Cebu and Bohol

26.3.1945 - 20.6.1945

PacPG: 1.4.1945 - 28.5.1945

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7.1.2007
14.8.2011 		  
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A completely new scenario. The liberation of the Philippine islands of Cebu and Bohol.

Historic overview:

Operation codename: Victor II
Long time before the collapse of the Japanese resistance on the Zamboanga peninsula and the Sulu archipelago, Gen. Eichelberger gave the order to commence operations to liberate the islands of Panay, Negros, Cebu and Bohol, forming the southern part of the Visayas archipelago. The task of occupying the northern part of Panay and Negros, called Negros Occidental, fell to the 40th Division and the 503rd airborne regimental combat group. The southern part of Negros, called Negros Oriental, Cebu and Bohol received the famous Americal Division, which had won laurels at Guadalcanal and in early 1945 participated in the mopping up operations on Leyte. When the operations against the southern islands of the Visayas archipelago started, this island group was completely isolated from the rest of the Philippine archipelago: to the north Mindoro was in the hands of the Allies as were the most important areas of Luzon, to the south the Zamboanga Peninsula and the Sulu archipelago, to the west Palawan and to the east Leyte and Samar. The Japanese troops located in the southern Visayas found themselves in a trap from which there was no escape, because all the retreating routes had been dominated by the Allied Navy and Air Force. (Miloš Hubáček - Boj o Filipíny, Panorama 1990)

Article on English Wikipedia

Scenario in dates:
May 27, 1942: South Pacific - The infantry division Americal is activated on the New Caledonia Island as the only US division built outside the United States. In spite of the fact that the US Army divisions are numbered numerically, at the request of its first commander, Major General Alexander Patch, who formed it from three individual National Guard regiments sent hurriedly from the United States after Pearl Harbor attack, accepts the name resulting from the abbreviation "American, New Caledonian Division". The division will later fight in Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and mop-up operations in the Philippines, but will be most notoriously known for the massacre in the village of My Lai during the war in Vietnam.
March 31, 1944: In the Philippines - Admiral Koga, Commander in Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleets Fleet, is killed in an airplane accident. During withdrawal from Palau Islands to the Philippine Islands, the flying boat aboard crashed into the sea during a typhoon. Political differences in the Japanese hierarchy prevent the immediate appointment of a successor. The aircraft of Chief of Staff Admiral Fukudome in the typhoon also crashes, but the Admiral survives and is captured by the Philippine guerrillas at Cebu Island. However, he will soon be released (see April 9).
April 9, 1944: In the Philippines - On the island of Cebu in a hopeless situation, persecuted by the superiority of the Japanese ruthlessly massacring and firing villages of civilians, US Army Lt. Col. James M. Cushing, commander of the local Philippine guerrilla organization, issues 10 Japanese prisoners, survivals of March 31 aicraft crash, in exchange for a three-day ceasefire and cessation of repression against the civilian population. Admiral Fukudome, Chief of Staff of the Combined Fleet, and the only high-ranking Japanese officer who has not only been captured in the Pacific War, but throughout Japanese history, is free. The Japanese will keep the deal, but they do not know that Cushing is in possession and will later send to the Allies complete plans for the deployment and strategy of the Japanese Navy for 1944, which meanwhile washed up the sea from Fukudome´s aircraft.
October 16, 1944: In the Philippines - Land-based aircraft of US 13th and 5th Air Forces, from Biak, Sansapor and Morotai, attack targets on Mindanao. US Task Group 77.4 (Admiral TF Sprague), with 18 escort carriers, launches air strikes on Leyte, Cebu and Mindanao.
March 26, 1945: In the Philippines - About 14,000 men commanded by General Arnold and drawn from the units of the Americal Division land just south of Cebu City on the island of Cebu. Admiral Berkey leads a bombardment group in support.
March 27, 1945: In the Philippines - Cebu City is captured by the US landing force. As on the other islands, the Japanese are beginning to withdraw to inland strongholds where they will be confined and worn down by Filipino forces. Only on Luzon, Mindanao and Negros will the prolonged presence of US troops be necessary. In Manila Bay, an American force lands on Caballo Island, better known to the Americans as Fort Hughes, where they encounter strong Japanese resistance.
April 11, 1945: In the Philippines - Units of the Americal Division land on Bohol.
June 20, 1945: In the Philippines - On Luzon, Filipino guerrillas advance up the Cagayan valley from Aparri and liberate the town of Tuguegarao. The American regimental task force enters Aparri while elements of the US 37th Division advances 2.5 miles north of Ilagan. The Philippine guerrillas in the area are led by General Donald Blackburn, who managed to avoid capture in Bataan in 1942 and subsequently organized a several thousand guerrilla unit. Meanwhile, the US 8th Army headquarters announces that operations to recapture the islands of Panay, Negros, Cebu, Bohol and Palawan, as well as the western part of Mindanao, are completed.

Literature sources:
Hubáček, Miloš: Boj o Filipíny (Fight for Philippines),   Paseka, 2005, Praha, Litomyšl
Moskin, J. Robert: The U.S. marine corps story,   Laser - books, 1997, Plzeň
Hata, Izawa, Sh, Ikuhiro, Yasuho, Christopher: Japanese army air force fighter units and their aces, 1931-1945,   DOBROVSKÝ s.r.o., 2007, Praha
Hrbek, Jaroslav, Hrbek Ivan: Vítězství přichází z moře (Victory comes from sea),   Naše vojsko, 1999, Praha
Pejčoch, Ivo: Ko-Hyoteki japonské miniponorky (Ko-Hyoteki Japanese minisubmarines),  HPM No. 12/2005

Game play matters:

Campaign play:
This scenario is not part of any campaign, it can be run only as single.

Scenario data:

Map size: 55 x 51 hexes
20 turns, 3 days per turn
Version: PacAGPG 2, Starting side: Allies, Campaign: Single scenario, Order in campaign: 0.
Allied states:    USA, Philippines
Axis states:    Japan
Neutral states:    -
Allies:    attack
Axis:    defend
Experience of Allied purchased units:   
Experience of Axis purchased units:   
Climate region:    Oceania, tropics
Weather character in region:    Rain regularly all year round.
Game time costingness of scenario:    28.83 %
(product of units and turns numbers divided by difference between the most long and the most short scenario)
Number of Allied units:
56 units, from them are 0 core units and 56 auxiliary units
4 air units, 2 naval units and 50 ground units
0 of units are loaded to air transport and 8 to naval transport
 Transports Air/Naval:
Allies - Axis

2/18 - 0/1
Number of Axis units:
74 units
0 air units, 0 naval units and 74 ground units
0 of units are loaded to air transport and 0 to naval transport
Initial prestige + every turn donation:
Allies / Axis

250 + 0 / 500 + 75
Max number of Allied units:
58 units, from them are 2 core units and 56 auxiliary units
- on start of scenario is possible to purchase 2 unit
   (2 core + 0 auxiliary)
Max number of Axis units:
75 units
- on start of scenario is possible to purchase 1 units
Transport units:
Allies - air:    C-47 Dakota
Axis - air:    not available
Allies - naval:    AF Transport
Axis - naval:    Transport

Victory conditions:

This scenario is single, not part of any campaign. Victory is not differentiated in Major and Minor - all strategic objectives must be token up to last turn.

Battle participated units:

   Complete list of all units on map including coordinates, strenght, experience etc.

 List of types participated units
Allied units:

Flamethrower Infantry (USA)
Para 43 (USA)
Infantry HW 43 (USA)
Infantry 43 (USA)
Bridge Engineers (USA)
M24 Chaffee (USA)
LVT (A)-4 (USA)
M4A1 Sherman (USA)
Sherman POA (USA)
M5 Stuart (USA)
US M8 Greyhound Light Armored Car (USA)
US 57mm ATG (USA)
US 155mm Gun (USA)
US M4A3 (105) (USA)
US M16 (USA)
US M15A1 (USA)
F6F Hellcat (USA)
SB2C Helldiver (USA)
Destroyer (USA)
Light Cruiser (USA)
US M2 Halftruck (USA)
US GM Truck (USA)
LVT-2 Water Buffalo (USA)
AF Transport (USA)
Partisans (Philippines)
Infantry 1936 (Philippines)
3´´ AD (Philippines)
AF Truck (Philippines)
 Axis units:

Kyoka Hohei 1943 (Infantry HW 1943) (Japan)
Hohei 1943 (Infantry 1943) (Japan)
Type 1 Chi-He (Japan)
Type 95 Ha-Go (Japan)
Type 1 47mm (Japan)
Meiji 38 Improved 75mm Field Gun (Japan)
Type 98 20mm (Japan)
Type 88 75mm (Japan)
Strong Point (Japan)

The same time period scenarios:

Okinawa (PacAGPG 1), Burma 44-45 (PacAGPG 2), Buin (PacAGPG 2), Borneo 1945 (PacAGPG 2), Mindanao (PacAGPG 2), Cebu and Bohol (PacAGPG 2), Negros (PacAGPG 2), San Francisco (PacPG 1), Okinawa (PacPG 1), Okinawa North (PacAGPG 1)

Map names list:

Aglo Point
Airfield
Apo Island
Argao
Baasan Island
Bacolod
Bacolod Airstrip
Bago River
Balicasag Island
Banacon Island
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