1 June 1942
CENTPAC
East of Samoa, the RO-34 torpedoed an escorted cargo ship. Later in the day, the I-169 found the stricken ship and put two more torpedoes into her to finish her off.
Fiji
I've cleared the enemy's mines out of Suva's harbor.
East Australian Coast
An American sub was caught attempting to get past the KB's ASW screen and was forced to evade.
The KB once again swept Sydney, disposing of 9 more P-39s. Today would have been an actual strike, but that ended up being delayed as I had rerouted the KB to avoid the subs... which obviously didn't quite work. The KB helped itself to another AKL on picket duty.
Upgrades & R&D
Four PCs are having depth charges installed and will soon be decent short-ranged deep water patrol vessels. Two minelayers are also being converted to Kaibokans.
The A6M3 version of the Zero is now available, and I'm retooling a small portion of my factories to produce a limited run of them. The M3 has somewhat improved medium altitude performance, but is not carrier-capable.
The R&D plants for the Tojo are starting to come online. As the aircraft is originally expected to arrive in September, I expect the R&D to cause this plane to become available quite quickly... possibly even before the month ends.
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