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June 16, 1944 Turn 26

UGH!!!

I had all this text written and the server puked... *sigh*

The upshot is that as I was sailing west to get to Pelieu I was rammed by the KB twice. The first time we both avoided combat. The second time I hit a couple of his CV's with naval gunfire along with taking the upperworks off of one of his battleships. For my trouble I took a shell hit to one of my carriers, took major damage to a light cruiser and had a destroyer sunk by a torpedo.

I had 3 task forces joined together by a follow command so the ships were scattered.

The next japanese attack that came in allowed 29 bombers through...

They only managed to his 2 of my major carriers. The damage is 28 system, 13 flotation,5 engine in the Essex and 8 flotation damage to the Bunker Hill.

In the subsequent air combat battles I managed to sink The Shokaku, the Zuikaku, The Hiyo carriers and the BB's Kongo and Haruna along with the CL Oyodo.

I am typing this AAR by hand on a separate computer from the game and since there seems to be no easy way to cut and paste I am not going to re-type the whole thing. I might be able to answer specific questions though.

Score Japanese 1705, Allied 2559

Server lock-up on finishing a posting happens from time to time. If I have composed a fairly long posting, I highlight and copy all of it before hitting the OK button to post it. If it craps out, I can just open a new box and paste in what I copied and re-post.

I was thinking you were waiting a long time to take care of KB, but I guess you were just in the nick of time!
What did you have protecting your carriers during the night gun battle?
Are you going to follow up and do the port attack? You know he has a lot of CAs in this scenario.

Actually, the scenario is only about 1/3 over. If I had stuck to the plan I would have been hit by the KB with all of my forces centered at Tinian which would have given me the support of 5 more CVE's. The only other thing he could have pulled off is sailing up to Pagan and attacking the ships and troops I still have left there (the troops being loaded to hit Rota) which are being guarded by my other CVE group of 5 carriers. Those are/were the only 2 targets he could have hit.

The carriers were not well protected during the night gun battles.

The first time I came into contact with him it was the CV Hiyo,CVL Zuiho,CVL Ryuho,CVL Chitose, BB Yamato, BB Musash, CA Mogami, CA Suzuya, CA Kumano, CL Noshiro & 8 DD's

I had the CV Enterprise, CV Essex, CV Bunker Hill, CVL Princeton, CVL Belleau Wood, CVL Cowpens, CL St Louis, CL Honolulu, CL Cleveland, & 10 DD's.

We bounced around with radar contacts until both decided to break off.

The 2nd contact was with the CV Shokaku, the CV Zuikaku, the CV Junyo (SH1), the CV Taiho (SH1), the BB Kongo (SH1) the BB Haruna (SH1), the CA Tone, the CA Chikuma, the CA Maya (SH3), the CL Odoyo & 8 DD's
HE came into contact with the CV Yorktown, the CV Hornet, the CVL Monterey (SH1), the CVL Cabot, The CVL Langley, the CLAA San Diego, the CLAA San Juan, the CL Birmingham (SH 4, HF/HD), the CL Mobile & 10 DD's (one of which he sank).

I dont plan on leaving much in that port. In fact I might just try to take Peleliu if time allows although I dont think I can make that. We shall see. I still have to kill 1/2 of the KB.

I have about 6 days before I have to send a division size transport fleet back to pick up the 77th inf division and 19/20 days to pickup the 98th INF and 3rd marine divisions. My troops disruption is low (1-2 days before they are ready to fight) but many of them have a TOE of 1/2 or less of what it should be due to disabled equipment and troops.

Setting all troops on Tinian for rest/training.

Transferring 2 more squadrons of medium bombers to Tinian.

All bombers are set to soften up Guam.

Sub-divided my mine sweeping force into 3 smaller forces to hit Guam.

Created 4 ASW TF's to clear the mini subs away from Guam.

I am leaving my air combat TF where it is and grouping them back together. There are still plenty of targets nearby.

June 17, 1944 Turn 27

End of Turn.

SSX takes 2 hits at Guam
SSX takes 7 hits at Guam
DD hits type 4 mine at Guam

Allied sub takes 28 hits and is sunk near Babeldaob

SSX takes 2 hits at Guam
SSX takes 4 hits at Guam
SSX takes 4 hits at guam

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Allied airstrike

Hellcat 51, Helldiver 28, Avenger 8

BB Kongo BH 2, TH 4 - Sunk

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He threw a few betty's at my ASW fleets at Guam with no effect

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Allied air assault

Hellcat 26, helldiver 28

DD Nowaki BH2, HF/HD

this was part of the Kongo escort

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Score Japanese 1734, Allies 2981

June 18, 1944 Turn 28

Moving my main air combat TF west toward Pelieu as I still have plenty of sorties available and he has 3-6 carriers still floating.

Resting troops for Guam assault.

End of Turn

SSX hit at Guam

21 mines cleared at Guam

Japanese DD takes 1 torpedo hit near Yap

SSX takes 8 hits at Guam

Allied sub takes 1 hit near Babeldaob

Allied sub takes 10 hits near Babeldaob

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Japanese land based assault

3 M2 zero's 3 sen baku, 10 m5 zero's, 10 judy's

268 hellcats

1 sen baku destroyed, 2 m5 zero's destroyed, 5 judy's destroyed

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Land based air assault

13 zero's, 16 betty's

234 hellcats

3 zero's destroyed, 5 betty's destroyed

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2 more small land based air attacks, no damage

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Airfield attack on Guam

15 zero's & 3 Sen Baku

40 hellcats, 52 ventura

Japanese losses 1 sen baku, 1 zero, 1 Irving

Allied losses 2 hellcat, 1 ventura

Japenese losses 5 casualties

Airbase hits 16, Airbase supply 2, Runway hits 39

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Air attack on Guam

11 corsair & 44 mitchells

vs 8 zero's & 1 sen baku

2 japanese planes destroyed

4 airbase hits, 3 airbase supply hits, 18 runway hits

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Air assault near Pelieu

12 Sen Baku, 6 zero's

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48 hellcat, 28 helldiver

Japanese losses 5 planes destroyed

Allied losses 6 planes destroyed

CA Chikuma BH 1

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Air assault

Japanese aircraft 2 zero, 6 sen baku

Allied aircraft 66 hellcats, 20 helldivers, 24 helldivers

Japanese losses 2 sen baku

Allied losses 1 helldiver

Japanese ships

CA Maya BH 7, HF/HD
CA Chikuma BH 5, HF/HD
CA Tone BH 6, HF/HD
DD Urakaze BH 1

Score Japanese 1776 Allied 3160

June 19, 1944 Turn 29

Moving my main Air TF's 2 hexes NE of Peleliu and setting 2 of 3 of the forces to port attack. Leaving 1 TF on naval attack just in case.

Switched Tinian bombers to ground attack.

SSX takes 3 hits at Guam

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Allied airstrike on Guam

13 zero's, 5 sen baku

38 hellcat 53 ventura

allies lost 3 hellcat & 2 ventura were damaged

No damage to troops

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Allied airfield attack

Japan 4 zero's

Allies 9 corsair & 42 mitchell

1 zero destroyed, 1 mitchell damaged

2 airbase hits 2 runway hits

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Allied attack on Guam 10 mitchell

1 mitchell damaged

7 casualties reported

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Japanese land based attack

29 zero's, 5 sen baku, 8 betty

254 Hellcat

7 zero's destroyed, 4 sen baku destroyed, 1 betty destroyed

2 hellcat destroyed

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Japanese air attack

6 zero's, 4 sen baku, 8 betty's

219 hellcats

losses

2 zero destroyed, 2 sen baku destroyed, 2 betty's destroyed, 1 damaged

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Japanese air attack

5 zero's, 19 betty's

197 hellcat

3 zero's destroyed, 6 betty's destroyed

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Japanese air attack

2 zero's, 16 sen baku

145 hellcats

1 zero, 7 sen baku destroyed

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Allied air attack

140 hellcats, 13 avengers, 24 helldiver, 63 avenger

13 Zero's, 22 Sen Baku

2 sen baku destroyed, 1 zero destroyed

3 hellcat destroyed, 1 helldiver destroyed, 6 avenger damaged

Japanese ships

CA tone BH4, TH 1, HF/HD
CA Maya TH3 - sunk
6 DD's no damage

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Allied naval attack south of Peleliu

7 hellcats, 21 helldiver

Japanese ships

DD Yunagi BH 1 HF

Japanese score 1814, Allied Score 3279

June 20, 1944 Turn 30

The port at Tinian is still 80% damaged. It will take 2-3 days at least to get the port fixed.

I am sending an 8 ship TF of APA's & AKA's to Pearl to pick up a division.

My troops went up between 2&3% on their TOE last turn. If I stop worrying about dropping absolutely everything on Guam in 1 turn I can let them rest up more for the attack on Guam and final attack on Saipan.

End of Turn

SSX takes 4 hits at Guam
SSX takes 5 hits at Guam
SSX takes 9 hits at Guam
SSX takes a hit at Guam
SSX takes 8 hits at Guam

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Japanese attack from Peleliu

8 Sen Baku, 6 Zero, 4 Betty

211 Hellcat

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Allied port attack on Peleliu

137 hellcat, 15 avenger, 20 helldiver, 67 helldiver, 24 dauntless, 47 avenger

13 Sen Baku, 8 zero's

Japanese losses 4 sen baku, 1 zero

allies lost 1 hellcat & had 4 planes damaged

Japanese Ships

CVL Chitose BH 4, HF
BB Yamato BH 13 OF
CA Haguro BH 1
CA Kumano, BH 2 OF
BB Musashi BH 5, OF
BB Nagato BH 9, OF
CA Atago, BH 1
CVL CHiyoda BH 6, HF/HD
DD Urakaze, BH 1 OF
CVL Ryuho, BH 2 HF
CV Hiyo BH 7, HF/HD
CA Chokai, BH 3 OF
CVL Zuiho BH 5, HF
DD Siratsuyu BH 1
CA Suzuya BH 2
DD Shimakaze BH 1, OF
CA Myoko BH 2
CL Agano BH 2, OF
CL Yahagi BH 1 - Sunk
CA Mogomi BH 1
CL Oi BH 2, OF
DD Asagumo BH 1, OF

Casualties 19 troops

Port hits 10, port fuel hits 6

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Allied ground assault on Guam

9 Zero, 4 Sen Baku

10 corsair, 53 mitchell

3 japanese aircraft destroyed, 4 damaged

2 mitchells destroyed 2 damaged

4 japanese casualites

Airbase hits 1, Airbase supply hits 1, Runway hits 4

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Naval attack on Peleliu

6 hellcats & 9 avengers

vs 2 japanese aircraft.

1 japanese aircraft and 1 allied aircraft destroyed, 2 damaged

No damage to japanese DD

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The previous Japanese DD that avoided the air attack got hit 5 times by search aircraft...

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Allied air attack

34 hellcats, 11 avengers vs 2 zero's & 3 sen baku's

1 zero destroyed and 2 hellcats destroyed

DD Yunagi - BH 3, - Sunk We must have really hated this guy!!

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Score Japanese 1836, Allied Score 4287 - **Major Victory**

June 21, 1944 turn 31

I wrote a detailed AAR which the board puked on. So I wrote a summary which the board puked on...

Gotta remember to copy before submitting

Amphib assault on Rota loses 690 troops unloading.

Amphib assault sent to Ulithi

Port attacks on Peleliu and Babeldaob effective

Air assaults on Guam.

Score Japanese 1860 Allied 4674

June 22, 1944 Turn 32

Continuing to assault the area of Peleliu & Babeldaoub with my air TF's

I lost a couple AO's due to no air cover over Tinian and betty attacks.

The japanese lost a handful of DD's.

Moving my Air TF back towards Tinian for resupply.

Deliberate attack at Rota

June 23, 1944 Turn 33

Amphibous assault at Ulithi

112 casualties 0/15,0/42,0/0,0/32

Ground Combat at Rota

Allied Deliberate attack

5705 troops, 166 guns, 81 vehicles, AV 177
1112 troops, 7 guns, 0 vehicles AV 43
Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Allied odds 4 to 1

Allied forces CAPTURE Rota!!

Japanese Losses 261, Allied losses 41

June 24, 1944 Turn 34

Ulithi is occupied by the allies.

BOOOOOOO

SSX hits BB Indiana with 2 torps, on fire, heavy damage

5-6 SSX's hit at Guam

Cruiser bombardment of Guam - 10 japanese casualties

Switched bombers for Truk and Ponape to daytime bombing

Hit Truck for 13 runway damage

Ground attack at Guam - 40 casualties, 0/2,0/2,0/0

Hit Ponape for 8 runway hits.

Hit Ponape for 1 runway hit.

Air attack at Guam

5 Japanese casualties reported.

Air attack at Guam

2 airbase hits, 1 airbase supply hits, 2 Runway hits

Ground attack at Rota

54 japanese casualties of 921

31 allied casualties of 5752

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Score Japanese 1975, Allied 4804

June 25, 1944 Turn 35

3 SSX hit at Guam

Crusier bombardment of Guam

SSX 2 hits HD
SSX 2 hits OF/HD

Japanese losses 165 0/0,1/29,0/0,9/5

Airbase hits 9, Airbase supply hits 4, Runway hits 74, Port hits 10, Port fuel hits 5

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Ground attack at Guam

Japanese Losses 17 casualties 0/1,0/2,0/0

Airbase Hits 2, Airbase supply hits 1, Runway hits 5

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Air combat at Guam

11 corsair, 53 mitchell

No japanese aircraft

Japanese aircraft losses 2 destroyed on ground

1 mitchell damaged

Japanese ground losses - Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 4, Airbase supply hits 3, Runway hits 32

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Allied attack at Rota

38 to 1

Japanese ground losses 231 of 889

Allied losses 38

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Score Japanese 1994, Allied 4824

June 26, 1944 Turn 36

Bombarding Guam

1 zero destroyed 1 damaged

1 SSX Hit

Japanese ground losses 143 0/0,1/23,0/0,2/1

Airbase hits 8, Airbase supply hits 2, Runway hits 33, Port hits 2

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BB bombardment of Guam

2 zero's destroyed, 1 damaged

1324 Casualties 2/12,81/60,0/1,10/8

Airbase hits 17, Airbase supply hits 3, Runway hits 19, Port hits 4, Port fuel hits 2

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Bombardment of Guam

37 hellcats, 15 wildcats, 59 ventura

14 japanese casualties

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Bombardment of Guam

11 corsair, 53 Mitchell

Airbase hits 2, Runway hits 22

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Ground Combat at Rota

Allied assault odds 80 to 1

BANZAI!!

Japanese losses 791 casualties

Allied losses 29 casualties

Score Japanese 1997, Allies 4866

June 27, 1944 Turn 37

Preparing for Assault on Guam

3 SSX hit at guam


Cruiser Bombardment of Guam

2 Zero's Damaged

SSX 1 hit, HD

Japanese ground losses 94 casualties 0/1,1/7,0/1

Airbase hits 9, Airbase supply 2, Runway hits 62, Port hits 4, Port fuel hits 2, Port supply hits 1

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Air Assault on Guam

6 hellcat, 18 wildcat, 47 ventura

16 casualties

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Air Assault on Guam

Airbase 3, Runway hits 25

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Air assault on Guam

Airbase hits 1, Runway hits 5

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Score Japanese 2003, Allied 4883

June 28, 1944 Turn 38

Server crapped again...

Did air assaults & bombardments against Guam

Organized all 98+ TOE units for beachead on Guam

Sent Air TF toward Peleliu

June 29, 1944 Turn 39

Launching Amphibious assault on Guam

V US Amphib Force, 111th RCT, 640th TD Bn, 193rd Tank Bn,225th Artillery Grp,715th Amphib,102nd Combat Rgt,1st USMC Tank Bn, 706th Tank Bn.

Launching Port Attack at Babeldaob

End of Turn

4 SSX hit at Guam

1 SSX hit at Guam

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Air assault on Guam

7 Hellcat, 18 Wildcat, 46 Ventura

35 casualties

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Air assault on Guam

10 Corsair, 38 Mitchell

14 Japanese casualties

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Air assault on Guam

15 Mitchell

5 casualties

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Score Japanese 2036, Allied 4910

June 30, 1944 Turn 40

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Allied Pre-invasion of Guam

Japanese Losses 51 casualties

Troops unloading over beach at Guam

Allied losses 397 troops 1/63,0/68,0/0,0/28,0/316

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SSX Hit at Guam


CA Bombardment of Guam

2 SSX hit

72 casualties

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2 SSX hit at guam

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Invasion bombardment - 77 allied casualties

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Invasion bombardment - 66 allied casualties

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Morning air attack on Guam - 30 casualties

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Invasion support - 60 allied casualties

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Ground Combat at Guam

Attacking force 20,324 troops, 170 guns, 0 vehicles AV 749

Defending Force 7,517 troops, 117 guns, 719 vehicles AV 349

Japanese losses 9 casualties

Allied losses 23 casualties

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Score Japanese 2069, Allied 4924

July 1, 1944 Turn 41

Moving the rest of the troops on Tinian to Guam

Port attack on Peleliu

End of Turn

BB Bombardment of Guam

583 Casualties 2/23,16/45,2/0,1/10

Airbase hits 9, Airbase supply hits 1, Runway hits 31, Port hits 1

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Invasion assault - 38 allied casualties

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Invasion assault - 54 casualties

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Port attack on Peleliu sinks 4 DD's and heavily damages a DD & an AV

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Japanese Ground Attack at Guam

Attacking force 2796 troops, 18 guns, 0 vehicles AV 727

Defending force 7632 troops, 117 guns, 719 vehicles AV 366

Japanese odds 1 to 99

Japanese ground losses 1411 casualties 44/62,2/12,3/8,1/2

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Allied bombardment of guam

Attacking force 5261 troops, 114 guns, 487 vehicles AV 366
Defending force 20352 troops, 189 guns, 36 vehicles AV 638

Japanese losses 10 casualties

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July 2, 1944

DD sunk by SSX at Guam

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Japanese Deliberate attack at Guam

Attacking Force 6760 troops, 65 guns, 0 vehicles, AV 644
Defending force 7771 troops, 117 guns, 720 vehicles AV 383

Japanese Ground Losses 1998 55/142,0/15,2/4,2/21

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Allied Bombardment attack at Guam

Attacking Force AV 383

Defending force 18845 troops, 186 guns, 36 vehicles AV 513

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Score Japanese 2115, Allied 5068

July 3, 1944

I cant find the remaining elements of the KB... I think they managed to get off map somehow. Didnt count on that but it makes sense.

Moving the rest of the troops I have to Guam within the next 2 turns.

Amphibious attack on Guam... 2230 casualties reported 2/405,1/346,0/0,1/273,1/112

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Japanese Bombardment attack at Guam

16457 troops, 156 guns, 0 vehicles AV 521

Defending 37899 troops, 912 guns, 1440 vehicles AV 1287

Japanese ground losses 112

Allied losses 6

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Allied bombardment

no losses

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Score 2134, 5089