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

[CaptDave]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

************M&M Enterprises South Pacific HQ, Suva, Fiji, August 17, 1942*********

Man in fine linen slacks: <on telephone with imported Italian loafers* up on desk>

* 99% of authentic Italian loafers in Fiji in 1942 were imported so this is largely redundant.

Actually, I've been wondering what the telephone is doing with Italian loafers, imported or not!

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: CaptDave

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

************M&M Enterprises South Pacific HQ, Suva, Fiji, August 17, 1942*********

Man in fine linen slacks: <on telephone with imported Italian loafers* up on desk>

* 99% of authentic Italian loafers in Fiji in 1942 were imported so this is largely redundant.

Actually, I've been wondering what the telephone is doing with Italian loafers, imported or not!

[:D]

Or for that matter why a man was on a phone (with loafers) on the desk. One pictures a man squatting over a well-dressed telephone whilest on a desk.

[Cap Mandrake]

Run away!

It's a reinforced Zug of Grammatik-Kommandotruppen!



Italian Loafer Phone Mk XII

[Chickenboy]

Personally, Ziegfried was my favorite character. "SCHMART!" [:D]

[USSAmerica]

No! Not Da Craw!&nbsp; Da Craw! &nbsp;[:D]

[Itdepends]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
The B-17E's can operate from Geraldton to take out Port Headland airfield. I say when get about 40-50 B-17's together and move them to Geraldton 1 or 2 d before the op commences so we don't tip our hand.

Have you developed Meekatharra or Cue- and have they developed Corunna Downs? (south of Headland). Just wondering if you can get enough airframes aloft from Geraldton to shut down (potentially) both fields.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Itdepends

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
The B-17E's can operate from Geraldton to take out Port Headland airfield. I say when get about 40-50 B-17's together and move them to Geraldton 1 or 2 d before the op commences so we don't tip our hand.

Have you developed Meekatharra or Cue- and have they developed Corunna Downs? (south of Headland). Just wondering if you can get enough airframes aloft from Geraldton to shut down (potentially) both fields.

We have some engineers buliding up Meekatharra (about 1.5 level now). Geraldton is now level 5 with an Air HQ. Corunna Downs has a little crappy dirt strip but does have a nice track with Pick-7 and Trifecta betting and I hear you can get a big bowl of cheese-flavored nachos there for only 50 cents. The Wee Jap Dobbers have just gone nuts over the place. Guess they were tired of dried fish heads.

I'm afraid I don't have a clue where Cue is. Down some dusty track somewhere, I expect.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
I hear you can get a big bowl of cheese-flavored nachos there for only 50 cents.

0.5 $USD or Australian? Makes a big difference, mate.

[Mynok]

I'll bet "cheese-flavored" is a big stretch too.......

[zuluhour]

While Ive picked up on quite a bit of game info. I should point out that the PT73 will likely show up shortly and with M&Ms propensity for profit through less than regular channels you may want to snag chief Urulu before before the whole fleet is rum soaked wearing grass skirts.

[Itdepends]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I'm afraid I don't have a clue where Cue is. Down some dusty track somewhere, I expect.

Cue is the dot base 2 hexes SW of Meekatharra, on the same dusty track as Meekatharra. [:D]

[sprior]

Looks like it's Otter. Hope it doesn't end up the same way as Tarka.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Looks like it's Otter. Hope it doesn't end up the same way as Tarka.

Santa Maria! Is that what passes for children's literature in Britain? And I thought it was bad when Bambi's mother got shot. The poor thing is abandoned by his dead beat mum and then has to go up against a rival gang.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarka_the_Otter

[anarchyintheuk]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: sprior

Looks like it's Otter. Hope it doesn't end up the same way as Tarka.

Santa Maria! Is that what passes for children's literature in Britain? And I thought it was bad when Bambi's mother got shot. The poor thing is abandoned by his dead beat mum and then has to go up against a rival gang.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarka_the_Otter

Can't imagine what reading a book like that would have done to me as a kid . . . Neil Young's Harvest had me looking for razor blades as an adult.

[sprior]

Yeah, we breed 'em tough over here.

[Cap Mandrake]

Admiral Lord Sprior mentioned "A Town Called Malice". If you don't know what he meant here is a snapshot. This is from an excellent miniseries adaptation of Neville Shutes' novel, "A Town Like Alice".

It concerns an Engrish woman trapped in Malaysia at the start of the war. Did I mention she it hot? Honestly, I can't remember if she had big breastesses but she was definitely hot.

There is some serious chick-flick features but most guys would like it too. Of course, if you a knuckle dragger...then.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPjWpm_OTPI

[rtrapasso]

[>:]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

[>:]

OK, smart***, just for that I am going to tell you about the 2nd Battle of the Torres Strait.


**********09:15, Aug 17, 1942***********


Lt.JG Toutant "Frenchie" Beauregard stands on the bridge of PT-120. He commands a flotilla of 7 boats ordered to protect Horn Is. Recon reports two Jap Torpedo Boats approaching. He is not worried as he has a surprise in store. He has used his family wealth to customize PT-120 with a special order weapon brought at great expense from Charleston, SC. It isn't regulation, of course, but, given sufficient "incentive", one can get just about anything from private weapons resellers in the PTO.

Lookout: Enemy ships, bearing 100...range 11,000 yds!

Lt.JG Toutant "Frenchie" Beauregard: <puts his glasses to his eyes> Jap torpedo boats...two of 'em. They are coming around. They mean to cross our "T"...<he laughs derisively with the knowledge his main firepower is on his foredeck>. Make our course 100, flank speed. Signal all boats to attack! <the boats swing toward the enemy and white water climbs high behind the boats, especially for PT-120, for she appears down by the bow a bit. Several boats begin firing their .50's from improbable range. The tracers arc upward and then fall hundreds of yards from the target. It is really poor firing discipline, but their is plenty of ammo and it is fun. The Japs fire back, not doing much better. It is the Lt's intention to close to about 4500 yds and surprise the Little Yellow Bastards with his secret weapon. The range passes 6500 yds. They are closing fast. Time to act>

UNCOVER THE DICTATOR! <the crews rushes forward and pulls back the canvas on the foredeck. As the canvas is pulled away, there is revealed a massive cast iron seige mortar and a pile of 13 inch cannon balls. An inscription on the base reads "The Dictator, Framingham Foundry, January 1862, Distributed by M&M Enterprises, Ordnance Reselling Division">

Make ready the gun, Mr. Cathcart! Maximum elevation, double charge!

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

[>:]

OK, smart***, just for that I am going to tell you about the 2nd Battle of the Torres Strait.


**********09:15, Aug 17, 1942***********


Lt.JG Toutant "Frenchie" Beauregard stands on the bridge of PT-120. He commands a flotilla of 7 boats ordered to protect Horn Is. Recon reports two Jap Torpedo Boats approaching. He is not worried as he has a surprise in store. He has used his family wealth to customize PT-120 with a special order weapon brought at great expense from Charleston, SC. It isn't regulation, of course, but, given sufficient "incentive", one can get just about anything from private weapons resellers in the PTO.

Lookout: Enemy ships, bearing 100...range 11,000 yds!

Lt.JG Toutant "Frenchie" Beauregard: <puts his glasses to his eyes> Jap torpedo boats...two of 'em. They are coming around. They mean to cross our "T"...<he laughs derisively with the knowledge his main firepower is on his foredeck>. Make our course 100, flank speed. Signal all boats to attack! <the boats swing toward the enemy and white water climbs high behind the boats, especially for PT-120, for she appears down by the bow a bit. Several boats begin firing their .50's from improbable range. The tracers arc upward and then fall hundreds of yards from the target. It is really poor firing discipline, but their is plenty of ammo and it is fun. The Japs fire back, not doing much better. It is the Lt's intention to close to about 4500 yds and surprise the Little Yellow Bastards with his secret weapon. The range passes 6500 yds. They are closing fast. Time to act>

UNCOVER THE DICTATOR! <the crews rushes forward and pulls back the canvas on the foredeck. As the canvas is pulled away, there is revealed a massive cast iron seige mortar and a pile of 13 inch cannon balls. An inscription on the base reads "The Dictator, Framingham Foundry, January 1862, Distributed by M&M Enterprises, Ordnance Reselling Division">

Make ready the gun, Mr. Cathcart! Maximum elevation, double charge!

Holy Moley! [X(] i'm surprised this wouldn't sink the poor PT boat under the weight of the thing... i suspect Lt.(j.g) Beauregard is going to have an unpleasant surprise when he lights the fuse...


The Dictator on a RR carriage seen above ... weight 17,190 lbs. for the gun, each shell 197 pounds!

[Cap Mandrake]

Day Time Surface Combat, near Horn Island at 91,128, Range 11,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
TB Hatsukari
TB Hato

Allied Ships
PT-20
PT-60
PT-116
PT-119
PT-120, Recoil damage, and is sunk
PT-122
PT-126

In fact, the beast was driven through the deck and damaged the hull. There is 75% flooding but she might make it. An angry young Lt. discovers he bought the thing, "As Is".......