Trousers of the mind [No Unsplittableatom]

[Saros]

6 July

More violence in the air over Burma/India. The IJAAF sends a massed sweep over one of the primary allied forward bases and Kfsgo attacks Katha Airfield with 100 B17E at 10K ft.
The Oscar is a decent little light fighter but really really needs more/bigger guns. Watching the replay my pilots hit the Allied fighters at least twice as often as they hit me but the more rugged US/UK designs are usually only damaged wheras the Oscars fall apart from nearly every single hit.
Most of my losses were from head on passes with both planes firing at each other resulting in some damage to the enemy and the Oscar exploding.



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Morning Air attack on Comilla , at 56,39
 
Weather in hex: Overcast
 
Raid detected at 106 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 36 minutes
 
Japanese aircraft
      Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 164
 
 
 
Allied aircraft
      Hurricane IIb Trop x 30
      Kittyhawk IA x 15
      P-38E Lightning x 25
 
 
Japanese aircraft losses
      Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 4 destroyed
 
Allied aircraft losses
      Hurricane IIb Trop: 2 destroyed
      Kittyhawk IA: 2 destroyed
      P-38E Lightning: 2 destroyed
 
 
 
Aircraft Attacking:
      41 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 25000 feet
      15 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 25000 feet
      24 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 25000 feet
      34 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 25000 feet
 
CAP engaged:
No.67 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 8 scrambling)
      2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
      Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 25000 and 29000.
      Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes
No.14 Sqn RNZAF with Kittyhawk IA (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 7 scrambling)
      2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
      Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 15000 and 29000.
      Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes
No.607 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 7 scrambling)
      2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
      Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 29000.
      Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes
51st FG/25th FS with P-38E Lightning (0 airborne, 9 on standby, 12 scrambling)
      4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
      Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 19000 and 29000.
      Time for all group planes to reach interception is 23 minutes

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Morning Air attack on Katha , at 61,43
 
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
 
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
 
 
Allied aircraft
      B-17E Fortress x 103
 
 
Allied aircraft losses
  B-17E Fortress: 5 damaged
  B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed by flak

Japanese ground losses:
      15 casualties reported
         Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
         Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
         Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
 
 
Airbase hits 13
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 41

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Losses for the day



10 Fighter pilots didn't come home which isn't too bad a loss all things considered.


China



After the slaughter of the Chinese in Northern china a sort time ago I have managed to pull approx 6k AV of infantry off the front lines into a massive spearhead which I will be taking along one of the highlighted routes to break the Chinese MLR once and for all the 1st and 2nd tank divisions will also be joining the force. I would love to take the Ichang route as it is lightly defended and would cut off Changsha but I doubt that it would be feasible to supply all those troops over that path and I would have to bring overwhelming force as it involves shocking over a river into 2x terrain with fortified Chinese forces.

[Saros]

7 July

WHOOPS!

Morning Air attack on Port Blair , at 46,58
 
Weather in hex: Clear sky
 
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
 
Japanese aircraft
      no flights
 
 Allied aircraft
      B-17E Fortress x 84
 
 Japanese aircraft losses
      G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed on ground
      Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 destroyed on ground
 
Allied aircraft losses
      B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged
 
Japanese Ships
      BB Nagato, Bomb hits 13,  on fire
      CA Chokai, Bomb hits 2
      CA Nachi, Bomb hits 2
      BB Hyuga, Bomb hits 18,  heavy fires
      BB Fuso, Bomb hits 11,  on fire
      BB Ise, Bomb hits 12,  on fire
 
Japanese ground losses:
      10 casualties reported
         Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
         Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
         Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
 
Airbase hits 5
Runway hits 22
Port hits 2
Port fuel hits 4
Port supply hits 2

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I'm sure that will buff right out.

[Saros]

8 July

A bit more action today. AMC raiders stumble across *something* west of Perth, looks like a convoy.
Unfortunately Kfsgo must have spotted my raiders and CL Sumatra blows AMC Kiyosumi Maru apart in a brutal night action.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Perth at 32,146, Range 8,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
     AMC Kiyosumi Maru, Shell hits 14, and is sunk

Allied Ships
     CL Sumatra, Shell hits 1

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Some revenge is had near Niue.

ASW attack near Niue  at 147,170

Japanese Ships
     SS I-10

Allied Ships
     DD Buchanan, Torpedo hits 1,  on fire,  heavy damage
     DD Dale

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In Burma Kfsgo sends P-40 in low and fast over Shwebo to try take advantage of leaky CAP from the airbase next door. It doesn't go too well for him as the layered CAP drags his planes into an extended brawl and costs him nearly two squadrons of Warhawks.





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Afternoon Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 22 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 28

Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 25

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 7 destroyed

CAP engaged:
1st Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(13 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 5 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes
11th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(8 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 25000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes
64th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(7 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 7 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes

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Afternoon Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 28 NM, estimated altitude 3,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20

Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 25

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 3 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 3 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 1000 feet *

CAP engaged:
1st Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 20000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes
64th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 27000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes
11th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 9000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 52 minutes

[Saros]

Well we are onto 21 July 1942.

The first half of July was quiet however on the 16-17th a large scale bombing campaign started in Northern Australia. About 50 heavies and 80 2E pounded my airfields flat. A2A losses were minimal on both sides as I had very little committed to the theater.
From the 18th onwards there has been a back and forth battle between my LRCAP from Timor and the 4CVE who wandered down to help out and bag some heavies and Kfsgo's strike planes, mostly over Darwin. Currently the Airfield is juuust disabled but the only LR fighters in theater appear to be Beaufighters and my Oscars and Zeroes are eating them alive whenever they catch them.Loss estimates for Kfsgo are 10 heavies, 10 Beau's and maybe 10-20 mediums. I have had a few Oscars/Zeroes shot down by B-17's but the pilots mostly make it out alive and my production is more than sufficient to replace all losses.
A CVE ate a sub torpedo but with only 10 sys and 20 (10 major) flt she is fine. About two weeks in the yard I expect.  I got quite lucky there I must say.

Meanwhile in SOPAC I have established an airfield at Va'avu, close range to Niue where Kfsgo has been basing about 2 squads of wildcats and ~30 Dauntless with a dozen avengers. I got 16 wildcats and maybe 10 navy bombers in exchange for four zeroes last turn so he will likely back off here.

Finally Kfsgo has shifted about 50 B-17 into china with a few squadrons of P-38 in support. I am not entirely sure what he is trying to acheive here as the only significant airbase I have is very well protected and he is loathe to strike it. So far he has been hitting all the minor IJA airbases on the front line and no doubt burning up massive amounts of precious supply doing so for what is really very little gain.
In other news I have managed to surprise Kfsgo with 7k AV turning up in Changsha. He has 3K av defending and a deliberate attack is ordered for this turn, should be exciting and if we can break through here it finishes the 'pipeline' from Singapore to Port Arthur.

Finally in Burma a 300 plane sweep was ordered against Kfsgo's primary forward airbase. Losses were about 1.5:1 in our favor for the main strike but then a squad of Oscars got lost and proceeded to get butchered. Day losses were about even with around 40 apiece. I managed to retrieve most of my pilots however.

I think offensive operations will be restricted to the IJAAF from now on. Zeroes seem to perform no better than Oscars on sweep and Navy pilots are is terribly short supply. Besides in two weeks ITS TOJO TIME.

Finally has something changed with regard to bomber defensive fire in the latest patches? Even the Dauntless and Avengers today were firing back at every single fighter pass and 2E allied bombers shoot on every pass and hurt fighters as much as the fighters hurt them. I don't even want to talk about the insanely murderous fire coming from B-17's but I expect Kfsgo's first bomber ace any day now.
On the flipside I think I have seen Japanese bombers fire their turret guns maybe three times ever?

[Saros]

22 July

SOPAC:

More A2A combat over Vava'u. Sweeps of 22 P-40E and 48 F4F lose a bit over 3-1 against a 36 plane A6M2 wing despite outnumbering the defenders.
I find Kfsgo is fairly predictable with his sweeps and has a consistent tactic of sending army fighters in at low level to draw down the CAP so that later sweeps can get the dive. This is fairly easily countered by properly layered CAP and usually results in the slaughter of whatever poor saps get sent in at low level. In this case that was the P-40's. Only one pilot is killed.




Northern Australia:

The Continental airbases are still shut down. I blast a few more Beaufighters and nab a couple of B-26 with a LRCAP trap over Katherine. The B-26 defensive fire is still quite effective and despite a dozen fighters breaking through the escort to make attack runs only 2 are shot down.





China:

The big action today is a massive assault on Changsha. It doesn't go well for the attacking force.

Ground combat at Changsha (82,52)
 
Japanese Deliberate attack
 
Attacking force 188595 troops, 1656 guns, 572 vehicles, Assault Value = 7230
 
Defending force 93314 troops, 617 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3021
 
Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 5
 
Japanese adjusted assault: 7426
 
Allied adjusted defense: 9975
 
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 5)
 
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+), preparation(-)
 experience(-)
Attacker:
 
Japanese ground losses:
      18989 casualties reported
         Squads: 103 destroyed, 2218 disabled
         Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 95 disabled
         Engineers: 12 destroyed, 131 disabled
      Guns lost 105 (4 destroyed, 101 disabled)
      Vehicles lost 28 (1 destroyed, 27 disabled)
 
 
Allied ground losses:
      5260 casualties reported
         Squads: 22 destroyed, 435 disabled
         Non Combat: 13 destroyed, 247 disabled
         Engineers: 3 destroyed, 52 disabled
      Guns lost 90 (11 destroyed, 79 disabled)
 
 
Assaulting units:
    37th Division
    17th Division
    58th Division
    69th Division
    17th Ind.Mixed Brigade
    13th Ind.Mixed Brigade
    60th Division
    39th Division
    34th Division
    9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
    22nd Division
    15th Division
    36th Division
    12th Tank Regiment
    70th Division
    32nd Division
    116th Division
    1st Ind.Mixed Brigade
    13th Division
    59th Division
    1st Mortar Battalion
    13th Army
    11th Army
    51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
    52nd Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
    2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
    China Expeditionary Army
    12th Army
    4th Mortar Battalion
    14th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
    15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment
    6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
 
Defending units:
    45th Chinese Corps
    20th Chinese Corps
    9th Prov Chinese Corps
    50th Chinese Corps
    5th Construction Regiment
    30th Chinese Corps
    87th Chinese Corps
    86th Chinese Corps
    58th Chinese Corps
    88th Chinese Corps
    74th Chinese Corps
    14th Construction Regiment
    49th AA Regiment
    18th Chinese Base Force
    41st AA Regiment
    27th Group Army
    25th Group Army
    22nd Artillery Regiment
    11th Chinese Base Force
    32nd Group Army
    10th Group Army
    30th Group Army
    21st Group Army
    3rd War Area
    9th War Area
    2nd Chinese Base Force
    Central Reserve
    23rd Group Army
    29th Group Army
    17th Chinese Base Force
    RAF 224 Group Base Force /2


So much for breaking through the Chinese MLR around here.

[Saros]

So recently I have been watching this British comedy show about a bunch of university students called "Fresh meat". Personally I think it's brilliant and one of the funniest things I have seen in some time. Unfortunately one of the main characters is a geology student named Howard.

My esteemed opponent happens to be British, a student and studies geology.

Worrying.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teRUZl23EnM

[Saros]

23 July

I decide not to contest the skies over Darwin and Vava'u this turn to let my pilots rest. I also expected Kfsgo to back off a bit after the casualties he has suffered. Turns out I was mistaken on the second part, P-38 fly in both SOPAC and N-AU followed by strikes of everything he has to cripple my airfields. Even obsolete B-18 Bolo get in on the action against Vava'u.

With P-38 in Australia I really can't maintain a constant defense, they murder LRCAP fighters and the airfield are still shut down. Vava'u however took only minimal damage that was repaired by the next day. No sign of any real allied ships, a few transport spotted hanging around but as per usual the allied navies are conspiculously absent.

In the skies over Changsha the combined airforce goes up against the allied B team and comes out victorious. 5 Navy pilots and 10 planes lost for 25 allied fighters. The navy pilots sting but there are barely enough replacements available. The IJAAF has a massive surplus of pilots and planes and losses by it really don't worry me. The navy however simply does not get enough pilots (150 per month) to engage in protracted fighting.
My training program has already sucked the entire navy replacement que dry down to the 10xp guys and it won't let me draw any more replacement pilots at this point. Over the next 2 months a MASSIVE number of Navy pilots will be available with 70 skill in their proficiency but after that I am basically going to be stuck at the 150/month number. I guess I put too much effort into my training program and I will have to switch some more units to the frontlines.



So far this period of enhanced allied activity hasn't cost me that much other than the Australian airfields. No sign of any major LCU's or indications that a major amphibious operation is underway. I don't know the state of Kfsgo's pools but I doubt he would have kicked off this across the board action without sufficient reserves.
The real issue is its about that time for the first major allied action and I have no idea where/when it will fall. I have about 800 planes in my major reserve that aren't committed to the frontline actions, mostly navy planes with a few LowNav trained army bomber squads. There are also 6 IJA divisions (15th + Southern armies) + two tank divisions and a few tank Rgt not committed anywhere which form my main LCU reserve.

Basically any incursion that looks like the real deal is going to be faced with overwhelming force as soon as I can redeploy to meet it.

[Saros]

24 July

The scuffles continue over Vava'u and Changsha. This is totally alright with me as it must be bleeding the allied fighter pools dry and I can take losses of Machines and Army pilots much much easier than the allies can. Still not able to get any decent shots in at his bombers but they are only having minimal effect because of the formation disruption and damaged planes withdrawing. I even bagged a few P-38 today over Vava'u which pleased me greatly. They seem to come in last against depleted CAP from the bomber raids and F4F sorties and nail my tired CAP then bounce out. About half my losses today came from a single P-38 sweep of 20 planes.

I was quite annoyed that I didn't get a single Avenger in this attack. All the CAP in the shot was in the air at the start distributed between 10K-20K and approx 20 minutes warning.

[Saros]

So we have progressed onto the 15 August 1942.

Not a huge amount of action around the Map. As it stands Kfsgo seems to have withdrawn onto the defensive in SOPAC and Vava'u is now up to a level 4 AF and building forts.

Northern Australia is where the excitement is now, Daly waters has fallen to what looks like an allied armored Corps. I remain forced to keep my planes off the continent by the 4E threat but I have LRCAP bases built and along with 4 CVE + 6AV (each AV has 8 A6M2-Rufe floatfighters) are basically running intermittent LRCap traps over Darwin.
So far there are losses on both sides as he has started sweeping with P-38 as well as heavy bomber attacks by around 100 4E. No serious losses to the 4E so far other than a few that get separated every now and then and swarmed by CAP. P-38 seem to have been withdrawn for now due to a glorious day in which we bagged 16 of them getting a 1:1 in the air against P-38 for perhaps the first time in the war.

I don't know if he will continue to advance but if he does I have the 5th Air army's bomber group waiting in Java to fly in and pick the armored units apart on the road to Darwin.
Action here suits me well as even if I lose Darwin there is no real threat to the DEI unless Kfsgo can open the sealanes and it will likely be some time until that is a feasible operation and it would have to face the full KB heavily supported by built up airbases on both approaches.
There also remains the option of landing in overwhelming force as the allies approach Darwin and throwing them back into the desert. The current reserve is ~8 Divisions + 2 Tk Div. Only 1 Div is currently prepared for Darwin so I would have to land them before I lost it.





Meanwhile I have been busy preparing troops for two different operations, I doubt I will be able to perform both to be honest as there just isn't time and November is the cutoff for the Northern operation.

The first is a massive amphibious assault against the Burmese coast to crush an Indian division at Cox's Bazzar and then isolate and destroy a second Indian division at Akyab.

This would have the full KB with 8CV, 3CVL, 4CVE and The Kongo's, Fuso's and Yamato in support with the BB running Bombardment and the KB + the Burma valley Airbases providing aircover. 8 CA are also tasked to perform CV escort and run interceptions against any SC forces as there appears to be a destroyer or two docked in Calcutta.
I still own Colombo and Port Blair so I doubt there is much chance of any other Allied fleet units interfering.
The British Naval Strike air is likely intact and is a serious worry. Most of the Airbases including Chittagong are heavily built up and there are large number of American and British planes in the area. We both have about 400 Fighters in Burma but neither of us is willing to face the losses of fighting over the others bases at this point. Maybe 10-12 allied subs are in the area.
This is a fairly high risk operation so I am going to have to give it a lot of thought before okaying it.




The second operation is an occupation of the Aleutians. Adak has been significantly built up but does not appear to have a lot of troops. The operation should be fairly straightforward and could feasibly be pulled off with only some BB's and the CVE + AV force providing fighter cover. If the KB is not needed elsewhere I would likely have it lurking in the ocean to smash anything that tried to interfere.



Currently I am leaning towards the Aleutians as it is a lot lower risk and it isn't long now till the Allies start getting some serious reinforcements. I believe the P-40K and a new model of B-17 are arriving in numbers about now for a start.

Anyone have any thoughts or commentary?

[Saros]

We are about to finish up August. SO far nothing terribly exciting has happened. The Bomber forces in Northern Australia have disappeared and Darwin is fully repaired. Disappointing as I had just got my specialised bomber destroyer force of ~80 Nicks in theater to give them a better run for their money.

Otherwise quiet, for the last two days the only action has been in China.
Chittagong also appears to have been reinforced somewhat.

Tojo's are now rolling out in serious numbers and I am forming a mass with which to take the air war back to the allies and whittle them down a bit before the P-40K comes online.

The plans detailed in my previous post are nearing the jump off point over the next two weeks or so.

[Saros]

Well in mid September (game time) my opponent Kfsgo vanished and has not been heard from since. After some waiting and an abortive attempt to start another GC I decided to look for a replacement opponent for this game.

Unsplittableatom is my new allied opponent. We are 4 turns into the new game and its already exciting.

I cancelled the Aleutians operation after some thought, the risk is not worth it and my sub plane recon seemed to be painting an overly optimistic picture of the situation on the ground. Looks like the garrisons were a lot heavier than I thought after some proper overflights and I doubt I had enough force to easily overun the defenders who are no doubt very well dug in by now. Instead I will concentrate on building up Japans northern island and fortifying them against any kind of surprise assault.

So far a few things of note, Atom has gone on the offensive in the Changsha area attempting to retake the plains and relieve the siege there. Could be bloody as I can kill 50+ combat squads and even more noncombat per day in open ground with my China airforce.

A reasonably significant number of heavy bombers have appeared in North Aus as well as at least 50 P-38 and another 70+ other fighters including some Kittyhawks and P-40. Some unescorted raids over darwin were handled roughly by LRCAP losing several heavies for no significant damage.
The Australian armored corps (1000+ vehicles yikes) is again advancing on Darwin and moving fast. Darwin is only lightly defended at the moment (forts 5 250AV) and I will have to decide if I should divert a significant part of my reserve there to reinforce. I have the 1st and 2nd tank divisions, 6-8 tank rgt, 6 AT units, 4 Infantry divisions and the IG brigade immediately available which should be enough to handle the allied force if I commit them all. I may try to land them at the absolute last minute as the allies are investing Darwin and see if I cant soundly thrash the armored corps and force it back into the desert.

Finally it looks like an assault along the Burmese coast is coming. I am doing what I can to prepare.
This last turn saw a large raid on Ledo which resulted in 25 Oscar and 20 Sally exchanged for ~8-10 Hurri-IIB, ~4-5 Mohawks and a couple of Martlet II's lost A2A and around 50, maybe more transports torched on the ground who I assume were transporting supplies to China.
Numbers destroyed on the ground are unclear and tracker, the turn loss chart (ingame) and the individual plane losses for the day all disagree by about 20 planes. I think about 40 C-47 and 10-15 other transports (mostly DC-3). About 2 months worth of replacements in any case destroyed in a single day. I lost 25 pilots KIA, 10 MIA.

[Saros]

Busy day over Changsha as I try to supress the airbase. There's even a squadron of F4F-4 in China of all places.
Darwin is bombed against no resistance for a few planes lost to flak and 30% AF damage.



And an update on the state of the airwar.