Well, I found those CVs on their way out of Darwin on the 14th of February. They were a bit early.
Since my mission was a supply one and there were Zeroes around, I decided to leave them alone. Moved out of their way and proceeded to Mariveles to unload. When arriving I received a message to pick up some guests out of Corregidor, and while it took me some time to find them on their raft, I finally could take them inside my boat. The return trip was quiet, with no ship spottings, but I had to make it to Southern Australia (not even Fremantle, but still souther, to a place I had never heard of in this WW2 context). Only fisher boats in the harbour
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Now on my 3rd patrol, ordered to Northern Java first and currently NW of Borneo, with 3 more ships to add to my tally (hindsight about torpedo exploders is great
).
One think I'd like to ask: what are those yellow lines on the chart?
They appear while zooming in and out, at seemingly random places. I couldn't make out what are they for.
