From here to...well...it SEEMS like an eternity

[fabertong]

Dear God.......how did the Japs. get Junyo in 1941??????????


I love subchasers map too.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: fabertong

Dear God.......how did the Japs. get Junyo in 1941??????????


I love subchasers map too.

*************Office of CNO, Washington, Dec 12, 1941**************

Turner: <visibly angry> "Wait, are you telling me the Junyo hasn't been launched yet?"

Capt. Cannonfodder, Office of Naval Intelligence: "Sir, it seems Japanese radio propaganda broadcasts may have overstated the readiness of the Junyo"

Turner: "OVERSTATED? Good Lord man. That what propaganda is for. I have already reported this crap to the President. There are those in the Administration who advocate for the formation of a civilian Central Intelligence Agency to improve US intelligence ([;)]) capabilities. Should that come to pass, the Office of Naval Intelligence will be emasculated. Is that what you want, Captain? If we have one more screw-up of this magnitude Captain, YOU will be the one being emasculated. Find out what the Hell kind of vessel was launching Vals in the Celebes Sea yesterday. And find out fast."

[Wellard]

proving once again that naval Intelligence is a contradiction in terms

[Moondawggie]

Well, at least we now know who's really to blame for the CIA screwing up Iraq's WMD capability: Capt. Cannonfodder, Office of Naval Intelligence! [:@]

If it hadn't had been for that sonovabitch's intelligence failure in the Junyo fiasco of 12/41, there never would have been a CIA to screw things up in 2002-6! [:-]

[scott64]

ORIGINAL: fabertong

Dear God.......how did the Japs. get Junyo in 1941??????????


I love subchasers map too.

They had a time machine [:'(][X(]

[Cap Mandrake]

**************************Oval Office, Dec 12, 11:30************************

FDR: <On the phone> Reg? Yes, Franklin here. You know that vacant land near Langley we looked at?........Yes, that's it. Buy it. All 240 acres, and kep it quiet.....Great. Thanks, Reg. You're a dear."

<hangs up, then glances at a memo, beginning to laugh> "What a cretin. Probably voted for Hoover."

[Cap Mandrake]

Editors note: No implication of goodness or purity of purpose is implied by the use of white for Japanese Forces...it just looks better [:'(]

[Cap Mandrake]

I know its not perfect, but WITP is a great game...especially when it comes to the cat and mouse games in the DEI when the naval force and air unit density and capabilities are low at the start of the war.

Should I have had De Ruyter loiter South of Amboina and try to hit the Jap transports at night? Where is that transport force South of Luzon going? Should I try to move some more P-40's back to Manila? Should I put an Aussie Bn in Kendari? Kopeang? Should the Brits reinforce Java?


Where are Kaga and Akagi now?


Pretty cool.

[Onime No Kyo]

32 Japanese Marines jump to their death, huh? NavInt can get accurate fugures for that, but they cant do simple arithmetic to count the CVs present. [8|][:D]

[Wellard]

I would think that the fact that two Jap CVs are "whereabouts unknown" would be ringing many alarm bells in ComPac

[tabpub]

ORIGINAL: Wellard

I would think that the fact that two Jap CVs are "whereabouts unknown" would be ringing many alarm bells in ComPac

....huh?....I thought that was just my ears ringing from my high blood pressure!

Seriously, all they are doing is burning #2 fuel oil right now, as far as I care to estimate.
Most likely, they are sitting in the middle of nowhere out past the "black stump", looking at a bunch o' nothing...or heading back to Nippon. Personally, I wish they would pop up somewhere near a green base for a visit, but I don't think that they are that silly.....though just by not being seen they are having some effect....now quiet, I have to get back to overseeing the repairs on the Tennesee.....dang thing has crept up to 96....<sound of hammers and pumps in the background>.

[Wellard]

Ok Chet,your the boss

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: tabpub

ORIGINAL: Wellard

I would think that the fact that two Jap CVs are "whereabouts unknown" would be ringing many alarm bells in ComPac

....huh?....I thought that was just my ears ringing from my high blood pressure!

Seriously, all they are doing is burning #2 fuel oil right now, as far as I care to estimate.
Most likely, they are sitting in the middle of nowhere out past the "black stump", looking at a bunch o' nothing...or heading back to Nippon. Personally, I wish they would pop up somewhere near a green base for a visit, but I don't think that they are that silly.....though just by not being seen they are having some effect....now quiet, I have to get back to overseeing the repairs on the Tennesee.....dang thing has crept up to 96....<sound of hammers and pumps in the background>.

And what are you gonna do with her when she's done? Send her to escort convoys out of Frisco? [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: tabpub

ORIGINAL: Wellard

I would think that the fact that two Jap CVs are "whereabouts unknown" would be ringing many alarm bells in ComPac

....huh?....I thought that was just my ears ringing from my high blood pressure!

Seriously, all they are doing is burning #2 fuel oil right now, as far as I care to estimate.
Most likely, they are sitting in the middle of nowhere out past the "black stump", looking at a bunch o' nothing...or heading back to Nippon. Personally, I wish they would pop up somewhere near a green base for a visit, but I don't think that they are that silly.....though just by not being seen they are having some effect....now quiet, I have to get back to overseeing the repairs on the Tennesee.....dang thing has crept up to 96....<sound of hammers and pumps in the background>.

And what are you gonna do with her when she's done? Send her to escort convoys out of Frisco? [:D]

A couple of hundred tubs of drywall compound and an army of shop vacs and she may just be ready for naval gunfire support for the invasion of Normandy

[tabpub]

ORIGINAL: Wellard

Ok Chet,your the boss

Dear Mr Wellard:

This is Chet's mom, Alice Nimitz. He was up late and didn't have any of his milk yet, so was quite cranky. He was also upset that his precious subs hadn't found some Jap ship called the HOO-YOU or something; and that the Army Air Corps had. I don't understand this, I thought we are all in this together; but, Chet keeps walking around murmuring "G*d d*mn Air Corps flyboys are stealing the show..." and drinking his milk and burping out "Where the f**k are the Kaga and Akagi, the world wonders".

He seems to like that phrase, the world wonders; he used it when Bill Halsey docked the other day after being rescued from the Enterprise.
Here's Bill, standing on the dock at attention in someone else's uniform (as they had to burn his old one it was so oil-soaked) and Chet walks up to him and looks like he is going to do the Eskimo nose rub with him, they were that close. "WHAT THE F**K WERE YOU THINKING!? DID YOUR BRAIN FALL ASLEEP FROM YOU SITTING ON IT?! THE WORLD WONDERS IF YOU EVEN HAVE A BRAIN! JUST LIKE THAT G** D**M SCARECROW IN THAT KID'S MOVIE!! YOU'RE ON THE BEACH; PREPARE TO TAKE OVER SOUTH PACIFIC FROM OLD FUSSBUDGET GHORMLEY, YOU CAN SIT OUT THE WAR DOWN THERE. Dismissed....."

Enclosed find an artist's rendering of the Enterprise sinking....

Yours,

Mama Nimitz

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: tabpub

ORIGINAL: Wellard

Ok Chet,your the boss

Dear Mr Wellard:

This is Chet's mom, Alice Nimitz. He was up late and didn't have any of his milk yet, so was quite cranky. He was also upset that his precious subs hadn't found some Jap ship called the HOO-YOU or something; and that the Army Air Corps had. I don't understand this, I thought we are all in this together; but, Chet keeps walking around murmuring "G*d d*mn Air Corps flyboys are stealing the show..." and drinking his milk and burping out "Where the f**k are the Kaga and Akagi, the world wonders".

He seems to like that phrase, the world wonders; he used it when Bill Halsey docked the other day after being rescued from the Enterprise.
Here's Bill, standing on the dock at attention in someone else's uniform (as they had to burn his old one it was so oil-soaked) and Chet walks up to him and looks like he is going to do the Eskimo nose rub with him, they were that close. "WHAT THE F**K WERE YOU THINKING!? DID YOUR BRAIN FALL ASLEEP FROM YOU SITTING ON IT?! THE WORLD WONDERS IF YOU EVEN HAVE A BRAIN! JUST LIKE THAT G** D**M SCARECROW IN THAT KID'S MOVIE!! YOU'RE ON THE BEACH; PREPARE TO TAKE OVER SOUTH PACIFIC FROM OLD FUSSBUDGET GHORMLEY, YOU CAN SIT OUT THE WAR DOWN THERE. Dismissed....."

Enclosed find an artist's rendering of the Enterprise sinking....

Yours,

Mama Nimitz

How come the ocean looks like a hideous blue-green carpet and the smoke looks like a close-up of fiberglass insulation[:D]

Jeez...I'd hate to step on one of those babies in my bare feet.

BTW..was Halsey really in command of Enterprise on that fateful Dec 9th? Was Lexington set to follow Enterprise? If so, we can blame Halsey's impetuousness. Lastly why didn't he go down with the ship in a manly fashion like Capt Brown?

[Terminus]

Looks like the Hermes...

[tabpub]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Looks like the Hermes...

Nope; here's the original. I don't have a shot of an Yorktown class, so had to use these from the convention. Kurita's wet dream scenario.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
A couple of hundred tubs of drywall compound and an army of shop vacs and she may just be ready for naval gunfire support for the invasion of Normandy

Bondo? Ewww. Deffinitely not a good way to pimp your ride. [:'(]

A while back I got curious about where those vaunted BBs were while the CAs were getting the snot knocked out of them in SoPac. Turns out it was either Alaska or Fiji. Later on I got curious about where the surviving CAs were while the Washington was running around with nothing bigger than a DD for escort. Turns out that they had been shuffled off to escort convoys from the left coast and Panama. Something about the rates of fire and speed of turret traverse being too slow to expose them to enemy fire. Neither they nor the BBs were to emerge until Chester could find a nice, stationary island for them to fight.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: tabpub

ORIGINAL: Wellard

Ok Chet,your the boss

Dear Mr Wellard:

This is Chet's mom, Alice Nimitz. He was up late and didn't have any of his milk yet, so was quite cranky. He was also upset that his precious subs hadn't found some Jap ship called the HOO-YOU or something; and that the Army Air Corps had. I don't understand this, I thought we are all in this together; but, Chet keeps walking around murmuring "G*d d*mn Air Corps flyboys are stealing the show..." and drinking his milk and burping out "Where the f**k are the Kaga and Akagi, the world wonders".

He seems to like that phrase, the world wonders; he used it when Bill Halsey docked the other day after being rescued from the Enterprise.
Here's Bill, standing on the dock at attention in someone else's uniform (as they had to burn his old one it was so oil-soaked) and Chet walks up to him and looks like he is going to do the Eskimo nose rub with him, they were that close. "WHAT THE F**K WERE YOU THINKING!? DID YOUR BRAIN FALL ASLEEP FROM YOU SITTING ON IT?! THE WORLD WONDERS IF YOU EVEN HAVE A BRAIN! JUST LIKE THAT G** D**M SCARECROW IN THAT KID'S MOVIE!! YOU'RE ON THE BEACH; PREPARE TO TAKE OVER SOUTH PACIFIC FROM OLD FUSSBUDGET GHORMLEY, YOU CAN SIT OUT THE WAR DOWN THERE. Dismissed....."

Enclosed find an artist's rendering of the Enterprise sinking....

Yours,

Mama Nimitz

Dear Ms. Nimitz,

It sounds very much like little Chester should have his mouth washed out with soap. His current soundbytes will be rather hard to quote in later years.

Sincerely,

The United States Historical Society