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Originally Posted by Mav87th
It's August in 1942. The USS Guardfish are on course to the East China Sea to patrol those waters for enemy shipping.
The boat is installed with RFB2.0 and RSRDC, so we do not see much shipping on the route, BUT.....
When we passed the Tokyo-Truk shipping lane we took the time to lay still for 24 hours and that paid off. Two nice freighters on the route from Tokyo to Truk with supply's came steaming south loaded with goods.
Later when we were calibrating the SJ-Radar at Sofu Gan we ran into two other freighters, one of them a 10.000 ton oil tanker running towards Japan. That was a great catch. Sofu Gan seems like a good place to hunt near, many uses it as a navigational fix. That SJ-kit is a great asset. It picked up the oiler from 30nm's!!
Now (with almost no torpedoes left) we are steaming for Tokara Gunto just north of Amami-O Shima in the Nansai Shoto's, where we will make our passage through into the East China Sea.
......Commander of the USS Guardfish...
......Kaptain M. Vinther
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How far of Truk are you and what day is it.....cos on the 17th just west off Truk there is a bloomin great big Task Force. Spotted it once just sitting there but had no torps left. There also seems to be a large force of warships steaming towards them coming from the west also