I must be missing something in your question Jetguy06... did you get orders to "patrol" that area, or sink ships? If you are assigned an "anti-shipping operation", you can do that anywhere. You just have to find a place that has ships to be sunk. A "patrol" in TMO / RSRDC will give you a time limit and a location to go to. Do you see a "yellow" (or "orange", depending upon your perception of color) "star" anywhere on the Nav Map? That is the center of your Patrol Zone... The "southern ingress" of the Formosa Strait (modern map):
... but if you don't have an assignment there, it will do you no good to sit there for any period of time. TMO will give you the "star" and a blue circle drawing to signify your assigned area. RSRDC complicates matters, and takes the circles away, and you do have to pay attention and should write down your orders before you go, if you want the latitude and longitude coordinates and / or the details of the assignment. If you pull out the clipboard on your sub ( <F12> key... or <F8> key, can't remember which in TMO), there will be a synopsis on that, though it isn't always "enlightening", and is usually rather cryptic, you can click on the magnifying glass icon on that page, and it will "center" your view over that assignment's location...
