Bring me the head of Diego Garcia...and the Mayor of Addu Atoll too!

[Cap Mandrake]

**********Office of the Air Marshall, London, Jnuary 29, 1942**********



Marshal of the Royal Air Force Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford KG GCB OM DSO & Bar MC: <knock at the door> ENTER! <a man in chef's hat enters the room with a dining tray> Good Lord, smells delicious. What is it Reginald?

Reginald: Hat au poivre, sir. Do you recall when you said you would eat your hat if a Buffalo actually downed an enemy aircraft?

Morning Air attack on Korps Marechausee Battalion, at 46,76 (Medan)

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 16
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 12



Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 10


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 4 destroyed, 4 damaged

[sprior]

Lord High Admiral Sprior, VD, SCAB, SCAR and Bar: Enjoy it Freddie, the boys got 4!

Meanwhile there have been zero, that is none, not Zero, planes over Singers. Gin Slings all round!

[Cap Mandrake]

Lord High Admiral Sprior, VD, SCAB, SCAR and Bar,
CIC China, Burma, India, ABDA, Malya, Singapore, Addu Atol, Diego Garcia and Grand Sultan of Aden

My Dearest Sprior,

I am sure you have noticed that Johnny Jap is on the move again in the Lesser and Medium Sized Sundas.
It appears a carrier force (likely Kaga and one CVL) is in the van with a heavy surface force in support. They might be headed to Makassar to support unloading of support troops but could equally be headed for Timor or Ambon or even Darwin. Accordingly, I have directed the USN Wildcats and SBD's at Ambon back to Darwin and another squadron of B-17's to be transfered from Charter Towers. Two squadrons of P-39's should be arriving at Alice Springs by train in a day or two.


Warmly,

Cap Mandrake, CIC of everything East of Pitcarin Island, Founding Member, Pitcarin Gheko Protection Society

[Cap Mandrake]

I am now able to confirm that young Grollub was right.

It is not possible to assign Navy or Marine SBD pilots to USAAF A-24 squadrons even thought the plane is nearly identical.

Instead I moved some B-26 pilots from Hoboken, New Hersey that had been practicing dive bombing. [;)]

[witpqs]

I used to live there. They shoulda practiced more.

[sprior]

Having been trained on the playing fields of Eton we have decided to follow the Iron Dukes advice:

Blackadder: Tell me, do you ever stop bullying and shouting at the lower orders?
Duke of Wellington: NEVER! There's only one way to win a campaign; shout, shout and shout again!

[Mynok]

That's the English way. The French way is to hurl insults and fart in your general direction. The American way is to call in more artillery.

It will be interesting to see which works best in AE! [:'(]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Mynok


That's the English way. The French way is to hurl insults and fart in your general direction. The American way is to call in more artillery.

It will be interesting to see which works best in AE! [:'(]

Well, certainly not American (or any other nationality) artillery. We've seen what patch III did to the usefullness of that. [8|]

Shouting sounds to be the order of the day. Right, then:

HEY CAP'N! WHAT THE BLEEDIN' **** ARE YA WAITING FOR? KILL JAPS, KILL JAPS AND KILL MORE JAPS.
[credit to Halsey for instructive discourse on the matter]

[Kwik E Mart]

ORIGINAL: Mynok


That's the English way. The French way is to hurl insults and fart in your general direction. The American way is to call in more artillery.

It will be interesting to see which works best in AE! [:'(]

and i suppose the Dutch have "a smoke and a pancake"? [;)]

[Smeulders]

Nah, the Dutch just pass the joint and even the most fanatical enemy starts wearing a rainbow headband and talking about peace for a all living creatures.

[gladiatt]

ORIGINAL: Mynok


That's the English way. The French way is to hurl insults and fart in your general direction. The American way is to call in more artillery.

It will be interesting to see which works best in AE! [:'(]

HEY !!! YOU DAMN SILLY UGLY SPECIE OF HALF-BLOOD MARTIAN, WHERE DO YOU KNOW THIS FOR SURE ;

(now avoiding the second part of this supposed french attitude [;)] ) [:D][:D]

[Mynok]

<sniff> <sniff> Alright, who.....

[:D][:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

Ah Splendid! I see we have moved on from idiotic and puerile generalizations about Johnny Jap (LYB's) to idiotic and puerile generalizations about other nationalities. [:)]

My sign in code today was "INREOR". I had a nagging suspicion about its meaning. This was confirmed with a trip to Urban Dictionary [X(]

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

My sign in code today was "INREOR". I had a nagging suspicion about its meaning. This was confirmed with a trip to Urban Dictionary [X(]

[&:]

[Cap Mandrake]

******Luzon, 25 Mi SW Clark Air Field, January 30, 1942******

A tall patrician-looking fellow with beautifully pressed slacks and an artificially homespun and entirely unconvincing corn cob pipe: <He stands atop a small stump directing the chaotic flow of troops. A jeep stops abruptly and a case of San Miguel beer pitches forward onto the ground. The driver of the jeep goes pale..about 8 shades paler than the beer> YOU THERE! BE CAREFUL. THAT IS WAR PLAN ORANGE YOU HAVE THERE.

[Mynok]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Ah Splendid! I see we have moved on from idiotic and puerile generalizations about Johnny Jap (LYB's) to idiotic and puerile generalizations about other nationalities. [:)]

That's gonna happen when channeling Monty Python......[:'(]

[Cap Mandrake]

3 full, new Jap infantry Regiments showed up on the San Miguel line to comprise an attacking force of nearly 50,000 LYB's. They achieved 5:1 odds on the defenders of the San Miguel line and Clark fell.

Now it will fall to the rested Philippine Division (4th Marine Rgt., the US Army Regt. and the Fillipino Scouts) plus the best Allied artillery on the island to hold Bataan. Bataan has 33,000 tons of supply and level 3 fortification.

Unfortunately, the defenders of Manila will be trapped there. This includes one Bn of Stuarts.

The P-40's took to the air today over Bataan and encounted sweeps of 3 Daitai of Zeroes, which were not coordinated. Losses were exactly 1:1. The P-40 jocks are getting better.

The P-38 experiment lasted only 3 days. 2 of the 3 were lost to operational causes flying CAP. I suspect it was industrial espionage by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation...or maybe just a grumpy maint. guy.

[Mynok]

I'll bet he put inreor in the fuel tanks......[:'(]

[BrucePowers]

I seem to recall the maintenence guys were a little inexperienced[:)]

[witpqs]

Doh! April Fools!

Good one, Cap.

[:D]