Because Kuso Teitoku doesn't believe in them, just as he didn't believe in stockpiling repair buckets before an operation, which is why Zuikaku stayed behind on Operation MI. They didn't have any for her.
Because Kuso Teitoku doesn't believe in them, just as he didn't believe in stockpiling repair buckets before an operation, which is why Zuikaku stayed behind on Operation MI. They didn't have any for her.
That was a trick though to throw off the Abyssals, having cracked the fleets codes and all.
Given that nearly got Akagi sunk, he sure couldn't pull off the "water desalination plant" fake info thing as well as the Americans did. And no repair buckets was a real problem, given how it left Kaga unable to sortie for the operation to take Truk Anchorage. It wasn't just got the last mission.