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Sept 6 Combat Report Back on track, we are now into day 2 of significant action on both sides of the map. Michael may comment further, and we should probably include maps, but here is a quick sit rep: Battle of the Arabian Sea Yesterday, 72 Bettys out of Poona put a hurtin' on an RN CV force that appeared off Pangim. Both CV Formidable and CV Illustrious were damaged heavily. TODAY, despite the Betty units being pretty chewed up, we managed to put 2 more torps into Illustrious, sinking her. CV Formidable escaped Miss Betty, but ate 2 bombs from Helens to keep the fires going, and only made 3 hexes in 24 hours. There is a good chance we can finish her off tommorow, as she is definitely wounded. SCORE SO FAR: CV Illustrious SUNK, CV Formidable Heavily Damaged (and in trouble) ALL HAIL MS. BETTY! Aleutians An Allied transport force of AK's began unloading at Cold Bay. During the day phase, they were roughed up by our planes flying from Umnak, sinking 3 AKs, and heavily damaging 3 more. They suffered casualties from these hits, so the troops coming ashore are hurt. The interesting thing about this is that there was NO CAP at all over the transports; they were more or less sacrificed to get troops ashore. Clearly, they are committed to the death at Cold Bay, if they would send those ships in knowing they would be sunk. Oh, and BB California was confirmed SUNK! A good day for the Empire, tommorow figures to be busy again, with a wounded CV Formidable still within range, and Allied ships still at Cold Bay
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