The battle really never happens. if you want it to happen, you need to have planes spawn, then fly to their targets. if you sank all 4 CVs en route, and the scripted battle had US planes coming to point X to bomb, they'd show up at point X and bomb whatever was there (BBs, guard DDs, etc).
It would be hard to sink all 4 in an accurate midway since they were all 8km away from each other. That's a long way submerged, or even on the surface if the CVs are fast (and during the day they'd be making flank speed most of the time if they were near enough to do air ops).
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