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

[Cap Mandrake]

I had to look up "UCKERS". I figured it had to be some kind of game to make the joke work. Evidently, she wanted to play the F verison.

It's getting near time for another Jackspeak dictionary entry.

[Cap Mandrake]

****************Feb 1, 1943(c)**************

Ternate: Japanese aircraft have largely disappeared from the Lesser and Fair to Midland Sundas....but not the GD subs.

First Helm attacks I-33

ASW attack near Ternate at 78,102

Japanese Ships
SS I-33, hits 7, on fire

Allied Ships
DD Helm

But I-27 is prowling around too. Gaak.

Sub attack near Ternate at 78,102

Japanese Ships
SS I-27, hits 7

Allied Ships
CL Detroit, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
DD Helm

At least the carriers made the gap East of Ceram without sub attack.

USS Washington will bombard Manado tonight if she made enough forward progress.

[Cap Mandrake]

Burma: Either bad weather or Admiral Lord SPrior cancelled his TAC AIR attacks on the LYB Ronsons at Katha. Even so, they may be running out of lighter fluid.

14 Brigade holds another day. Quite a heroic stand, really. LYB assault odds fall to 2:1

Ground combat at Katha (61,43)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3706 troops, 26 guns, 80 vehicles, Assault Value = 506

Defending force 2046 troops, 41 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 54

Japanese adjusted assault: 111

Allied adjusted defense: 47

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
45 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
39 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
14th Tank Regiment
1st Tank Division
143rd Infantry Regiment

Defending units:
14th British Brigade

Worth a B-25 or two if we can get in by air and disrupt their attack tomorrow, me thinks.

Some Hurri pilots have too much Wheaties for breakfast and sweep over Myitkynia. They lose 2 Hurris to 1 Tojo but all this adds to the tasks that the LYB air forces have to do in Burma. That is a Daitai of Tojos that can't fly over Katha if they are flying over Myitkynia.

[Cap Mandrake]

China: LYB air to ground attacks near Chungking have no escorts. That 1/2 squadron of RAF Hurris opearting near Chungking must be full of aces by now. At least 8 Jap bombers shot down..more with operational losses for sure.

Changsha is a glowing ember. A shipment of marshmallows is being packed in by Mongorian pony to help morale.

[Cap Mandrake]

***********Wren Nest, Nauru Is, 14:20, Feb 1, 1943(c)*************



A tremendous volume of fire pours into the strongpoint. A Naval Guardsman crawls toward a breech in the wall and tosses in a satchel charge. There is a tremendous explosion, smoke and guano dust pours from every fissure in the fort. The fire stops. Nothing. Then after perhaps 20 seconds there is a cough and then from inside...



"Merely a flesh wound....."

[Cap Mandrake]

***************USN Seaplane Base, Ndeni, 18:30, Feb. 1, 1943(c)************


Sparks: Here's that message from Wren Detachement, sir.

OOD: Read it.

Sparks: Enemy strength now full battalion with mortars and heavy machine guns stop morale good but running short of ammo for Bren guns stop can you resupply by air stop God save the king end

OOD: What does he mean, "morale good"? I thought he was the only one left?

Sparks: Yes sir, he is.

OOD: Crazy SOB has gone off the deep end. Gotta admire his spirit, though. Tell him we drop what we can by PBY at first light tomorrow.......

[sprior]

Either bad weather or Admiral Lord SPrior cancelled his TAC AIR

Bastard crabs won't get out their pits.

[princep01]

Bastard crabs won't get out their pits.
 
 
Hummmm, okay, this is still English....I think.  I'll take a stab at it.  It seems the good Admiral is upset that something, presumably a warplane, will not fly as ordered.  However, I was unaware that the Allies fielded a plane called a Crab...much less a Bastard Crab.   Hummm. Sounds dangerous though.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: princep01

Bastard crabs won't get out their pits.


Hummmm, okay, this is still English....I think.  I'll take a stab at it.  It seems the good Admiral is upset that something, presumably a warplane, will not fly as ordered.  However, I was unaware that the Allies fielded a plane called a Crab...much less a Bastard Crab.   Hummm. Sounds dangerous though.

Close - the Crabs in question are the aircrew of said warplanes, thus called because of their loose morals and poor hygeine which give them an itchy affliction. The pit referred to is obviously the "Snake Pit" area of their mess where drunken crabs engage in activities such as the pool table game "Crud", making tunnels out of couches and sending teams through from each end, and, of course, passing out or throwing up. No wonder they refuse to leave such a paradise!

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Either bad weather or Admiral Lord SPrior cancelled his TAC AIR

Bastard crabs won't get out their pits.

It's the P-40 jockeys and the poor Dutch East Indies Air Force boys in those up-armored air mail planes that are getting murderized. I'm surprised they show up every morning.[:)]

The RAF chaps have gone sissy on us. Bring in The Count. He'll shape them up.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: sprior

Either bad weather or Admiral Lord SPrior cancelled his TAC AIR

Bastard crabs won't get out their pits.

It's the P-40 jockeys and the poor Dutch East Indies Air Force boys in those up-armored air mail planes that are getting murderized. I'm surprised they show up every morning.[:)]

The RAF chaps have gone sissy on us. Bring in The Count. He'll shape them up.

[Cap Mandrake]

Huzzah! There he is! Our old friend..and in a Hurri, no less.


Here is what Oprah said when she met The Count after the war...."HE'S BRILLIANT!!!!"

[FOW]

ORIGINAL: princep01

Bastard crabs won't get out their pits.


Hummmm, okay, this is still English....I think.  I'll take a stab at it.  It seems the good Admiral is upset that something, presumably a warplane, will not fly as ordered.  However, I was unaware that the Allies fielded a plane called a Crab...much less a Bastard Crab.   Hummm. Sounds dangerous though.

Crabs: derogatory term used by the other services when referring to RAF personnel
Pit: bed

[princep01]

Oh, excellent, a translator has been found that speaks proper English and can explain things to the dullard colonist cousins.
 
The dullard tips hat and returns to business.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: princep01

Oh, excellent, a translator has been found that speaks proper English and can explain things to the dullard colonist cousins.

The dullard tips hat and returns to business.

Hyuk, hyuk. Yup. 'Cept for one thing. What's a dullard? [&:]

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: princep01

Oh, excellent, a translator has been found that speaks proper English and can explain things to the dullard colonist cousins.

The dullard tips hat and returns to business.

Hyuk, hyuk. Yup. 'Cept for one thing. What's a dullard? [&:]

It's what the city folks call us. [:'(]

[Cap Mandrake]

See...that's the thing. Having spent half a century speaking an approximation of Engrish, I would have thought "pit" might be the aircraft reventments, but I also guessed "Bunting Tosser" was just a flouncy higher level naval officer.


I am also witholding judgement on whether it is all a conspiracy of thousands (well, at least 2..there is Admiral Lord SPrior and now, FOW appears to be in on it too). They may be secretly exchanging emails and giggling at our hillbilly gullibility.

I've half a mind to start making stuff up too.

[Cap Mandrake]

**************Feb. 2, 1943(c)*************


Lesser, Medium and Super-Sized Sundas: USS Greenling takes a shot at the crippled I-33. Set too deep perhaps?

Sub vs Sub: SS Greenling attacking SS I-33 at 76,99 - near Manado

Japanese Ships
SS I-33, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Greenling



SS Greenling launches 4 torpedoes at 3,000 yards

[Cap Mandrake]

Recon is good on Manado so Washington's bombardment is effective.

Night Naval bombardment of Manado at 75,99

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 9 damaged
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed on ground
Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied Ships
BB Washington

Japanese ground losses:
108 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled



Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 12
Port hits 5
Port fuel hits 3

OS2U-3 Kingfisher acting as spotter for BB Washington
BB Washington firing at Manado



In the middle of the night
In the middle of the night, I call your name

Oh Tojo, oh Tojo
My rove will turn you on

In the middle of a battle
In the middle of a battle, I call your name

Oh Tojo, oh Tojoo
My rove will turn you on
My rove will turn you on.......

[Cap Mandrake]

By ra way...even if "Cheesey Hammy Eggs" is made up, it sounds so good it SHOULD be a real expression. It also sounds like what it really is, which is, apparently, quite unusual for Jackspeak.