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Announcements / Re: Forgotten Hope News Update: Road to 2.3: Part 1

« on: 27-09-2010, 20:09:15 »

Great news.

Sharing at 2Mbps.  

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Clans and Tournaments / Re: Forgotten Honor Map of the Week!

« on: 23-09-2010, 16:09:08 »

Its going to be one hell of a battle. Paradroping all the way baby!

 

1473

Clans and Tournaments / Re: F|H FH2 Campaign 7 grand opening: Rendez vous with destiny.

« on: 18-09-2010, 15:09:56 »

Very nice poster.

This campaign is going to be awesome. 

1474

Announcements / Re: Forgotten Hope News Update: 27th of July

« on: 28-07-2010, 23:07:20 »

New map. Very good news.

Nice update guys.  

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Announcements / Re: Forgotten Hope News Update: 12th of July, 2010

« on: 15-07-2010, 12:07:28 »

Great update! 

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Announcements / Re: Forgotten Hope News Update: 4th of July, 2010

« on: 06-07-2010, 14:07:41 »

Great news.

Flame on! 

1480

General Discussion / Re: Midsummer's Eve Event: Battle of Britain

« on: 23-06-2010, 21:06:49 »

30 players now at FHT Battle of Britain 24/7 #1

This is a fresh air for FH2. Im enjoying this map alot.  

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General Discussion / Re: Midsummer's Eve Event: Battle of Britain

« on: 22-06-2010, 21:06:25 »

Quote from: ajappat on 22-06-2010, 21:06:11

Yeah, this is awesome. Me and 2 of my squad mates fly in formation to south. We see one friendly plane in map there, but when we arrive, we see 6-8 planes going circles and tracers going all around the place. We fly in and destroy every single enemy with losses of 2 planes 

WOW.  I must have that feeling!!

Going to try it out tonight!! 

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General Discussion / Re: Midsummer's Eve Event: Battle of Britain

« on: 21-06-2010, 20:06:59 »

Sounds like loads of fun.

Ill be there. 

1483

Clans and Tournaments / Re: Dawn of the Rising Sun - Forgotten Hope 0.7 Campaign

« on: 20-05-2010, 18:05:09 »

Do you want to repeat all the great experiences that you had on FH1 ?

Now you can and with confirmed 64 players for 4 whole hours.

Play a Forgotten Hope 1 campaign spanning 13 battles across the Southeast Asia.

32x32 players every Saturday

This battle will be played Saturday 22 of May at 20hGMT on Forgotten Honor Tournament

Reclaim of Balikpapan



Reclaim of Balikpapan City, Borneo, 17 July, 1945



The attack on Balikpapan on the south-eastern coast of Borneo, which began on 1 July 1945, had been prepared by large scale bombings and for two weeks Allied mine sweepers clearing huge numbers of mines placed in Balikpapan harbour by both sides. The seaborne assault (codenamed Operation Oboe Two) by the Australian 7th Division, under the command of Major-General E. J. Milford, was supported with large air and naval forces consisted from RAAF, USMC, USAAF, USN, Dutch and Royal Navy units.


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Japanese strength in the Balikpapan area was estimated to be 3900 with reinforcements of another 1500. The Japanese had had plenty of time to fortify Balikpapan since January 1942. An offshore underwater obstacle, starting north of Manggar, had been extended westward along the coast; extensive anti-tank ditches had been constructed; trench networks on the ridges north of the beaches had been extended and improved (in the Klandasan area alone fifty tunnel entrances had been detected); land mines and booby-traps were expected. Several heavy coast defence guns and anti-aircraft defences were detected and described by Australian Air Force as the heaviest yet encountered in the South-west Pacific area.


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At 3am on the 1 July a dull red glow on the horizon a few points to starboard could be seen from the armada. It was Balikpapan  on fire-a result of the rapidly increasing tempo of Australian air and naval bombardment. Five minutes before 9 am the first assault wave of three infantry Battalions hit the beach, 2/10th and 2/12th Battalions of the 18th Brigade on the left, and beside them 2/27th Battalion of 21st Brigade. The Japanese had withdrawn to his tunnels, pillboxes and entrenchments which pockmarked the dominating features some hundreds of yards inland.



Parramatta Ridge was a Japanese fortress. At the top was a cunning trench system, while a hundred feet below were vast intercommunicating honeycomb tunnels. Artillery had shaken the Japanese out of this fortress and made the way easy for the infantry. At the southernmost point of Parramatta Ridge was Hill 87. C Company of the 2/10th Battalion launched an attack against the Japanese on this feature. The tanks had bogged down near the beach and could not be brought forward in time. With heavy support of artillery, C Company captured Hill 87. By this time the tanks had passed the boggy ground, reaching Hill 87 in time to support C Company's further advance north along Parramatta Ridge. By 2.20 pm Parramatta Ridge was completely in Australian hands.



Morning of 2 July had seen the reserve infantry brigade 25th beaching and moving inland to relieve units of the two assault brigades. This enabled 18th to concentrate its entire force for an attack on the Balikpapan. Except for a few scattered Japanese snipers in bunker positions, Balikpapan had been evacuated by the Japanese. All that remained was an eerie, deserted mass of crumbling mortar and the charred skeletons of power plants, factories and business houses.

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Clans and Tournaments / Re: Dawn of the Rising Sun - Forgotten Hope 0.7 Campaign

« on: 13-05-2010, 13:05:00 »

Do you want to repeat all the great experiences that you had on FH1 ?

Now you can and with confirmed 64 players for 4 whole hours.

Play a Forgotten Hope 1 campaign spanning 13 battles across the Southeast Asia.

32x32 players every Saturday

This battle will be played Saturday 15 of May at 20hGMT on Forgotten Honor Tournament

Operation Dracula



Operation Dracula, Rangoon River, 6 May, 1945



 By 1944, the Allied forces in India had been reinforced and had expanded their logistic infrastructure, which made it possible to for them to contemplate an attack into Burma. The Japanese attempted to forestall them by an invasion of India, which led to a heavy Japanese defeat at the Battle of Imphal, and other setbacks in Northern Burma. Their losses were to handicap their defence of Burma in the following year. Operation Dracula  was the name given to an airborne and amphibious attack on Rangoon by British and Indian forces.




Plan Z, which was to be developed into Operation Dracula, had several advantages. The loss of Rangoon would be even more disastrous for the Japanese in 1945 than it had for the British in 1942. Not only was it the principal seaport by which they received supplies and reinforcements, but it lay very close to their other lines of communication with Thailand and Malaya. An advance north or east from Rangoon of only 40 miles to Pegu or across the Sittang River would cut the Burma Railway, their only viable overland link with their forces in these countries. If Rangoon fell, the Japanese would therefore be compelled to withdraw from almost all of Burma, abandoning much of their equipment.



The principal Japanese headquarters in Burma, Burma Area Army under Lieutenant General Hyotaro Kimura, was situated in Rangoon. There were no fighting formations, but there were large numbers of line of communication troops and naval personnel. As the leading British and Indian troops approached Pegu, many of these rear-area troops and some hastily mobilised Japanese civilians were formed into the Japanese 105th Independent Mixed Brigade. This scratch force battled for several days to hold Pegu and block further British advance south. Meanwhile Rangoon was started to be evacuated.



After naval attack on Phuket Island and heavy aerial bombardment on Japanese positions, parachute battalion landed at Elephant Point at the mouth of the Rangoon River in the middle of the morning. Once Elephant Point was secured, minesweepers cleared a passage up the river, and landing craft began coming ashore in the early hours of the morning of May 2. An Allied reconnaissance aircraft flying over the city of Rangoon saw no sign of the Japanese, and also noticed a message painted on the roof of the jail by released British prisoners of war. It is reported to have read, Japs gone. Extract digit, RAF slang for "Get your finger out" or "Hurry up". Boldly, the crew of the plane landed on Mingaladon Airfield, but crashed. They walked to the jail, where they found 1,000 former prisoners of war who informed them of the Japanese evacuation, then went to the docks, commandeered a sampan and sailed down the river to meet the landing craft.