June 18, 1942
CHINA: The bait seems to be working really great. Today air bombing clearly showed that Erik is being attracted by that hex, forgetting or not seeing a whole army ready to river cross against just one Chinese corp in a +2 terrain!
Tomorrow we'll make two river crossing. North and SE of Nanning. I expect to encounter light resistance. If everything goes as foreseen, Liuchow could be in real danger! He will have to decide if to abandon the southern positions along the RR and to move north or risking of being bypassed on the way to Tuyun!
At Changsha he finally sees the threat and started to move some units out defending the only exit route remained to him (NW hex).
INDIA: The big allied army at Shalopur started to move this turn (see map), while 150 fighters move there to cover the advance towards what seems to be Hyderabad.
Indian Ocean: finally we made a good raid. My subs in the last days have spotted a convoy moving from Oz to CT, moving very south to avoid my patrol aicrafts. Sent a SCTF to investigate... we found a couple of good preys
Day Time Surface Combat, near Albany at 47,172, Range 21,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
CL Isuzu
CL Yura
DD Amatsukaze
DD Urakaze
DD Murasame
DD Samidare, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Yamakaze
DD Umikaze
Allied Ships
AM Tanager, Shell hits 21, and is sunk
AM Chevreuil, Shell hits 21, and is sunk
xAK El Madina, Shell hits 10, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAK Tweedbank, Shell hits 10, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
AMC Cap des Palmes, Shell hits 25, and is sunk
xAP Hong Kheng, Shell hits 3, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAP Bontekoe, Shell hits 30, and is sunk
xAP Van Overstraten, Shell hits 4, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAK Royal T. Frank, Shell hits 4, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
Allied ground losses:
979 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 140 destroyed, 51 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 260 (217 destroyed, 43 disabled)
Vehicles lost 128 (78 destroyed, 50 disabled)
xAP Van Overstraten , xAP Bontekoe , xAK Royal T. Frank ,
xAK El Madina screened from combat
Range closes to 6,000 yards
xAP Van Overstraten , xAP Bontekoe , xAK Royal T. Frank ,
xAK El Madina screened from combat
- escorted by AM Chevreuil , AM Tanager
Combat ends with last Allied ship sunk...
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Day Time Surface Combat, near Albany at 54,172, Range 17,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
CL Isuzu
CL Yura
DD Amatsukaze
DD Urakaze
DD Murasame
DD Samidare, on fire
DD Yamakaze
DD Umikaze
Allied Ships
AM Finch, Shell hits 7, and is sunk
xAP Wahine, Shell hits 41, and is sunk
xAK Bhima, Shell hits 52, and is sunk
xAP Van Neck, Shell hits 11, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
Allied ground losses:
1399 casualties reported
Squads: 34 destroyed, 37 disabled
Non Combat: 17 destroyed, 107 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 14 (11 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Possibly a tank regiment and a combat regiment?...doesn't really matter: more 2000 allied dogs are now food for fishes[:D]
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