Good luck with it, Soundman. I hope it works out better for you than my last encounter did. I was in the Phillipine Sea after my last post, when I got radar contacts of a 19 ship task force heading in my direction. They were moving at 19 knots, but I was well placed for an intercept, so I raced over and submerged well in advance because the IJN capital ships do have surface search radar. I closed under silent running, avoiding the leading escorts, and got close enough to start identifying ships. The lead ship was flying an American flag. It turned out it was one of the US fleets returning from the battle. I surfaced and passed through it, only to encounter another (slightly smaller) US task force just a few miles behind it. I didn't encounter any enemy ships until over near Formosa.
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We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
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