Here is a shot of the air combat losses and the area of sea that the combat took place in. The ships southwest of Swatow are a Japanese cruiser group that did not engage in combat last turn. My ships orders were to bombard and then return to Swatow. That was sucessful. Now I have 4-5 badly damaged battleships at that location.
I decided that NJP would likely target those damaged battleships one way or another. The worst has 42 flotation damage. The group can move at 3/1 per day. I am taking a big gamble and moving all of them now. Their course is one hex directly west and then 3 hexes southwest.
There is a cruiser group there that is depleted and a group of 2 battleships in the same condition. I am sending those on the same path as the damaged battleships but letting them go the distance so they should be near Manila tomorrow. Finally, I broke off a DD group with almost full ammo to move directly southwest into the cruiser group to hopefully slow it down and/or divert it from attacking the other groups.
I have a group of CVE's that were to protect Swatow and did so admirably. There are about 5 of them which will follow the damaged BB's along their course.
Below all this I have quite a few smaller groups of DD's, CL's and CA's. My one group of 4 CA's will move directly to the damaged BB's. The rest of the groups will follow a course west to meet in the hex with the damaged BB's.
My 3CV groups are next to Takao and there are quite a few smaller Japanese STF's at Pescadores. I plan on doing a hook with these groups and moving them southwest then west and finally northwest to directly cover the damaged battleships. There is a CL STF with the CV groups that will move directly northeast to attempt to intercept any forces trying to get to the carriers.
The Japanese ships in deep water near Pescadores are the remains of at least one of his STF forces and some E'boats.
With luck at the end of this turn most of the American fleet should be sitting southwest of Swatow and well protected from anything but a large strike. If everything goes wrong then I will probably lose a battleship or four...
