Possible record for shortest mission?
Departed Manila at 0000 on 12/23/41 on a mission to land commandos on Luzon. As I elected to start outside the harbor and the landing zone was just south of there, the mission was completed in just under an hour.
Manila ceased being a usable port as I departed; this repeated itself on a later patrol when Surabaya fell less than a day after I left. Admiral Leary in Brisbane was rather quick to point out that the Balao is to base exclusively out of Fremantle for the foreseeable future.
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