Attu and Sitka--anyone ever....

[banjo]

Has anyone ever found any enemy shipping during the Attu, Sitka, Dutch Harbor mission out of Pearl? I have played that patrol several times and have never seen a darn thing.

[tater]

No traffic there in the stock game.

[banjo]

Nor in RSRDC I guess.

[Torplexed]

Can't speak for Attu but I can't imagine why there would be any enemy shipping near Sitka or Dutch Harbor. Japanese carrier planes hit Dutch Harbor once as a diversion for Midway, but that was as close as they ever got to Alaska historically. Do you mean Kiska instead of Sitka?

[jazman]

I had a mission once up there, and found a lot of traffic. I kept getting flash reports of supply destroyers making runs, so I was able to hang around for a long time wasting torpedoes (the weather was awful, and trying to hit fast-moving destroyers was an exercise in frustration). This is with TMO and RSRD.

[Raptor1]

Japan did occupy Kiska and Attu, so there must be supply runs to those islands until they were recaptured

No reason for enemy ships to be near Sitka though

[Torplexed]

Japan did occupy Kiska and Attu, so there must be supply runs to those islands until they were recaptured

No reason for enemy ships to be near Sitka though

The Japanese did zealously cling to these spongy arctic isles but I have the feeling the game doesn't simulate the supply effort or even the landings. Too bad as a lot of these supply runs were covered by major warships.

Sitka is on the Alaskan pan handle but sounds similar to Kiska.

[banjo]

Sorry, didnt mean Sitka.

[DeepIron]

Check the action in the Komandorski Islands: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Komandorski_Islands and "War comes to Alaska." ISBN 1-57249-026-4

I grew up on Adak where the US established a Naval Base in the early part of the war to intercept and monitor the Japanese advance along the islands.