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Re: Dawn of the Rising Sun - Forgotten Hope 0.7 Campaign
« Reply #15 on: 11-03-2010, 22:03:48 »
It's gonna be a blast again Saturday! :D

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Re: Dawn of the Rising Sun - Forgotten Hope 0.7 Campaign
« Reply #16 on: 12-03-2010, 03:03:10 »
Join up with MatthewFarenheit, Keimummy, and yours truly, the commanders of the 6th Australian Divisional Cavalry Regiment! But you can call us victorious  8)

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Re: Dawn of the Rising Sun - Forgotten Hope 0.7 Campaign
« Reply #17 on: 17-03-2010, 13:03:24 »



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Operation Lilliput



Operation Lilliput, Buna - New Guinea, 1942.



After the defeat of the Japanese at Milne Bay, the Allies took the offensive in late 1942 with an attack on the Buna–Gona–Sanananda area of Papua. In this offensive, the KPM fleet was essential to the attacking force: virtually all of the troops, weapons, and supplies were carried by Dutch convoys of one or two vessels. These convoys, collectively known as Operation Lilliput, used the KPM  vessels Balikpapan, Bantam, Bontekoe, Both, Cremer, Janssens, Japara, Karsik, Maetsuycker, Patras, Reijnst, s’Jacob, Swartenhondt, Tasman, Thedens, Van den Bosch, VanHeemskirk, Van Heutz, Van Outhoorn, Van Spillbergen, and Van Swoll.



Such dangerous operations were not undertaken without loss. On 8 March 1943, s’Jacob was sunk off Oro Bay by Japanese bombers; Bantam fell victim to a similar attack later in the month, and was run aground as it was about to sink. Van Heemskirk was also sunk by aircraft at Oro Bay in April, and several other ships were seriously damaged by bombs.

In December 1942, with the campaign at Buna in jeopardy, and no landing craft available, the former train ferry Karsik  was pressed into service as an emergency tank landing ship, carrying four M-3 Stuart tanks of the Australian 2/6th Armoured Regiment to Oro Bay. This convoy (imaginatively named Operation Karsik) was a great success, and the tanks played a decisive role in the fighting. A second such voyage (Operation Tramsik) was quickly undertaken.



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Re: Dawn of the Rising Sun - Forgotten Hope 0.7 Campaign
« Reply #18 on: 17-03-2010, 13:03:24 »
Holy shit, the grass ninja map.
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To break this vicious circle one must do more than act without thought or doubt."

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Re: Dawn of the Rising Sun - Forgotten Hope 0.7 Campaign
« Reply #19 on: 17-03-2010, 17:03:21 »
Here are some pictures of this week map created by Real-BadSeed


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Re: Dawn of the Rising Sun - Forgotten Hope 0.7 Campaign
« Reply #20 on: 17-03-2010, 18:03:06 »
  Not to sabotage your thread or anything but whatever happened to that Real-BadSeed fella?
http://www.bfewaw.com/campaigns/waw24/promo/campaign/waw24banner1.png
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Re: Dawn of the Rising Sun - Forgotten Hope 0.7 Campaign
« Reply #21 on: 17-03-2010, 19:03:30 »
  Not to sabotage your thread or anything but whatever happened to that Real-BadSeed fella?

Not really sure what happened to him, sorry.

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Re: Dawn of the Rising Sun - Forgotten Hope 0.7 Campaign
« Reply #22 on: 19-03-2010, 02:03:25 »
The 12th Imperial Japanese Ken-heidan and the 6th Australian Infantry Division are still recruiting man for battle.

Watch this recruitment videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOm4LRHUN-I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BAw_t6mXVk

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Re: Dawn of the Rising Sun - Forgotten Hope 0.7 Campaign
« Reply #23 on: 08-04-2010, 15:04:27 »



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Operation Thursday



Operation Thursday, Burma, February 5, 1944.



On February 5, 1944, Fergusson's 16th Brigade left Ledo for Burma. They avoided Japanese forces by traversing exceptionally difficult terrain. The rest of the Brigades were brought in by air to create fortified bases with airstrips. Three landing zones, codenamed Piccadilly, Broadway and Chowringhee were selected. Calvert's 77th Brigade prepared to fly by glider into Piccadilly on the night of March 5. A last-minute reconnaissance revealed Piccadilly to be covered with logs, making landing impossible. In some accounts of the incident, Wingate insisted that the operation had been betrayed and that the other landing zones would be ambushed. To proceed would be "murder". Slim accepted the responsibility of ordering a willing Calvert to proceed with the operation, using Broadway instead. Broadway was a worse landing ground and there were many casualties in crash landings, but Calvert's men were just able to make the strip fit to take transport aircraft. Chindit gliders landed on Chowringhee the next day. It was later revealed that the logs on Piccadilly had been placed there to dry by Burmese teak loggers. The real problem was the failure to maintain observation of the landing zones (e.g. with high-flying Spitfire photo-reconnaissance aircraft) before the forces were deployed.



Over the next week, 600 sorties transferred 9000 men to the landing zones. Chowringhee was abandoned once the fly-in was completed, but Broadway was held with a garrison which included field artillery, anti-aircraft guns and even Spitfire fighters for a brief period. Fergusson's brigade set up another base named Aberdeen north of Indaw, into which 14th Brigade was flown. Calvert's brigade established yet another, named White City at Mawlu, astride the main railway and road leading to the Japanese northern front. 111 Brigade set up ambushes and roadblocks south of Indaw (although part of the brigade which landed at Chowringhee was delayed in crossing the Irrawaddy River), before moving west to Pinlebu.
Ferocious jungle fighting ensued around Broadway and White City. At times, British and Japanese troops were in close combat, bayonets and kukris against katanas. On March 27, after days of aircraft attack, Japanese attacked Broadway for several nights before the attack was repulsed with flown-in artillery and the aid of Kachin irregulars locally recruited.



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Re: Dawn of the Rising Sun - Forgotten Hope 0.7 Campaign
« Reply #24 on: 08-04-2010, 22:04:46 »
beautiful map  ;)

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Re: Dawn of the Rising Sun - Forgotten Hope 0.7 Campaign
« Reply #25 on: 11-04-2010, 02:04:40 »
Yes, it was a beautiful beautiful map.

As usual, us Allies won  :D Cav lost the flags twice only, considering how for most of the map flags would change hands every five minutes, regardless of who was there or where it was. Gliders were truly awesome, and I shall post the pictures of all those that were able to remain for pictures.

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Re: Dawn of the Rising Sun - Forgotten Hope 0.7 Campaign
« Reply #26 on: 11-04-2010, 03:04:26 »
Yes, it was a beautiful beautiful map.

It may have been a beautiful map but there should not have been a 600 ticket difference!

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Re: Dawn of the Rising Sun - Forgotten Hope 0.7 Campaign
« Reply #27 on: 11-04-2010, 03:04:09 »
totally agree with you Taz.


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Re: Dawn of the Rising Sun - Forgotten Hope 0.7 Campaign
« Reply #28 on: 17-04-2010, 13:04:54 »



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Conquest of Java Island



Conquest of Java Island, March, 1942.




The capture of Palembang and the occupation of southern Sumatra by the Japanese Imperial Army had destroyed the last hope of a prolonged defence of Java. Invasion was expected in a matter of days, and civilian evacuees began to flow out from Soerabaja and Batavia. At Tanjong Priok, the port of Batavia, this outflow of evacuees met the inflow of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army soldiers, airmen, and refugees from Singapore and Sumatra, resulting in the congestion of the harbour and roadstead with shipping, and unloading could only take place as best it could. The quays, sheds, and roads leading from them became blocked with an inextricable confusion of equipment, motor transport, and abandoned cars and goods of every description.

 
Java was defended by British, Australian, and U.S. units (which had entered the war after Pearl Harbor and the fall of the Philippines), commanded by a British Major General H. D. W. Sitwell, and KNIL-forces under command of General Hein Ter Poorten. The only Allied armoured unit in Java was a squadron of tanks from the British 3rd Hussars. The Australian formation — named "Black Force" after its commander, Brigadier Arthur Blackburn V.C. — included the Australian 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, the Australian 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion, a company from the Royal Australian Engineers, a platoon from the 2/1st Headquarters Guard Battalion, about 100 reinforcements diverted on route to Singapore, a handful of soldiers who had escaped from Singapore following its fall to the Japanese, two transport companies, a casualty clearing station, and a company headquarters unit. Blackburn decided to reorganize his troops as an infantry brigade. They were well-equipped in terms of Bren guns and light armoured cars, but had few rifles, submachine guns, anti-tank rifles, mortars, grenades, trucks, radio equipment, or Bren gun carriers.


   

fter discussing war preparation with the commander of the 3rd Fleet and inspecting the 48th Division at Manila on January 21, Lt. Gen. Hitoshi Imamura received an order to attack Java on January 30, 1942. The attack force consisted of 56 transport ships with troops from 16th Army Headquarters, 2nd Division, and 230th Infantry Regiment. The convoy left Cam Ranh Bay on February 18. After 10 days of traveling, the West Java invasion convoy's transport ships, carrying the Nasu and Fukushima detachment, landed at Merak. Other transport ships carrying the Sato detachment landed on Bantam Bay. Meanwhile, the East Java invasion convoy landed at Kragan after successfully defeating the ABDA fleet in the Battle of the Java Sea. On March 1, all ships had reached their designated positions. The KNIL Coastal Detachment Merak, made up from a section of the 12th KNIL Infantry Battalion, under the command of KNIL Captain F.A.M. Harterink, machine-gunned the landing troops, but it was quickly defeated.

 
On March 1 in the afternoon, the troops moved to Serang and established a headquarters there. On the following day, the Nasu detachment arrived at Rangkasbitung and continued to Leuwiliang, 24 km west of Buitenzorg-Bogor. The Australian 2/2nd Pioneer and 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalions were positioned along a riverbank at Leuwiliang, and put up a vigorous resistance. Highly accurate volleys from "D" Battery, U.S. 2/131st Field Artillery, destroyed many Japanese tanks and trucks. After two days of holding up the Japanese advance, Blackforce began to succumb to increasing pressure from Japanese flanking maneuvers and was ordered to retreat to Soekabumi (Sukabumi) after the Dutch withdrawal from Batavia was complete. Around the same time, the Fukushima and Sato units moved westward to Madja (Maja) and Balaradja (Balaraja). After finding several bridges demolished, some of them changed route to capture Buitenzorg as well.

 
On March 4, Ter Poorten decided to withdraw his forces from Batavia and Buitenzorg to reinforce the defence of Bandung. One day later on the evening of the 5th, Dutch troops in Batavia surrendered to the Sato unit. By dawn on the 6th, the Japanese troops attacked Buitenzorg, which was guarded by the KNIL 1st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Regiment; 10th Company, Landstorm troops, and a howitzer unit. In the morning, Buitenzorg was occupied, while a large number of Allied soldiers had retreated to Bandung. The Nasu detachment pursued them through Tjiandjoer (Cianjur) and Tjimahi (Cimahi). On March 9, the Shoji detachment entered Bandung from the north route through Lembang, and the Nasu unit entered from the west through Cimahi.


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Re: Dawn of the Rising Sun - Forgotten Hope 0.7 Campaign
« Reply #29 on: 17-04-2010, 19:04:16 »
Finally getting some real planes instead of crap 8)
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