Been busy and on vacation lately... time to get caught up!
4 December 1943
Mariannas
USS Pargo was depth charged by an enemy destroyer near Guam. Damage was light enough that she's remaining on station.
Truk
The minesweeper YMS-138 was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine.
Bombing:
Airbase, port, ground forces: 4 airbase hits, 0 port hits, 15 casualties
China
Bombing targets:
Sinyang (ground forces): 35 casualties
Anking (ground forces): 58 casualties
Kiukiang (ground forces): 9 casualties
DEI
Bombing targets:
Kendari (airbase): 28 hits, 5 casualties
Koepang (ground forces): 11 casualties
Ambon (ground forces+airbase): 9 airbase hits, 0 casualties
Makassar (ground forces): 0 casualties
Land combat:
Ambon: Japanese bombardment attack - 4 guns lost to our counterbattery; Allied deliberate attack - enemy forts holding at Level 4, casualties 674 (J) to 309 (A).
Burma
Bombing targets:
Rangoon (ground forces): 112 casualties
Pisanuloke (ground forces): 67 casualties
Land combat:
Rangoon: Allied deliberate attack - casualties 11 (A) to 3524(J).
Papua New Guinea
Land combat:
Hollandia - Allied Deliberate attack, casualties 89(J) to 44(A)
Reinforcements
SS Stonehenge arrives at Aden
417th BG/673rd BS arrives at Eastern USA
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