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Yes- Singapore is an island and JB is across a strait so it is reachable by large ships. BTW the limit for travel up an estuary is 15K tons displacement.

30 Dec 1943

The British/Commonwealth armies have crossed the river at Singapore.

This is a much larger force than my bombardment at Johore Bahru had indicated. Still, they should take a while to recover from this assault before having another pop.

He has not attacked Singapore from the air yet, apart from Sweeps by P-38s and P-47s which we just about managed to survive.

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Ground combat at Singapore (50,84)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 114290 troops, 1905 guns, 2667 vehicles, Assault Value = 3819

Defending force 75417 troops, 682 guns, 395 vehicles, Assault Value = 1984

Allied adjusted assault: 647

Japanese adjusted defense: 20591

Allied assault odds: 1 to 31 (fort level 8)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+)
Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-)

Japanese ground losses:
1858 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 129 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 76 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 23 disabled
Guns lost 61 (4 destroyed, 57 disabled)
Vehicles lost 16 (1 destroyed, 15 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
19692 casualties reported
Squads: 270 destroyed, 858 disabled
Non Combat: 128 destroyed, 306 disabled
Engineers: 58 destroyed, 364 disabled
Guns lost 331 (66 destroyed, 265 disabled)
Vehicles lost 572 (195 destroyed, 377 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
6th British Brigade
9th Indian Division
2nd Recce Regiment
11th (East African) Division
254th Armoured Brigade
5th British Brigade
11th Indian Division
5th Indian Division
XXXIII Corps Engineer Battalion
Gardner's Horse Regiment
4th British Brigade
26th Indian Division
267th Armoured Brigade
25th Indian Division
150th RAC Regiment
70th British Division
9th Australian Division
21st Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
2/9th Field Regiment
28th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
8th Medium Regiment
2/11th Field Regiment
India Command
6th Medium Regiment
XXXIII Indian Corps
77th Heavy AA Regiment
35th Light AA Regiment

Defending units:
5th Division
56th Division
2nd Guards Division
55th Division
Southern Fleet
27th JAAF AF Bn
29th Army
Singapore Det
3rd Mortar Battalion
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
25th Army
20th AA Regiment
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
8th JAAF AF Coy
5th JAAF AF Coy
7th Field AF Construction Battalion
5th Mortar Battalion
5th Field AF Construction Battalion
3rd Air Division
36th JAAF AF Bn
84th JAAF AF Bn
12th Base Force

Camranh Bay is now part of the British Empire

The French are displeased ... I had a single division there, to be resurrected of course.

Also in Indochina, Vinh cannot hold out much longer, which opens the way to Hanoi and Haiphong. Being clear hexes these are totally indefensible. So it will likely only be a month or so (however long it takes to march) before he will be knocking on the gates at Canton. This is way earlier than I had hoped.

On the positive side, the doings at Singapore are giving me a Baldrick moment. More to be revealed later ...