In Response To: en route to New Guinea?
Not in 1944. The JAAF abandoned the CV (or Akitsu Maru) to Truk, fly to Rabaul route by mid-43. Thereafter they came by air through the Philippines down the island chain of the NEI, to western New Guinea thence Wewak. Recall that the JAAF established Wewak as its main base from July 43 and had been there in some strength since earlier that Spring.
