Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki
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RE: Small Ship, Big War
...couldn't have happened to a nicer guy...........
Todd
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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RE: Small Ship, Big War
May 1, 1944
Location: 105 miles northeast of Saipan
Course: Holding position
Attached to: TF 23
Mission: Air combat
System Damage: 1
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 228
Orders: Shadow enemy forces approaching the Marshall Islands
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Senior Petty Officer Yahama stands at attention beside the desk of Lieutenant Miharu’s small cabin.
“Thank you for seeing me, Yahama,” says Lieutenant Miharu.
“Of course, sir,” says Yahama, a squat, ugly, and very competent member of Lieutenant Sakati’s engineering crew.
“You bunk right next to Senior Petty Officer Okubo,” says the Lieutenant. “Did you see or hear anything unusual Thursday night, the night he was hurt?”
“No sir, I was asleep though the midwatch,” says Yahama. I got up for my watch at 0400 and heard Okubo groan like he was hurt or something. He tried to get up and couldn’t, so I went over and helped him get to the dispensary.”
“Did he say anything to you about what happened to him?”
“No sir,” says Yahama. “I asked, but he was dazed, sir, and not tracking real well.”
“I see,” says Miharu. “Thank you, Yahama. Dismissed.”
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It is Taiki’s turn:
“You told me before that you saw Chief Shun come in around 0230 hours,” says the lieutenant.
“Yes sir,” Taiki says.
“Where was Senior Petty Officer Okubo?”
“In his bunk, sir.”
“When did you get to the bunkroom, Takahashi?”
“About fifteen minutes before that,” says Taiki. “I was in the petty officer’s wardroom drinking some tea. I left there not long after 0200 hours and went to the bunk room. Okubo was asleep. I was writing in my diary when Shun came in.”
“Fortunately I did not just hear you say anything about keeping a diary,” says the Lieutenant.
“Of course not sir, thank you,” says Taiki.
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“I understand you and Petty Officer Okubo had a bit of a dispute a few days before he was attacked,” Lieutenant Miharu says. “Something about a card game?”
“Um, yes sir,” says Aikawa. “He accused me of cheating. I suggested he retract his statement and he did so. That was the end of it, sir.”
“I see,” says the lieutenant. “I’ll be frank, Petty Officer Aikawa. You were apparently nearby when Okubo was attacked. You had a disagreement with him earlier. Did you assault him, Aikawa?”
“No sir,” says Aikawa. He seems to stand even more stiffly. “I did not, sir.”
“Relax,” says Miharu mildly. “I do not think you did, but I had to ask. You wouldn’t do something like that, not over an insult. And at any rate the lookouts all say you did not have time to leave the deck to carry a heavy, unconscious man below decks.” He pauses, musing. “Although I suppose you might have had an accomplice.” Aikawa says nothing, though his eyes bulge slightly. Miharu smiles slightly. “No, maybe not,” he says.
Lieutenant Miharu sits silently for a moment, thinking. “I’m stuck, Aikawa. This whole business just doesn’t make any sense. There’s something I’m missing. But what?”
“Sir?’ says Aikawa. Miharu looks up. “Sir, this may not mean anything, but there were a couple of nights last week I thought I was being followed while on deck during the midwatch.”
The lieutenant’s attention focuses again. “Followed? What nights, Petty Officer?”
Aikawa furrows his brow. “Monday and Tuesday, sir, I think.”
“Oh, I think that probably does mean something, Aikawa,” says Lieutenant Miharu. He sighs. “I just have no idea what.”
Location: 105 miles northeast of Saipan
Course: Holding position
Attached to: TF 23
Mission: Air combat
System Damage: 1
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 228
Orders: Shadow enemy forces approaching the Marshall Islands
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Senior Petty Officer Yahama stands at attention beside the desk of Lieutenant Miharu’s small cabin.
“Thank you for seeing me, Yahama,” says Lieutenant Miharu.
“Of course, sir,” says Yahama, a squat, ugly, and very competent member of Lieutenant Sakati’s engineering crew.
“You bunk right next to Senior Petty Officer Okubo,” says the Lieutenant. “Did you see or hear anything unusual Thursday night, the night he was hurt?”
“No sir, I was asleep though the midwatch,” says Yahama. I got up for my watch at 0400 and heard Okubo groan like he was hurt or something. He tried to get up and couldn’t, so I went over and helped him get to the dispensary.”
“Did he say anything to you about what happened to him?”
“No sir,” says Yahama. “I asked, but he was dazed, sir, and not tracking real well.”
“I see,” says Miharu. “Thank you, Yahama. Dismissed.”
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It is Taiki’s turn:
“You told me before that you saw Chief Shun come in around 0230 hours,” says the lieutenant.
“Yes sir,” Taiki says.
“Where was Senior Petty Officer Okubo?”
“In his bunk, sir.”
“When did you get to the bunkroom, Takahashi?”
“About fifteen minutes before that,” says Taiki. “I was in the petty officer’s wardroom drinking some tea. I left there not long after 0200 hours and went to the bunk room. Okubo was asleep. I was writing in my diary when Shun came in.”
“Fortunately I did not just hear you say anything about keeping a diary,” says the Lieutenant.
“Of course not sir, thank you,” says Taiki.
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“I understand you and Petty Officer Okubo had a bit of a dispute a few days before he was attacked,” Lieutenant Miharu says. “Something about a card game?”
“Um, yes sir,” says Aikawa. “He accused me of cheating. I suggested he retract his statement and he did so. That was the end of it, sir.”
“I see,” says the lieutenant. “I’ll be frank, Petty Officer Aikawa. You were apparently nearby when Okubo was attacked. You had a disagreement with him earlier. Did you assault him, Aikawa?”
“No sir,” says Aikawa. He seems to stand even more stiffly. “I did not, sir.”
“Relax,” says Miharu mildly. “I do not think you did, but I had to ask. You wouldn’t do something like that, not over an insult. And at any rate the lookouts all say you did not have time to leave the deck to carry a heavy, unconscious man below decks.” He pauses, musing. “Although I suppose you might have had an accomplice.” Aikawa says nothing, though his eyes bulge slightly. Miharu smiles slightly. “No, maybe not,” he says.
Lieutenant Miharu sits silently for a moment, thinking. “I’m stuck, Aikawa. This whole business just doesn’t make any sense. There’s something I’m missing. But what?”
“Sir?’ says Aikawa. Miharu looks up. “Sir, this may not mean anything, but there were a couple of nights last week I thought I was being followed while on deck during the midwatch.”
The lieutenant’s attention focuses again. “Followed? What nights, Petty Officer?”
Aikawa furrows his brow. “Monday and Tuesday, sir, I think.”
“Oh, I think that probably does mean something, Aikawa,” says Lieutenant Miharu. He sighs. “I just have no idea what.”
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RE: Small Ship, Big War
The plot thickens. [:)]
Since I've enjoyed this AAR so much I took a moment to consider your forum name CF. Cuttlefish are known to produce ink, thus I think that as a nom de plume it would be an excellent guise for a writer who wishes to be incognito[8D]. That or I could just be over thinking the name and drawing connections where none are warranted. Still the quality and imagination put into this astounds me. Bravo [&o][&o][&o].
Since I've enjoyed this AAR so much I took a moment to consider your forum name CF. Cuttlefish are known to produce ink, thus I think that as a nom de plume it would be an excellent guise for a writer who wishes to be incognito[8D]. That or I could just be over thinking the name and drawing connections where none are warranted. Still the quality and imagination put into this astounds me. Bravo [&o][&o][&o].
RE: Small Ship, Big War
Since he was Belgian and occupied by the Reich, they could ask to borrow his services.[;)]
Appear at places to which he must hasten; move swiftly where he does not expect you.
Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu
RE: Small Ship, Big War
Ah, but he had emigrated to England.
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RE: Small Ship, Big War
No No the butler did it.
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RE: Small Ship, Big War
The Shadow knows......................
Todd
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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RE: Small Ship, Big War
Well he may be British but what about Christopher Foyle? He had a gap between cases in April 1944 and Fall 1944... perhaps he went to the pacific. 
Oh how I do love the Foyle's War TV shows... Sam is my favorite character... oh and ITV decided they were not going to cancel it so it looks like at least one seasons worth of cases during the first few months after VE Day.
Oh how I do love the Foyle's War TV shows... Sam is my favorite character... oh and ITV decided they were not going to cancel it so it looks like at least one seasons worth of cases during the first few months after VE Day.
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RE: Small Ship, Big War
May 2, 1944
Location: Saipan
Course: Southwest
Attached to: TF 23
Mission: Air combat
System Damage: 1
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 475
Orders: See below
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Shortly after daybreak the Japanese carriers and their escorts are ordered to put into Saipan to take on supplies and fuel. The ships reach the island before noon and immediately begin replenishment operations. This is carried out in some haste; any ships causing a delay hear from the harbormaster immediately. Captain Ishii goes ashore and returns late in the afternoon. He immediately summons his officers for a briefing.
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“First of all,” he tells them, “I have to report that after holding out for a week against far superior forces the garrison on Eniwetok was overrun yesterday. The atoll is in enemy hands.” The assembled officers stir but no one says anything. There were over 5000 Japanese on Eniwetok.
“Second,” Ishii continues, “is that we are taking part in a new operation. It is to begin immediately, tonight in fact after all ships are refueled. Lieutenant Sakati, are the engines ready for combat operations?”
“Aye, Captain,” says Sakati. “We have full fuel bunkers and the engines are in fine shape.”
“Excellent. Lieutenant Kataoka, how are we for supplies?”
“Fair, sir,” says the portly paymaster. “We have fresh food for about two weeks and can stretch that if we need to. I’d like to take on more but it isn’t necessary.”
Ishii nods. He queries the other officers and finds that their sections are ready for whatever tasks they might be ordered to perform. He then puts his hands behind his back and surveys the men.
“It seems there is a small problem,” says Ishii. “We are going to help fix it.”
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The problem, as it turns out, is Ulithi.
The Allied line of advance in the Central Pacific over the last six months looks like a knife pointing straight at Ulithi and it seems likely to be the next target. The Japanese are ready: Ulithi is a large and well-fortified base, occupied by a full division of infantry and bristling with guns.
The Japanese are ready, that is, with one exception; the base is critically low on supplies. The invasion of Woleai forced the regular resupply convoy headed to Ulithi at the time to turn around and enemy aircraft there have prevented any ships from returning. The operation Hibiki is joining is designed to change that situation.
A large supply convoy has departed Japan and is approaching the atoll. Japanese aircraft carriers will move in close to cover them as they unload while a force including a pair of battleships hits Woleai. Hibiki will continue to escort Zuikaku and Taiho during the operation.
The enemy carriers have left the Marshalls and retreated to the east for the moment. Enemy surface forces are known to be around Woleai, cruisers and destroyers, though their exact strength is unknown. Up to 200 enemy planes are believed to be based at the atoll but despite this there does not seem to be any reason to think the operation cannot succeed. Hibiki’s officers have been in too many battles, though, to believe that things always go as planned.
Location: Saipan
Course: Southwest
Attached to: TF 23
Mission: Air combat
System Damage: 1
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 475
Orders: See below
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Shortly after daybreak the Japanese carriers and their escorts are ordered to put into Saipan to take on supplies and fuel. The ships reach the island before noon and immediately begin replenishment operations. This is carried out in some haste; any ships causing a delay hear from the harbormaster immediately. Captain Ishii goes ashore and returns late in the afternoon. He immediately summons his officers for a briefing.
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“First of all,” he tells them, “I have to report that after holding out for a week against far superior forces the garrison on Eniwetok was overrun yesterday. The atoll is in enemy hands.” The assembled officers stir but no one says anything. There were over 5000 Japanese on Eniwetok.
“Second,” Ishii continues, “is that we are taking part in a new operation. It is to begin immediately, tonight in fact after all ships are refueled. Lieutenant Sakati, are the engines ready for combat operations?”
“Aye, Captain,” says Sakati. “We have full fuel bunkers and the engines are in fine shape.”
“Excellent. Lieutenant Kataoka, how are we for supplies?”
“Fair, sir,” says the portly paymaster. “We have fresh food for about two weeks and can stretch that if we need to. I’d like to take on more but it isn’t necessary.”
Ishii nods. He queries the other officers and finds that their sections are ready for whatever tasks they might be ordered to perform. He then puts his hands behind his back and surveys the men.
“It seems there is a small problem,” says Ishii. “We are going to help fix it.”
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The problem, as it turns out, is Ulithi.
The Allied line of advance in the Central Pacific over the last six months looks like a knife pointing straight at Ulithi and it seems likely to be the next target. The Japanese are ready: Ulithi is a large and well-fortified base, occupied by a full division of infantry and bristling with guns.
The Japanese are ready, that is, with one exception; the base is critically low on supplies. The invasion of Woleai forced the regular resupply convoy headed to Ulithi at the time to turn around and enemy aircraft there have prevented any ships from returning. The operation Hibiki is joining is designed to change that situation.
A large supply convoy has departed Japan and is approaching the atoll. Japanese aircraft carriers will move in close to cover them as they unload while a force including a pair of battleships hits Woleai. Hibiki will continue to escort Zuikaku and Taiho during the operation.
The enemy carriers have left the Marshalls and retreated to the east for the moment. Enemy surface forces are known to be around Woleai, cruisers and destroyers, though their exact strength is unknown. Up to 200 enemy planes are believed to be based at the atoll but despite this there does not seem to be any reason to think the operation cannot succeed. Hibiki’s officers have been in too many battles, though, to believe that things always go as planned.
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RE: Small Ship, Big War
May 3, 1944
Location: 240 miles west of Saipan
Course: Southwest
Attached to: TF 23
Mission: Air combat
System Damage: 1
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 444
Orders: Cover supply convoy heading towards Ulithi
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Excerpt from a letter from Lieutenant Miharu to his wife:
…so the whole business is still very much a mystery. I have no trouble understanding why someone would attack Okubo. He is one of the most despised men aboard ship and frankly I have been tempted several times to try and get rid of him. What I don’t understand is why someone would attack him and then take the risk of carrying him back to his bunk.
It’s the sort of thing Shun might do, if he wanted to take matters into his own hands and not bring it to the attention of the ship’s officers. But I am convinced it was not him. He would have admitted it when asked, for one thing, and for another he would have done it with such efficiency that it would not in fact have come to my attention.
Somebody is trying to protect someone. But who? Aikawa? Okubo? I would just let it drop except that I worry that it is a situation which might not be over. And, I have to admit, solving the mystery has become something of a challenge. Accuse me of hubris if you will, my dear, but I am not the least intelligent man aboard this ship. Someone on board has outwitted me so far and I want to figure it all out.
I got both your letters when we touched at a base yesterday. Thank you for writing, your words mean more to me than anything else when we are at sea. I cannot of course tell you what we are doing right now, but rest assured that we are…
Location: 240 miles west of Saipan
Course: Southwest
Attached to: TF 23
Mission: Air combat
System Damage: 1
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 444
Orders: Cover supply convoy heading towards Ulithi
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Excerpt from a letter from Lieutenant Miharu to his wife:
…so the whole business is still very much a mystery. I have no trouble understanding why someone would attack Okubo. He is one of the most despised men aboard ship and frankly I have been tempted several times to try and get rid of him. What I don’t understand is why someone would attack him and then take the risk of carrying him back to his bunk.
It’s the sort of thing Shun might do, if he wanted to take matters into his own hands and not bring it to the attention of the ship’s officers. But I am convinced it was not him. He would have admitted it when asked, for one thing, and for another he would have done it with such efficiency that it would not in fact have come to my attention.
Somebody is trying to protect someone. But who? Aikawa? Okubo? I would just let it drop except that I worry that it is a situation which might not be over. And, I have to admit, solving the mystery has become something of a challenge. Accuse me of hubris if you will, my dear, but I am not the least intelligent man aboard this ship. Someone on board has outwitted me so far and I want to figure it all out.
I got both your letters when we touched at a base yesterday. Thank you for writing, your words mean more to me than anything else when we are at sea. I cannot of course tell you what we are doing right now, but rest assured that we are…
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RE: Small Ship, Big War
May 4, 1944
Location: 105 miles east-southeast of Ulithi
Course: West-southwest
Attached to: TF 23
Mission: Air combat
System Damage: 1
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 406
Orders: Cover supply convoy heading towards Ulithi
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Seaman First Class Rinzo Akiyama stands stolidly in the rain. He is the lookout on the starboard observation platform on a pitch-black night when water is coming down in sheets. Rivulets cascade off his broad-brimmed oilskin hat and he carefully keeps his head tilted slightly back so they do not fall off the front and obscure his vision. He has over two hours to go on his watch and he is already soaked despite his rain gear.
Akiyama stands in the rain and thinks of how nice it will be to have a nice cup of tea before tumbling into his nice dry hammock. He thinks of how nice it would be to be at home with his wife and children and not have to stand out here, dripping wet in the Pacific darkness. And what is the point? Given the rain and the darkness he does not think he could see Yamato if the battleship was a hundred yards away.
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Submarine Grenadier and destroyer Hibiki have met before, though neither is aware of the fact. Back in 1942 Grenadier bounced a pair of dud torpedoes off of heavy cruiser Suzuya near Wake Island and Hibiki was one of several destroyers involved in the unsuccessful counterattack.
Two years and several patrols later Grenadier encounters Hibiki once again. This time radar tips off the submarine to the presence of a large number of Japanese warships; some of the blips are large enough that they have to be battleships or aircraft carriers. The submarine, running on the surface, is able to intercept the Japanese ships. Screened by rain and darkness the submarine eases forward, seeking a target.
It finds one. It is only a destroyer, but there is no time to seek for bigger game. Lieutenant Commander Joyce decides to nail the target he has right in front of him. He orders tubes one through four loaded and flooded. Radar firms up his firing solution and at his command all four torpedoes streak towards the target. Joyce watches through his binoculars. When the explosions start he may be able to tell what class of destroyer he has just hit. At this range and in these conditions, he knows, the poor bastards out there hardly have a chance.
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Akiyama remains rooted in place, not even pacing. Despite the fact that he thinks he is wasting his time he remains attentive. He knows that Lieutenant Miharu is on the bridge behind him, and the lieutenant notices everything.
He does not stare too hard into the rainy night. If you try too hard, he knows, the eyes play tricks on you. You have to kind of look everywhere and nowhere at once, trusting in the eyes to pick up the smallest clues of light or movement.
The rain slackens for just a moment, and that’s when he sees the faint trails of phosphorescence coming in from ahead and to starboard. They are reaching out to intersect the ship and are already frighteningly close.
“Torpedoes!” he screams. “Torpedoes to starboard!”
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Lieutenant Miharu hears the scream and hears the panic in it. He does not waste time in taking a look but immediately snaps an order.
“Full left rudder!” he says. The destroyer reacts nimbly, beginning to slew around to port, parallel with and away from the torpedoes. A klaxon begins to blare.
Now Miharu rushes out beside Akiyama. He does not need the seaman’s pointing finger to see the torpedo tracks. We are never going to make it, the executive officer thinks.
But they do. Hibiki somehow comes around parallel to the torpedoes just as they reach the ship. Two of them pass well ahead along the starboard side. The third comes within fifty feet of the bow on the same side. And the fourth and last just misses the stern as it swings out of the way and passes down the port side so close that the lookouts have to lean over the rail to follow it.
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Grenadier submerges and evades the Japanese destroyers that give chase. The submarine surfaces later and sends out a broadcast giving the location, course and speed of the Japanese ships.
Location: 105 miles east-southeast of Ulithi
Course: West-southwest
Attached to: TF 23
Mission: Air combat
System Damage: 1
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 406
Orders: Cover supply convoy heading towards Ulithi
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Seaman First Class Rinzo Akiyama stands stolidly in the rain. He is the lookout on the starboard observation platform on a pitch-black night when water is coming down in sheets. Rivulets cascade off his broad-brimmed oilskin hat and he carefully keeps his head tilted slightly back so they do not fall off the front and obscure his vision. He has over two hours to go on his watch and he is already soaked despite his rain gear.
Akiyama stands in the rain and thinks of how nice it will be to have a nice cup of tea before tumbling into his nice dry hammock. He thinks of how nice it would be to be at home with his wife and children and not have to stand out here, dripping wet in the Pacific darkness. And what is the point? Given the rain and the darkness he does not think he could see Yamato if the battleship was a hundred yards away.
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Submarine Grenadier and destroyer Hibiki have met before, though neither is aware of the fact. Back in 1942 Grenadier bounced a pair of dud torpedoes off of heavy cruiser Suzuya near Wake Island and Hibiki was one of several destroyers involved in the unsuccessful counterattack.
Two years and several patrols later Grenadier encounters Hibiki once again. This time radar tips off the submarine to the presence of a large number of Japanese warships; some of the blips are large enough that they have to be battleships or aircraft carriers. The submarine, running on the surface, is able to intercept the Japanese ships. Screened by rain and darkness the submarine eases forward, seeking a target.
It finds one. It is only a destroyer, but there is no time to seek for bigger game. Lieutenant Commander Joyce decides to nail the target he has right in front of him. He orders tubes one through four loaded and flooded. Radar firms up his firing solution and at his command all four torpedoes streak towards the target. Joyce watches through his binoculars. When the explosions start he may be able to tell what class of destroyer he has just hit. At this range and in these conditions, he knows, the poor bastards out there hardly have a chance.
---
Akiyama remains rooted in place, not even pacing. Despite the fact that he thinks he is wasting his time he remains attentive. He knows that Lieutenant Miharu is on the bridge behind him, and the lieutenant notices everything.
He does not stare too hard into the rainy night. If you try too hard, he knows, the eyes play tricks on you. You have to kind of look everywhere and nowhere at once, trusting in the eyes to pick up the smallest clues of light or movement.
The rain slackens for just a moment, and that’s when he sees the faint trails of phosphorescence coming in from ahead and to starboard. They are reaching out to intersect the ship and are already frighteningly close.
“Torpedoes!” he screams. “Torpedoes to starboard!”
---
Lieutenant Miharu hears the scream and hears the panic in it. He does not waste time in taking a look but immediately snaps an order.
“Full left rudder!” he says. The destroyer reacts nimbly, beginning to slew around to port, parallel with and away from the torpedoes. A klaxon begins to blare.
Now Miharu rushes out beside Akiyama. He does not need the seaman’s pointing finger to see the torpedo tracks. We are never going to make it, the executive officer thinks.
But they do. Hibiki somehow comes around parallel to the torpedoes just as they reach the ship. Two of them pass well ahead along the starboard side. The third comes within fifty feet of the bow on the same side. And the fourth and last just misses the stern as it swings out of the way and passes down the port side so close that the lookouts have to lean over the rail to follow it.
---
Grenadier submerges and evades the Japanese destroyers that give chase. The submarine surfaces later and sends out a broadcast giving the location, course and speed of the Japanese ships.
RE: Small Ship, Big War
Exhales!
Appear at places to which he must hasten; move swiftly where he does not expect you.
Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu
RE: Small Ship, Big War
[8D] I knew our beloved ship would come out ok... [&o][&o][&o][&o]
But seriously that was fantastic writing. Not that all of this isn't. Its all great writing but that last post man almost had me breaking out screaming torpedo in the water!!!
But seriously that was fantastic writing. Not that all of this isn't. Its all great writing but that last post man almost had me breaking out screaming torpedo in the water!!!
RE: Small Ship, Big War
WOW! [X(]
Life certainly isn't getting any easier for Hibiki as the war wears on. I think that in this case the radio report on the convoy is deadlier than any fish could ever be.
Life certainly isn't getting any easier for Hibiki as the war wears on. I think that in this case the radio report on the convoy is deadlier than any fish could ever be.
Todd
I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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I never thought that doing an AAR would be so time consuming and difficult.
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