3 April 1942
Seas quiet as IJA advances on Columbo
CENTPAC
We didn't quite make a clear getaway from Baker Island. USS Nashville chased us down and we traded a few minor hits before we broke off.
SOPAC
The small island of Tanna (between Noumea and Fiji) will be the site of a small recon base for me. I now have marines there and I'll soon be delivering construction engineers. An enemy sub is poking around trying to interfere but escorting destroyers are keeping it away.
China
Oscar sweeps downed an I-16 over Sian. An enemy airstrike of 6 Hudsons hit out troops in Sian, disabling 13 vehicles. Going to have to put a CAP up for that. Otherwise quiet as our troops reorganize for another attack and medium bombers continue to pound the enemy troops.
Bay of Bengal
Still no contact on the Formidable CVBG - but we have a good track on the Resolution (heading west towards Diego Garcia) and hit it with another strike. For whatever reason, very few Kates actually found the target, and those that did failed to connect with any torpedoes. So we just had 6 more bomb hits, nothing that got through the armor.
I'm going to send the skimmers in to finish the job. The system damage on this ship should be bad enough that she'll be on the receiving end of everything. My CVBG will retire temporarily to take some fuel.
The base force that suffered attrition when a transport was sunk just received one of our first radars, so that's pretty cool. Should help with aircraft interception if they try to raid our new territory.
Sumatra
We've captured Medan. All oil facilities intact. I think the enemy concentrated what they had left here, so it should be pretty smooth sailing to mop up what's left.
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