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

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Oh yeah...that.

The bombardment of July 7th at Nadi goes badly. It seems there was a freindly fire accident.

Ground combat at Nadi (131,160)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 10531 troops, 441 guns, 237 vehicles, Assault Value = 810

Defending force 20686 troops, 410 guns, 420 vehicles, Assault Value = 655


Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)


Friendly fire incidents are the worst.


************1st Platoon, Hvy Wpn Coy, II/132nd Rgt., Nadi, July 7, 1942***********

Pvt. Van Skyke: Hey Skeets. What say we play a joke on the guys and point the mortar thingy straight up?

This is obviously one of those things that started with the phrase "hey, y'all, watch this.

[FOW]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Oh yeah...that.

The bombardment of July 7th at Nadi goes badly. It seems there was a freindly fire accident.

Ground combat at Nadi (131,160)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 10531 troops, 441 guns, 237 vehicles, Assault Value = 810

Defending force 20686 troops, 410 guns, 420 vehicles, Assault Value = 655


Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)


Friendly fire incidents are the worst.

Please please say it isn't true - was that the mobile laundry van that got hit !!!![X(]

[bhawes]

Please please say it isn't true - was that the mobile laundry van that got hit !!!![X(]

Of course not, that would be a non-combat device.

[Itdepends]

ORIGINAL: sprior
My daughter has only just mastered the black art of laundry but stubbornly refuses to stick it in the tumble drier. Instead it's spread over the family bathroom radiator and hallway bannister because it's "green".

If you had "proper" weather you could hang it outside. About half an hour will do it around here at the moment.

[Cap Mandrake]

The wee Jap dobbers land on an island named after one of their own ships. Like I didn't see THAT coming.

[Cap Mandrake]

**********July 8, 1942, lower slope of Mount Yasur, Tanna Is.*********


Siwe, a Tannanese guy (or maybe it's Tannese..oh screw it...none of you guys know either) has shed his traditional penis gourd and hemp butt floss outfit for western style slacks but wears no shirt. He is carrying a carved branch over his shoulder that looks vaguely like an M1(the branch not his shoulder). He scans the horizon for Cargo ships that Ensign McGoo has promised will come again. Two wee Jap dobbers wearing these preposterous and, frankly, sissy-looking silk outfits with shoulder pad thingys and totally gay pointed black quilted hats pass by.


Wee Jap dobber in sissy outfit: Hey! Cargo Boy! See any ship today? <they both laugh>


Second wee Jap dobber in sissy outfit: Cargey? Know what really in Spam? <they laugh uproariously>

Siwe walks on, pretending not to notice, but the words hurt. They hurt bad.

[witpqs]

Tannamanian? (from the isthmus at the center of the island)

Tannabal? (run away)

Tannamannamanna? (married to Rosanne Rosannadanna)

Tannamator? (came back from the future to erase ensign McCoy)

[sprior]

Cap;

A, which map set are you using and
B, which image program are you using?

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Cap;

A, which map set are you using and
B, which image program are you using?

I think these are just the stock AE maps with the hexes turned off for aesthetic purposes.

As for image program I have been trying to brush my teeth better and make sure my nose hairs are trimmed.

[Cap Mandrake]

My newer computer gave up the ghost so I am using a machine running Windows 2000 [:D]. I had PSP on the newer one.

I am just using Windows Paint (c) 1986. The jpg conversion is really bad.

[Cap Mandrake]

Bloody Hell. I just realized it is the Ensign McGoo Cargo Cult, not McCoy. I hope I haven't just turned four to five hundred zealous Cargoists against the Allied cause.

[Cap Mandrake]

18 Bettys lost over Calcutta.
12 Blenheims lost over Burma.
Oscars vs Hurris are tied.

One 17 lost. It goes without saying that is the best plane we have. Another squadron of 17's moves to Alice to prepare for a big raid on Wyndham. This may be costly.

[Cap Mandrake]

The REAL reason no Jap surface ship will come within 200nm of Nadi.

[Cap Mandrake]

Allied sub losses. Nearly half are from mines.

[LoBaron]

WO Chesterfield: ...and so I suggest we ask if they got some of those torpedobombers mothballed in case they send a BB...
FO Downey F.: ....tor....peee....doe....

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: LoBaron



WO Chesterfield: ...and so I suggest we ask if they got some of those torpedobombers mothballed in case they send a BB...
FO Downey F.: ....tor....peee....doe....

The chief purpose of No. 4 Sqdrn RNZAF at this time is to make as much noise in the air as possible so as to inhibit Jap subs from recharging their batteries during daylight hours. On the ground, the aircraft are arrayed to absorb shrapnel damage and protect the valuable PBY's. The pilots will have some splendid stories to tell their grandchildren.

[Alfred]

Hey don't dish the Vincent.[:)] It carries a 1000 lb bomb. Now the Audax with its monster payload of 4, yes check the number, 4 x 20lb bombs, now that is a fearsome beast. Even the Wapiti, the source of some merriment already on this AAR, carries 2x100 lb bombs.

Just remember, even the Vincent must have a mother somewhere. Which reminds me, how is Mrs Mengeles doing?

Alfred

[sprior]

The Vincent is just the general purpose version of the Vildebeest, and JJ knows how deadly they are. The mere sight of a biplane trundling across the sky toward them has your average WJD quaking in his wooden sandals.

[Dixie]

We didn't have to use aircraft like the Vincent y'know.&nbsp; We just did it to be sporting, not a lot of people know this but the RAF actually developed the V-bombers in 1936 but it was deemed to be Just Not Cricket to use them.&nbsp; Instead we played fair and used biplanes for the first couple of years, this had the added side effect of creating employment in the RAF.&nbsp; A biplane has two sets of wings, thus creating almost twice the work of a monoplane for the groundcrew.&nbsp; As many non-commisioned personnel will tell you, the officers are very keen on extra work as long as it is distributed entirely to those without commisions.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Alfred

Hey don't dish the Vincent.[:)] It carries a 1000 lb bomb. Now the Audax with its monster payload of 4, yes check the number, 4 x 20lb bombs, now that is a fearsome beast. Even the Wapiti, the source of some merriment already on this AAR, carries 2x100 lb bombs.

Just remember, even the Vincent must have a mother somewhere. Which reminds me, how is Mrs Mengeles doing?

Alfred

Sure, a 1000 lb bomb SOUNDS impressive, I will admit, but it still has to be carried to the target and dropped with some degree of accuracy.

The Vincent is an aerodynamic beast when it rolls off the production line but after a few months in service the extra drag from all the duct tape covering rips in the fabric has slowed the top speed to less than late model wee Jap dobber subs operating under deisel power.