Dec 7-8:
Hawaii: 6 Jap carriers attack Pearl Harbor. Oklahoma sunk and Tennessee adn Maryland are hulks. 20 P-40B lost.
Malaya: Singapore bombed with light losses. 2 enemy divisions land at Kuantan. Kuantan falls Dec 8. Songkla and Bandou fall.
PI:Manila and Clark airfields pulverized. Manila Harbor hit heavily. B-17's retreat to Mindanao. Aparri, Batan Is, Tatay and Puerto Princessa fall. Yossarian awakens on the 7th to find he is in WWIIb. He learns to paint holding the brush in his teeth as he is restrained in a straightjacket.
Dec. 9:
Hawaii: The KB doubles back, catching Enterprise and Lexington about 200 miles SW of Pearl. Both US carriers are lost. Hiryu is heavily damaged and one Shokaku class carrier is moderatley damaged. The Pacific is wide open to the Jap carriers. Lord Admiral Tabpub declares he has a "tummy ache" [:D]
Dec 10-11:
Hawaii: Hiryu is hit twice more from USAAF A-20's hastily deployed to Johnston.
Malaya: Jap landings at Mersing.
DEI: Jap Escort carrier hunts Allied vessels off Mindanao and Sulawese escaping from Manila.
Dec 12-18:
PI: Landings begin Davao. Landings begin Legaspi. US cruiser force opposing landings is hit by Bettys from Palau. USS Marblehead and Houston are lost, Boise damaged.
Malaya: Taiping falls Dec 16. The Commonwealth tries to hold the line in the mountains West of Kuantan. Force Z makes an ineffectual sortie into the South China Sea. HMS Danae lost to bombers from Indochina. Jap forces headed Miri. Brunei falls.
Pacific: Wake falls.
Dec 19-27:
DEI: Force Z circumnavigates Borneo to attack Jap forces in the Surigao Straight on the 20th in a daylight battle. The Japs lose one CL and 2 DD's. Force Z loses one DD and 4 heavily damaged. Both forces retreat. Amboina and Morotai fall.
PI: Legaspi, Jolo, Davao and Cagayan fall. Yossarian is released from his straightjacket on his doctor's orders because he began to smell really bad. He is assigned "light duty" and will fly the last P-40 out of Luzon.
Malaya/Siam: Commonwealth forces retreat to Johore. Mersing holds. 4 full Jap divisions now in Malaya. Jap armored thrust captures Tavoy and Victoria Point. 2nd Burma Brig. captures Rahaeng
and moves on Bangkok.
New Britain and the Solomons: An Australian/Kiwi crusier force interdicts Jap landings at Buin and Rabal. They sink all Jap transports at Buin on the eve of the 23rd but the landing force is already ashore and Buin falls. On Christmas Eve, they encounter four Jap heavy crusiers and 11 DD's off Rabaul. Perth is sunk. Kashima is heavily damaged. The Jap transports are unscathed. Leander and Canberra return alone to Buin on the 27th, driving off enemy transports, but are attacked by Bettys operating from Rabaul on the 28th. Leander is sunk.
