John 3rd
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March 27, 1945 The fur is really flying right now. The arrival of the Allied Fleet provides a mental tonic to Dan to do all sorts of stuff. The enemy has gone back to Night Bombing the Home Islands and elsewhere: Osaka 46 Night Fighters (NF) vs. 23 -29s, 6 -29, 5 -29, 3 -29, and 18 -29. They fly in at 7,000 Ft instead of 2,200. My NF do quite well and the AA present raises some serious Hell. Target is Manpower and he gets a total of 71 with about 100,000 Fires. Nagasaki 35 NF vs 6 B-24. No survivors... Sabang Gets a dose from 9 -24s. Night Bombardments Keijo Is hit by TWO TFs of a CA and 5 DD and a CA, CL, CLAA, and 7 DDs. Casualties are 269 and 411 with the runway taking 53 hits. Day Fusan continues to be THE target for Allied Fighter Sweeps. This day starts with 82 Japanese Fighters taking on 34 F4U, 30 F4U, then 40 Fighters take on 38 B-24 and give them a good drubbing at 23,000 Ft, 21 P-51, and then 11 F4U/ The Runway is only hit 7 times by the -24s. Don't think Dan has noticed that nearly all my convoys are now unloading at Kanko, KOREA instead of Fusan. Fukuoka gets swept by two Squadrons with 34 Fighters taking on 18 F4U and 13 F4U. For the 2nd day in a row I rest Nagasaki's Fighters and the base is swept by a big one of nearly 175 F4U from the carriers. Great Nicobar The one location war suddenly goes up a little when an Invasion Force is spotted at Great Nicobar. This is why the B-24 hit Sabang earlier in the night. A strike of 19 SAMS and 19 Jill fight thru 36 Allied Fighters (couple of CVEs as well as LBA) and sink an LSM. The landing force is composed of 4 Regiment-sized units spearheaded by the 9th Marines. Near Mindanao a small flight of 4 Bombers sink an LST. NICE! Ground Hankow The massed Chinese enemy hits this surrounded base and gets a 4-1 result. Forts drop to 4. There are 1900 Japanese Cas for 2247 Chinese. The garrison has done its job in occupying a HUGE number of Chinese troops for nearly three weeks. Orders 1. Move more air up from Singapore to Georgetown and Sabang. Maybe we can inflict some real damage on the Allied shipping at Great Nicobar. 2. At Georgetown is a Task Force picking up 10-12,000 troops to move back down to Singers. It has not beeb interfered with to this point. 3. The China Offensive will either succeed or fail in the next 2-3 days. As soon as Hankow falls, we shall evacuate back to the Main Line of Resistance just west of Manchuria. 4. Set-up aerial ambushes over the skies of Keijo and one of the Korean hexes where Dan has been attacking with just bombers. Aerial Results:
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