Unrepresented nations PG needs most?

[Michael Murphy]

We already have the Texas Division. It looks a lot like this:
     

(Wrong symbol for the Jeep.)

No, you've got the right symbol for a Texas jeep.They don't drive anything down there without their firearms! It just ain't done that way!



Peace. Michael

[saracv3]

Well, I was thinking of Texas Division battalion on Java. It was an artillery unit hat was destroyed by the Japanese. It was a very green unit. Is this in Nihon Silk?

[plloyd1010]

Do you mean these guys?

Not in Nihon Silk. A quick search doesn't come up with unit insignia either.

[plloyd1010]

Knock yourself out Craig.
One battalion of the 131st F.A. Regiment

Technically there should be 4 firing batteries in the battalion, but it seems that only 3 were sent.

[saracv3]

Interesting. It was referred to in Ship of Ghosts: Story of the USS Houston..... (Hornfischer, 2ⁿ006). 36th Div., 131 Field Artillery, 2nd Battalion. ( 105mm) Illbet it has been written on. It went to build the rail project on the Kwai. (BTW, ironically to be finished by the Japanese today under Contract with the Thai government.)

[plloyd1010]

The Houston appears in Strike South. Maybe in another game or 2.

At this point, 131st F.A is a 75mm gun unit, as is the 132nd. The 133rd is a 155mm equipped regiment. The division is a square division (141st-144th Inf Regts) at this time, it will be converted the triangular organization early January 1942. That is probably when the 105mm's start showing up.

75mm artillery battalions have 4 firing batteries (105mm and 155mm have 3). Since only batteries D, E & F were sent, the countersheet I whipped up is nice & square.

[saracv3]

Interesting. It was referred to in Ship of Ghosts: Story of the USS Houston..... (Hornfischer, 2ⁿ006). 36th Div., 131 Field Artillery, 2nd Battalion. ( 105mm) Illbet it has been written on. It went to build the rail project on the Kwai. (BTW, ironically to be finished by the Japanese today under Contract with the Thai government.)

[plloyd1010]

You piqued my interest briefly, here is my final(ish) report on the 2/131 F.A. Regiment.
Batteries D & F, and the headquarters were engaged supporting the 2/2nd Australian (Pioneers Infantry) near Bandoeng (my wife went to college there), at a small town called Leuwilleng. They had stripped .50 cal MGs from wrecked B-17s to enhance their AA capability. So you might want to give them an AA unit or 2 that would look like this:


Battery E was assigned to support the Dutch 8th & 13th Infantry Battalions and 3rd Cavalry Unit at Malang, near Surabaya. They were then engaged at the Battle of Porong.

One Elmer Ray Milner at North Texas State University wrote his master's thesis on the subject.
The War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan commissioned are war history series, which is also with Leiden University in The Netherlands. Volume 3 is of The invasion of the Dutch East Indies. You can download and read both of these.

[Hugmenot]

Canadians are underrepresented in PG. We would have conquered the world by now were we not so damn nice and polite.

[Poor Yorek]

Canadians are underrepresented in PG. We would have conquered the world by now were we not so damn nice and polite.

Eh, that's probably what these Canuck lads are telling the US 2-16 CAV Sabre Team at ABOLC Fort Benning. 

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