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

And there was a small spat at Batavia:

And then the Japs capture Surigao

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

And of course, here's the combat report:

This is the ship reinforcement thingie that tells me how many ships are arriving how soon and where etc. I've stopped the output of some
little boats and accelerated the building of TK's and there's one carrier whose name I can't remember, a CVE or something similar, and
it's building wouldn't contribute all that much to the war effort and therefore it shouldn't be built. Starts w/ an 'S' I think. I'll get back to you
on that name.

I've got a small carrier and a BB tucked away in a convienient spot and I'm down to my last 21 Zero's and 6 Kates and the BB is looking
like it'll take a week or so to fix pier-side and I've got a 12-Kate unit on it's way but it'll take about a week to arrive so I'm declaring this
group not combat worthy for a week and I'm going to fix them.

TF 291 is the one responsible for sucking all the resources out of the port of Kendari. Now we'll have to go elsewhere for it. One less
source of resources. D'oh.

TF 294 is an AV w/ escort that I was thinking of using to help keep that Allied TF in sight and the relative positions of the two objects in
space and time and the relative speeds of the two being so dissimilar I'm thinking of giving up the chase and relegate this AV to picket
duty somewhere. I'm thinking of maybe in front of Wake or somewhere in the middle near Kwajalein. Somewhere where the Allies are
likely to pass.

I've got a squadron of Claudes at Buna and they volunteered to start some ground attacks at 100' to try to get those pesky Allied forces
at Port Moresby to go away. I expect to lose a few to flak etc. But I don't really expect an Allied CAP to be there. I don't know why I didn't
think of this before now.

TF 704 is my heavy guns near Manila and they are all set to go into a known minefield and bombard Manila again. There's enough
Allied troops on the hillsides near the beach that wounding another ship might just be worth it if I can accellerate the beat down some.

Jim sent me his moves and I watched the movie and here's some fresh combat results: I found an Allied ship and dispatched it.

And then there was an air attack on Singapore:

EDIT: OOOOOooops, wrong picture. Sorry about that.

And then there was an attack on Darwin:

And then there was an attack on Brisbane:

And then there was a Jap attack on Medan and it didn't go all that well for the Japs.

And then there was another attack on Brisbane:

And then my carrier boys found some targets:

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

And here's the battle at Batavia: