[Hylander_1314]

Thanks Sailor Steve. I couldn't remember that one. Must be the odd spelling. Or I've just loaded too much useless info in the cranium.

But the island stop-overs to re-fuel would have to be places that had diesel on hand. Wouldn't want to load up on av gas, or battlewagon fuel-oil.

Can't remember if there was anything in the Gilbert, Marshall, Caroline, New Hebrides, or Solomons. Refueling at sea didn't happen, as the subs were out of contact with HQ most of the time compared to the German counterparts. And the sub tenders didn't do a lot of traveling once a sub base was established.

Plus the attitude of the combined forces knockin' out the central enemy base in a given area, and then cutting the supply routes off, and letting the other enemy held islands in the area "rot on the vine", since Hitler's Festung Europa accorded more materials and men being sent to that theater of operations, and the guys in the Pacific making do with what they had to work with comparitively.