Q-Ball
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Combat Report May 8, 1942 Just a quick update on action in India. POONA falls today, to a 2 division attack. There are now 34 units reported at Bombay. If those are real units, and not fragments, no way we are going to dislodge them. I am moving the 2 divisions in, we will send over some "intelligence shells" to find out what's there, and probably pin them in place, as it's an urban hex. The other 3 divisions heading to Bombay will flow around it like water around a rock and head toward Karachi. BHOPAL should fall tommorow; this is the real axis of advance. Once that falls, they will have to abandon Cownpore and Lucknow, and that appears to be happening already. NE INDIA is empty; I am sending a unit up there to round up the local British officials and cut the escape routes from Burma Although I took Poona, my Zero escort for the bombers over Poona took a beating; I have lost a ton of fighter pilots in India. I am rebuilding those units in China, and just admonished John for putting rookie pilots into veteran units, even a CV unit, which you should NEVER do. Elsewhere, it's pretty quiet; Bettys attacked at Canton again, didn't get a hit, but they are sending a message about the safety of that island to Allied shipping.
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