@panther Yes, I know that the “etc” explaines it, but thank you agreeing that the term in brackets makes it a little bit confusing. You have to know that English is my thirth language (after Dutch and French) and it isn’t always easy to analyse difficult sentences.
I agree with your second reply and would like to thank you for your replies. It isn’t the first time that you gave me some clarifications, you did it already for my questions about other A&A games. You’re a real specialist 
I just bought a second hand copy of battle of the bulge and I’m reading the operation manual. Since english is not my mother tongue and since I didn’t find a solution in the dictionnary, I 've following question(s) : What does “grayed out” means on Page 16 : "It can’t retreat to a partial (grayed out) hex or off-board ? And what counts for a partial hex on the map ?
Does anyone knows ?
Tks
@vodot In Belgium, some beers can be very strong 
In order to escape from a kamikazi attack on your carrier in a seazone were there isn’t any other safe landing zone for your fighters from your carrier (if kamikaze attack on the carrier succeeds), may you -during the combat phase!!!- let your carrier participate (without any combat value!) in an assault landing in the seazone next to the first on an enemy territory without hostile units, while your airplanes participate in a battle in the original seazone were your carrier was ?
So in that way if Japan wants to make a kamikazi strike in the first seazone, he has to do it on another warship and the fighters can land after battle safe on the carrier in the second seazone.
@andrewaagamer Until now, I didn’t use any CAP. I find it too risky to sacrifice a fighter in order to try to keep a seazone under your control during the enemy’s turn.
Maybe together with some own naval units it could be interesting to be stronger against an attack but I didn’t had that opportunity yet.
@andrewaagamer There is from the beginning an US fighter in China, so an attack with Chinese Infantry and this fighter shouldn’t be far away.
Thank you all for your answers. I have all the games of A&A and are learning to play them one by one. The “old” Pacific is really a discovery, very pleasant to play. It is limited in time and I have the old version with the red Japanese army which I like a lot.
I still have to learn the zombie version and the full world version of Pacific and Europe 1940 together.
Till another question, greetings from Belgium !
@andrewaagamer I am aware of that rule but on page 22 of the rulebook it is said in the 8th paragraph : “if a mixed force of American and Chinese ground units captures the territory, choose either country to place a NCM there”. Since you can only capture a territory by attacking it… I suppose China and US troops could be the exception on that common rule. On Page 10 you also find : “The US controls all chinese units…”
Hello, if you put US fighters or bombers in Chinese territories, can you attack with chinese infantery and those airplanes together ?
@farmboy Hello, I’m talking about the old A&A Pacific game (year 2000). My question is also posted in that part of the A&A.org site.
Page 25 of the rulebook says that you may not place newly purchased fighters directly on aircraft carriers. But can you place existing fighters located at an industrial complex on a newly bought aircraft carrier (like in other A&A games) ?
@krieghund yes, that is what I meant