 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Pashure peOperation Cockpit, Saratoga akarayirwa kudzokera kuUnited States nokuda kwokuvandudzwa. Mukuru mukuru weUS Navy, Admiral Ernest King, akataura kuna Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, mutungamiri weSouth East Asia Command, kuti mutakuri, achiperekedzwa nedzimwe ngarava dzeEastern Fleet, anorova Surabaya parwendo rwake rwekudzoka. Mambo akanga achitarisira kuti izvi zvaizoshanda sokutsausa kubva pakurongwa kweAllied landing paWakde Islandkure neNew Guinea. Mountbatten akabvuma chikumbiro ichi. 