ORIGINAL: Gridley380
9 CV and a battlewagon in only two groups? Either you're thin on escorts or those are WAY over the 15-ship ideal...?
They were re-organized into 3 when I added more cruisers
6/24/42:
Aleutian Landings:
We landed on the 20th on Adak and Ulak, and so far things have gone just OK. Ulak was undefended and fell immediately; I am already working on the airstrip there, and PBYs are based there.
Adak, on the other hand, was much more heavily defended than I thought! There are 4 Nav Gd units there, plus base forces and flak, 9 units in total and over 10,000 troops! It turns out, 2 US Infantry Divisions were NOT overkill.
The Infantry came ashore clean, and 2 attacks have dropped the forts from 3 to 1. BBs bombarded the island, and my CVs are flying some ground support missions to soften up the troops. His losses have been higher. I had hoped to clear it a little sooner, and start using the airstrip, which would allow me to withdraw the CVs.
I am very concerned now about KB intervention; at this point, 6 days after being spotted, KB can be here from Japan any day. I calculate it will be another day or two if they were at Truk, but point being...I can't loiter much longer.
I am pulling the CVs tomorrow, regardless of what happens at Adak, though we have one more attack going. If that doesn't succeed, we will have a problem: 2 US Infantry divisions stranded! Not good.
So, tomorrow's attack is important. If KB shows up I am OK with a 9 CV Allied CV force, but I don't want to tempt it too much either, so I would like to wrap this up and move on.
Chikhiang:
I hold the city of Chikhiang, roughly SE of Chungking on the map. Japanese units are massing over the river, and I fear an imminent shock attack to dislodge me. There isn't alot I can do about it; my troops there are in good shape, and there are 50,000 of them, they are stacked to the max. All I can do is wait, and hope his shock attack fails.
If this city falls, which I expect, that will open another line of Japanese advance toward Chungking, and signal another front. I will need to fall back toward the plain, but once he's in clear terrain, there will be nothing left to do but pull into Chungking, and wait out the inevitable siege.
Lanchow fell in the north, intact apparently. My troops north of Sinning have no supplies, and no real hope of gaining any. All they have is Yak's milk.
Manila:
My troops in Manila are out of supplies and in bad shape. This is not unexpected though for late June 1942. Some units still have supplies in the unit, but about half my units are at ZERO. A major attack here is probably imminent, as he is moving units into the hex.
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