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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/15/2012 5:38:26 PM   
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The scene at the end of day two.






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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/16/2012 12:41:04 AM   
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SS Albacore sights CA Atago; she is heavily damaged. Albacore misses with a four fish spread and dives. USS South Dakota detaches from her carrier task force and merges with Willie "Ching's" surface attack groupmformed of CLs Cleveland, Columbia, and Montpelier. Six DDs provide the screen. The TF is ordered to pass NE of Buka and find crippled IJN capital ships using the South Dakota's radar and hopefully fires from IJ warships. What ensues is a running night engagement with a rear guard of at least nine destroyers. The first engagement sees Ching's TF close on the group sinking two and setting a third on fire. The DD Bagley is hit by a long lance and sinks also. It is a full moon in clear weather through the engagement. A third Jap DD is set on fire soon after and there is no effective return fire. They will meet again one more time in the night and score a couple of more hits with no additional damage to our ships. Reports from "Ching" indicate 2-sunk with 3 on fire. Port Morseby based B24s and B25s hit Rabaul's port and air fields. They do moderate damage to the facilites and catch a Zero on the ground. They shoot down another Zeke on the way out. One group of Liberators hits Buka. They get 60 base hits and report 23 Jills, Zeros and Judys destroyed on the ground. Rabaul is hit three more times in the morning by Liberators seperated from the raid and score several more hits. The weather over Rabaul is severe storms, probably covering suspected ships seeking shelter from yesterday and the target of the Mitchells. Gasmata is hit only for its close proximity to the battle and we get a report of Zero destroyed on the field. Kavieng is hit by the better than half a group of B24s and score 70 plus airfield related hits. Its raing hard there and no reports of IJN aircraft on the ground, yet the airfield icon is clearly visable for the first time in weeks. The morning progresses and Searching Helldivers relay the position of a Jap carrier(s). 43 Helldivers arrive to find no CAP and the 70 plus escorting fighters observe the end of CV Hiyo, CL Noshiro, and CA Atago. In Heavy rain search aircraft spot IJN CAs 50nm due north of Hiyo. 65 attack aircraft arrive before noon with only a squadron for escort. There is no CAP. CA Kumano-on fire heavy damage. CA Maya-on fire heavy damage, CA Mikuma-on fire heavy damage. CA Mogami-on fire, DD Maikaze-on fire. In many small afternoon attacks on IJN destroyers around Rabaul and Buka we will set 8 more on fire. Orders for the next day do not include a pursuit of Hiryu and Soryu to the north west. Priority will be given to beach head support and escort duty for Essex and Yorktown II. Should we be able to refuel overnight and aircraft scattered all over the Solomons return to their ships we may sail after them with four CVs, three CVLs, a fast BB and cruiser covering force.

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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/16/2012 2:33:59 AM   
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Status: online 		We have a huge FUBAR at Wood. The transports hear of a surface threat and haul at flank NE towards Jap islands and Truk. The slow flat bottomed LSTs make incredible speed to. The carriers also evac the area, at least towards friendly lines. We attempt to sort this out and issue a ton of orders, really wishing for some PPs to relieve some body with. We get some sinking sounds during the replay at strange times to. Well we have not sunk a whole lot of ships in the first place so everything is still pretty new and fun. Anyways, there is some interesting info from some recently posted Hudsons running naval search patterns. The map is below. What we suspected were Hiryu and Soryu have cleared our search arcs as our tenders also split the beach head so our float planes could not stage in. We actually thought ahead on that one as the boots on the ground refuse to attack the hex. Fatigue is suspected. The division is at 46 or so. The CO also was forced far out to sea by the scare. I'm going from fell'in groovy to sweaty palms.






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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/17/2012 3:08:49 AM   
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West Coast: One possibly two IJN subs reported off San Diego, its been some time since they have appeared here. ASW DEs sent to investigate.

NoPac: SubDiv A reaches patrol zones off Japan.

CenPac: Orders changed for retiring task forces from operation Wood, IJN resupply TFs are in the Marshalls. We may take a peek. OpWood transports back at the beach but have no time to unload anything today. To top it off a Jap sub puts a torp in a big transport carrying parts of base forces. CVEs still providing air cover. Essex and Yorktown II are exiting the Coral Sea. Jap subs are an infestation in the Solomons and additional DDs are broken off for ASW duty. We do land many hits on the sub at the beachhead and one off Munda.

SwPac: IJN TF suspected flaged by Yamato are spotted headed NW 50nm due east of Babar.

Burma: P51s and lightings hit the fields over Mandalay. There is alot of conflicting information on damage to the japs but we lose one Mustang, no Lightnings and claim 16 victories. We are contemplating a 200 plane fighter sweep to be followed by a large bombing raid within the week.

Columbo: BB Revenge still at 13S-75F-25E but I believe she has been refitted and is 37% towards her first floatation repair.

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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/18/2012 12:18:08 AM   
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NorPac: USN subs check out Saporo and other Japanese ports.

CenPac: The Japs have resupplied their Marshall Island redoubts. Two fresh divisons unload at Pearl Harbor and await orders.

SwPac: Base forces and armor units unload at Wood. We will only stay another 24hrs, then its up to the seabees and engineers to get a strip open. The boots are still fatigued and will not begin the campaign up the island for the real prize for several days. I doubt he will risk reinforcement at Kvieng.

Columbo: BB Revenge has 294 repair pts and is at 42%.

Burma: While somewhat tired, moral is good and we order more sweeps and raids in Burma.

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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/21/2012 2:59:31 PM   
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I write a long blurb for the AAR and it gets lost when I upload. Go to bed, wake up and try again...no internet....two days pass, Verizon girl shows up, goes in cable box on the side of the house and presses secret piss off your customer reset button. Back to the war.

India: HMS Revenge at 61%. Vengence dive bombers, long held back in the naval attack role begin to hit ground targets with hope of putting more Oscars and Tojos on long range CAP. Allied air forces continue to sweep and bomb central Burma trying to close airbases and allow small ground attack missions in the Mandalay area. The two divisions of the Chineese 11th army group trapped in Burma have recovered to full strength and will participate in the Lashio offensive in '44 adding some good AV. We get some good hits on IJN subs trying for tankers from the middle east.

NoPac: Sub Div A claims a couple of AKs off Japan.

CenPac: Withdrawing PBYs are replaced in the Gilberts and PBY Libs begin to stage back in. Fleet carriers from OpWood close on Pearl as well as the surface combat elements. The 6th Div is almost unloaded at Pearl to join the 1st Cav recently arrived.

SoPac-SwPac: At OpWood the Infantry and armor are almost ready to move. I Corp HQ should begin to fly in shortly as the strip is almost ready. Sixth Army HQ may join them. The Alabama makes port and begins a three month repair pierside in Australia before she can sail back to Pearl for the more serious damage. She is probably out till fall '44. Essex and Yorktown II were diverted to larger facilities but may be out for some time as well. Heavies fly over anything we suspect may hold IJAF and IJN aircraft in New Guinea and surrounding islands. We hope to launch OpLatch and OpBlade before new years.

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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/21/2012 10:20:00 PM   
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33rd Infantry Division awaits transports to forward staging areas; more anglo-allied troop ships are sailing up the Baja coast. Subs scoring some kills on smaller AKs and a PB off Japan. Strip at OpWood should be ready tomorrow (97%). I wish I could relieve the division commander on the ground; poor people skills and marginal combat skills. No more ships of the invasion fleet remains at the beachhead except a badly damaged AK. We get a couple of more IJN a/c on the ground at Buna so we fly again tomorrow with fresh squadrons. The B24Ds will take the airfield and the Js will go after the troops. BB Revenege repairs 5% towards a hull pt.. I think. We down some more of the IJAF in central Burma. I hope I am at least grinding down his pools of fighters and getting an ace or two. The Chinese fighter group training around Delhi now have a full complement of 36 P40s. Their experience as squadrons is low to mid 50s with some better air to air skills. They will continue to train (maybe a few "live" missions) in the rear till spring in Burma.

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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/22/2012 4:54:36 PM   
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NoPac: More submarines added to Sub flotilla A at Adak. Patroling subs run into E boats off Japan.

CenPac: More submarines added to Sub flotilla B at Midway. Sub spotted off Pearl will get some attention. Resupply ships embarking for outlaying islands in the central Pacific and the Hawaiian islands. More Navy Libs stage into the forward areas.

SoPac-SwPac: We withdrew many transport squadrons early from Asia and as a result was able to tour the front lines with a critical eye again. The 41st Division CO, the 766th Tank Bn CO, the 767th tank Bn CO have all been relieved as orders arrive to march north and take Kavieng. Advance party from I Corp HQ due at the newly created strip in the morning at Namatanai. US and New Zealand army fighter squadrons also stage in. USS Alabama will not see action for along time, she will be pier side for three months before setting sail for the rear. Supply reaches Darwin. We hope for bad weather there for a couple of days.

Burma: The 18th Brittish Div, 254th Armored, 5th Brittish Bde, 6th Brittish Bde, and 14th Chindits Bde COs are relieved in favor of more skilled and aggressive commanders.

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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/22/2012 11:03:40 PM   
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West Coast: 33rd Infantry Division loads for CenPac.

Burma: IJAF makes a rare daylight raid over Akyab harbor. Sweeps over central Burma continue. P51As fare poorly. P38s and Hurricanes do much better.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Akyab at 54,45

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 53 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 18 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 21
G4M1 Betty x 33



Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc Trop x 5
P-40N5 Warhawk x 8


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 6 destroyed
G4M1 Betty: 4 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 destroyed
P-40N5 Warhawk: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
xAK Floridian, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
xAK Indianan

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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/23/2012 3:08:35 AM   
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CenPac: All the intact fleet carriers reach Pearl and undergo some quick repairs. Heavy news reaches us in the Op report. It simply states the Essex's engine room is open to the sea. She sinks with minor damage. Amphib and support TFs will stagger in over the next week. Jap subs are hunting off Pearl for them. We escalate the ASW war there.

SwPac: Yorktown II reaches harbor in Australia for some repairs before setting sail for larger shipyards east. I wish I had let the far less damaged Essex stay with her. I Corp HQ is arriving at Namatanai. PBYs also stage in to give us better search cover at the base. More engineers will arrive in several days to expedite the process.

CBI: We stand down today to recover and reinforce the squadrons at the forward fields. Replacement aircraft and squadrons stage in.

China: The IJA recons by fire the two most volatile approaches to Chungking. The counter battery is sound. A full Chinese group of P40s is now available at Dehli for deployment. Moral for the remaining squadrons in China is in the 20s. They stage far to the rear and stand down.

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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/23/2012 1:00:34 PM   
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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/23/2012 1:22:56 PM   
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CenPac: The last CVEs should make port tonight.

SwPac: Many refits and aircraft upgrades. Advance elements on New Ireland close on Kavieng. Most of I Corp HQ now on the island. Yorktown II enters the shipyards at Sydney, long shore leave for pilots.

CBI: Not much action, we continue a moral boosting campaign and aircraft upgrades. We will try the new Spitfires VIIIs soon in the short range sweeps over central Burma.






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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/24/2012 2:17:46 AM   
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SoPac-SwPac: Jap sub forced to the surface and finished off Suva. IJN shows big guns off Nanatanai. See below.

CenPac: radio silence

CBI: radio silence.

China: stepped up air attacks at Changsha and vital roads we hold.

Submarine attack near Moala at 133,163

Japanese Ships
SS I-165, hits 24, heavy fires, heavy damage

Allied Ships
DE Electra



SS I-165 is located by DE Electra
I-165 diving deep ....
DE Electra fails to find sub, continues to search...
DE Electra attacking submerged sub ....
DE Electra fails to find sub, continues to search...
DE Electra attacking submerged sub ....
SS I-165 forced to surface!
DE Electra firing on surfaced sub ....
DE Electra firing on surfaced sub ....
DE Electra firing on surfaced sub ....
Contact with submarine is lost

Night Naval bombardment of Namatanai at 107,125

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
PBY-5 Catalina: 10 damaged
P-400 Airacobra: 7 damaged
P-400 Airacobra: 1 destroyed on ground
Kittyhawk IV: 4 damaged
Kittyhawk IV: 2 destroyed on ground

Japanese Ships
BB Kirishima
BB Hiei
CA Kinugasa
CA Aoba
CL Agano


Allied ground losses:
204 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 29 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled
Vehicles lost 13 (1 destroyed, 12 disabled)


Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 28

BB Kirishima firing at Namatanai
BB Hiei firing at 41st Infantry Division
CA Kinugasa firing at Namatanai
CA Aoba firing at 41st Infantry Division
CL Agano firing at 41st Infantry Division

Morning Air attack on Rabaul , at 106,125

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 2 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 6



Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 24


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 3 destroyed

No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
23 x P-38G Lightning sweeping at 22000 feet

CAP engaged:
Ryuho-1 with A6M3a Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 6 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes



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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/24/2012 1:33:02 PM   
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**Very difficult to log on and post**

SwPac-SoPac: The morning of the 27th we should be ready to make the final advance on Kavieng.

Burma: Another good day in the air as an experienced P38 squadron sweeps central Burma with no losses downing half a dozen Tonys and Oscars.

India: BB Revenge should heal one point of hull damage today.

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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/25/2012 12:00:17 AM   
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Transport aircraft only transport fragments to destination then switch to supply. Example: I Corp HQ is strictly a personel unit. I have half at the destination and half at the transport AF. I set the transports to fly them and when I get the turn back they are back on supply. Any ideas?

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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/25/2012 12:05:39 AM   
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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/25/2012 10:42:37 PM   
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Game: Terry's grasp of tactics and TWIT HQs oomp loompa cycle is uncanny.

NoPac: Additional sumarines are added to SubDiv A and take shore leave to go ice fishing before making for hostile waters.

CenPac: Replacement carrier aircraft and crews are distributed among the fleet. We order some B24 missions in the Marshalls more for training and disruption supply effects than any coherent plan. Some SBDs staged into the northern Gilberts sink an xAK and a smaller craft yesterday.

SwPac-SoPac: An IJN surface group hits Namatanai again with very damaging results. destroying numerous aircraft, shutting down the strip, and crippling the maintenance facilities. Resuuply and reinforcements on the way as well as some naval attack aircraft. I hope enough to overwhelm any CAP and set the BBs on fire. We order a raid on Kavieng as recon now shows over 11,ooo troops at the base we imagine is well fortified.

Burma: Vengence DBs given over to commander discretion prove we are not the only TWITs. They get massacred over Prome. P38s continue to score well on sweeps however and the latest Spitfires are almost ready to enter the fray.

The Capital Ship situation:
BB Revenge 13S-74F-25E 18% down two floatation points.
CV Yorktown II 10S-38F-17E 39% progressing slowly. she is pierside.
BB Alabama 50S-58F-17E 11% she is in a backwater port and not expected to make stateside for months.
CV Yorktown refitting
CV Bunkerhill refitting
BB Pennsylvania 2-1/2 mo
BB Colorado 2mo
BB California 4mo

IJN Raid on Namatanai:

Night Naval bombardment of Namatanai at 107,125

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
PBY-5 Catalina: 59 damaged
PBY-5 Catalina: 5 destroyed on ground
P-400 Airacobra: 27 damaged
P-400 Airacobra: 4 destroyed on ground
Kittyhawk IV: 21 damaged
Kittyhawk IV: 3 destroyed on ground

Japanese Ships
BB Kirishima
BB Hiei
BB Haruna
BB Kongo
CA Kinugasa
CA Aoba
CL Agano


Allied ground losses:
360 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 21 destroyed, 40 disabled
Engineers: 6 destroyed, 14 disabled
Guns lost 4 (2 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 39 (12 destroyed, 27 disabled)


Airbase hits 21
Airbase supply hits 17
Runway hits 104
Port supply hits 2






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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/25/2012 10:45:50 PM   
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Status: online 		Interesting to note the combat report shows more damaged / destroyed aircraft than are actually at the strip. New stenos at I Corp HQ please.

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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/26/2012 1:24:27 PM   
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CenPac: The 6th Inf Div unloads at Pearl and awaits orders. A P47 group will make port tonight. Eight more squadrons put to sea yesterday from west coast ports along with five base forces and a Marine amphib bde.

SoPac-SwPac: Idaho runs into IJN surface units on the way to Kavieng:
Night Time Surface Combat, near Kavieng at 106,122, Range 1,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
APD Karukaya, Shell hits 10, and is sunk
APD Yugao, Shell hits 2

Allied Ships
BB Idaho, Shell hits 2
DD Bullard
DD Saufley

The large air raid over Kavieng does little. Ground units will reach the IJA perimeter in 48 hours.

CBI: Quiet as we recover moral and group strength. Some squadrons rotated in will be ready shortly as "broken" squadrons recover in rear area bases.

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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/26/2012 9:50:22 PM   
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CenPac: The last stragglers from OpWood due in port overnight. P47 group arrived yesterday. Carriers repairing quickly, shore leave to end within the week.

SwPac: Advance armor elements arrive at Kavieng. BB Yamato and BB Musashi raid Darwin again. Musashi gets a surprise.






CBI: Spitfires scheduled to sweep Prome tomorrow. B24s are rested.

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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/27/2012 10:19:53 PM   
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NorPac: Staggered sub patrols leave for Japan

CenPac: CVLs from OpWood arrive with the remainder of the LSTs.

SwPac-SoPac: Three IJN BBs appear off the coast near Kavieng. SBDs attack (they have poor experience ratings) and score two hits for minimal damage to the monsters. Infantry one mile from Kavieng and will join the armor tonight. Evacuation of Namatanai ordered for naval assets. Raids planned on Kavieng tomorrow by Mitchells and Libs. We also plan to hit Taberfane again to prevent LYB buildup. Bettys arrive at night over Namatana; little damage.
2nd wave of SBDs score a couple of small hits:

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Kavieng at 107,122

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 77 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 28 minutes


Allied aircraft
SBD-5 Dauntless x 12


Allied aircraft losses
SBD-5 Dauntless: 5 damaged

Japanese Ships
BB Hiei, Bomb hits 1
BB Kirishima
BB Kongo, Bomb hits 1



Burma: Massive sweep day ordered tomorrow with a sprinking of bombing on the menu.


Morning Air attack on Prome , at 55,50

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zero x 11
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 3
Ki-61-Ic Tony x 4



Allied aircraft
P-38H Lightning x 24


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zero: 3 destroyed
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 1 destroyed
Ki-61-Ic Tony: 1 destroyed

No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
15 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 31000 feet

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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/27/2012 10:27:51 PM   
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RE: Battle of the Northern Solomons - 7/28/2012 2:29:16 AM   
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Status: online 		The damage Musashi and Yamato can do to a port is insane. I've taken to posting subs in coastal waters near any potential bombardment TF. The hit on Musashi was a huge moral boost for me. The tactic prevents little but can disrupt a milk run. Thanks for the pat on the back, always good. I'll post a map of CenPac shortly before I leave for the beach. I am going to shut it down for a week while I eat, sleep, drink and ogle for a week. I am now reconning the northern Marshalls regularly with some Navy Liberator raids here and there, but my main focus is to get Kavieng in our hands, build that base, and begin the reduction of Truk and finish the cordon of New Guinea and the Solomons. The Americal Division looks like it will be performing the mop up Ops in the SwPac. Five divisions are prepping for Operation Triple PLay. The Marianas.

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RE: Away message - 7/28/2012 2:23:44 PM   
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Status: online 		It's time to take the tribe to the ocean for a summer break. Posts/turns will continue next weekend.

The Game: The wiley THINZ has suffered only one naval defeat. This IMHO was only due to force imbalance as I am quite sure I had 2:1 odds in aircraft and possibly ships. He no longer holds a 2:1+ advantage in VPs but it is still close to that margin. I have learned a great deal of detail about the forces involved in the conflict as I can't help but look up so many unit histories as we sail along. With that said, the second half of the war, our two year Pearl Harbor anniversery, and some really neat reinforcements are now close at hand. The Iowa and New Jersey, more Essex class CVs, P51Ds, and the B29 are becoming a reality. My fathers ship will enter the war. The US Navy will assume the offensive and Empire of Japan will be forced to fight on our terms.

The AAR: I have had some fun here, retelling the war from Zulu HQ. Comments are always welcome. No question is taboo or stupid; after all the war is being run by TWIT. If you are new and reading this I suggest you pay close attention to Alfreds posts. If you are a VET your comments are most welcome as well or just have a laugh on TWIT.

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RE: Away message - 7/28/2012 2:36:00 PM   
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RE: Away message - 8/4/2012 7:48:09 PM   
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TWIT HQ has retuned from leave and refreshed. There was much time for reflection in the sun and much needs to be done.

NorPac: SubDiv A has been reinforced as has SubDiv B doubling both bases to twelve boats. The final six boats to arrive at their new bases in 7-10 days. Fuel and supply as well as ground reinforcements have reached NorPac.

CenPac: Yorktown will be ready to sail within the week as the rest of the fast carriers get in some airgroup training for Operation Triple Play, the details of which we are still working on. An old yet heavy hitting surface attack group is scheduled out of port tonight to join Mac's command in SwPac. Additional base forces and support personel for Triple Play are due in Pearl in 48 hours. Large fuel and supply "lifts" will arrive within two weeks with a new fast carrier, CVL, and CVEs. Only smallish airgroups are left available to us on the west coast, mostly raw recruits, as we have no political "ins" left in Washington for the foreseable future.

SwPac-SoPac: Kavieng's airfield and naval base was taken yesterday leaving an ungodly amount of nips running around the jungle. They are cut off with no retreat available to them and we begin the mop up tomorrow. Night attacks by Bettys from Truk arrive to flak and night CAP over Nanatanai. The airfield goes to level 3. In the interest of rounding up construction and defense units in SoPac TWIT HQ forms TF "FAT-1" or forward area transport TF-1. The TF can pick up two of the Bns at a time and has escorts to get them to the new forward area, front line trace. FAT-1 debarks for the "rear area fuel dump" at Hiva Ova to pick up engineers finished with the expansion there. They are needed in the northern Solomons. Additional surface assets flagged by an Australian cruiser depart for SwPac and Mac's command from Suva.

Burma: New large transport groups are arriving in India. We are mulling over the offensive possibilites there. A full theater wide tour by TWIT to follow before new years.

China: Since the large carrier action in the northern Solomons the IJAF has made a dramatic increase in bombing in China. Both tactical and strategic targets are being hit. Another theater visit after the Burma stop for CnC Zulu.



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RE: Away message - 8/5/2012 4:21:57 AM   
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CenPac: Convoys arrive with aircraft and engineers. SS Puffer is spotted by BB Kirishima, CA Kinugasa, CA Aoba and DDs SSW of Truk. She is hit causing light system damage but Kavieng is on alert.

SoPac-SwPac: We form FAT-2. The TF will deliver a USA base force and an engineer Rgt to Nanatanamai before working on bringing in Seabees from KiraKira. Supply is an issue on New Ireland and there are mines in the straights so we bring up some air transports for now. We order the mop up around Kavieng to continue tomorrow after resting for a day. FAT-1 is well to sea and making good time. TWIT CO orders Mac to send a cruiser TF to the Solomons for support in the forward area as the fleet carriers are 3-5 days from making blue water depending on the "return to service" time after repairs. Moral in all groups in SwPac and SoPac is high. B24s will raid Taberfane again tomorrow hoping to catch some IJN aircraft on the ground and burn supply. Its only a matter of hours before VMF-221 will be required to depart the AO. It was the leading squadron for many weeks, home to half a dozen elite marine aviators and the corner stone of the CAP at Port Morseby in the dark days of 1942.

China: Some house cleaning in preperation for Zulu HQ tour.

Burma: There is only an air war and we trade evenly lately over central Burma. Spitfires and P38s will return tomorrow. Yesterday we get some good licks in with B24s over Meiktila. While intel is often un reliable we think we got a dozen Tonys on the ground and damaged 35 more aircraft while damaging the facilities. Transport aircraft squadrons are expanding rapidly. We did not see this coming and is a nice surprise. We will allow this force to build through December and see what we have.

Question: Do the same pilots return with withdrawn squadrons when they reenter the war?

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RE: Away message - 8/5/2012 5:04:45 PM   
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Ref: The question, as I posted the question to close to the withdrawl date, I had to make a decision. I took the elite 6 minus the CO and sent them to the reserves. I would have preferred to have them reappear as a unit.

CenPac: radio silence

SwPac-SoPac: Kirashima arrives off Kavieng and causes 5 casualties! The rest of the IJ garrison is wiped out in the last assault there. Poor planning has plenty of the forces necessary prepped for the new base but far to sea or still at bases elsewhere. We are learning. While we do suffer from lack of APAs we now have ample transports, ie xAPs in theater. We also have, and are receiving many escorts. Unfortunately they are to concentrated in CenPac and are being judiously apportioned now. The Hornet II was renamed Enterprise before her arrival at Balboa. The air raid on Taberfane goes in unopposed one group of B24s does extensive infrastructure damage. Liberators will hit by passed garrisons in the Solomons now.

China: More shuffling, particularly engineers, in advance of the return of the CAF. I want to accumulate at least two spares for the squadrons and complete training before deployment. I also need a plan to go along with it for any hope of making a difference with them. They are well trained and it would be a capital offense to waste them for the sake of using them.

Burma: It appears there is parrity in the air when it comes to sweeping. IJAF pilots must be well trained and the Tojos seem to absorb punishment well. He has at least 2nd generation Tojos. It is the follow up airbase raids by B24s which deliver the disparrity in numbers as we slowly catch up in the total ratio of aircraft lost.

Joe: Map of Marshalls to follow soon as well as the CBI as I try to build some momentum now.

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RE: Away message - 8/5/2012 7:03:53 PM   
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West Coast-CenPac: radio silence

SwPac-SoPac: Organizing the build up of Kavieng. FAT-1 and FAT-2 were created 30 days, at least, to late. Additional transport being allocated to this task delaying OpLatch and OpBlade. I believe at this point I may combine the remainder of operation Jigsaw and Triple Play into a large sweep encompassing five landings within a 10 day period.

CBI: We wait for Chinese units to take up their new positions. By withdarwing a unit early I was able to get enough PPs to exchange a Chinese fighter squadron CO to somebody with better skills for training as well as air skills. In Burma we order a strike against Rabaul by Brittish heavies and a Strike against Magwe by American Libs. P38s (50+-) will sweep Magwe in advance of the strike (we hope, they are based far forward of the heavies).

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RE: Away message - 8/5/2012 11:33:06 PM   
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West Coast: Fleet HQs begin railhead to departure ports for CenPac. CV Intrepid ordered to the west coast from Balboa.

CenPac: Refreshing sub patrols. Yorktown finishing repairs in dry dock. Large fuel and support forces disembark on Oahu.

SwPac-SoPac: Yorktown II gathers escorts and is ordered to sea. She can cruise at 8 knots and should reach dry dock in 38 days. Fingers crossed. The Alabama is 79 days away from the sea, port side in Austrailia; she will have an even longer and more dangerous voyage owing to damage and distance. Yorktown must cover 7240nm but can abort to Pearl which is only 4800nm. Forces at Kavieng recover quickly from fatigue and disruption; HQ is several days away. A construction Rgt begins the trek down New Ireland towards the heavily damaged port and airfield complex there. Supply is in route as well as some additional surface assets. Fuel is beginning to flow more consistantly in Australia as we unload fuel at a better distribution point.

Burma: Late model Zeros sweep Akyab and prove to be more than a match for the local CAP. Its been awhile since we lost an air to air engagement so lopsided.

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