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Nah, ours was started a year before that one.

*****************JAN. 14, 1943(c)****************


Saumlaki: 63 Zero fighter sweep sorties over Saumlaki today. This time the Army P-40's are on their own as the carriers are north of Kai. 49 P-40's on CAP duty. The P-40's did well, claiming 16 kills to 8 losses.

Then the Tojos showed up....24 of them. 6 P-40's were lost. No airfield attacks or antishipping attacks. I am going to bring up the P-38 squadron at Sydney that has been refitting and turn them loose over Koepang...followed by the B-24's now beginning to move to Darwin.

Sorong: Good raid by 17 B-17E and a few LB-30's. Couple of Helens destroyed on the ground.

Fenton: The Allied force moving up from Katherine crushed the LYB's there today. The road from Darwin to Katherine is open.

Ground combat at Fenton (76,126)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 15283 troops, 227 guns, 739 vehicles, Assault Value = 1142

Defending force 3657 troops, 51 guns, 56 vehicles, Assault Value = 76

Allied adjusted assault: 1276

Japanese adjusted defense: 6

Allied assault odds: 212 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Fenton !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(+), disruption(-), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
2674 casualties reported
Squads: 49 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 218 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 13 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 43 (43 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 48 (44 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Units retreated 3


Allied ground losses:
158 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 21 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
1st Motor Brigade
2/4th Armoured Regiment
3rd Army Tank Brigade
9th Australian Brigade
3rd Motor Brigade
4th Armoured Brigade
18th British Division
108th Tank Attack Regiment
205th Field Artillery Battalion
I Australian Corps
1st Medium Regiment

Defending units:
20th Division
2nd Recon Regiment
38th/C Division

ORIGINAL: sprior

Nah, ours was started a year before that one.

Maybe it's an usurper to the throne?

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: sprior

Nah, ours was started a year before that one.

Maybe it's an usurper to the throne?

One thing is for sure, there is no WITP AE players manual in Mandrakes "Throne Room"!

Aircraft losses from the 14th over Saumlaki (mostly). I sent up a P-39 squadron to see how they perform. Fortunately, there were a few empty tents.


P-38's are on their way.

Cumulative Japanese air losses through mid Jan 43

Cumulative Allied losses. The four fighter types that have paid the highest price are the P-40E, P-39, F4F and the Hurri IIb/c. Well, technically, I guess you would say the pilots paid the price.[:(]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Cumulative Japanese air losses through mid Jan 43

Interesting ... the cumulative aircraft losses for both sides are only a few hunderd apart. A hard-fought campaign to date
(No, no, not the presidential one! I mean WWII(c), or whatever mark you are up to now)!

*****************January 15, 1943(c)****************


Saumlaki: More Tojo sweeps. JJ gave up with the Zeroes. The P-40E/K and P-39D did not do all that well, losing 12 to 6 Tojos downed. As there are no ships there, just a disbanded AVD and 10 PT boats, I have shut down all the CAP. Everything that can fly (except for a couple of Catalinas) was flown off and I packed the place with C-47's. If JJ picks this turn to raid the airfield or send in a surface group, it could be ugly, but the C-47's are needed to paradrop 503rd PIR(-) on Boela. 503rd PIR has a (-) because it was crushed at Dobo. When word gets out, Army airborne troops are goint to BEG to be sent to the ETO. I don't think there are enough transports (35) for the whole regiment but I didn't read the manual. Plus, Saumlaki is only level two. Even worse, 503rd is only 13% prepped for Boela. It may not work but I am pretty sure I wont get fired.

Boela: was bombed today. There is a construction Bn (Koreans in diapers) and a Bn of Naval Guard. I think all the poking around tipped off the LYB's. I wonder if they were flown in? Yesterday they had no guns? Today the intel is poor. Colorado and Portland are going to bombard the place tonight. A squadron of SBD's from the carriers and all the B-17's from Merauke are also tasked to attack.

(air complement at Saumlaki...please note that due to an oversight, two of the beat-up squadrons actually have the same Air HQ. This is accidental and any appearance of pranning should be regarded as spurious. As evidence of this, VII US Fighter Command is in Alice Springs [:'(])

And a map

Air losses for the day. JJ was caught with their trousers down at Myitkinia in a sneaky surprise raid by RAF B-24's and Wellingtons. That accounts for the Oscar losses on the ground.

***************Barracks of 68th Mountain Rifle Div, Alma-Ata***************


Pvt. Borat: I am not wurried. Japan men will like Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan ees wonderfool country.

Why are the LYB's being so culturally insensitive? Is the Soviet Union sending us suppries? Pretend I didn't read the manual.

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

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Dood...your 503 PIR (-) guys aren't going to be very happy about getting dropped into the water about 40 miles west of Ceram. [:-]

What does your recon of Ambon tell you JJ has there? That's the intuitive next MLR in this area (other than Koepang, of course).

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

What does your recon of Ambon tell you JJ has there? That's the intuitive next MLR in this area (other than Koepang, of course).

Yes, it is a natural bastion. They have 8 units 20K LYB and 73 Ronsons. That's why I am not going to land there. [:)]

I have a couple of units prepping for Namlea.

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

And a map

Dood...your 503 PIR (-) guys aren't going to be very happy about getting dropped into the water about 40 miles west of Ceram. [:-]

It may actually be safer than landing on top of a bunch of angry Naval Guard types.

Admiral Lord SPrior.....16th Inf Regt located at Palembang by signint..1-11-43.

Then they can die too.

Seems rather unsporting. Here is another unsporting thing

3/19th Tank Regiment is loaded on xAK Sensan Maru moving to Moulmein...1/15/43