Thread:Tsubakura/@comment-31911856-20170504010934


 * Hello! This is a side note, but the E-2 reference to the 5th Fleet composition as being post-Battle of the Philippine Sea is incorrect, that was the post-Operation AL 5th Fleet after the Northern Area Force was disbanded and reformed as the Northeast Area Fleet. The ships in that list were assigned to the 5th Fleet well before Philippine Sea. In fact, the only ship that took part was Hatsushimo and only at the tail end of it to escort a tanker group northwards, but she was already assigned to the 5th Fleet a year before and temporarily reassigned to the Combined Fleet, and the last ship assigned to the 5th was Ushio in April of 1944, before Philippine Sea. The event itself is based around the operations of the Northern Area Force/Northeast Area Fleet. References are "A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy" by Paul Dull, Combined Fleet TROM of 5th Fleet ships http://www.combinedfleet.com/kaigun.htm, OOB for Philippine Sea http://www.navweaps.com/index_oob/OOB_WWII_Pacific/OOB_WWII_Phillipine_Sea.htm, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_Fleet_(Imperial_Japanese_Navy), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Area_Fleet  