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Originally Posted by airsangel
thanks alot..and yes i will leave the patrol area !!.i did find 2 carriers once by luck as you said
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No problem. I was just assigned to patrol an area during Operation Forager in June 1944(Invasion of Marianna Islands what would become battle of philippine sea) and was assigned to an area where both IJN carrier forces showed up, it was 50 NM area so difficult to miss them. Took me all night to track and get ahead but dove at dawn, moved in and found myself in position to fire on the Taiho (which was actually sunk by a US sub during this Battle.USS Albacore hit her with one torpedo that ruptured avgas tanks, the vapors built up and caused massive explosions, was also Admiral Ozawa's flagship) I was too close when I came up to scope depth for bow shot as her course had altered so turned for stern shot, fired 4 fish from 700 yards or so, all hit.She blew up in a nice manner and sank about 30 minutes later.