AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/26/43
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Day Air attack on Pakhoi , at 39,39
Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 47
A6M3a Zero x 24
B5N Kate x 42
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 72
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 36
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 4
No Japanese losses
Port hits 2
Port supply hits 4
Aircraft Attacking:
36 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet
21 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
21 x A6M3a Zero bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 35th Brigade, at 46,114
Allied aircraft
F.K.51 x 1
No Allied losses
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Day Air attack on 5th Australian Division, at 44,102
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
G3M Nell x 9
G4M1 Betty x 20
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 117
Ki-49 Helen x 126
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
260 casualties reported
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Rockhampton at 46,109 [X(]
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24
A6M3a Zero x 43
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 73
Allied aircraft
Boomerang II x 5
CW-21B Demon x 7
Brewster 339D x 11
Kittyhawk I x 14
A-20B Boston x 9
B-25J Mitchell x 13
B-26B Marauder x 20
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 5 damaged
A6M3a Zero: 4 damaged
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 1 destroyed, 8 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
Boomerang II: 4 destroyed
CW-21B Demon: 5 destroyed
Brewster 339D: 9 destroyed
Kittyhawk I: 14 destroyed
A-20B Boston: 2 destroyed, 5 damaged
B-25J Mitchell: 5 destroyed, 3 damaged
B-26B Marauder: 1 destroyed, 12 damaged
Japanese Ships
BB Ise, Bomb hits 3
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x A-20B Boston bombing at 6000 feet
4 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 7000 feet
Swift has ordered his bombers back on naval attack (range at least five hexes) and they go in against the Ise TF at Rockhampton. Our fighters achieve an unbelievable kill rate vs the escorts of 31:1. Too far off the line... [8|] The bombers mostly get through though but 3x500lb bomb hits don´t do much damage on Ise. She´s now at 9 sys and 1 fire. I can keep her on station longer as Hyuga is doing her upgrade to the hybrid carrier and will join the fleet in a couple of months again(upgraded by accident as I sent her back for repairs and with sys lower than 50 she automatically was withdrawn for her upgrade). I never upgraded Ise and Hyuga but as Hyuga upgraded, I will also upgrade Ise in this game to have the two ships accompying my carriers.
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Day Air attack on TF, near Rockhampton at 46,109
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24
A6M3a Zero x 43
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 72
Allied aircraft
B-25J Mitchell x 3
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 2 damaged
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 1 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
B-25J Mitchell: 3 destroyed
another strike against my TFs at Rockhampton...
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Day Air attack on TF, near Rockhampton at 46,109
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24
A6M3a Zero x 43
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 72
Allied aircraft
Boomerang II x 3
CW-21B Demon x 3
Brewster 339D x 5
Kittyhawk I x 3
Wellington III x 9
A-20B Boston x 6
B-25J Mitchell x 3
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 3 damaged
A6M3a Zero: 1 damaged
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 3 destroyed, 5 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
Boomerang II: 2 destroyed
CW-21B Demon: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
Brewster 339D: 5 destroyed
Kittyhawk I: 2 destroyed
Wellington III: 9 damaged
A-20B Boston: 3 damaged
B-25J Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
Japanese Ships
DD Asagiri
DD Shikinami
DD Murakumo
DD Inazuma
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x B-25J Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet
1 x Wellington III bombing at 6000 feet
and one against the agile DDs. This time at least the Kittyhawks did a bit better, with the bounce on their side (amazing again considering the fact that the escorts fly at 9.000 ft and my Cap at 25.000 ft but that´s just the usual BS made possible by radar of 25 base forces 300 miles away). The Kitties took down 3 Tojos for the loss of 2 of their own, the bombers were nearly unharmed.
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Ground combat at 44,102
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 18231 troops, 6 guns, 1148 vehicles, Assault Value = 1834
Defending force 13408 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 270
Japanese max assault: 558 - adjusted assault: 1054
Allied max defense: 151 - adjusted defense: 10
Japanese assault odds: 105 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
61 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 11
Allied ground losses:
936 casualties reported
the tanks attacked again, I expect to see the last two remaining inf divisions to surrender soon. This will mean that the Australian adventure will come to an end and we will take defensive positions then.
As mentioned we spotted some BBs / CAs East of Paramishiro Jima up in the far North but no bombardment happened. This turn we spotted 2 APs 6 hexes East of the base and even more important:
TBF Avenger sighting report: 1 Japanese ship at 82,35 , Speed 9 , Moving East
An Avenger spotted one of my subs one hex South East of Paramishiro Jima. So there are undoubtably carriers in this area! [X(] It is late February and this is a cold zone! Don´t know if this is really an upcoming invasion adventure of my opponent but if so then he will take three times the casualties as usual just from the landings as we´re still in winter and it´s not preferrable to land in a cold zone during winter (I had to experience that myself in another PBEM). While Paramishiro Jima and Onnekotan Jima both are mountaineous terrains and Paramishiro Jima has forts 9 already (and a lot of CD guns) I´m a bit low on garrison troops. Paramishiro has got 400 and Onnekotan has only 200 assault points. If an invasion is coming then I hope to hold out long enough to bring in reinforcements. With being still in winter, the chances for us will never be better though.