(A) Fulkerson vs Jap AI vers 7.0

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And then there was some action at Kuching:

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And then the Japs attacked Manila by air again:

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And then the B-17's did their daily raid on Bubble Drop:

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Here's how it went on the ground just south of Manila:

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And they are starting to give way at Lingayen:

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And of course, here's the combat report:

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Here's where the task forces are right now:

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I don't remember telling TF 166 to stop at Canton and fuel up but they did and I forgot to specify "do not unload" and they started
unloading P-26's at Canton Island. I'm not sure P-26's have the range to fly from island to island and I may have to enship them again
to get them to Oz.

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TF 170 holds those parts of the 34th Inf Rgt that couldn't be unloaded at Wake. These three parts of the 34th are the motorized
support and needs a pier crane or something to be unloaded and Wake didn't have one. So unless and until the port at Wake is
expanded these guys are just going to have to loiter at Pearl and I'll get them back to the 34th later on.

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I rounded up all the long-range empty transports and made a TF out of them. The are leaving for SFO now and I expect them to take
about 8 days getting to SFO. I've discovered that there's a lot of ships headed for Pearl from Oz and a lot of ships leaving Pearl for Oz
but there's not a whole lot of ships going inbetween SFO and Pearl. I'll rearrange as events permit.

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This is the traffic level at various places along the route. Some displays were edited to shorten them for posting.

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Supplies from Bombay are just now finally reaching Perth some 20+ days later.

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I threw together a bunch of long-range transports that were empty and called it a TF. I think maybe I have enough transports conveying
goodies to Oz, maybe another trip to the west coast is in order here.

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You can't actually see TF 258 'cause it's off screen to the north but it's a transport coming from Pearl w/ supplies and I'm supplying the
first islands I come to until they have a comfortable level of goodies and then I head west some more. I think the idea is to load up all the
islands between Oz and Pearl so I can use the smaller of the transports too. Mega traffic, everybody carrying their load.

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Aden is what I consider already tapped out but Abadan seems to have some more goodies to convey. But Abadan too, is just a one-shot
source and when Abadan is empty then the transports will seak other venues.

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I'm thinking that it might be a really grand thing if I dedicate TF 267 here to conveying resources from Port Hedland to Geraldton where
the railroads connect. I would also be shipping resources to other ports too, as a matter of course, but one ship doing nothing but the
route described above might get some resources to their destinations faster right now. Donno.

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TF 422 is carrying the 18th Division to Singapore. I only have a little doubt that it'll actually arrive at Singapore, I'm mostly optimistic that
they will get there.

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A lot of players have a magic charm that gives them good luck......well I have the AM townsville. I have it on very good authority that
having the AM Townsville stationed at Townsville will be a game winning tactic.

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I'm sending the AE Lassen and escort to Wake Island. I don't know how Wake has done w/o an AE all this time. Things will be better when the AE gets there.

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I've got a lot of shipping still under repair and so I'm thinking I'll just leave the carriers w/ escorts there for a while yet.