[Red Devil]

What the hell? Its 1550 hrs and my sound man detects a medium moving ship heading toward me. I come up to periscope depth and find that ..................

its dark as hell and the stars are all out!!

So I carried on - and its now 0150 hrs and the sun is crackin' my foredeck!!!

I was having a successful time of operating out of Fremantle and was offered a new sub, Gato. Oooooh yes please. Only to find I am now operating out of Pearl. Where do they send me on my first mission, all the bloody way to the Makassar Strait, half a world away? I was there last mission from Fremantle!

Now, assuming RSRD is historically correct, did subs cross patrol lines like this often? I would assume that missions to Empire waters, mainland Japan would have been better for Pearl based subs bearing in mind distances.

In reality the poor sub would not have had enough fuel to return home, surely?

Aplogies if this has all been said before, it probably has, but a search failed to reveal.

Finally rank structure on top of my avatar. I have been a frogman before, then was something in japanese, now I am a frogman again ????