Ok reader, first two after action reports, then we'll be commenting the general strategy and we'll be studying in details the different theatres, with maps,screenshots etc.
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 07/13-14/42
The yanks are growing stronger each day. Now he has placed fortress and liberators both at Akyab and Ledo and started to night bomb my Airfields in Indochina and deep China. And you all know what does this mean, right? 20/25 planes destroyed on the ground each night and the inpossibility of any fighting back....[:(]
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Night Air attack on Daly Waters , at 35,90
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 38
LB-30 Liberator x 37
B-24D Liberator x 51
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 5 destroyed
A6M3 Zero: 2 destroyed
Ki-43-Ib Oscar: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged
LB-30 Liberator: 4 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 2 damaged
Japanese ground losses:
16 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 19
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Night Air attack on Bangkok , at 29,39
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft
LB-30 Liberator x 13
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ib Oscar: 2 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
LB-30 Liberator: 1 damaged
Runway hits 3
A good daylight raid over Kweiyang found my 35 zeros that should be on CAP completely unprepared...my pilots were probably sleeping...
Day Air attack on Kweiyang , at 41,34
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9
Allied aircraft
Blenheim IV x 5
B-17E Fortress x 94
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 5 destroyed
Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IV: 1 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 10 damaged
Japanese ground losses:
142 casualties reported
Guns lost 6
Airbase hits 25
Airbase supply hits 6
Runway hits 55
This AF is now almost closed, however Tonies are almost ready to come into action and in one/two weeks i'll be able to substitute my zeros in China with better planes
The reponse of the IJAAF was not that bad: two big raids over Chungking:
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Day Air attack on Chungking , at 43,32
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 85
Ki-49 Helen x 17
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 11 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 2 damaged
Allied ground losses:
166 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Airbase hits 14
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 66
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Day Air attack on Chungking , at 43,32
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 23
Ki-21 Sally x 131
Ki-49 Helen x 69
Ki-46-II Dinah x 2
Ki-15 Babs x 6
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 5 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 4 damaged
Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 damaged
Allied ground losses:
200 casualties reported
Guns lost 7
Airbase hits 25
Airbase supply hits 8
Runway hits 163
Some 4 zeros on LRCAP over Chungking managed to shoot down 5 dakotas...i must keep his main bases in China covered with some LRCAP...as soon as enough tonies will be comming into the front positions, some zeros daitais will be used for this purpose
His wellingtons keep on pounding Mouleim, while his fighters keep on training in northern Burma.
Troops are flowing towards Kumming, which is lightly defended. I'll organize in the next days some more bombing raids, as soon as some tonies will be guarding my bases while the zeros will be escorting.
Now finally the 2 pockets near Nanning are closed. Only 2 chinese corps, in a real bad shape, manage to fight their way through my net and are now struggling on the trails that go towards Kumming. 65,000 chinese are doomed west of Nanning.
In the pocket west of Ichang, the yellows are prooving to be fierce and good fighters, but their fate is however already written. 20,000 of them will be,sooner or later, taken as Pows!
Ground combat at 45,34
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 23878 troops, 225 guns, 0 vehicles
Defending force 8090 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles
Japanese assault odds: 44 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
142 casualties reported
Guns lost 5
Allied ground losses:
2990 casualties reported
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Ground combat at 39,37
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 10350 troops, 95 guns, 0 vehicles
Defending force 26650 troops, 26 guns, 0 vehicles
Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
257 casualties reported
Guns lost 7
Allied ground losses:
8 casualties reported
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Ground combat at 38,38
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 7579 troops, 88 guns, 0 vehicles
Defending force 3249 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles
Japanese assault odds: 46 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
21 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Allied ground losses:
48 casualties reported
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Sub attack at 115,104
Japanese Ships
SS I-7
Allied Ships
AK Alhena, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AVD Casco
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Ground combat at 39,36
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 2887 troops, 15 guns, 0 vehicles
Defending force 3732 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles
Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Allied ground losses:
21 casualties reported
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
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Ground combat at Ichang
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 94440 troops, 1094 guns, 0 vehicles
Defending force 122015 troops, 91 guns, 0 vehicles
Allied ground losses:
36 casualties reported
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Ground combat at Kunming
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 46952 troops, 562 guns, 11 vehicles
Defending force 40500 troops, 175 guns, 2 vehicles
Allied ground losses:
72 casualties reported
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Ground combat at Chungking
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 108808 troops, 1279 guns, 19 vehicles
Defending force 124644 troops, 671 guns, 53 vehicles
Allied ground losses:
108 casualties reported
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Ground combat at 45,34
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 24169 troops, 232 guns, 0 vehicles
Defending force 8506 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles
Japanese assault odds: 37 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
191 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Allied ground losses:
1250 casualties reported
In Burma my i keep rotating my units in and out Rangoon, to recover from the malaria and the costant british bombings.
Still waiting for his second attack to come in near Magwe.
The first Tony Chutai arrived at Bankok. 83 exp.![:D]
In Oz we manage to arrive with 750 APs on his left flank. He has there now 1 Aus Div and one Cav bde. I wanted to attack the last turn, but i decided not to be hurry, cause my guys had the fatigue on their 50s and the distr. on the 30s....was a good decision, cause today 150 allied 4Es bombers came in and destroyed th 4th Mix Bde![:o]...my bombers from Darwin gave our payback, killing more than 300 men of the 4th Australian Division. Tomorrow we'll attack and there will be 50 zeros on CAP over my guys and 150 bombers supporting their effort! The idea i to keep his center and his right side pinned down with costant land bombardments, while the western flank advance and manaces his back door!
His operations against Exmouth are getting stronger each day. Now B-25s and some 50 ducth fighters keep on attacking my base every day.
At Paramushiro Jiima 36 Tonies arrived to cover the skies here in th upper north. He keeps on reconning my bases with his catalinas from Attu, which is already level 6 AF....that means that he will be probably use some 4Es here too....
But he could always go for an invasion.....i'll keep 3 subs with glens south of Attu and 4 of my CVs ready at Tokyo to intercept!
What else? well, the first part of the 2nd army is unloading at Sosarbaja. 1 Division,1 Bde, 2 Arty units, 2 eng rgt and one more division yet to come from Burma ( as soon as i can master to replace it with something else).
My main fleet is upgrading. 100 DDs have already upgraded and 3 CVs have now their AA upgraded[:D]
. The readers can really analyse and appreciate the war better. I must say your situation is looking good. Go for the 4 to 1 and wrap up the game! BANZAI![:D]
. I think he is getting scared so maybe he would retire for a while and then come at you with more troops?[&:] Your 3 ring defence system is solid. [8D] He should be in a tough time for a while.[;)]