ABDA forces on collision course with Japanese fleet!

Action Summary: Battle seems imminent between the Force H-K and the ADBA fleet desperately concentrating with Force Z in the Java Sea. Force H-K is 'my' Allied term for Force Haruna-Kongo, named after the two battleships in the Japanese task force bearing down hard on my scattered forces like a viscious bastard of a bird-of-prey. Day and night, nearly eighty Allied piece-of-shit aircraft have sortied against the Jap fleet and scoring no hits. I've sortied minesweepers to mine the straits behind his passage. The sub barrier is almost in place. But shit, that won't stop him from clobbering my fleet into the sea. Is it worth the confrontation? If he smashes me here, he can land unopposed across the entire DEI without ever worrying about the ABDA warships. Should I run? I see no replenishment task force behind him. Is it too late to run?

Damn he wants blood.

Nothing else going on. The KB threat to my Lex-Enterprise groups is dimishing. Looks like they won't force the passage between Midway and Frigate Shoals. The Death Star continues to move NW. My carriers are heading back to Pearl for replishment, and to consider what is next in my Central Pacific strategy, which is non-existent right now.

Dutch tankers and transports are loading as much aviation fuel as they can throughout the DEI. I'll be taking it all to Darwin. Use it or lose it.

My B-17's in Mindinao are finally doing some good. Though the force is not as powerful as I would have hoped (so many B-17's damaged at Clark, still not repaired), they struck two transports off the Luzon. The Japs continue to mass forces on the Luzon beaches. They haven't moved inland yet. I'm preparing to give battle at Clark AFB by moving two tank battalions forward from Bataan. They include about fifty Stuart tanks total.

Subs around Luzon still have done nothing to engage the enemy anchorages. Weather is bad all across the SW Pacific.

Japs have also forced a landing on Makin. It was unopposed. No USN personnel were there. I've also spotted a major convoy moving down the South China Sea. It is possible this convoy is moving towards Borneo, or it could be reinforcing Jap forces advancing down the Malay peninsula towards Singapore. A x3 sub wolfpack I had ordered to reinforce the Malay barrier (designed to trap Force H-K) is being held back to intercept this convoy.

No other major operations. I'm returning the HMS Hermes to port after noted delays in the loading operations at Calcutta for Fullback. She'll replenish and put back to sea once the transports are fully loaded, and they'll all make for the Andaman Islands.

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