apbarog
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20 Mar 44 The Peggys came back to Takao for another night raid on the port. This time, the night fighter PV-1N Ventura aircraft were assigned a proper CAP percentage. 5 Peggys were shot down and no bombs hit the port. I noticed this message at the bottom of the report for this engagement: Some CAP have air radar Interesting, don't remember seeing this message before. More paras dropped on Amami Oshima. The odds were worse than the last attempt, but the results weren't bad. Ground combat at Amami Oshima (98,64) Allied Shock attack Attacking force 3088 troops, 18 guns, 127 vehicles, Assault Value = 157 Defending force 3908 troops, 51 guns, 10 vehicles, Assault Value = 105 Allied adjusted assault: 122 Japanese adjusted defense: 436 Allied assault odds: 1 to 3 (fort level 2) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), experience(-) Attacker: shock(+) Japanese ground losses: 436 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 16 disabled Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 10 disabled Allied ground losses: 110 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 9 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 8 (2 destroyed, 6 disabled) Assaulting units: 766th Tank Battalion 2/6th Cav/Cdo Battalion 2/7th Cav/Cdo Battalion 1st Aus Para Bn /1 Defending units: 1st Ind Engineer Regiment Yokosuka 4th SNLF Amami Oshima Fortress Yokosuka 2nd SNLF /1 Battleship bombardments and bomber attacks will continue. It will be an attritional fight. In China, northeast of Canton, the enemy division was finally surrounded and eliminated. Ground combat at 77,57 (near Wuchow) Allied Shock attack Attacking force 6442 troops, 43 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 202 Defending force 4026 troops, 42 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 25 Allied adjusted assault: 157 Japanese adjusted defense: 1 Allied assault odds: 157 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), disruption(-), supply(-) Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-) Japanese ground losses: 5958 casualties reported Squads: 256 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 288 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 45 (45 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units destroyed 1 Allied ground losses: 66 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 5th Chinese Cavalry Corps Defending units: 65th Division At Canton, the Chinese will do an artillery attack and see if any progress can be made that way. Otherwise, a deliberate attack will have to wait until the 140,000 enemy at Canton run out of supply. The first 7 plane B-29 units are training at Bombay, having arrived from Aden. When all of the planes are operational, in a few days, they will deploy to the Chinese capital for their first bombing raid. The target will be Fushan. It has 55 oil, just a size 1 airfield, and is 28 hexes from Chungking. 28 hexes is the normal range limit for these B-29s. There aren't many oil production sites left for Japan. It will be interesting to see if OPilot is defending this one. I need about 2 more weeks for the Japan invasion troop preparation values to be at an acceptable level. I want all of the assault wave to have at least 50 prep. Really looking forward to the big invasion of Japan. Have never been on either side of such. No idea how it will turn out. I'll be bringing a lot, but a lot may not be enough, in April 1944. It will be a learning experience.
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