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FeurerKrieg -> RE: June 27th, 1942 (8/4/2008 9:33:37 PM)
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Hi all - looking for some thoughts again.
Sakura finished faster than I expected, which is good. My original plan was to then send those Divisions mostly to Burma, but split up a two or three of them and send them to the more important based across the Pacific.
Now, I'm thinking I might have 4-6 weeks with which to use the divisions planned for SE Asia in China for a bit, to attack Liuchow. My divisions from the northern campaign are heading to Ichang and they will eventually attempt a slow crawl through the swamps and fields west of the river so they can cut off Changsha from the west. But I'm thinking, that maybe, around the same time, or slightly earlier, four or five SAA divisions can break Liuchow, and then move east from there to provide two directions of attack on the supply lines of Changsha. He'll be hard pressed to defend both directions, and he'll either have to pull out of Changsha, which means I capture it (the main goal) or he stays in Changsha and has a huge pocket get cut off and starved. Once Liuchow is captured, those divisions could pull out and head Burma.
The thing I'm not clear on, is when do the Allies have enough ground troops to launch a counterattack in Burma? My front line bases in the Pacific are all manned to the max allowed by our atoll HR's, and the fleet is sitting there also, so not much to do there. But these divisions could certainly be useful in Burma if a July or August offensive from India into Burma is a possibility.
Any thoughts as to Allied capabilities in SE Asia around 3rd quarter 1942?
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