Thanks.
I wonder how many relief subs made it to Rabul over the next year and half?
Don’t know. There were still subs based there until about February 1944, making supply runs to New Guinea and other bases in the Bismarks and Solomans. After that they seem to have been moved back to Truk. Probably not many given the fact that our side had broken about every code Japan had and could intercept their orders, it became very dangerous to be a Japanese submariner.