Talk:Tatsuta/@comment-110.165.135.218-20160601160624/@comment-5046483-20160718002550

Submarines. She was quite busy, being involved in everything from the first and second Battles of Wake Island through to the Solomons campaign where she was attacked a fair few times by B-17s and B-25s but never damaged, up until 19th January 1943 when she returned to Maizuru to get a damaged rudder repaired. She spent her time in the Seto Inland Sea from March til October 1943 doing training cruises and watching Mutsu explode (and rescuing her survivors) then she got sent to back to Truk.

While there she managed to get missed by a submarine with its sights set on Junyou and Yamashiro, she also managed to miss being caught up in Operation Hailstone by not being there at the time so yet more luck....which then ran out. On 12th March 1944 she was running a convoy escort when a submarine on its first ever war patrol, USS Sand Lance, attacked her convoy and hit her with a torpedo which despite the crews best damage control efforts, finally ended up putting her on the bottom, just 180 miles from where she set off.

So basically she had an epic career and was extremely lucky 'til she got ganked by a newb :3