Aurorus
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Daylight on Luzon and more storms over Clark. The Betties and Sallies fly any way. They know the importance of today. The ground troops take full advantage of the sacrifices made by the IJN and the IJA air corps. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 90362 troops, 932 guns, 920 vehicles, Assault Value = 3083 Defending force 21791 troops, 379 guns, 364 vehicles, Assault Value = 585 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 2478 Allied adjusted defense: 400 Japanese assault odds: 6 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Clark Field !!! Allied aircraft no flights Allied aircraft losses O-47A: 1 destroyed B-17D Fortress: 1 destroyed P-35A: 1 destroyed Beech 18-S: 1 destroyed Stearman 75M: 3 destroyed Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-) experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 3569 casualties reported Squads: 9 destroyed, 153 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 23 disabled Engineers: 4 destroyed, 167 disabled Guns lost 11 (1 destroyed, 10 disabled) Vehicles lost 10 (1 destroyed, 9 disabled) Allied ground losses: 8581 casualties reported Squads: 364 destroyed, 139 disabled Non Combat: 380 destroyed, 34 disabled Engineers: 60 destroyed, 5 disabled Guns lost 127 (98 destroyed, 29 disabled) Vehicles lost 197 (194 destroyed, 3 disabled) Units retreated 14 Units destroyed 2 Assaulting units: 38th Division 2nd Engineer Regiment 48th Engineer Regiment 16th Engineer Regiment 4th Tank Regiment 56th Engineer Regiment 47th Infantry Regiment 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 65th Brigade 148th Infantry Regiment 4th Infantry Regiment 33rd Division 1st Formosa Inf. Regiment 21st Division 113th Infantry Regiment 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 8th Tank Regiment 2nd Tank Regiment 4th Division 7th Tank Regiment 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion Botanko Hvy Gun Regiment 56th Field Artillery Regiment 2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 1st Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 14th Army 48th Field Artillery Regiment 3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 9th Field AF Construction Battalion 20th Ind. Mtn Gun Battalion 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 31st PA Infantry Division 45th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team 4th Marine Regiment 31st Infantry Regiment 57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 91st PA Infantry Division 192nd Tank Battalion 14th PS Engineer Regiment 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion Clark Field USAAF Base Force 200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment Subic Bay Defenses USAFFE 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment By evening, it is over. The allied position is shattered, and the U.S. Phillipine army has been driven back to Bataan. Clark is in the hands of the IJA. Included in the haul are a host of U.S. tanks, as the 192nd Tank Battalion surrenders. Lamentable, Bob was able to get his B-17s out. I tried my best to keep them suppressed and damaged, but I used the Sallies that were bombing the airfield to concentrate on Manila for 2 days. 3 days of bad weather followed when my air corps was grounded, and in that time, he was able to get most of the B-17s out. The toll on the engineers was savage. 1 regiment of combat engineers has 2 functioning squads out of 48. The other 46 are disabled. Luzon is flush with supplies and 4 bases, soon to be 5, have 25K+ supply. The 16th Army in Manila and the 14th Army at Clark along with 2 base forces filled with support stand ready to assist the broken units regroup. The plan from day 1 was to get these units back into the fight as quickly as possible. On to Bataan and then forward.
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