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[Sardaukar]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

"This is the Henderson Field Designs answering machine. We've all decided to take the rest of 2009 and the first three quarters of 2010 off. Look for patch 2 sometime in December 2010."

FROM: BASE
TO: HFD
PRIORITY: FLASH

REPEAT YOUR LAST MESSAGE RPT REPEAT YOUR LAST MESSAGE THERE SEEM TO BE SOME TERMINAL INTERFERENCE IN COMMUNICATIONS OVER

[:D]

[Terminus]

I said,

ORIGINAL: Terminus

"This is the Henderson Field Designs answering machine. We've all decided to take the rest of 2009 and the first three quarters of 2010 off. Look for patch 2 sometime in December 2010."

[soeren01]

U-126 to Doenitz
"Weidmanns Dank für freie Jagd!
In der Gewitter-Vollmondnacht war bei Lookout die Tankerschlacht!
Der arme Roosevelt verlor---50.000 Tonnen-Mohr!!"
Jochen Mohr
U-126


Doenitz reply:
"Der Mohr hat seine Schuldigkeit getan,der Mohr kann gehen!"


I wasn't able to do a translation that keeps the spirit of this, so in german only.

[Terminus]

Heh, nice one... And you're right, it would lose pretty much everything if translated into English.

[morganbj]

Only because you lose the rhymes.
 

[JohnDillworth]

Well Halsey was always good for a good quote. I guess his orders of the day went out as radio messages. How about "Kill Japs, Kill Japs, Kill more Japs!"

or "Before we're done with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in Hell!”

[Terminus]

Well, duh...[8|]

[LargeSlowTarget]

To steer away from another "Japs" debate - how about the signal "Sturgeon no longer virgin".

[kaleun]

"Sturgeon no longer virgin".

He found your sig models!

[Lecivius]

ORIGINAL: Mynok


And let us not forget the greatest of sea admirals who said:

“No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.”

Same engagement.

"Engage the enemy more closely"

Signal flags nailed to the mast while lying gun barrel to gun port. That man had style!

[Skyros]

Ensign Charles Parker: "Spotted nothing, sank same"

or smothing like that.

Capt. Binghamton: Commander, how would you and your men like two weeks with nothing to do but play gin rummy, go surfing, have luaus with steel drum bands, dancing girls, hmm?
Lieut. Comdr. Quinton McHale: Two whole weeks? Woo hooo, oh that'd be a wonderful change sir. Yes sir.
Capt. Binghamton: Knock it off McHale. That's what you do every week.

[wdolson]

ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth

Well Halsey was always good for a good quote. I guess his orders of the day went out as radio messages. How about "Kill Japs, Kill Japs, Kill more Japs!"

or "Before we're done with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in Hell!”

There is also a story from the early days of the war when the Enterprise was at sea running in radio silence and they were listening to Tokyo Rose on the radio. She was taunting about where is the US Navy and their mighty carriers. Halsey bellowed, "Radio our position!"

Bill

[vinnie71]

best 2 American messages in WWII: "Makin Takin" and "NUTS!" (paras at Bastogne - confused Manteuffel who had summoned them to surrender)

Prior to radio age - Edward III when asked for reinforcements for the faltering line commanded by his son - "let him win his spurs"

[thegreatwent]

“Retreat Hell! We’re just attacking in another direction.”
-Attributed to Major General Oliver P. Smith, USMC, Korea, December 1950

"I would call this a retrograde advance." - unknown

[JeffroK]

From A.B.Cunningham

It takes three years to build a ship; it takes three centuries to build a tradition

And I think from Anthony Eden (maybe apocryphal)

Never before in human conflict, has so many, surrendered so much to so few. (after Beda Fomm Jan 41)

And in WW1

"Put Grant straight at it!

"Harry" Chauvel ordering the Light Horse charge at Beersheba, 1917

Plus many Lord haw Hawisms which seemed to improve Allied morale rather than lower it.

Examples are The Rats of Tobruk & The Scrap Iron Flotilla

[Gunner98]

At the Pass of Thermopylae, circa August 480BC

Xerxes standing in front of his 100,000 Persians: Surrender or we will blot out the sun with our arrows

Leonidas, commanding his 300 Spartans: Then we shall fight in the shade

I hope it’s a true quote – it at least made it to both movies...[;)]

B

[John Lansford]

ORIGINAL: 88l71

"Destroyer gunning, Wahoo running"

The first part of that ran "Engaged in running gun battle", I believe.

[LargeSlowTarget]

After the USN carrier raid on Rabaul in November 1943 the Japanese struck back with a strike composed of 18 Kates. They did not find the USN carriers, but attacked a PT, a LCT and a LCI off Bougainville - claiming two carriers, three cruisers and a destroyer sunk.

The three small craft suffered comparatively slight damage - the PT got hit by a torpedo which hit like a bomb without touching the water, the LCI by a torpedo which ran under the shallow-draft vessel and porpoised into the engine room, killing one man. Both torpedoes were duds.

The PT managed to splash two Kates. The congratulatory dispatch from Adm. Wilkinson to the PT skipper for his part in the action ended with "Fireplug sprinkles dog."   [/align]

[scott64]

[:D]

[Mistmatz]

ORIGINAL: Sardaukar

ORIGINAL: Terminus

"This is the Henderson Field Designs answering machine. We've all decided to take the rest of 2009 and the first three quarters of 2010 off. Look for patch 2 sometime in December 2010."

FROM: BASE
TO: HFD
PRIORITY: FLASH

REPEAT YOUR LAST MESSAGE RPT REPEAT YOUR LAST MESSAGE THERE SEEM TO BE SOME TERMINAL INTERFERENCE IN COMMUNICATIONS OVER

[:D]

Shouldn't that read 'TERMINUS INTERFERENCE'? [;)]