11 March 1942
Strategic bombing of Sydney, Bandeong falls
Indian Ocean and Burma
I-27 torpedoed and sank an ML off the coast of Karachi. Kind of pointless to pick off a small ASW craft when they didn't even know I had a sub up here until now.
We lost 2 Betties bombing Rangoon today, enough that I think it's time to make this an army-only mission. Too little damage to them, too many aircrews being lost.
SOPAC
After the disapointing scrub yesterday, our strike on Sydney flew today; 40 Zeroes escorting 76 Kates and 82 Vals. They had 10 Kittyhawk IA fighters on patrol, one was shot down trying to get past the Zeroes. We lost 2 Vals to flak as our only losses. The raid scored 26 manpower hits, setting off fires with a rating of 16725. At the end of the turn those fires accounted for industrial damage worth 116 victory points.
17 of my Vals went north towards Brisbane where they obliterated an APD that had been harassing my subs. 10 of the Vals scored hits. If I could only have that kind of accuracy for my port strikes.
6 B-17s from (probably) Brisbane went after the KB, followed by 4 Bolos; Zeroes took care of 1 B-17 and all 4 Bolos; flak added another 2 B-17s. No damage to any ships. Another 6 B-17s from Fiji attacked Noumea, losing 2 to the Zeroes on CAP.
Java
I attacked Bandeong again and captured it this time. 488 devices destroyed to 2. That was likely the biggest group of defenders. Surabaya looks weak--I'll be attacking tomorrow and expect to capture it easily. That that pretty much just leaves Batavia.
China
The enemy tried to take back Kukong, forts were reduced to 0 and our casualties were higher at 96 devices disabled/destroyed to 21. That's good enough to take it from me in as little as one more day. I'm adding some bombers to help out but there isn't much I can do. It's of little consequence, especially compared to the slow massacre going on outside Nanyang.
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