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Originally Posted by razark

Searching my memory, I actually can't remember finding any fishing boats that didn't run at my approach. If I bother with them, I'll come straight in for close up work with guns, so I see them run every time.

These didn't do anything until I started shelling.

I take it there is no way to differentiate these small coastal craft.

It was Dec. '41, and my crew was thirsting for revenge; these boats were the first targets we encountered. If I'm court-martialed I'll say: they must have been Japanese; they couldn't speak a word of Chinese.