John 3rd
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Joined: 9/8/2005 From: La Salle, Colorado Status: offline
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May 1, 1943 Victory Points and Economic Summary Victory Points: Score Japan 41,182 (Up 350 Points) Allies 14,506 (Up 359 Points) Talk about a dead month! Between us, we only accounted for a little over 700 victory points… Ships Sunk Japan 320—2,545 VP (up 43)—Only 7 ships (0 warship lost) sunk during March. Exact losses were: 5 AK, 1 MSW, and 1 PT. Major Japanese Vessels Sunk to Date---BB Fuso and Yamashiro, BC Kirishima, CAs Kinugasa and Kako, 5 CL, 26 DD (12 Modern DD lost), and 19 SS (15 I-Boats and 4 Ro-). Allies 537---6,758 VP (up 13)---Dan only lost 2 ships. Totals for the month were: 1 AK and KXVIII. Major Allied Vessels Sunk---CVs Enterprise, Lexington, Hornet, and Wasp, BBs Colorado, West Virginia, Idaho, Tennessee, and Prince of Wales, 9 CA, 7 CL, 49 DD, and 11 SS. Manchukuo Garrison---8,229---Up 66---(8,000 Needed) Political Points---2,179 Units Transferred: Tokyo 52nd Infantry Division to 4th Fleet 50th, 55th, 68th Construction Btn to 4th Fleet Industrial Report Supply 2,401,732 Fuel 950,734 Manpower 857 (1,086,649) Heavy Industry 15,108 (1,844) Resources 20,773 (2,270,862) Oil 2077 (593,437) The fuel situation has reached critical. I have two large Convoys headed for Japan, as this is written, containing nearly 225,000 oil. Additionally nearly 125,000 resources are also at sea. This SHOULD serve to massively bump up my stocks. The fleet—barring action—will sit as much as possible this month. Shipyards Naval 1,366 (24) Merchant 981 (9) Repair 1,508 Battleships Musashi (202 Days) halted. Ise (132 Days) Hyuga (141 Days) Carriers Unryu (91 Days)--Accelerated Amagi (167 Days)--Accelerated Katsuragi (484 Days). CVL Chitose (160 Days)--Accelerated CVL Chiyoda (204 Days)--Accelerated Upgraded Hiyo/Junyo, and 3 CVL this month. Have several badly damaged ships almost repaired. Weapons Armament 572 (75,097) Vehicles 171 (1,195) Saw improvement within stocks this month. Need to see this level of increase for May as well since I have those China and Home Island reinforcements coming in during early-June. Aircraft Engines 2,024 Assembly 1,175+(827-Rd) Added nearly 100 engines and saw growth in aircraft production as well as research. Engine Production Mitsubishi 610/Month—Need 293—1,877 in Pool Nakajima 1,194(105)—Need 1,224---0 in Pool Kawasaki 200---Need 190---70 in Pool Aichi 20---Need 0---266 in Pool Should get ahead of the engine game with Nakajima’s this month. My Kawasaki’s are now producing nicely and I did not have much cushion to spare! Plane Production Fighters Planes/Month (in Pool) A6M2 0 (108) A6M3 96 (12) A6M3a 167 (1) Oscar 0 (402) Oscar IIa 58 (14) Tojo 76 (3) Tony 190 (204) Jack 103-R (10/43) Start catching up with my fighter production. The whole Zero category has issues. This should rectify itself during May. My Jacks crossed the 100+ Research line but I did not get the month advancement! Darn… Bombers Betty 34 (326) Sally 0 Helen 181 (8) Lily 112 (0) Nick-a 27 (0) Nick-b 12 (6) Val 32 (486)—Shutting this line down and shifting it to Kates. Kate 57 (100) I replaced a lot of lost bombers in April. I took very few losses and have managed to get my Daitai and Sentai back to—more or less—full strength. The units I disbanded in March and April are starting to reform in the Home Islands. This will probably take another month’s production to fill them out as well. Recon/Float Emily 20 (53) Alf 5 (36) Pete 0 (68) Pete A 0 (53) Rufe 0 (9) Glen 4 (39) Dinah 0 (11) Irving-R 35 (0) Irving-S 23 (1) Jake 8 (73) Babs 0 (108) Am running low on several recon planes and am having to watch this area for the first time. Transports Tina 10 (24) Sally 5 (28) Topsy 20 (17) Mavis-L 5 (21) Tabby 10 (56) Have replenished nearly all my transport units and will keep production rolling for another month or two.
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