AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/27/42
Well thanks to Ron looke like ive generated a lot of recent hits .. so hello to all new readers and the exciting crowd too. all comments and advice more than welcome.
Well another day in the live of the pacific war started well .. SS Truant slammed another torp into an already damaged AP
Japanese Ships
AP Ume Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Allied Ships
SS Truant
And a jap zero sweep in china fails to find any targets .. its a game of cat and mouse here right now.
and the mouse fought back again !
Day Air attack on 51st Chinese Corps, at 43,40
Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 4
Ki-51 Sonia x 25
Ki-48 Lily x 11
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1
Allied aircraft
I-16c x 49
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 1 destroyed (3 left ? )
Ki-51 Sonia: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged
Ki-48 Lily: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
I-16c: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged
Unofortunately the mouse got pounced by a nasty big cat in the shape of the dreaded oscar ( I kid u not, these a/c are dangerous in 41/42 .. nice one nik ! )
Day Air attack on 51st Chinese Corps, at 43,40
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 36
Ki-21 Sally x 17
Allied aircraft
I-16c x 48
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ib Oscar: 3 destroyed, 3 damaged
Ki-21 Sally: 1 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
I-16c: 27 destroyed OOOOPPPPSSSS [X(]
well no more fun for them anymore .. i think a long term refit in india is called for .
the dutch a/f had a good day too .. hitting several AP's unloading over brunei
Day Air attack on TF, near Brunei at 32,57
Allied aircraft
Brewster 339D x 3
Martin 139 x 8
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
AP Heiku Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire
MSW W.13
AP Koei Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
Day Air attack on TF, near Brunei at 32,57
Allied aircraft
Brewster 339D x 3
Martin 139 x 7
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
AP Hokusho Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AP Neikai Maru, Bomb hits 1
AP Heiku Maru, on fire
thats 4 damaged .. time to manouvre a few subs between here and saigon [;)]
Brunei later fell to a shock attack .. so did miri ..
Clarke field again held well !
Ground combat at Clark Field
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 76044 troops, 833 guns, 172 vehicles
Defending force 28773 troops, 260 guns, 100 vehicles
Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 4)
Japanese ground losses:
1373 casualties reported
Guns lost 64
Vehicles lost 15
Allied ground losses:
567 casualties reported
Guns lost 35
Vehicles lost 4
else where just the usual bombardments and bombing runs from Japan.
ok time to assess the situation :-
3 of you have said about ops in the DEI .. frankly i cant re-invade any where .. and all his bases are covered by either LR nells or have val/kates in them (kuching).
So bombardments runs are out .. I do have a decent naval presence in the DEI however .
Force Z in batavia
2CA and CL+3DD's in soerbaja
BB Revenge in Koepang
CVL Hermes in Derby .
May send down a new brit CV .. after she refuelles in colombo.
BUT im 1/2 expecting him to make a grab for the andaman is. which i could hurt by leavin the indomitable in indian waters.
In the pacific .. convoys ply thier way south .. CV's will meet up at suva ( safe from para drop at least)
AND Fuel finally in townsville .. sub ops can contine as normal now .. pretty much evacing the troops from rabaul to townsville . going well so far.
N australia
Collecting supply and fuel from the DEI .. also upgrading aussie air units .. hurricanes now over koepang for example .. and im collection PP's to release a brigade for timor ( few more days).
the dutch are rebuilding well and disabled squads coming back on-line.
PI ..
My 4 PT's took a circuitous rount to naga and hit 3 AK's , sinking one .. damaging 2 more.
He;s bombing maniala (fort 3 /30%) to try and prevent fort construction but the AA is taking a small but noticable amount of nells/betties. no -where near what it was like before 5.2 .. so good show on changing that nik.
N . suamtra is home to a unit of very low exp buffalos on naval attack .. you never know
singkawang in Borneo is home to my torp units .. swordfish and/or T4 .. capped by hurricanes .. BUT got hit by a Bombard group a few days back .. nasty and the AK sent to replenish was sunk by LBA while the hurris were grounded. 8 T4's made a run at 3 CA's an missed [:@]. but a DD struck a mine [:D]
singapore ok supply 30k .. cant get any more in .. escorted nells from georgetown make it impossible now. JB also ok supply wise 11k .. moved an hq back to singers to drag more supply with it. still holding at fort 4 for now ..
Burma is dead quiet .. 2 jap tank units took tavoy.pagan .. no sign of the imp guard unit for a while .. and rangoon is home to zeros ( quite a few).
Ground in China .. quiet .. i'll post there next as ive cut the rail line from vietnam to china now.
piccis of south DEI .. as you see i own most of it still so im rearranging the defenses .. i.e amboina CD .. now refiting in darwin .. heading to lautern next .. and with the last days expample i'll be sure to have plenty of supply on hand [;)]
