<r>Top headline for the week of <B><s>[b]</s>8-27/9-2-45<e>[/b]</e></B>:<br/>
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JAPAN SURRENDERS<br/>
<I><s>[i]</s>Allied Forces Win Decisive Victory<br/>
Japanese Agree to Unconditional Surrender<e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
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I seem to have won without resort to atomic weapons. At ...

<r>Everywhere during the week of <B><s>[b]</s>August 6-12, 1945<e>[/b]</e></B>, on land, at sea, in the air, Allied forces dealt the once-mighty Japanese war machine blow upon devastating blow. At Wenchow, first the British battlefleet knocked the South China Army about, then Commonwealth troops ...

<r>During <B><s>[b]</s>July 1945<e>[/b]</e></B>, British, Indian, and Australian troops moved up the China coast from Amoy to invest Wenchow. It transpired that Shanghai, even further up the coast, lay undefended, so the Australian 1st Armored Brigade, which had just arrived from Borneo, reboarded ...

<r>Curses, drat, and <I><s>[i]</s>phooey!<e>[/i]</e></I> Nearly everything went well for the Allies during the week of <B><s>[b]</s>July 9, 1945<e>[/b]</e></B> except the most important thing, which was the big carrier strike on Combined Fleet at Tientsin. Several groups of Japanese vessels, ranging ...

<r>After protracted fighting, Anzac and U.S. troops captured New Georgia in <B><s>[b]</s>June 1945<e>[/b]</e></B>, though die-hard Japanese squads remained to be cleared out. The decision had already been made not to invade other enemy-held islands in the South Pacific, for as the shoestring ...

<r>Mogami,<br/>
I appreciate the invitation to play by e-mail but must regretfully decline to accept, partly because I'd feel myself overmatched, partly because I've been waging my current campaign (since Christmas!) on <I><s>[i]</s>Pacific War<e>[/i]</e></I> version 2.2, which you up-to-the-minute ...

<r><B><s>[b]</s>May 1945<e>[/b]</e></B> saw the Nationalist Chinese enter undefended Canton and British and Australian troops take, first, Hong Kong, then, Amoy. The protracted and costly battle for Bangkok concluded with General Scoones' British and Indian divisions forcing General Adachi's ...

<r><B><s>[b]</s>Spring 1945:<e>[/b]</e></B> During March and April, the Allies carved the Empire of Japan into ever more, and increasingly smaller, pieces. While Scoones' British and Indian divisions at Bangkok functioned as the stopper in the jug containing Japanese, Thai, and Indian National ...

<r>But for their having more important things to do than listen to Axis propaganda, American and Commonwealth fighting men likely would derive considerable amusement from the recent claims of overwhelming Japanese victories at Madras, Tarawa, Ellice Island, Palmyra. Not only are those places held by ...

<r>Nineteen forty-five is just five game-weeks old, and already there have been several exciting and bloody battles on the Asian mainland and various islands. I shall post an after-action report in due course, but for now I'm just going to lodge a complaint, or at least voice a suspicion. It is this ...

<r>Headlines for the week of <B><s>[b]</s>January 1-7, 1945:<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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MARINES TAKE SAIPAN<br/>
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BOMBERS BLAST JAP CITIES BY NIGHT<br/>
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JAP NAVY HIDES IN CHINA PORTS<br/>
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BRITS, AUSSIES INFLICT HEAVY LOSSES AT SAIGON<br/>
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STIX NIX HIX PIX<br/>
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<r>The Allies kept busy throughout <B><s>[b]</s>December 1944.<e>[/b]</e></B> Only the enemy's 21st Engineers garrisoned Batan Island, north of Luzon, and no sooner had the U.S. 2nd Marine Division wiped them out than P-51s and long-range bombers flew in to set about compounding the miseries of a ...

<r>As of <B><s>[b]</s>December 4, 1944<e>[/b]</e></B>, totals of ships lost since the outbreak of hostilities three years before were:<br/>
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<B><s>[b]</s>Japan<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
7 x CV, 10 x CVL, 5 x CVE<br/>
5 x BB, 5 x CA, 23 x CL<br/>
10 x CS, 120 x DD, 36 x DE, 132 x PC<br/>
14 x AO, 235 ...

<r>During the week before the <B><s>[b]</s>November 1944<e>[/b]</e></B> presidential election, Allied ground forces secured Bangka Island and captured Shortland, while the U.S. Navy raided Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka. The fast carriers, assigned to Task Forces 50, 55, and 69 (commanded by Mitscher ...

<r><B><s>[b]</s>Fall 1944:<e>[/b]</e></B> Between late August and November, ever-growing numbers of long-range bombers pounded Japanese cities, the fast carriers ranged as far as Amoy and Hong Kong, sinking scores of cargo vessels and the occasional warship, and Allied ground forces added Palembang ...

<r>The Allies are on the move again in late <B><s>[b]</s>August 1944<e>[/b]</e></B>; ironically, the increasing pace of the war seems about to reduce operations by highly mobile forces to a series of slogging advances against an immobilized, entrenched enemy.<br/>
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For large, perhaps inordinate ...

<r>Miscalculations, one of them quite costly, marred Allied successes during early <B><s>[b]</s>August 1944<e>[/b]</e></B>. As Japan's maritime fortunes had declined, U.S., British, and Dutch submarines kept pace by moving ever closer to the Home Islands, until Marus plying the waters between Hong ...

<r><B><s>[b]</s>Mid-Summer 1944 (cont.):<e>[/b]</e></B> Even after the rout in early July, quite enough Japanese ships remained in Philippine waters to justify further raids by the fast carriers. These operations served the additional purpose of sparing Halsey and his colleagues the trouble of ...

<r>At this point in my campaign, I would of course be interested in knowing just what remains in the enemy arsenal. Too often when I've underestimated the Japanese AI, it's uncorked some unpleasant surprise. Except over Sasebo (where <I><s>[i]</s>Nates<e>[/i]</e></I> keep trying to intercept B-29s ...

<r><B><s>[b]</s>Mid-Summer 1944:<e>[/b]</e></B> In just two weeks, the Allies had inflicted more damage on Combined Fleet than in all previous months together. Harried from port to port, Japanese warships and merchantmen alike enjoyed no respite as summer wore on into July. U.S. planes set upon five ...