Requiem for Tomorrow Wirraway (J) v DesertWolf (A)

[Wirraway_Ace]

December 9th, 1941.
Kido Butai hits Pearl Harbor again. Bad weather saves the Pacific Fleet significant damage as they had no CAP flying over the port. Four battleships take additional bomb hits.

In the Philippines, the PT boats show up off Vigan and find it empty of Japanese shipping, as if the enemy knew they were coming. The 14th Army now has the bulk of two divisions ashore on Luzon and will begin advancing toward Clark and Manila along two axis. The 48th Division will move along the coast to Lingayen while the 16th Division marches south from Aparri on Manila. Japanese infantry and armor will land at Cagayan on Mindanao tomorrow.

The American P40s leave Hong Kong. Japanese intelligence is unable to identify where the patrol squadrons and the AVG have gone. Recon elements in the China Theater will search every base with more than a level I airfield.

IJA bombers from Formosa strike the airfield at Wenchow, closing it.

38th Div (+) prepares to assault Hong Kong. Imperial Japanese soldiers will face the English imperialists on the ground for the first time.

In Malaya, the 5th and 18th Div (-) landed in good order at Mersing. They will take it tomorrow. Intelligence indicates a single Australian brigade attempting to withdraw to the south. It is unclear whether there will be a true fight.

Paratroopers will drop at Kuala Lumpur to cut the rail line. The British are likely to have to find another way to get their forces back to Singapore.

Japanese forces have landed on Guam. Intelligence indicates there are Allied bombers present.

Further to the south, the old Australian cruiser Adelaide attempted to raid Truk. It was sunk by Nells.

Far to the North, the invasion TF has arrived off Adak.

[Wirraway_Ace]

December 10th, 1941.

Mavis flying boats operating from Marcus Island identify a two-carrier taskforce four-hundred nautical miles (10 hexes) to the southeast. Intelligence believes the enemy was in the vicinity of Wake Island and made the decision to attempt to interdict Japanese lines of communication between the Home Islands and Truk. They may also be considering attacking the Home Islands. <<JFB tip: move the Mavis sentai that starts at Babeldaob to Marcus Island, supported initially by the AV that starts at Chichi-Jima, to fill the gaping hole in your naval search until you take both Wake and Midway. Move a Betty sentai from Formosa to Babeldaob and set to naval attack, 50% nav search.>> No Japanese shipping is in any immediate danger. The carriers may try to head directly west past Guam and Babeldaub into the Celebes, but will face a significant threat from Japanese navel aircraft during such an operation. Japanese forces took Cagayan and its excellent airfield this morning and will have a strong naval aviation presence there within 24 hours.

Recon aircraft identified what appears to be the AVG in Chungking. The P40 squadrons that left the Philippines to fly CAP over Hong Kong may have returned to Manila instead of moving on to join the AVG (considered the enemy's most dangerous course of action). 48 fighters were identified in Manila.

The Kido Butai bombed the Pacific Fleet again at Pearl Harbor. No enemy CAP present. Poor weather hindered bombing accuracy for the second day in a row.

At Mersing, the 5th and 18th Div (-) routed a single Australian Bde (7:1 attack) and two infantry regiments pursued the enemy south to Johore Bahru. Armor and recon units will lead the drive west to cut off the peninsula. A battalion drop by the 1st SNLF on Kuala Lumpur caught the enemy, including the Gurkha Bde, on trains and two more enemy brigades are also on trains, stopped 40 miles further north. In all, five enemy brigades are caught along the Kuala Lumpur - Kuantan line. They will not get much help from the RAF which impaled itself on Hiryu CAP over the Mersing beachhead. Enemy air losses were 51 to 0. The Buffalos, Swordfish, Wildebeest and Blenheims never threatened the shipping. The only bright spot for the enemy was a B17 raid from Singapore that struck the newly captured aerodrome at Kota Bharu, and a bomb hit the pilots mess, killing a 1st Sentai pilot and wounding three others. Japanese engineers have kept the airfield open, however.

At Hong Kong, the initial attacks by the 38th Div made progress as the IJA worked its way into the enemy's fortified line.

Japanese forces took Adak.

[Wirraway_Ace]

Current Operations:
An ad hoc force of an infantry battalion and an SNLF unit landed successful at Sinkawang, on the northwest tip of Borneo, during all the confusion of the Mersing landings. They should be able to take the Level III airfield from the understrength Dutch battalion. Seizing this base is will allow the IJN to conduct naval search and interdiction over much of Sumatra, Borneo and northern Java. The Japanese High Command considers the capability for naval search into these area preconditional to the next major attack in this area of operations--seizing Palembang.

Future Operations:

1.Seizure of Palembang. 2 battalions of the 124th Regiment and 21st Mixed Brigade will begin boarding 14kt transports NLT than 12 December with D-Day set for the 17th. Hiryu, Ryujo and Zuiho will provide air cover for the operation. BBs Kongo and Haruna, with four Mogamis and four Kageros will provide heavy cover and two destroyer squadrons close cover.

2. Wake island will be invaded as soon as either the enemy carriers are known to be clear or the Kido Butai returns.

3. Rabual and Port Moresby will fall in quick succession by the end of the month at the latest.

[Wirraway_Ace]

CCIR as of 10 Dec 41:
Location of U.S. CVs: sited 400NM southeast of Marcus Island.
Location of Force Z: unknown
Location of the AVG: Chungking
Location of enemy B17s from the Philippines: at Singapore

[Wirraway_Ace]

11 Dec 1941
Enemy carriers withdraw after being sighted near Marcus Island on the 10th. 4th Fleet has deployed submarines along the expected movement route east and south of Wake.

Kido Butai attacks Hickam Field. The enemy air power in the Hawaiian islands is just about spent. They could only muster 30 total fighters, of which 10 were trainers. Weather permitting, the Kido Butai will make one more strike against Pearl then return to Truk.

Hong Kong falls. The AVG flew long-range CAP over the city, and shot down a handful of Sonia's, but were unable to affect the outcome. The Imperial Army took jewel of the colonial outposts in the orient. The 38th Division suffered light losses and is in good order, ready for follow-on operations. Warning order issued the division to prepare to join the assault on Singapore.

Naval fighters from the 3rd Ku sweep Manila and Bettys from Formosa bomb the airfields. 1 P40E destroyed on the ground. No CAP. The aircraft caught by the bombers was likely a hanger-queen. The rest of the pursuit aircraft appeared to be executing a CAP trap over a handful of ships at Bataan. One squadron of the AVG were conduction a similar operation in southern China, at Pakhoi, flying heavy CAP over a few freighters that had fled Hong Kong two days before. The Japanese are familiar with this tactic, and no naval bombers fall into either trap.

A CL and DDs engage the squadron of British DDs near Vigan, damaging all three enemy ships. These destroyers are retreating to Manila.

On Mindanao, Cagayan was taken with its airfield intact and torpedo armed Betty's are now flying throughout the Celebes Sea and into the Makassar Straight. A squadron of 4 BBs has arrived from Japan, and the next stage of invasion forces are being loaded to seize Manado, Ternate, then Kendari and Ambon in the Banda Sea.

Japanese forces took Sinkawang on the NW tip of Borneo. The excellent airfield was the prize. Nells have staged forward and are preparing to search Java Sea. C5M2s of the Yamada Det. will recon Palembang, Batavia and Balikpapen.

Japanese armor and recon has cut the Malaya Peninsula west of Mersing. One armor regiment has turned north to relieve the paratroopers at Kuala Lumpur, while the 5th Div Recon and another tank regiment race south toward Johore Bahru. There, they will link up with the infantry regiments coming directly from Mersing, pursuing the fleeing Aussies.

In China, most of our forces have reached their lines of departure.

[Wirraway_Ace]

12-13 December 1941

Kido Butai struck the Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor on the 12th. Weather was clear, no enemy fighters. No BBs reported sunk, but all should now be thoroughly crippled. The Mobile Force is moving towards Truk. The enemy's CVs are probably a bit south and east of Wake. The airgroups on board our carriers are at about 90% strength. Four of five CVs still have torpedoes.

In the Marianas and at Truk, amphibious TFs are loading for Wake, Rabual, Shortlands and Lunga. The 4th ID has left Osaka on fast transports. It will take Port Moresby.

Operations in the exposed Marshalls are still paused.

On Luzon, the Imperial Army is advancing towards Clark and Manila along three division axes of advance, two from the north and one from the south. A6M2s of the 3rd Ku swept Manila on the 12th and found no fighters. The enemy's pattern has been to put up CAP the day after a sweep, so the 3rd Ku swept again on the 13th, and found a mix of trainers and P40s. Enemy losses were heavy. Then escorted bombers from Formosa hit the airfield with good success.

In the Malaya, the British retreated from Johore Bahru without a fight, and the lead regiment of the 5th Div took the airfield. Three enemy brigades are trapped at Kuala Lumpur and a fourth at Kuantan. Intelligence suggests the enemy's most dangerous course of action is to try and use transport and patrol aircraft to get some of these troops to Singapore. The 3rd Air Div is tasked with interdicting any such operation. The army will seize Kuantan by amphibious assault on the 15th. Four divisions are en route to Mersing by fast transport, now less than a week out. The 5th and 18th Divisions are consolidating at Johore Bahru. Singapore will fall before the end of December.

Transports are just about loaded for Palembang. Taking this oil center early has its risks. The infrastructure has to be defended from airstrikes once taken. However, the enemy has lost much of both he RAF's and USAAF's offensive capabilities and intelligence estimates of the Dutch bombers assess only a low-moderate risk. With the enemy committing the AVG in China, we have adequate (just) A6M2s to cover Palembang without pulling either Tainan Ku or 3rd Ku from offensive missions.

On the 12th, British bombers from Singapore and American B17s from Java attacked the airfield at Singkawang. A6M2s for the Yamada Detachment were flying CAP. The enemy lost ten bombers and did little damage. The B17s tried again on the 13th and lost two more of the big four-engine aircraft.

In China, the enemy tried using the AVG again for CAP traps. We avoided those locations and struck his main airfield at Changsha catching most of his bombers on the ground. The 1st Army has begun its drive through the mountains to Sian. The 11th Army will begin it supporting attack at Singyang on the 15th. The 12th Army has crossed the line of departure to encircle Chenchow and Loyang.

[RangerJoe]

You can put CVEs at Palembang for CAP.

[Wirraway_Ace]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

You can put CVEs at Palembang for CAP.

Thanks, RangerJoe. At the moment, I simply don't have enough zeros to upgrade all my airgroups. Taiyo is carrying around A5Ms, but with nearly all the Swordfish and Wildebeests already shot down, there is not much they can help with. Maybe they can harass Dutch B10s. I have not checked the relative speeds.

[RangerJoe]

I think that they can handle the B10s, remember they are on defense and can position themselves accordingly. I actually like to use the A5m Claudes as a low level CAP early on against the torpedo bombers while the A6M2 Zero/Zeke fly higher.

[Wirraway_Ace]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

I think that they can handle the B10s, remember they are on defense and can position themselves accordingly. I actually like to use the A5m Claudes as a low level CAP early on against the torpedo bombers while the A6M2 Zero/Zeke fly higher.

Thanks!

[Wirraway_Ace]

14 Dec 1941
Quiet turn. Weather kept most of my aircraft on the ground. LRCAP over the 18,000 British troops at Kuala Lumpur did not intercept any transports.

In the Celebes Sea, one of our cruiser division tangled with the two remaining British DDs from Hong Kong, sinking Scout. Thracian escaped south towards Darwin.

Vindicators stationed at Tarakan attacked our cruiser division in the Celebes Sea without success. The cruiser's Petes were on CAP and had some success at breaking up the old dive bomber's attack.

No sign of the enemy carriers. Nav search float planes from Hollandia are watching the Torres Strait
AVG is in Chungking
The enemy has denuded the Philippines of fighter cover

Our Palembang Invasion Taskforce is moving towards its target.

[Wirraway_Ace]

15 Dec 1941

Kido Butai is about 500 NM SE of Wake Island. The Wake Invasion Force of two SNLF and separately loaded supplies is 400 NM west of Wake.

Patrol aircraft from Hollandia sighted enemy transports at Port Moresby and Horn Island.

Philippines:

Bombers from Formosa strike the undefended port of Manila sinking an AVD. Sonias flying from tactical strips on Luzon hit the airfield. Both Clark and Manila airfields are at about 50% damage. The recon battalion of the 16th Division has secured the mountain passes NE of Manila. The enemy has retreated to both Clark and Manila. Due to stacking limits, he will not be able to consolidate his large army solely in the rough terrain of Clark. The Army plans to bottle him up, and leave him to starve.

The IJAAF now has a Sentai equipped with Ki-43-Ic Oscars on Formosa, freeing up the 3rd Ku Zeros for other offensive operations. The 3rd Ku moved south to support the drive into the Celebes and immediately found success. A sentai from 3rd Ku operating from Mindanao swept Tarakan, finding a handful of Dutch Buffalos flying low cap at 6,000 feet over the port where a few ships are hiding. The zeros bounced the hapless Dutch aircraft shooting them all down. Betty's then struck the airfield.

Malaya:
The RAF based at Singapore, with support of USAAF B17s from Java, made an all out effort to close the Johore Bahru aerodrome. Tainan Ku was flying CAP over the airfield along with a datai of Nates. Three squadrons of 15 Buffalos swept at 23,000. The enemy lost 19 Buffalos. One zero was lost to ops. Then the Blenheims, Hudsons and B17s arrived in packets. About a third of the unescorted strikes turned back. The others were badly mauled. At the beginning of the day, recon reported 45 enemy fighters and a similar number of bombers at Singapore. By the end the day, the RAF was down to half that strength and did only minor damage to the field.

Meanwhile, Sallys from Kota Bahru escorted by Oscars hit the Singapore airfield unopposed.

In China, the enemy tried to employ P40Es as long range CAP over the 8 Chinese Corps he massed at Sinyang. Zeros from the Hosho airgroup, operating from land bases in China, swept the skies over the enemy troops, shooting down 5 of the P40Es with no losses. It looks like those two pursuit squadrons from the Philippines are back in China, this time I imagine for good, given the condition of the allied airfields within reach. After the one-sided air battle, Sallys, Anns and Sonias hit the enemy troops in the wooded hex.

Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 69
Ki-30 Ann x 12
Ki-51 Sonia x 3

No Japanese losses

Allied ground losses:
573 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 36 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 48 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 5000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
12 x Ki-30 Ann bombing from 5000 feet
Ground Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb
24 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 5000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
21 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 5000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
3 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 5000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 50 kg GP Bomb

At Adak Island, a base force is unloading. This is one of the base forces that upgrades to include coastal defense guns.

[Wirraway_Ace]

Still no sign of Force Z or the enemy carriers since their attempted incursion toward Marcus Island five days ago.

[Wirraway_Ace]

16 Dec 1941

I-157 sinks an xAK entering the Irrawaddy Delta below Rangoon. Recon shows five small xAKs made it to Rangoon.

The enemy does not fly any CAP in theater, and IJAAF and IJN bombers hit Singapore, Clark, Kuala Lumpur, Manado, Wake and ground units in China.

IJAAF bomber pilots report seeing aircraft that match the description of the Vindicators that were at Tarakan on the 14th.

Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 17
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 6

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 3 damaged
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
Buffalo I: 9 damaged
Buffalo I: 1 destroyed on ground
Hudson I: 2 damaged
SB2U-3 Vindicator: 2 damaged
Blenheim IV: 9 damaged
Blenheim IV: 2 destroyed on ground
PBY-4 Catalina: 2 damaged

Airbase hits 4
Runway hits 12

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb

[Wirraway_Ace]

18 Dec
In the Aleutians, a squadron of old four-pipers show up near Adak and tangle with the single escort of our refueling taskforce in an inconclusive night action, then sink an empty transport. The troops and supplies were all ashore, and the supply ships were withdrawing. I was anticipating he would send a cruiser taskforce instead of the old DDs. Two Fuso class BBs were loitering nearby but sending them after the small destroyers is both a waste, and dangerous. They will withdraw before something like the missing CVs show up.

Philippines.
On Luzon, a squadron of P40b's appeared at Clark and bounced some Nates and Sonias, shooting down ten of the lower performance aircraft. I am going to have to pull the Sonias out of front line services soon due to losses, and use them only as trainers and recon. They are useful little aircraft, but I don't want to have to build more.

Celebes.
The Manado invasion taskforce will hit the beaches on the 18th, escorted by a light carrier division and supported by land-based-air from Cagayan. The amphibious taskforces for Ambon and Kendari are making their way into the Sulu Sea. Those operations will follow on rapidly after Manado. We have good naval search coverage of the Ceram Sea and into part of the Banda Sea, and at the moment, there are no significant threats present.

Off Wake, disaster nearly struck, and it still might. A US submarine put a working torpedo into one of the transports carrying part of an SNLF. We are likely to hit the beaches at Wake with less than the planned strength. The naval and air bombardments over the past two days may have disrupted the marines enough that we can still take the island, but it will be close with only one full strength SNLF and one partial strength.

The Kido Butai is two days out from Truk, where it will rearm and take on replacement aircraft.

Malaya and Sumatra
Our invasion taskforce is 120nm from Palembang. The enemy has flooded the shallow waters with Dutch submarines, but his air force has not challenged the CAP. All the enemy's attention appears to be focused on the modest scale invasion of Palembang, which recon suggests has not been reinforced. Meanwhile, four divisions have landed at Mersing and are moving to their jump-off locations for the assault on Singapore. Due to stacking limits, I will use three divisions to force the beachhead from Johore Bahru and three fresh divisions to take the city.

In the north of the Malaya, the enemy has railed two brigades to Taiping. I suspect he thinks they can jump the lead IJA units coming south.

On the coast, the invasion of Kuantan has begun. We will take that good airfield that sits astride our lines of communication, and drive the understrength British brigade into the jungle to starve.

In China, the AVG and the P40E squadrons are not challenging our massed bombing attacks, yet. 1st Army is advancing through the mountains toward Sian from the east. The enemy has retreated. 12th Army has begun its encirclement of Chengchow. The enemy appears to be retreating from the plain. 11th Army is driving on Nanyang, though the enemy are certain to retreat into the rough terrain. Four enemy corps trapped south of Sinyang are advancing on Luchow. They are in for an unpleasant surprise. Two divisions, 3 tank regiments, and army artillery, are assembled at Luchow as part of the 11th Army forces.

[Wirraway_Ace]

ORIGINAL: Wirraway_Ace

17 Dec


Off Wake, disaster nearly struck, and it still might. A US submarine put a working torpedo into one of the transports carrying part of an SNLF. We are likely to hit the beaches at Wake with less than the planned strength. The naval and air bombardments over the past two days may have disrupted the marines enough that we can still take the island, but it will be close with only one full strength SNLF and one partial strength.

This it hyperbole. It would not be a disaster if the Wake invasion fails. It is, however, a symptom that I am running these early war operations too close to the margin. They need to be more robust, because almost everything has to go right, configured as they are. While the Japanese can dictate many things early in the war, they cannot control everything.

[Wirraway_Ace]

ORIGINAL: Wirraway_Ace

14 Dec 1941
Quiet turn. Weather kept most of my aircraft on the ground. LRCAP over the 18,000 British troops at Kuala Lumpur did not intercept any transports.

In the Celebes Sea, one of our cruiser division tangled with the two remaining British DDs from Hong Kong, sinking Scout. Thracian escaped south towards Darwin.

Vindicators stationed at Tarakan attacked our cruiser division in the Celebes Sea without success. The cruiser's Petes were on CAP and had some success at breaking up the old dive bomber's attack.

No sign of the enemy carriers. Nav search float planes from Hollandia are watching the Torres Strait
AVG is in Chungking
The enemy has denuded the Philippines of fighter cover

Our Palembang Invasion Taskforce is moving towards its target.

Turned out not to be true. I am not sure where he flew those P40Bs in to Clark from, perhaps Panay or Cebu. Not a big deal to have Sonias and Nates bounced, when they are doing worthwhile work suppressing airfields. Men and planes are the coin of war, and I need to keep these airfields damaged. However, I think I can find a way to use this propensity to jump milk-runs against him.

[RangerJoe]

If you LR CAP his airfields, that may increase his OPs losses. Don't forget night bombing either just to use up his supplies. Idas would be good for that, Sonias as well.

[Wirraway_Ace]

19 Dec 1941
5th Fleet AOR: Two US Carriers attacked our forces on their return from the Aleutians to Hokkaido, sinking the nascent fleet flagship, CL Kino, a small AO, an AK and lightly damaging the Battleships Ise and Fuso. Our pickets ships were too far east to pick them up in time. The BBs should make aircover in the Sea of Okhtosk, but it will be close.

In China, the AVG tried to provide long range CAP over the mass of troops in the open at Nanyang. Zeros of the Hosho airgroup and Oscars of the 24th Sentai made short work of the American Volunteers, then the 5th Air Division's Sallys hit the enemy troops. The 5th Air Division arrived at Hankow by transport from Formosa to take responsibility for the air campaign in China. Five enemy corps continue their doomed advance on Luchow. The 39th Division took Chuhsien, as the enemy retreated towards Wenchow. The AVG tried a CAP trap at Wenchow, but we have begun randomly alternating when we attack and where with bombers, except at the Schwerpunkt where we can achieve overwhelming force. At the moment, that Schwerpunkt is Nanyang.

On Luzon, the enemy has kept his P40Bs at Clark Field. 3rd Ku will sweep and our bombers will hit the airfield on the 20th.

The Manado invasion force is ashore in good order.

In the Malaya, the weather is poor, limiting the effectiveness of our bombers, but the 112th Rgt makes good progress against an understrength and inexperienced 22nd Indian Brigade at Kuantan. The airfield will likely fall tomorrow.

At Mersing, the 2nd, 21st, 33rd and Imperial Guards divisions have all arrived in good order to add their weight to the 5th and 18th divisions for the assault on Singapore. The 18th Div still needs to be reformed, but all the units are now within 40 miles of the line of departure.

[Wirraway_Ace]

19 Dec 1941 continued.

At Wake, our SNLFs are ashore. Maizuru SNLF led the assault, many of its men leaping to the beach from the decks of a sinking transport. The SNLF suffered significant casualties, but with Kure 1st SNLF safely on the beach, the outcome of the battle seems certain. <player note: one of the two transports carrying Maizuru SNLF was torpedoed by a US submarine one hex west of Wake, where the amphibious taskforce ended its move on the 18th. The computer formed an Escort TF with the sinking and burning ship (70 float dam, 40 fires) with orders to return to Guam. I could not change it back to an Amphibious TF, only a Transport TF. I ordered the doomed ship to full speed towards Wake (1 hex away, but an enemy base) with absolute threat tolerance. I was unsure whether the game engine would let a Transport TF unload over a beach at an enemy base, an atoll no less, but figured at least when the ship sank, the other ships would rescue some the SNLF troops. As it turned out, I received a message, "Transport TF offshore of Wake Island" and all the squads were unloaded.>

Ground combat at Wake Island (136,98)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 2925 troops, 38 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 118

Defending force 1036 troops, 25 guns, 10 vehicles, Assault Value = 29

Japanese adjusted assault: 46

Allied adjusted defense: 14

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0

Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
492 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 50 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
67 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 17 disabled

Assaulting units:
Maizuru 2nd SNLF
Kure 1st SNLF

Defending units:
Wake USN CPNAB
1st Marine Defense Battalion