The Japanese are advancing in the Dutch East Indies and Burma, brushing aside defenders, but their biggest victory this week is at sea, when they not only brush aside the ABDA Fleet, but literally wipe it out of existence. Meanwhile Italian and Germans submarines are patrolling the Caribbean, sinking any Allied merchant shipping they find. It is yet another week of Axis successes.

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Soundtracks from the Epidemic Sound:
Rannar Sillard Easy Target
Howard HarperBarnes Underlying Truth
Jo Wandrini Dragon King
Fabien Tell Last Point of Safe Return
Wendel Scherer Out the Window
Reynard Seidel Rush of Blood
Brightarm Orchestra On the Edge of Change
Craft Case Secret Cargo
Phoenix Tail At the Front
Johan Hynynen Dark Beginning
Wendel Scherer Growing Doubt

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