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Originally Posted by propbeanie
You are several days too early there Mios 4Me for the Battle off Samar ships to be coming through. They don't sail until the 22nd, do a loop-de-loop in the area, and are returning on the 26th. In fact, there are no groups with lines to go through there other than patrols, which could be Japanes barges or PT boats. They would all have the smaller "outline" you describe, as would a corvette or similar sized vessel. What makes you think it was a Task Force?
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It was described as a TF on the map. The other similar contacts were all single vessels. We didn't find any traffic escaping ahead of the invasion, just tons of search planes, so I deleted that patrol and ran another arriving on station much closer to Kurita's passage. That one wound up in heavy weather, but CTD'd as we launched the first torpedo at a Yamato, having sunk a Takao minutes before.