November 3rd, 1942
Lots of action today!!
China
Expecting a counter attack at Kweiyang, we sent all the Lily's to bomb Chungking again, with a lighter escort of only one A6M2 Sentai. Meanwhile, all the fighters in the area flew CAP over Kweiyang, waiting for enemy heavy bombers. They arrived and we actually had to opportunity to inflict some noticeable losses. Even though many of the bombers still managed to hit the target, since our own bombers were gone, losses were light.
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Enemy bombers receive a warmer welcome this time[/center]
We lost 2 Tojo and 2 A6M3 in the fight and 5 Lily II's were hit on the ground. The Allies lost 10 B-24D Liberators, 6 Liberator IIIs, 4 B-17D's and 2 B-17E's. It appears that all of the bombers that made it home were damaged.
In the pocket north of Changsha, the 37th Chinese Corp surrendered today and 5,000 POWs were taken. The 6th Bde should arrive at that pocket in a few days, so the rest of the Chinese troops there should surrender soon.
Burma
About 10-12 of our smallest mine layers were sent on a dangerous mission to lay mines at Akyab, under the enemy's nose. Today several 2 engined bombers attacked our small ships, sinking 6 of them. All the ships did managed to get their mines placed before they were attacked at least. The remaining ships will try to escape tomorrow.
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Small ships are sacrificed[/center]
Pacific
As an IJN Base Force was being unloaded at Palmyra, enemy A-29 Hudsons from Hawaii attacked our ships today. Thankfully none were hit, but the escorting destroyers have been order to head to sea to the south out of range of the enemy bombers. If the AK's get hit, so be it. We can spare AK's - we cannot spare any Destroyers.
Also, I-32 was hit by a PBY between Pearl Harbor and Johnston Island. It suffered a fair amount of damage and will try to reach Kwajelein.
Indian Ocean
As hoped, our CS and CVE group intercepted an enemy convoy spotted by Glen sub a few days ago. Six AK's were spotted and all but one was hit by at least one bomb. Most of the Jakes flew attacks in both the morning and the evening. Many of the dive bombers missed, but they will have the chance to redeem themselves tomorrow. We'll move slightly south, expecting the enemy ships to flee towards Australia. They cannot move fast enough to get out of range of our Jakes which can fly nearly 500 miles and still attack.
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Six ship convoy intercepted in the Indian Ocean[/center]
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