terje439
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December 14th 1941 Gentlemen, the war has now lasted for one week. There can be no denying that during the past week the Japanese has made a large dent in our forces, espesially in our shipping. However all things considered we shall feel that we have gotten away rather easy, none of our battleships were sunk at Pearl Harbour, all our carriers escaped undamaged, and unlike what was feared, the Japanese has not landed everywhere at once. This might have to do with a lack of shipping, or it may be some sort of ruse from the Japanese. What we do know is that every day that goes by we grow stronger, and ships are sailing as we speak, to reinforce areas of importance all over the Pacific. Some sacrifices has to be made, and forces deployed in Singapore, NEI and the Philliphines will bear the brunt of the Japanese assaults, and surely many a good man will end up in POW-camps. The only thing we can do to aid these men is to strike back at the enemy whenever and whereever we can. However we must carefully plan our attacks, we cannot fight this like a bar-brawl. Instead we must use the finesse of a fencer, quickly deliver a small but stinging riposte when we see an opening. The only event of importance these last 24 hours is that the Japanese has invaded Johnston Island, and the garrison there does not recon they can hold for too long. Unfortunately the so called Kido Butai is guarding the invasion so we cannot simply send in our carriers to sweep the attackers off the surface of the sea. We have also located another Japanese task force to the west of Johnston Island, the nature of this force is unknown, although we expect it might be a task force whos sole purpose is to refuel and rearm the Kido Butai. If that proves to be correct, this might be a very high value target. It does not seem likely that the Kido Butai has refueled so far, and they should now be low on fuel. If we could sink their tankers, the enemy carriers would be sitting ducks.
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