11 July 1942
Hawaii and Line Islands
Colorado and Warspite bombarded Palmyra. The enemy troops took heavy casualties. Our troops are still fatigued, though, so I'm not pressing today. We did engage them with artillery, causing significant damage.
My marines on Oahu continue to engage the enemy beachhead. Casualties 679 to 452 favoring us.
Sumatra
He's got a pair of minesweepers dealing with the mines in the channel southeast of Palembang. Fulmars bombed/strafed and probably sank of them. Nells bombed Palembang airbase and dealt decent damage at the cost of 1 lost to AA. Later on, Sallies hit the base, causing little facility damage but destroying a fighter on the ground. 2 Sallies were shot down by the CAP.
Malaya
Sweeps at Singapore took down 4 Hurricanes with just one Oscar lost. There's been a significant buildup of enemy fighter presence both here and in the Palembang area, it's getting overwhelming.
China
We lost another Wellington over Chengchow as our fighters continue to fail to escort our bombers in sufficient numbers. We got 3 Zeroes. An enemy sweep over Chengchow shot down a Lancer. I'm under the impression that enemy pilot quality in this region has improved significantly in recent days.
Ceram Sea
Our B-17s tried to hit shipping at Ambon; there were Nicks and Zeroes waiting for me there. The gunners show down 1 Zero, several bombers were shot up but there were no immediate shootdowns (I probably did lose a few on the trip back/landing/scrapped afterwards).
Marshall Islands
USS Halibut attacked an enemy cargo ship on the surface, getting 4 torpedo hits and several gunfire hits. The enemy surely sank and appears to have been transporting an artillery unit.
Reinforcements
VS-6D14 arrives at Alameda (floatplanes, restricted; will be a training unit)
329th FG/330th FS arrives at San Francisco (12/25 P-38s, partially restricted, training unit)
165th Field Artillery Battalion arrives at Seattle (unrestricted, full strength)
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