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

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Ah yes, the Goddman Japs... Well known family of Australian outlaws...[:D]

Dsyleixa is no lauhgign mattre smrat ass

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Dsyleixa is no lauhgign mattre smrat ass

Lcuky fro oyu yo'ure a kpet nam.

[DuckofTindalos]

Yeah, she can take care of all the little niggling details, like spelling and punctuation...[:'(][;)][:D]

[BrucePowers]

So, how much does a brake job on a 328 run you? (this will define how kept you are[:D]).

[USSAmerica]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Stalker Girl has upgraded to Sugar Mommy...[:D]

....and apparently relocated to SoCal. I guess I missed that event. [:D]

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Ah yes, the Goddman Japs... Well known family of Australian outlaws...[:D]

Dsyleixa is no lauhgign mattre smrat ass

Hey, i'm a charter member of D.A.M. (Mothers Against Dyslexia)!

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Those two should be charged per printed character. [:D]

Perhaps you should take that up with Mr. Minderbinder..just bring a good lawyer. [;)]

That would be pretty weird considering my qualification for being a good lawyer.

(Disclaimer: My apologies to any lawyers, spouses of lawyers or anyone who has ever met a lawyer. The above comment was not meant to insult or to insinuate a threat. It was made purely as an attempt to elicit a humorous reaction from its readers. Thank you.)

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Ah yes, the Goddman Japs... Well known family of Australian outlaws...[:D]

Well, That explains John Goodman. [8|]

[Anthropoid]

This is a work of art. Are many WiTP AARs this creative and inspired!?

[bradfordkay]

Read "Small Ship, Big War."

'nuff said.

[Cap Mandrake]

Thanks for the kind comments Anthropoid...like brad said. [;)]

Anyone remember when USS Drum spotted Haruna up in the North Pacific...Saipan maybe, can't remember now. Well we spotted her again at Noumea..along with Kongo, two CA's and a bunch of escorts. She was too late to prevent the fall of Suva, but that doesn't mean the IJN isn't miffed. [:)] Suva is no cakewalk to bombard. There are 3 squadrons of Marine SBD's and the TBF's from Hornet at Nandi and two groups of USAAF heavies at Suva. Not to mention a bunch of mines.

Haruna, Kongo and friends headed East from Noumea and were hit ineffectually by the heavies from Suva two days in a row. On the 28th, they were about 300 miles south of Fiji. Nevada and a slightly damaged Prince of Wales were at Suva along with a ton of transports and support vessels. Declining a night battle, Chet ordered a general retirement to the SE...except for several mine-damaged AK's and AP's....and a couple of dozen PT boats [8D]




KEY:

1) The IJN approaches from the South in 3 columns. Visibility is poor. 6 x PT under the command of Lt Wiede attack the Eastern light cruiser and destroyer force. They launch their torpedoes without being spotted and turn away. The first awareness of a USN presence for the IJN is when Yukikaze suffers a torpedo hit. She slows to 20 kts but stays in line.

[DuckofTindalos]

Nice graphics![&o]

[USSAmerica]

Indeed!  [&o]  One of my favorite parts of Mandrake's AAR's are the "action maps."  [8D]

[USSAmerica]

It looks like he got part of the key posted, and then the forums went down.  [:D]

[DuckofTindalos]

Bummer when that happens...

[Moondawggie]

Gotta love those PTs! BTW, was LCDR Quentin McHale conning one of those boats? Last I heard of him, he was off Perth.

As far as your BMW question goes: was it a Z3 roadster she loaned you, or a Z4?

Z3: you are a kept man; she's still Stalker Girl. [;)]

Z4: It's over; you are a FF (future fiance), and she is simply the "Boss." [:-]

Good luck, Chuck!

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Moondawggie

Gotta love those PTs! BTW, was LCDR Quentin McHale conning one of those boats? Last I heard of him, he was off Perth.

As far as your BMW question goes: was it a Z3 roadster she loaned you, or a Z4?

Z3: you are a kept man; she's still Stalker Girl. [;)]

Z4: It's over; you are a FF (future fiance), and she is simply the "Boss." [:-]

Good luck, Chuck!

OK...I had to go look. It's a Z3 [:)] Nice car, but I am afraid to eat anything in the car...she hs it waxed too. [:)] I will be happy when my 328 is ready. She bought me a hot air balloon ride for my birthday. Anyone know if there is any way to check if any insurance policies have been taken out on you recently?

As for the battle off Viti Levu..there was no McHale to my knowledge, but one of the flotilla commanders was a certain Lt. jg, Conway..no kidding..wierd eh? [:)]

The KEY was indeed chopped by the site going down...I will add it later..it's on the other comp. The Emperor was so enraged by the result of the Viti Levu battle he commincated to us that he wanted to write a "mod" himself. [:D]

[Moondawggie]

Wow---Tim Conway (Ensign Chuck Parker, to those of us who knew him on TV as kids) helped turn the tide at Viti Levu!

How cool!

Captain Binghampton would be proud!

Also, l'm glad to know you are still a free (if kept) man.

On to Tokyo!

A little misinformation about "McHale's Navy" from Wikipedia here:

"(McHale's Navy) was set in the Pacific theatre of World War II and focused on the crew of PT-73, led by Lt. Commander Quinton McHale (Ernest Borgnine).

McHale's second-in-command is Ensign Chuck Parker (Tim Conway), in his career-defining performance as a gentle, naïve but somewhat gung-ho bumbler who usually succeeded in spite of his own ineptitude.

McHale's perpetually frustrated commander is Captain Wallace Burton Binghamton (Joe Flynn), known behind his back as "Old Leadbottom" (nickname he received from a bullet wound to the posterior) and constantly trying to get the goods on "McHale and his pirates." Binghamton's catchphrases were "What in the name of the Blue Pacific" or "What in the name of Halsey" when he saw gambling or native dancing girls on McHale's island. Despite his bombast, Binghamton was not the most effective officer: his only wartime "accomplishment" consisted of launching a torpedo from the PT-73 and destroying a truck on land.

Capt. Binghamton's enthusiastic assistant is the sycophantic Lieutenant Elroy Carpenter (Bob Hastings, a Bilko veteran).

The plots revolve around the efforts of Captain Binghamton to rid himself of the PT-73 crew. Besides Borgnine, the only actors from the dramatic pilot who made it to the series were Gary Vinson as George "Christy" Christopher and John Wright as radioman Willy Moss. Actor and comic magician Carl Ballantine was featured as confident con man Lester Gruber, whose get-rich-quick schemes often got the crew in trouble. Electrician's mate Harrison "Tinker" Bell was played by Billy Sands ("Pvt. Paparelli" on Bilko). The lover boy of the crew was handsome Virgil Edwards (Edson Stroll).

Gavin MacLeod (later of both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Love Boat) played crew member Joseph "Happy" Haines. How 'bout that! The skipper of the Love Boat learned his seamanship from McHale!

The most unusual crew member was a privately held Japanese POW called Fuji (Yoshio Yoda), who had become a de facto comrade that the PT-73 crew kept hidden from Binghamton.

Quite often, Binghamton is ready to send McHale and his gang to the brig, only to see them pull off a military success against the enemy that impresses Admiral Reynolds (Herbert Lytton) or Admiral Rodgers (Roy Roberts) and headquarters. Binghamton would then turn to the camera and say, "I could just scream!" "Why me?, Why is it always me?" or "Somebody up there hates me!". With the exception of Binghamton, the Navy brass likes and respects McHale. He had served in the Navy (World War I) and knew the South Pacific as a former Merchant Marine officer, while Binghamton held a reserve commission.

A Polynesian chief, Pali Urulu (Jacques Aubuchon), is as crooked as McHale's men. When McHale and his men are in Urulu's village, the chief displays a large photo of President Franklin D. Roosevelt; when the Japanese troops arrive, Urulu turns over the picture to reveal a photo of Japanese Emperor Hirohito.

McHale's love interest is a Navy nurse, Molly Turner (Bilko's Jane Dulo). Parker's love interest is a French girl from New Caledonia, played by Claudine Longet. (Who, as I recall, after divorcing 60's crooner Andy Williams, gunned down and killed Olympic Skier Boyfriend Spider Sabich in Aspen in a "domestic quarrel---and got acquitted just like OJ!


man---this show had it all.

[Anthropoid]

I think I watched that with my grampa a few times [:D]

[BrucePowers]

Youngster! I loved that show.[:)]