10 March 1942
Bay of Bengal and Burma
I-28 torpedoed and sank a minesweeper off the southern coast of Ceylon.
An HDML was spotted near Rangoon; Oscars made a low altitude attack and sank it with small bombs and gunfire.
Gilbert Islands
The SAG that sank the PG yesterday found a PC to sink today out to the east near Baker Island. They snuck up on it in a storm at night and sniped it with a torpedo.
China
The only air to air shootdown of the day was an I-15 getting a Lily over the Nanyang stack that lost its escort.
The enemy now has a significant presence in Kukong; it's safe to call this a counteroffensive at this point. Our garrison is outnumbered 22k to 10k--bad enough that we could lose it. I'm trying to build forts and hope that the combination of wooded terrain (2x defensive bonus) and air support will help us hold.
Java
Our western force made a deliberate attack on Bandoeng, reducing forts to level 1; disablements/destroyed squads favored us, 80 to 181. We should get it soon. The eastern force captured Madioen, along with a significant number of aircraft destoryed on the ground including 18 75A-7 Hawks, 2 CW-21 Demons, and somewhere between 5-8 Buffalos. The base had only a token force defending it.
SOPAC
Vals from the KB picked off a minesweeper near Newcastle. Storms caused the Sydney strike to be scrubbed.
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