23 January 1944
China
Enemy night raids:
Wenchow (airbase): no damage
Allied raids:
near Hankow (ground forces): 36 casualties
DEI
Air raids:
Surabaya (airbase and port): 1 Helen destroyed on the ground; we hit the submarine a second time, probably fatally this time as there was a large secondary explosion. 4 casualties, 24 airbase hits, 3 port hits.
Koepang (ground forces): 7 casualties
Burma and Thailand
Well there are two "roads to Bangkok" now, one east and one west. On the east road, I'm bombing retreating enemy units to slow them down so our ground forces can tear them up. In the west, there is a blocking force that I'm wearing down before our troops arrive.
Eastern road (ground forces): 124 casualties
Reinforcements
VP-19 arrives at San Francisco