ORIGINAL: kaleun
昭和 17 1月五日
Day 5
フィリピン諸島
Chujo Homma Masaharu considered the city of Manila to the southeast. In the distance, the sun shone on Manila bay and he could see the island fortress of Corregidor with its powerful guns closing the entrance to the harbor.
In front of him, sitting around a field desk, sat his aide de camp, waiting for his orders.
Preliminary reports indicate the presence of 9 enemy units in the Bataan peninsula versus 28 in Manila. A small force still occupies Subic Bay.
“Our intelligence seems to have been mistaken,” Homma mutters, “It seems they are not following that orenji war plan of theirs.”
“We shall take Bataan first, eliminate those forces, and then take Manila.”
“Hai!”
“Begin bombing Bataan and Manila, we need to keep them from working on their defenses.”
The assistant began to draft the necessary orders.
Elsewhere, Ocean Island with its phosphate deposits and Batangas are captured.
広島
“Ito-san, It seems we have some extra capacity in our naval shipyards.”
“Hai, some ships have left the yards and are finishing fitting out for sea.”
Yamashita pores over the shipyard build schedule.
“Let’s accelerate Junyo and Hiyo then and restart those two subchasers, 25 and 27. I feel it in my guts that we are going to need many of those subhunters, before this war is over.”
E class my friend...........the E class.........you can beat the SS menace if you
a/ all tankers into mega convoys, with a CVE escort and no less than 8 other escorts....
b accelerate the E clas
c/ did I mention, build as many E class as you can[:)]