Gen. George C. Marshall said:
Island Hopping, Part XVIII
Operation Pink Cod, Part I
The motivation behind this operation lies in a screenshot of a fleet bombing that happened very shortly after the completion of Gray Squid. As you can see, the Japanese are apparently transporting units to the island of Shikoku in droves. Droves. Experience teaches that if this is not dealt with soon, it will soon become a 60-division fortress that will hold out until 1947. Therefore, all resources must be thrown towards the goal of preventing this, post-haste! All available land and air units have been commandeered.
And Lt. General Patton starts the attack! Hopefully those four GARs will be ground down quickly.
To help, Spaatz and his crew begin the interdiction bombardment! All four TAC groups, working together... Beautiful, isn't it?
Meanwhile, the battle is joined by MacArthur and another Drop Corps! Looks like victory is just around the-
corner.
The culprit? Two DD-1s!
AARGH! Fortunately, the commandeered NAV groups can commence the bombing of these pesky minifleets, but all the same they don't work fast enough, and it looks like Shikoku will get even more reinforcements...
Meanwhile, yet another fleet is sighted off the east coast of Japan, carrying more divisions! A NAV group tries to handle it.
The problem is, of course, that while NAVs are excellent at wearing down enemy navies to nothing with little risk to themselves, they are less adept at vaporizing them on the spot. Which is an ability we need if we're to prevent these transport fleets from succeeding on their short runs.
