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18th-19th March 1945
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New day, new energy! 
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Destination Okinawa
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On the 18th we sink an entire Japanese convoy just North of Okinawa. At first I thought it might have been a failed CAP trap but its too far out from CAP to be that. So most likely this was a mistake of some sort.
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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Amami Oshima at 95,61
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 34 minutes
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft
F6F-5 Hellcat x 116
SB2C-4 Helldiver x 37
TBM-3 Avenger x 31
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
TBM-3 Avenger: 1 damaged
Japanese Ships
AMC Bankok Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
AK Asaka Maru, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 4, and is sunk
AV Sanyo Maru, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
AK Goyo Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
AK Kirishima Maru, Bomb hits 6, heavy fires, heavy damage
AV Kimikawa Maru, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
AK Amagisan Maru, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
AK Awazisan Maru, Bomb hits 6, heavy fires, heavy damage
AK Kyushu Maru, Bomb hits 6, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
AK Yamasimo Maru, Bomb hits 5, and is sunk
E W-24, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Amami Oshima at 95,61
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid detected at 15 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes
Allied aircraft
SB2C-4 Helldiver x 28
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
AMC Bankok Maru, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
AK Kirishima Maru, and is sunk
AK Awazisan Maru, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
AV Hokuroku Maru, Bomb hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage
E Hiburi, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
E Etoforu, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
E Kunashiri, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
Good haul of ships. Those AKs are no doubt still very useful for him. On the 19th everything is unloaded and we now have 150k supply and a 350 plane CAP up. I have mines and some big CD guns in place but as we all know by now that no protection from bombardments. So I´m going to keep the fleet a couple of hexes south of Okinawa. If Erik decide to try a naval bombardment it will be very risky for him. I have 2 Fletcher TFs covering Naha + 6 subs and some PTs. This will probably be enough to slow him down enough so he will be within range of the CVs in the morning.
Using the Allied capabilities to stay at sea indefinitely is a blessing. Sorties and planes are replenished whenever needed.
The KB (or parts of it) is on station between China and Formosa. Not sure what the intention is with this. There are still 1500 Fighters on station on Formosa.
I´m going to move more stuff in to Okinawa in the coming weeks. The method I used with cheap ships covered by the fleet will be used this time too. So LSTs and AKs will be used. I´ll also stationing more PTs and an AGP in place. Once Nago is in control and built up too its time to start thinking about the next set of invasions in the chain.
The first attack on Nago did well but failed to take the base. We are resting FAT and DIS and will have another go in a couple of days.
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Ground combat at Nago (95,65)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 90420 troops, 1754 guns, 1498 vehicles, Assault Value = 4038
Defending force 18755 troops, 443 guns, 128 vehicles, Assault Value = 290
Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 5 
Allied adjusted assault: 1668
Japanese adjusted defense: 610
Allied assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 5)
Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 5
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), preparation(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
3957 casualties reported
Squads: 62 destroyed, 197 disabled
Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 101 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 37 disabled
Guns lost 113 (33 destroyed, 80 disabled)
Vehicles lost 16 (2 destroyed, 14 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
1388 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 215 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 23 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 13 disabled
Guns lost 30 (2 destroyed, 28 disabled)
Vehicles lost 17 (1 destroyed, 16 disabled)
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RE: Battle for Okinawa! - 
. This is quite worrying as there is absolutely NOTHING I can do to defend against this. He will avoid most of the CAP and get to the ships. There are no settings in the world that can change this as the engine can´t cope with the low detection times and often send the CAP up to maximum altitude. 
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