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Old 08-19-09, 10:54 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Spike88 View Post
Would the real submarine captains have taken down a fishing boat? I can see how it would hurt the Japanese slightly, but it wouldn't really help with the war.

Prior to the famous Dolittle Raid on Japan, U.S. intelligence had failed to discover that Japan had stationed hundreds of fishing boats with radios in a picket line about six hundred to eight hundred miles off of the coast and they ran straight into it which is why the raid had to be launched a day early. The Japanese fishing fleet often doubled as a coast guard sentry fleet. I'd take them out.
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