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8th June -45
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Interesting turn. No IJAAF offensive missions over Korea today.
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Korea
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Not one Japanese Sweep flown today! Still 350 Fighters at Fusan. The Japanese Superstack in the clear has pulled back to Gunzan. Iīll move up there and see what I can find. Its a clear hex and it just might be possible to do some damage depending on forts.
I let the Fighters stay for one more day at Moppo to provide LRCAP for a landing on Saishu To. This in one of the lessons learned. When I landed at Moppo I didnīt have room for that ID and was reluctant to try and cover two landings at the same time but in hindsight I should have gone for it anyway. Having two bases instead of one would have made things a lot easier.
Erik has flown in some troops to the island (x2 terrain) but the 4Es paid a visit this turn.
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Afternoon Air attack on 11th Ind.Mixed Regiment, at 99,55 (Saishu To)
Weather in hex: Thunderstorms
Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes
Allied aircraft
Liberator B.VI x 17
Liberator GR.VI x 9
B-24J Liberator x 9
Spitfire VIII x 13
B-17E Fortress x 2
B-17F Fortress x 3
B-24J Liberator x 46
F4U-1D Corsair x 13
PB4Y-1 Liberator x 17
No Allied losses
Japanese ground losses:
756 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 41 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 64 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Guns lost 26 (1 destroyed, 25 disabled)
Given the damaged caused despite bad weather I donīt think there is much in way of forts. My ID is split though. This is because 2 of the parts upgraded with the 57mm AT gun. There are guns in the pool now but Iīm not sure it will upgrade at an enemy base despite having a Command HQ one hex away. Anyone knows?
Here is the defensive bombardment. I will probably have to let the bombers soften them up some more unless I can combine the ID.
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Ground combat at Saishu To (99,55)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 4181 troops, 72 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 112
Defending force 10396 troops, 213 guns, 212 vehicles, Assault Value = 368
Japanese ground losses:
103 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Assaulting units:
11th Ind.Mixed Rgt /2
108th Ind.Mixed Brigade
2nd Amphibious Bde /1
Defending units:
40th Infantry/A Div /1
40th Infantry/B Div /1
40th Infantry/C Div /1
I will pull the CAP from Moppo this turn. I canīt defend properly against Bombardments right now and I donīt want to lose any planes on the ground. My Fleet canīt hang around anymore. I lost 70 planes when the CVs tried to hit a CL at Nagasaki and fuel is low in all the TF and the oilers and AEs are dry. I need to head back to Okinawa and replenish.
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China
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More good news here. The attack at Changsha went very well! 
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Ground combat at Changsha (82,52)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 60057 troops, 1024 guns, 2050 vehicles, Assault Value = 2783
Defending force 31866 troops, 298 guns, 33 vehicles, Assault Value = 702
Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 4
Allied adjusted assault: 1701
Japanese adjusted defense: 819
Allied assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 4)
Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 4
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), disruption(-), preparation(-)
experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
1722 casualties reported
Squads: 218 destroyed, 109 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 48 disabled
Engineers: 7 destroyed, 21 disabled
Guns lost 38 (11 destroyed, 27 disabled)
Vehicles lost 4 (2 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
1412 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 83 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 38 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 26 disabled
Vehicles lost 38 (2 destroyed, 36 disabled)
Assaulting units:
17th Motorised Division
18th Cavalry Regiment
50th Tank Brigade
Guides Cavalry Regiment
Gardner's Horse Regiment
19th Motorised Division
Provisionl Tank Brigade
254th Armoured Brigade
6th Australian Division
3rd Cavalry Regiment
255th Indian Tank Brigade
11th PAVO Regiment
9th Australian Division
14th Army
2/9th Field Regiment
2/11th Field Regiment
2/13th Field Regiment
Defending units:
35th Division
65th Brigade
32nd Division
51st Division
58th Infantry Regiment
5th Ind.Mixed Brigade
63rd Division
13th RGC Temp./B Division
56th Const Co
8th Ind. Field Artillery Battalion
54th JAAF AF Bn
I need to rest for a day to let supply flow in and the troops recover some DIS but Iīm confident Changsha will fall within 2 weeks. Good news! 
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Logistics
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The last of the fuel shipments have arrived from the WC. I wonīt send any more now. I have 800k fuel at Naha and another 500.000 at Manila. I also have another 600.000 aboard oilers and another 650.000 aboard tankers waiting to unload. Production is going well in the DEI and there is about 500.000 at Palembang, Soerabaja, Balikpapan and Tarakan. Local production will be able to maintain me.
Supplies will continue to flow from the WC for the rest of the game. Iīm barely keeping up with demand and I am currently burning about 1-1,5 million per month! Another 4 million more are coming in the next month but I wanted to earmark 2 of those to the SU.
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Strat Bombing
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Fires continue to burn as Osaka and another 50 HI and 30 LI are burned down. Only 120 fires left now though. We will fly another mission tomorrow. Not at Osaka though!
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