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Originally Posted by stephenf555
it was early '42 (possibly Jan/Feb) and patrol areas were a lot of places including outside Makassar, in the Java Sea north of Surabaya, East China Sea and the Luzon Straight. And in all that patrolling I only came across 2 task forces and nothing else (except for lots of aircraft)
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RSRD is noted for a lack of merchants early in the war, but things will pick up. Escpecially in the beginning of the war the Japanese Merchant Marine were busy carrying the invasion forces as the Japanese spread southward.