30 June 1942
Hawaii
Our subs at Pearl took out another 3 landing barges, a Kingfisher bombed a small minelayer.
Ceram Sea
S-36 torpedoed a troop-carrying cargo ship in the narrow sea lanes here. There was a massive secondary explosion, so we're confident this one went down.
E. Australia
There are enemy subs all over the coast right now. Minesweepers damaged two slightly, Wirraways bombed another. A heavy cruiser from each of the two former CVBG are being escorted through here to Sydney for repairs.
N. Australia
Using B-17s on Koepang isn't going to work, the true fighters have left but the Nick fighter-bombers remain, and they're great bomber interceptors. 3 B-17s lost today, including the ones crashing on the way back. Plus another P-39 at Darwin.
Sumatra
The British Hurricanes at Sumatra got the better of a Zero sweep, shooting down 3 without loss.
Reinforcements
43rd BG/65th BS arrives at Los Angeles
43rd BG/403rd BS arrives at Eastern USA --these are both unrestricted B-17 squadrons, because I sent 16 airframes to Pearl I only have enough aircraft to outfit one of them.
142nd USA Base Force arrives at Fort Ord
5th British Brigade arrives at Aden
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