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Old 06-13-21, 01:00 PM   #40
Molon Labe
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21 December 1941
This isn't a war, it's a slaughter.

Pearl Harbor
My DDs retreated to harbor, making a few ASW attacks before the sun came up. We came up empty.

Lacking dive bombers, I rallied my medium and heavy bomber squadrons for an attack on the Kido Butai. We located them near Lihue (where they're landing yet more troops) and made our attack. Our escorting fighters didn't shoot down a single Zero. Our bombers didn't score a single hit. Six fighters, 11 A-20 Havocs, 15 B-18 Bolos, and 2 B-17 were shot down (and that's not counting damaged bombers crash landing at base).

The enemy did not launch any airstrikes.

There are a lot of troops being committed to Lihue: at least a division, plus engineers and a base force.

I'm going to try to rotate my best pilots into Pearl.

Malaya
A Dutch sub I had ordered to try to sink troops ships around Mersing and Kuantan was severely damaged in a depth charge attack.

Sweeps over Singapore claimed another two Buffalos.

My torpedo bombers attempted an attack against the ships in Kuantan, but apparently lost their escorts. I lost 15 Vildebeests and 5 Swordfish with nothing to show for it. This effectively takes the torpedo bomber squadrons off the board.

My medium bombers attacked troops in Mersing, Zeroes defended and took out a Buffalo and a Hudson. Enemy casualties on the ground were light.

Philippines
My southern B-17 squadron attacked the port at Babeldoab and found the damaged battleship Ise there, hitting it with two 500lb bombs.

I tried to hit San Fernando airfield again, but they did a much better job defending it. They shot down a P-35, 2 P-40s and a B-17. Damage to the airfield was very light, looks like we go at least one bomber on the ground.

Elsewhere
-USS Tambor sank another cargo ship in the Korea Strait. I now have other subs entering the convoy routes for the northern home islands.
-Japan captured Naaru island
-A task force of destroyer-minelayers encountered a damaged enemy destroyer at Guadalcanal (probably the other damaged DD from Luganville). They shot it up pretty good, but it looks like they forgot to do what they came for...
-CVL-based Kates took out another 4 minesweepers in the Java Sea, and attacked Kendari airfield. At Ambon, their marines began their assault, destroying defensive fortifications.

Air losses were 90 to 11 today. Losing 90 in a day is my worst daily loss. His low daily loss is 10.
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