JocMeister
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16th March 1945
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A good day in the air for the allies. Been some time since that happened last.
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Destination Okinawa
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A bit worryingly I lost sight of the KB. She is probably hiding somewhere around Formosa and my search was grounded due to weather. Only thing I can think of.
Erik strikes at the AF at Naha again with good result. Little bit disappointed with the AA here as I have one of the big 72 gun AA units. But it wasn´t propperly prepped and is still suffering 46 disruption. I hope once that goes down I can really start to hit some things. Only 11 Jap planes are shot down.
AF is again closed. Doesn´t look like combat Engineers help with repair? Or is lack of supply (still have 28k at the base but its in yellow) effecting repair?
Erik again got a fix on my CVs.
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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Daito Shoto at 96,70
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 2,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-67-Ib Peggy x 9
Allied aircraft
Corsair II x 92
Corsair IV x 51
Hellcat I x 6
Seafire IIC x 10
Seafire L.III x 4
F4U-1A Corsair x 55
F4U-1D Corsair x 449
F6F-3 Hellcat x 136
F6F-5 Hellcat x 198
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-67-Ib Peggy: 5 destroyed
I don´t know if Erik will try and interfere with this landing. No juicy combat troops or Amphibs. Only LSTs and AKs. Might be a good opportunity to wreck his strike planes for little risk. 
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China
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It was indeed glorious! The 4Es struck at the surrounding airfields while the 2Es hit the troops in the clear moving for Nanning. We send out multiple sweeps hitting some a halfhearted LRCAP over his troops.
Morning Air attack on 35th Army, at 72,56 , near Nanning
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 34,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes
Japanese aircraft
J2M5 Jack x 12
Ki-84r Frank x 19
Allied aircraft
F4U-1D Corsair x 42
Japanese aircraft losses
J2M5 Jack: 2 destroyed
Ki-84r Frank: 2 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
F4U-1D Corsair: 2 destroyedquote:
After the day is over 23 Jacks and Franks are shot down for 4 Corsairs. Another 15 are destroyed on the airfields. No allied pilots lost. Good times.
Now for the glorious part.
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Morning Air attack on 17th Division, at 72,56 , near Nanning
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid detected at 42 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-25G Mitchell x 3
B-25H Mitchell x 48
B-25J1 Mitchell x 56
B-25J11 Mitchell x 56
P-38J Lightning x 3
P-38L Lightning x 52
F4U-1D Corsair x 35
PBJ-1D Mitchell x 29
PV-1 Ventura x 12
Allied aircraft losses
B-25J1 Mitchell: 1 damaged
Japanese ground losses:
1647 casualties reported
Squads: 11 destroyed, 73 disabled
Non Combat: 15 destroyed, 131 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 5 disabled
Vehicles lost 25 (1 destroyed, 24 disabled)
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Morning Air attack on 60th Division, at 72,56 , near Nanning
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-25D1 Mitchell x 4
PBJ-1H Mitchell x 14
PBJ-1J Mitchell x 14
No Allied losses
Japanese ground losses:
284 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 18 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 31 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
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Morning Air attack on 65th Brigade, at 72,56 , near Nanning
Weather in hex: Light cloud
Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-25J11 Mitchell x 22
No Allied losses
Japanese ground losses:
129 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
There are about 5 more of these. With the air fields closed and AA fire negligible tomorrow will see 500 4Es added to the strike and altitude dropped down a tad more. There is a good possibility my troops can catch up with his troops. If I can keep them in the hex for two more turns I will... Even if I fail to do that I hope Erik will have a really hard time recovering all those disablements. ´
Another set of 4Es close the AF Tsuyung. Tomorrow we will hit the 3 IDs in the mountains. Would be nice to open up that path too and get the Burma road open again.
Overnight Eriks situation has deteriorated significantly. With the Nanning stack at least temporarily out of the picture the last remaining troops are in the Canton/HK area. I think if Erik wants to avoid a complete collapse here he will need to start shifting unrestricted troops from Formosa to China. That would be a strategical Allied victory IMO.
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Strat bombing
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The B29s hit the HI/LI at Shanghai. Results were okay. 5 HI and 73 LI for 3 B29s.
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RE: Battle for Okinawa! - 
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I´m stunned. Happily stunned. He just opened the door to China for me. I wonder if his supply situation is so bad he can´t get it to flow that far West? 
We will see about that....This is kind of a personal vendetta so you will probably see some irrantional and strange behaviour here in the coming months! 
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