Well, eventually I gave up and replaced the dive bombers with zeros that have an impossible bomb load (two choices both of which would overload a zero so it couldn't get off the ground, and probably bend the wing spars just by taxiing), at least they will attack anchored ships. For some reason the dive bombers just wouldn't do it, fly right over a dozen docked ships at any altitude like they were sightseeing.
Other delay is a really silly one - that irritating mission to photograph two escort carriers in an improbable anchorage at the far north end of Manila Bay. Bad enough by itself because of having to travel miles through shallow water and a godawful racket running over a torpedo net which is also in an improbable location, it's just plain ludicrous when you get that mission for a career start. Two Japanese escort carriers anchored long before the actual occupation, did they think we wouldn't notice? Anyway the paths and waypoints all had to be altered to miss that area or it screws up the mission, nothing to photograph if other US forces sink them intruders before you get there. You really SHOULDN'T get that mission before January 42, but since career start is a random choice for first mission, the possibility is always there so I gotta compensate for it.
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