Fulkerson (J) vs Moore (A) ( no Moore )

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And then Port Moresby receives an air strike:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's how it went on the ground at Manila:

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And then the Japs do a deliberate attack at Kota Bharu:

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And then the Allies do their usual daily ground bombardment of Port Moresby:

[larryfulkerson]

And of course, here's the combat report:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a list of the LCU's at Manila. You can see the high levels of Disruption in the INF types. I'm going to have to institute a program of
rest for some of the more exercised Divisions. No wonder loss levels are so high. And if we have to put the war on hold then we do. I'm
thinking that a couple days of rest will do wonders for the loss level. I'm going to rest the most disrupted Divisions first, one at a time in
some nearby city to Manila.

[larryfulkerson]

I've got too many people at Wake. I've got like almost 8K people for a 6K island. I'm planning on moving the Mazaroti Assault Division
off the Island and leave some Naval Guard Unit. That Assault Division might just as well be the one that invades Darwin. So I gotta get
the various parts back together and get them some rest to make it 100% ready and then just spring it on Jim.

[larryfulkerson]

There used to be some Allied TF's at Sydney and Newcastle but I don't see them now. My recon capability isn't what I need it to be. I
guess I need some of those Floatie Planes. I've got a CS somewhere near Tulagi.......maybe I should just scoot her over here to look
over Sydney and Newcastle. Should be here within a week tops.

[larryfulkerson]

I've got too many people at Kwajalein and I'll have to do some rearranging there to make it right. Something has got to go.

[larryfulkerson]

As time passes and various ships draw supplies or fuel from a hub the hub levels drop and sometimes a different port will temporarily
have more than the hub will and so the use of ports changes and the new hub is the port w/ the most goodies. So Batangas is looking
like my best source for supplies and resources. Just for right now. Soon shipments will reach CRB and CRB will be the king hub again.
I like this pragmatic approach because it's not as dogmatic like setting a port as the hub permanently no matter what. Being flexible is
actually more efficient too.

[larryfulkerson]

Tracker says that Babo has maxed out at 20K oil. So I've put together some TF's, about 6 TF's to go to Babo and start drawing oil from
their tiny port there. I'm hoping that all the ships don't arrive at the same time. This TF is I guess the first to arrive.

[larryfulkerson]

TF 127 is that AMC that got roughed up a bit by some Allied ships at Port Hedland. She's making her way to Babar at cruise speed and
I'm having an SC go out there to meet her and merge w/ her for sub protection but I still want to give her a waypoint to keep her in the
shallow water as long as possible in case there's an Allied sub lurking around here.

[larryfulkerson]

TF 128 is taking the last of the resources from Boela for a while. Boela has only a 20(0) Res center so I'm guessing it's going to be a
couple of weeks before there will be a pile big enough to pay for the run to go there to get it. More and more of these cases are
popping up all over the map. I forsee a shortfall in resources in about two weeks maybe.

[larryfulkerson]

TF 190 is taking the last of the Resources from Naha for a while. Even though the ships aren't full I don't feel like hanging around to do
the loading of the dribs and drabs that come in from the Jungle. We're leaving for the home islands right now.

[larryfulkerson]

TF 244 is an AP unloading some Road Construction Engineers so as to get busy building a port with a PIER and everything. I'm not
asking for much. And Lunga has a smattering of some supplies and I don't know what the level is to get the engineers to do their thing
and I'm hoping they will get started with what they have at hand. I can always drop off some more supplies later.

[larryfulkerson]

An Allied TF came to visit at Baker Island. I'm putting together a response even as we speak. I've got the BB-group all lined up at
Tulagi and they can be to Baker Island within, I'm guessing, a week tops.

[larryfulkerson]

TF 521 is scarfing up the last of the resources to be found at Balikpapan. I'll have to go somewhere else for resources after this load.

[larryfulkerson]

Jim and I have exchanged files and I've watched the combat movie and here's some fresh combat results. There were a couple of night
air attacks on Darwin.

[larryfulkerson]

I-157 scores again. There's some Allied KV's on Diego Garcia, or they were there, and so I'm sailing w/ an offset in this AO and there's
some much periferal traffic that even offset subs can connect once in a while.

[larryfulkerson]

Due to this unscheduled meeting Jim now knows that I have a couple of carriers off his coast again. D'oh. I was hoping to surprise him
but I'm going to have to adopt plan B and just start shooting w/ my carrier planes against his ports looking for ships.