Another thought...seems like standard operating procedure was to have some kind of escort when departing (and approaching) home ports. Don't know if there would be any interest in this, but I think it would be cool to have the first part of your mission be to rendezvous with a friendly destroyer just outside of Midway (or Pearl, Brisbane, etc.) and stay in formation with it for 50 miles or so (until it turned back) and we were officially on patrol!
(Would be much more difficult to meet up with an escort on the way home I'm thinking.)
As an aside, I like looking at the actual (albeit modern) charts of Pearl and Midway etc. here:
http://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineVie...werTable.shtml
