10th Dec
My subs trail the retreating Allied cruisers but fail to hit anything but neither did they take any damage. CCIP seems to be basing them out of Townsville, which is in Betty range......I'll have to have a think about an attack that far from home. I have no fighters able to get that close and if I use carriers to provide CAP I run the risk of running into what may well be a very large amount of dive and torpedo bombers. Unescorted Betties are, of course, likely to burst into flame the moment they pass over the Australian coast.
CCIP has also begun daylight bombing raids on Rabaul again, but at least I have the advantage of a CAP who can actually see the bombers in the daylight.
My daily bombing raids over Moresby continue to whack his airfield, although not as strongly as before. probably because it's mostly rubble now.
CCIP is probably going to be quite busy over the next little while so I'm not sure when the next turn will be. We'll get on with it when we can.
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