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A few notes before I start
I have things set on the easiest level with AI at weakling IIRC
This is my first real full major power caimpaign, I played as Germany but cheated all the tech modes.
In this game I did use event 1009 a few times when a shifting war entry caught me off balance and for elections, as it bugs me. However when I did fall short on consumer goods I cut back supplies and made other small changes to get back in the black, or should I say white, I didn't abuse event 1009 [great song improves morale] to cut back on consumer goods

Don't expect much literary flair, I don't have the skills or the inclination. I tried to think of a way to write it up as actual people but I know my limits

I have skipped most of the reporting untill the Japanese DOW.


Part 1: The Pre war era. 1936 to 1941
History untill Jan 8 1942 and the DOW

It has been an interesting 6 years. On the global stage most of the global events happened as per normal except

1: France held out for almost 6 months
2: Malta fell to Italy, Rhoades fell to the British
3: The British drove Italy back to its 2 western most Lybian posessions, plus their 1 former french province. England did lose Port Said for a short while.
4: The Czechoslovaks are still independant, complete and neutral.
5: Yugoslavia managed to avoid trouble as did Albania
6 The War with Russia started in Early 1941 and things do not look good for the germans.
a:The central front has stalled
b: With the neutal czechs when the Russians hold Lvov, which is most of the time, the South and Central fronts are isolated.
c: The Germans have 2 or 3 times made it to novograd on the outskirts of leningrad only to have the Russians counter attack through Lativa cutting off the spear heads. The inital attacks seem to make it that far up the cost because the Russians didn't have anything in the costal Baltic provinces.
d: The North Front seems to average around Latvia, poor buggers are getting a beating.
e: The Hungarians, Bulgarians and Romanians have been totaly left to their own devices and have not done well, in part because they are not helping each other. The Russians have drove along the Black sea coast and hold all of it. They have also made it to the Hungarian border, and have pushed into Bulgaria.
7: The Allies have about 50 divisions into one region of Italian occupied France just recently
8: Other attempts have failed, both on Italy and France.




US news:

Almost all theory techs are now researched, I will provide some more detail in another post

Lend lease, and the oil embargo had been rejected, and we went republican

Maxed out oil coal and steel, over 40K rubber and almost 4K manpower.

Japan and the US are at war as of jan 8 1942, however our puppets are still neutral, nor has Japan DoW any other of the allies. Looks like we are on our own. As befitting a totally isolationst style.

I've shared no tech, but I will probably send some infantry techs to nationalist china.


Posts to Follow

1: State of the military, mine and theirs
2: Tech state
3: Future plans production and strategy wise.
 
The following is a list of letters from the President of the United States [POTUS] which were sent to various people at the highest levels of government to keep everyone up to speed as to government policy and what was happening. These letters eventually became public after the war in accordance with the War Histories act of 1950 in 1955.
 
Re: The European Theater


The events of the last 3 years have caused much concern to America however it will be the policy of the United States government not to get involved in the European theater of war. In accordance with the policy of government and in accordance with the wishes of the public [ed a bit of alternative history, the POTUS isn't a real figure, public mood is different and more isolationist then in OTL] we will only get involved should one of the major powers declare war on us.

The situation in Europe however seems to be positive from our perspective. After quickly crushing France in 6 months the Germans decided to take on Russia. The front has moved back and forth on the territories that the Soviet Union Occupied after the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact of 1939, namely Eastern Poland and the Baltic states. Aside from 2 pushes that made to the borders of Leningrad no pre war Soviet Territory has been reached. Except for an early attack on East Prussia, the Russians have had made little progress in this sector. To the South the Russians have made greater progress vs the German allies. Left to their own devices they have managed to lose the entire Black Sea Coast and furthermore the Hungarian border has been reached. The loss of the regional oil fields would hurt German war efforts greatly.

If anything we are more concerned with long term Soviet expansionism as their long term goals are just as predatory and public as the German, even if under the guise of supposed benevolent ideology.

On a related note, Finland who has yet to join the axis, has lost Joensuu and Sortavala north of Lake Ladoga, but has managed to hold on elsewhere

In the long run it is obvious that Germany nor its allies are a threat to the United States. A close eye will be kept on the situation regarding the Soviet Union.

Below are some numerical data intelligence has provided on the region.


Armies.
UK 101 Divisions 58 Wings
France 124 Divisions 0 Wings
Soviet Union 335 Divisions 21 Wings
With extra forces provided by the Commonwealth, the Dutch and Belgium

Germany has 165 Divisions and 47 Wings
Italy has 84 Divisions and 11 wings
The Axis minors have 81 divisions mostly Romanian and 9 wings
Finland has 24 Divisions and 2 wings.

It should be noted that the SU has 6 amour and 12 motorized divisions, while Germany has no amour but 48 mechanized and 12 motorized divisions.
Qualitative information is however sparse.

Most of the Italian force is still in Italy or North Africa. As can be seen, the Axis are outnumbered on the whole both on the ground and in the Air

In naval action, the Axis lost greatly early in the war, both Italy and Germany have no surface combatants left and only 4 and 19 subs left from a combined high of over 40.
 
To follow will be a letter on strategy, and a comparason of forces in the Pacific theatre. I will show what I've done with the US fleet.
I will also write up a letter on production.

These take quite a bit of time so bear with me. I kinda like this letter format, not as hard as doing dialog, but still comes across authenticish.
 
It is much harder then I thought, not the game, hell taking the US is almost like cheat mode, but the write ups take forever.

I think I will have to cut back on some of the detail I was planning.

I did some play testings for a couple of months, no commanders assigned or anything. I discovered that guam has a land attachment to 2 Jap island chains, silly me, costal fort of 5 and not a single land fort, sigh.
 
Re: The War against Japan.


Land forces

The Japanese currently have 126 divisions including 9 marine divisions. The Chinese have about 200 mostly low grade divisions. We have placed an Infantry division on all non terriroties outside of the lower 48, with a second one on guam. These divisions all have Eng support for extra defensive ability.
Said territories have also had their defensive ability enhanced via construction with fortrification and anti air abilties. [ed costal of 5 AA of around 8 to 10]. Except for Guam which is too close to Japanese held islands, the rest should be able to handle anything tossed at them as long as the Chinese stay in the war

Air

The Japanese have a total of 63 air units including 25 fighters and 23 naval units. We have 2 tac and 1 strategic bomber in theatre and 5 naval bombers on aircraft carriers. We have been caught in the middle of building up our forces.

Naval

According to Intel the Japanese have 10 Battleships, 36 Cruisers 42 Destroyer units, 5 carriers, 29 sub units and 76 Transport units.

Our forces and plans are as follows

We have on Kiska, Wake and both coasts a unit of 1 BB, 5 CA and 6 DD to deal with local threats. On Panama we have a 6 CA 6 DD fleet for the same purpose and a 1 CA 1 DD fleet in San Juan.

On Guam we have 12 older class subs, who will operate vs the Japanese pacific islands as one group. In Attu we have a fleet of 5 older subs and 12 electric sub the former to operate on the northern coast of Japan, the latter to intradict Japanese supplies to Taiwan and Japan.

Our main battle fleet is in two parts.
One is a 5 carrier task force which is still being supplied with planes, supported by 3 BB and 4 DD
The other is 2 CA, 3 DD and 7 BB surface combat fleet.
Untill the full compliment of planes is avalable they will avoid carrier to carrier action. There is a large Japanese fleet in the mid pacific they will focus on.
We expect both fleets to operate near each other at all times, the CTF to provide softening up, the surface fleet to finish off.

The first task of course will be to destry the Japanese navy, hopefully much progress will be made on this point by the time extra ground forces are ready for action.
 
BTW I lost one of my battleships due to ahem error, while upgrading.

12 of the destoryers are the advanced type. I did cancel some of the CA and DD that were in the build queue at the start of the game, 2 to 3 IC for 2 years was too much.

I suppose I should move 2 BB from the smaller fleets in trade for the 2 CA, oh well too late now.

Next post. Production.
 
Re Production

We currently expect the following both from pre orders and newly ordered war production

10 P 38 Long Range fighters. ETA 10 days
4 Enf reinforced Inf. ETA 45
12 advanced DD. ETA some 2 months, some 3 months
3 TP 3 days
11 Advanced BB ETA Oct 43
5 Enterpise CV ETA April 44
12 Nav Bombers June 42
6 Marine Divisions with Arty support Aug 42

Much of our research is reaching the point of diminishing returns [As in I have some tech trees almost done, and am having trouble finding green techs for my 550 IC] such efforts can be put towards production

When current production is done, for simplicty sakes, more of the same will replace it, with destroyers and subs having the same cost they will be interchanged as needed.

Eventual fleet plans are to have 6 fleets of 6 CA and 6 DD, 36 subs and 2 main fleets, one of 5 CV 3 BB and 4 DD, the other of 8 BB and 4 DD. All of the latest designs

We currently have 19 DD and 12 subs.

Once the new production is ready [and orged up] they will join the fleets. Should the current fleets not have suffered enough damage to make room, they will be taken off duty for upgrades and used to form additional disposable units.

Should the war end before the BB and CV become ready, it will not be a total loss as the current ships by then will be due for replacement, and in peace time will be decommisioned.
 
Jan 15th Action report

2 huge actions have taken place between our sub forces and the Japanese Navy

Our fleet of 12 electric subs from attu took on a fleet of about 20 to 30 Japanese ships off the NE coast of Japan sinking it without loss. One ship had to return to port for repairs, the rest continue on its mission to intradict traffic to the south of Japan

Off Bonn, our fleet of 12 older subs from Guam have suprised a fleet of about 50 Japanese ships in transit. Due to the large numbers of ships the Japanese were caught completely off guard. The action is continuing, so far only 1 American Sub has been lost, and the Japanese fleet is down to 9 subs.

An invasion force of wake of about 10 ships, mostly transport have been sunk just off of wake by carrier planes.

The Akagi and 11 escors and transports have been caught by the Wake island cruiser fleet and is being engaged. One DD has been sunk on our side, and the akagi is listing heavily. No planes have been launched.

The cental pacific is clear, our main battle fleet is heading west. reinforced by 4 p 38 lightnings.
 
Jan 21
The Bonn Islands action still continues, subs on neither side able to do much damage to the other, however our subs are in the way of their convoys, theirs are not in a position to do damage to us.
13 air units on the islands themselves make it risky at this point to dedicate CTF airpower to the action

The Akagi was sink, there was another unnamed carrier with it, but the fleet got away before identification could happen, The Wake fleet found the Japanese fleet again and with the help of CTF air power sunk it.

Our intel has established that our task of finishing of the Japanese Navy is mostly done

All 10 Battleships and 5 carriers have been sunk
29 of 36 Crusiers, and 22 of 42 Destroyers have also been sunk
Only 6 of the 29 subs have been found, and they still have 47 out of 76 transports.

We have lost 1 cruiser and one destoryer as well as 2 subs.

Our technological dominance in combination with some luck in our subs catching huge fleets in transit is responsible for our victory.

Our current production of Lightnings is done, we are waiting about a month and a half for the advanced Lightnings to become avalable before producing another 10.

Next step is the send the carriers to various ports unprotected by land air and start point the fleets. We will base air power in guam and start to attack Japanese air power in Bonn.
 
Update
The battle of Bonn islands has ended with the intervention of the attu CA fleet.
In addition the Japanese fleet stationed at Paleu has over the course of several days of bombing from CTF aircraft have been destroyed.

Japanese numbers are now down to 5 CA, 1 DD, 11 subs and 19 transports.

6 P 38s were launched at 13 air units over the bonn islands but were quickly overwhelmed due to lack of expereince. [Org was only 25 not 40, new units] In the future we must allow pilots more time to get experience on their new aircraft.
 
Looks like upon further consideration I should put the BB and CV's on hold and get some ground pounders into production ;)
 
March 24 1942


We have a major victory in the air war. After fully resting up our fighters managed to take on the large 12 unit Japanese fighter wing and beat them. With the help of carrier fighter and naval air also regrouping on Guam we managed to not only beat them, but finish them off. With this one victory the Japanese fighter command is now halved.
Their naval bombers for the most part have not been seen, they must be in use against the Chinese

The area is still not safe, a 4 to 5 division force is bearing down on guam from the north. Tactical air strikes have done little damage so far. Both our defending units are dug in, and have eng units attached, and are effectivly defending a salt water crossing. We should be able to send in signifcant battleship support. The loss of Guam would be unfortunate. There is some consideration to reinforcing the garrison from other islands.

Further to this point. As the Japanese navy is now no more, with little loss of ships, we are considering gathering up the various infantry units guarding the islands and using them to reinforce guam and to make landings on undefended beaches. As long as we hold Panama, and Hawaii, none of the other isolated islands are significant should we lose them at most for a few months.

There has been some discussion on how best to deal with China. Considering the inept nature of the regime, and the unacceptablity of taking care of Japan only to pass the Viets and Koreans from one forign rule to another, the plan is to as soon as possible make landings in both these regions starting with the spare garrason units, then with the 12 arty enchanced divisions. The hope is to liberate these regions before the Chinese and then ASAP to give them independence.

The next generationof P 38 fighter is out, and it is a wonderfull machine. A much better dogfighter and an extra 200 miles of range.
We also have 6 more destroyers undergoing trials at wake and should be ready for action within a month.

The blockade of Japan goes will, they seem to have an endless supply of transports, we must of sunk over 500 by now. None of their convoys are escorted thankfully. Our subs have been reinforced by all other naval units in this duty, but it is difficult to keep in top form with the high tempo of operations. The Atlantic, West coast and Panama Cruiser fleets are being brought into the action. This leaves only one CA and 1 DD for the entire east coast, but as the German navy is down to 1 sub and Italy to 4, it is an acceptable risk, especially as we are not at war in that theatre. The extra units should allow for better rotation. Some units also desperately need a refit.

In Europe the Eastern front is stable, in the north and central. The Germans have Lvov, the Russians have Memel. Bulgaria being annexed. Romania has lost all but a bit of territory to the south west, including the capital and the oil fields of ploisti. The Hungarians are back to their original borders having lost their Romanian additions. The Germans have limited forces on their Hungarian Austrian border but have not intervined.

In Finland the Russians made yet another advance further north and hold 3 border provinces above Lake Lagoda,

Italy is holding at this point with no significant changes. 4 UK divisions have landed in Naples against 13 defending divisions, we do not expect a success here unless there are reinforcements.

Vichy France is heavily reduced. The South Africans have taken most of the North African coast, the British have taken northern Tusinea and now have the last two coastal Lybian provinces on both sides. The Free French have taken about have of the other african lands.

IN France itself the French have taken about a third of Vichy France away. There is a German counter attack, however the Germans are heavily outnumbered on the rest of the front, in some cases with a minimal presence [no units] should the French be agressive they might reach Berlin before the Russians. On the French Italian Front they also have the advantage of numbers.

There is a huge army force in the UK, we should see some interesting action from them soon. It looks like our help was not needed anyways.
 
Germany needs to get it hands on the Czech resources, otherwise they end up like this.
You seem to be doing fine, with the Japanese fleet all but destroyed. Just be careful that you don't run into their naval bombers. Now you can start plotting the invasion of Japan, you don't want to wait until you get nukes, right?
IMO, it would be better to separate your group of five carriers. That's a bit risky formation, as you can lose all five in a single battle. I usually use three carriers + some large surface ships to soak up the enemy fire.
Maybe you can heat up the Cold War if the Soviets get all of Germany ;)
 
Germany is doing well in france, but can't seen to do anything vs the USSR, they almost made it from lvov to the Black sea coast, then cut off again. Constantly they make deep thrusts only to get them cut of at the base to lose their units.

As for the carriers, my nav planes were long range enough that I could hit the next sea zone, even if their ships last long enough to get to my sea zone, they still have to find me, and I got my battleship fleet there to hit them.

Also I need those 5 carriers together if I am going to have a 4 stack of fighters, and a credable nav bomber force of 5 or 6. Without fighters you can't take on enemy carriers with air, and without 5 or 6 nav bombers you can't brutalize enemy fleets.

With torp planes and their short range it is much riskier perhaps as you can't reach out to the next sea zone.

Also who dares wins as the SAS says ;). Odds of winning go up with concentration of force. If I lose I still have plenty of unsinkable CV like guam and wake, well forted and anti aired.

I did have 3 BB with the CTF BTW.


As for now I don't really need carriers. I got the kurils north of Japan with a 12 fleet of nav bombers that can reach most of the Jap ports, a 3 fleet of the latest modle P 38s. My blocake fleed almost never finds a fleet except for a rare one going to Korea which gets hammered. I don't even have any air units on my carriers, they are there just to sink transports.
I also manged to land in an undefended Hanoi with 7 eng enhanced units. I used my carriers just before to clear the area of fighters. I really need more units there to clear our the Japanese as we are roughly matched, but I still have a strike force to attack, they are spread out and can't gain enough advantage to make an attack in a Jungle.

For some reason their nav bombers are still deep in china. If they try to mess with my blocake fleet, by 1000 mile lightnings will make short work of them. The later P 38s have much higher attack and defend values then the early ones. Me, I use airpower heavily, once I got air superiorty I get a 12 stack of bombers and press that paper clip and hammer away till everything is dead and move to the next territory. If the computer did that earlier with their nav bombers I could of been in trouble, only my carrier and its 4 fighters would have been safe.
 
Spet 10 1942

Victory in the Air. The Japanese air force is no more. During attempts to land in north west Korea the Japanese finally send their bombers to intercept. Facing off against almost 2000 Japanese aircraft, our 400 fighters of the CTF fought forced them to retreat. After landings in Koshu in the south west of Korea, we were able to transfer a fighter and a naval bomber unit from the kurils to Korea. In a series of hard fought actions mostly over the Yellow sea the Japanese air force was destoryed. The biggest wins were during the attempt by the Japanese to move its air force in smaller alloctments from China to Japan and Bonin which was under attack by this time. Such transfers took place either over or next to the Koshu based units. Some units did make it to Bonin and they were finished on by guam based units.

On the Pacific island front we have as of now cleared all the islands of the Japanese. Our 6 division corp of Marines made three landings to finish off the remaining units, while regular Army units made unopposed landings in island hopping style.

We have taken south Taiwan and will soon take an undefended northern part of the island, and Okanawi [naha] and now have Japan pretty much surrounted

This leaves 6 marine divisions avalable for operations vs Japan, to be supported by 3 army divisions currently holding guam. Japan is heavily garrasoned, but there are a few weak spots. Hiroshima looks promising as it is lightly defended by 2 divisions and has significant resources the Japanese need to continue the war effort. There might be some troubles holding on to it untill reinforcements can be made but it is worth the risk.

Our operations in Korea have made wonderfull progress. Our 12 divisions in Koshu beat off a Japanese counter attack. 10 divisions have moved north. 7 of these divisions will move to towars Pusan in the South East to eliminate some enemy concentations. The other 3 of the 10 will move north and east though mostly undefended territory.
We have made a further landing of 3 divisions to the North West of Korea. 2 of these divisions are currenting moving into china and one into eastern Korea. The Chinese Japanese front is far from the region, we should be able to clear Korea long before help arrives. There is a substantial 4 to 5 division Japanese force on an island to the south of Korea however there is no rush, and the island serves as a prision camp [no VPs] We have 2 divisions opposite which should be able to oppose any landings.

IN French Indochina we have achived our initial goals. Both Northern Loas and Vietnam around Hanoi and to the north are ours, are are safe, we are equal in numbers to the Japanese on all fronts and the Jungle terrain makes defense easy. A 3 division assult towards south Loas was defeated with small loss of life. It will however take some time before the units are ready for combat again. The Japanese have DoWed the Philipenas about 6 months ago. Except for one small attempt at a landing which was sunk by us before it could succeed there has been no action by either party. We will most likely accept an offer of help and allow them to ferry units from the PI to Hanoi for operations south.

Our Blockade still is strong. After a period of little action the Japanese tried to send out sizable convoys to Korea and Bonin but these were defeated. Currently it is a quiet time again. With the loss of the Pacific holdings we will probably focus out blockade efforts around the coast of China and Korea rather then around Japan.

In broader news Finland should not last much longer against the Soviet Union. Soveit divisions have advanced along a broad front north of Helsinki. Of the original lands the SU demanded Finland only holds the frontier with Leningrad and the nickle mines to the far north.

The Germans have made yet another advance through Memel to Latvia but as of this point they have not taken Estonia again. Should they lose Memel it will be a major blow as signifcant forces have been cut off

Hungary has fallen. Russians hold Nurinburg Munich and Wurzburg. The Germans hold Salzburg which is supplied through Innsburck. The Germans still hold the Austrian border territories with Italy. The Russians outnumber the Germans over 7 to 1 in the region.

The invasion of France though the south has been defeated, although the French still have 70 divisions.

Italy lost all its posessions off Greece. They have taken south Tusinea and Vicy France holds Tunis and Batna. Lybia is now under British control.

Our expects are still shocked that the British have been unable to make and keep a significant landing somewhere in Europe. There is a 12 Division Canadian and 2 spare 12 division UK armies sitting in England, and the Germans have little in Northern France.

In the Air the combined total number of air units on both sides is about 70 each. Our Air Force is now the second largest at 40 units, and we should be over 60 with the largest within 6 months.

Germany has 7 Subs, Italy has 9, they both have a small number of transports.

The Russians have 370 Divisions with 15 Mot 13 Mech and 6 Armoured.
The Germans have 130 Divisions with 6 Mot 37 Mech and 6 Armoured.
Finland has 23 Divisions
The UK has 94 Divisions
The Commonwealth has another 95, Canada with half that total.
France as mentioned earlier has 70

The Chinese have 190 Divisions still mostly low quality. They still have 1 Armoured division left.
The Communist Chinese have 43 Divisions
The Japanese have 127 Divisions. About a quarter of them are not much better then the typical Chinese Division [aka Milita]. We see this as a sign of economic trouble. 46 Divisions are on the Home Islands. 17 are in Korea, There are 4 in French Indo China.
 
I gotta uninstall this game and put a drill bit through the CD sometime ;)

Anyhow

March 1943

The long awaited conquest of Japan is finsihed about a year and a month after the war started [feb 42]. A 6 division Marine landing was made at Osaka against an undefended beachhead, and no counterattacked. A further 3 divisions from Guam were landed in Hiroshima. Little progress was made untill the first of 12 tac bombers units showed up on the scene. After giving them a little time [35 org out of a max of 65] to get settled they went to work. Single handedly they cleared out entire divisions allowing our armies to walk on through. Being at the end of a long logistics chain, our armies are having trouble with even odds especially in the mountains. Two 1 on 1 division attacks were repulsed dispite the use of fighers and navy air attacks in a ground attack role.

Korea has also been liberated and our armies are moving into northern China which after the bombers get to work will be empty of enemy troops.

After a few hairy moments French Indochina was also liberated. A Japanese counter attack from the north made it to within 50 miles of Hanoi [ie the border province above Hanoi] with 4 divisions vs 1, but quick movements of additional units to the region, air power and lethergy stopped the advance. The move to the south was easier with fighters and naval bombers attacking combined with a lack of supply leaving the enemy weak. I landing on Saigon via our Army unit in the PI helped.

After the Conquest of Japan, we started to move our units to China. Landings are being made along all avalable beachheads to the south of Shaighhai. Mostly 1 division in strenght, 3 were landed in Shanghai and 4 more will be landed to the extreme south. There are 6 marine divisions in Japan they will be landed in northern China as transport allows.

All production has been stopped as the there is more then enough force in theatre to finish the Japanese. It does seem we will have to do the work outselves as the Chinese seem unwilling to advance even when the way has been cleared by out bombers.

An offer of alliance by the UK has been refused without consideration due to standard policy of isolationism.

Future plans are to liberate the rest of China and then if possible [if the game will let me] we can return the territories to the rightfull owners and we can rebuild Japan as a Democracy.

Finland has been cut in half, it retains only those provinces along the coast except for Oulu, it also retains the two regions that border Norway and Sweden. Locally the Finland army is larger, but the Soviet Union has a much larger airforce, and is running massive 700 bomber air raids.

The Axis hold on to Tunis and the Eastern parts of the Algerian coastline. with sizable units [for some reason units are marked at Italian, yet show Vichy markings, the land is consiered Vichy.] The Axis outnumber the allies at this point 2 to one in the area. Western Algeria is wide open for attack

The Allies have landed 30 divisions in Southern France, and have a beachhead. It remains to be seen if they can exploit this opening.

The Eastern front shortened considerably from the time of the last letter.
In Poland the Russians have Memel, Lvov and areas east of the Bug river. Dispite almost 2 years of war, the border still remains basically where it was at the start. The Germans are holding dispite being outnumbered 4 to 1

The Austrian front is very different. The Germans hold the Wurtzburg, Munich Innsbruck line while the Russians hold Nurinburg, Slasburg and Klagenfurt. The front runs from near the western tip of Czechoslovakia to just east of the Italian, Austiran Yugoslavian border. The Soviets outnumber the Germans on the ground by a 2.5 to 1 margin.

In the Air the UK has 47 units, the Germans have 39 and the Soviet Union has 28. The Commonwealth and the Italians have about 10 each. Combined the SU and UK have twice as many fighters, similar amounts of Dive bombers and more of every other class of plane. As this lead seems to be growing, the ground battle may turn soon.

Germany has 15 subs, Italy has 6.

The Divisional count has changed little from the last report. Finland has 21 divisions of unknown strength [being beaten back, they either must be below strength or have little org] Japan has 40 divisions facing the Chinese.
 
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