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

[Cap Mandrake]

Huzzah

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Huzzah

Such enthusiasm!!! [:D]

[DuckofTindalos]

Wonder who first came up with "Huzzah!"...

Wikipedia isn't much help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huzzah

[Cap Mandrake]

A summary of documented naval losses from operations off Perth and the Indian Ocean. First, the BB's, CA's, CL's and carriers

[FeurerKrieg]

Looks like the Dutch are certainly doing their part.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg

Looks like the Dutch are certainly doing their part.

Indeed they are. Half a year flying around in Martins with no fighter cover can make anybody want to get even. Many Dutch Brewsters were sacrificed as Zero Attractors.

Here are the Jap DD's. This has got to hurt. Some appear to be missing or must be hulks. Ensign Borgnine's kill isn,t on here for some reason. Maybe it didn't sink yet. [:)]

Most, if not all, of the sub kills are on damaged DD's.

[DuckofTindalos]

Ouch On A Stick!

That smarts...[X(]

[Cap Mandrake]

This is painful too. The troop tansports. It is instructive. Look how many times the elite B-25's loaded up with 1000 lbrs when the Japs got close. The Beauforts are murder when the enemy AAA is poor at 4 hexes or less. Quite a few kills by Dorsteshire, Boise, Glasgow who came back after the Jap carriers where worn out.


I dont even have the energy to post all the AK's, PC's, ML's lost

[ny59giants]

What were your loses in naval assets??

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: ny59giants

What were your loses in naval assets??

Good Question. All losses in Western Oz and Southern Indian Ocean since the start of the war.

1 x AK (Vals)
1 x TK (sub)
MSW Colac, Arnidale, Penguin, Bittern (at least two lost as tripwire picketts)

CL's Birmingham, Mauritius, Emerald

DD's Norman, Paladin, Gridley(USN), Stuart, Witte de Withe (RNN)

HMS Repulse (hit by 4 torpedoes and 3 bombs near Perth, recovered at Perth and sent to Ceylon for final repair..intercepted in the Indian Ocean by Jap CV's where she finally succumbed)

[DuckofTindalos]

Dang, what a slaughterhouse.

[bobogoboom]

Are we going to get another one of those beautiful maps showing what perth looks like now?

[Cap Mandrake]

plus 48 Jap AK's, 11 MSW's, 10 PC's, 2 ML's

Not to mention 4 full Jap divisions now ashore, 1 brigade destroyed and 3 more trapped. It has to be about 100,000 troops.

The Allies lost more aircraft, of course, mostly Dutch, which is why it was necessary to send the Perth Welcoming Committee to Curacao.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: bobogoboom

Are we going to get another one of those beautiful maps showing what perth looks like now?

That is a good idea although it may not be tonight. That former co-worker I mentioned earlier is back in town and she asked me out to dinner and...wait a minute...<gets out Lemba Voodo bones and rolls them after several incantations>...WOOHOOO!

Let me put it this way. If I post something else tonight it was a dinner date.

PS. I did some research on the etymology of "Huzzah". I wil try to get to it later.

[bobogoboom]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: bobogoboom

Are we going to get another one of those beautiful maps showing what perth looks like now?

That is a good idea although it may not be tonight. That former co-worker I mentioned earlier is back in town and she asked me out to dinner and...wait a minute...<gets out Lemba Voodo bones and rolls them after several incantations>...WOOHOOO!

Let me put it this way. If I post something else tonight it was a dinner date.

PS. I did some research on the etymology of "Huzzah". I wil try to get to it later.

Well in that case i hope we don't see one of those maps for a day or 2. Good luck.

[HMS Resolution]

Mandrake, I beg you, don't forsake the purity of your essence!

[rockmedic109]

About half your losses had a certain black cloud covered Admiral on them.

Time for Milo to start making money on all that wreckage. 

A lot of new fish homes around Perth. 

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: HMS Resolution

Mandrake, I beg you, don't forsake the purity of your essence!

"Essentially", that is what happened. After a couple of glasses of a delicious tea from Long Island, she told me she was married [X(][X(] Clearly I "misunderestimated" the Lemba Voodoo meaning of a cylindrical bone on top of the hourglass shaped one. At least she payed for the tea and bruscetta.

For the residents of Long Island, this important safety tip: I am pretty sure your delciious tea causes headache.

Anyway, off to the cold shower, but not for the reason you think. I forgot to pay my gas bill and some chowderhead came out and turned off the gas. [:@] The cable is fixed; however, and I am well configured not to break any of the Ten Commandments today.

P O E

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: HMS Resolution

Mandrake, I beg you, don't forsake the purity of your essence!

"Essentially", that is what happened. After a couple of glasses of a delicious tea from Long Island, she told me she was married [X(][X(] Clearly I "misunderestimated" the Lemba Voodoo meaning of a cylindrical bone on top of the hourglass shaped one. At least she payed for the tea and bruscetta.

Well, checking my Voodoo handbook, the cylindrical bone on top of the hourglass bone means "you're screwed". Of course, there are many ways one might get screwed, and nowhere near all of them can be considered fun...

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

About half your losses had a certain black cloud covered Admiral on them.

Time for Milo to start making money on all that wreckage.

A lot of new fish homes around Perth.

Yes..you mean Somerville. I don't blame him, it was a desperate measure at the crisis point of the naval fight. I am happy the RN carriers escaped destruction by fleeing South the very day the Jap carriers moved South. [:-]

And, yes, the dive location and fish habitat should be great. Maybe he can convert some the icebreakers M&M started.