Assault Value = 419

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 1338
Allied adjusted defense: 1377

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 1)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1407 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 59 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 7 destroyed, 43 disabled

Allied ground losses:
2023 casualties reported
Squads: 48 destroyed, 70 disabled
Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 44 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 30 disabled
Guns lost 20 (2 destroyed, 18 disabled)
Vehicles lost 16 (1 destroyed, 15 disabled)

Assaulting units:
28th Engineer Regiment
21st Infantry Regiment
114th Infantry Regiment
56th Infantry Regiment
23rd Ind Engineer Regiment
33rd Division
Imperial Guards Division
112th Infantry Regiment
55th Engineer Regiment
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
55th Mountain Gun Regiment
5th Field Artillery Regiment
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
25th Army
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
18th Mountain Gun Regiment
15th Army
2nd Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
39th Indian Division
17th Indian Division
Burma Corps
221 Group RAF
103rd RN Base Force
108th RAF Base Force
107th RAF Base Force
Rangoon BAF Battalion
100th RAF Base Force
1st Burma Auxiliary AA Regiment
RM Viper Force

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Ground combat at Rangoon (54,53)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 39861 troops, 525 guns, 133 vehicles, Assault Value = 980
Defending force 26917 troops, 257 guns, 291 vehicles, Assault Value = 329

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 1589

Allied adjusted defense: 777
Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
1887 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 131 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 26 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 35 disabled

Allied ground losses:
1583 casualties reported
Squads: 86 destroyed, 51 disabled
Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 56 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 34 disabled
Guns lost 32 (4 destroyed, 28 disabled)
Vehicles lost 23 (1 destroyed, 22 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
21st Infantry Regiment
28th Engineer Regiment
114th Infantry Regiment
23rd Ind Engineer Regiment
56th Infantry Regiment
33rd Division
Imperial Guards Division
112th Infantry Regiment
55th Engineer Regiment
5th Field Artillery Regiment
15th Army
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion
55th Mountain Gun Regiment
14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
25th Army
18th Mountain Gun Regiment
2nd Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
39th Indian Division
17th Indian Division
100th RAF Base Force
Burma Corps
1st Burma Auxiliary AA Regiment
108th RAF Base Force
Rangoon BAF Battalion
107th RAF Base Force
221 Group RAF
103rd RN Base Force
RM Viper Force

Air War Over Tulagi...

It starts off poorly with just the Luguanville not flying the 1st day of the two day turn but by the end of the second day he runs out of aircraft to contest the P-38E sweeps. If I can shut down the airfield this would be perfect but it's the secondary goal, I want to ensure that the figher units at this base are in no shape to project force over the naval forces used for Operation Apple Jacks.

The more detailed reports can be provided if anyone requests them. Tulagi 9/10 Detection level 17 Airfield Damage. Intel shows 15 Fighters left at the base. We will continue for at least two more turns, to tie down his air forces. If it looks like the airfield can be shut down at this time we will do so if not we will call off the bombing as by then the landing should be underway.

Also note tracker has much higher losses for him then I show in the combat reports, so which should I believe?

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 6 destroyed, 4 damaged
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed on ground
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-38E Lightning: 4 destroyed
B-17D Fortress: 2 destroyed, 17 damaged
LB-30 Liberator: 3 destroyed, 4 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 2 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed by flak

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Morning Air attack on Tulagi , at 114,137

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 36 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 18
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 15

Allied aircraft
LB-30 Liberator x 9
B-24D Liberator x 2

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
LB-30 Liberator: 3 destroyed, 4 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 2 damaged

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x LB-30 Liberator bombing from 20000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
2 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 20000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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Morning Air attack on Tulagi , at 114,137

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 28 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 14
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 13

Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 12

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 1 destroyed, 9 damaged

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 20000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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Morning Air attack on Tulagi , at 114,137

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 26 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 34
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 26

Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 22

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

Allied aircraft losses
P-38E Lightning: 4 destroyed

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Morning Air attack on Tulagi , at 114,137

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 30
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 21

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 42

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 13 damaged

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 23

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 15000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 15000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 15000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 15000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 15000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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Morning Air attack on Tulagi , at 114,137

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 25
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 16

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 9

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

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed by flak

Runway hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 15000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb


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Morning Air attack on Tulagi , at 114,137

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 2 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 0 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 25
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 16

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 9

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 3

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 15000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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Morning Air attack on Tulagi , at 114,137

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 19
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 11

Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 10

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 1 destroyed, 8 damaged

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 20000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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Morning Air attack on Tulagi , at 114,137

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 37 NM, estimated altitude 34,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 14
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 9

Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 3

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

No Allied losses

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Morning Air attack on Tulagi , at 114,137

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 32,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 12
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 9

Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 3

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

No Allied losses

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Morning Air attack on Tulagi , at 114,137

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 28 NM, estimated altitude 35,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 10
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 9

Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 22

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 1 destroyed

No Allied losses

Aircraft Attacking:
19 x P-38E Lightning sweeping at 31000 feet *

August 8th Update on Food for Thought.....

At this point here is the CV and Aircraft breakdown from the Allied point of view. Junyo was just added to the list as sunk by 15in/42 BL Mk I.

Japan
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Hosho CVL (21)
Akagi CV (63) Reported Sunk
Kaga CV (72)
Ryujo CVL (46)
Soryu CV (63) Reported Sunk
Hiryu CV (63)
Zuiho CVL (24)
Shokaku CV (72) Reported Sunk
Taiyo CVE (27)
Zuikaku CV (72) Reported Sunk
Shoho CVL (30) Reported Sunk
Junyo CV (45) Reported Sunk
Unyo CVE (27)
Hiyo CV (45)
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325 Aircraft

Allies
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Lexington CV (90)
Saratoga CV (90)
Yorktown CV (90) 02 Days to Upgrade
Hornet CV (90) 02 Days to Upgrade
Enterprise CV (90) 33 Days to Repair
Wasp CV (76)
Illustrious CV (33)
Hermes CVL (20)
Long Island CVE (16)
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595 Aircraft

CBI, the Great Escape....

As Rangoon fell, I am now working to get the units out of trouble, I was hoping for a one or two more turns to get the units into place to hold the back door open but such is life.

At Mandalay there are 40K of supplies, three Burma Infantry Bn, two base force and Forts 4 - 12%. All units in the area will fall back here and if supplies drop below 20K, we will start air lifting them in. The goal is to hold this area for a long as possible for the least amount of loss, while burning his supply and providing a forward air base into the Magew oil fields. The plan is to his the oil fields with every bomber we have on "city attack" oil as soon as it falls.

Team Yankee:Three poorly equipped Indian Armored Cav Rgts, the 7th Armored Bde, and the Burma Inf Bde are making their way north after smashing everything that got in their way.

Red Force: Troops:8660, Guns 55, AFV:0. Four units the 2nd Recon Regiment, 24th Infantry Regiment, 14th Tank Regiment and the 16th Infantry Regiment. The 16th Infantry Regiment is the only forces that was not crushed by Team Yankee.

Team Alpha: This force is in route to the hex southeast of Prome. The goal is to get there before the Japanese but this may not be possible, if not we will hold in Prome to allow the forces routed at Rangoon to withdraw north. A1: 75th IAC Reg (ARM), A2: 44th Cavalry Reg (ARM), A3:Kowloon Bde (INF), a4:112th RAF Adv Base Force (ENG).

Team Bravo: In route to Mandalay. 20th Indian Mtn Gun Rgt (ART)& 44th Indian Bde (INF).

09 August 42 - 12 August 42 Executive Summary

I am slow, but I get there after a bit.[:D][:D] I have been emptying my damage carriers of the air groups and using them for training green pilots as any good AFB should. At the end of the last turn it just occurred to me I have eight USMC Fighter ACUs - three carrier trained and five not. I just moved the five non-trained carrier ACU to the Enterprise so they can work on their carrier training. Should have been doing this the entire time the Enterprise was in for repair.

Ndeni falls to the 1st Marine Division and friends, destroying the SNLF there,

Raiding
Sub attack near Ndeni SS I-30 vs USN 1st BAT DIV BB Idaho, Torpedo hits 1
Sub attack near SS I-158, hits 2 vs AKE Antares, Torpedo hits 1
Sub attack near San Francisco SS I-164 xAK Iron Crown, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage (later sinks)
Submarine attack near Savaii SS I-15 xAKL Mawata, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage (later sinks)
Submarine attack near Soerabaja xAK Mito Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage vs SS O19
Sub attack near Yasawa Islands SS I-18 vs xAP Talisse, Torpedo hits 1, on fire

Allied Naval Forces
Fleet of Doom: USN CAR DIV 1 (Wasp), USN CAR DIV 2 (Lexington), CAR DIV 3 (Saratoga), Force H (Illustrious) and Force Z (Repulse and North Carolina) are in route to support Operation Super Golden Crisp -- 11 hexes from target.

Enterprise has 26 days left to be fully repaired at Pearl Harbor. The Yorktown and Hornet will complete their July upgrade is 1 days.

The USN 1st Bat Div (Pennsylvania, Idaho, New Mexico, Mississippi, 2 CA, 5 DD & 1 DMS): Waiting the Repair of the Warspite (3 days). Providing escort for the Apple Jacks taffy. The Idaho took 3/7(3)/0 damage from the Torpedo.

Force X (Revenge, Royal Sovereign, Ramillies, Valiant): at Colombo.

Mini-Doom: The small CVE fleet, in two separate taffys has been formed. Currently it comprises the Long Island with 17 Marine F2A-3 Buffalo fighters (speed 16) in one. The second one contains the CL Hermes (speed 25) with 20 Sea Hurricane Ib. Both of these are at Suva, waiting to surge to support landings in the Southwest Pacific as needed.

KB and Mini-KB
Assumed to be repairing at Rabaul/Truk. There are 75 ships reported in port at Rabaul.

China
He has continued to bombard from the ground at Wenchow to work to burn off my supplies and damage the airfield, supplies stand at 1.3K (rising). We also have 32K troops in the max stacking of 40K, Forts 3(9)-64%. My air force has withdrawn for now.

His army is also prepping for a 42/43 offensive once Wenchow falls. Moving units to hold the areas he is prepping to attack and protect against any Flanking maneuvers. Targets he is prepping for are: Sian, Wuchow, Changsha and Chenchow.

CBI
See the CBI Post Above for details.

Operation Apple Jacks
The 1st Marine Division, 641st Towed TD Bn, 1 USMC Parachute BN, 54th Base Group, 1st Pion Bn, and the 1st USM Tank Bn have taken Ndeni. We are working to get the port and airfield online. Additional Engineer, Air HQ and aviation support is in route. Once the unloading of all the land units are done --- this section will change to the SWPAC as a title.

At Vanikoro is a Port level 1, the Airfield 5-74% and the Fort 3, 14 PT Boats, one ACM, 150 mines and one AGP. The 1st Marine Raider Bn and the 8th Marine Def Bn, 1st US Naval Construction Bn , 13th MAG HQ, 2nd USMC Parachute Bn, 2/7 Commando Bn, 3rd Naval Const Bn, 94th Cst AA Rgt and the Del Monte AAF Base Force are at this location. There is one P-39D ACU, two A-24 ACUs, one F4F-3P ACU, one F2A-2 Buffalo ACU, one F4F-3A Wildcat, one SBC4-Helldiver and one one SB2U-3 Vindicator. Additional Marine Fighter and Dive Bomber ACUs are ready to rotate in or base here as the airfield expands.

Luganville is safe with Forts Level 3, Airfield 8(5), two CD LCUs, one ACM, the 2nd Marine Divion + a lot of friends, 12 PT Boats and 148 mines. The island has 284 Aviation Support and one Air HQ. four B-17E ACUs, three P-39D ACUs and two P-38E ACUs. At Koumac I have one B-17D ACU, two B-17E ACUs and one LB-30 ACU. All of the bombers are bombing the airfield at Tulagi and the P-38E's are sweeping the same base.

Operation Mr. T
The retaking of the Ellice Islands: Vaitupu and Funafuti. Allied high command wants to make sure we keep the pressure on him from both the Southwest and Central Pacific. I think I am going to fall into a very historical Left-Right attack along the MacArthur and Nimitz lines of advance.

From Nadi the 4 FA Bn, 32nd Infantry Div and the 192nd Tank Bn will attack Funafuti, preparation in the mid 80’s. The 754th Tank Bn, Americal Inf Div and the 205th FA Bn will attack from Koumac and take Vaitupu - ~50% prepped and climbing.

Operation Cookie-Crisp
The landing at Tabiteuea and Tarawa. Forces will stage from Pearl will take these islands. At this point it is just planning and prepping. I don’t expect to be able to do this until all the carriers have completed their upgrades.

For Tabiteuea the 27th Infantry Division, the 181st FA Bn, 763rd Tank Bn, 97th Cst AA Rgt, 145 FA Bn,and the 34th Cmbt Eng Rgt are all prepping for this in the low-80s {most of them}. The 3rd Marine Division will join them once done in the NOPAC.

For Tarawa the 24th Infantry Division (2/3 Restricted), 134th Combat Engr Bn, 198th FA Bn, 110th Cmbt Engr Bn, 223rd FA Bn, 40th Infantry Division and the 762nd Tank B are all prepping in the mid-20’s to the mid-70's.

Operation Super Golden Crisp
Given he now controls Attu as of June 20th 1942, I have decided on an operation to evict him as quickly as possible before the winter sets in. The main purpose of this is more maskirovka than anything else. I want AirGriff to feel threatened in the north in the hopes he starts diverting resources and units to the defensive line in the Kurile's.

The 3rd Marine Division, 3rd Pioneer Bn, Camp Adair, 4th Air Advn Base Force, I US Corps, and the 165th FA Bn loaded and in route to the landing, 40 hexes away. They are all prepared around 70%. The Fleet of Doom will cover this landing, should land in 2 days.

Japanese Amphibious Landings:
Amphibious Assault at Damar (75,115)
Amphibious Assault at Singkep (49,87)
Amphibious Assault at Terapo (96,127)

Japan Conquerors the Following Bases:
Zamboanga
Damar
Denpasar
Tawau
Togian-eilanden
Terapo

Allies Amphibious Landings:
Amphibious Assault at Ndeni (120,143)

Allies Conquerors the Following Bases:
Ndeni

CBI, the Great Escape....

As Rangoon has fallen, the great race to extract the forces is on.

At Mandalay there are 40K of supplies, three Burma Infantry Bn, two base force and Forts 4 - 13%. All units in the area will fall back here and if supplies drop below 20K, we will start air lifting them in. The goal is to hold this area for a long as possible for the least amount of loss, while burning his supply and providing a forward air base into the Magew oil fields. The plan is to his the oil fields with every bomber we have on "city attack" oil as soon as it falls.

Team Yankee:Three poorly equipped Indian Armored Cav Rgts, the 7th Armored Bde, and the Burma Inf Bde are making their way north after smashing everything that got in their way.

Red Force: Troops:8660, Guns 55, AFV:0. Four units the 2nd Recon Regiment, 24th Infantry Regiment, 14th Tank Regiment and the 16th Infantry Regiment. The 16th Infantry Regiment is the only forces that was not crushed by Team Yankee.

Team Alpha: This force is in route to Prome. The goal is to get there before the Japanese but this may not be possible, if not we will hold in Prome to allow the forces routed at Rangoon to withdraw north. A1: 75th IAC Reg (ARM) & 2 Burmese Inf Bn, A2: 44th Cavalry Reg (ARM), A3:Kowloon Bde (INF), A4:112th RAF Adv Base Force (ENG).

Team Bravo: In route to Mandalay. 20th Indian Mtn Gun Rgt (ART)& 44th Indian Bde (INF).

Also let me know if anyone has an 80's breakfast cereal they want me to use. I have several operations that I am going to add to the list shortly that will need names.

Not that you should use it, but your mention of 80's cereals made me think of the old Saturday Night Live commercials for Colon Blow. Those were hilarious...

ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg

Not that you should use it, but your mention of 80's cereals made me think of the old Saturday Night Live commercials for Colon Blow. Those were hilarious...

I hadn't thought about this skit in a long time. I remember watching VHS tapes of Saturday Night Live when one of my friends got a tape from the states when we were stationed in Germany. He would get a tape once or twice a month and we had about thirty or so us teenagers would get together to watch the tape.

Ahhh German beer, Saturday live, Star Trek The Next Generation - those were good days to be a teenager!

So Colon Bowl and Super Colon Blow simply must be used.

More 80's Cereals - some are more 80's than others...

Cap'N Crunch
Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Cocoa Puffs
Cookie Crips
Dino Pebbles
Grape Nuts
Kaboom
Kix
Quisp
Special K
Strawberry Shortcakes
Sugar Pops
Toasty O's
Trix (Silly Wabbit)
Urkel O's
Wheaties
Wheat Puffs

ORIGINAL: Simonsez

More 80's Cereals - some are more 80's than others...

Cap'N Crunch
Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Cocoa Puffs
Cookie Crips
Dino Pebbles
Grape Nuts
Kaboom
Kix
Quisp
Special K
Strawberry Shortcakes
Sugar Pops
Toasty O's
Trix (Silly Wabbit)
Urkel O's
Wheaties
Wheat Puffs

Quite a few of those also qualify as 60's cereals.....don't forget my personal favorite Cocoa Crispies....and also of course the magically delicious Lucky Charms.

Who couldn't get on board with an operation named Lucky Charm? [:D]