2 December 1943
DEI
Current bombing targets:
Kendari (airfield): 1 B-24 shot down by flak. 35 base hits, 12 casualties.
Koepang (ground forces): ineffective
Ambon (ground forces and airbase): 9 base hits
Makassar (airbase): 19 base hits
Land battles in progress:
Ambon: Allied deliberate attack--forts holding at Level 4, casualties 520 (A) to 236(J); but enemy losses included 39 destroyed vehicles so this isn't as lopsided as it may appear.
China
Current bombing targets:
Sinyang (ground forces - 103 casualties)
Anking (ground forces - 47 casualties)
Kiukiang (ground forces - 11 casualties)
Burma
Current bombing targets:
Rangoon (ground forces): 198 casualties
Pisanuloke (ground forces): 166 casualties
Land battles:
Rangoon: Allied deliberate attack, casualties 166(A) to 3215 (J).
Chaing Mai (paratroopers vs paratroopers): Allied deliberate attack; casualties 17 Japanese to 0 Allied.
Truk
Bombing port, airbase, and ground forces. 2 port hits, 14 airbase hits, 17 casualties
Land combat: enemy bombardment attack--ineffective; Allied deliberate attack--forts reduced to Level 1, 365 to 45 casualties favoring us. Next attack might put us over the top!
I'm rotating carriers out to replenish aircraft fuel/ammo supplies. Essex and Belleau Wood have completed that task today and are headed back to rejoin the Yankee Butai.
Papua New Guinea
For several weeks, I've had an amphibous group picking off empty bases from near Rabaul west along the PNG coast. We've been stopped at Hollandia by a minor force there that we are now engaging. Casualties this turn 73 to 18 favoring us, forts at Level 3.
Palau Islands
USS S-45 was bombed by enemy aircraft yesterday, and sank today. Based on a search of this thread, S-45 doesn't appear to have been lost without any victories in its career.
Reinforcements
CVE Wake Island arrives at Portland
DD Cogswell arrives at Eastern USA
VMB-413 arrives at Eastern USA
18th FG/12th FS arrives at Los Angeles
11th RAAF M/W Sqn arrives at Sydney
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