So obviously the next thing to do is plan what I am going to do this turn. Do not rush this. Study the map carefully to see what, if any opportunities present themselves. Where am I going to move and attack this turn and what Air Directives should I be giving to support these moves/attacks? In the case of this particular turn my options are limited. Expand the American Bridgehead while unloading on the American beaches not only the followup forces intended for those beaches, but also the poor 5th British and the 2 followup divisions that were supposed to land at Siracusa. I could have also invaded the heel on this turn, but my plan was to build up a few more prep points and then launch the invasion on T4, so that the actual invasion will occur at the beginning of T5.
So having given it careful thought I began planning my Air Directives. First off I don't think it is worthwhile for me to tell you what I did with RAF Fighter, 2nd TAC, 9th AF and RAF Coastal each turn. Suffice to say that from now until late 43 they were used to draw out the German fighters by flying AS or else performing Airbase GAs against occupied German airbases. There was also very little variation in the Air Directive assigned to Bomber Command which was to bomb the Ruhr. So really the only Northern air HQ that received a different Air Directive every turn was 8th AF. As noted above I was still getting -3 negative points a turn for u-boats. To find out where these negative points were coming from I selected the Strategic Bombing Air Directive (F4), then selected 8th AF, then filtered so that only the u-boat factories were showing to call up the screen below:
From this screen you can see that there are 5 major u-boat factories (ie factories with 15 or more production). Of these my reconnaissance says 4 have already been damaged and are therefore not producing any negative VPs. Note that in all of these cases the reconnaissance photos were just taken last turn. The only undamaged major factory is Danzig; so obviously that was 8th's target this turn.
