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[StartQuote] Hey Guys: Frank made an excellent point and some others are splitting fine hairs. The order given was indeed to assist sixteen boats to move collectively from Tulagi to Treasury. Was it a combat area- of course it was. Was it heavy day-to-day fighting? Not at all. The document was very specific: itmade six points and even established the speed at which they would travel- 1600 rpm's. The simple conclusion? The boats were in more danger from crashing into each other than they were from enemy activity, hence the lights. I don't think the document changes anything. The boats clearly would not use any lighting while patrolling or during attacks, since stealth was their only ally. But while moving in enemy waters for other purposes they clearly did---- at least this one time.. And there is no way that the boat CO's did not follow Mr. Faulkner's orders. Among these sixteen boats Mr. Faulkner assigned four division commanders with each responsible for three boats and one with four. He then ran as the task force commander with his own three-boat division and the division commanders under him. Each div comdr then was to maintain limited radio contact with him as they moved within "Vee" pattern for each div. Everything was spelled out in detail. I think the best information to be taken from this is that the lights were ordered to be used, which clearly shows to me that it was an unusual undertaking- one that required calling out in detail and covering with an order to do so. Based upon that simple fact then, it would seem that under all other circumstances, no lighting was used for any boat movements whatsoever. That's what I take away from this. This has been fun. What's next? Allan [EndQuote]
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