March 16, 1942
Location: 480 miles south of Wake
Course: North-northeast
Attached to: TF 6
Mission: Surface Combat
System Damage: 5
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 421
Orders: Proceed to Wake Island. Engage enemy ships there. If no ships are present proceed with bombardment of enemy positions and installations.
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On the bridge of the Hibiki:
Lieutenant Miharu: We are to hold position here, sir?
Captain Ishii: Admiral Goto's orders. I have no idea why. We are in striking distance of Wake now. Perhaps we have detected an inbound enemy convoy and are waiting for it to arrive.
Lieutenant Miharu: Is there any sign that we have been detected?
Captain Ishii: None.
Lieutenant Miharu: Let us hope it remains that way.
Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki
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RE: Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki
March 17, 1942
Location: 480 miles south of Wake
Course: North
Attached to: TF 6
Mission: Surface Combat
System Damage: 5
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 405
Orders: Proceed to Wake Island. Engage enemy ships there. If no ships are present proceed with bombardment of enemy positions and installations.
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On the bridge of the Hibiki:
Radio Operator, via speaking tube: Sir, Kako is signalling enemy planes approaching!
Lookout: Planes! Fifty enemy aircraft approaching from the north, altitude 6000 feet!
Captain Ishii: Combat stations! Speed to 32 knots! Put us 1000 meters from Suzuya!
All eyes turn to the approaching planes. Higher up about a dozen fighters can be seen peeling off and circling overhead, but everyone is concentrating on the forty twin-engine bombers coming in fast.
Captain Ishii: Left rudder 30 degrees!
Anti-aircraft fire erupts from the task force. The bombers come in. They concentrate on the big cruisers, but the destroyers are not ignored.
Captain Ishii: Right rudder, 90 degrees!
Hibiki zig zags through the attack, her two small AA guns banging away. Geysers of water erupts around the ships.
Lieutenant Miharu: Captain, Yuzuki is hit!
Captain Ishii: Damn! Bring us around. Stand by to offer assistance.
The attack ends. Yuzuki, the other destroyer on the right flank of the formation, is afire. Suzuya has also taken a hit, but there is little damage.
Radio Operator: Yuzuki is signalling 32 killed and injured. Damage is serious but under control.
Captain Ishii: Very well. Put us back in position, helmsman.
Radio Operator: Sir, signal from Admiral Goto. Yuzuki is to return to Kwajalein. All other ships are to resume formation and head for Wake Island.
Captain Ishii: About damned time.
Location: 480 miles south of Wake
Course: North
Attached to: TF 6
Mission: Surface Combat
System Damage: 5
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 405
Orders: Proceed to Wake Island. Engage enemy ships there. If no ships are present proceed with bombardment of enemy positions and installations.
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On the bridge of the Hibiki:
Radio Operator, via speaking tube: Sir, Kako is signalling enemy planes approaching!
Lookout: Planes! Fifty enemy aircraft approaching from the north, altitude 6000 feet!
Captain Ishii: Combat stations! Speed to 32 knots! Put us 1000 meters from Suzuya!
All eyes turn to the approaching planes. Higher up about a dozen fighters can be seen peeling off and circling overhead, but everyone is concentrating on the forty twin-engine bombers coming in fast.
Captain Ishii: Left rudder 30 degrees!
Anti-aircraft fire erupts from the task force. The bombers come in. They concentrate on the big cruisers, but the destroyers are not ignored.
Captain Ishii: Right rudder, 90 degrees!
Hibiki zig zags through the attack, her two small AA guns banging away. Geysers of water erupts around the ships.
Lieutenant Miharu: Captain, Yuzuki is hit!
Captain Ishii: Damn! Bring us around. Stand by to offer assistance.
The attack ends. Yuzuki, the other destroyer on the right flank of the formation, is afire. Suzuya has also taken a hit, but there is little damage.
Radio Operator: Yuzuki is signalling 32 killed and injured. Damage is serious but under control.
Captain Ishii: Very well. Put us back in position, helmsman.
Radio Operator: Sir, signal from Admiral Goto. Yuzuki is to return to Kwajalein. All other ships are to resume formation and head for Wake Island.
Captain Ishii: About damned time.
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RE: Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki
March 18, 1942
Location: 350 miles south of Wake
Course: South
Attached to: TF 6
Mission: Surface Combat
System Damage: 6
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 269
Orders: Return to Kwajalein.
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From the diary of Seaman First Class Taiki Takahashi:
This visit to Wake was not as exciting as the last one. There weren't any enemy ships there this time. Tonight instead our ships cruised past the island in a column, firing steadily as we went. We could see a lot of explosions. The island seems pretty flat. I don't think I would want to be there getting bombarded like that. Where would you hide?
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On the bridge of the Hibiki:
Lieutenant Miharu: No sign of enemy aircraft?
Captain Ishii: None. We have left the island a long ways behind us, I think that if they have not attacked by now we are clear.
Lieutenant Miharu: Good. I don't...
Lookout: Torpedoes! Torpedo wakes at 70 degrees to starboard!
Captain Ishii: That's Suzuya! Flash a warning!
Lieutenant Miharu: They see them, sir, they're turning.
Captain Ishii: Too late...
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Aboard SS Grampus, 3000 meters from Hibiki:
Captain Hutchinson: God DAMN it!
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On the bridge of the Hibiki:
Lieutenant Miharu: A dud!
Captain Ishii: Speed 30 knots, ahead 2200 meters, then slow. *after a moment* Sonar, do you have anything?
Sonar operator: No sir.
Captain Ishii: Slow to 10 knots.
Sonar operator: Still nothing, sir.
Captain Ishii: Change course 30 degree to port.
Time passes. Men stand by the depth charge racks, waiting for orders.
Sonar operator: Sorry sir, nothing at all.
Captain Ishii: He's gone. It looks as though no one else has found anything either. Let's get out of here.
Location: 350 miles south of Wake
Course: South
Attached to: TF 6
Mission: Surface Combat
System Damage: 6
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 269
Orders: Return to Kwajalein.
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From the diary of Seaman First Class Taiki Takahashi:
This visit to Wake was not as exciting as the last one. There weren't any enemy ships there this time. Tonight instead our ships cruised past the island in a column, firing steadily as we went. We could see a lot of explosions. The island seems pretty flat. I don't think I would want to be there getting bombarded like that. Where would you hide?
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On the bridge of the Hibiki:
Lieutenant Miharu: No sign of enemy aircraft?
Captain Ishii: None. We have left the island a long ways behind us, I think that if they have not attacked by now we are clear.
Lieutenant Miharu: Good. I don't...
Lookout: Torpedoes! Torpedo wakes at 70 degrees to starboard!
Captain Ishii: That's Suzuya! Flash a warning!
Lieutenant Miharu: They see them, sir, they're turning.
Captain Ishii: Too late...
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Aboard SS Grampus, 3000 meters from Hibiki:
Captain Hutchinson: God DAMN it!
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On the bridge of the Hibiki:
Lieutenant Miharu: A dud!
Captain Ishii: Speed 30 knots, ahead 2200 meters, then slow. *after a moment* Sonar, do you have anything?
Sonar operator: No sir.
Captain Ishii: Slow to 10 knots.
Sonar operator: Still nothing, sir.
Captain Ishii: Change course 30 degree to port.
Time passes. Men stand by the depth charge racks, waiting for orders.
Sonar operator: Sorry sir, nothing at all.
Captain Ishii: He's gone. It looks as though no one else has found anything either. Let's get out of here.
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RE: Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki
March 19, 1942
Location: 180 miles north-northeast of Kwajalein
Course: South-southwest
Attached to: TF 6
Mission: Surface Combat
System Damage: 6
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 233
Orders: Return to Kwajalein.
Location: 180 miles north-northeast of Kwajalein
Course: South-southwest
Attached to: TF 6
Mission: Surface Combat
System Damage: 6
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 233
Orders: Return to Kwajalein.
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RE: Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki
March 20, 1942
Location: Kwajalein
Course: None
Attached to: TF 6
Mission: Surface Combat
System Damage: 6
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 233
Orders: Take on fuel and supplies and await orders.
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A makeshift bar on Kwajalein. Several of the Hibiki's officers are seated at a table, enjoying some time ashore. The place is crowded with other sailors, and with some men from a recently arrived detachment of the 56th Division. The bar is divided virtually in two, navy men on one side and army men on the other. There is no mingling.
One army lieutenant, who has obviously had more than one or two cups of sake, has been eyeing the men from the Hibiki. He stands up and wanders near their table, then begins speaking in a theatrically loud voice.
Army Lieutenant: Frankly, I've never liked Navy men. They remind me of sea slugs. *laughter from the army table*
Chief Torpedo Officer Sugiyura: *low voice* Why...
Chief Engineer Sakati: Just ignore him.
Army Lieutenant: *coming closer* Oh, I just remembered. There's one Navy man who doesn't remind me of a sea slug. That's Ishii. A sea slug is soft. But Ishii isn't soft. Ishii may be a swaggering, overbearing, tin-plated dictator with delusions of god-hood, but he's not soft.
Sugiyura stands abruptly. Sakati stops him with a hand on his arm.
Sakati: Everyone's entitled to an opinion, lad. Let it go.
Army Lieutenant: That's right. And if I think Ishii is a species of slime mold that's my opinion too.
Sugiyura stands again, fists clenched.
Sakati: Don't do it, Lieutenant. And that's an order.
Sugiyura: But you heard what he called the captain!
Sakati: Forget it. It's not worth fighting for. We're big enough to take a few insults.
Army Lieutenant: Of course I'd say that Ishii deserves his ship. We like the Hibiki; we - we really do. That sagging old rust bucket is designed like a garbage scow.
Sakati: *in a deadly quiet voice, without looking around* Don't you think you should -- rephrase that?
Army Lieutenant: You're right, I should. I didn't mean to say that the Hibiki should be hauling garbage. I meant to say that it should be hauled away as garbage!
He turns away from the Navy table, laughing uproariously at his own joke. Sakati rises slowly from his chair and turns. The Army lieutenant never sees the punch coming. He goes crashing backward over his table and the brawl is on.
Location: Kwajalein
Course: None
Attached to: TF 6
Mission: Surface Combat
System Damage: 6
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 233
Orders: Take on fuel and supplies and await orders.
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A makeshift bar on Kwajalein. Several of the Hibiki's officers are seated at a table, enjoying some time ashore. The place is crowded with other sailors, and with some men from a recently arrived detachment of the 56th Division. The bar is divided virtually in two, navy men on one side and army men on the other. There is no mingling.
One army lieutenant, who has obviously had more than one or two cups of sake, has been eyeing the men from the Hibiki. He stands up and wanders near their table, then begins speaking in a theatrically loud voice.
Army Lieutenant: Frankly, I've never liked Navy men. They remind me of sea slugs. *laughter from the army table*
Chief Torpedo Officer Sugiyura: *low voice* Why...
Chief Engineer Sakati: Just ignore him.
Army Lieutenant: *coming closer* Oh, I just remembered. There's one Navy man who doesn't remind me of a sea slug. That's Ishii. A sea slug is soft. But Ishii isn't soft. Ishii may be a swaggering, overbearing, tin-plated dictator with delusions of god-hood, but he's not soft.
Sugiyura stands abruptly. Sakati stops him with a hand on his arm.
Sakati: Everyone's entitled to an opinion, lad. Let it go.
Army Lieutenant: That's right. And if I think Ishii is a species of slime mold that's my opinion too.
Sugiyura stands again, fists clenched.
Sakati: Don't do it, Lieutenant. And that's an order.
Sugiyura: But you heard what he called the captain!
Sakati: Forget it. It's not worth fighting for. We're big enough to take a few insults.
Army Lieutenant: Of course I'd say that Ishii deserves his ship. We like the Hibiki; we - we really do. That sagging old rust bucket is designed like a garbage scow.
Sakati: *in a deadly quiet voice, without looking around* Don't you think you should -- rephrase that?
Army Lieutenant: You're right, I should. I didn't mean to say that the Hibiki should be hauling garbage. I meant to say that it should be hauled away as garbage!
He turns away from the Navy table, laughing uproariously at his own joke. Sakati rises slowly from his chair and turns. The Army lieutenant never sees the punch coming. He goes crashing backward over his table and the brawl is on.
RE: Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki
ORIGINAL: Cuttlefish
March 20, 1942
Location: Kwajalein
Course: None
Attached to: TF 6
Mission: Surface Combat
System Damage: 6
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 475
Orders: Take on fuel and supplies and await orders.
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A makeshift bar on Kwajalein. Several of the Hibiki's officers are seated at a table, enjoying some time ashore. The place is crowded with other sailors, and with some men from a recently arrived detachment of the 56th Division. The bar is divided virtually in two, navy men on one side and army men on the other. There is no mingling.
One army lieutenant, who has obviously had more than one or two cups of sake, has been eyeing the men from the Hibiki. He stands up and wanders near their table, then begins speaking in a theatrically loud voice.
Army Lieutenant: Frankly, I've never liked Navy men. They remind me of sea slugs. *laughter from the army table*
Chief Torpedo Officer Sugiyura: *low voice* Why...
Chief Engineer Sakati: Just ignore him.
Army Lieutenant: *coming closer* Oh, I just remembered. There's one Navy man who doesn't remind me of a sea slug. That's Ishii. A sea slug is soft. But Ishii isn't soft. Ishii may be a swaggering, overbearing, tin-plated dictator with delusions of god-hood, but he's not soft.
Sugiyura stands abruptly. Sakati stops him with a hand on his arm.
Sakati: Everyone's entitled to an opinion, lad. Let it go.
Army Lieutenant: That's right. And if I think Ishii is a species of slime mold that's my opinion too.
Sugiyura stands again, fists clenched.
Sakati: Don't do it, Lieutenant. And that's an order.
Sugiyura: But you heard what he called the captain!
Sakati: Forget it. It's not worth fighting for. We're big enough to take a few insults.
Army Lieutenant: Of course I'd say that Ishii deserves his ship. We like the Hibiki; we - we really do. That sagging old rust bucket is designed like a garbage scow.
Sakati: *in a deadly quiet voice, without looking around* Don't you think you should -- rephrase that?
Army Lieutenant: You're right, I should. I didn't mean to say that the Hibiki should be hauling garbage. I meant to say that it should be hauled away as garbage!
He turns away from the Navy table, laughing uproariously at his own joke. Sakati rises slowly from his chair and turns. The Army lieutenant never sees the punch coming. He goes crashing backward over his table and the brawl is on.
[:D] [:D]
Years latter, Gene Rodenberry and his writers would appropriate this as an homage... [:'(]
RE: Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki
i was just thinkin that[:D]
*scotttish accent*
laddie...
domnt ya thi9nk u should... rephrtase that?
klingon: ur right, i should...
i didnt mean to say the enterprise should be HAULING garbage, i meant to sauy that it should be hauled away... AS... garbage!!
hahahahaa-
*LOUD PUNCH*
[:D]
aye!
*scotttish accent*
laddie...
domnt ya thi9nk u should... rephrtase that?
klingon: ur right, i should...
i didnt mean to say the enterprise should be HAULING garbage, i meant to sauy that it should be hauled away... AS... garbage!!
hahahahaa-
*LOUD PUNCH*
[:D]
aye!
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RE: Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki
ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
Years latter, Gene Rodenberry and his writers would appropriate this as an homage... [:'(]
Interestingly, Roddenberry could conceivably encounter the Hibiki and her crew. He flew B-17s in the Pacific during WWII with the 349th Bomber Squadron. He won the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal for his service.
RE: Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki
really? wow i never heard that[:)]
o cuttlefish check out my AAR against divebomber i paid homage to u and hibiki [:D]
o cuttlefish check out my AAR against divebomber i paid homage to u and hibiki [:D]
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RE: Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki
ORIGINAL: Cuttlefish
Captain Ishii: That's Suzuya! Flash a warning!
Lieutenant Miharu: They see them, sir, they're turning.
Captain Ishii: Too late...
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Aboard SS Grampus, 3000 meters from Hibiki:
Captain Hutchinson: God DAMN it!
Very exciting to read! I wonder if that's what your opponent said too, when watching the turn . . . [:D]
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
--Victor Hugo
--Victor Hugo
RE: Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki
more like...
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RE: Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki
beeen there
1 of my bats put a luky torp into a BB and a carrier
against the AI [:(]
1 of my bats put a luky torp into a BB and a carrier
against the AI [:(]
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RE: Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki
I had Tarpon sit in the lagoon at Baker Is for three days. Each day she took a shot at an AV, each day she got a hit which failed to detonate... When the IJN patrol craft showed up the third day I decided that it was time for her to skedaddle.
But S-38 put a torpedo into Chez' heavy cruiser Maya on Dec 11 in our game and she sank while entering Takao harbor some days later. Hah! Checking my notes, Tarpon missed a shot at Maya on Dec 13th. Maybe I'd better check her skipper's ratings...
But S-38 put a torpedo into Chez' heavy cruiser Maya on Dec 11 in our game and she sank while entering Takao harbor some days later. Hah! Checking my notes, Tarpon missed a shot at Maya on Dec 13th. Maybe I'd better check her skipper's ratings...
fair winds,
Brad
Brad
RE: Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki
heh
gotta love those sboats
gotta love those sboats
RE: Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki
i cannot wait to command 1 in SH4
pay back time u bastards
as sum1 once said...
SHOOT THE SUNZABITCHES!
pay back time u bastards
as sum1 once said...
SHOOT THE SUNZABITCHES!
RE: Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki
I had Tarpon sit in the lagoon at Baker Is for three days. Each day she took a shot at an AV, each day she got a hit which failed to detonate... When the IJN patrol craft showed up the third day I decided that it was time for her to skedaddle.
But S-38 put a torpedo into Chez' heavy cruiser Maya on Dec 11 in our game and she sank while entering Takao harbor some days later. Hah! Checking my notes, Tarpon missed a shot at Maya on Dec 13th. Maybe I'd better check her skipper's ratings...
All Tarpon's skipper had to do was follow the lead of my sub skipper who snuck into Canton Island harbor and torped the AV Curtis, not once but twice!!!
And what propaganda are you spreading about the Maya? S-38 didn't sink the Maya... some seaman plugged the toilet and it overflowed!
BTW, the medal for Tarpon's skipper has been approved by the Emporer.
Chez
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RE: Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki
March 21, 1942
Location: Kwajalein
Course: None
Attached to: TF 6
Mission: Surface Combat
System Damage: 6
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 233
Orders: Take on fuel and supplies and await orders.
Location: Kwajalein
Course: None
Attached to: TF 6
Mission: Surface Combat
System Damage: 6
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 233
Orders: Take on fuel and supplies and await orders.
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RE: Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki
March 22, 1942
Location: Kwajalein
Course: None
Attached to: TF 6
Mission: Surface Combat
System Damage: 6
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 233
Orders: Take on fuel and supplies and await orders.
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At the Roi-Namur docks, Kwajalein:
Taiki: Hey, Riku!
Riku: Oh, um, hey there.
Taiki: Who was that you were talking to? He looked like an officer.
Riku: Him? Oh, that was Captain Ito. He's...he is an old family friend.
Taiki: Really? What ship is he on?
Riku: Uh, he's the captain of a submarine, I-125.
Taiki: What were you...
Riku: Look, Taiki, no time for that now. I need a lot of money in a hurry. If I set up a card game will you play? I'll stake you.
Taiki: I guess so, but what...
Riku: Good. Stay out of Shun's way before he gives you another one of those study projects. I'll let you know when and where the game is.
Location: Kwajalein
Course: None
Attached to: TF 6
Mission: Surface Combat
System Damage: 6
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 233
Orders: Take on fuel and supplies and await orders.
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At the Roi-Namur docks, Kwajalein:
Taiki: Hey, Riku!
Riku: Oh, um, hey there.
Taiki: Who was that you were talking to? He looked like an officer.
Riku: Him? Oh, that was Captain Ito. He's...he is an old family friend.
Taiki: Really? What ship is he on?
Riku: Uh, he's the captain of a submarine, I-125.
Taiki: What were you...
Riku: Look, Taiki, no time for that now. I need a lot of money in a hurry. If I set up a card game will you play? I'll stake you.
Taiki: I guess so, but what...
Riku: Good. Stay out of Shun's way before he gives you another one of those study projects. I'll let you know when and where the game is.
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RE: Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki
March 23, 1942
Location: Kwajalein
Course: Docked
Attached to: TF 6
Mission: Surface Combat
System Damage: 5
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 233
Orders: Take on fuel and supplies and await orders.
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System damage has dropped 1 point while docked.
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On the bridge of the Hibiki:
Lieutenant Miharu: Captain, is the Chief Engineer still confined to quarters?
Captain Ishii: No. We need those engines worked on while we have some time here in port.
Lieutenant Miharu: I see, sir. That makes sense. Is there any word on those tankers?
Captain Ishii: Maybe tomorrow, maybe the day after. I suspect we will be heading back to Wake Island as soon as they arrive and we can refuel. Aircraft report more ships heading into the area. Our carriers intercepted one inbound convoy and wiped it out up around Midway, I heard, but there are more out there.
Lieutenant Miharu: The Americans are stubborn.
Captain Ishii: The Americans are desperate.
Location: Kwajalein
Course: Docked
Attached to: TF 6
Mission: Surface Combat
System Damage: 5
Float Damage: 0
Fires: 0
Fuel: 233
Orders: Take on fuel and supplies and await orders.
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System damage has dropped 1 point while docked.
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On the bridge of the Hibiki:
Lieutenant Miharu: Captain, is the Chief Engineer still confined to quarters?
Captain Ishii: No. We need those engines worked on while we have some time here in port.
Lieutenant Miharu: I see, sir. That makes sense. Is there any word on those tankers?
Captain Ishii: Maybe tomorrow, maybe the day after. I suspect we will be heading back to Wake Island as soon as they arrive and we can refuel. Aircraft report more ships heading into the area. Our carriers intercepted one inbound convoy and wiped it out up around Midway, I heard, but there are more out there.
Lieutenant Miharu: The Americans are stubborn.
Captain Ishii: The Americans are desperate.
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RE: Small Ship, Big War - The Voyages of the Hibiki
Excluding Pearl Harbor and Windtalkers of course.[8|]ORIGINAL: Cuttlefish
In a way what I am telling here is a story, and I am sure that most people here have had the experience of having an otherwise good WWII novel or movie marred by glaring factual errors.
"Never take counsel of your fears."
Tho. Jackson
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