[torpedobait]

To avoid complete boredom while waiting for the next FOTARSU release (not complaining, mind you) I decided to start a German career and run the Uboat missions that come with FOTARSU. First mission out of Singapore in June 1943 had me deliver some vital supplies to Tokyo, which I did without incident, if you don't count the numerous Allied aircraft encountered in the middle of the Philippine Sea, that is. They were frequent enough, and radar equipped, so that we were constantly diving, day and night. Where the heck did they come from, and in such numbers? This was way before taking the Marianas and over a year from the invasion of the Philippines.

Anyway, on the way back to Singapore, I decided to avoid the Philippine Sea and routed the boat through the Luzon Strait and into the South China Sea. Now I know in mid-1943 the allies had no bases stocked with B-24's and PBY Catalinas within a reasonable distance of the South China Sea. Yet we encountered one every 2 hours or so, sometimes two or three at a time, smack in the middle of that area. Almost invariably they were vectoring straight at us, or close enough their operators found us.

I thought no one has messed with the Uboat missions in FOTARSU. If that is true, then the devil himself programed the anti-Uboat air missions!

Feel better now, thanks!