April 1942 Alternate Indian Ocean

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It's just a constant bleeding sore of losses. THese second line destroyers were used OTL for troops transport and supply runs in 1943-44. What are they going to use now?
 

Winestu

Zheng He said:
0315 Hours, 13 December 1942, Ramree Island, Burma – An hour after Major Newson’s Albacore’s departed, Lieutenant Little arrived on his solo run and added insult to injury by dumping all four of his 250-pound bombs on the ground hulk of the destroyer Nagatzuki. The Japanese were in the process of trying to strip the ship of everything that was useful and several men were killed and the stern of the ship was mangled. Little threw several empty bottles out of his cockpit as he departed and all of the Albacores involved in the night’s missions were safely on the ground at Cox’s Bazaar before dawn.

At around the same time, the destroyer Wakaba joined the light cruisers Kinu and Kiso approximately 25 miles south of Ramree Island and the three ships headed due south at 20 knots with Kiso in the lead, flanked by Wakaba and Kinu.
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Why the empty bottles?
 

Draconis

Aber said:
Psychological warfare - allegedly you get a very loud whistling sound.
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It was a common enough practice. The washing machine Charlies would often employ that method to disturb personnel trying to sleep. After all, you can carry an awful lot of empty Sake bottles. Hopefully empty before take off.
 
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Finbarr the Fair

Draconis said:
It was a common enough practice. The washing machine Charlies would often employ that method to disturb personnel trying to sleep. After all, you can carry an awful lot of empty Sake bottles. Hopefully empty before take off.
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Interesting

As you say, empty long before take off. But not necessarily empty on despatch.
 

formion

Banned
This excursion of the IJN, cost:
- 5 destroyers
- 3 troopships and 1 large freighter
- The efffective destruction of 3 battalions of veteran infantry ( originally would have been sent in Guadalcanal)
- 22 fighters

Now the IJN is down compared to OTL:
- 3 CVL

And up:
- 1 BC

The USN is up:
1 CV

and the RN up:
1 CVL (Eagle and Hermes survived vs Furious sunk)

I am under the impression that the Guadalcanal campagin up to this point has a bit higher IJN cruiser and destroyer losses. Is it correct or no?
Also does anyone have an idea how many cruisers the IJN is down compared to OTL?
 
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