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Old 03-22-10, 08:16 AM   #17
Dread Knot
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Originally Posted by Noren View Post
Im not to familiar to the pacific theatre but I dont recall the japanese having radar-detectors or searchplanes covering every bit of the western pacific. One could perhaps reason that american captains had a less risk of suddenly beeing attack, in most of the pacific.

The Japanese had good search planes. The excellent Kawanishi flying boats with a range of 4,210 miles. But because US subs had radar they could evade them.

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