12 October 1943
Enemy attempts to break out of Rangoon and fails
Japan
USS Shad torpedoed and sank a Type-1 TM class tanker (6400 tons) off Torishima.
Makassar Strait
USS Plunger fired 2 torpedoes at a cargo ship and missed, then surfaced to attack the next one (an Aden-class, 4875 tons), scoring 2 torpedo hits on it and sinking it. The cargo ship was carrying troops.
Burma
Enemy troops sallied out of Rangoon to attack our base at adjacent Pegu. We lost 1 Vengeance dive bomber to flak that was targeting enemy tanks. I ordered my forces to counterattack, betting we had the superior number of troops, and it paid off. Casualties were 5201(J) to 986(A) and the enemy scampered back to Rangoon.
Rangoon is in a siege at this point. Surrounded, being bombed daily, supplies hopefully running a bit low.
CENTPAC
Not too much going on here; Avengers are still trying to support the troops on Tinian but we aren't doing a lot of damage. An attempt to push off the beaches resulted in 431(J) to 503(A) casualties.
DEI
I used paratroopers to seize Ternate. I hope to relocate the base at Batjan to Ternate over the next week or so. The Celebes Sea is already 80% cut off, getting Ternate should close it completely to everything on the surface without a carrier escort.
Reinforcements
DD Heermann arrives at San Francisco
2nd USA Defense Battalion arrives at Pearl Harbor
4th USA Defense Battalion arrives at Pearl Harbor
5th USA Defense Battalion arrives at Pearl Harbor
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