AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 21, 43
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Morning Air attack on Ayuthia , at 56,61

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 43,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 1



Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 25


No Japanese losses

No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
25 x P-38G Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet

CAP engaged:
77th Sentai Det B with Ki-43-IIa Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 12000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes

unfortunetely, the only Lightning squadron at full strenght goes in first and is the one that only draws a single fighter which was damaged and turned away burning...

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Morning Air attack on Ayuthia , at 56,61

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 41,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 3
Ki-61-Ia Tony x 2



Allied aircraft
P-38F Lightning x 20


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 2 destroyed
Ki-61-Ia Tony: 1 destroyed




Aircraft Attacking:
19 x P-38F Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet *

CAP engaged:
246th Sentai with Ki-61-Ia Tony (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 14000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes
286 Ku S-1 with A6M3a Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 36750
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes

the next smaller Lightning squadron follows, drawing out 5 enemy fighters... all were dived on and downed...

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Morning Air attack on Ayuthia , at 56,61

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 44,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 4
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 4
Ki-61-Ia Tony x 5



Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 11


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 2 destroyed
Ki-61-Ia Tony: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-38E Lightning: 1 destroyed



CAP engaged:
77th Sentai Det B with Ki-43-IIa Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 12000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes
246th Sentai with Ki-61-Ia Tony (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(5 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 14000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes
286 Ku S-1 with A6M3a Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 36750
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes

and the third one, the smalles Lightning squadron... now this squadron meets the most fighters as usual but also gets a near endless dive, taking out most of the enemy resistance... due to the numerical superiority of the enemy the dive ended at some point though which immedietely changed the situation, seeing one Lightning downed, another damaged (crashing with a third one on the way home)... with the dive, the Lightnings take out 7 or 8 enemy fighters for no loss, without the dive, they lose 2 of their own for no enemy shot down... dive? anyone?

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Sub attack near Fukue-jima at 100,59

Japanese Ships
xAK Kinkasan Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
xAK Kyokusei Maru
SC CHa-11

Allied Ships
SS Snook



SS Snook launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Kinkasan Maru
SC CHa-11 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-11 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-11 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-11 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-11 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

blubb blubb...

[EUBanana]

ORIGINAL: castor troy

this is the freighter convoy that is going back and forth bringing supplies and fuel to Adak... low value freighters so if something bad would happen, it wouldn´t be that bad... [:D]

Sucks to be on an AKL in my game, they get the most awful jobs of all. [:D]

They are actually good at it as well, as their tonnage is so low they can get into tiny forward ports, ditch the load and get out again asap.

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 22, 43
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ASW attack near Miri at 64,86

Japanese Ships
DD Murakumo
DD Isonami

Allied Ships
SS O23



SS O23 is sighted by escort
O23 bottoming out ....
DD Murakumo fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Isonami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Isonami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Isonami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Isonami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Isonami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Isonami fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

enemy DDs patrolling the SRA...

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Sub attack near Kobe at 107,61

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-51
SC CHa-16
SC CHa-38

Allied Ships
SS Harder



Captain of SS Harder elects not to launch torpedoes at this target
Harder diving deep ....
SC CHa-51 fails to find sub and abandons search
SC CHa-38 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-38 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-38 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-38 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-38 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Miri at 64,86

Japanese Ships
DD Ikazuchi
DD Murakumo
DD Isonami

Allied Ships
SS O23, hits 2



SS O23 launches 4 torpedoes at DD Ikazuchi
O23 bottoming out ....
DD Murakumo fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Isonami attacking submerged sub ....
DD Isonami is out of ASW ammo
DD Isonami is out of ASW ammo
DD Isonami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Isonami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Isonami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Isonami fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 40,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 18


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
18 x P-38G Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet

just wanted to show presence... only 18 out of 25 fighters...

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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 6
B-24D1 Liberator x 17


Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses

No Allied losses



Runway hits 35

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 9


Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses

No Allied losses



Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 6

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on 66th Naval Guard Unit, at 111,134 (Munda)

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 12


Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
17 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

Also attacking 56th Field AA Battalion ...
Also attacking 66th Naval Guard Unit ...

have to use my bombers for ground support (no idea if any effect) because we can´t achieve anything with our totally crappy adjusted av....

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Morning Air attack on 66th Naval Guard Unit, at 111,134 (Munda)

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 12


Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

Also attacking 14th Naval Construction Battalion ...
Also attacking 66th Naval Guard Unit ...


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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 6


No Allied losses



Runway hits 11

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 6


No Allied losses



Runway hits 5

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 42,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 10


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
5 x P-38G Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet
5 x P-38G Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet

18 fighters of the first squadron, then 2x5 of both squadrons, you can imagine that we´re going to see 18 fighters of the second squadron following... sorry, but this is just stupid turn after turn after turn... even if it would be ok to have things screwed up all the time then why is it always screwing it up the same? Both squadrons lost the same number of fighters on their way to target? Always the same... Yeah sure, what a ridicoulos design...

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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 44,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 18


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
18 x P-38G Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet

here they come... squadron leader A: "shit, we´ve lost five fighters on our way to target"... squadron leader B: "what? we´ve also lost five!"...

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Afternoon Air attack on 14th Naval Construction Battalion, at 111,134 (Munda)

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 25


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
16 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Ground combat at Munda (111,134)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 20968 troops, 432 guns, 422 vehicles, Assault Value = 773

Defending force 4475 troops, 61 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 71

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Allied adjusted assault: 282

Japanese adjusted defense: 181

Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 1)

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
566 casualties reported
Squads: 31 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 31 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 3 (3 destroyed, 0 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
101 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 16 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled


Assaulting units:
14th NZ Brigade
II Aus Corps Engineer Battalion
13th Canadian Brigade
18th British Division
178th USAAF Base Force
222nd USN Base Force

Defending units:
18th Naval Guard Unit
Sasebo 5th SNLF
66th Naval Guard Unit
23rd Air Flotilla
56th Field AA Battalion
14th Naval Construction Battalion
43rd JNAF AF Unit


forts down to 1 now, looks like the base should fall hopefully soon...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 23, 43
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ASW attack near Tokara Retto at 99,63

Japanese Ships
E Tobui

Allied Ships
SS Gato



SS Gato is sighted by escort
E Tobui fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Morning Air attack on 8th Tank Regiment, at 75,125

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17F Fortress x 9
B-24D Liberator x 36


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 25 (2 destroyed, 23 disabled)



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
Ground Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

attacking a single enemy unit one hex South of Darwin... guess the unit will enter Darwin tomorrow, otherwise it would make sense to hit it a couple of times more...

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Morning Air attack on 8th Tank Regiment, at 75,125

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 6


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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ASW attack near Saishu To at 99,56

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-26

Allied Ships
SS Pollack



SS Pollack is sighted by escort
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-26 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Ground combat at Munda (111,134)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 20849 troops, 432 guns, 422 vehicles, Assault Value = 763

Defending force 3942 troops, 54 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 60

Allied adjusted assault: 130 [8|]

Japanese adjusted defense: 124

Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 1)

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 0

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

Japanese ground losses:
1074 casualties reported
Squads: 14 destroyed, 29 disabled
Non Combat: 24 destroyed, 73 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Vehicles lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
238 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 15 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 11 disabled


Assaulting units:
14th NZ Brigade
II Aus Corps Engineer Battalion
13th Canadian Brigade
18th British Division
178th USAAF Base Force
222nd USN Base Force

Defending units:
Sasebo 5th SNLF
66th Naval Guard Unit
14th Naval Construction Battalion
23rd Air Flotilla
56th Field AA Battalion
43rd JNAF AF Unit


the only positive about our failed attacks all the time is that the enemy takes more losses...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 24, 43
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Sub attack near Balikpapan at 65,98

Japanese Ships
PB Bisan Maru #3
PB Choun Maru #18

Allied Ships
SS Sailfish



SS Sailfish launches 4 torpedoes at PB Bisan Maru #3
Sailfish diving deep ....
PB Choun Maru #18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Choun Maru #18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Choun Maru #18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Choun Maru #18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Choun Maru #18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Sub attack near Tsushima at 102,56

Japanese Ships
PB Ichiyo Maru

Allied Ships
SS Snook



SS Snook launches 6 torpedoes at PB Ichiyo Maru
PB Ichiyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Ichiyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Ichiyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Ichiyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Ichiyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

not that succesful silent service lately...

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Submarine attack near Aogashima at 113,65

Japanese Ships
xAK Kosei Maru

Allied Ships
SS Tambor



xAK Kosei Maru is sighted by SS Tambor
SS Tambor launches 6 torpedoes


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ASW attack near Shortlands at 111,130

Japanese Ships
DD Amatsukaze

Allied Ships
SS S-34



SS S-34 is sighted by escort
S-34 diving deep ....
DD Amatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Amatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Amatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Amatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Amatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

still doing fast transports to the Solomons?

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Sub attack near Zamboanga at 73,87

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-5
PB Shintohoku Maru

Allied Ships
SS O23



SS O23 launches 2 torpedoes at SC CHa-5
O23 diving deep ....
PB Shintohoku Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Shintohoku Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Shintohoku Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Shintohoku Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Shintohoku Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Sub attack near Orchid Island at 87,68

Japanese Ships
E Hayabusa
E Kari

Allied Ships
SS Gunnel



SS Gunnel launches 6 torpedoes at E Hayabusa
Gunnel diving deep ....
E Kari fails to find sub and abandons search
E Hayabusa fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hayabusa fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hayabusa fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hayabusa attacking submerged sub ....
E Hayabusa fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hayabusa fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

wow, our subs couldn´t be any more unsuccesful...

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Morning Air attack on Shortlands , at 109,131

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 37,800 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes


Allied aircraft
F4U-1 Corsair x 18


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
18 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 36800 feet *

escort attempt...

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Morning Air attack on Nadzab , at 98,125

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIb Nick x 7



Allied aircraft
no flights

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
No Allied losses


Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Airbase hits 5
Runway hits 9

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x Ki-45 KAIb Nick bombing from 100 feet
Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

nice attack Rainer! this came by surprise, I accidently had all my fighters set to 30% LRCAP instead of Cap [X(] so this could have turned out costly if we would have seen more enemy aircraft... note that not one enemy fighter bomber was hit by dozens of flak guns coming in at 100ft... you sure can´t rely on flak at all in AE, seems like it´s even more pathetic than in WITP... where´s Nik?

7 Nicks did quite some damage, we had more than a dozen aircraft reported damaged on the ground, none were destroyed though and damage was repaired at the end of the turn... it was kind of a shocking effect though... Nadzab took over from PM being the most important airfield in the area, being a level 9 airfield, there´s no stacking limit here... Nadzab will support any attacks going further North or East...

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Morning Air attack on Rabaul , at 106,125

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 30
B-26 Marauder x 16


Japanese aircraft losses
H6K4 Mavis: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled



Airbase hits 11
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 56

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
14 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
16 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Shortlands , at 109,131

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 9
F4U-1 Corsair x 18


No Allied losses



Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 8

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 44


Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses

No Allied losses



Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 139

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
14 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Rabaul , at 106,125

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
B-26 Marauder x 16


Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses

No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
4 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 10
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 18

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Lunga , at 114,138

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 26


No Allied losses



Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 67

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 6


No Allied losses



Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 12

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 7


No Allied losses



Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 18

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Shortlands , at 109,131

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 9
F4U-1 Corsair x 9


No Allied losses



Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 7

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Ground combat at Munda (111,134)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 20681 troops, 432 guns, 422 vehicles, Assault Value = 750

Defending force 3255 troops, 53 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 40

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Allied adjusted assault: 211

Japanese adjusted defense: 79

Allied assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Munda !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
447 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 30 disabled
Engineers: 15 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 16 (16 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 3 (3 destroyed, 0 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
82 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled


Assaulting units:
13th Canadian Brigade
II Aus Corps Engineer Battalion
14th NZ Brigade
18th British Division
178th USAAF Base Force
222nd USN Base Force

Defending units:
Sasebo 5th SNLF
66th Naval Guard Unit
56th Field AA Battalion
23rd Air Flotilla
14th Naval Construction Battalion
43rd JNAF AF Unit

we could only be happy about our troops taking down the enemy combat strenght because our adjusted av would have never been enough to take the base... now that the enemy combat strenght is more or less gone, we get at least 1:1 or 2:1 attacks... adjusted av still is a joke though... none of our attacks even got 50% of our base av, which is totally depressing as our troops were in perfect combat condition...

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Ground combat at Bhamo (63,44)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 1956 troops, 22 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 74

Defending force 21 troops, 0 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Allied adjusted assault: 67

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 67 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied forces CAPTURE Bhamo !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 7 (7 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 1



Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
3rd Chinese Cavalry/ Corps

Defending units:
8th Field AF Const Bn /1


this unit finally has been destroyed...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 25, 43
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ASW attack near Taihoku at 87,62

Japanese Ships
SC Ch 3
SC Ch 15
SC Ch 14

Allied Ships
SS Greenling, hits 1



SS Greenling is located by SC Ch 3
Greenling diving deep ....
SC Ch 15 attacking submerged sub ....
SC Ch 14 fails to find sub and abandons search
SC Ch 15 attacking submerged sub ....
SC Ch 15 is out of ASW ammo
SC Ch 15 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 15 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 15 attacking submerged sub ....
SC Ch 15 is out of ASW ammo
SC Ch 15 is out of ASW ammo
SC Ch 15 is out of ASW ammo
SC Ch 15 is out of ASW ammo
SC Ch 15 is out of ASW ammo
SC Ch 15 is out of ASW ammo
SC Ch 15 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

Greenling takes a hit and has to retire to Adak... next mission kill...

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Sub attack near Bandjermasin at 59,100

Japanese Ships
TK Akane Maru, Torpedo hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage [:)]
PB Rokko Maru

Allied Ships
SS Scamp



SS Scamp launches 6 torpedoes at TK Akane Maru
PB Rokko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Rokko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Rokko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Rokko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Rokko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

we strike back, sinking a high value target full of oil...

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Morning Air attack on Rabaul , at 106,125

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 36,800 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes


Allied aircraft
F4U-1 Corsair x 48


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
16 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 36800 feet
16 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 36800 feet
16 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 36800 feet

now what about that? Three Corsair squadrons set to sweep (same setting as always), today they´ve all launched and flew to the target together... a rare event and worth nothing as there was no enemy... the 2 fighters missing of each squadron were set to Cap...

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Morning Air attack on Rabaul , at 106,125

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
Beaufighter Ic x 14
B-24D Liberator x 42
B-25C Mitchell x 16
B-26 Marauder x 32


Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 64

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
16 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
16 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
11 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

following the Corsairs a mixed bomber force shows up doing quite some damage... this is a combined strike out of THREE bases...

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Morning Air attack on Hollandia , at 93,116

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17F Fortress x 12
B-24D1 Liberator x 22


Allied aircraft losses
B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 6
Runway hits 37

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
13 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Hollandia , at 93,116

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 6


Allied aircraft losses
B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged



Airbase supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

sighted some enemy aircraft at Hollandia but it´s the old cat and mouse play... Rainer moves in some aircraft for a day to have them being sighted by my recons, I send bombers, they find the airfield empty... [:D]

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Morning Air attack on Rabaul , at 106,125

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 4


No Allied losses



Runway hits 3

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Rabaul , at 106,125

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
Beaufighter Ic x 14
B-25C Mitchell x 14


Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged



Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 9

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Hollandia , at 93,116

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 6


No Allied losses



Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 6

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Shortlands , at 109,131

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 25


No Allied losses



Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 44

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Ground combat at Munda (111,134)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 7385 troops, 123 guns, 90 vehicles, Assault Value = 750

Defending force 2861 troops, 40 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 33

Allied adjusted assault: 95

Japanese adjusted defense: 43

Allied assault odds: 2 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
170 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 24 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
112 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 19 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled


Assaulting units:
II Aus Corps Engineer Battalion
14th NZ Brigade
13th Canadian Brigade
18th British Division
222nd USN Base Force
178th USAAF Base Force
USN AirCenPac

Defending units:
Sasebo 5th SNLF
66th Naval Guard Unit
23rd Air Flotilla
56th Field AA Battalion
14th Naval Construction Battalion
43rd JNAF AF Unit

forgot to set the division to attack too... hopefully it won´t take as long to mop up here as it took to take the base...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 26, 43
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ASW attack near Muntok at 50,89

Japanese Ships
TK Tatibana Maru
TK San Luis Maru
E W-14

Allied Ships
SS O20



SS O20 is sighted by escort
E W-14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
E W-14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
E W-14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
E W-14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
E W-14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

a pity we didn´t get a shot at the tanker convoy...

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ASW attack near Muntok at 49,89

Japanese Ships
DD Satsuki
DD Minazuki

Allied Ships
SS KXVI



SS KXVI is located by DD Satsuki
KXVI bottoming out ....
DD Minazuki fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Satsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Satsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Satsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Satsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Satsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Sub attack near Tanegashima at 101,63

Japanese Ships
TK Kanto Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
SC Ch 38
SC Ch 24
TK Ceram Maru
PB Daibu Maru
PB Hitora Maru

Allied Ships
SS Harder



SS Harder launches 6 torpedoes at TK Kanto Maru
Harder diving deep ....
PB Daibu Maru fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Hitora Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Hitora Maru attacking submerged sub ....
PB Hitora Maru loses contact with SS Harder
SS Harder eludes ASW attack from PB Hitora Maru
SS Harder eludes ASW attack from PB Hitora Maru
PB Hitora Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Hitora Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Hitora Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Hitora Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

SS Harder heavily damages another tanker though... also this tanker had a flammable load... [:D]


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ASW attack near Izu Oshima at 113,63

Japanese Ships
E Matsuwa
DD Minekaze

Allied Ships
SS Tambor



SS Tambor is located by E Matsuwa
Tambor diving deep ....
DD Minekaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Matsuwa fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Minekaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Minekaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Minekaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Minekaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Morning Air attack on Shortlands , at 109,131

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-40K Warhawk x 16


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
16 x P-40K Warhawk sweeping at 15000 feet

failed escort attempt... this is a fighter squadron from the recently captured airfield at Munda...

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Morning Air attack on Shortlands , at 109,131

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 21
P-40K Warhawk x 32


Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled



Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 20

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Darwin at 76,124

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 4,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17F Fortress x 6
PB4Y-1 Liberator x 29[:D]


Allied aircraft losses
PB4Y-1 Liberator: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAK Anzan Maru #2, Bomb hits 7, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Sugiyama Maru, Bomb hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Yasuteru Maru, Bomb hits 6, and is sunk
xAK Ueizuru Maru, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
xAK Tosei Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAK Yoneyama Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Chowa Maru



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet
Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
10 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet
Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
10 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet
Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
6 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

here comes the numero uno anti shipping weapon of the Allied arsenal, the PB4Y-1 Liberator of the USNAF... that´s what I´ve meant with "if Darwin´s airfield is closed it will become suicide to move a convoy there"... my guess would be that this is (was [;)]) a supply transport to the enemy divisions holding out at Darwin. There were no enemy fighters at the base and not even light rain could prevent our USN Liberators from obliberating the convoy. As mentioned a couple of times already, lownav is the way to go if you want to attack shipping with bombs, guess that´s quite realistic and definetely also a step forward from WITP with it´s standard attack alt of 6000ft. You got to do the lownav training though. These Liberators had crews with lownav skill of 65-70 and they really are a mighty weapon against enemy shipping. Long range (17 hexes normal range), they attack with full bomb load (not in this case as we´ve got the airfield overstacked - the only reason I can make out as I´ve seen them attacking with full load already, what makes me wonder are the B-17 attacking with full load [&:]) and what really is important, they are very tough and got an excellent defensive armament, making these babies a real threat to enemy carriers too.

This supports my thoughts about the enemy now being in real trouble having his divisions stuck in Darwin. 2000+ av worth of troops at Darwin being sieged by my Australian Army with the airfield under constant air attacks by heavy bombers and the dot bases to the South East being built up asap will make it a hard task to save these troops. With Corsairs, torp carrying Beauforts and Mitchell attack bombers in range of Darwin´s port, this will only further darken the Japanese situation in Northern Austalia. I guess the situation change here came as surprising to Rainer as to me and it now seems to mean that he was late to abandon the Darwin area. Every day that passes should make the situation worse for the enemy.

All but one bomb hit were achieved by the Liberators... 36 at the base, 29 flew the concentrated attack... the only enemy ship class that could withstand attacks of these Liberators would be enemy BBs, everything else is in trouble to be heavily hit by 500lb bombs...



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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Darwin at 76,124

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17F Fortress x 9
B-24D Liberator x 36
B-24D1 Liberator x 31


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
xAK Tsuyama Maru
xAK Ueizuru Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Tosei Maru, heavy fires
xAK Neikai Maru, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Nittai Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
xAK Kuroshio Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAK Sugiyama Maru, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
xAK Yoneyama Maru, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Chowa Maru
xAK Anzan Maru #2, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
4 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
5 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
8 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
7 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
4 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
8 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Ueizuru Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Tosei Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Sugiyama Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Yoneyama Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Anzan Maru #2
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Nittai Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Neikai Maru

follow on strike from Merauke (no strike from Horn Island), all my heavy bombers are set to naval attack in case they don´t have to fly a ground attack... either they launch a nav strike or are treated as having rested... I´ve first been amazed by all these bomb hits but the 4Es from 10000ft had to only hit burning wrecks... unfortunetely our bombers didn´t attack in the morning, otherwise none of the freighters would have escaped... it still was a massacre, guess 9 or 10 out of the dozen freighters were sunk... if the enemy keeps the remaining one or two freighters at Darwin, the ship(s) will be sunk tomorrow I guess... if this was a supply convoy, then not much supplies will reach Darwin...

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Sub attack near Balabac at 69,83

Japanese Ships
SC Ch 25
SC Ch 2
SC Ch 1
SC Ch 26

Allied Ships
SS Grenadier



SS Grenadier launches 6 torpedoes at SC Ch 25
Grenadier diving deep ....
SC Ch 26 fails to find sub and abandons search
SC Ch 25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 25 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Sub attack near Milne Bay at 100,134

Japanese Ships
SS I-178

Allied Ships
DD Gwin
DD Dunlap
DD Meade



SS I-178 launches 6 torpedoes at DD Gwin
I-178 diving deep ....
DD Dunlap fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Meade fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Meade fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Meade fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Meade fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Meade fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Meade fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

enemy sub dares to attack an ASW TF... gets away unharmed...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 27, 43
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ASW attack near Laoag at 80,72

Japanese Ships
E Shimakaze
E Karukaya
E Asagao

Allied Ships
SS Drum, hits 3



SS Drum is sighted by escort
E Karukaya fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Asagao fails to find sub and abandons search
E Karukaya attacking submerged sub ....
E Karukaya fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Karukaya fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Karukaya fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

Drum takes some damage...

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ASW attack near Hengchun at 85,68

Japanese Ships
E Kari
E Hayabusa

Allied Ships
SS Gunnel



SS Gunnel is sighted by escort
Gunnel diving deep ....
E Kari fails to find sub and abandons search
E Hayabusa fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hayabusa fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hayabusa fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hayabusa fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hayabusa attacking submerged sub ....
E Hayabusa is out of ASW ammo
E Hayabusa fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

Gunnel gets away though... I hate the Japanese E...

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Pre-Invasion action off Shortlands
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

205 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
CL Concord
CL Marblehead
xAP William McArthur
AM Launceton


Allied ground losses:
33 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


CL Concord firing at 10th Division
CL Marblehead firing at 10th Division
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 6,000 yards
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 2,000 yards

Munda airfield was secured, here comes the invasion of our next target... two 100 ship convoys unload at Shortlands, being supported by carriers and heavy surface combat units...

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Amphibious Assault at Shortlands

TF 109 troops unloading over beach at Shortlands, 109,131


Allied ground losses:
17 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)


13 troops of a USA Rifle Squad 42 lost from landing craft during unload of 24th Infantry Div /3
13 troops of a USA Rifle Squad 42 lost overboard during unload of 24th Infantry Div /5
Observor Corps lost in surf during unload of 2nd RNZAF Base Force /4
10 Support troops lost from landing craft during unload of 2nd RNZAF Base Force /8

100% preparation, not a lot losses during unloading... 2 US Inf divisions and two base forces storm the beach...

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Pre-Invasion action off Shortlands
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

199 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
CL Trenton
CL Detroit
SC-749
SC-738
SC-707
SC-700
SC-699
SC-648
SC-642
AMC Westralia
AM Ipswitch
xAP Gandara


Allied ground losses:
25 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


CL Trenton firing at 10th Division
CL Detroit firing at 10th Division
SC-749 firing at enemy troops
SC-738 firing at enemy troops
SC-707 firing at enemy troops
SC-700 firing at enemy troops
SC-699 firing at enemy troops
SC-648 firing at enemy troops
SC-642 firing at enemy troops
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 5,000 yards
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 1,000 yards


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Amphibious Assault at Shortlands

TF 192 troops unloading over beach at Shortlands, 109,131


Allied ground losses:
20 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)


13 troops of a USA Rifle Squad 43 accidentally lost during unload of 25th Infantry Div /6
13 troops of a USA Rifle Squad 43 lost overboard during unload of 25th Infantry Div /9
Motorized Support lost overboard during unload of 25th Infantry Div /20
10 Support troops lost in surf during unload of 25th Infantry Div /46


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Invasion Support action off Shortlands
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

93 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
CL Concord
CL Marblehead
xAP William McArthur
AM Launceton


Allied ground losses:
27 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled


CL Concord firing at 10th Division
CL Marblehead firing at 10th Division
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 1,000 yards


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Invasion Support action off Shortlands
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

126 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
CL Trenton
CL Detroit
AMC Westralia
AMC Monowai
SC-749
SC-738
SC-707
SC-700
SC-699
SC-648
SC-642
AM Ipswitch


Allied ground losses:
28 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled


CL Trenton firing at 10th Division
CL Detroit firing at 10th Division
10th Division firing at AMC Westralia
10th Division firing at AMC Monowai
SC-749 firing at enemy troops
SC-738 firing at enemy troops
SC-707 firing at enemy troops
SC-700 firing at enemy troops
SC-699 firing at enemy troops
SC-648 firing at enemy troops
SC-642 firing at enemy troops
AMC Westralia firing at enemy troops
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 2,000 yards


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ASW attack near Muntok at 50,89

Japanese Ships
PB Jokuja Maru

Allied Ships
SS KXVI



SS KXVI is sighted by escort
KXVI bottoming out ....
PB Jokuja Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Jokuja Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Jokuja Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Jokuja Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Jokuja Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Sampit at 56,98

Japanese Ships
E Ishigaki

Allied Ships
SS Scamp



SS Scamp is sighted by escort
E Ishigaki fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Ishigaki fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Ishigaki fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Ishigaki fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Ishigaki fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Izu Oshima at 113,63

Japanese Ships
xAK Kurohime Maru
xAK Konan Maru
xAK Siraha Maru
E Tomozuru

Allied Ships
SS Grouper



SS Grouper is sighted by escort
Grouper diving deep ....
E Tomozuru fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Tomozuru fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Tomozuru fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Tomozuru fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Tomozuru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

not really succesful day for the silent service again...

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Morning Air attack on Rabaul , at 106,125

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
Beaufighter Ic x 27
B-25C Mitchell x 18


Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 2 damaged



Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 23

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
2 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

Rabaul has to be closed as long as we´re unloading at Shortlands... Rabaul is a level 6 airfield and I don´t want to suddenly see 100 enemy bombers supported by another 200 fighters there to attack our shipping at Shortlands... needless to say, I also don´t want to see KB show up... Munda received 150 fighters to support my fleet... defeating some small to medium sized strikes should be possible, an all out attack with another single 500+ aircraft strike would mean that the USN would stop existing...

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Morning Air attack on Hollandia , at 93,116

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17F Fortress x 12
B-24D1 Liberator x 18


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled



Airbase hits 11
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 32

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Hollandia , at 93,116

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 6


No Allied losses



Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 11

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Hollandia , at 93,116

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 8


Allied aircraft losses
B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 11

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

also Hollandia´s level 3 airfield gets visited... other than Rabaul, there are no airfields in the area that are a real threat, none of them was built up by the enemy so the enemy´s possibilities to fly land based attacks are quite limited... this IMO clearly shows the need of a couple of airfields of appropriate size supporting each other to enable you to strike at the enemy...

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Morning Air attack on Rabaul , at 106,125

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 12
B-26 Marauder x 32
F4U-1 Corsair x 24


Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 2 damaged
B-26 Marauder: 1 damaged



Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 39

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
16 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
16 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Rabaul , at 106,125

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 15


No Allied losses



Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 9

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Shortlands , at 109,131

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 15


No Allied losses



Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 20

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Shortlands , at 109,131

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 9


No Allied losses



Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 20

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Rabaul , at 106,125

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 9
F4U-1 Corsair x 8


Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses

No Allied losses



Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 10

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Sub attack near Daito Shoto at 100,68

Japanese Ships
AK Kinka Maru
AK Sagami Maru
AK Hirokawa Maru
xAK Teiren Maru
xAK Josho Maru
xAK Gosei Maru
xAK Teiryu Maru
xAK Toba Maru
PB Fuji Maru #3

Allied Ships
SS Shad



SS Shad launches 6 torpedoes at AK Kinka Maru
PB Fuji Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Fuji Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Fuji Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Fuji Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Fuji Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

not even a freighter is hit by 6 torps today... skipper obviously has been drunk...

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Invasion Support action off Shortlands
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

117 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
xAP William McArthur
AM Launceton


Allied ground losses:
20 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 1,000 yards


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Invasion Support action off Shortlands
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

99 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
SC-749
SC-738
SC-707
SC-700
SC-699
SC-648
SC-642
AMC Westralia
AM Ipswitch


Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


SC-749 firing at enemy troops
SC-738 firing at enemy troops
SC-707 firing at enemy troops
SC-700 firing at enemy troops
SC-699 firing at enemy troops
SC-648 firing at enemy troops
SC-642 firing at enemy troops
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 2,000 yards

the two 100 ship invasion convoy´s are far from unloading... [:(] glad I´m getting more and more APA/AKA, AP/AK and LCT now... if you aren´t in a hurry, you can use xAP and xAK for an invasion, but if you´re threated by enemy air or naval attacks then you really need to unload from dedicated transports...

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Ground combat at Shortlands (109,131)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14365 troops, 136 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 543

Defending force 15206 troops, 62 guns, 323 vehicles, Assault Value = 481 [X(]



Assaulting units:
1st Ind.Tank Co
10th Division [X(]
85th Naval Guard Unit
1st JNAF Coy
12th Naval Construction Battalion

Defending units:
24th Infantry Div /2
25th Infantry Div /2
2nd RNZAF Base Force /1
177th USAAF Base Force /2

as you can see, our units are still listed as fragments but what really was kind of shocking was to see the next enemy division... where does the enemy get so many divisions from? Two divs have already been completely destroyed during the assaults on the bases on New Guinea, now the next div is sitting in the Solomons. 2-2500 av are sitting at Darwin and another 7000+ at the border between Thailand and Burma... and I guess that´s not all yet... it already looks like Shortlands will be a tougher target than expected, recon reported 25000 troops on the island but there are 10000 less troops but obviously much better units than I expected...

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Ground combat at Fenton (76,126)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 5267 troops, 428 guns, 419 vehicles, Assault Value = 2622

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Allied adjusted assault: 16

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 16 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied forces CAPTURE Fenton !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker:



Assaulting units:
3rd Motor Brigade
2nd Australian Division
3rd Australian Division
2/11th Armoured Car Battalion
637th Tank Destroyer Battalion
762nd Tank Battalion
3rd Army Tank Brigade
2nd USMC Tank Battalion
4th Armoured Brigade
2/7th Armoured Regiment
193rd Tank Battalion
1st USMC Tank Battalion
627th Tank Destroyer Battalion
763rd Tank Battalion
4th Australian Division
2/8th Armoured Regiment
2/6th Armoured Regiment
754th Tank Battalion
5th Australian Division
2/10th Armoured Regiment
1st Australian Division
632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion
2/4th Armoured Regiment
1st Motor Brigade
1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion
1st RAN Base Force
188th Field Artillery Regiment
16th RAAF Base Force
181st Field Artillery Regiment
198th Field Artillery Battalion
205th Field Artillery Battalion
1st Australian Army
198th Coast AA Regiment
94th Coast AA Regiment
I Australian Corps
96th Coast AA Regiment
154th FA Bn
40th Field Artillery Regiment
4th Field Artillery Battalion
2nd RAN Base Force
209th Field Artillery Battalion
10th RAAF Base Force
114th USAAF Base Force
168th Field Artillery Regiment
223rd Field Artillery Battalion
70th Coast AA Regiment
30th Field Artillery Regiment
249th Field Artillery Battalion
III Australian Corps
2nd Australian Army
216th Coast AA Regiment
21/22 Field Regiment
II Australian Corps
183rd Field Artillery Regiment
97th Field Artillery Battalion
226th Field Artillery Battalion
134th Field Artillery Battalion
2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion
503rd Coast AA Regiment
197th Coast AA Regiment
2nd RAAF M/W Sqn
148th Field Artillery Battalion
13th Australian Hvy AA Regiment

taking the dot base South of Darwin, now we´re directly marching on Darwin...
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Ground combat at Munda (111,134)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 20619 troops, 433 guns, 423 vehicles, Assault Value = 747

Defending force 2810 troops, 40 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 33

Allied adjusted assault: 264

Japanese adjusted defense: 25

Allied assault odds: 10 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
253 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 16 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
101 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled


Assaulting units:
II Aus Corps Engineer Battalion
13th Canadian Brigade
14th NZ Brigade
18th British Division
178th USAAF Base Force
222nd USN Base Force
USN AirCenPac

Defending units:
66th Naval Guard Unit
Sasebo 5th SNLF /1
56th Field AA Battalion
23rd Air Flotilla
14th Naval Construction Battalion
43rd JNAF AF Unit


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Ground combat at 56,54

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 9681 troops, 88 guns, 153 vehicles, Assault Value = 2354

Defending force 112404 troops, 1205 guns, 1974 vehicles, Assault Value = 4174 [X(][X(]


Allied ground losses:
56 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 12 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 16 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)


Assaulting units:
20th Indian Division
16th Light Cavalry Regiment
6th Australian Division
255th Armoured Brigade
19th Indian Division
7th Australian Division
111th Chindit Brigade
77th Chindit Brigade
106th RAF Base Force
4th NW Frontier Base Force
XXXIII Indian Corps
IV Indian Corps
AHQ Bengal
XV Indian Corps
RAF 221 Group Base Force

Defending units:
53rd Division
1st Tank Division
2nd Tank Division
11th Tank Regiment
56th Division
112th Infantry Regiment
21st Ind.Mixed Brigade
9th Tank Regiment
9th
Imperial Guards Division
74th Infantry Regiment
48th Division
5th Guards Division
31st Field AA Battalion
23rd AA Regiment
15th Army
20th Ind. Mtn Gun Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
32nd Field AA Battalion
34th Field AA Battalion

7 enemy divisions plus a lot of other strong units are holding the jungle hex North of Moulmein... more than 2000 av are sitting at Chiang Mai and another 19 units are reported at Moulmein... again the question, where are all these units coming from? No chance to break through here, I´ve immediately ordered more of my units into the hex, hoping not to see a shock attack by the enemy tomorrow... if a shock attack drives me out of the hex, then the enemy could mount a massive counterattack and Burma would be threated again... [X(] a realy dangerous situation because my units are kind of out of position as I´ve moved them over the river moving East instead of South East to shock attack into this enemy position. Therefore the enemy would throw us out of the hex into the hex East of Pegu and he could move into Pegu! Now that would be a scenario...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 28, 43
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Invasion Support action off Shortlands
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

134 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
xAP William McArthur
AM Launceton


Allied ground losses:
72 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 1,000 yards

unloading a second day was a must, not being able to unload all troops today I can only hope the enemy won´t intervene with the fleet here... I´ve decided to keep unloading until most or all of our troops are disembarked... three of my freighters ran aground during unloading already, they aren´t sunk yet but I doubt they got a chance to survive...

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Invasion Support action off Shortlands
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

118 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
SC-749
SC-738
SC-707
SC-700
SC-699
SC-648
SC-642
AMC Westralia
AM Ipswitch


Allied ground losses:
31 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


SC-749 firing at enemy troops
SC-738 firing at enemy troops
SC-707 firing at enemy troops
SC-700 firing at enemy troops
SC-699 firing at enemy troops
SC-648 firing at enemy troops
SC-642 firing at enemy troops
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 1,000 yards


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ASW attack near Muntok at 50,89

Japanese Ships
DD Minazuki
DD Satsuki

Allied Ships
SS KXVI, hits 4



SS KXVI is located by DD Minazuki
KXVI bottoming out ....
DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Satsuki fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Minazuki attacking submerged sub ....
DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

next mission kill...

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Sub attack near Fukue-jima at 100,58

Japanese Ships
xAK Wakatu Maru
PB Nichiro Maru

Allied Ships
SS Snook



SS Snook launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Wakatu Maru
PB Nichiro Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Nichiro Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Nichiro Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Nichiro Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Nichiro Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Kanoya at 104,62

Japanese Ships
E Kamo
E Kiji

Allied Ships
SS Runner



SS Runner is located by E Kamo
Runner diving deep ....
E Kamo fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kiji fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kamo attacking submerged sub ....
E Kiji fails to find sub and abandons search
E Kamo fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kamo fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kamo attacking submerged sub ....
E Kamo fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Muntok at 50,89

Japanese Ships
DD Minazuki
DD Satsuki

Allied Ships
SS KXVI, hits 3



SS KXVI is located by DD Minazuki
DD Minazuki fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Satsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Satsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Satsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Satsuki attacking submerged sub ....
DD Satsuki attacking submerged sub ....
DD Satsuki is out of ASW ammo
Escort abandons search for sub

7 near misses in total, moderate damage, sub retires to Townsville...

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ASW attack near Kobe at 107,61

Japanese Ships
xAK Hoeisan Maru
xAK Toyooka Maru
PB Bisaku Maru

Allied Ships
SS Harder



SS Harder is sighted by escort
PB Bisaku Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Bisaku Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Bisaku Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Bisaku Maru attacking submerged sub ....
PB Bisaku Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Invasion Support action off Shortlands
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

117 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
xAP William McArthur
AM Launceton


Allied ground losses:
55 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 1,000 yards


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Invasion Support action off Shortlands
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

113 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
SC-749
SC-738
SC-707
SC-700
SC-699
SC-648
SC-642
AMC Westralia
AM Ipswitch


Allied ground losses:
76 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled


SC-749 firing at enemy troops
SC-738 firing at enemy troops
SC-707 firing at enemy troops
SC-700 firing at enemy troops
SC-699 firing at enemy troops
SC-648 firing at enemy troops
SC-642 firing at enemy troops
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 1,000 yards


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Invasion Support action off Shortlands
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

115 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
xAP William McArthur
AM Launceton


Allied ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 1,000 yards


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Invasion Support action off Shortlands
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

123 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
SC-749
SC-738
SC-707
SC-700
SC-699
SC-648
SC-642
AMC Westralia
AM Ipswitch


Allied ground losses:
58 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


SC-749 firing at enemy troops
SC-738 firing at enemy troops
SC-707 firing at enemy troops
SC-700 firing at enemy troops
SC-699 firing at enemy troops
SC-648 firing at enemy troops
SC-642 firing at enemy troops
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 2,000 yards


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Sub attack near Jesselton at 67,85

Japanese Ships
TK Oyashima Maru
TK Hirota Maru
PB Daiya Maru

Allied Ships
SS Grenadier



SS Grenadier launches 4 torpedoes at TK Oyashima Maru
Grenadier diving deep ....
PB Daiya Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Daiya Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Daiya Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Daiya Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Daiya Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

damn, the tanker was hit by duds...

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Sub attack near Gorong at 82,112

Japanese Ships
xAK Nissho Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
PB Nikki Maru

Allied Ships
SS Guardfish



SS Guardfish launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Nissho Maru
PB Nikki Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Nikki Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Nikki Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Nikki Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Nikki Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

Guardfish probably sinks a freighter...

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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17F Fortress x 14
B-24D Liberator x 43
B-24D1 Liberator x 17


Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAK Nittai Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 31
Port hits 9
Port supply hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
15 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
11 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
7 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

after the massacre on the enemy freighter convoy we haven´t spotted any enemy ships unloading anymore but we´ve finished a damaged freighter today that was disbanded into port... also hitting the airfield, we could need some more bombers though as all the enemy divisions at Darwin reall increas the damage repair ability of the enemy...

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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 8


No Allied losses



Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 10


No Allied losses



Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 17

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 6


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
xAK Nittai Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage



Port hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on TF, near Gorong at 82,112

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 1 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
PB4Y-1 Liberator x 4


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
PB4Y-1 Liberator: 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAK Nissho Maru, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk



Aircraft Attacking:
4 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet
Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

CAP engaged:
251 Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 12000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 14 minutes

a single freighter is attacked by the Navy Liberators and was sunk easily... the Zero protecting the freighter was easily driven off...

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Biak at 87,110

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 4,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2-N Rufe x 4



Allied aircraft
PB4Y-1 Liberator x 24[:D]


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
PB4Y-1 Liberator: 3 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAK Utide Maru, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires
xAK Utide Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
xAK Kiyoshima Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
xAK Kureha Maru #3, Bomb hits 8, and is sunk



Aircraft Attacking:
10 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet
Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
4 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet
Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet
Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
5 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet
Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

CAP engaged:
801 Ku S-1 with A6M2-N Rufe (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 12000
Raid is overhead

since I have deleted all search archs in my patrol squadrons, they are spotting ships like wild, while we hardly spotted anything with search archs before... this and the fact that the Liberators attack with great success means that we obliberate another convoy, this time one that was heading to Biak... only a handful of Rufes defending the ships, Rainer has to ramp up his fighter protection if he moves in convoys IMO... don´t know how the situation regarding air support is at Biak, it´s a level 3 airfield... guess at least 50-60 Tojos would be needed to be a threat against the incoming bombers... the bombers wouldn´t be stopped but perhaps at least some would be downed and the hit rate could be lower...

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ASW attack near Balikpapan at 64,98

Japanese Ships
PB Choun Maru #18

Allied Ships
SS Triton



SS Triton is located by PB Choun Maru #18
Triton bottoming out ....
PB Choun Maru #18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Choun Maru #18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Choun Maru #18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Choun Maru #18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Choun Maru #18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Taihoku at 87,62

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-37
SC CHa-21
SC CHa-29

Allied Ships
SS O19



SS O19 is located by SC CHa-37
O19 diving deep ....
SC CHa-37 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-29 fails to find sub and abandons search
SC CHa-37 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-37 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-37 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-37 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-37 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Invasion Support action off Shortlands
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

112 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
xAP William McArthur
AM Launceton


Allied ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 1,000 yards


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Invasion Support action off Shortlands
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

120 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
SC-749
SC-738
SC-707
SC-700
SC-699
SC-648
SC-642
AMC Westralia
AM Ipswitch


Allied ground losses:
52 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 7 (2 destroyed, 5 disabled)


SC-749 firing at enemy troops
SC-738 firing at enemy troops
SC-707 firing at enemy troops
SC-700 firing at enemy troops
SC-699 firing at enemy troops
SC-648 firing at enemy troops
SC-642 firing at enemy troops
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 1,000 yards


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Ground combat at Shortlands (109,131)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14310 troops, 136 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 539

Defending force 22393 troops, 223 guns, 552 vehicles, Assault Value = 727

Japanese ground losses:
75 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Assaulting units:
10th Division
1st Ind.Tank Co
85th Naval Guard Unit
1st JNAF Coy
12th Naval Construction Battalion

Defending units:
24th Infantry Division
25th Infantry Division
177th USAAF Base Force
2nd RNZAF Base Force

most of our troops are ashore now, one of the divs is missing it´s heavy equipment though... [8|] and we keep unloading...

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Ground combat at Munda (111,134)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 20582 troops, 433 guns, 425 vehicles, Assault Value = 739

Defending force 2592 troops, 40 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 18

Allied adjusted assault: 436

Japanese adjusted defense: 10

Allied assault odds: 43 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
909 casualties reported
Squads: 62 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 41 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 15 (15 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1


Allied ground losses:
36 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled


Assaulting units:
14th NZ Brigade
II Aus Corps Engineer Battalion
13th Canadian Brigade
18th British Division
178th USAAF Base Force
222nd USN Base Force
USN AirCenPac

Defending units:
66th Naval Guard Unit
Sasebo 5th SNLF /1
23rd Air Flotilla
14th Naval Construction Battalion
56th Field AA Battalion
43rd JNAF AF Unit


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56th Field AA Battalion Wiped Out at Munda by attrition!!!

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14th Naval Construction Battalion Wiped Out at Munda by attrition!!!


the first enemy units were banzai charging today...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 29, 43
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Invasion Support action off Shortlands
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

118 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
xAP William McArthur
AM Launceton


Allied ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 1,000 yards

and we unload...

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Invasion Support action off Shortlands
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

220 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
SC-749
SC-738
SC-707
SC-700
SC-699
SC-648
SC-642
AMC Westralia
AM Ipswitch


Allied ground losses:
24 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


SC-749 firing at enemy troops
SC-738 firing at enemy troops
SC-707 firing at enemy troops
SC-700 firing at enemy troops
SC-699 firing at enemy troops
SC-648 firing at enemy troops
SC-642 firing at enemy troops
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 6,000 yards
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 1,000 yards


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ASW attack near Jesselton at 67,85

Japanese Ships
DD Murakumo

Allied Ships
SS Grenadier



SS Grenadier is located by DD Murakumo
Grenadier diving deep ....
DD Murakumo fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Murakumo fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Murakumo fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Murakumo fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Murakumo fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Sub attack near Tsushima at 102,56

Japanese Ships
xAK Boston Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
xAK Mansyu Maru
xAK Hague Maru
PB Ryusei Maru

Allied Ships
SS Snook



SS Snook launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Boston Maru
PB Ryusei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Ryusei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Ryusei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Ryusei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Ryusei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Aogashima at 113,66

Japanese Ships
PB Taian Maru

Allied Ships
SS Grouper



SS Grouper is sighted by escort
PB Taian Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taian Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taian Maru attacking submerged sub ....
PB Taian Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taian Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Invasion Support action off Shortlands
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

115 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
xAP William McArthur
AM Launceton


Allied ground losses:
54 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 2,000 yards


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Invasion Support action off Shortlands
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

130 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
SC-749
SC-738
SC-707
SC-700
SC-699
SC-648
SC-642
AMC Westralia
AM Ipswitch


Allied ground losses:
48 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


SC-749 firing at enemy troops
SC-738 firing at enemy troops
SC-707 firing at enemy troops
SC-700 firing at enemy troops
SC-699 firing at enemy troops
SC-648 firing at enemy troops
SC-642 firing at enemy troops
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 2,000 yards


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Invasion Support action off Shortlands
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

129 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
xAP William McArthur
AM Launceton


Allied ground losses:
42 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 1,000 yards


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Invasion Support action off Shortlands
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

216 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
SC-749
SC-738
SC-707
SC-700
SC-699
SC-648
SC-642
AMC Westralia
AM Ipswitch


Allied ground losses:
109 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 15 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 6 (1 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)


SC-749 firing at enemy troops
SC-738 firing at enemy troops
SC-707 firing at enemy troops
SC-700 firing at enemy troops
SC-699 firing at enemy troops
SC-648 firing at enemy troops
SC-642 firing at enemy troops
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 4,000 yards
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 2,000 yards

amazingly lots of casualties...

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ASW attack near Cooktown at 94,136

Japanese Ships
SS RO-63, hits 2

Allied Ships
AM Igonish
xAK Florence D.
AM Madras
AM Lockeport



SS RO-63 is sighted by escort
RO-63 diving deep ....
AM Madras fails to find sub and abandons search
AM Lockeport fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Lockeport fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Lockeport fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Lockeport attacking submerged sub ....
AM Lockeport fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Lockeport fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

moving fuel to the outlying bases around PM and Horn Island...

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Sub attack near Gebe at 80,104

Japanese Ships
PB Takuna Maru #6
TK Moji Maru

Allied Ships
SS Gudgeon



SS Gudgeon launches 6 torpedoes at PB Takuna Maru #6
Gudgeon diving deep ....
PB Takuna Maru #6 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Takuna Maru #6 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Takuna Maru #6 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Takuna Maru #6 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Takuna Maru #6 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIb Nick x 7



Allied aircraft
Spitfire Vc Trop x 1


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-45 KAIb Nick: 1 destroyed




Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Ki-45 KAIb Nick bombing from 100 feet
Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
No.75 Sqn RAAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 37000
Raid is overhead

another one of these nuissance raids with Nick fighter bombers... Rainer is doing good recon over my bases so he´s aware where I´ve got fighters and where not... Lae only has two dozen bombers and some patrols so the base seemed to be a nice target for such a raid, but there was a single Aussie Spitfire from Nadzab (level 9 airfield complex) showing up over Lae, taking down two of the fighter bombers... [:D] no damage done to any Allied aircraft... flak fire was non existent...

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Taberfane at 82,117

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 4,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 11



Allied aircraft
PB4Y-1 Liberator x 4


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed


Japanese Ships
xAK Taigen Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage



Aircraft Attacking:
4 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet
Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

CAP engaged:
253 Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (11 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
11 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 32810
Raid is overhead

the Liberators succesfully attack the next freighter... the bombers also take down a Zero and drive off the rest... I wouldn´t want to move Japanese carriers into range of these bombers... we´re soon going to have another dozen of them more with trained crews... and within the next two weeks we´re going to have another squadron, bringing the strenght up to 60 IIRC... not enough 70 skill crews available yet but that should change soon... placing 60 of these bombers somewhere will make moving any shipping in range a very dangerous task... 60 of these bombers launching against KB is surely not something Rainer wants to see I guess...

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Morning Air attack on Namatanai , at 107,125

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 24


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 6
Runway hits 36

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
8 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on TF, near Taberfane at 82,117

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
PB4Y-1 Liberator x 6


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
PB4Y-1 Liberator: 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAK Taigen Maru, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk



Aircraft Attacking:
6 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet
Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

CAP engaged:
253 Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 32810 , scrambling fighters to 1000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 277 minutes



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Sub attack near Balikpapan at 64,99

Japanese Ships
TK Urato Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
E Kuretake

Allied Ships
SS Barb



SS Barb launches 6 torpedoes at TK Urato Maru
Barb diving deep ....
E Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kuretake fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

the enemy merchant marine has lost quite some shipping over the last days...

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Sub attack near Gebe at 80,104

Japanese Ships
PB Shonon Maru #15
TK Moji Maru
PB Takuna Maru #6

Allied Ships
SS Gudgeon



SS Gudgeon launches 4 torpedoes at PB Shonon Maru #15
Gudgeon diving deep ....
PB Takuna Maru #6 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Takuna Maru #6 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Takuna Maru #6 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Takuna Maru #6 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Takuna Maru #6 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Invasion Support action off Shortlands
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

113 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
xAP William McArthur
AM Launceton


Allied ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 1,000 yards


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Invasion Support action off Shortlands
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

120 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
SC-749
SC-738
SC-707
SC-700
SC-699
SC-648
SC-642
AMC Westralia
AM Ipswitch


Allied ground losses:
67 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 6 (1 destroyed, 5 disabled)


SC-749 firing at enemy troops
SC-738 firing at enemy troops
SC-707 firing at enemy troops
SC-700 firing at enemy troops
SC-699 firing at enemy troops
SC-648 firing at enemy troops
SC-642 firing at enemy troops
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 1,000 yards

still not unloaded completely...

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Ground combat at Shortlands (109,131)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14225 troops, 136 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 533

Defending force 24274 troops, 362 guns, 624 vehicles, Assault Value = 768

Japanese ground losses:
21 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
10th Division
1st Ind.Tank Co
85th Naval Guard Unit
1st JNAF Coy
12th Naval Construction Battalion

Defending units:
24th Infantry Division
25th Infantry Division
177th USAAF Base Force
2nd RNZAF Base Force


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Ground combat at Munda (111,134)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 20570 troops, 433 guns, 425 vehicles, Assault Value = 736

Defending force 1259 troops, 9 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 10

Allied adjusted assault: 255

Japanese adjusted defense: 13

Allied assault odds: 19 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
136 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
33 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Assaulting units:
13th Canadian Brigade
14th NZ Brigade
II Aus Corps Engineer Battalion
18th British Division
178th USAAF Base Force
222nd USN Base Force
USN AirCenPac

Defending units:
23rd Air Flotilla
43rd JNAF AF Unit

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 30, 43
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ASW attack near Kiriwina Island at 103,131

Japanese Ships
SS I-178, hits 1

Allied Ships
DD Farenholt
DD Gwin
DD Dunlap
DD Meade



SS I-178 launches 6 torpedoes at DD Farenholt
I-178 diving deep ....
DD Dunlap fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Meade fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Meade fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Meade fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Meade fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Meade attacking submerged sub ....
Escort abandons search for sub

our ASW TF is targetted again... we daily spot three or four subs in the area 6 hexes around Milne Bay...

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ASW attack near Balikpapan at 65,98

Japanese Ships
DD Tagonami
DD Tadeyame
DD Suruyame

Allied Ships
SS Triton



SS Triton is located by DD Tagonami
DD Tadeyame fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Suruyame fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Suruyame attacking submerged sub ....
DD Suruyame fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Suruyame fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Suruyame fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Port Kembla at 90,170

Japanese Ships
SS I-38, hits 1

Allied Ships
DD Hull
DD Aylwin
DD Monaghan
DD Dale
DD Worden



SS I-38 is sighted by escort
I-38 diving deep ....
DD Aylwin fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Monaghan fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Dale attacking submerged sub ....
DD Worden fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Dale fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dale fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dale fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dale fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dale fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dale fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

escorts of damaged CV Saratoga that was moved out of Sydney on it´s way to a repair shipyard big enough for the carrier... a succesful sub attack here could have pretty much ruined my day... thank god the enemy didn´t even get intel about the carrier here, otherwise he could try and hunt down the ship with his subs...

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Sub attack near Port Kembla at 90,170

Japanese Ships
SS I-38, hits 4, heavy damage

Allied Ships
DD Carmick
DD Woodworth
DD Kalk



SS I-38 launches 6 torpedoes at DD Carmick
I-38 diving deep ....
DD Carmick attacking submerged sub ....
SS I-38 eludes ASW attack from DD Carmick
DD Kalk fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Carmick fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Carmick fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Carmick attacking submerged sub ....
DD Carmick loses contact with SS I-38
DD Carmick fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Carmick fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

the sub then attacks an ASW TF that reacted... torps missed and the sub takes two real hits... doubt the sub is sunk but has to retire home for sure...
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Morning Air attack on Dobo , at 83,116

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 43,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 18


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
18 x P-38G Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet

that´s the base that housed the Zeroes flying Cap over the freighters that have been attacked... the Lightnings find no enemy aircraft today...

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Morning Air attack on Dobo , at 83,116

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 45,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 18


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
18 x P-38G Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet



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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17F Fortress x 13
B-24D Liberator x 40
B-24D1 Liberator x 15


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 14
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 63

Aircraft Attacking:
13 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
8 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
14 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 9


Allied aircraft losses
B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged



Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 17

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 7


No Allied losses



Runway hits 10

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 8


Allied aircraft losses
B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged



Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 7

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Dobo , at 83,116

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 42,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 9


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
5 x P-38G Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet
4 x P-38G Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet



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Sub attack near Aogashima at 111,66

Japanese Ships
TK Kurume Maru
TK Akebono Maru
PB Mikitade Maru
PB Toyokuni Maru

Allied Ships
SS Amberjack



SS Amberjack launches 6 torpedoes at TK Kurume Maru
Amberjack diving deep ....
PB Mikitade Maru fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Toyokuni Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toyokuni Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toyokuni Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toyokuni Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toyokuni Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toyokuni Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

a pity...

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Sub attack near Ishigaki at 89,68

Japanese Ships
TK Manei Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
APD Fuji

Allied Ships
SS Gunnel



SS Gunnel launches 4 torpedoes at TK Manei Maru
Gunnel diving deep ....
APD Fuji fails to find sub, continues to search...
APD Fuji fails to find sub, continues to search...
APD Fuji attacking submerged sub ....
SS Gunnel eludes ASW attack from APD Fuji
APD Fuji cannot establish contact with SS Gunnel
APD Fuji cannot establish contact with SS Gunnel
APD Fuji fails to find sub, continues to search...
APD Fuji fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

Gunnel does better... the sub shows quite a good performance on this patrol...

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Ground combat at Munda (111,134)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 20527 troops, 433 guns, 425 vehicles, Assault Value = 735

Defending force 1174 troops, 9 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 8

Allied adjusted assault: 205

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 205 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
1242 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 164 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
13th Canadian Brigade
14th NZ Brigade
II Aus Corps Engineer Battalion
18th British Division
222nd USN Base Force
178th USAAF Base Force
USN AirCenPac

Defending units:
23rd Air Flotilla
43rd JNAF AF Unit


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43rd JNAF AF Unit Wiped Out at Munda by attrition!!!

next unit banzai charged today... only the air HQ left...

[castor troy]

last day in March, means from tomorrow on we´re going to receive HELLCATS!!!! Big step forward, next major leap will be Thunderbolts showing up in two months (first two squadrons arrive fully equipped, followed by production start in 7/43)... in mid 43 we´re also going to receive major CV reinforcements... [:D]


AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 31, 43
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Sub attack near Balikpapan at 64,97

Japanese Ships
TK Hoyo Maru
PB Spey Maru

Allied Ships
SS Barb



SS Barb launches 6 torpedoes at TK Hoyo Maru
Barb bottoming out ....
PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

oh not again... [:(]

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ASW attack near Iba at 76,72

Japanese Ships
E Karukaya
E Shimakaze
E Asagao

Allied Ships
SS Snapper



SS Snapper is located by E Karukaya
E Karukaya attacking submerged sub ....
E Asagao fails to find sub and abandons search
E Karukaya fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Karukaya fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Karukaya fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Karukaya fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Karukaya fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Iba at 76,72

Japanese Ships
E Shimakaze
E Karukaya
E Asagao

Allied Ships
SS Snapper



SS Snapper is located by E Shimakaze
Snapper diving deep ....
E Karukaya fails to find sub and abandons search
E Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Asagao attacking submerged sub ....
E Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Morning Air attack on Prome , at 55,50

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 25
Ki-21-IIb Sally x 9
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 18



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged


Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 7

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 11000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
9 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 11000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Prome , at 55,50

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIb Sally x 27
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 12



Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIb Sally: 2 destroyed, 12 damaged

Allied aircraft losses


Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 13

Aircraft Attacking:
26 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 11000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb

compared to earlier flak results, our flak did quite good today, 5 enemy bombers reported shot down by flak...

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Morning Air attack on 10th Division, at 109,131 (Shortlands)

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 21
B-26 Marauder x 41
P-40K Warhawk x 20
F4U-1 Corsair x 8


Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
15 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
11 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
15 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
15 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

Also attacking 85th Naval Guard Unit ...
Also attacking 10th Division ...
Also attacking 85th Naval Guard Unit ...
Also attacking 10th Division ...
Also attacking 85th Naval Guard Unit ...
Also attacking 10th Division ...
Also attacking 85th Naval Guard Unit ...
Also attacking 10th Division ...

flying ground attacks against the enemy div at Shortlands, still got no clue if these attacks make sense or not...

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Morning Air attack on 12th Naval Construction Battalion, at 109,131 (Shortlands)

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 21
P-40K Warhawk x 20


Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 2 damaged



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

Also attacking 10th Division ...
Also attacking 1st Ind.Tank Co ...
Also attacking 12th Naval Construction Battalion ...
Also attacking 10th Division ...
Also attacking 12th Naval Construction Battalion ...
Also attacking 10th Division ...


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Morning Air attack on 10th Division, at 109,131 (Shortlands)

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

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


Allied aircraft
Beaufighter Ic x 25
B-25C Mitchell x 12


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on 10th Division, at 109,131 (Shortlands)

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 23
P-40K Warhawk x 20


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
15 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
8 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Sub attack near Orchid Island at 86,68

Japanese Ships
E Otori
E Kari

Allied Ships
SS Gunnel



SS Gunnel launches 4 torpedoes at E Otori
Gunnel diving deep ....
E Kari fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kari fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kari fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kari fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kari attacking submerged sub ....
E Kari is out of ASW ammo
E Kari is out of ASW ammo
Escort abandons search for sub

three full months in 43 have passed, not one E was sunk by subs... not even one... all misses or duds...

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Sub attack near Miyako-jima at 91,67

Japanese Ships
SC Ch 38
TK Ceram Maru
PB Hitora Maru

Allied Ships
SS Drum



SS Drum launches 6 torpedoes at SC Ch 38
PB Hitora Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Hitora Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Hitora Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Hitora Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Hitora Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Ground combat at Munda (111,134)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 20569 troops, 433 guns, 426 vehicles, Assault Value = 737

Defending force 75 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Allied adjusted assault: 185

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 185 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
53 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Assaulting units:
13th Canadian Brigade
14th NZ Brigade
II Aus Corps Engineer Battalion
18th British Division
178th USAAF Base Force
222nd USN Base Force
USN AirCenPac

Defending units:
23rd Air Flotilla /1

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Apr 01, 43
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ASW attack near Balikpapan at 64,97

Japanese Ships
DD Tadeyame
DD Suruyame

Allied Ships
SS Barb, hits 9



SS Barb is sighted by escort
Barb bottoming out ....
DD Tadeyame fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Suruyame fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tadeyame attacking submerged sub ....
DD Suruyame fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tadeyame fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Suruyame fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tadeyame fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Suruyame fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Tadeyame fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

mission kill, Barb retiring to Townsville and then further on to Brisbane...

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ASW attack near Kanoya at 103,63

Japanese Ships
E Kamo
E Kasasagi
E Kiji

Allied Ships
SS Pogy



SS Pogy is located by E Kamo
Pogy diving deep ....
E Kamo fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kiji fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kamo fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kiji fails to find sub and abandons search
E Kamo fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kamo fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kamo fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

Pogy escaped...

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ASW attack near Tanegashima at 102,63

Japanese Ships
E Kiji
E Kamo

Allied Ships
SS Harder, hits 1



SS Harder is located by E Kiji
E Kamo fails to find sub and abandons search
E Kiji fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kiji fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kiji fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kiji fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Kiji attacking submerged sub ....
E Kiji fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Balikpapan at 64,97

Japanese Ships
PB Spey Maru

Allied Ships
SS Barb, hits 2



SS Barb is sighted by escort
Barb bottoming out ....
PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Spey Maru attacking submerged sub ....
PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

Barb then takes two more near misses...

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ASW attack near Hengchun at 85,68

Japanese Ships
E Hiyodori

Allied Ships
SS Gunnel



SS Gunnel is sighted by escort
E Hiyodori fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hiyodori fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hiyodori fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hiyodori fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hiyodori fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Balikpapan at 64,98

Japanese Ships
DD Tadeyame
DD Suruyame

Allied Ships
SS Triton, hits 1



SS Triton is sighted by escort
Triton bottoming out ....
DD Tadeyame attacking submerged sub ....
DD Tadeyame is out of ASW ammo
DD Tadeyame is out of ASW ammo
DD Tadeyame is out of ASW ammo
DD Suruyame attacking submerged sub ....
DD Tadeyame fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Suruyame fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Tadeyame attacking submerged sub ....
DD Tadeyame is out of ASW ammo
DD Tadeyame is out of ASW ammo
DD Tadeyame is out of ASW ammo
DD Tadeyame is out of ASW ammo
DD Tadeyame is out of ASW ammo
DD Tadeyame fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tadeyame fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

these DDs have already dropped lots of DCs earlier...

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Sub attack near Perth at 45,147

Japanese Ships
SS I-37, hits 5

Allied Ships
AM Bunbury, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
AM Outarde



SS I-37 launches 6 torpedoes at AM Bunbury
AM Outarde fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Outarde attacking submerged sub ....
AM Outarde fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Outarde fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Outarde fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

that´s minesweeper number three or four being lost on ASW duty near Perth... not that I would care about them... no subs were sunk IIRC...

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Morning Air attack on Fergusson Island , at 102,132

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 39,740 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 26



Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 2


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed



Aircraft Attacking:
26 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 36740 feet *

CAP engaged:
VF-2 with F4F-4 Wildcat (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes

note the squadron that leaked from Milne Bay to the dot base that was swept by the Tojos... got my carriers at Milne Bay at the moment... that´s my major fleet base in the frontline at the moment where I´ve got some 100,000 fuel... enough for one operation fleet operation...

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Morning Air attack on Namatanai , at 107,125

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 37,800 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 2



Allied aircraft
F4U-1 Corsair x 16


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




Aircraft Attacking:
15 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 36800 feet

CAP engaged:
59th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 36740
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes

the enemy is engaging our leaking Cap, we do the same near Rabaul... note the 60ft alt advantage of the Corsair...

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Morning Air attack on Namatanai , at 107,125

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 38,800 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 5



Allied aircraft
F4U-1 Corsair x 15


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

Allied aircraft losses
F4U-1 Corsair: 1 destroyed



Aircraft Attacking:
12 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 36800 feet

CAP engaged:
59th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(5 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 36740
Raid is overhead

that was surprising, the follow on sweep of the Corsairs got NO ongoing dive, it was over after two or three passes... being more dynamic is what I would like to see, just like in this engagement... here you could say, the enemy was bounced and after one or two fighters were shot down the dogfighting began...

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Morning Air attack on Fergusson Island , at 102,132

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 38,740 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3



Allied aircraft
Martlet IV x 3
F4F-4 Wildcat x 10


No Japanese losses

No Allied losses



CAP engaged:
VF-3 with F4F-4 Wildcat (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes
VF-42 with F4F-4 Wildcat (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes
VF-8 with F4F-4 Wildcat (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes
VF-71 with F4F-4 Wildcat (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Raid is overhead
No.882 Sqn FAA with Martlet IV (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Raid is overhead
No.896 Sqn FAA with Martlet IV (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes
No.898 Sqn FAA with Martlet IV (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Raid is overhead
VF-60 with F4F-4 Wildcat (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes
VRF-2F with F4F-4 Wildcat (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Raid is overhead

follow on sweep as usual engages more fighters... only damaged ac on both sides...

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Morning Air attack on Namatanai , at 107,125

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 39,800 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 1



Allied aircraft
F4U-1 Corsair x 20


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




Aircraft Attacking:
18 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 36800 feet
2 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 36800 feet

CAP engaged:
59th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling)
Group patrol altitude is 36740 , scrambling fighters to 35000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes



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Morning Air attack on Namatanai , at 107,125

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 39,800 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes


Allied aircraft
F4U-1 Corsair x 2


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
2 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 36800 feet

nothing left for the stranglers... in total we claim 5 Tojos shot down for the loss of 4 of our own fighters today... not a good exchange ratio when you consider the huge numbers of Tojos leaving Japan´s factories...




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Morning Air attack on 10th Division, at 109,131 (Shortlands)

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 44
B-26 Marauder x 6


Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 4 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
32 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
14 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
15 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

Also attacking 85th Naval Guard Unit ...
Also attacking 1st Ind.Tank Co ...
Also attacking 10th Division ...
Also attacking 85th Naval Guard Unit ...
Also attacking 10th Division ...
Also attacking 85th Naval Guard Unit ...
Also attacking 10th Division ...
Also attacking 85th Naval Guard Unit ...

got to bomb the enemy div at Shortlands...

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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17F Fortress x 10
B-24D1 Liberator x 27


No Allied losses



Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 26

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x B-17F Fortress laying Mk 13 Mine from 10000 feet
8 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
7 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

and we have to keep Darwin suppressed...

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Morning Air attack on Dobo , at 83,116

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 58


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 destroyed on ground
G3M3 Nell: 1 destroyed on ground




Airbase hits 11
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 76

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
15 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
13 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

visiting Dobo (base 500 miles NE of Darwin) as this seems to be the staging base for recons and Nells on nav search... haven´t got enough heavy bombers nor bases to put them in in that area to suppress every airfield in the area, especially when we´ve got to fly a hell a lot of sorties to keep Darwin more or less in damaged state...

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Morning Air attack on 10th Division, at 109,131 (Shortlands)

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-26 Marauder x 24


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
26 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

Also attacking 12th Naval Construction Battalion ...
Also attacking 10th Division ...


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Morning Air attack on 1st Ind.Tank Co , at 109,131 (Shortlands)

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 9


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

the Japanese even got "tanks" on Shortlands...

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Morning Air attack on 10th Division, at 109,131 (Shortlands)

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-26 Marauder x 12


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on 10th Division, at 109,131 (Shortlands)

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D1 Liberator x 20


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
13 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
7 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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ASW attack near Hengchun at 85,68

Japanese Ships
E Hiyodori

Allied Ships
SS Gunnel



SS Gunnel is sighted by escort
Gunnel diving deep ....
E Hiyodori fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hiyodori attacking submerged sub ....
E Hiyodori fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hiyodori fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hiyodori fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Ground combat at Shortlands (109,131)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 20439 troops, 325 guns, 550 vehicles, Assault Value = 775

Defending force 15260 troops, 138 guns, 69 vehicles, Assault Value = 525

Allied adjusted assault: 335 [8|]

Japanese adjusted defense: 859

Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 4)

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

Japanese ground losses:
403 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 14 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 30 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled


Allied ground losses:
1157 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 134 disabled [X(][X(][X(]
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 64 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 9 disabled
Vehicles lost 71 (7 destroyed, 64 disabled)


Assaulting units:
24th Infantry Division
25th Infantry Division
177th USAAF Base Force
2nd RNZAF Base Force

Defending units:
10th Division
1st Ind.Tank Co
85th Naval Guard Unit
1st JNAF Coy
12th Naval Construction Battalion

100% prepped, everything´s looking good, as usual neither a positive nor a negative multiplier but also as usual an adjusted av that is nothing but a joke... the fact that the enemy gets a better adjusted than base av is ok with me, forts and jungle should give them an advantage, bombing them is once again completely useless it seems... but why on Earth are we always getting adjusted av that are nothing but a joke... now this wasn´t a real problem in the past because (as mentioned by the officials quite often) it´s not all about av and you should look at the damage done... in the past, we got horrible adjusted av but we dished out some damage and suffered "ok" losses but today, I´ve completely shredded one of my divisions... the unit is now down to 80/100 but has more than 25% of the combat squads disabled... we on the other side did no damage to the defender... this more looks like a Japanese banzai charge than an Allied deliberate attack of 100% prepped troops... [8|]

the invasion FAILED... without bringing serious reinforcements I won´t be able to do anything here... bombing LCUs means nothing, bombing and having isolated the base for months obviously also has meant nothing... am going to land two more divisions (prepping for another target) at the dot base North of Shortlands and will march them down to Shortlands... estimated time to march through the jungle hex is 12-14 days... first a para unit will seize the dot base (something I planned to do anyway because I didn´t want to see the enem retreating to that dot after being kicked out of Shortlands) and then a USN base force will disembark to provide nav support for the two INF divs following... 140 combat squads destroyed/disabled in the first attack is just horrible...

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Ground combat at Munda (111,134)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 20577 troops, 433 guns, 426 vehicles, Assault Value = 737

Defending force 29 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Allied adjusted assault: 184

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 184 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Assaulting units:
13th Canadian Brigade
II Aus Corps Engineer Battalion
14th NZ Brigade
18th British Division
178th USAAF Base Force
222nd USN Base Force
USN AirCenPac

Defending units:
23rd Air Flotilla /1

and then I´ve thought Munda would have been a tough target but at least I could take this base with my horrible 50% adjusted av at best... no idea why the adjusted av look that bad with 100% prepped troops and the game is not giving any info, neither positive nor negative multipliers... so perhaps then you could expect an adjusted av = base av? no, obviously not...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Apr 02, 43
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Sub attack near Jesselton at 67,85

Japanese Ships
DD Shinonome
DD Murakumo

Allied Ships
SS Grenadier



SS Grenadier launches 4 torpedoes at DD Shinonome
Grenadier diving deep ....
DD Murakumo fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Murakumo attacking submerged sub ....
DD Murakumo fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Murakumo attacking submerged sub ....
DD Murakumo attacking submerged sub ....
DD Murakumo is out of ASW ammo
DD Murakumo is out of ASW ammo
DD Murakumo is out of ASW ammo
DD Murakumo is out of ASW ammo
Escort abandons search for sub


stop attacking enemy DD and E please... no sense doing so and only putting the sub in danger...

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Sub attack near Fukue-jima at 100,59

Japanese Ships
DD Okikaze
PB Muroran Maru

Allied Ships
SS Pollack



SS Pollack launches 4 torpedoes at DD Okikaze
Pollack diving deep ....
DD Okikaze attacking submerged sub ....
PB Muroran Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Okikaze fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Muroran Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Muroran Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Muroran Maru attacking submerged sub ....
PB Muroran Maru cannot reach attack position over SS Pollack
SS Pollack eludes ASW attack from PB Muroran Maru
SS Pollack eludes PB Muroran Maru by diving deep
SS Pollack eludes PB Muroran Maru by diving deep
PB Muroran Maru loses contact with SS Pollack
PB Muroran Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Muroran Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

same here... 1/1/43 saw a hit ratio reduction on enemy escorts by feeled 75%... from 94% total hits (months of statistics) to something like 35% on escorts with 90% duds if we hit... and then you would think it´s good to get into 1/43 to see a reduction of duds to 50%...

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ASW attack near Hengchun at 85,68

Japanese Ships
E Hiyodori

Allied Ships
SS Gunnel



SS Gunnel is sighted by escort
Gunnel diving deep ....
E Hiyodori fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hiyodori fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hiyodori fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hiyodori fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hiyodori fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Balikpapan at 65,98

Japanese Ships
DD Tagonami

Allied Ships
SS Triton



SS Triton is sighted by escort
Triton diving deep ....
DD Tagonami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tagonami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tagonami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tagonami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tagonami fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Balabac at 70,83

Japanese Ships
PB Hakkai Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
PB Taijin Maru

Allied Ships
SS Guardfish



SS Guardfish launches 6 torpedoes at PB Hakkai Maru
Guardfish bottoming out ....
PB Taijin Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taijin Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taijin Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taijin Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Taijin Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Morning Air attack on Namatanai , at 107,125

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 40,800 feet.
Estimated time to target is 17 minutes


Allied aircraft
F4U-1 Corsair x 16


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
16 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 36800 feet



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Morning Air attack on Namatanai , at 107,125

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 41,800 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes


Allied aircraft
F4U-1 Corsair x 16


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
16 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 36800 feet



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Morning Air attack on Namatanai , at 107,125

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 40,800 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes


Allied aircraft
F4U-1 Corsair x 4


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
2 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 36800 feet
2 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 36800 feet

the enemy bogged out of Rabaul again...

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Morning Air attack on Namatanai , at 107,125

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 37,800 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes


Allied aircraft
F4U-1 Corsair x 16


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
16 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 36800 feet



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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 41


No Allied losses



Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 83

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
14 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
8 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

good day over Darwin...

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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 6


No Allied losses



Runway hits 14

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 8


No Allied losses



Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 8

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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ASW attack near Balikpapan at 65,98

Japanese Ships
DD Tadeyame
DD Tagonami

Allied Ships
SS Triton



SS Triton is located by DD Tadeyame
Triton diving deep ....
DD Tagonami attacking submerged sub ....
DD Tagonami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tagonami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tagonami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tagonami fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Woodlark Island at 106,133

Japanese Ships
SS RO-34

Allied Ships
DD Farenholt
DD Dunlap
DD Meade



SS RO-34 is located by DD Farenholt
DD Dunlap fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Meade fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Ground combat at Munda (111,134)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 20574 troops, 433 guns, 426 vehicles, Assault Value = 735

Defending force 15 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Allied adjusted assault: 218

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 218 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Assaulting units:
II Aus Corps Engineer Battalion
14th NZ Brigade
13th Canadian Brigade
18th British Division
222nd USN Base Force
178th USAAF Base Force
USN AirCenPac

Defending units:
23rd Air Flotilla /1

that damned air HQ fragment still refuses to die... as it´s a fragment now, I´m sure Rainer pulled out enough squads to have the parent elsewhere to rebuild... pretty sure I´m going to meet all units again that I´ve "destroyed" so far...

[anarchyintheuk]

Scattershooting on Shortlands invasion:

Your USarmy lcus are probably close to 50xp. Think that means a 50% cut in your adjusted av right off the top. Then you have to adjust for fatigue/disruption effects.

Kinda suprised that they still have supply considering all the effort expended in isolating it.

I usually try to match whatever the targets lcus are by 3-1.

Your backup plan is a good one.

Not that there is much difference between '42 and '43 USinf squads stats, were the 24th and 25th upgraded to '43 yet?

The '43 USMC upgrade rules.

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

Scattershooting on Shortlands invasion:

Your USarmy lcus are probably close to 50xp. Think that means a 50% cut in your adjusted av right off the top. Then you have to adjust for fatigue/disruption effects.

Kinda suprised that they still have supply considering all the effort expended in isolating it.

I usually try to match whatever the targets lcus are by 3-1.

Your backup plan is a good one.

Not that there is much difference between '42 and '43 USinf squads stats, were the 24th and 25th upgraded to '43 yet?

The '43 USMC upgrade rules.

but shouldn´t I get an "experience (-)" for it. I guess 50 exp wouldn´t mean attacking with halve of their av though as this would mean that only 99 exp units would attack with their full, well 99%, av and all other would get an "experience (-)" but I see this only with very low exp units. While my adjusted av at Munda and now at Shortlands both times got totally shredded, I didn´t get any negative multipliers. The two divs should be both around 60 exp IIRC, none of them has upgraded to 43 squads already, there aren´t yet enough squads in the pool to do so, only base force and rgts have changed over to 43 squads.

So far having two divs vs one div plus support or only nav guard units and stuff like that worked very well, took out two enemy divs and several smaller units with such force on New Guinea already. All my contested invasions so far consisted of two inf divs (or one div plus rgts equivalent to another div) plus a naval base force and an airforce base force and it only started to get a bit slow during the recent Munda invasion, but Shortland´s defenders stopped me cold after the first attack. Landing two US Inf divs plus the two base forces and supplies takes two 100 ship invasion TFs so if I would have to bring another div in the invasion it would take me at least another 50 transports. And then it would again take me at least three days to unload all troops.

Now that it´s 4/43 I´ve also got AK/AP, AKA/APA and LST available but for sure not enough to carry three divs, two base forces and supplies, so landing such a force would again require hundreds of xAP or xAK as backup.

Especially when I think about all the air attacks over months I would think that 2:1 of major LCUs (with more firepower than the enemy) would be sufficient. Thought wrong about it as the airattacks just seem to mean nothing (something I´ve been thinking about lots of times already). The stalled Shortlands invasion is no biggy, moving in the other two divs and marching them into the base won´t take that long and I´m in no hurry anyway and the reinforcment divs are prepping for a target that I´m not going to attack within the next three months anyway.

[castor troy]

here´s the combat report showing the first attack at Lae for example:

Ground combat at Lae (99,126)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 21397 troops, 404 guns, 574 vehicles, Assault Value = 756

Defending force 19804 troops, 186 guns, 48 vehicles, Assault Value = 588

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 3

Allied adjusted assault: 782

Japanese adjusted defense: 1999

Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
343 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 53 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 47 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
843 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 67 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 79 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Vehicles lost 41 (2 destroyed, 39 disabled)


Assaulting units:
Americal Infantry Division
40th Infantry Division
I US Amphib Corps

Defending units:
19th Naval Guard Unit
12th Division
89th Naval Guard Unit
2nd Naval Construction Battalion
38th Field AA Battalion
26th Air Flotilla
3rd Naval Construction Battalion
38th JNAF AF Unit


that was a couple of months ago, as you can see, even if our attack failed, the divs had an adjusted av of more or less their base av. These units didn´t have any better exp than those assaulting Shortlands at the moment. Also here, no positive or negative multipliers at all. AND one important side note here, these units weren´t 100% prepped for the target either, I guess they´ve been at something like 60%, while the Shortlands and Munda invaders all were/are at 100% prepped. I don´t get it... [&:]

[anarchyintheuk]

Can see your point. Can't recall the corps command bonus atm that may be significant tho. Might compare 24/25 ID commanders w/ your Amercial/40 ID commanders to see if there is a difference as well.

Like you said it's not a big deal, the reinforcing divisions will just take a little time to get into position.

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

Can see your point. Can't recall the corps command bonus atm that may be significant tho. Might compare 24/25 ID commanders w/ your Amercial/40 ID commanders to see if there is a difference as well.

Like you said it's not a big deal, the reinforcing divisions will just take a little time to get into position.

I´ve changed (if needed) all commanders of my frontline divs long ago and usually take a look at them when I load the divs up on the invasion transports, all of them should be ok and all of them usually got more or less the same stats. I´ve gone through all known possibilities so far but couldn´t figure out what the problem is to get an adjusted av being equal to the base av at least. I don´t have a HQ in the invasion because there are only very few HQs I can prep and use for my invasions and Shortlands surely wasn´t a that important target to have a HQ prep for it.

Shortlands isn´t a broken leg, but imagine I´m going for a more important target, let´s say Rabaul. I´ve got lots of units (including a HQ) prepping for Rabaul, the enemy got 32!!! units there. Now if I´m going to land five divs there and my adjusted av stays what it was at Munda and what it is at Shortlands now then I´m probably screwed because if I only get 1000 adjusted av at best with 100% prepped troops then forget about taking Rabaul with F I V E divisions.

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Apr 03, 43
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Sub attack near Balikpapan at 65,98

Japanese Ships
DD Suruyame
DD Tagonami

Allied Ships
SS Sailfish, hits 1



SS Sailfish launches 4 torpedoes at DD Suruyame
DD Tagonami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tagonami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tagonami attacking submerged sub ....
DD Tagonami is out of ASW ammo
DD Tagonami is out of ASW ammo
DD Tagonami is out of ASW ammo
DD Tagonami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tagonami attacking submerged sub ....
DD Tagonami is out of ASW ammo
DD Tagonami is out of ASW ammo
DD Tagonami is out of ASW ammo
DD Tagonami is out of ASW ammo
DD Tagonami is out of ASW ammo
DD Tagonami is out of ASW ammo
Escort abandons search for sub

the DD nearly had no ammo...

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ASW attack near Iba at 78,74

Japanese Ships
E Shimakaze
E Karukaya
E Asagao

Allied Ships
SS Pompon, hits 3



SS Pompon is sighted by escort
E Karukaya attacking submerged sub ....
E Asagao fails to find sub and abandons search
E Karukaya fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Karukaya fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Karukaya attacking submerged sub ....
E Karukaya is out of ASW ammo
E Karukaya is out of ASW ammo
E Karukaya is out of ASW ammo
E Karukaya fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

same goes for Karukaya...

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ASW attack near Taihoku at 87,62

Japanese Ships
SC Ch 13
SC Ch 14

Allied Ships
SS Gato



SS Gato is sighted by escort
Gato diving deep ....
SC Ch 14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Saishu To at 99,56

Japanese Ships
xAK Bordeaux Maru
PB Ichiyo Maru

Allied Ships
SS Pollack



SS Pollack is sighted by escort
Pollack diving deep ....
PB Ichiyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Ichiyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Ichiyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Ichiyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Ichiyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Sub attack near Ketapang at 55,96

Japanese Ships
xAK Tohuku Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
PB Suyozai Maru

Allied Ships
SS Scamp



SS Scamp launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Tohuku Maru
Scamp bottoming out ....
PB Suyozai Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Suyozai Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Suyozai Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Suyozai Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Suyozai Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

not sure that´s a kill...

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Morning Air attack on Umboi Island , at 100,125

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 38,740 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 30



Allied aircraft
Spitfire Vc Trop x 1


No Japanese losses

No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
30 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 36740 feet

CAP engaged:
No.75 Sqn RAAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 37000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes

Tojos coming for a leaking Cap sweep again... first sweep meets one fighter...

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Morning Air attack on Umboi Island , at 100,125

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 39,740 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3



Allied aircraft
Spitfire Vc Trop x 15
P-40K Warhawk x 2


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




CAP engaged:
No.76 Sqn RAAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(5 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 37000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes
No.77 Sqn RAAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(5 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 37000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes
No.452 Sqn RAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 37000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes
318th FG/73rd FS with P-40K Warhawk (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 25000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes
No.75 Sqn RAAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 37000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes

yup, follow on stranglers meet more fighters... could this be fixed at some point? No, probably not, it´s stupid but it´s working as designed... fighter squadrons in WWII always lost two or three fighters on the way to target and always squadrons flew their missions on their own... always... working as designed and stupid...

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Sub attack near Tsushima at 102,56

Japanese Ships
xAK Tatukami Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
xAK Akiura Maru
E Hishu

Allied Ships
SS Snook



SS Snook launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Tatukami Maru
E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

another freighter hit today but also not showing heavy damage... guess most of the freighters that are hit by a torp sink, no matter if they show up as heavily damaged or not... especially if they aren´t disbanded into a big port within one or two turns at the latest... Rainer just lately told me that he´s got so many freighters that he doesn´t really care about the losses to my subs... and it´s a bigger pity to lose the fuel on the tankers than the hulls... [X(] am not sure about the AKs but I guess the statement about tankers was pure propaganda... at least I hope so...

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Sub attack near Gebe at 80,104

Japanese Ships
TK Matsumoto Maru
PB Showa Maru #3

Allied Ships
SS Gudgeon



SS Gudgeon launches 4 torpedoes at TK Matsumoto Maru
Gudgeon diving deep ....
PB Showa Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Showa Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Showa Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Showa Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Showa Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

and it would have been great to kill another one...