INVADED
Amphibious TF 20 offshore of Lae
Amphibious TF 9 offshore of Singkawang
Amphibious TF 145 offshore of Manokwari
Clark Field, Cagayan, Kukong, Wenchow are also invested.
CHANGED OWNERSHIP
Tawi Tawi is occupied by the Japanese
Japanese forces CAPTURE Temuloh !!!
Japanese forces CAPTURE Talasea !!!
Japanese forces CAPTURE Beaufort !!!
Overall
• No sign of IJN fleet carriers.
• Plenty of sub and anti-sub activity but 99% sound & fury.
• Prince of Wales and Repulse arrived at Cape Town and are entering the yards. 19 days for POW and 42 days for Repulse. POW will also receive AA upgrades beginning January 1st.
West Coast USA, Alaska, Hawaii
• Damned subs are back and throwing torpedoes at our destroyers to mock them.
Pacific
• Those three PBY groups shipped to Pearl Harbor have partially made ready are begun deploying. One to Midway to relieve a PBY-4 group that is on its way to move troops around the Port Moresby area, one to Norfolk Island, and one to either New Caledonia or the New Hebrides. An AVD will arrive at Norfolk Island tomorrow. More seaplane support will have to be scrounged up along with some for NC/NH; AV Langley and AVD Childs are leaving Perth and might get the assignments (Langley to Norfolk and the faster AVD's forward). I will also send a Kingfisher group to Funafuti to plug a gap in our early warning net. The only appropriate Kingfisher groups are at Los Angeles, currently beset by subs and lacking available ASW escorts. Plenty of seaplane support is at Pearl Harbor facing the same obstacles.
• The last of the December 8th convoys heading for the West Coast are almost to the latitude of the Panama Canal. All have been redirected as the prior ones which evaded the enemy subs. Let's see if those routes escape the Empire's attention long enough.
New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomons, Papua New Guinea, New Britain
• Scrambling to get troops out of Lae before the assault tomorrow pushes them into the jungle or worse.
Philippines
• First assault at Clark Field.
Notice the absence of IJA divisions.Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 31113 troops, 253 guns, 293 vehicles, Assault Value = 1012
Defending force 32034 troops, 359 guns, 173 vehicles, Assault Value = 868
Japanese adjusted assault: 408
Allied adjusted defense: 577
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 1)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), fatigue(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
3535 casualties reported
Squads: 14 destroyed, 330 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 37 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 58 disabled
Guns lost 22 (1 destroyed, 21 disabled)
Vehicles lost 36 (1 destroyed, 35 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
1936 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 183 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 56 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Guns lost 24 (1 destroyed, 23 disabled)
Vehicles lost 25 (6 destroyed, 19 disabled)
Assaulting units:
65th Brigade
4th Tank Regiment
7th Tank Regiment
Kanno
48th Engineer Regiment
Sasebo 1st SNLF
21st Ind Engineer Regiment
Kure 1st SNLF
9th Infantry Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
Kimura Det
3rd Ind Engineer Regiment
16th Engineer Regiment
1st Formosa Inf. Regiment
Yokosuka 1st SNLF
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
21st PA Infantry Division
31st PA Infantry Division
57th PS Infantry Regiment
I/43rd PS Inf Battalion
192nd Tank Battalion
4th Marine Regiment
194th Tank Battalion
51st PA Infantry Division
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
35th Avn Sup
1st Constabulary Regiment
2nd Constabulary Regiment
US Forces Far East
1st USMC AA Battalion
I Corps
Far East USAAF
II/Prov'nl SPM Grp
!/23rd PS FA Battalion
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
24th PS FA Regiment
86th PS Field Artillery Battalion
Clark Field AAF Base Force
I/Prov'nl SPM Grp
III/Prov'nl SPM Grp
• On Mindanao it will be some time before they concentrate forces to begin assaulting Cagayan.
DEI, Dutch new Guinea, Borneo, Malaya
• Enemy troops ashore at Singkawang. There was no bombardment so the bombers all flew out to Tarakan. The Falcon's at Tarakan are making their way to Palembang.
• That IJN SC TF is still near Sorong and is apparently covering for the invasion of Manokwari.
• Add 8 more!
Morning Air attack on Miri , at 64,87
Weather in hex: Heavy cloud
Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 5
Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 1 damaged
Oil hits 4
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 5000 feet *
City Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
2 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 5000 feet *
City Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
Tomorrow the Dutch medium bombers at Tarakana and the British Hudson's at Kuching will join the B-17's striking at Oil. Recon from Kuching is helping with DL 9/14 at Miri and no fighter opposition lately.Morning Air attack on Miri , at 64,87
Weather in hex: Heavy cloud
Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 4
Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 1 damaged
Oil hits 4
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 5000 feet *
City Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
2 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 5000 feet *
City Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
China
• Imperials are moving through rough woods to undermine our defenses east of Sian. I believe we will have enough in place to stop them. They have also begun moving down the from from Nanyang toward Sian. The defenders on that road are in two layers which obey stacking limits to conserve supply. In woods rough terrain that should prove a stout line, even limiting effects of air strikes.
• The CAP at Kukong netted only a couple of Mabel's. The fighters have left and the base forces are hitting the road on foot. More enemy units are arriving so our stay there will be short.
India, Burma, Thailand, Indochina
• No reinforcement of Burma. The priority is fortifying India and Ceylon.
Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Russia
• Subs praying for working torpedoes and willing targets.
Complete combat report attached.
