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

[Cap Mandrake]

On subsequent days, Singapore and Johore get pulverized from the air.

Enough! Cries Gen. Percival.

(but its merely a flesh wound)

[FeurerKrieg]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

USS Triton, 1,
(without arms)

The sailor from USS Triton seems to have been seriously lost (perhaps he had a medical problem and was put ashore?)

Well it says he is without arms....

(Sorry for the late quote... just catching up).

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

USS Triton, 1,
(without arms)

The sailor from USS Triton seems to have been seriously lost (perhaps he had a medical problem and was put ashore?)

Well it says he is without arms....

(Sorry for the late quote... just catching up).

Good point. I hadn't considered that. One wonders how he signed the enlistment papers.

[Cap Mandrake]

The America First Committee (an isolationist group) voted to cease activities on Dec 11, 1941. Imagine that two US carriers were sunk on Dec 9, the Houston and Marblehead lost in the PI, Jap subs were operating within sight of SF and San Diego and Jap carriers were opeating 900 miles off the coast of California........

[Onime No Kyo]

About that ANZAC cruiser force....I think the Japanese might be catching on to them. [:-]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

About that ANZAC cruiser force....I think the Japanese might be catching on to them. [:-]

Admiral of the Eastern Fleet Tabpub will have to answer that, but we have to get aggressive where we can to try to slow down the enemy timetable. Relief forces from Pearl and the West Coast are bottled up by Kaga and Akagi. Shokaku (probably) passed eastward near Palmyra. Houston and Marblehead are sunk. Bosie and Tromp are damaged. We have whats left of the depleted ANZAC force, plus POW, Repulse, 4 Dutch and RN CL's and some 4-stacker US DD's and a few Dutch DD's to guard everything from Singapore to Noumea. [X(]

[Cap Mandrake]

The peripatetic Canberra and Leander keep pushing.

[tabpub]

The peripatetic Canberra and Leander keep pushing.

Gosh, it sounds like they need a laxative or something....

ADM Warby in his memoirs...written for posterity...

"Well, yes, you would have to say that the raid on the Rabaul landings was not well thought out, but I felt that the situation called for it at the time. I had the only force in the area that could impede the Japanese progress that was starting to look like an invasion of fire ants. The whole of Australia is wondering what the Yanks are up to right now. But, all we can do is sailor on, and defend the territory of the Commonwealth as best we can with what we have available."

pp 12-13 "Warby at War: A Sailor's story"

[Cap Mandrake]

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[Terminus]

Heeeey!!! Yossarian returns![&o][&o][&o]

[Onime No Kyo]

Saltpeter....hehe [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

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[Onime No Kyo]

Part 2? [&:]

[Cap Mandrake]

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[Onime No Kyo]

Hurray part 2.

[Terminus]

Yossarian found religion... Tsktsktsk, what is the world coming to?[:(]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Yossarian found religion... Tsktsktsk, what is the world coming to?[:(]

Well, he HAD a religion, he just sorta changed back. Plus nobody said he was good at it.

[Cap Mandrake]

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[Cap Mandrake]

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[tabpub]

Finally, we get some hard information on the location of the "missing" carriers:
They were right about where NavInt thought that they were operating in.