America: My Third TL

[Admiral Halsey]

it'll be a little longer than that. i still have some things i wanna do first

Fair enough. Plus I forgot how long it takes to make the first generation ones so a wait of a 6 months to a year while they build up the stockpile would be expected. This isn't OTL Japan where we knew that we'd only need 1-2 max. This is a situation where you wanna hammer them with as many as you can at once and destroy as much as possible with them. 20-30 nuke apiece for the European and Pacific theaters would be what I think is needed to win the war in one go.

 

[herricks]

The Sun & the Dragon

Although Japan & the Allies now had the same enemy Japan, unlike Britain, had not aligned with the Allies & were only a co-belligerent. They had agreed to assist each other by retrieving & returning any POW's or downed pilots & sailors that they rescued. However when US Ambassador to Japan William Sebald requested on President Garner's behalf that Japan let the US use it as a staging ground to launch operations on China & Russia Japan completely refused. So the northern front of the Pacific theater continued to be a more or less one on one show between China & Japan.

With China now engaged in a bitter fight for naval supremacy with the Allies the Chinese Navy's dominance in the seas around Japan had weakened. The Imperial Japanese Navy was quick to take advantage of this weakening & on October 18 a fleet of 4 carriers, 4 battleships, 4 heavy cruisers, 6 light cruisers, & 18 destroyers left Japan & began sailing towards the Yellow Sea. 4 days later the two navies met at 70 miles off the Shandong peninsula. With so much of it vessels focused on the south the Chinese fleet that sailed to counter Japan held only a single carrier, 5 battleships, a heavy cruiser, & 10 destroyers at its disposal though over 150 land based aircraft were stationed close enough to reach the Japanese. At 0815 on October 24 the Battle off Shandong began with Japanese aircraft finding the Chinese fleet. In a matter of minutes the air was filled with hot lead as the two sides fighter aircraft engaged one another in bitter dogfights. Japan had learned from past mistakes earlier in the war in naval air combat & in the first 25 minutes of battle Japanese aircraft had engulfed one battleship in flames (with many of its crewmen trapped in the inferno), another battleship had the front 50 feet of its bow blown off by a Japanese dive bomber & had sunk in minutes with nearly all of its crew, & its aircraft carrier had been struck in the rudder by a torpedo & was stuck turning starboard.

So far Japan had lost only 19 aircraft but by 0900 Chinese aircraft from the mainland arrived & made the playing field more equal. 40 minutes later it was China's turn to attack when its aircraft found the Japanese fleet & began to attack. Japanese defense proved stiffer than that of China's & before withdrawing the Chinese managed to hit only three warships of which only two were capital. One of these ships however was the massive supercarrier the Shinano that was struck by four torpedo's & was at the bottom 40 minutes later. The other non-capital ship was a light cruiser & would also sink. It however took over six hours to finally go down & so all but those who were killed during the attack or to seriously wounded to survive were rescued & thereby saved.

A second wave of Japanese aircraft reached the Chinese fleet at 1110. Though both sides had suffered losses of aircraft those of China were far greater & this time the weren't able to put up as much of a defense. Over the next 30 minutes, at the loss of only 10 aircraft, the Japanese had sunk the carrier, another battleship, the heavy cruiser, & a destroyer along with 57 aircraft. The second wave proved to be the last & the Battle off Shandong was a decisive Japanese victory. China had lost 6 ships with the majority of the survivors sustaining some degree of damage, 111 aircraft, & 4100 dead. While Japan had lost only two ships the Shinano had took nearly 2300 sailors with it along with 77 aircraft & 429 more dead.

The Japanese fleet sailed back to Japan battered but victorious. It seemed that the war was finally turning against China on all fronts now. Only time would tell if it was real, or just a temporary reprieve for the Allies & Japan.

 

[herricks]

Road Blocks

The devastating defeat sustained at the Battle of the Chambal ruined much of the Chinese Army in northern India. The Indian Army was able to capture Agra in mid August & by late September they were threatening to retake Dehli. However finally the Chinese had reinforced its forces in the north. The Second Battle of Dehli began on October 18 as Indian forces began assaulting Chinese defenses. China had been building up defenses around the Indian capital since the loss at the Chambal making the liberation a formidable obstacle for the Indians to overtake. The Second Battle of Dehli would rage for 73 days & would leave much of the city in ruin. 318,000 soldiers from each sides would be killed & wounded during the battle as well as 11,000 civilians. Finally on January 2,1947 the battle ended & what was left of the capital returned to Indian control.

In Bengal like northern India Indian forces were quick to follow up the Battle of Korba with a counteroffensive before the Chinese could reinforce themselves. Under the weight of the offensive the Chinese began withdrawing. For a month Chinese forces fought a slow retreat east. By mid September they were nearing the Ganges & that's where China stopped. Using the river as a barrier Chinese forces began to bombard Indian advance units on September 23. Indian troops quickly began digging in as more troops moved into position & the Battle of the Ganges began. The Battle of the Ganges would rage along twenty miles of the river as Indian troops attempted to flank the Chinese to no avail. Over & over Indian troops tried to successfully cross the river but were cut down every time. For three months the Battle of the Ganges went on before on December 27 Indian forces would withdraw to a more defensible line fifteen miles away from the river.

Asian warfront end of 1946

 

[herricks]

Allies on the Advance

While the influx of Russian troops into the Balkans had slowed the advance of the Allies it hadn't stopped them. Throughout January, daring assaults from Italo-German forces in Hungarian occupied Austria liberated most of the country. By early February the Allies had begun crossing into Hungary & were barely 50 miles from Vienna. With the Allied offensive in Austria using up men & resources that left few extra troops to be used in other areas in the Balkans. This meant that despite Serbian protesting there were no attempts by the Allies to finish removing Russian & Hungarian troops from its soil.

There was some new help beginning to make its way to the fronts in the form of Albanian & Greek divisions finally started arriving & freeing up some Italian troops in southern Serbia. This allowed the Italian & German Expeditionary forces & the few Turkish forces still fighting in Europe to renew their offensive in Bulgaria in February. Sofia fell on February 28 to the Allies. Falling along with the Bulgarian capital was nearly all of what remained of Bulgarian resistance against the Allies when two divisions of Bulgarian troops surrendered. While a few regiments of Bulgarian troops would remain loyal to the Russian cause the Bulgarian Republic existed in name only. Across the remainder of Bulgaria the Allies made gains. On March 6 German forces crossed the Tundzha & marched on Sliven taking it two weeks after. This allowed the Turkish troops moving up the coast towards Varna. On April 14 the Bulgarian coastal city would fall to the Turkish troops.

With Russia now being forced to fight more or less on its own along a front stretching from the Switzerland to the Black Sea & across the Middle East its strength on lesser fronts & in occupation had lessened. Germany saw this & sought to regain some much needed prestige & territory. With the help of Italian Alpine troops German forces fighting in the Alps launched a counter attack of its own on March 1 with the goal of gaining total control of the Alps. The process was slow but in five weeks the Allies had managed to drive the Russians from the mountains & even made some small inroads into Bavaria.

The Aleppo Massacre fueled the drive to destroy Russia in Turkey & the Allies. On January 3,1947 Allied forces moved out of Syria & into Anatolia. At Gaziantep American & Turkish armored led forces battled quickly & ferociously to seize the city from the division of Russian paratroopers, capturing it on January 17. Along with the city some 14,000 Russian soldiers surrendered. Unfortunately for them about 4500 of the surrendering Russians were found by the Turks first & nearly all would be mutilated & killed.

West of Gaziantep a British-led force would assault Adana on January 15. In Adana the Russian force was larger however & after 6 days the British withdrew to a more defensible position. Not until February 2 when two Egyptian & two Turkish divisions arrived would a second assault on the city began. Over the next two weeks Allied forces worked on breaking Russia's grip on Adana. Finally on February 18 Adana would come under Allied control with Russia retreating.

In Mesopotamia Turkish forces were relentlessly assaulting the Russians & driving them further & further north. On February 5 after a 9 day battle Kirkuk was liberated from Russian control. From there they marched on Mosul. Russian forces were digging in & fortifying the city the best they could as Beria had ordered the army to hold the city no matter the cost. On March 19 Turkish forces were within sight of Mosul & began bombarding the city starting the Battle of Mosul. For the next two months Mosul was virtually destroyed from the fighting. For both sides surrender was not an option as they knew what bloody fate awaited them if they did. Mosul would be drenched in Turkish & Russian blood as thousands fell almost daily. It wouldn't be until May 27 & after suffering nearly a million casualties did Russia finally withdraw.

 

[herricks]

Loki

At 0030 on April 9 Russian occupation soldiers were thrown from their beds by thunderous explosions. The waters off the Dutch coast were filled with British, American, German, Dutch, & Swedish warships ranging from destroyers to battleships were throwing thousands of shells into Russian positions & causing unimaginable chaos. Several thousand feet above the ensuing carnage hundreds of B-17's, B-24's, B-29's, Lancaster's & Lincoln bombers were blanketing Russian garrisons, supply depots, & airfields with hundreds of tons of explosives & the terrifying new weapon napalm. Attempts by the Russian Air Force to engage the bombing fleets were made however the Allies were throwing overwhelming numbers of fighter aircraft to support the bombing fleets & so despite taking out several Allied aircraft the Russians lost ten times more.

As dawn approached the bombardment subsided & the Russians prepared for what they knew was next. Russian intelligence had been watching for weeks as thousands of Allied troops & vehicles were moved to staging areas in southern England. As the hours dragged on through the day however there were no signs of an invasion. Soon though, sporadic messages would begin coming across Russian radio waves of intense fighting occurring not in the Low Countries but in Scandinavia.

The attack on the Netherlands, Operation Loki, was a ruse. The day before hundreds of Allied ships had set sail from Scotland & northern England for the Norwegian coast. As Operation Loki began pulverizing the Low Countries Operation Odin began one British & two American airborne division along with one Canadian brigade landed outside Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim, & Narvik. Throughout the night these paratroopers battled Russian forces for control of these ports. By 0600 only Narvik & Bergen remained in Russian control. Now however hundreds of landing craft were pushing their way towards the shore under the protection of naval guns & American, British, & German carriers aircraft. These were the first wave of three Allied armies that were invading Sweden. One American army under general Omar Bradley, one British army under Field Marshal Harold Alexander, & one Canadian led North American army of Canadian, Rio Grande, Yucatan, & Mexican divisions under General Harry Crerar.

While casualties would be sustained at every invasion point it would be Bergen where the Canadian invaders would suffer nearly 1000 dead & twice that wounded before Bergen fell. Over the next week Allied forces increased their perimeter as more troops & material arrived. On April 17 Allied forces renewed their offensive to liberate Sweden from Russian control. Allied forces in Sweden numbered nearly 900,000 compared to the roughly 325,000 Russians that remained as an occupation force. British forces, who had landed at Narvik, advanced quickly out of Norway & into northern Sweden within a week. Their goal was to reach the Gulf of Bothnia & cut off the land route into & out of Sweden & Norway which was achieved on April 23. By May British troops had reached the Finnish border & moving into Lapland as Russian reinforcements had finally arrived.

In southern Norway the US & North American forces faced stronger resistance but still drove forward. The Battle of Storen was the first attempt by Russia to stall the Allied advance. However after two days the battle ended & moved on into Sweden by the end of the month. Canadian led forces would advance across southern Norway almost unimpeded towards Oslo. From April 21-25 that changed when a Russian counterattack stalled them at Lillihammer before the Russians withdrew. To their south a second American force would sweep across the southern Norwegian coast with the only significant resistance for three days at Kristiansand. By May the two forces were converging on Norway's capital Oslo.



European Warfront end of April 1947

 

[herricks]

Crossing the Line in Indonesia

With the Java Sea under Allied control the ground war of the Java Campaign was swinging dramatically in Allied favor. From Djokjakarta American forces stormed forward on January 1 swinging northwest around the city of Semarang where Dutch forces had been battling 81,000 Chinese troops since late December. In less than two weeks US Marines were assaulting Chinese positions in the southern & western portions of the city & on January 17 succeeded in cutting 50,000 soldiers in the city off from retreat. The Battle of Semarang wouldn't end there however & instead would rage on for another month & a half. On March 6 the remaining 7700 Chinese soldiers still capable of fighting surrendered.

As the Battle of Semarang raged ANZAC forces would begin to make an effort in the war. On February 12 over 100,000 Australian & New Zealand troops landed in the Chinese occupied Lesser Sunda's. Most of the Lesser Sunda island held only a small garrison of Chinese troops & were conquered in a couple weeks but Bali was occupied by an entire division of Chinese Naval Infantry. The Battle of Bali would last more than eight weeks & deliver to the ANZAC's nearly 30,000 casualties before it was finally liberated on April 20.

 

[herricks]

Pressing on the fight

Like in Indonesia the Allies in India continued with their own advances. While the Battle of the Chambal & the Second Battle of Dehli had been great victories for India it had drained a lot of their manpower & so the army was forced to halt shortly after reentering Meerut to rebuild its forces. China was perfectly fine with that as their army was in even more dire shape than India's. While the army was being reinforced, India's other forces guarding its lesser fronts were set loose on one enemy that had continued to be a thorn in India's side.

On February 22 200,000 Indian, along with some South African & Australian forces, went on the offensive against the Afghan Army. The Afghan Army was in shambles. While Chinese reinforcements had stiffened Afghanistan's back temporarily, the loss at the Battle of the Chambal & the Second Battle of Dehli had caused China to withdraw its forces. The Indians quickly blew through Afghanistan's forward defenses & within three days had crossed into Afghanistan. From March 4-8 the Afghan's managed to temporarily hold the Allied advance at the Battle of Kandahar before the Afghan's were overwhelmed. By April over a third of Afghanistan was under Allied control. On April 7 Afghan Prime Minister Shah Mahmud Khan on behalf of King Mohammed Zahir Shah met with General Lesli Morshead in Ghazni to discuss terms to withdraw itself from the war. General Morshead demanded Afghanistan's unconditional surrender & allow itself to be occupied by the Allies to be used to attack into China & Russia. Morshead gave Khan five days to accept the terms of surrender.

Fearful that their weak ally would choose to save itself & open up new fronts to drain more of their manpower protecting Russia & China wouldn't give the Afghan government the opportunity to withdraw itself from the war & on April 10 several Russian & Chinese entered Afghanistan & gaining control of what wasn't already occupied by the Allies. On April 13 the Afghan government would agree to Allied terms & would switch sides with their remaining forces turning on Russia & China who had betrayed them.

Their failure at the Battle of the Ganges had sapped a lot of the spirit from the Indian Army. China's defenses along the river were nearly impenetrable & growing almost daily. The Ganges line had to be breached however & Allied leaders looked for a good way to get through or around them. For the time being the war in Bengal was down to just skirmishes along the stretch of river.

Asian Warfront April 1947

 

[Thehappyvampire]

Jesus, China must have hit the jack pot of military competence.

I bet Iran is feeling REALLY uncomfortable.

 

[herricks]

Jesus, China must have hit the jack pot of military competence.

I bet Iran is feeling REALLY uncomfortable.

they're TTL's Japan just with a shitload more people to throw around

 

[herricks]

The Wrath of Odin

Allied forces continued in their conquest to liberate Scandinavia from Russia. From May 13-21 Russian forces attempted to stop the US & North American forces at the Battle of Oslo. The overwhelming superiority of Allied military forces made the attempt a fools errand that cost Russia over 30,000. With Oslo liberated & all but he northernmost point of Norway in Allied hands the Swedish government returned to its own soil & setting up in Oslo in anticipation of Stockholm being liberated as well. Some Swedish ground forces, & the still powerful Swedish Navy, had been fighting alongside the Allies since shortly after the invasion starting Operation Odin, however now the some 60,000 remaining Swedish soldiers fighting in northern Italy began to return to fight at home.

As Sweden's army began returning home were still moving forward. US & the slowly rising Swedish force was moving towards Stockholm where 90,000 Russians were anxiously trying to evacuate to Finland. That would prove impossible however when on June 1 the US, German, British, & Swedish Navies broke through into the Baltic & destroyed what remained of the Russian Navy in the Baltic. On June 9 two regiments of Swedish Marines would land on Gotland & after two day battle defeated the small force of Russian Naval Infantry & airmen. Three days after the Battle of Gotland ended captured Aland without firing a shot. With their escape to the sea cut off & Allied forces on the outskirts of the city Russian forces in Stockholm would surrender on July 10.

As its Allies moved on Stockholm the Canadian led North American forces were pushing into Scania. Here another 45,000 Russian troops were trying to cross into Denmark when the Battle of Scania began on June 18. The Battle of Scania would be the first battle that was fought almost entirely by lesser satellite state forces. General Crerar, who would be promoted to Field Marshal during the battle, was determined not to let the Russians make it to mainland Europe & ordered his forces to relentlessly crush the Russian Army. For two weeks the Battle of Scania raged as the Canadian, Mexican, Yucatan, & Rio Grande army swept over the area killing or capturing every Russian they could. Finally on July 4 the battle came to an end with the remaining Russian force surrendering. Less than 3000 Russians had managed to escape into Denmark & the Battle of Scania was viewed as an amazing victory over a major power by lesser powers that was praised by all the Allies.

In Lapland the arrival of Russian reinforcements had slowed the British advance. While Lapland was slowly being liberated by the Allies it would be a long while before total victory was achieved here.

 

[herricks]

so what does everyone think of the way the war is going?

 

[The Uchronian]

Jesus, China must have hit the jack pot of military competence.

I bet Iran is feeling REALLY uncomfortable.

IMHO, if China hit the jackpot of military competence, the Russians must've hit the jackpot of sheer luck, given how far they managed to go before the Allies started pushing back.....

 

[Thehappyvampire]

IMHO, if China hit the jackpot of military competence, the Russians must've hit the jackpot of sheer luck, given how far they managed to go before the Allies started pushing back.....

Pretty much like Nazi Germany perhaps, the nations of Europe were really f***ing caught off-guard.

 

[The Uchronian]

Pretty much like Nazi Germany perhaps, the nations of Europe were really f***ing caught off-guard.

Maybe so, but I still found the extent of their conquests to be a little on the implausible side, TBH.

 

[herricks]

Maybe so, but I still found the extent of their conquests to be a little on the implausible side, TBH.

I was just looking at how much Germany was able to grab OTL and Russia is a lot more populated that Germany so I figured it was doable with the right luck

 

[herricks]

Crescent Advance

The world was growing more & more against Russia, China, & their allies. Since America's entrance into the war every nation in the Americas except for Cuba, Costa Rica, & Bolivia had declared war on Russia, China, or both. While the majority of these declarations only as a gesture of good will Argentina, Brazil, & Chile would participate in the war. By the summer 1947 a Brazilian Expeditionary Force of 65,000 & an Argentine Expeditionary Force of 35,000 had arrived in Syria where they were attached to General Patton's army. While not supplying any troops to the fight Chile was participating with its navy by taking over a significant portion of the American convoy's to Australia & the Asian Theater of the war. This was allowing the US to focus more of its own forces in other areas of the fight.

The war in Anatolia was turning worse for Russia. The collapse of Bulgaria had more or less ended the Siege of Constantinople & Russian forces withdrew from the city. This allowed Turkish forces to make gains from the city as they began the slow march toward Ankara. The Turks on this front were assisted by the arrival of 75,000 US troops landed at Smyrna on May 23 just days after the Russians had abandoned it. The Ankara Offensive began 5 days later with Allied forces began moving into Anatolia.

By the beginning of the offensive British led forces had reached Konya, the American led had reached Elaziĝ, the eastern Turkish forces were moving around Lake Van, & the western Turkish-American force were outside Afyonkarahisar. Fighting against the Allies on three sides Russian forces holding on to Ankara & the center of Anatolia were completely overwhelmed. In three weeks Ankara had been liberated by the Allies as had most of Anatolia. By August on Pontus would remain in Russian hands & they were beginning to quickly back into the Russian Caucasas for fear of being cut off by rapidly advancing Turkish troops.

 

[herricks]

Inferno

At 0130 Russian occupation forces in Holland & Germany were awakened by air raid sirens as hundreds of aircraft dropped their payload onto them. Allied bombing raids had increased in size & ferocity exponentially since the US & Britain entered the war. Although far from total domination of the air the Allies had been steadily wearing down the Russian Air Force destroying their airfields & fuel depots nearly as quickly as they could build them.

By 0230 the air raids had stopped & the night returned to a somewhat normal June 6 for the Russian occupation forces. Nobody seemed to notice that the aircraft hadn't flown the same flight pattern that they usually did from Britain or Italy. At 0400 they were woken again but this time not by sirens but by gunfire & explosions. Russian garrisons at Liege, Luxembourg, Metz, & Nancy were under attack by French paratroopers who had jumped into Germany during the aerial bombardment to help open the way for an invasion. Along with the paratroopers 2.1 million French & 1.8 million Spanish soldiers stormed across the border into Russian occupied Germany & Holland in a massive overwhelming invasion.

Operation Inferno, the codename for the Franco-Spanish invasion, had been in the works for months. After nearly a year of discussion & debate France had agreed to enter the war against Russia in exchange for the return of the territory it had lost at the end of the Great War in December 1945. The attack never came however & the Allies began to turn the tide against Russia on their own. With Russia withdrawing many of its garrison troops to reinforce the fronts it was time for France to strike.

In just four days Franco-Spanish forces had captured Belgian Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Antwerp, & all of its pre Great War territory along with 200,000 Russian prisoners. Russian forces would make stands at Saarbrucken & Cologne however these only held the French at bay for a few days. By the end of June Franco-Spanish forces had captured everything west of the Rhine. The Rhine had been getting reinforced by everything Russia could find however. From June 30 to July 12 the Battle of the Rhine was fought from the Dutch border to Strasbourg before Russia retreated. By August Franco-Spanish forces had taken all of Holland from Russia & were at the footsteps of Oldenburg, Münster, Frankfurt, & Stuttgart.

The onset of Operation Inferno brought a shock to the war in Europe on both sides. The assault also brought opportunities for the Allies. On July 3 German forces launched a new counteroffensive into Bavaria. The attack by France had rattled the Russian Army & its morale was severely shaken. On July 15 Munich was returned to German hands following a successful uprising of its citizens & German forces continued forward. The Slovakians, which made up nearly half of the force Germany was engaging, were totally outgunned & outmanned. On July 23 German & Spanish would meet one another at Reutlingen. As August came around Allied forces were moving into Bohemia while the main German thrust was moving on Nuremburg. The war was turning & the Allies were on the assault everywhere.

 

[Admiral Halsey]

Normally I would worry that the French and Spanish wouldn't keep their word and try to grab more territory then promised, but I think the allies ITTL have a bigger backbone and spine since they're fighting Russia.

 

[herricks]

Bloody Balkans

Along the Balkan Front things were continuing to go the Allies way. From the Black Sea to Austria the Allies were still on the advance. In Bulgaria German & Turkish forces fought the Battle of Dobruja from May 7 to June 1 before defeating the Russians & bringing all of what was Bulgaria under Allied control. In Serbia the Italo-Serbian-Greco force finally liberated Belgrade on May 29 & pushed the Hungarian & Russia forces out of Serbia & took the war to Hungarian lands. The Hungarian city of Pécs fell to the Serbians on June 20 & by late July the Allies were less than a hundred miles from the Hungarian capital Budapest. In Austria an Italian offensive, coincided with Germany's counteroffensive, began on July 7 to liberate Vienna from Hungary. After a month the city was liberated & the Italians followed the Germans into Bohemia.

European Warfront August 1947

 

[herricks]

Bloodbath

The Java Campaign was continuing to go the Allies way. On May 9 Chinese & Allied forces clashed again near the city of Bandung. For nearly a month Bandung was subject to fierce & intense fighting that left much of the city in ruins. Finally on June 1 the Battle of Bandung ended & the Chinese withdrew to their recently built defensive perimeters surrounding Jakarta. 33 days later the first line of defense was attacked in the Battle of Depok, the first engagement in the massive Battle of Jakarta.

For eleven days the Battle of Depok held before Allied forces broke the line entirely & the Chinese withdrew on July 15. Three days after that China's second defensive line was assaulted at the Battle of Pamulung. Chinese defenses at Pamulung held for only 8 days before it to was broken. China's third & final line defending Jakarta was attacked on July 25 at Ciracas. The Battle of Ciracas kept the Allies out of Jakarta for two weeks before it, like the two battles before it, ended in Allied victory. On August 15 the final stages of the Battle of Jakarta began subjecting the city to intense combat for over a month.

The month long battle, which culminated in a terrible bloodbath and total devastation of the city, was the scene of some of the the worst urban fighting in the Pacific Theater of the war. Allied & Chinese troops along with thousands of Indonesian civilians would be slaughtered in the unrelenting battle. On September 19 Jakarta was finally liberated by the Allies. 35,000 Chinese & 15,000 Allied troops would be killed & wounded in Jakarta alone along with over 100,000 Jakarta civilians that were killed as well. Despite the enormous casualty rate Java was finally completely under Allied control once more.

Aerial view of Jakarta after the battle