Savo

9.8.1942

PacPG: 7.8.1942 - 9.8.1942

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Operation codename: Watchtower Above all, it was necessary to answer the questions where, when and by what powers can an enemy attack. Answer to them was clear: Should the Japanese expeditionary force to attack, do so on place of their concentration, it is in the area between the islands of Guadalcanal, Tulagi, Savo and Florida, in waters that Americans soon named Iron Bottom Sound. (Miloš Hubáček - Vítězství v Pacifiku, Panorama, 1985) Article on Czech Wikipedia Article on English Wikipedia Scenario in dates: June 8, 1942: Solomon Islands - Japanese troops arrives on Guadalcanal to construct an air base, planned to deploy 45 fighters and 60 bombers. The would protect Japan´s major base at Rabaul, threaten Allied supply and communication lines and establish a staging area for a planned offensive against Fiji, New Caledonia and Samoa (Operation FS). July 29, 1942: Fiji - The 1st Parachute Battalion, along with the rest of the 1st USMC division, conduct landing rehearsals on Koro Island priot to prepared attack of Guadalcanal. Major General Alexander Vandegrift will describe this excersises as a "disaster". August 7, 1942: In the Solomon Islands - First landings on Guadalcanal. From a US naval based task force of three carriers and support ships under the command of Admiral Fletcher, an amphibious force under Admiral Turner and 1st Marine Division, General Vandergrift, land on Guadalcanal. Smaller forces are also landed on Tulagi and Gavutu. Initially the landings receive little opposition. August 7, 1942: New Guiena - in the Gulf of Papua, a Japanese submarine Ro-33 attacks a 300-ton Australian motor vessel MV Mamutu evacuating civilians from endangered Port Moresby. The submarine carries out the attack with an onboard 3-inch gun, and survivors of the sinking vessel, including women and children, are killed by machine-gun fire. The victim is 114, surviving 28. Next sub is called in by Admiral Mikawa´s urgent radiogram to face the American landing at Guadalcanal. August 8, 1942: In the Solomon Islands - The invasion of Guadalcanal continues as the remainder of the first wave of American troops come ashore. Advancing rapidly inland, they capture the Japanese airstrip intact, renaming it Henderson Field. The missions on Tulagi and Gavutu are completed and the islands captured. Due to Japanese air and submarine attacks, Admiral Fletcher decides to withdraw his carriers, leaving the cruisers and transports near the island. This action is a serious mistake. August 9, 1942: In the Solomon Islands - under cover of night darkness enters Savo Sound between Savo Island and Guadalcanal, the Japanese group of cruisers commanded by Admiral Mikawa. But American patrol cruisers under Admiral Crutchleye have for night fighting as little experience and inadequate equipment, so in a conflict known as the Battle of Savo Island Americans suffered the greatest defeat in the history of the Navy, which lost four cruisers and not sink any Japanese ship. Savo Sound is later renamed the Ironbottom Sound, for a number of sunken ships, resulting in its bottom. American cargo ships unloading supplies for landed troops on Guadalcanal in the Lunga Point they are not attacked (The Japanese even at night trying to get away from the range aircraft carriers, about which they has no idea that Americans driven off), but they are ordered to withdrawal due to the threat of assault, and so the 1st Marine Division is left short of heavy equipment and with only one half of their supplies. August 10, 1942: In the Bismarck Archipelago - An American submarine USS S-44 (SS-155) sinks the Japanese heavy cruiser Kako from the 6th Cruiser Division while it is returning to the base in Kavieng (New Ireland Island) after the battle at Savo Island. Despite the fact that the cruiser sinks in just 7 minutes after being hit by three torpedoes, only 34 sailors from more than six hundred crew members die. April 19, 1943: Panama - Captain Howard D. Bode, who commanded the heavy cruiser USS Chicago (CA-29) during a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Savo, commits suicide by shooting himself after learning of findings of the investigation of his operation during this encounter. October 14, 1943: In the United States - a new Baltimore-class heavy cruiser USS Canberra (CA-70) is commisioned. Originally to be named USS Pittsburgh, the ship was renamed before launch to honor the loss of the Australian cruiser HMAS Canberra during the Battle of Savo Island. USS Canberra is the first USN warship named after a foreign capital city. The Australian Government will return this tribute by naming a new Tribal-class destroyer, HMAS Bataan, in honor of the US stand during the Battle of Bataan. Literature sources: Griffith, Samuel B. II.: The Battle for Guadalcanal,   Paseka, 2001, Praha, Litomyšl . Leckie, Robert: Helmet for My Pillow . Skřivan, Aleš: Japonská válka 1931 - 1945 (Japanese War 1931 - 1945),   Libri, 1997, Praha Hrbek, Jaroslav, Hrbek Ivan: Krvavé oceány (Bloody oceans),   Naše vojsko, 1994, Praha Hrbek, Jaroslav, Hrbek Ivan: Námořní válka vrcholí (War at sea culminates),   Naše vojsko, 1995, Praha Hara, Tameči: Teikoku Kaigun No Saigo / Japanese Destroyer Captain,   Omnibooks, 2013, Neratovice Hubáček, Miloš: Vítězství v Pacifiku (Victory in Pacific),   Mladá fronta, 1999, Praha Sakai, Saburo: Oozora no Samurai,   Naše vojsko, 1994, Praha Nepevný, Jindřich, Ing.: Tainan Kokutai,  HPM No. 4/1991

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Scenario data:

Map size: 52 x 35 hexes 16 turns, 6 turns per day Version: PacAGPG 1, Starting side: Allies, Campaign: US campaign, Order in campaign: 2.
Allied states:     USA, Australia & New Zealand Axis states:     Japan Neutral states:     -
Allies:     attack Axis:     attack
Experience of Allied purchased units:     Experience of Axis purchased units:
Climate region:      Oceania, tropics Weather character in region:      Rain regularly all year round.
Game time costingness of scenario:    15.2 % (product of units and turns numbers divided by difference between the most long and the most short scenario)
Number of Allied units: 53 units, from them are 7 core units and 46 auxiliary units 14 air units, 18 naval units and 21 ground units 0 of units are loaded to air transport and 21 to naval transport	Transports Air/Naval: Allies - Axis 0/22 - 0/0
Number of Axis units: 38 units 14 air units, 8 naval units and 16 ground units 0 of units are loaded to air transport and 0 to naval transport	Initial prestige + every turn donation: Allies / Axis 150 + 0 / 330 + 0
Max number of Allied units: 53 units, from them are 7 core units and 46 auxiliary units - on start of scenario is possible to purchase 0 unit    (0 core + 0 auxiliary)
Max number of Axis units: 41 units - on start of scenario is possible to purchase 3 unit
Transport units: Allies - air:     not available Axis - air:     not available Allies - naval:     AF Transport Axis - naval:     not available

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