14th Nov
The first raid on Rabaul. B-24s smash a single Babs at the airfield as my CAP fail to fly in anything like a decent amount. I've reworked them so maybe we'll get more up next time. I'm glad the raid was quite small, and we did manage to shoot down at least 2 of them, but I've suddenly become aware how little flak I have.
I'm also aware how overstacked the airfield is and began moving squadrons else where. The problem is, I am not exactly swamped with viable locations: Kavieng, Buna and Lae are really my only options. As for moving ships in case he tries a port raid, I'm even worse off. My really important ships, the carriers, can't really go anywhere else as they are recovering aircraft and need Rabaul for this. (not even Truk has anywhere near enough supply as almost everything it receives is going south.)
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