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Originally Posted by VonHammer
Ok, i have been reading W.E.B. Griffins The Corps seires and had just finished the eighth bookin the series - In Dangers Path. anyway the main point in the book is to setup a weather station in the Gobi Desert using Catilianas. However, in order for the Cats to make it into the Gobi, they have refuel by sub in the Yellow Sea. The sub mentioned was a Porpoise class.
What i wanted to know was if anything like this actually happened during WWII, or for that matter possiable?
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I've never heard of it. US B-29 bombers operated briefly out of western China. But it was a logisitical nightmare which relied on transport planes flying over the Himalayas. Japanese patrol planes operating out of the Marshall Islands did on occasion during the war, peek in on Pearl Harbor by refueling from I-Boats located at French Frigate shoal, but that ended when the US Navy began parking ships there.