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

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: HMS Resolution

I do believe this is Count Manfred Czernin. He fought with the Condor Legion in Spain and the RAF in the Battle of Britain, if memory serves.

I believe you are right. On Aug. 25th, 1940 he shot down three 110's in one minute. That doesn't sound very cautious to me. In fact, it seems pretty ballsy. [:D] One does wonder how His Majesty's Armed Forces sort this job assignment thing out.

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Squadron Leader Cedric Williams of 17 Squadron was shot down and killed when gunfire from one of the 110s hit his Hurricane, while another pilot was seen to bale out of his crippled Hurricane to safety. But if there has to be a hero of the day, it has to be Czech pilot Count Manfred Czernin of 17 Squadron who by accurate head on and rear attacks shot down three Bf110s in just one minute. As the number of Bf110s shot down became greater, more Bf109s came in from above who shot down more British fighters, but the damage had been done, the force of 110s had diminished considerably, and the 109s had to return to their bases because they were low on fuel. In this combat, Fighter Command lost sixteen fighters from the three squadrons while the Luftwaffe lost a total of twenty aircraft.

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:8UQ ... cd=7&gl=us

[rtrapasso]

C in "CM Czernin" evidently stands for "Count"... [:D]

EDIT: 18 Confirmed victories + 4 probables, 5 damaged. He was also once shot down by Adolf Galland (baled out of his Hurri unhurt). Just the guy for transports!!!

[Cap Mandrake]

I found it!

[rtrapasso]

.. Ooops... never mind...

[Cap Mandrake]

Rare color photo of the Czech Ace

[USSAmerica]

[:D]

[Cuttlefish]

That's one..two..three...three 110's! Ha ha ha! *thunder booms*

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Cuttlefish

That's one..two..three...three 110's! Ha ha ha! *thunder booms*

[:D]

[DuckofTindalos]

[:D][:D][:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

Hey guys, how about sending us some Spifires or something? Pilots too. Commoners, aristocrats, the House of Lords...don't matter. Just send 'em.

Chandpur comes under "vigorous" attack

[Cap Mandrake]

76 Bettys and 80 fighters [X(] Aj caramba!

The USS Don Jose takes 4 torps and is still floating [:)] Ole!

[Cap Mandrake]

********John Bell Hood Elementary School, Commerce, Texas, October 12, 1900*********

School Psycholgist: How can I help you today, Mrs Chenault?

Mrs. Cheanult: Its Claire, Doctor. I just can't control him. He can't sit still. He's very impulsive. Last week he hurt his knee jumping off the roof. Yesterday, he shot his brother in the buttocks with the pellet gun. They were playing Bull Run. His teacher says he won't sit still in class. He takes forever to do his homework. He needs help, Doctor.

School Psycholgist: What do you want me to do, Mrs. Cheanult?

Mrs. Cheanult: Can't you put him on Ritalin, or something?

School Psycholgist: Rit-a-lin?

Mrs. Cheanult: Yes, you know, the ADD thing?

School Psycholgist: ADD?

Mrs. Cheanult: Yes, you know, Attention deficit disorder.

School Psycholgist: Attention deficit disorder? HAHAHAHA. I'm sorry. I shouldn't laugh. Have you thought about taking the switch to the young roughian?

[bradfordkay]

"Yesterday, he shot his brother in the buttocks with the pellet gun. They were playing Bull Run."

Obviously, his brother was playing the boys in blue...

[AU Tiger_MatrixForum]

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

"Yesterday, he shot his brother in the buttocks with the pellet gun. They were playing Manassas."

Obviously, his brother was playing the boys in blue...

Bull Run is the Yankeefied name for the heroic victory(s) at Manassas by Southern arms.

[Cap Mandrake]

Editor's Note:

An alert reader has observed that the use of the term "Bull Run" to describe the 1st or 2nd Battle of Manassas would be regionally discordant in the South. This will be corrected in a future edition. Thank you.


[;)]

[Cap Mandrake]

Our opponent has updated his AAR right after I sent the turn.

This is usually a bad sign [:D]

It can mean:

1) Something really good happened for the Empire [:@]

or

2) Some big battle is brewing [:(]

[HMS Resolution]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Our opponent has updated his AAR right after I sent the turn.

"Sir! Increased signal traffic at Tokyo! Could be something big!"

[Cap Mandrake]

*********Panaete Island, Louisiade Archipelago, 17:30, May 24, 1942*******

Byron's mother always wanted him to be a lawyer or a gynecologist or something like that. Instead, he chose ornithology. On Dec. 7, 1941, he was in the Louisiades working on his thesis, "Adaptive Radiation Among the Genus Zosteropidae. He should have left on the Territorial Police cutter when he had a chance, but he needed more beak length measurements on Panaete's population of Cracticus louisiadensis. Then the Japs took Gili Gili and nobody with white skin ever came back.

Byron: IDIOT! <he shouted to the wind> STUPID IDIOT! White-throated white-eye? Is that what I want on my gravestone? He gave his life to understand the White-throated white-eye? What an IDIOT! I should have listened to mother. Darn it! Darn, darn, darn! <he picked up his beak length calipers and flung them seaward in anger. As they fell his attention swifted to grey shapes on the horizon> Ships! Japs! <he counted quickly> Eight, nine...ten! Three aircraft carriers too. East. They're going East, toward the Solomons. The radio! I need to....

[Cap Mandrake]

This is what HMAS Colac used to look like:



HMAS COLAC J242 and M05


* Built by Morts Dock, Sydney, NSW
* Laid down 18 April 1941
* Launched 30 August 1941 by Miss Mona Heady, head typist at Morts Dock.
* Commissioned 6th January 1942 under the command of Lieutenant Commander Dudley C. Northam RANR(S).


BTW..I don't think Colac was really a minesweeper

[Cap Mandrake]

Big cucaracha loose on the West coast of Oz. Probably CVE's and a sealane tender or two. A gradual sense of paranoia is building in Oz.