[patriotic rant]
Fishing boats provide food to the enemy. Every boat you sink deprives the enemy of food to feed his soldiers and workers. If you can keep a Japanese marine from eating breakfast, our boys will have that much easier of a time on the beaches. Every factory worker that misses his lunch means less depth charges on your head. Every AA gunner that misses dinner will be that much less effective when our B-29s come over. Every airman kept awake with a grumbling stomach reduces the effectiveness of those search planes overhead.
In short, it is not just a good idea, but it is your patriotic duty as an American sailor to sink every Japanese vessel you find and make them pay for what they've done to our boys on Wake and Bataan and Pearl!
[/patriotic rant]
Or, you know, don't. It's up to you. I usually go after them if I haven't seen anything in a while. The boys like to get up on deck and try out the deck gun once in a while.
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