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September. 5 Little enough of significance that I don't feel bad skipping a day. September. 6 USS Kane sinks a Japanese fleet submarine off Tahiti. It's been there for weeks, but unlike most of the loiterers isn't one of the aircraft-carriers. Odd. Land and sea quiet with three exceptions. - Japanese aircraft bomb the land component of an American engineer regiment on the road between Normanton and Daly Waters. Conceptually rather silly, but damage is only to motor support. - Japanese attack at Paotow proceeds essentially as expected - eight divisions and an armoured brigade attack two small Chinese corps, casualties being similar but forcing the Chinese back. - Something else I've already forgotten about, so it can't have been very important. The real event today, however, comes from the signal room; I think we've finally cracked the Japanese codes! quote:
Heavy Volume of Radio transmissions detected at Tokyo (114,60). Heavy Volume of Radio transmissions detected at Tokyo (114,60). Guards Mixed Brigade is planning for an attack on Adak Island. 4th Division is planning for an attack on Dutch Harbor. 11/4th Division is planning for an attack on Dutch Harbor. 4/4th Division is planning for an attack on Dutch Harbor. 16/Guards Mixed Brigade is loaded on a Japanese AK moving to Tokyo. 2/44th Naval Guard Unit is loaded on AK Tatuwa Maru moving to Tokyo. ?, but it's been at Tokyo for at least two months... 1/Guards Mixed Brigade is located at Tokyo(114,60). 24/14th Division is loaded on xAP Buenos Aires Maru moving to Tokyo. Likely still in transit 2/Guards Mixed Brigade is loaded on a Yusen S class AK moving to Tokyo. A more suspicious person than I might think they're going for a sail...4th Div is new to me for the operation, last having been seen in China back in June. Considering they're loading up but haven't yet sailed (presumably), they are likely waiting for their escort. The large carriers are likely between Mindanao and Japan at the moment, on the assumption that the Val superball a few days ago was what I think it was; the small carriers were spotted by a submarine yesterday off the Kai islands and on the face of it don't seem likely to be involved in the first stage. The Japanese are certainly working with some, er...enthusiastic expectations here. ##################################################################################################### Current garrisons in the Aleutians: Adak: 2 US Army Rgt, 1 Canadian Bde, 1 US Cmbt Engr Rgt, 2 Arty Bn, 2 USN Base Force, 1 US Army Base Force, 3 Coast AA Rgt, 1 Coast Arty Rgt (24 6" guns, 220 mines). 140,000t of supplies, 55,000t fuel. US 129th Inf Rgt will arrive in three days, having diverted from a Hawaiian convoy a week or so back when I was thinking about how short a timescale the Japanese would be working to up here. Handy, that... Umnak: 1 US Army Rgt, 1 USN Base Force, 1 Coast Arty Bn (8 6" guns). 28,000t of supplies, 2600t of fuel. Bn 297th Inf Rgt is at sea and will arrive in two days; it was going to Shemya, but I don't think there's time to make that viable. Dutch Harbour: 2 US Army Rgt, 1 USN Base Force, 1 Coast Arty Bn (8 6" guns), 1 Coast AA Rgt. 80,000t of supplies, 11,000t of fuel. Cold Bay: 2/3rds 1 US Army Rgt, Air Ops Det. 6500t of supplies. 221st USN Base Force is at sea and will arrive in two days. Army Rgt is flying in (it's the "how far can we fly from Anchorage" base) and may partially go somewhere else depending on whether this base gets invaded - I suspect it may not, being at the eastern end of the chain. These four bases are the only airfields between Kodiak Island and Paramushiro. Japanese air support will be entirely dependent on carriers for the first few days unless they manage to capture an airfield. I imagine they will manage to put together some fields in the western Aleutians, but...whatever. Canada can provide one brigade in four days (needs 370 PP, I have 170) and another in eleven days if required. Shipping is available to move them fast - a quintet of Grace Line liners just finished refits at SF. ##################################################################################################### Current inventory of 11th Air Force and RCAF Alaska Det, from west to east: Shemya: 5 Catalina Adak: 25 Mohawk, 50 Airacobra, 12 Bolingbroke, 6 Catalina Umnak: 18 Kingfisher Dutch Harbour: 41 Warhawk/Kittyhawk Kodiak: 28 Helldiver, 19 Wildcat Anchorage: 24 Havoc, 21 Hudson, 19 Bolo, 21 Marauder, 71 Warhawk, 42 Vindicator, 15 Avenger, 6 Catalina, 6 Airacobra, 12 Dakota A fair few of these aircraft will withdraw in three weeks. All the better to use them now, then... ##################################################################################################### Current 3-day reserve of aircraft: 55th Fighter Group: 50 Warhawk (Seattle) 90th Bombardment Group: 16 B-17 (Hawaii) VB-2: 15 Avenger (Tonga) VP-51: 10 Catalina (Tonga) 67th Fighter Sqn: 25 Warhawk (USS Copahee, off Hawaii) 328th Fighter Group: 36 Airacobra (Seattle) 111 Sqn RCAF: 11 Kittyhawk (Prince Rupert) ##################################################################################################### Current aircraft reserve pool: 17 Airacobra 20 Lightning 93 Warhawk 48 Buffalo 21 Wildcat 60 SBD 10 Catalina 10 Liberator 14 Mitchell 13 Marauder 14 Kittyhawk 51 Hurricane ##################################################################################################### Situation at sea: 18 PT boats are available for deployment. US Pacific Fleet is 450 miles south of Dutch Harbour CVs Enterprise, Yorktown, Hornet, Wasp, Lexington, Saratoga (540 aircraft) BB North Carolina CAs Salt Lake City, Louisville, Chester, Chicago, Quincy, Houston, Northampton CLAAs Atlanta, San Juan DDs Lardner, Bancroft, Dunlap, Phelps, Lansdowne, Helm, Ralph Talbot, Henley, Craven, McCall, Selfridge, Grayson, Maury, Ellet, Lang, Stack, Sterett, Porter, Frazier, Downes, Gridley, Allen Fast AOs Cimarron, Neosho with 16,000t of fuel; all ships fuelled yesterday. USS South Dakota is at Seattle repairing an engine defect and should sail in three days; will be with the fleet in 7-8 days. USS Washington is at sea south of Los Angeles and should be with the fleet in 10-12 days. USS West Virginia is at Los Angeles finishing up repairs and should sail in three days; will be with the fleet in 10-11 days. USS Juneau sailed from San Francisco two days ago and should be with the fleet in three days. USS Raleigh is in the Bering Sea 150 miles north of Adak. A second refuelling group, with fast AOs Platte, Sabine, Kaskaskia and DD Wilson is at Prince Rupert loading fuel. ##################################################################################################### Now we wait...
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