My first carrier!
This is a story about one unlucky japanese aircraft carrier, one lucky sub captin, and some really bad escorts.
I was deployed to the East China Sea and told to attack merchant shipping. After a couple small freighters (this was only 1941.) my radar called in a task force at long range. Since I needed some ships to complete my objective, I went for it. After lying in wait for a few boring days, a Hiryu fleet carrier shows up, her escorts nowhere in sight. I called in the contact and began to trail this lovely lady. Command tells me to attack at once. Four torpedoes away, four direct hits, and 16000 pound of japanese engineering goes to the bottom.
I still don't know what happened to the rest of the task force, or why this carrier had no escorts. What I do know though, was that for the rest of my patrol, wherever I went, airplanes still found me. I think that carrier was getting her revenge.
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