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Originally Posted by propbeanie
Uh... Balikpapan - any more details than "multiple spawning" and "April 1944"? Are you talking about the docks? If so, do you have the patch referred to in Post #1215 applied. If not, when you come back into base, put that on. I do not recall if we had found extra ships in the Balikpapan area or not. |
Thanks, I'd missed that post. I'll apply it when this patrol ends.
Not sure if it's valid sans patch, but the description doesn't mention air cover, so here goes: after visiting Balikpapan, we continued to the Celebes Sea job, and then to another assignment, this time to Palau. Despite three bright, sunny days there so far, along with wrecking the harbor and sinking a certain anchored warship, there's been no air cover whatsoever. Not a single plane. I'm not complaining.
Yes, the incident reported earlier was the Balikpapan docks in April, 1944. One ship was interred in the central dock area, a couple of ship-lengths from the sea; another was moored behind the docks in water so shallow that torpedoes at 3m exploded prematurely.