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

[larryfulkerson]

I can't seem to shoot down B-17's no matter how hard I try. Although I do remember getting one a couple of days ago.

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And the Beat Down continues at Cagayan:

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And another of my AK's gets picked off by an Allied sub:

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And just then the Allies do their daily ground bombardment of my troops at Port Moresby:

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And of course, here's the combat report:

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Here's the situation at Mili.....the port is 34% on it's way to being level 1 and the fuel and supply situation is better than before.

[larryfulkerson]

TF 165 is a CS w/ escort that is carrying about 14 Float Planes and I'm using them to scan the ocean waters east and south in the
Tarawa area, plugging a large hole in my picket line. I'm through with about 48% of the picket line and there's some obvious holes but
I'm still rounding up ships to man the picket line. I'm thinking of using midget subs for some of it. After all they are to be used for early
warning only. Midget subs will do that.

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TF 169 is bringing a much needed 25K or so of fuel ( if memory serves ) to Bubble Drop which is a really good thing because BD is really
low on fuel. I'd like to be able to run the hubs w/ a level of fuel in the 100K range and whatever BD is now ( about 37K I think ) it's not
nearly enough to be what I would consider to be a "safe" fuel level. As it is the Bubble Drop, Truk, Kwajalein, and Rabaul areas are just
starving for fuel. So I've implemented an emergency plan whereby all the TK's and AK's will make their way to Balikpapan and load up on
fuel and take it to where it needs to go. And Balik is at a fuel level of about 71K so there's enough to convey, and there will be for a while
yet since I've turned the Refinery back on to get the fuel flowing again.

[larryfulkerson]

Tracker alerted me to the fact that Miri has a lot of fuel spoilage or spillage or some bad thing is happening there. So needless to say I
turned off the refineries there at Miri so the fuel will stop being produced. I'm going to have to get a bunch of ships to start taking fuel
from Miri so it won't be wasted. I can carry it over to Cam Rahn Bay and or Hong Kong or somewhere.

[larryfulkerson]

Jim and I have exchanged files and I've watched the movie and here's some fresh combat results. This is a night surface combat that
probably shouldn't have happened. Unless Jim was sacrificing his ships for some reason. There's another surface group making their
way to the NW and it will probably get away.

[larryfulkerson]

SS I-27 got lucky:

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One of my AP's gets tagged near Truk:

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Mersing sees some action:

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There were several air attacks on Darwin:

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Then some of the Manila remnants get hit near Manila:

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And there's some action at Johore Bahru:

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Allied B-17's raid Port Moresby:

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And then the Japs do a raid on Port Moresby:

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SS Drum isn't having such a wonderful day:

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Southern Java sees some ground combat: