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Wake had three units, with one being a full-blown division.  This seems to be more than enough with the invaders trickling ashore.
 
I've got a load of DDs in Los Angeles, many of which I'm going to rebase to Midway.  I've kept fuel and supplies there in the 50-70k range, so it's a good established base to work from.  An AS and AD there also helps.  One thing I'm painfully short on is cruisers.  Many of them are in the PI right now.  What I think I'll probably do is create packs of 6 or so DDs and park them on and one hex NW of wake to intercept any transports.  Keeping escorted AOs nearby them will probably help, too.  I'm also leaning towards two or three BB Bombardment missions, too.
 
I'm going off memory, but I'm ahead pointwise now.  Something like 9,100 to 8,900 or thereabouts.  I'm content to let Mindanao be an IJA POW camp.  They never did take the north-central US bases.
 
The Indian troops I plan on packing up back to Hong Kong, along with most of the UK Artillery.  I still want to take Formosa, but this will be a long term project, as the Wake attempt will attest.  Argus is theatre, and I have her cruising the lanes between Formosa and Japan.  I can't keep here near the former, because she attracts the local subs.  One's already missed.  RN BCs are now in HK or enroute.  Repair of all the one-torp battleships is going a bit slow in Singapore and HK.  Most have sys in the high teens to low twenties.
 
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Another week or so in.
 
Things are mostly quiet -- except for the constant "revenge raids" by IJN forces on ports in the Philippines.  Tuguegarao, Legaspi and Manila are the targets of such.  For the most part, they're CAs, CLs and DDs, with the exception of Tuguegarao.  There, a couple of quality Battleships are involved.  The coast defenses in Manila dealt out quite a bit of damage, but are pretty disrupted now.  A bunch of minelayers had arrived from Pearl and I had set them up on a mission to re-stock the Manila minefield, but they got caught by a cruiser force.  Fortunately, they got away with little damage.
 
A group of 6 PGs got mauled pretty bad though.  The two Commonwealth BC each took a torp, so they're going for a visit in Singapore.  The Martins and DeHavilands at Manila and Clark are gaining experience.  Total loss was one Martin, but one IJN CA ate half a dozen 1,000 lb bombs.
 
The Japanese were kind enough to get Aparri up to a level 4 airfield, so once I have everyone rested up, I'm going to get send base forces and some bombers there for coast defense.  Same for Tuguegarao, as the IJN likes visiting there.  Clark's at fort 9, so I can start spreading engineers and base forces around.
 
The Argus has been cruising the Formosa area.  The Cuckoos put a torp into an AK, but I lost one plane doing it.  The pilot seems to have survived as I still have 8 pilots with 7 aircraft.  If transport groups get hard to come by, I'll start hitting ports.  A bit of real combat will get the experience levels moving up.
 
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