Hi, mapuc!
12 August 1943
South China Sea
I think the ship we hit yesterday went down today.
SouthPAC
Essex wasn't able to launch a strike yet, but she also hasn't been detected. At least 2 enemy subs are searching her general area, though.
Betties are still bombing our Marines at Ponape but they aren't doing too much. Our B-24s are doing about the same. I'm sending more subs to the area to try to interdict reinforcements and search beyond my searchplane radii. The enemy garrison is now about 3 times stronger than our USMC regiment.
Burma
Our phibs and the escorting CVBG have been detected prior to landfall, but no strike occurred. Tomorrow they'll have land-based P-40s overhead to help out if a strike does happen.
30 Zeroes were waiting for our B-24s over Pegu. We shot down 5 Zeroes with no bomber losses and still managed to inflict about 300 enemy casualties on the ground.