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See below. My question is, why no launch against the jap fleet? It was tacked for four turns. so I know where they were. What could have caused this to happen?

Day Air attack on TF at 52,102

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 81
D3A2 Val x 131
B5N2 Kate x 188

Allied aircraft
Sea Hurricane x 16
Fulmar x 47
F2A-2 Buffalo x 1
F4F-3 Wildcat x 47
F2A-3 Buffalo x 2

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 43 destroyed
D3A2 Val: 13 destroyed, 17 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 17 destroyed, 63 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Sea Hurricane: 5 destroyed, 6 damaged
Fulmar: 11 destroyed, 22 damaged
F4F-3 Wildcat: 26 destroyed
F2A-3 Buffalo: 10 destroyed

Allied Ships
CV Formidable, Bomb hits 9, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
CV Yorktown, Bomb hits 8, Torpedo hits 5, on fire, heavy damage
CV Enterprise, Bomb hits 11, Torpedo hits 6, on fire, heavy damage
DD Cushing, Bomb hits 2, on fire
DD Foxhound
CV Indomitable, Bomb hits 6, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CVL Hermes, Bomb hits 6, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CLAA Jacob Van Heemskerck, Bomb hits 2
CA Northampton
CL Trenton, Bomb hits 1
DD Perkins
CA Portland
CA Dorsetshire

could be - no operational points left or your CVs used up all of their sorties.....

Any weather bad enough to have prevented an Allied CV from launching would have been bad enough to prevent an enemy attack a.c. from finding the CV.

What could have caused this to happen?

A borked combat routine.

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What range?