28 October 1942
Tavoy on the ropes
Banda Sea
Oscar sweeps at Babar got a P-38. 19 Sallies bombed the island causing light casualties.
South of Celebes, the S-37 torpedoed a tanker in a convoy including PB escorts. The tanker was severely damaged with major fires--it's doomed.
Solomons Area
The sweep at Rabaul went well, 7 Nicks down with no losses to our P-38s.
The enemy's sweep of Roussel did not go so well for them, 4 Oscars down with just one P-40 claimed. Did I speak too quickly about parity?
Burma
Another 100+ bomber sorties outside Tavoy causing very light casualties. My army below now has all the reinforcements that I split off from the "main" anti-Bangkok force.
Scoffing at the bombers, my troops attacked Tavoy, bringing the forts down to nothing. Casualties were 1900 to 1000 in my favor. We might get it tomorrow.
I don't want to overspend my allotment of strategic criticism, but I think it's a safe call that the deployment of over 100 fighters and 100 bombers trying to stop my army here is a gross misapplication of airpower. They're not making a difference here, but if these guys were in, say, China right now, he'd be causing unacceptable losses to my heavy bombers and hitting my troops badly enough to give his a chance to advance.
Reinforcements
AM Gympie arrives at Derby
17th Construction Regiment arrives at Changteh
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