@CylonAndrew: Then I think you are gonna like this coming update....
@History_Buff: I favour landing further north. The terrain in southeast Asia is to crappy to advance quickly into China from there.
@Asalto: they do not, but they can be expected to fight fanatically even so.
@TemplarComander: Thanks.
@serutan: Well, I think I have given Mitteleuropa enough free reign by now. The time has come to start getting a little more strict with them, and that includes curbing there influence in Asia.
@Xesan: Well Brazil, Spain, and La Plata have been very active with things like amphibious assaults, but my other allies are contributing as well. Italy, Canada, and my Latin American allies have been funneling tons of divisions to India. South Africa's, France's, Canada's, and Britain's airforces have been very active in the fight against Japan as well. Even Mexico has been doing lots of bombing attacks on Japanese forces in southeast Asia.
@salidas16: They have rebuilt their industries and military forces long ago. In fact, they have both been getting a little out of hand with it. Britain for example has something like 40 armoured divisions, 20 HQ's, and 13 1938 level aircraft carriers. Keep in mind, that Britain has no military leaders. I think for them, i will delete their military forces and get them to build a more "reasonable" military, using military leaders from the old UoB's ranks.
@everyone else:thanks for the comments!
authaar's note: sorry for procrastinating a bit on this. I should probably stop letting this AAR slip to 2nd page.
Anyway, here is an update to make up for all of it.
As the Russian army continues to roll south, the US government decides that the time has now come to begin operations in mainland Asia. The first target for US forces on the mainland: Korea. 150,000 US troops, including American tank formations, land at Inchon, and take the city of Seoul.
US forces then break out in all directions, quickly overrunning the entire peninsula and cornering 3 Japanese divisions along the Yalu river, with Russian forces to their right. The Japanese are quickly kicked out of Korea, and forced to retreat into Manchuria.
Back in the United States, the first full scale nuclear reactor is finally finished production, coming online near the city of Denver, all the way in Colorado.
July 28th, 1949. The Japanese allied Fengtien Republic surrenders unconditionally to the Russian government. Japan now has only 1 ally left: the government of Siam.
With Russian tanks and infantry continuing to drive south, the US joint chiefs decide to expand the Allied war effort into China itself. Thousands of battle hardened US troops are shipped to Formosa from Australia, in preparation for the next offensive.
Meanwhile, a huge army mobilization plan is implemented in the US, with hundreds of thousands of US soldiers beginning to mobilize in brand new infantry divisions, equipped with the best weapons and equipment currently available.
Finally, the day has come. 310,000 US troops begin landing operations at the port city of Shanghai, under the cover of US navy battleships. The Japanese garrison is quickly annihilated, and Shanghai falls to US forces.
Very quickly, US forces break out of the city and pour into the Chinese countryside. Moving south of the Yangtze river, American mechanized and regular infantry quickly shatter all resistance by Japanese garrison and anti-partisan forces. Throughout numerous towns, villages, and cities, such as Nanking, US soldiers are hailed as liberators after years of brutal occupation by the German AOG corporation and the Japanese military.
Meanwhile, disturbing reports begin to come in of massive Japanese troop buildups in the home islands. Japan seems to be mobilizing the last of its manpower reserves in preparation for its final stand against Allied and Mitteleuropan forces. It seems that the battle for the home islands could be the most brutal of the entire war...