Second Susla Affair

Second Susla Affair
Part of the Surian Fishing War and Operation Pez
Susleño coastline
Location	Susla, Creeperopolis
Planned by	Rakeoian Armed Services
Commanded by	Juan Tala Alcabú José Pérez Yagüe Antonio Soto Daza
Date	6 August 1960
Executed by	Task force Salmon
Casualties	9 killed (Rakeoian Armed Services)

The Second Susla Affair was a raid on island of Susla, Creeperopolis by the Rakeoian Armed Services by task force Salmon, which had orders to sink vessels while in ports at the military port near San Juan Diego in Sequoyah. After navigation errors, the force ran ashore on Susla, with some surrendering immediately, and others attempting to inflitrate Armando Rivera Obregón Military Base.

Operation

On 6 August 1960, escort ships and landing craft, associated with the 1st Flotilla, 2nd Fleet, 1st Section of the Rakeoian Navy, departed from their staging grounds in Olino with a heading towards San Juan Diego, where four teams of saboteurs alongside a contingent of riflemen were to use time-delayed mines to sink naval assets and commercial shipping vessels as part of Operation Pez, meant to enhance Rakeo's position in the then-ongoing Surian Fishing War.

One of the head landing crafts, that of team Salmon, with a navigator confused by faulty equipment distance readings and about halfway through their planned route to the Sequoyan west coast, sighted lights on its starboard and turned towards it believing the lights to be those of San Juan Diego. The other three landing craft followed, as they did not have navigators onboard to correct the error. The ships responsible for escorting the land craft, the frigate BCC Roha, and the patrol boats BCC Moquah and BCC Tuscobia, failed to notice the diversion of Salmon, and maintained course for San Juan Diego with the landing craft of teams Trout and Tuna, without notifying Salmon of their mistake.

The lead landing crafts of Salmon then became further separated from its two followers by an unusually strong current, coming ashore significantly west of the Susleño city of Punto Sur. Recognizing that they were not in the correct landing zone from the barren terrain, the head landing craft's crew went further west down San Juan Departmental Highway 12 until finding a distance marker for Punto Sur. They then laid their weapons and equipment alongside the highway's shoulder, and went to Punto Sur to surrender themselves to local police. Salmon's two other landing craft came ashore a short distance west from Armando Rivera Obregón Military Base, and their crew, spotting a number of military vessels, lacking command knowledgeable of the landing site, and unable to use the aerial maps they had been provided of the area due to the cloudy and moonless condition, attempted to infiltrate the base to destroy the vessels with their strength of forty riflemen and saboteurs. In the resulting firefight with the base garrison, nine soldiers were killed and the rest were captured.

Aftermath

Creeperopolis refused to release the soldiers captured, and ceased diplomatic ties with Rakeo after the raid.