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Originally Posted by Immelmann
June 28th, 1942 18:30 hrs. 142.7 E, 41.3 N. Approx. 124 mi. EESE Hokadate, 122 mi. ESE Muroran, 56 mi SSSW Urakowa. Contact with large IJN Task Force steaming ESE very fast. Task force consists of many destroyers, several cruisers, two merchants, and two Escort Carriers Taiyo Class.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/281368342 1 hr 35 min 42 sec
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Unexplained fire on IJN cruiser at: 1 hr 4 min 25 sec
Windows 10 crash to desktop at: 1hr 35 min 20 sec
Notes: Carriers seem to be bobbing a lot in medium heavy seas. Believe, as a result, 4 of 6 torpedos ran under and past. Can only speculate as to cause of fire on cruiser... |
OK, you are still off the Tsugaru Straits then, correct? Just coming into your sub-hunting grounds?
I've been loading files into the Mission Editor and "playing" them to see the various groups go by your location, and at first I'm thinking that it couldn't have been your TaskForce group, since you've been targeting and shooting at them, but then I had issues with the Mission Editor. It doesn't crash in a way that is immediately apparent, like to the desktop, but rather it just quits working. I don't notice it until a couple of file loads later, that I'm missing RGG icons on the screen... I'll have to do some digging, because number one, you should not have a TaskForce group up there. None are routed through the area. Number two, I cannot figure out which layer is actually doing the crash. It only happens after several minutes of opening and closing files in the ME, but hasn't done the crash the same way twice yet. There is a problem up there though. Thanks for the report!
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... which direction was this TaskForce traveling in? I'm wondering if it's part of the Aleutian attack force coming back home?...
2nd Edit: The only thing that has 2 escort carriers in it is the 2nd Strike Force for the Dutch Harbor attack. The merchant vessels just happened to be in the same area. Here's a composite image of the area and the group:
Now, the only problem is, if you notice the date of the group, and the date you encountered them... They are a month late leaving for the invasion... so, some of the clues are that the group is three ships across, spaced at 2000m, and then the escorts are outside of that, so basically, the group would need a minimum of over 2 nautical miles across to get through any "straits" that it might encounter, such as the harbor opening... I might try to re-arrange things for that group, and see if it has issues getting out of the harbor still, or maybe move its spawn point to the Tsugaru Strait itself...