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

[Onime No Kyo]

Why no update so long guys? I'm anxious to find out how he'll use the Holy Bible to make a busted P-40 flyable.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Why no update so long guys? I'm anxious to find out how he'll use the Holy Bible to make a busted P-40 flyable.

The mail service is pretty shaky right now out of Manila.
Plus, I was in Las Vegas for a few days.

BTW...the show "La Reve" at the new Wynn is fantastic, although I spied only one pair of naked breasts and I'm not even sure that wasn't a "wardrobe malfunction". Maybe I should have tried to find a Gaugin exhibition in town.

[Cap Mandrake]

The reconstituted Force Z has been hiding in Derby along with a a RNN Light cruiser and DD force waiting for a Jap move toward Timor or Kendari. Ryujo and Zuiho with 2 x CVE have been limiting their scope of action by loitering in the Banda Sea. On the 28th of Dec...the CVL's and CVE's sortie into the Indian Ocean looking for fat targets.
They catch 2 severely damaged RN DD's which have been trapped in the now-threatened Balikpapan (from the Battle of the Makassar Straight) trying to escape to Soerabaja.

Bad news for two hulks. Good news for the POW. A RNN light force under Doorman tags along. This is also an opportunity to get reinforcements and supplies to Koepang.

[LittleJoe]

Great Detail, Brilliant maps.  [:)]

[Onime No Kyo]

Now THATS a map! [&o][&o][&o][&o]
 
Teach me, oh great master, how do you do it? I tried and it was very embarassing.

[Terminus]

Just a few text-boxes and arrows on top of what looks suspiciously like an MS Encarta map...

[Onime No Kyo]

Very hard to find good maps online. [:(]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Just a few text-boxes and arrows on top of what looks suspiciously like an MS Encarta map...

It is MSEncarta As I recall, it is 3 pasted together. MSEncarta has a hilarious bug, at least for maps of the East Indies and Malaya and New Guinea.

I downloaded a map of Sumatra and Malyasia and there was text over some Islands saying "Greater Sunda Islands". Cool, I thought..never heard of those. Later, I was looking at a map of the Banda Sea and again, the "Greater Sunda Islands" were listed there. Hmmmm? Where have I heard that before? Then I was looking at a map of the Deboyne Island/Milne Bay area and again, they also had some "Greater Sunda Islands" there too. [:)] That Sunda chap really got around.

It is so pervasive, I think it may be an inside joke by a MS employee who was ticked off about his stock options not going up enough. Encarta also has a bad habbit of sticking the "Pacific Ocean" or "Indian Ocean" in some little inlet in the PI or Java.

[Onime No Kyo]

What about more close in maps Mandrake, like, say, False Bay in Macassar. Can you point me to where I can find decent ones of those?

[Cap Mandrake]

Here they are off Sumatra

[Cap Mandrake]

Ouch my neck. Whiplash is a terrible thing.

[Terminus]

This being the Evil Empire, if you point it out, they'll sue you... and win!

[Cap Mandrake]

Not wanting to be outdone, the South China Sea and Sulu Sea Chanber of Commerce Associations also got their honorary Sunda Islands.

[Onime No Kyo]

Seems like all the islands between Manila and Singapore are somehow affiliated with the Sunda group in one way or another. [;)]

[Onime No Kyo]

It does look like a graphics bug. "Sunda Islands" just stays in the middle of the screen when you scroll.

[Onime No Kyo]

Wow. Encarta gets pretty close but not really close enough for a tactical map.

[VSWG]

Greater Sunda Islands = Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi
Lesser Sunda Islands = Bali, Flores, Timor, Tenimbar Islands, Moluccas,... basically everything between Borneo, Guinea and Australia.

MS Encarta is correct! [:)]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: VSWG

Greater Sunda Islands = Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi
Lesser Sunda Islands = Bali, Flores, Timor, Tenimbar Islands, Moluccas,... basically everything between Borneo, Guinea and Australia.

MS Encarta is correct! [:)]

OK..that confirms it. I've had my suspicions all along but just didn't have the proof. VSWG is a Microsoft mole! Get him! [;)]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

What about more close in maps Mandrake, like, say, False Bay in Macassar. Can you point me to where I can find decent ones of those?

If scrolling down with MSN Encarta isn't good enough..you might get lucky with the U of Texas online collection.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/

You can also try Google Earth and set the camera to look straight down..or do an orthographic view.

Even Mapquest can be of help...but the resolution isnt there for Makassar

[Cap Mandrake]

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