Mike Solli
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Joined: 10/18/2000 From: the flight deck of the Zuikaku Status: offline
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24 Jan 42 Sub War The I-23 found an xAP a few hexes east of Hawaii and put 2 torpedoes into her. No report of her sinking but she has to be hurting. Best part was she was carrying troops. 5 Fleet Nothing new to report but the engineers are hard at work. 4 Fleet Nothing new to report. SE Fleet I took Gasmata. Construction on the level 2 airfield is commencing immediately. The AS will land tomorrow. A few of the damn Do-24s sank a small xAK there, but fortunately she was done unloading. The Aussie company that began the war a Kavieng has been chased to the base at the southern end of the island and finally destroyed today. The remaining 25 guys were finally killed off. A sweep of Pt. Moresby by 24 Zeros was met by 7 P-40Es. Two were shot down with no loss to the Zeros. A couple were lost to op losses but no pilots were lost. I'll try again tomorrow. Philippines Nothing new to report. China Nothing new to report. Malaya The first bombardment of Singapore happened today. I'll try one more tomorrow then the 6x infantry divisions will try a DA the next day. Burma Nothing new to report. Java The Nells at Makassar didn't go after the convoys but did a port attack (secondary mission). For no loss, they destroyed 2 AMcs and damaged an AG (1x 60 kg bomb ) and a CM (2x 60 kg bombs). They caught the De Ruyter and pumped her full of holes (5x 250 and 9x 60 kg bombs). She's not showing up as lost but she's definitely hurting. Unfortunately, Soerabaja is a nice port so it'll be able to work on repairing her damage. I'll try another port attack tomorrow. Maybe I can finish her off. Other Stuff Ted is out of town until Sunday without his laptop so I have some time to do a lot of the little things I've been neglecting. I did some calculations on Java. I'm going to ship all the resources from Kolaka, Makassar, Bandjermasin, Pontianak, Billiton and Tobali to Java. I'm also going to increase the refineries to 225 (equal to the oil facilities) so all I have to worry about there is fuel. With the added resources, assuming all the LI survives, I can increase the HI factories to a total of 285. Yeah, that'll cost me 225k supply (+25k supply for the refineries) but I'm doing pretty well now in supply so I'm not concerned. I'm also going to double Georgetown's HI to 20. I'd really like to get my total HI to 7500 when it's all said and done. We'll see if I can achieve that goal. I've also been trying to figure out what to do with the merchant shipping, the best way to use it. I'll post that later. I did a count and discovered that I have 220 PBs.
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