"The Giretsu Kūteitai Raid on Yontan Airfield, Okinawa" Topic

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Editor in Chief Bill	05 Nov 2025 7:38 a.m. PST
During the last year of the Pacific War the Japanese situation became increasingly desperate. The Home Islands were isolated by the U.S. submarine blockade, island garrisons were cut off or eliminated, and USAAF B-29 Superfortress had begun their bombing campaign. One of the more desperate Japanese operations in response was the Giretsu Kūteitai Raid which had the goal of inserting paratroopers onto U.S. airfields in transports… Inch High Guy: link
John the OFM	05 Nov 2025 8:19 a.m. PST
Interesting. I had never heard of that before. 👍 Have you gamed it?
Major Mike	05 Nov 2025 8:49 a.m. PST
Something that would make a great skirmish game.
79thPA	05 Nov 2025 10:54 a.m. PST
There was an amateur sculpter who made a small range of 15mm Japanese paratroopers at one point in time. Certainly something different to put on the table.
fantasque	05 Nov 2025 1:44 p.m. PST
How interesting and completely new to me. A brave if desperate and largely pointless operation.
Berzerker73	05 Nov 2025 2:13 p.m. PST
At that stage of the war most Japanese operations were pointless but brave. It could be a fun scenario to game out.
John the OFM	05 Nov 2025 6:29 p.m. PST
A brave if desperate and largely pointless operation. "Did we win? Did we fulfill our victory conditions?" 🙄 Pointless question. The Japanese should never take a morale check. If you want to, you can expect them to gain "X" victory points. But then you're dead. 🤷🙄 If you think you did well, you did well. Just kill things and have fun. I would play.

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