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FROM: ADM Yamamto, Isoroku. Combined Fleet CinC. Kure naval Yard.
TO: VADM Kondo, Nobutake. 2nd Fleet CinC. Takao. Formosa.
SUBJECT: Fubukis upgrade.
DATE: Dec 16th, 1941.

Following Ships will be dettached from 2nd Fleet to upgrade at Saigon / Pescadores shipyards. All these destroyers must be docked at following ports at Dec 31st, 1941:

GROUP I

- DD FUBUKI (Docked at Cam Ranh Bay) will transit to Saigon shipyard to upgrade.
- DD USUGUMO (Docked at Cam Ranh Bay) will transit to Saigon shipyard to upgrade.
- DD SHIRAYUKI (Docked at Cam Ranh B) will transit to Saigon shipyard to upgrade.
- DD HATSUYUKI (Docked at Cam Ranh B) will transit to Saigon shipyard to upgrade.

GROUP II

- DD SHINONOME (Docked at Samah) will transit to Pescadores shipyard to upgrade.
- DD SHIRAKUMO (Docked at Samah) will transit to Pescadores shipyard to upgrade.
- DD MURAKUMO (ETA Samah: Dec 17th, 1941) will transit to Pescadores shipyard to upgrade.
- DD URANAMI (docked at Cam Ranh Bay) will transit to Pescadores shipyard to upgrade.

All ships must be available at January 21st, 1942. Group I will join to 2nd Fleet, Group II will join to Metropolitan ASW Forces.

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SIT MAP REPORT
6TH FLEET DEPLOYMENT

Others:

(1) 3 minelayer submarines in transit to minelay enemy chock points.
(2) 2 RO submarines will join to Northern Fleet (5th)
(3) 2 I Class SS at Kwajalein
(4) 2 I Class SS in transit to join to Second Fleet at Cam Ranh Bay.

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FROM: LGEN Homman, Masaharu, XIV Army CinC, Tuguegarao. Luzon.
TO: GEN Terauchi, Hisaichi. Southern Area Army HQ. Saigon, Indochine.
SUBJECT: Phillipine Islands Report.
DATE: Dec 17th, 1941.

CL Nagara TG reports supporting landings at Dadjanjas. E7K2 Floatplane from HIJMS Nagara flight recon over this enemy base.
CL Nagara was attacked by 4 B-17 bombing at 15,000 feet. No hits reported.

At Cagayan, I/33rd I.Bn. has arrived, troops there reinforced.

At Surigao, two waves of enemy air attacks:

First, with 6 fighters P-26 met 5 A5M4 on CAP. All enemy come back. No losses.
Second, with 4 fighters P-26 met 5 A5M4 on CAP. All enemy aircrafts come back. NO losses reported.

xAK Yasukawa Maru get port at Surigao and Kure 1st SNLF elements were unloaded. After it, she sunk due her heavy floating damage after been torpedoed by enemy sub days ago.

2nd Base Force, shipped to Davao, now at Batan Island

At Luzon, 16th Recon Regiment at Mauban, marching to Lucena to cut supply lines from south Luzon to Manila.

20th Recon Regiment, 48th Engineer Regiment and 9th Infantry Regiment marching from Vigan to San Fernando to be the advanced guard of XIV Army right wing. All of them planning to LIngayen (100).

Air Raids over Clark Field like following:

1st Wave with 50 G4M1 and 6 G3M2 escorted by 60 A6M2. 1 P35 destroyed at groud and 29 runway hits.
2nd Wave with 24 G3M2 (1st Ku K-1 Daitai), reporting another 9 runway hits.
3rd Wave with 16 Ki-21IIa reports another 5 hits on AF runway.

Air Raid over 11st P.A. Division at San Fernando:

24 Ki-27 escorting 21 Ki-48Ia raided enemy positions, reporting 43 enemy casualties.

76th I.F.Chutai with 2 Ki-46 II transfered to Aparri to recon fly over San Fernando.

DESRON 5 will cover Vigan Reinforcements TF from Pescadores (1st Formosa Regiment, 7th Tank Regiment and 1st Medium F.A.Regiment).

1st Recon Regiment in a separate Transport TF will departure from Pescadores with ASW escort heading to Vigan.
26th Recon Regiment beeing shipped at FUsan at XAK Kamogawa Maru and XAK Nitiran Maru#.

Long Live to the Emperor !
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FROM: VADM Jisaburo Ozawa, Southern Fleet HQ. Cam Ranh Bay.
TO: ADM Isoroku Yamamoto, Combined Fleet CinC. Kure.
SUBJECT: Naval Report & Metropolitan Convoy System SIT MAP.
DATE: Dec 17th, 1941.

(1) naval report

I-158 torpedoed enemy freighter xAKL Kwangtung near Soerabaja. Enemy ship struck by 2 torpedoes sinks quickly.

I-156 reports enemy flush deck destroyer was sunk after 1 torpedo hit near Pamekasan (Java).

I-122 depth charged by minor coastal warships near Singapore. Damage report: 4 system, 3 flood.

PB Rokko Maru reports 1 hit or near misses when attacking enemy electric boat near Calayan.

(2)infraestructure report.

Keijo AF has been raised to level 2.
Truk, Kushiro and Toyohara ports ordered to increase one level.


(3)Redeploys

10th JAAF AF Base Force arrives to Moppo.
32nd Sentai /C with 8 Ki-32 transfered to Moppo for ASW Duties.

(4)Upgrades

HIJMS Fubuki, HIJMS Usugumo, HIJMS Shirayuki and HIJMS Hatsuyuki ordered to head Saigon to be upgraded in repair shipyard.

HIJMS Shinonome, HIJMS Shirakumo, HIJMS Mirakumo, HIJMS Uranami ordered to head Pescadores to be upgraded in repair shipyard.

All upgrades works will start at Jan 1st, 1941.

Minesweepers "W Class" will be ordered to upgrade shipyards after North Borneo ops ended.

Long Live to the Emperor !!
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FROM: LGEN Sugawara, Michio. 3rd Air Division CinC. Near Singora.
TO: GEN Terauchi, Hisaichi. Southern Area Army HQ. Saigon.
SUBJECT: 3rd Air Division Status & Near Future Ops.
DATE: Dec 17th, 1941

Today we launched an air raid against 8th Indian Brigade positions before ground attack by 56th Infantry Regiment. 10 Ki-43 escorted 21 Ki-48, 19 Ki-21 and 22 Ki-51, all taken off from Kota Bharu AF. 2 enemy fighters at CAP. No air losses. Our pilots reported 21 casualties. 56th I.R. smashed 8th Indian Brigade. Enemy casualties at ground were 526 (with 60 indian squads DESTROYED).

Air Raid over Georgetow with 25 Ki-48IB from 90th Sentai, attacked Pennang Fortress. 32 enemy casaulties were reported. No own losses.

Enemy launched several air raids against XXV Army advance guard. First one with 4 Blenheim and 9 Hudson met with 2 Ki-43 & 10 Ki-27b. 1 Hudson was downed and 6 casualties were reported by 42nd Infantry Regiment.
The second air raid with 3 Hudson escorted by 8 Buffalos came back after met with 7 Ki-43 and 2 Ki-27. No air losses by enemy or own forces.

3rd Air Division HQ will arrives to Kota Bharu tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. When arrives, 64th Sentai, 60th Sentai and 64th Sentai Det will be transfered to Kota Bharu. When ready, air campaign to get air superiority over Singapore will begin.

Long Live to the Emperor
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FROM: VADM Shimizu, Mitsuo, 6th Fleet C-in-C, Kwajalein. Marshalls
TO: ADM. Isoroku Yamamoto, Combined Fleet HQ, Kure.
SUBJECT: Samoan Blockade Force Report.
DATE: Dec 18th, 1941


Excellent chase day for Samoan Blockade Force. CDR Hiroshi Inada (I-1 CO), LCDR E. Kitano (I-3 CO) and LCDR Kinzo Tonozuka (I-2)will be mentioned tomorrow at early morning during flag hoisting ceremony to pay homage to the Emperor. They will be mentioned like examples of our Empire.
I-1 get one torpedo hits on enemy transport xAP Katoomba near Pago Pago. Later, I-1 sinks this enemy ships 40 nm far away of first attack. I-3 sinks enemy freighter xAK Dakotan with 3 torpedo and 1 shell hit on surface attack in the same position. Enemy convoy is fleeing to East at high speed. A great victory that we wish to offer to our Emperor !.

I-174 will departure tomorrow from Kwajalein Island to relieve I-1 at 50% torpedoes.

At D.E.I, our blockade Sqdrn reporting I-165 sinks at surface attack xAKL Belawan near Denpasar (Western Java).

Long Live to the Emperor !
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SIT MAP REPORT, XXV Army marching to Singapore
Dec 18th, 1941

FROM: VADM. Nobutake Kondo, 2nd Fleet CinC, Takao, Formosa.
TO: ADM Isoroku Yamamoto, Combined Fleet HQ, Kure, Honshu.
SUBJECT: COMBAT REPORT
DATE: Dec 19th, 1941

Unexpected, enemy Asiatic Fleet have sunk DD Shiokaze and xAK Tenryu Maru off Dadjanjas. Survivors reporting a courageous fight against overwhelming forces. HIJMS Shiokaze sunk after hit with 12cm gunfire at CA Houston, another hit at CL Boise and one 12cm hit on DD Barker -flush deck DD-.

BATDIV 1 have been alerted and will departure from Babeldaob tomorrow at early morning to intercept enemy raiders in South Mindanao waters. BATDIV 1 compromise HIJMS NAGATO, HIJMS MUTSU, HIJMS OI, HIJMS KITAKAMI, and 2 destroyers.

For the other hands, I-156 reporting enemy TK Sunchaser have been torpedoed and sunk near Pamekasan after 3 torpedo hits. At bingo winchester, she Will be releaved by I-162.

DD Nokaze reports 1 hit on enemy oceanic submarine near Soc Trang.

21st and 23rd air flotillas have launched another air raid against air facilities al Clark field. 3 enemy fighters were downed by 1 A6M2 lost. 21 runway hits reported.
2 enemy PB4Y have been downed by our fighters over Vigan when tried to attack our shippings there.

Cagayan Expeditionary Forces requesting reinforcements after enemy reinforced their positions at this base. Kure 1st SNLF will be shipped at one with other SNLF unit from Babeldaob shipped urgently to be sent as soon as possible.

65th Mixed Brigade will be shipped at Takao to Batangas.

CVL ZUIHO TG have arrives to Cam Ranh Bay. All ready for Miri Ops. Awaiting 3rd Mobile Force.

Long Live to the Emperor
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FROM: GEN. Hata, China Expeditionary Force. In route to Wenchow.
TO: GEN. Sugiyama. IJA General Staff. IGHQ. Tokyo.
SUBJECT: CHINA REPORT.
DATE: Dec 19th, 1941

6th Division supported by heavy arty from 11st Army reports a great victory over chinese bandits in the main road to Changteh. 2856 chinese casualties (285 enemy Squads destroyed) at a low price (122 IJA casualties). The enemy flee from battlefield. Our forces will await to be reinforced by tanks to follow with advance towards Changteh.

At Hong Kong our forces reports enemy fortification has been downed to level 1. Our casualties 417 men vs 417 british lost.

Long Live to the Emperor !!
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FROM: VADM Nobutake Kondo. 2nd Fleet C-in-C, Takao, Formosa.
TO: ADM. Isoroku Yamamoto. Combined Fleet HQ, Kure, Honshu.
SUBJECT: Naval Ops in S.R.A.
DATE: Dec 20th, 1941

SC Ch-23 escorting Singora Reinforcements TF report 2 hits on a dutch submarine near Soc Trang.

Miri Landing Force will departure tomorrow from Cam Ranh Bay under heavy escort. Several enemy submarines spotted in the area. Aircrafts and LR Patrol float planes from 22nd Air Flotilla will fly ASW missions in the route of our naval forces.

HIJMS Ashigara returns to service after refit at Shangai drydock. She will await to ASW escorts to be transfered to Cam Ranh Bay to join with 2nd Fleet Main Body.

(1) MIRI INVASION FORCE O.O.B.

Miri Invasion Force (I): I/124th Infantry Bn. CL Isuzu, 1 TB, 1 APD, 1 AMc, 8 transports.
Miri Invasion Force(II): I, II and III/90th Inf.Bns. CL Tama, 1 DD, 3 APs.
Hunter Killer T.G.: 2 DDs
Close ASW T.G.: 3 DDs
CVL Zuiho TG: HIJMS Zuiho, CA Chokai, CL Kiso, 4 DDs
Minesweeper TG: 1 AMc
CRUDIV 7: 4 CAs, 4 DDs.

Will rendezvous with Main Body, from Singora, 11th Shipping Engineer Regiment. ETA Miri: Dec 24th, 1941.

3rd Mobile Force under RADM Hirata and 3rd CAR Division under RADM Takeo Takagi will be awaited to Kuching Ops.

4th Naval Construction Bn and 97th JAAF AF Bns beeing shipped at Cam Ranh Bay awaiting to be transfered to Miri when falls in our hands.

Long Live to Emperor !!
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FROM: VADM Chuichi Nagumo, 1st Air Fleet C-in-C, TOKYO.
TO: ADM. Isoroku Yamamoto, Combined Fleet HQ, Kure.
SUBJECT: 1st Air Fleet Report.
DATE: Dec 20, 1941.

All carriers have been replenishment, torpedoes reloaded and receive air reemplacements to begin a new operation cycle.
We will departure tomorrow heading Truk to join with 1st Mobile Force and 4th Fleet main surface elements to begin New Guinea Campaign.
Replenishment TF at full load will join with us at Yokohama.
Like Horatio Nelson in the glorious day of Trafalgar, my flag ship raised the flag code "Empire confides that every man will do his duty". Every sailor aboard have shout "Banzai" when the flag code were raised on the main mast. High morale in our pilots and sailors.
My destiny calls and I go !

Long Live to the Emperor !
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FROM: VADM Shimizu, Mitsuo, 6th Fleet C-in-C, Kwajalein. Marshalls.
TO: ADM Isoroku Yamamoto, Combined Fleet HQ, Kure.
SUBJECT: 6th Fleet Report. West Coast Blockade Sqdrn
DATE: Dec 21st, 1941

I am proud to announce following succesfull attack by our submarines in war patrol areas:

(1) D.E.I Blockade Sqdrn:

TK British Sailor torpedoed and sunk after two torpedo hits by I-124 (at minelay mission) off Darwin. Dec 20th 1941.
I-158 reporting attack on surface on xAKL Benkalis near Soerabaja. Enemy ship sunk after 9 shell hits

(2) Canton Blockade Sqdrn:

xAP Idomeneus torpedoed (1 hit) by RO-63 near Enderbury Island (Canton Area) Dec 20th, 1941.

(3) West Coast Blockade Sqdrn:

I-19 reports 3 torpedo hits on xAP President Coolidge near San Francisco. Enemy ship sunk!. Dec 21st, 1941.

(4) Eastern Australia Blockade Sqdrn: (just arrive to war patrol areas)

I-18 reporting attack on xAP Chaumont off Brisbane. Enemy ship sunk after 5 torpedo hits (!).


04 enemy ships sunk and another more damage or heavily damage in this two days.

Long Live to the Emperor !!
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FROM: VADM Nobutake Kondo, 2nd Fleet C-in-C, Takao, Formosa.
TO: ADM Isoroku Yamamoto, Combined Fleet HQ, Kure.
SUBJECT: Miri Naval Op.
DATE: Dec 21st, 1941.

DD Umikaze reported 3 hits on enemy "P Class" submarine off Surigao.
O-20 have been reported sunk off near Kota Bharu.

Invasion Force to Miri have departure from Cam Ranh Bay without news. Our G3M2 and H6K4 had a hard day at ASW patrol in the nearby waters off Cam Ranh Bay.

21st and 23rd Air Flotillas aircrafts have bombed Manila port, but no enemy ship were spotted there. Severe damages to port. 24 G3M2 from 1st Ku K-1 and 40 G4M1 from Takao Ku K-1 and Takao Ku K-1 Det have take off from Takao to smash enemy shippings at Cavite harbor. A lonely british destroyer was struck by a bomb. Intel identified her like HMS Scout.

This HQ under my command will be transfered to Hong Kong after we receive the news of the liberation of this Naval Base.

A coastal Minesweeper has been dispatched from Takao to HK to begin with minesweeps at this base.

Long Live to the Emperor !!
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NORTH CHINA.
1st and 12nd Armies Offensive
SIT MAP REPORT
Dec 22nd 1941

VICTORY POINTS STATUS
Dec 22nd, 1941.

PRODUCTION STATUS
Dec 22nd 1941.