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The Marines took Eniwetok against only one regiment of Japanese. Several sea interdiction strikes damaged one carrier group despite hundreds of defensive fighters. The screenshot shows the situation in the Marshall islands. Truk could be next or I could move back to Pearl to keep the Japanese guessing.

I thought it might be fruitful to do an airstrike on the Allied ships so I did and I got one of the CV's. That's something.

Oh no. Allied troops are found on the wrong side of the river. I'm going to have to scramble to contain this incursion.

New moves from Thomas, and he's invading again, this time Bouganville. He captured it without much of a fuss. My guys folded.

Thomas left some ships at the invasion site so I thought I'd help him clean up that mess a little bit.

The next Allied assault was on Rabaul. Paratroops took some airfields in the south of New Britian. And there's troops still floating
offshore that threaten another attack next turn so I have to get rid of them this turn. I could sure use a ship in this situation.

The invasions continue with a massive invasion of Rabaul, the largest of the war so far. Thousands of bombers, several BBs, 2 Army divisions, the 2nd Marine division and the First Marine Brigade finally took the objective.

A Japanese BB was also sunk off of Truk. Thousands of fighters are ready for the Bettys to send in their raid against the carriers.

One particularly heavy attack on the NW corner of the Hanoi perimeter caused everybody to retreat except for one engineer unit.
One more attack in that area will do it I should think.

Thomas and I have been trading airfield strikes for almost the entire game and this is the typical results we get.

The Japanese are very difficult to dislodge once they get entrenched in force anywhere. While the landing forces are trying to take them out the Bettys sink carriers no matter how many CAP fighters are sent up.

Therefore I immediately went to the Philippines to get ahead of the Japanese Army reinforcements. The screenshot shows Cebu and Leyte taken so I can set up naval interdiction bombers to slow or eliminate reinforcements.

I still lost a CV sending the fleet to cover the landing force.

You've seen the Allied view of Cebu and Leyte and here's the Jap view. I haven't moved anybody yet, I'm still taking pictures of the
aftermath. With Thomas's bases on Cebu and Leyte he can post some PBY's and spotter planes to prevent the reinforcement of
the Celebes and probably the South China Sea. China could be on it's own now.

Here's the boundry between north and south China. I've blown the bridges and posted some garrisons and I think maybe I can hold
back the horde another three turns or so. Depending.

The screen shot shows the status of the invasion of Davao on Mindanao. My original plan was to drop the airborne units to link up with the supply and the Zamboanga Peninsula partisans but that failed due to full Japanese division blocking that. Then the airborne had to be rescued by the invasion taking Davao. I used maximum firepower and a UN force to take the objective from dug in Japanese forces that included a full division and a brigade of elite Imperial Marines. Fortunately the position was taken and now the Japanese are out of supply ready for mop up. Objectives are not always taken as the Japanese "Hanoi line" shows. The British there are spent.

This shows it will be more difficult to advance with every attack. It is still a long way to Tokyo...

The invasion of Davao was successful using airborne units in the rear and heavy firepower from the narrow channel leading up to the objective. A UN force was successful in taking the all important supply port.

I used the wrong screenshot twice! Here is the correct one showing Mindanao.

Okie dokie.....new moves from Thomas, new turn. The Allies show how daring they are by taking on Davao next. D'oh.

I'm looking at the opposition and I found a fighter unit that has some kind of equipment that has a range of 29 hexes. I'm wondering
what kind of airplane could have a range of 29 and I keep coming up with the P-38 so I'm thinking that P-38's are starting to show up
at the front.

New moves from Thomas, new turn. The Allies are trying to tackle Hainan now. The first assault didn't get ashore so I get a chance
to destroy the invasion flotilla. I'm going to fly a bunch of planes into the area and let fly.

I drove some ships from Japan to Hainan to beat up on that stack of Allied equipment guarded by some ships. I didn't see the BB's
acting as backup on the stack and I got slaughtered. I'm going to have to rely on air strikes to do the job.

Here's an airstrike on the carrier stack. I think I sank the carriers present in the stack, plus some of the escorts.