16 January 1944
Burma and Thailand
Air raids:
Road to Bangkok (ground forces): 16 casualties
Pisanuloke (ground forces):69 casualties
Bangkok (ground forces): 12 casualties; 1 P-40 shot down by Tonies on CAP
Bangkok (sweep): 10 P-47s vs 5 Tonies; we shot down 1 Tony with no losses.
DEI
Air Raids:
Koepang (ground forces): 0 casualties
Balikpapan (airbase): Didn't think this one through. Thought I'd be catching unprotected bombers on the ground with a raid of unescorted B-24s. Ended up running into 30 fighters on CAP. We lost 7 B-24s while shooting down one Zero. The raid was ineffective.
Land combat:
Watampone, Celebes: Deliberate attack on enemy units retreating from the base in Makassar by the 192nd Tank Battalion. 198 enemy casualties, no losses.
China
Air raids:
Sinyang (ground forces): 16 casualties
Land combat:
I tried a deliberate attack in Sinyang, which I recently added reinforcements to. Casualties were 1595 to 4536 favoring the enemy, BUT the number of squads destroyed instead of disabled was the same, so this isn't as bad as it might look.
Philippines and surrounding seas
Air raids:
Butuan (ground forces): 10 casualties
Land combat:
Butuan, Mindanao: Allied deliberate attack against enemy forces retreating from Cagayan. 215 enemy casualties; wiping out the 89th Nav Gd and capturing the base/hex.
Reinforcements
DE Neuendorf arrives at Eastern USA
VMF-323 arrives at Eastern USA
48th Aviation Base Force arrives at Los Angeles
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