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

[Cap Mandrake]

Yorktown just left Pearl with 36 F4F's, 18 SBD's and 36 TBF's (one of the TBF squadrons is for Wasp which currently has an understrength TBD squadron). Wasp with a fast BB will go directly to Samoa instead of Pearl. Formidable leaving Pearl in 1-2 days with a full complement of RN torpedo bombers but no F4F's. She will instead ferry an understrength SBD squadron.

Two USN carriers and one RN carrier headed for Wellington after the fruitless expedition into the Coral Sea. One prewar BB at Wellington and one more 1 week out in transit from San Francisco. 2 more repairing at Sydney but are 3 weeks out.

If the LYB's mean to take Fiji, they are going to have a fight on their hands.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

You were in Florida and didn't call?[X(][:D]

3 days in SW Florida...4-5 hrs away I think.

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

You were in Florida and didn't call?[X(][:D]

3 days in SW Florida...4-5 hrs away I think.

It is about 5 hours. That's why I added the smiley.[:)]

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Yorktown just left Pearl with 36 F4F's, 18 SBD's and 36 TBF's (one of the TBF squadrons is for Wasp which currently has an understrength TBD squadron). Wasp with a fast BB will go directly to Samoa instead of Pearl. Formidable leaving Pearl in 1-2 days with a full complement of RN torpedo bombers but no F4F's. She will instead ferry an understrength SBD squadron.

Two USN carriers and one RN carrier headed for Wellington after the fruitless expedition into the Coral Sea. One prewar BB at Wellington and one more 1 week out in transit from San Francisco. 2 more repairing at Sydney but are 3 weeks out.

If the LYB's mean to take Fiji, they are going to have a fight on their hands.

They could all end up being targets. I'm just sayin'...........[:D]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

So I finished Miracle at Midway (the good guys won) on the way to Florida and I needed something to read on the flight back so I would forget that I couldn't feel my knees, the stewardesses were all older than me, I had to pay to check my luggage and I didn't get any damn free peanuts. I bought the NYT in Florida and read it on the way to DFW. It was really bad. The lead article was on new Haitian relgious cults...zzzzzzzzzz. In DFW I bought this Crichton novel. It was pretty good and I reached page 128 over New Mexico...then there were 58 pages missing [:@][:@] There was nothing left to read but American Airlines travel crap in Spanish. Some woman two rows in front literally coughed every 5 seconds for the entire flight! Santa Maria! Take some albuterol or something or get your TB treated.

Madre de Dios! I hate flying...especially in the cattle section. I wouldn't mind paying for stale crackers if you at least got to see some nice tatas when they bend over to give it to you. The uniforms at McDonalds are hotter. No wonder the airlines are all bankrupt.*

*I just ealized this really isn't germane

Matbe you should buy a Kindle?[:D] Oh wait, it's Christmas! Ask for one as a present[8D]

I suspect that, in lieu of a Kindle, Mandrake/Sprior would settle for a pool of 20 P-40Es for Christmas?

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Yorktown just left Pearl with 36 F4F's, 18 SBD's and 36 TBF's (one of the TBF squadrons is for Wasp which currently has an understrength TBD squadron). Wasp with a fast BB will go directly to Samoa instead of Pearl. Formidable leaving Pearl in 1-2 days with a full complement of RN torpedo bombers but no F4F's. She will instead ferry an understrength SBD squadron.

Two USN carriers and one RN carrier headed for Wellington after the fruitless expedition into the Coral Sea. One prewar BB at Wellington and one more 1 week out in transit from San Francisco. 2 more repairing at Sydney but are 3 weeks out.

If the LYB's mean to take Fiji, they are going to have a fight on their hands.

They could all end up being targets. I'm just sayin'...........[:D]

Always with the negative waves, Moriarty

[Kwik E Mart]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

A classic margarita is NOT a sissy drink because it is predominately sour and has salt on the rim.....which is macho. It is best to order in it a rock glass on the rocks because it makes you sound knowledgable. If you prefer it frozen in a margarita-style glass for a special occaision, that should be OK, just don't make a habit out of it and, for the love of Mary, don't use a straw.

A Caddilac margarita (with expensive tequilla +/1 a shot of Grand Marinier) is probably safe.

A stawberry margarita, on the other hand, is cause to call out the large animal vet for a gelding.

then i stand corrected...they were indeed "classic" cadillac's, therefore extremely manly and macho...these were in pint glasses (instead of "bucket" glasses) with salt on the rim which i guess makes them double manly and macho...[8D]

you avoided my original question...are you making this sh*t up about the divorced woman? i find it extremely hilarious, which i guess makes it even more probable to be truth...

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Ouch! That is a third of the tanks. Look at it this way. Our purpose was to stop the Imperiar Guard Division from bothering the Generalissimo. The operation is a stellar success!

It might be time to start going the other way.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Ouch! That is a third of the tanks. Look at it this way. Our purpose was to stop the Imperiar Guard Division from bothering the Generalissimo. The operation is a stellar success!

It might be time to start going the other way.

Yes, quite. I propose we advance in the other direction. That ought to confuse the Little Yellow Bastards.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Kwik E Mart
..you avoided my original question...are you making this sh*t up about the divorced woman? i find it extremely hilarious, which i guess makes it even more probable to be truth...

Widower, actually. They stayed married until all the kids were grown (20+ years) and then the poor bastard (or just bastard, depending on whether the story is true or not) died.

These facts are established:

1) There are 5 kids, 2 of which are said to look like the deceased husband

2) She (the peripatetic aunt) was apparently hot at one point.

3) The kids (now adults) believe they have different biological fathers


Not so sure about:

1) Orgasm during labor

2) The golf ball story

3) Upon exhumation, the husbands body was said to be radioactive with Polonium 210


Credulity in question:

1) She was pimped out to pay off gambling debts (this might be a cover story by the peripatetic aunt or might have embellished in family lore)

[Kwik E Mart]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Kwik E Mart
..you avoided my original question...are you making this sh*t up about the divorced woman? i find it extremely hilarious, which i guess makes it even more probable to be truth...

Widower, actually. They stayed married until all the kids were grown (20+ years) and then the poor bastard (or just bastard, depending on whether the story is true or not) died.

These facts are established:

1) There are 5 kids, 2 of which are said to look like the deceased husband

2) She (the peripatetic aunt) was apparently hot at one point.

3) The kids (now adults) believe they have different biological fathers


Not so sure about:

1) Orgasm during labor

2) The golf ball story

3) Upon exhumation, the husbands body was said to be radioactive with Polonium 210


Credulity in question:

1) She was pimped out to pay off gambling debts (this might be a cover story by the peripatetic aunt or might have embellished in family lore)

ok, but the story actually happened...great stuff...[:D]

[Wirraway_Ace]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Yorktown just left Pearl with 36 F4F's, 18 SBD's and 36 TBF's (one of the TBF squadrons is for Wasp which currently has an understrength TBD squadron).

Can little Wasp support a full size TBF squadron if its fighters and SBDs are at full strength? I always assumed the undersized TBD squadron was due to a smaller total capacity of the Wasp. I will admit I never really looked at her capacity closely compared to her bigger brethren.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Wirraway_Ace

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Yorktown just left Pearl with 36 F4F's, 18 SBD's and 36 TBF's (one of the TBF squadrons is for Wasp which currently has an understrength TBD squadron).

Can little Wasp support a full size TBF squadron if its fighters and SBDs are at full strength? I always assumed the undersized TBD squadron was due to a smaller total capacity of the Wasp. I will admit I never really looked at her capacity closely compared to her bigger brethren.

I looked. She can nominally cary 76 aircraft and enters the game with 64 aboard (her SBD and F4F squadrons are also reduced). It would seem, then, that she could handle a squadron of 18 TBF's instead of the 9 flak-eater TBD's. She carries only 27 torps and could, therefore, only arm one full attack.

[Cap Mandrake]

18 days until the arrival of the Anson I

295 mi. combat radius. 140 hand cranks to raise the landing gear. The finest 1930 technology. Cutting edge camouflage.

Prepare to meet you ancestors Mr. Tojo.

[Scott_USN]

I tried them as ASW since they were totally useless as anything else. I think most of them crashed in ops before I got some Beau's to replace them.

That cutting edge camo is ambush bait, with 60 mile visibility flying like a large shining mirror they are like a bass lure bring in LYB fighters to get shot down by that awesome firepower from the single TT Lewis .W0W Machinegun, not sure what idiot put a centerline .303 Vickers on it or what it is even supposed to do.

[Cap Mandrake]

USAAF Aces. 39th FS is a veteran of the fight on New Scotland. The P-39 has been the workhorse. Most of the squadron must be aces. Even most of the kills for the P-38 pilots were in P-39's.

I see two 80+ exp KIA's. I blame myself[:)]

[Cap Mandrake]

Being an F4F pilot in the PTO is a dangerous occupation. You can see from the experience of the lost pilots they are either going up against superior planes, superior pilots or disadvantgeous situations....or all 3,

[Cap Mandrake]

The Marines were thrown into the crucible when it was white hot. I blame myself. [:)]

[Cap Mandrake]

Important safety tip. If there is a big war coming, try to get ready.

Couldn't really be helped.

[Cap Mandrake]

French aces in the PTO...sorry, couldn't help myself.