20th Sep
USN Destroyer Bagley has a fun morning as she patrols the waters south of Guadalcanal. Three of my subs attacked her before one of them finally landed a torpedo on her. Her mates took this in bad grace and promptly sank RO-63. Booo!
Aside from this is was a day of housekeeping. Troops and a tank company began loading at Truk for Rabaul, and the fast tranports for Buna got themselves ready to run in during the night.
After thinking on it, I decided to keep Yamato in her patrol towards Milne. This isn't a bombardment mission, though, but a normal patrol. I am partly doing it to see how much air cover he has available to throw at my shipping. more than I like, I'm guessing. A squad of zeroes at Lae have been ordered to fly CAP over her just in case.
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